How many carry while deer hunting?
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SAFireman
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Yes, always. Mostly a 41 mag and a NAA 22.
The 22 has been the coup-d-grace and the 41 will handle aliens, feral hogs, poachers, feral dogs, and what-have-you close at hand. The '06 will handle pretty much anything else out to 400+ yards.
The 22 has been the coup-d-grace and the 41 will handle aliens, feral hogs, poachers, feral dogs, and what-have-you close at hand. The '06 will handle pretty much anything else out to 400+ yards.
Either a Winchester pre-64 Model 70 in .308 Winchester or .270 Winchester both featherweights. Back-up is a standard pre-64 in .257 Roberts.
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C Broad Arrow
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Got a .41 and .22. Those along with your rifle how do you carry them all?
SAFireman
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I have a big 4x4....and I don't really have to walk all that far. Maybe 5 miles a day.
Even on my buddy's place of 10,000+ acres, we drive to the general area and then walk the rest of the way in.
If I was climbing mountains, and or walking for a week, I would certainly reconsider.
garddogg56
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As a side arm any 9mm.
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C Broad Arrow
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Sorry, I meant to ask how do you carry them? Both on the hip? 41 on the hip or the 22? Or one on the pack or fanny pack?
SAFireman
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Sorry, it is probably me....my wife says that I am dense, and that I don't communicate well.....
Anyhow.....The Marlin is slung over alternating shoulders. The primary handgun rides OWB in a sturdy leather holster with retention strap. The NAA goes in a shirt pocket, or center pocket of my coveralls (climate dependent).
I hope that helps (and is somewhat less confusing
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G.T. Smith
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I deer hunt with a 12 ga. with rifled slugs. I do carry a side arm. Either a .38 revolver or my colt 1911 ,45. I keep 230 grain hollow points in the .45 when using it and 158 grain LRN in the .38. Never carry them at the same time. Depends on where I'm heading. I can't wait for deer season. I love the solitude.
Peace,
Gordon
Peace,
Gordon
Odd story, but true.
One time one of my brothers and I were out and he had filled his buck tag and I hadn't yet. He is about 20 yds off and sees a doe and nice buck about to do the deed. He drops the doe and when I come over he says a nice buck went over the side of the hill. I wonder off in that direction.
He starts to work on the doe and he hears this clump clump clump and thinks "Why is Jim coming back so soon and being so loud." Turns around and here is the buck, head down, stomping the ground. Brothers 06 is leaned up against a tree a few yds away and he was sweating it. Till he went for the gun and the deer snorted and left.
He carries a pistol now.
Once after filling all our tags I was riding with from freinds from out of state when we saw a real nice buck beside the road. They stopped and were whispering about him. He was swelled up like a nickel balloon and I said watch this and got out and started cursing him for being stupid during hunting season. He immediately started snorting and pawing the ground. I had my hand on my pistol as I got back in the truck. Thinking some horned up buck in rut wouldn't try to take you is foolish.
One time one of my brothers and I were out and he had filled his buck tag and I hadn't yet. He is about 20 yds off and sees a doe and nice buck about to do the deed. He drops the doe and when I come over he says a nice buck went over the side of the hill. I wonder off in that direction.
He starts to work on the doe and he hears this clump clump clump and thinks "Why is Jim coming back so soon and being so loud." Turns around and here is the buck, head down, stomping the ground. Brothers 06 is leaned up against a tree a few yds away and he was sweating it. Till he went for the gun and the deer snorted and left.
He carries a pistol now.
Once after filling all our tags I was riding with from freinds from out of state when we saw a real nice buck beside the road. They stopped and were whispering about him. He was swelled up like a nickel balloon and I said watch this and got out and started cursing him for being stupid during hunting season. He immediately started snorting and pawing the ground. I had my hand on my pistol as I got back in the truck. Thinking some horned up buck in rut wouldn't try to take you is foolish.
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99savage308
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Let me get this right: I'm hunting with a high powered rifle and you ask what ? I will leave it at that.
Stewmeister
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My grandfather always taught me to carry a pistol in the woods, hunting or otherwise. We have a lot of snakes, especially South GA throughout the season. I carry a 4" 686+ with CCI shotshells and a speedloader of 180 gr SWC.
In PA, you either need a Sportsman's permit or a CC permit to carry a handgun while hunting. You cannot open carry while hunting without one or the other. Also, if you carry with the Sportsman's permit, your handgun must be unloaded if you have filled your tag for the quarry and season you are hunting.
I don't know in what surroundings you hunt, but in the "jungles" on the sometime vertical hillsides of the coast range where I spent most of my hunting life, when you have an animal down, and the danger that someone else might want to help themselves to it (has happened multiple times to friends) is greatest, you usually spend the better part of a day, more if you got an elk, to get the thing to your truck, with neither hands nor shoulders free for a long gun
I was basing my answer on the ability of people to read and comprehend. The question asked 'Do you carry while deer hunting?' My answer remains the same.
Chopper1388
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I always have either a 6" Model 19 or 29 in my shoulder holster when deer hunting. Makes me feel better walking to and from the stand in the dark in wild hog country.
I never saw the need to put my rifle down to use a pistol.
I carried my model 39 in a shoulder holster while bow hunting. It was not legal but I figured like to old saying, "better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6". We had heard bear at times at dusk and I'm not as good a shot as Burt Reynolds was in deliverance. Where we hunted there were some strange dudes and the theme song from said movie sometimes played in my head. 
