In Earl Jones’ mind, his actions are justified, as well. He said he was completely within his rights to defend his life and ranch home on the 500-acre farm he has worked since 1955.
“I was hoping another one would come up – I aimed right for his heart,” Jones, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 through ’46, told the Enquirer Monday afternoon. “I didn’t go to war for nothing. I have the right to carry a gun. That’s what I told the police this morning.”
When Boone County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Jones house, they found the basement door ajar and no one except Jones in the home.
Jones didn’t like how deputies treated him. “They stood down there with their guns on me, yelling, `Get your hands up! Get your hands up!’” he said. “I told them, `I’m not putting my damn hands up.’”
skb12172 wrote:A good lesson to learn from this. Always have a back up gun.
I'd have said " you can't have too many guns " but I didn't want to be controversial, I can imagine the other members and admin team being really annoyed at that line of thinking
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
skb12172 wrote:A good lesson to learn from this. Always have a back up gun.
I'd have said " you can't have too many guns " but I didn't want to be controversial, I can imagine the other members and admin team being really annoyed at that line of thinking
I don't know if anyone who'd come *here* would disagree with you. Well except for needing to pay for all those guns.
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skb12172 wrote:A good lesson to learn from this. Always have a back up gun.
I'd have said " you can't have too many guns " but I didn't want to be controversial, I can imagine the other members and admin team being really annoyed at that line of thinking
I don't know if anyone who'd come *here* would disagree with you. Well except for needing to pay for all those guns.
Nonsense. There's this old guy livin in the boonies that has LOTS of em. Hell, he won't even notice one or two missing.
D5CAV wrote:For those who belittle the .22LR, shooting an elephant with .375H&H has less foot pounds per body weight than shooting an 150Lb man with a .22Short. Bullet placement counts. He "... aimed at the heart."
Anything less than a centerfire rifle cartridge, penetration counts more. He was lucky the .22 made it between a pair of ribs and didn't get lodged in the breast plate. Relative foot pounds don't mean a thing if the bullet stops. That .375 will shatter bone on it's way to a pachyderms heart, not so much with a .22LR even on a human. There was a soldier(forget if Army or Marines) who had a 9mm lodge in his incisors and .45's have slid along the skull under the skin never doing any permanent damage.
UK attack pilot in Gulf War One took a 12.7mm AA round to the head, entered his helmet and then scooted around until it exited the other side. He got the mother of all headaches apparently, but that was all.
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
D5CAV wrote:For those who belittle the .22LR, shooting an elephant with .375H&H has less foot pounds per body weight than shooting an 150Lb man with a .22Short. Bullet placement counts. He "... aimed at the heart."
Anything less than a centerfire rifle cartridge, penetration counts more. He was lucky the .22 made it between a pair of ribs and didn't get lodged in the breast plate. Relative foot pounds don't mean a thing if the bullet stops. That .375 will shatter bone on it's way to a pachyderms heart, not so much with a .22LR even on a human. There was a soldier(forget if Army or Marines) who had a 9mm lodge in his incisors and .45's have slid along the skull under the skin never doing any permanent damage.
Let's not forget this was a rifle often 22's are talked for defense in pistols, but there is a pretty good velocity difference. This was likely 40 grains at 1200-1400 fps, thats faster than both 9mm and 45. Think of it like this, what's the 600yard velocity on 5.56 and what the energy difference between these two?
