You would pull a gun on someone who was simply walking across you property?
There is no good reason to walk across our property.
I did surveying for a while & we were allowed by law to cross private property. We always tried to get permission. I was on the wrong end of long guns more than once.I know how a surveyor works so I would spot that. No matter, I would have a weapon out & showing, not pointing but ready when anyone I di8d not recognize was wandering around on my property. After dark, absolutely every time.
Most folks drive up & politely toot the horn to let folks know you are a stranger & are asking permission to approach. Just show up and march up to the door with a lone woman in the house is a real good way to start learning what that end of a weapon looks like.
Not even an LEO would cross pvt property out in the country unless he was in hot pursuit or some such. You always try to get permission.
Of course, these things can change county by county or just across the ridge. Many people have places you do not get to by accident. It is not often about hiding something.
Out here near us, it is just common courtesy.
Not many people get killed. Folks are not gun happy, but there are few idiots & '‘You can’t do that, it’s not legal.’ fools here either.
99% of the encounters do not get into the news or even reported because no one bleeds or dies.
Asking the question of the average SDMB person is not going to get any sort of representative stats for the average ‘out in the country’ encounters.
YMMV
Just watched the movie last week.
You can’t make a real hillbilly "dance. " He’ll stare you down while you’re killing him, just like Denzel Washington in Glory when he was getting whipped.
After college I stuck around for a couple years in the town where I’d graduated (Joplin, Missouri to be specific), and had a job delivering pizza.
Knocking on the door and being met with a gun was par for the course, at least in the outer portions of the delivery area. The guns proper didn’t bother me, as I’m all for gun rights. What bothered me was the thought process. If you order a pizza from a major national chain, and thirty minutes or less™ later there’s a knock on your door, who the fuck do you expect?
Yes it most definitly happens more often than you would like to know about, and occasionally causes local political disputes.
I recall a mixture of rock salt, lard and lye. Later I read of a weapon used in the Chicago projects with similar properties: an “Alabama pancake,” where bacon fat and lye were put in a hot frying pan and flung in the face of a spouse or policeman. The lye caused a chemical burn, and the grease made it impossible to flush with water.
Back in the 80’s I went to one of the last Gencons at Kenosha. Met up with some people and stayed with them in their camper. One night we went for dinner and, coming back, saw some pallets and junk wood on the side of the road about 100 feet from someone’s driveway. We stopped and two guys got out to load some up for firewood. Guy came out of his house with a shotgun, demanding that they come up where he could see them, then both threatened them and demanded we leave the wood where it was. Why, I have no idea.
Thank You. The amount of ignorance on this board, in regards to rural areas and the people that live there is shocking and insulting.