MAYBE IM PARANOID

[Big Shrek]

Originally Posted by focusmaniaczx3

i got one of the harry potter books as a gift a few years ago that i might hollow out. i dont think any limp noodle crooks would take that either. everyone knows criminals dont read, especially if they can just rent the movie. hell ive had the book for a few years now and i havent read it.

Only bad thing about that is if you had a kid over...they'ed be drawn to it like a fly to beer.

[focusmaniaczx3]

it is very rare that i have kids at my place. on those occasions i am sure to lock EVERYTHING up.

[Marine1]

There is nothing wrong with being a little paranoid. I have gun magnets under my desk and under the end tables so I can always have a gun close. I have also placed extra mags at key cover locations throughout the house.

I think it started in the Boy Scouts. (Be Prepared) The Marines taught me you can never have too much ammo.

Do not forget your Kar-Bar Last Ditch knife around your neck.

[Agentwil]

I carry a pistol at work all day why should I stop when I get home?

[bigiron1]

Originally Posted by todd51

The book is just something home made. Old guys have lots of idle time on their hands. Figured after all these years I pretty well had the home repair stuff down pat so sacrificed the Reader Digest. Cut out the center and glued the pages together and wala. Looks innocent enough laying on the floor beside the chair.

I have that exact edition of that book!!!

I like to keep one on me, too. 4 year old and 5 month old twins right behind him. Gotta keep the rest in the safe.

there is a fine line between preparedness and paranoia. my biggest fear is someone or something getting the "jump on me". Got too many people that count on me so...Call it what you will

[turbotype87]

I have a friend who has guns in every room in his house, in cookie jars, in kitchen drawers, closets, bathroom, you name it he has one. Now i have many firearms as well, but i told him that it isn't to smart to leave them everywhere. Remember if someone breaks into your house and finds a gun you could be in trouble.

[TTUshooter]

I have one on my person pretty much at all times.

[Bubblehead]

todd51,

Would you mind explaining how you made the book "vault"?

I tried years ago but the glue made the pages fatter and my 2 inch "vault" ended up being as thick as a phone book. I would also be interested to know how you cut out the hole.

You did a great job and I would like to replicate it.

Thanks,

John

[todd51]

Bubblehead, It has been several years so don't remember all the details. I know I used a utility knife to cut the hole after I glued all the pages. Used some felt to line the hole. I used just a wee bit of the glue on each page. I glued maybe a fifth of less of the pages at a time and then used clamps and some boards to clamp it tight and waited for that much to dry (next day) before doing some more. As you can see I didn't clamp well enough on the leading edge and got some wrinkling. I think I was lucky in choosing the glue as I wanted to stay away from as much moisture as possible. I think some of the upholstery glues may work well. Just have to test your glue choice on a junk book to see how it works and then clamp the work well. Wish I could remember in more detail but you know how old men drift around in permanent mental confusion.

[Bubblehead]

Thanks todd51. I've also been doing some checking and apparently there is a bookbinding glue out there. I might give that a try.

[Skyhook]

It took the cops 52 minutes to get here last time I needed them- and I told them I had three on the ground at gun-point.

Naw, being prepared is not the same as being paranoid, as others here have said.

Being isolated doesn't make me and my family more likely to meet up with the occasional rabid beastie, but, like most here, I take precautions. It's the right thing to do.

[scudrunner]

NOPE!!!

I do it all the time, I have my LCP in my pocket when around the house, in the yard or even just sitting down watching the tube or reading.

Stay ready so you dont have to get ready!

[Zane71464]

Originally Posted by todd51

Bubblehead, It has been several years so don't remember all the details. I know I used a utility knife to cut the hole after I glued all the pages. Used some felt to line the hole. I used just a wee bit of the glue on each page. I glued maybe a fifth of less of the pages at a time and then used clamps and some boards to clamp it tight and waited for that much to dry (next day) before doing some more. As you can see I didn't clamp well enough on the leading edge and got some wrinkling. I think I was lucky in choosing the glue as I wanted to stay away from as much moisture as possible. I think some of the upholstery glues may work well. Just have to test your glue choice on a junk book to see how it works and then clamp the work well. Wish I could remember in more detail but you know how old men drift around in permanent mental confusion.

