Red Hawk

This isn' t really for people who hunt from stands but just for a conversation sake, i am curious if anyone here carries a hanggun just in case during bow hunting? I dont think i would, and if i did it would be maybe wild boar hunting.

CG

It' s illegal to carry a gun while bowhunting in WY.....So I do not.....However I' ve never hunted in grizzly country and considering my irrational fear of bears, I would consider violating that law if I did hunt in griz country....

GTBuzz

It' s also illegal in Georgia; however, I know quite a few guys that carry a revolver loaded with snakeshot just in case.

Two Beards

No handgun...but I do carry some hardcore pepper
spray. Saw a loose rotweiler (sp?) in my neck of
the woods[], for such a remote area I was
suprised. To be quite honest...it scared the sh@*
out me, decided it was time to have something
besides the 3 arrows in my quiver.

ArcticBowMan

I don' t use a hand gun for black or brown bears, so I doubt I would take one along while deer or boar hunting.

Rack-attack

I carry a my 45 every time I go out, you got to round here.

Lots of feral house cats running around – there big, there nasty – and they will not hesitate to shred up a new summit seat. Let alone nip at your feet. When I hunt close to the Hamptons there is a big problem with wild dogs, poodles and terriers mostly. The nastiest little things you would want to find in the woods. There small but a real pain in the arse when your bow-hunting, almost lost a few good friends to them.

We don’t take chances here in the Burbs – It’s a dangerous world out there!!!

huntmup

Here in SD the prairie dogs can get pretty big - they' ve been known to overthrow entire small towns - and - you know - they carry Monkey Pox so this year not only are we carrying side arms but we' re also carrying .223' s - so we can shoot them from afar w/o the risk of getting close to Monkey Pox.

BUT - I shoot a BOWTECH PATRIOT so I needn' t carry the .223 - I can hit a prairie dog in the 10 ring at 300 yards.

Sagittarius

Red Hawk,

I asked this same question last fall on this forum.
It caused such an uproar that my topic was locked.
Newbies came out of the woodwork on that thread.
Some who replied to that topic have never posted since.
I always carry a Sig P220 ST .45 when I bowhunt or go to the woods.
I am going to be straight and tell you it' s for human predators.
Not, lions, tigers, and bears, like everyone else pretends, lol.
No, I don' t trust strangers in the woods and will not let someone approach me if I don' t know him.
Who wants to squeal like a pig ? LOL.
If that' s paranoid, so be it.
Like a cop friend once told me...
" It' s better to be caught with it than without it" .
Just ask Ned Beatty.


Sag.

click

yep, pack a bersa .380 while in the woods.

xibowhunter

the only time i think i would would be if i went bear hunting, but since i don' t have one i can' t ,i am thinking of getting one ,with all the mine run off around here we have alot of mutant rabbits and they have big teeth and they anger very easily! [&:][&:][&:][&:]