I carry a glock 20 in 10mm mainly when hog hunting

Check the NJ handgun carry laws and the NJ fish & game laws.

I'm going to assume the answer to both of your questions is yes but I would double check.

The only reason I answered a 6 year old thread is because the bowhunter45nj asked this question yesterday.

I use to carry one with me over 40 years ago. The cops didn't care back then, and I would snipe grouse etc. with it. Now, I don't have any because it is too much of a hassle. You need a special permit to carry it from your residence to the range and back home again. Don't stop at KFC on the way home, because if caught, you will be tarred and feathered and crucified.

Sounds like the socialist state of NY!!

I always carry my XDM during shotgun season, and have started carrying during bow season since the neighbor got trail cam pics of a mountain lion this year.

Maybe it's the cowboy in me but where I go at least one of my revolvers are going along. I'm kindred to the 41mag, I haven't came across anything in the lower 48 it won't take down. I do have other pistols but they have a place and use. I've carried it so long on hunting, fishing and hiking trips I don't even know it's there but I do know it's there and that's a sense of security no other person or item can give. Never understood that the handgun is too heavy to carry and there's sit's a back pack that has 50 lbs of crap in it.

Have had numerous comments on carrying a handgun in the field.

Such as are you expecting trouble? Not at all sir not at all.

My favorite a lady asked me.
What if a bear charged you? I'd shoot it.
What if you don't have a gun? I'm wrong in the first place.

Same thing could be said for our changing social life. It isn't getting better.

I carry a 4" Security Six along with my BP rifle during the MO BP and handgun season. It can produce a quick "finisher" if need be. I also carry it if I am scouting or in the woods(private land) without other weapons. We do have cougars, feral hogs and a few dangerous two-legged critters in MO and a .357 is a comfort in the field.

+1

I bought a used Ruger Police Service Six for just this reason. Anytime I am out in the desert the Ruger is with me and if it gets scuffed up I do not mind. I enjoy landscape photography. Typically I am alone with some expensive equipment. The Ruger is kept clearly visible to anyone that approaches me.

Like Jenks said: it is a comfort to have with me.

In Virginia, I carry a .357 Colt King Cobra with a 4" barrel in a cross-draw holster during muzzleloading season when hunting on public land. Basically the reason I got a CC permit. The cross-draw holster keeps it accessible but out of the way of my rifle.

Yes during archery season, no during rifle season.