Thanks for sharing that Todd! I'm glad Bubblehead asked you about that for the fact I was thinking of asking the same thing.
Ive been tossin that around in my head since you first posted the pic of your book...and I was wondering the same thing.
I'm glad that's all cleared up...just that like you said, takes alot of time, but time well spent in my opinion!

[Zane71464]

Originally Posted by scudrunner

NOPE!!!

I do it all the time, I have my LCP in my pocket when around the house, in the yard or even just sitting down watching the tube or reading.

Stay ready so you dont have to get ready!

I totally agree with you there!

[wpage]

Originally Posted by trapperdick

I like the book idea, but it needs to be a Bible........the bad guys never read a Bible.

Why waste a good Bible when there is sooo many other books crying out for carving!

[Skyhook]

Originally Posted by wpage

Why waste a good Bible when there is sooo many other books crying out for carving!

Got anything on Marx or Stalin?

[45nut]

As stated before, you're not paranoid if they're really after you..... and they are.

At least one pistol on me at all times. 45 LC next to the couch, .22 revolver kitchen drawer, 32 WS in coat closet, 30 WCF by study door, M-4 behind bedroom door, .45 ACP, SAA .45 LC x 2 in nightstand, .38 in wife's nightstand & .357 in master closet.

Ready, not paranoid.

[Trouble 45-70]

It just happened, guns all over the house. Kind of an Easter egg hunt before the kids come up.

Really nice living out in the woods at the end of a dirt road. Only see people during hunting season and people who get lost seldom make it this far. Anyone snooping around is likely up to no good but hasn't happened yet.

When I lived in the 'Hood', I wasn't paranoid, just prepared and had few incidents. The neighbors all knew that I kept guns in the house as I brought them to and from the range regularly and cleaned them on the front porch. Can you believe, the cops always showed up in under 2 min? Police station was 6 blocks away. Knew most of them and even had some of them for students when I was teaching. They were mostly the good guys. Had a problem with the Chief of Police but she cleaned up her act after the Judge cleaned her clock for trying to frame a kid. Don't know how she kept her job but she is still around last I heard.

[Terry_P]

The way I heard it is just because your paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.

My SP is always close at hand.

[zb338]

Seems like you are just one of the boys Semper Fi.

Zeke

[Merick The Red]

Paranoia is setting up claymors around your home, hidden amonngst yard gnomes and pink flamingos. Or having various belt fed weapons mounted at each window.

You are not paranoid, you just refuse to be a victim. I carry a full size Glock 21 from the time I wake up untill bed, and then I store it in a Kydex holster I have mounted to the side of my bed. I can grab it without looking. I also keep a loaded AK-47 under my bed fitted with a foregrip, laser and surefire flashlight. Its more of a toy than anything else though, my Glock will do the job unless I wake up to Russian paratroopers landing on my roof, in that case I'm reaching under my bed lol.

[zfk55]

Can't tell you where, but there's a firearm in every room and shotguns near entrances relatively out of sight.

[xm774u]

kinda like when in the big red one movie the guy in the asylum grabs a mp40 and starts shooting saying i am one of you i am sane
on my side of the bed 1911 under the bed xm77 the wifes side browning hi power under the bed ithica riot gun with no4 buck in the kitchen rem870
ft door stg58 locked and loaded fal in case they make it up the hill!
a ak in the closet. m44 in the truck haha with lbe gear 3days of stripped mre,s
sks in garage. buried at the rallypoint .............
id say your sane as the rest of us

[NRA_guy]

Originally Posted by williamd

YEP!

My old 2 " thick Thomas Calculus book is not something anyone would want to look into! Maybe a physics would be more apprpriate, though????

Woah! That would be the first book I would thumb through, but of course I'm not a robber.

Calculus was possibly the greatest course I took in college (mechanical engineering). It was like a whole new world that opened up around me and I started seeing things in a different way.

I have taught several struggling college students calculus at my kitchen table.

Physics was good, too.

[TomBk]

Unless you live in certain parts of Iraq, Pakistan, or some other part of the world currently under military siege or corrupt government oppression, it sounds like you're paranoid.

That being said, it's probably a good idea no matter where you live to have a gun somewhere you can reach it based on the most likely points of entrance of an intruder.

I wouldn't count any guns hanging on the wall as immediate self defense ready, as I think it would be better to leave those unloaded. If someone did get into the house, I wouldn't want to provide them with loaded firearms they could access just as easily as I could.