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What you carry doing yard work around your home?

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#1 ·
When i'm doing work outside in the yard,I just drop my little Corba .38 derringer in my pocket.I don't want to get my other guns wet from sweating while working outside.

 
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#64 ·
Jiminey Cricket!

If I felt that it was necessary to carry a weapon while doing yard work around my home . . .
. . . I would M-O-V-E to a different neighborhood.


Do you carry when taking out the garbage?

Do you carry EVERY time that you retrieve the mail/newspaper/answer the front door?

Do you carry when going to the bathroom at night?



If your answer is YES; I am SOOOOOooooo glad that I do NOT live in your world . . .

In other words, I KNOW all of my neighbors. I TRUST all of my neighbors. All of my neighbors trust ME. All of my neighbors have Concealed Handgun Licenses. We have an ACTIVE neighborhood watch program. If a BAD ACTOR does manage to slip through and shoot/stab/rob/attack me . . .
. . . no big whoop. C'est la vie.

I enjoy the freedom to NOT carry 24/7/365 to the 1 out of 1,000,000,000 odds that I won't have the time to just step indoors and close the door.

By the way, there are snakes, spiders, frogs, coyotes, bob cats, skunks, opossums, armadillos, pit bulls, hawks, mockingbirds, bees & wasps, mosquitos, etc. in my neck of the woods. I do not bother them. And they do not bother me.

YMMV
That's one of the great things about living in the USA. Carry, or don't. I usually have my S&W Bodyguard .380 in my pocket. I just came in from getting my paper...sans protection. It's one of the few times I'm without it.

I enjoy my RKBA and the responsibilities that come with it. It's more of a chosen lifestyle than paranoia. Whether or not I will successfully deploy a firearm in a self defense scenario remains to be determined. Hopefully never. My neck of the woods is pretty safe, compared to other parts of the country.

In the meantime,I will practice being safe and training when I can.
 
#68 · (Edited)
Nothing. Dont need a gun mowing my lawn. Or washing my car or checking my mail or talking with my neighbors or going out at midnight to plug my car in or just sitting out in the sun drinking a cold one. Dont have snakes or coyotes just the occasional moose. The day i feel the need to carry a gun when i am out enjoying my yard and the sun i will move to no mans land. And i am not nobody's victim just because i dont have gun on me 24/7 doesnt mean i am gonna be your victim. You guys must live in some seriously bad areas or something to need a gun just being out in your yard. Although i do understand the need for one do to snakes.
 
#70 ·
On ocasion either a P3AT or .357 Magnum with magnum rounds.
 
#73 ·
It never dawned on me that I needed to go armed on my property. Coyote and Black Bear is the only wild life.

We "allegedly" have copper heads, but I haven't seen one in 54 years.
 
#74 ·
For years i carried a Colt King Cobra .357 or S&W Model 19 .357 with one snake round because we have poisonous snakes, and the rest hunting rounds for black bears and the occasional two legged varmint. Now I carry an old Virginian Dragoon .44 magnum with a snake load and the rest hunting rounds. Very accurate and fun to shoot six shooter.
 
#75 ·
Fortunately the 3/4 acre plot is fenced in. Poisonous snakes not an issue. Groundhogs are dispatched with a model 26 and anything munching on plants or flowers see their demise with a pellet gun.

Normally carry is an afterthought and not a necessity, if the neighborhood changes then I will carry.
 
#77 ·
Opened the nest box door on the chicken coop this morning and a raccoon was looking back at me. I closed him in and went back into the house to get something quieter than .357 to shoot it with.

A vintage Colt Frontier Scout got the honors today.

The masked bastard killed one of my Rhode Island Red laying hens. Luckily it only got one. The rest were scared, but ok.

 
#79 ·
Sounds like an awesome dog....pics?
She looks like a big husky. Very different from raising a dog though and illegal in some areas. Didn't know about it til I took her to the vets. Fortunately she is a friend so it's on the QT. They're not approved for rabies shots, and they don't behave like dogs in some ways. If I had small kids, I wouldn't have kept her.

Likes to roam, steal food, but have a large property where we keep her and it works.
 
#80 ·
Jiminey Cricket!

If I felt that it was necessary to carry a weapon while doing yard work around my home . . .
. . . I would M-O-V-E to a different neighborhood.


Do you carry when taking out the garbage?

Do you carry EVERY time that you retrieve the mail/newspaper/answer the front door?

Do you carry when going to the bathroom at night?



If your answer is YES; I am SOOOOOooooo glad that I do NOT live in your world . . .

In other words, I KNOW all of my neighbors. I TRUST all of my neighbors. All of my neighbors trust ME. All of my neighbors have Concealed Handgun Licenses. We have an ACTIVE neighborhood watch program. If a BAD ACTOR does manage to slip through and shoot/stab/rob/attack me . . .
. . . no big whoop. C'est la vie.

I enjoy the freedom to NOT carry 24/7/365 to the 1 out of 1,000,000,000 odds that I won't have the time to just step indoors and close the door.

By the way, there are snakes, spiders, frogs, coyotes, bob cats, skunks, opossums, armadillos, pit bulls, hawks, mockingbirds, bees & wasps, mosquitos, etc. in my neck of the woods. I do not bother them. And they do not bother me.

YMMV
Maybe you could carry your caps lock key.....and lose it.......?
 
#81 ·
When I was younger, I did yard or farm work with my regular carry pistol, typically a 1911 of some variety. Now older, with a glitchy back, I tend more and more to my Ruger LC9s Pro while doing physical labor.
 
#84 ·
I posted earlier that I carry a 642 pretty much at all times including yard work.

While I understand some are shocked by those of us who feel the need to carry at all times, including yard work, and say if our neighborhood is so bad we should "move", I urge those people to re-think this.

You are no more or less safe out in your yard than in your recliner or bed at night, and how many of us havent given thought to what our first move would be if we are ever confronted with a home invasion?

In fact, since criminals arent known for playing fair, couldn't an unarmed guy with wife and kids all outside away from the house be perceived as vulnerable, easy pickings?

While I live in a neighborhood thats probably as safe as anywhere and I dont expect to ever need to use my gun for self defense at home (or elsewhere) I dont want to be cut off from self defense, whether it be at the mall, walmart, or in my car or yard. No worse feeling I can imagine is to be cut off 25, 50, or 100 yards from your weapon when the boogey man approaches.

Boy scout motto- be prepared.
 
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