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What environment do you carry in?

  • City

    Votes: 47 30.9%
  • 'Burbs

    Votes: 69 45.4%
  • Country

    Votes: 25 16.4%
  • Way out in the Boonies

    Votes: 11 7.2%

Whats your environment?

6K views 36 replies 37 participants last post by  curmudgeon8 
#1 ·
There seems to be a lot of discussion that goes back and forth about best guns to carry, etc. Some people come back with cannon recommendations and others come back with mousegun recommendations. I bet we could see an interesting divide knowing what environment people live and carry in.

If I lived in a rural area on 3000 acres of forest I would naturally have a different opinion than a city-slicker stopping at 7-Eleven for a Slurpee.
 
#27 ·
I live in Homosassa Springs on the west coast of Florida, but drive 200 miles round trip daily to work in Orlando. I always have my Kimber Ultra CDP II in .45ACP or my Sig P250 9mm at the ready. Hey OJ, do you work an extra job to feed those mastiffs? Nice pups!!!!!!!:smt1099
 
#28 ·
One side of our street is county and the other side is city. Where does that put me? Wherever it is, here in the Mobile AL area, I carry either a Kel-Tec P-11 in summer clothes or a Witness P Compact .45acp when I can wear a long shirt or jacket or in an IWB holster if my summer clothes permit. BTW I do have a CCW permit. No open carry in Alabama unless you're hunting, and for that I have a 6 1/2" Ruger Blackhawk .357mag and a TZ99 for back-up.
 
#29 ·
I carry every where it is legal because it is my right to do so.In PA.,I open carry,there is always an opertunity to perhaps educate or enlighten the opinions of skeptics or anti gunners! I Believe that a positive image in the practice of our 2nd. Amendment rights,is nessessary!

Only my opinion !!!
 
#30 ·
I'm pretty much in the boonies. The town I live in is just a wide spot in the road. I can be in a small town in around 8-10 miles but round me there's just hills and some cattle. A commander length 1911 Para LTC is what I have most the time with me. I switch around a lot though with a 229 40 Sig, A 40 cal Browning Pro, and a full length Springer 1911. Even when I lived in larger cities and/or the burbs I never cared much for pocket guns. But that has to do with not liking pocket carry mostly and carrying one IWB just feels funny to me. Being the avg shooting distance in situations that most people would find themselves in I would say just about anything from a 380 up would do someone OK. 7 yards is the qualifying distance for most CCW cards so I would guess if you can put a shot where you want it in that distance will work. Modern ammo makes choices of smaller pistols not near the issue it might have been years ago.
 
#33 ·
I live n a state that hasn't have a gun carry law.All i can say is I have
one of my 1911's ready in the house for protection and in my camper
I have a MAS 32 auto & a 9mm Browning ready to go.When I drove truck
I carried a sawed off pump shotgun.(kick door open,fire,close door)keep
trucking...:smt033
 
#36 ·
Though I technically live in the suburbs, I voted "City".

Kenosha is directly between Chicago and Milwaukee.....close enough to the city for me. Definitely have been having the crime rates to support my vote.



...unfortunately, I am not allowed to carry seeing as Wisconsin is governed by mostly Anti-Gun democrats. Funny thing is Wisconsin has mainly conservative views, but tends to vote liberal -even though the hunting scene is pretty big here especially a bit further north.
 
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