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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German family were stunned when a rampaging bull burst through the back door of their house, charged around the living room, and then left by the front door.
"The animal basically did a tour of the hall, the kitchen and the living room before leaving the building," said Paul Kemen, a spokesman for police in the western city of Aachen on Monday. "It came in the back and went out the front."
None in the family were injured, but the bull laid waste to furnishings, causing an estimated 10,000 euros ($15,600) of damage, police said. The bull left after the owner of the house opened the front door for it.
The red-brown Limousin bull was part of a herd of cattle that had escaped from a farmer and overrun a section of the nearby town of Monschau. A huntsman later shot the animal.
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
Hobie wrote:Would you choose to kill such a large animal in the house if you could let it out first?
Not if I could let it out... but it wouldn't make it off the front lawn either.
OTOH opening a door for a charging bull is asking to get gored...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
Hey, this is a good one. I have to admit that Hobie's response, so short and sweet, and to the point, had me laughing out loud. Thanks! Not meant to be a dig by any means, because I think the logic of his question is sound. Yes, you might be gored while you hold the door open for your wayward guest, but then you might be gored when your first shot(s) failed to immediately drop the animal. Key word there being immediate.
Being that I'm in an upstairs apartment I don't think that lost bovines are my biggest threat here, but a few years back we had a lady just a few streets south of us who kept big cats in a fenced in yard. BIG cats, leopards among them. And yes, she did have an escape incident. If I'd had to deal with something like that in my limited interior space I would go straight away to my hardcast-stoked Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt. Glad I never had to deal with one of those critters here in the apartment !
Any of you guys ever read Capstick's classic "Death in the Long Grass"?
He paints a very dangerous picture of the leopard, and the awful punishment they've doled out to those unlucky enough to have to go into the scrub after a wounded one. Made what's left of my hair stand up on end. - DixieBoy
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Long guns are too cumbersome I keep a Sig Sauer 45acp with 7 rounds of CorBon 165gr JHP +P at ready!I always use factory pocket rockets in my handguns that I carry for self defense because of years of le liability CYA classes .
i keep a puma 454 carbine loaded and ready near the side entrance to the house for moose or bear incidents, and for that matter there is a 45 colt ruger with 300 gr heavy loads, and a 44 special there as well.
the 44 does dog walking duty every am.
505stevec wrote:Whats a "huntsman"... a government man? or do they get to own guns in germany? No BIG bores out just my little ole 9mm
They have less restrictions on owning guns in Germany than you do in California.
A "Huntsman" is just that. You have to pass a test to hunt in Germany, so the farmer or the police would have run around and found somebody with a big enough gun to get the job done quickly and cleanly. The German police are armed but for the sake of the animal would not have just poured 9mm's into it.
Pete44ru wrote:[Would you choose to kill such a large animal in the house ?]
Oh, Man ! Exactly HOW sanguine IS one of those puppies ?
Very sanguine to be sure (great word) - I've seen a few head butchered in my time and they bleed in buckets. Much smarter to let him exit the house by whatever means is the quickest.
I used to use a black Limousin bull and some of my cows still are. They're fine until they THINK you're looking at them. Then all bets are off getting them to go where you want them to.
At my now summer spot in Alaska I keep a loaded big bore in every corner of the house. Brown bears have entered houses in that village, and they won't leave mine alive if I'm in it. And yes Hobie, I will kill the stinking thing inside the house. Make a great uTube clip.
Bulls in the livingroom... bulls in the china shop; hard to tell the difference at times! I think lettin' the dern thing out is the best solution. Bears, big cats, porcupines, and badgers are a mite different!
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Pretty much anything from .357 on up would've reliably taken this bull with a headshot. Inside the house, you oughta be able to get a headshot.
I bet someone spilled their coffee when he busted in the door, though!
When I was 20 or so, I was living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The rodeo grounds are in town, and there are rodeos twice a week. Well, we had a big ole bull climb over the fence and out of the corrals, then head for town.
I was riding either bulls or broncs that week, so I didn't have a horse with me, but I jogged along after to help however I could. Several of the teamropers got a loop on him, but never managed to get him slowed down. After the first quarter mile, the bull was beginning to look like to backlash in Godzilla's fishing reel, from all the ropes the weekend ropers lost on him.
One guy, who was tryin' to learn to rope like the Vaqueros, was packing a 90 footer, and managed to keep his rope, and got him holed up in someone's back yard. I came around the side of the house, just in time to see this guy unwrapping his dallies from the horn to fix the huge mess he'd made of the coils.
I was trying to ease over and get ahold of the end of one of the ropes someone had lost, and told him to dally up and keep the bull outta my pocket while I handed the tail of the rope to one of the guys on horseback. He said, "What guys?", I looked around, and spotted them. They were all lined up, on horseback, hiding on the other side of a hedge!
About this time, I was backed up onto the back deck of the house we were behind, and some lady opens the sliding glass door to ask me, "Do you want in?". I said, "You might wanna get in the basement."
About that time, the bull charged me, I faked past him, he knocked the railing off the porch, and headed out of their yard.
No bull.
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!I normally don't have the 45-70 XLR loaded.But I do have the Ruger alaskan in 454 Casull loaded in the house. 
