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At approximately 00:15 hours, I was awakened but not brought fully alert by a disturbance outside the downstairs east window of my home. I jumped out of bed into a pair of cut-off jeans and fell into a pair of Crocs, at least two sizes too big. In retrospect, probably not the best combat footwear!
I grabbed a Sears work light (remember, not fully alert?) and headed downstairs. I exited the front door (north side of home) headed to the northwest corner and turned south. As I approached the southwest corner of the house, I tripped on the motion detection lights. I continued south, beyond the elevated deck that runs full length along the south side of our home and then turned east. I fully expected the suspect to attempt escape to the south going between me and our dog-run, which is on the east side of our home housing a very, irate Lab. Instead I heard the suspect running beneath the deck in my direction. Not wanting to put our house in the direct line of fire, I quickly side-stepped three or four steps to the west.
It was at this moment, the “feral feline”, which had been attacking my wife's cat, cleared the deck, saw me, and made a hard turn to the north. In less time that it takes you to read this sentence, the cat had gone approximately sixty feet and made a hard right escaping to the east.
With the Sears work light still in my left hand, I quickly brought the Kahr up firing a one-handed, reflex, snap-shot at a very fast departing cat. Before you get ahead of me... hell no... I missed! The 147 Speer Gold Dot exploded grass millimeters below and behind the cats behind. It was close enough that I checked for hair and/or kitty parts in the lawn. Had I pulled off this shot, I could've qualified for the Kahr Exhibition Shooting Team or formed one myself!!
Truth be known, at that distance and in that lighting, with a two-handed hold using sights, I probably wouldn't have done much better. I said all that to say this, "The little gun point-shoots very well!" It certainly built my confidence in my ability to hit a fast moving target while in the "Red Zone". memtb
I grabbed a Sears work light (remember, not fully alert?) and headed downstairs. I exited the front door (north side of home) headed to the northwest corner and turned south. As I approached the southwest corner of the house, I tripped on the motion detection lights. I continued south, beyond the elevated deck that runs full length along the south side of our home and then turned east. I fully expected the suspect to attempt escape to the south going between me and our dog-run, which is on the east side of our home housing a very, irate Lab. Instead I heard the suspect running beneath the deck in my direction. Not wanting to put our house in the direct line of fire, I quickly side-stepped three or four steps to the west.
It was at this moment, the “feral feline”, which had been attacking my wife's cat, cleared the deck, saw me, and made a hard turn to the north. In less time that it takes you to read this sentence, the cat had gone approximately sixty feet and made a hard right escaping to the east.
With the Sears work light still in my left hand, I quickly brought the Kahr up firing a one-handed, reflex, snap-shot at a very fast departing cat. Before you get ahead of me... hell no... I missed! The 147 Speer Gold Dot exploded grass millimeters below and behind the cats behind. It was close enough that I checked for hair and/or kitty parts in the lawn. Had I pulled off this shot, I could've qualified for the Kahr Exhibition Shooting Team or formed one myself!!
Truth be known, at that distance and in that lighting, with a two-handed hold using sights, I probably wouldn't have done much better. I said all that to say this, "The little gun point-shoots very well!" It certainly built my confidence in my ability to hit a fast moving target while in the "Red Zone". memtb
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