Long story, but relevant to this Henry .44 Magnum lever gun thread and Mossberg in general.
So I recently had two dogs kill some of our ducks. Kathy and I were in the kitchen getting ready to leave for work when she heard a commotion out in the yard. She looked and yelled "David there are two dogs killing the ducks!"
I burst out the door and the big pitt bull and the husky bolted off down our long driveway. I could have probably hit them with my duty sidearm but I wasn't processing what had actually happened. As a dog lover I hesitated. Kathy was just crying and sobbing as I picked up the dead and wounded. It was an awful moment. Kathy was trembling and unable to speak. She eventually composed herself and we put the ducks that were still alive back in their enclosure and started to leave for work.
And I hadn't backed my patrol car maybe fifteen feet when I looked sadly toward our ducks and damn those two dogs had circled back again and were pawing at the enclosure. They were there to kill just for sport. And I instantly knew that they would never be kept away by their stupid owners who never restrain them. They were going to come again and again. So out I came from the patrol car with an AR-15 in my hands and I effin' murdered the frock out of them from about 25 yards. They dropped like sacks wet cement and I pumped a couple more into their heads because I was frocking angry. All copper Barnes TAC-X 62-grains at @3200-fps spray blood and guts far and wide.
We LOVE dogs, have owned them for decades and never want to see anyone's dog hurt. I'm a cop who searches for signs of animal abuse and neglect and help prosecute people who abuse any animal.
Heck our dogs are are family. Even sleep with us some nights. But I completely changed my mind that day. Some dogs just do need eradicated when they encroach my property.
So the two neighbors who owned the dogs searched high and low for their dogs but they never found them.
And now one neighbor has TWO huge adult pitt bull dogs and the other has gotten another adult husky. This time for now at least they are chained up.
I just put my Henry .44 Magnum rifle at the front door and a Mossberg 590 20" GRS with a weapon light and full of eight LE127 9-pellet buck by the kitchen door.
If these new dogs ever come around on my property interested in my farm livestock I just might murder them as well. I just don't know, as every dog is different.
My farm. My decision.
Shitty owners breed shitty dogs.