You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
10-13-2008, 08:11 PM
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
i started this season....
lots of things can get ugly....come across a pot patch, meth lab, shine still, jumped at the vehicle etc etc etc....i do a fair bit of hunting a LONG ways from the nearest occupied house...rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it...
not to mention fellow HUNTERS that want to get irrate...never know when one will loose his/her cool and do somethin stupid....
PA finally made it legal to CC while bowhunting this year....nice peace of mind....
lots of things can get ugly....come across a pot patch, meth lab, shine still, jumped at the vehicle etc etc etc....i do a fair bit of hunting a LONG ways from the nearest occupied house...rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it...
not to mention fellow HUNTERS that want to get irrate...never know when one will loose his/her cool and do somethin stupid....
PA finally made it legal to CC while bowhunting this year....nice peace of mind....
10-13-2008, 09:03 PM
#23
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Posts: 375
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
The only thing legal to carry here in LA is .22 rimfire loaded with "rat shot" unless it is open firearm season. I haven't checked into wether or not ccw is allowed here. Anyone on here know?
10-14-2008, 07:29 PM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Texas - BUT NOW in Madison County, NY
Posts: 6,270
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
"BUT, if you can't get it done with the rifle that's "already in your hands", then having a handgun won't be an improvement."
Absolutely correct! There's absolutely nothing at all wrong with hunting with a handgun, but dragging a big handgun along when hunting with a rifle is just complicating matters!
Of course, this comment is from someone who relies on a nice, sharp Buck Stockman pocket knife for field dressing the animals after the shot, too.
Absolutely correct! There's absolutely nothing at all wrong with hunting with a handgun, but dragging a big handgun along when hunting with a rifle is just complicating matters!
Of course, this comment is from someone who relies on a nice, sharp Buck Stockman pocket knife for field dressing the animals after the shot, too.
10-14-2008, 08:36 PM
#28
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3,145
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
ORIGINAL: DM
Having both will cause you to have to think handgun? or rifle?, wasteing valuable time that could be spent getting the more powerful, more accurate rifle into action...
DM
Having both will cause you to have to think handgun? or rifle?, wasteing valuable time that could be spent getting the more powerful, more accurate rifle into action...
DM
10-14-2008, 10:54 PM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gleason, TN
Posts: 1,327
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
Here, even with a CCW permit you can't carry your handgun with you while bowhunting, and for rifle season it has to have at least a 4 inch barrel, be center fire, and no laser sighting devices. So, during bow season, I don't carry. During rifle season, I carry my Ruger Vaquero in 45LC. I've never taken a deer with it, but I'm going to try this year.
In town,the .38goes with me. Sometimes the Ruger, but it's a little awkward. Open carry is legal here, but I don't believe it's a good idea.
In town,the .38goes with me. Sometimes the Ruger, but it's a little awkward. Open carry is legal here, but I don't believe it's a good idea.
10-15-2008, 09:57 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: central Ky
Posts: 2,867
RE: You carry a handgun with your while hunting?
The ONLY times I carry a handgun when I'm hunting is if: I'm hunting in area that has bigger dangerous critters(bear,hog,human druggie,etc),or I'm handgun hunting to begin with. In other words,unless I'm huntin with a handgun,I hardly ever carry.