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Charles L. Cotton wrote:I suspect the .380 is just for jogging; bigger gun for everything else.
Chas.
Not always. I did that at my house a few years ago only to have the animal stand there and look at me like I was an idiot. I put one behind him and then one in front of him then one in him. He took one step and fell over dead. That was with a Hydra Shok .45 Auto.MedicMan218 wrote:I sure would!Teamless wrote:Does this mean that when i am on walks with my dog(s), and carrying my weapon. A rattlesnake comes out, or a coyote comes out, can I shoot it too?
Maybe not the snake, but if the coyote is close enough I'm sure not takin any chances!!
You don't even have to hit it, just a shot in it's general direction should scare it off.
"He became mulch," Perry said.
By JIM VERTUNO
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:02 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Published: 5:21 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas — Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don't mess with my dog.
Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jogging to take down a coyote that menaced his puppy during a February run near Austin.
Perry said he will carry his .380 Ruger — loaded with hollow-point bullets — when jogging on trails because he is afraid of snakes. He'd also seen coyotes in the undeveloped area.
When one came out of the brush toward his daughter's Labrador retriever, Perry charged.
"Don't attack my dog or you might get shot ... if you're a coyote," he said Tuesday.
Perry, a Republican running for a third full term against Democrat Bill White, is living in a private house in a hilly area southwest of downtown Austin while the Governor's Mansion is being repaired after a 2008 fire. A concealed handgun permit holder, Perry carries the pistol in a belt.
"I knew there were a lot of predators out there. You'll hear a pack of coyotes. People are losing small cats and dogs all the time out there in that community," Perry said.
"They're very wily creatures."
On this particular morning, Perry said, he was jogging without his security detail shortly after sunrise.
"I'm enjoying the run when something catches my eye and it's this coyote. I know he knows I'm there. He never looks at me, he is laser-locked on that dog," Perry said.
"I holler and the coyote stopped. I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it. It is now staring dead at me. Either me or the dog are in imminent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go," he said.
Perry said the laser-pointer helped make a quick, clean kill.
"It was not in a lot of pain," he said. "It pretty much went down at that particular juncture."
Texas state law allows people to shoot coyotes that are threatening livestock or domestic animals. The dog was unharmed, Perry said.
Perry's security detail was not required to file a report about the governor discharging a weapon, said Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange.
"People shoot coyotes all the time, snakes all the time," Mange said. "We don't write reports."
The governor left the coyote where it fell.
"He became mulch," Perry said.
April 27, 2010 08:02 PM EDT
Copyright 2010, The Associated Press.
At least his situational awareness was on top of things and not lost in an Ipod like most runnerschabouk wrote:So, he doesn't carry with one in the pipe? Good thing the 'yote wasn't actually attacking his dog, which would probably leave him one-handed.
GreezyG wrote:So nobody has asked if Gov. Perry actually has a CHL. The property he is living on is in a residential neighborhood so I doubt he has his own jogging trails. If he doesn't have his plastic he could be in a heap of trouble, however doubtfull. He has to follow the law too doesn't he?
You will not regret an LCP purchase.can2boy wrote:LCP and sp101 was on my short list....... i'm sold on the LCP! i get persuaded easily lol.
GreezyG wrote:So nobody has asked if Gov. Perry actually has a CHL. The property he is living on is in a residential neighborhood so I doubt he has his own jogging trails. If he doesn't have his plastic he could be in a heap of trouble, however doubtfull. He has to follow the law too doesn't he?
Did he not have it in Condition One (or Condition Zero, since the LCP is DAO)? I must have missed that in the articles I read.chabouk wrote:So, he doesn't carry with one in the pipe?
I didn't notice that either.UpTheIrons wrote:Did he not have it in Condition One (or Condition Zero, since the LCP is DAO)? I must have missed that in the articles I read.chabouk wrote:So, he doesn't carry with one in the pipe?
From the article:Embalmo wrote:I didn't notice that either.UpTheIrons wrote:Did he not have it in Condition One (or Condition Zero, since the LCP is DAO)? I must have missed that in the articles I read.chabouk wrote:So, he doesn't carry with one in the pipe?
I am assuming that he meant he racked the slide to chamber a round."I holler and the coyote stopped. I holler again. By this time I had taken my weapon out and charged it. It is now staring dead at me. Either me or the dog are in imminent danger. I did the appropriate thing and sent it to where coyotes go," he said.