I always thought I just wanted them to get out of my house. Just the sound of racking a shell into the chamber of a Remington 870 ought to scare the heck out of most intruders. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>They should skedaddle hearing that sound.</span>
The ones that don’t are a harder proposition to deal with than the ones who flee. Friend of ours shot a home invader back in September. She loaded the gun, accosted the invader, and bid him halt. He didn’t. She shot. He died. If he’d closed, his history suggests that she’d have been badly hurt or killed.
Don’t bank on the sound sending an intruder fleeing. It may make him come your way faster.