John in WYO
Single-Sixer
So my darling wife asked me to go with her to her mother's condo on the North Carolina coast for a week.
She loves the beach and the ocean and the sun. I'm a mountain man to the bone.
She goes several times a year, especially when the Wyoming winters hang on too long.
I finally acquiesced in the the spirit of domestic tranquility after many years of avoiding it.
Oh, I tried all the standard responses, can't get away from work, who would watch the dogs, horses, elk,
badgers, etc... She insisted. I relented.
I did ask what she had in mind. "Laying on the beach, swimming in the ocean..."
"WHAT? Hold on a minute here Darlin'. You HAVE been watching the news, right?
North Carolina has been experiencing shark attacks on swimmers. Several people have been bitten.."
She replied that it is a rare occurrence and we don't have anything to worry about.
"That is EXACTLY what the people who got bitten thought." was my cogent response.
I went on to explain that she had changed the entire dynamic of this trip. Because of bears and lions, I do NOT head to the mountains here without a large bore revolver on my person.
Just had a guy killed by a grizzly, partially consumed and buried for a later snack in Yellowstone National Park last week.
IF I head to the beach in North Carolina, I am damn sure to have a sufficient sidearm for sharks, period. I made it a condition of my attending the soirée on the beach.
I went on to explain that my stable of handguns does not contain even one revolver that will survive the salt air of the ocean without immediately succumbing to rust and being rendered inoperable within a week. I am being compelled to purchase a stainless steel revolver for this trip. She rolled her eyes and said "Go ahead."
Ahhhh, permission. What a sweet ring (cue Angels singing) those words evoke.
So, with that in mind, I'm polling my East coastline-living brothers here on the forum for suggestions for an adequate shark defense gun.
Give me a hand fellas, single action, double action, caliber. What do you suggest?
Please, don't belabor me with potential regulations about shooting sharks...I intend to keep all my extremities. I have no intent to harm one.
Fire away....
She loves the beach and the ocean and the sun. I'm a mountain man to the bone.
She goes several times a year, especially when the Wyoming winters hang on too long.
I finally acquiesced in the the spirit of domestic tranquility after many years of avoiding it.
Oh, I tried all the standard responses, can't get away from work, who would watch the dogs, horses, elk,
badgers, etc... She insisted. I relented.
I did ask what she had in mind. "Laying on the beach, swimming in the ocean..."
"WHAT? Hold on a minute here Darlin'. You HAVE been watching the news, right?
North Carolina has been experiencing shark attacks on swimmers. Several people have been bitten.."
She replied that it is a rare occurrence and we don't have anything to worry about.
"That is EXACTLY what the people who got bitten thought." was my cogent response.
I went on to explain that she had changed the entire dynamic of this trip. Because of bears and lions, I do NOT head to the mountains here without a large bore revolver on my person.
Just had a guy killed by a grizzly, partially consumed and buried for a later snack in Yellowstone National Park last week.
IF I head to the beach in North Carolina, I am damn sure to have a sufficient sidearm for sharks, period. I made it a condition of my attending the soirée on the beach.
I went on to explain that my stable of handguns does not contain even one revolver that will survive the salt air of the ocean without immediately succumbing to rust and being rendered inoperable within a week. I am being compelled to purchase a stainless steel revolver for this trip. She rolled her eyes and said "Go ahead."
Ahhhh, permission. What a sweet ring (cue Angels singing) those words evoke.
So, with that in mind, I'm polling my East coastline-living brothers here on the forum for suggestions for an adequate shark defense gun.
Give me a hand fellas, single action, double action, caliber. What do you suggest?
Please, don't belabor me with potential regulations about shooting sharks...I intend to keep all my extremities. I have no intent to harm one.
Fire away....