Carrying a pistol while scouting

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

So how many Roksliders travel to their hunting spot with a pistol (for the two-legged threats) but leave it in their vehicle while they scout and/or hunt?

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

any suggestions on how to carry? I agree the holster may get in the way...

Various binoculars attachments as well as chest/thigh rigs.

 

[Mykolaivka887]

Come to the southern border and your boogey men do exist.

Yeah, I hunt with my outfitter down there along the southern border, ocassionaly. He doesn't carry a pistol, either.

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

Yeah, I hunt with my outfitter down there along the southern border, ocassionaly. He doesn't carry a pistol, either.

I didn't either until I did have an up close and personal experience with confirmed MS-13 members coming North a few years ago. I was very happy to have been armed with both a rifle and a pistol.

 

[Mykolaivka887]

I didn't either until I did have an up close and personal experience with confirmed MS-13 members coming North a few years ago. I was very happy to have been armed with both a rifle and a pistol.

Yeah, the rifle works really well, if it's ever called upon. My outfitter has a shotgun laying around, just in case. But neither of us pack a pistol when were in the 30's and 40's units.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Everything is always fine. Until it isn't.
Anybody who hasnt had a need for a self defense weapon
while in the outdoors has been either very lucky or hasnt
been outdoors very much.

 

[isItFallYet]

That was the one I was thinking of for backpacks. Excellent reputation. They make a custom holster for EXO packs.

Plus it says this at the bottom of the description:

"Lastly, every Ivory EMG is infused with Irish whiskey and has been blessed by the spirit of Fred Bear to ensure peak hunting performance."

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I have had enough run ins with mobile meth labs, grows, and moonshiners on national forest land I always carry, sometimes it's rifle if there is no open season then pistol.

 

[Dos Perros]

I carry when I have my kids/loved ones with me. Otherwise save the weight in Colorado.

 

[Dirtbag]

I didn't either until I did have an up close and personal experience with confirmed MS-13 members coming North a few years ago. I was very happy to have been armed with both a rifle and a pistol.

I've had enough run ins and glassed up enough of them I always carry as well. I don't understand why you wouldn't.

 

[isItFallYet]

There are enough black bear attacks near where I live (GSMNP), to warrant carrying a sidearm. If it never happens, no harm no foul.

 

[Adam Gibbs]

Those using a HPG kit bag, how are you carrying binos with them? The bag is normally where my bino harness sits.

 

[BaconSammich199]

Those using a HPG kit bag, how are you carrying binos with them? The bag is normally where my bino harness sits.

I use the HPG bino pouch on my kit bag

 

[Yarak]

Be cautious gentleman and don’t feed the trolls

 

[SoloWilderness]

I've had good luck with Blackhawk holsters, they make some inexpensive cordura jobs that fit nicely on my packs waist belt. Have one on each pack so I don't have to move them around. Don't sweat bears too much in CO, but I've had some close encounters with lions and moose that have had me looking over my shoulder for the rest of the day. There are lots of shady backcountry operations going on here, haven't run into a live one, but have stumbled into abandoned camps with water lines, etc. dug in miles and miles into the backcountry. Always carry. Think of it as training with weight on...

 

[406flyfish]

I wear a chest holster and bring bear spray for hunting in Montana. I personally wouldn’t pack a pistol if I was hunting in Colorado. I’d probably just opt for the bear spray to minimize weight.

 

[Jesse Jaymes]

I'd ask "Why wouldn't you"?? Like a Leatherman or pocket knife it's a tool. I may have to euthanize one of my dogs, your dog, I may shoot your dog off my dogs if I cannot separate them.

Euthanize other critters. Protect myself. My wife. You....

Been in Law Enforcement for 25+ years. Just do. Almost none of it has to do with bears.

 

[Pikespeak]

I've hunted a lot in CO and always carried a Glock G20. I had a bear charge at me and stopped it by popping a round into the ground ahead of him. Also used it as a noise maker a couple times with bears that didn't fear me and were acting curious. I was also followed by a Mt Lion once. When getting stalked, the difference in how you feel when you have the means to put it in the ground if needed vs nothing is immense.

I wonder sometimes if the people who don't bring a gun just have false confidence because they haven't had anything happen to be worried about.

 

[CoStick]

I typically scout with my daughters, that are young so I don’t carry and never have in CO. As they get older I may just for continued safe firearms education.

 

[Ratbeetle]

I typically scout with my daughters, that are young so I don’t carry and never have in CO. As they get older I may just for continued safe firearms education.

I don't understand this. Are you worried your daughters will somehow get ahold of your sidearm?