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Short version.
I was deer hunting with a friend today with my cellphone set on vibrate. My phone rings and it my hunting partner's wife. I let it go to voicemail and then listened to it. It seems their home alarm was going off and no one was at home, she was at work. She could not get a hold of her husband and knew I was with him so she called me. I was set up about 250 yards behind the house and my friend was 200 yards beyond me. I tried to call him and got his voice mail and he had not replied to my text message from earlier.
I called her back and told her I would check it out (their home had a break in last May). I got down from my climber (left it in the woods) and went to the house. As I walked up to the back of the house, I looked in the driveway and there were no vehicles there. I went to the back door that was kicked in before and it was secure. As I was walking around to the front of the house I came face to face with a Harrison county deputy holding a Glock 40 and the low ready position. We seen each other at about the same time. I was in camo with a orange stocking cap on carrying a T/C .50 caliber muzzleloader. He had pulled in after I went to check the back door.
Thank God he held his fire!
The deputy recognized me from the break in last May (I was the first person there when they had the break-in last May). He was the same officer that responded to the last break in. We checked out the rest of the house and found it secure.
Kudos to the deputy for his quick arrival and calmness after confronting an ugly camo-ed hunter with a loaded rifle in the side yard (me).
The alarm was set off by a motion sensor from their dog. I went back to get my friend and found out he had left his phone on the charger in his house.
Short version.
I was deer hunting with a friend today with my cellphone set on vibrate. My phone rings and it my hunting partner's wife. I let it go to voicemail and then listened to it. It seems their home alarm was going off and no one was at home, she was at work. She could not get a hold of her husband and knew I was with him so she called me. I was set up about 250 yards behind the house and my friend was 200 yards beyond me. I tried to call him and got his voice mail and he had not replied to my text message from earlier.
I called her back and told her I would check it out (their home had a break in last May). I got down from my climber (left it in the woods) and went to the house. As I walked up to the back of the house, I looked in the driveway and there were no vehicles there. I went to the back door that was kicked in before and it was secure. As I was walking around to the front of the house I came face to face with a Harrison county deputy holding a Glock 40 and the low ready position. We seen each other at about the same time. I was in camo with a orange stocking cap on carrying a T/C .50 caliber muzzleloader. He had pulled in after I went to check the back door.
Thank God he held his fire!
The deputy recognized me from the break in last May (I was the first person there when they had the break-in last May). He was the same officer that responded to the last break in. We checked out the rest of the house and found it secure.
Kudos to the deputy for his quick arrival and calmness after confronting an ugly camo-ed hunter with a loaded rifle in the side yard (me).
The alarm was set off by a motion sensor from their dog. I went back to get my friend and found out he had left his phone on the charger in his house.
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