EDC how many hours per day? On body carry

[43cApologist]

Simple enough concept, how many hours per day is your EDC on your person?

I do not sleep with it on me so there is 6 to 8 hours a day I can't carry. I consider this time the "night shift" where long gun becomes primary defensive tool

Before I got my CCW I was technically "every day carry", but I could only legally carry a few hours in the morning before work, on my lunch break, and when I got home. In this period at MOST I'd carry 5 hours a day.

Now I have ccw and can legally carry, I am up 6am, out the door I carry 630 am to at least 10pm before adding layers to home security taking holster off and having loaded long gun ready within a few seconds to being ready for live fire action.

I went from pre ccw maybe 5 hours, getting used to carrying and concealing, to carrying 15+ hours a day.

I'm posting this not to flex "look how much I carry bro!" And more out of curiosity of how long your EDC typical "carry shift" is and if you transition at some point.. ie in truck pistol in glove box or center console while a truck gun becomes primary. Or at home / work staged off body and near by, like under desk mounted holster, or on bedstand, in a stop box or some kind of quick access safe.

I also wonder if there is people out there (kind of like me pre ccw) who maybe just carry a few hours or maybe 1 or less per day but still consider themselves EDC. or on the other extreme maybe some of you carry 24/7/365 and strap holsters on the pjs. Or sleep with one loaded under the pillow I don't know but I do wonder

 

[colt_saa]

I carry whenever I am away from the house

 

[Rustyt1953]

No clue as the batteries in my chess clock are dead.

 

[kraynky]

Depends on the day and the activities of the day. If I'm working in the yard or on the tractor I have a gun on me (first two rounds are shotshells), but it's not necessarily concealed.

I'f I'm leaving the property I always have a concealed firearm. So it depends if I'm running around all day, or just going to the grocery, as to how long I am carrying. Although I do often forget to take it off once I'm home, and it comes off at bedtime, whenever I decide it's time to go lay down.

So I can't honestly say "in hours", but I do carry most anytime I leave the house. Today I went to the mailbox and got the trash can from the road, so maybe 15 minutes.

Before I retired, I wore one from the time I left the house until usually bedtime, or when the wife said, "Did you know you're still carrying your gun?"...........

 

[sigp220.45]

I usually carry when I leave the house. When I’m home my carry guns are in a safe.

 

[robertrwalsh]

I am virtually always carrying when I am not actually IN my house. I even carry when I am mowing the lawn or wrenching on a car. In CA people get robbed or mugged or jacked when washing their car.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Outside of my house and inside of my house = 16 to 18 hours, more or less. Sleeping - no. Morning ablutions - no.

Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch fame routinely would say in re home defense that you use your handgun to fight your way to your long gun. I can't drag the 12 gauge around the house so I'm never without a handgun.

 

[Goldstar225]

Retired so whenever I'm away from the house. Might be 30 minutes for a run to the market, or six or seven hours if I have lots of things to tend to.

 

[marinevet]

Every day that I put on a pair of long pants I am wearing a gun..........if I am in shorts, like when I get up..........the gun goes from the nightstand to the kitchen counter............mowing the yard........very close.......

 

[Claymore33]

From 07:00 to 19:00. Then again if I go to town for supper.

 

[Bald1]

Sometimes 24 hrs sometimes 0 hrs. Just depends

 

[Echo40]

My Ruger LCP is always in my pocket so long as I'm up and about, how many hours that is per day varies, but needless to say, it makes up the majority of my time. So several hours per day on average.

 

[haywood]

Approximately 12 hours a day.

 

[Donn]

If I'm dressed, I'm carrying.

 

[URIT]

Averaged out over a normal week, 2.25 hours per day.

 

[ladder13]

Whenever out, except inside the gym, then it goes in my car safe.

 

[43cApologist]

Whenever out, except inside the gym, then it goes in my car safe.

Is this due to gym policy or too uncomfortable to work out with it on?

 

[43cApologist]

Outside of my house and inside of my house = 16 to 18 hours, more or less. Sleeping - no. Morning ablutions - no.

Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch fame routinely would say in re home defense that you use your handgun to fight your way to your long gun. I can't drag the 12 gauge around the house so I'm never without a handgun.

I Also leave it off during shower but I do have it wrapped in a towel just outside just in case. I view handgun on me at home as a way to fight to get my long gun up until I undress/unholster at end of day, thats when alarms are turned on, and reinforced locks on doors and windows engage etc and my place is small eenough I can run to grab my long gun from any room under 5 seconds which with my exterior survielance systems i'll have at least that in warning time + potential for animals to react if they see or hear something that acts as additional early detection.

As others said well, I feel like if I'm dressed I am carrying, and definitely whenever I leave the house no matter how short the time, close the distance or "how safe" the place is

 

[BabaBlueJay]

Depends. I work in education, which is very unfriendly towards carrying on school grounds even in Ohio where we technically can with training. Most school boards don't want the controversy, even if arming well trained staff IS an important aspect of making schools safer.

On weekends, all day, even inside the house. During the work week, on the commute to and from school (as it is legal to have it in your vehicle on school grounds). As much as I wish I had it on me, not worth risking my career over it.

 

[robvious]

I used to work at a firm.. where about 25 percent had carry permits... officially it was a don't ask don't tell policy, with lock boxes preferred while in the office.. some locked them in their desk some in their cars... now semi involuntarily retired I only carry when I leave the house, which isn't often anymore.