So, do you go woods walking without a handgun?
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Buckeye
Nope
Not going to happen
Always have a sidearm with me
Not going to happen
Always have a sidearm with me
tabora
LCP II .22LR, 10/22, Mini-14
I don’t go walking anywhere unarmed
I don't walk in the woods anymore......I hobble through the woods......sometimes with a walking stick or cane but always with a 45.
If I’ve got pants on I’m carrying.
Interesting grips on the Smith, where might you have gotten them, if I may ask?
That is how both of us here are also.
tabora
LCP II .22LR, 10/22, Mini-14
Made in Turkey. Only took a few days to get here... I added some dark walnut stain and finished with oil/wax.
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The Preacher
Blackhawk
Never.
Well right now I'm not walking anywhere ... and have no idea when I will be able to walk in some woods again... but when I do I will... back when we had the mountain house up in Western N.C. I would do a good bit of walking off trail and I not only had a handgun but a long gun with me too and the interesting thing is usually they shot the same ammo and when semi-auto took the same magazines... for the longest time it was a Ruger P95 and the PC9 carbine I modified with a folding butt stock.
bobski
Hunter
all the time. never carried a gun on me in my life....except for military duty.
deac45
Blackhawk
Never!
Got to admit, I'm comfortable enough with just a knife that I regularly walk the woods without a sidearm.
Nowadays I'm probably so Old that I should carry a sidearm? But I'm stubborn enough to remember when, and mindset is the last thing to change. Sometimes as a detriment?
Edit. Yet I currently reside in Florida so the biggest tooth and claw critters would be Black Bear or Panthers. I could be growing lax.
Nowadays I'm probably so Old that I should carry a sidearm? But I'm stubborn enough to remember when, and mindset is the last thing to change. Sometimes as a detriment?
Edit. Yet I currently reside in Florida so the biggest tooth and claw critters would be Black Bear or Panthers. I could be growing lax.
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bigbillyboy
Hunter
I always have a gun .
Paul B
Hunter
Yes I do. I've carried a handgun since about my 16th birthday, most of the time illegally. San Francisco was never easy on issuing CCW permits even when one had a legitimate reason. Penalty if caught was about a $250 fine and loss of the gun back then. No idea what it might be today. Luckily, I never go caught even when packing a full size 1911A1.
I actually applied for a permit back in the mid 1960s as my Maternal Grandmother had a business and made her many substantial deposits in the only bank in the area that had a day and night branch. By substantial, I'm saying deposits of $10,000 or more; many times much more. Request denied, reason not legitimate. That's San Francisco for you.
I went into the Air Force and for the most part was gun free, Felt nekkid as a jaybird for those four years. he only exception was when standing guard duty the day JFK was killed.
Back home i went to the 1911A1 once more. I later moved to Reno NV at first and later Winnemucca Nevada when I hired on with the NWS. brother I'd come home. I was lucky to have a very understanding wife as I think I spent more spare tome wandering the desert than with the wife and kids.
Sorry for the long lead but once the desert rat bug bit me I was hooked. First gun was a Ruger flattop .44 mag. Later a New model Super Blackhawk .44 Mag. then a 6" S&W 629. That didn't last long, maybe a year and a half or two years. Two trips to S &W for repairs, first one after 250 rounds and time two after 200 more rounds. The gun is retired. I've later learned that Elmer use three different loads in his M29. First was his romper stompers for serious work, a mid range using Unique and a light plinker using IIRC, Bullseye. That's something I either missed down the road or he kept that a well guarded secret. There was a time n the mid 1980s wen I was either at school learnig about new equipment or processes regarding weather forecasting. or example they sent me to Kansas City MO to learn how to operate a CPS-9 radar and a year or two later back to KC to learn the Doppler Radar. I loved the CPS-9 and hated the doppler radar.I could literally make that CPS-9 sing and dance and it allowed me to get out many times thunderstorms warnings.
Stuff like that got in the way but I still found ways to get out and do the desert thing and hike a few mountains as well. Again, I say yes, I was armed at least with a handgun and sometimes with a rifle as well.
PJ
I actually applied for a permit back in the mid 1960s as my Maternal Grandmother had a business and made her many substantial deposits in the only bank in the area that had a day and night branch. By substantial, I'm saying deposits of $10,000 or more; many times much more. Request denied, reason not legitimate. That's San Francisco for you.
I went into the Air Force and for the most part was gun free, Felt nekkid as a jaybird for those four years. he only exception was when standing guard duty the day JFK was killed.
Back home i went to the 1911A1 once more. I later moved to Reno NV at first and later Winnemucca Nevada when I hired on with the NWS. brother I'd come home. I was lucky to have a very understanding wife as I think I spent more spare tome wandering the desert than with the wife and kids.
Sorry for the long lead but once the desert rat bug bit me I was hooked. First gun was a Ruger flattop .44 mag. Later a New model Super Blackhawk .44 Mag. then a 6" S&W 629. That didn't last long, maybe a year and a half or two years. Two trips to S &W for repairs, first one after 250 rounds and time two after 200 more rounds. The gun is retired. I've later learned that Elmer use three different loads in his M29. First was his romper stompers for serious work, a mid range using Unique and a light plinker using IIRC, Bullseye. That's something I either missed down the road or he kept that a well guarded secret. There was a time n the mid 1980s wen I was either at school learnig about new equipment or processes regarding weather forecasting. or example they sent me to Kansas City MO to learn how to operate a CPS-9 radar and a year or two later back to KC to learn the Doppler Radar. I loved the CPS-9 and hated the doppler radar.I could literally make that CPS-9 sing and dance and it allowed me to get out many times thunderstorms warnings.
Stuff like that got in the way but I still found ways to get out and do the desert thing and hike a few mountains as well. Again, I say yes, I was armed at least with a handgun and sometimes with a rifle as well.
PJ
So bobski,
you are the ghost some of us see in the woods at times...
(sorry, could not help myself....)
Sure, I spend lots of time 'walking in the woods' (AKA fixing fence) but usually have a rifle or at minimum a 'braced' Charger. 
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I saw the deliverance and never went unarmed since. 
If a gun wasn’t allowed I carried a big knife. If necessary a small knife, even down to a Jiffy box cutter.
Yes in the woods always a handgun.
If a gun wasn’t allowed I carried a big knife. If necessary a small knife, even down to a Jiffy box cutter.
Yes in the woods always a handgun.
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Bearcat
Never
Generally not. This time of year my woods walking is at a minimum, too freaking hot.
