Today I enjoyed the outdoors. I chose to carry......

460Shooter said:

This has turned out to be a fun and controversy free thread. Glad it’s gone o this long and yielded so good pics.

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@460Shooter thanks for starting the thread it has been fun and hopefully will continue.
We all need to stop and smell the roses. At least look at the flowers.

WisBorn

We all need to stop and smell the roses. At least look at the flowers.

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Indeed it's always a pleasure to enjoy nature's floral array.

I actually don't think I was carrying anything. Maybe a 6906. Spud was more interested in my ham sandwich

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Walked across the Ravenel Bridge today (5 miles round trip) from Mount Pleasant to Charleston SC. The aircraft carrier is the USS Yorktown at the Patriot Point Naval Museum. A special thanks to all of the Sailors in the group.
Carried my LCP2 with Speer 100 grain FMJ. Want to switch to HTS but not seeing them in the LGS'S.

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Spent a couple of nights on that AC with Cubs Scouts.

A good friend was in my area out west visiting his kids/grandkids. He's an avid backpacker and outdoorsman. Before he headed back to Virginia on Sunday we decided to do an overnighter in the mountains to get away from the heat (101 at my house on Saturday). Drove to trailhead and hiked in 2 miles and established camp next to a trout stream. Temp there was 84 degrees.

He relaxed on the side of the stream sipping a bourbon and smoking a cigar while I successfully flogged the water with a 3 weight fly rod.

120 grain LRNFPGC were along for the ride in a .327 Fed Mag 5.5 inch Ruger Single Seven ensconced in a Ross suede lined holster.

Frulk

Now that's what I call relaxing in the great outdoors! Love the Ruger Single Seven too; perfect for the backwoods environment!

Are you sure that’s not my neighborhood?


I, too, am carrying a P-938 today!
Great minds and all...

Oof! That was harder than I thought it’d be...

Can't wait for cooler weather! I would like to carry a little more gun. XDM 45acp compact for example. But at 100+ heat index the LCP2 in my shorts pocket is it.

Only nature time today was the rifle range

@Demi-human and @460Shooter did you guys meet for lunch today

Cool pictures and pistols!!!

CZ P-09 and TX22 for Hiking. Sometimes a Ruger PC 9MM.

460Shooter said:

Afternoon fishing. No gun in the boat. If I encounter pirates here I’m screwed. I’ll just have to wave a knife around.
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Nice knife

Terry G said:

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Reminds me of home in Wisconsin

460Shooter said:

No gun in the boat

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Therefore no tragic boating accidents.
Looks like my part of the country! Beautiful day!

Not far from Hurricane Ridge in the Olympics. Wilson P-320 in a Ritchie Belt Scabbard and a ESEE Izula II on the belt.

Old Dog

Two great views!

WisBorn said:

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Walked across the Ravenel Bridge today (5 miles round trip) from Mount Pleasant to Charleston SC. The aircraft carrier is the USS Yorktown at the Patriot Point Naval Museum. A special thanks to all of the Sailors in the group.
Carried my LCP2 with Speer 100 grain FMJ. Want to switch to HTS but not seeing them in the LGS'S.

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Thank you for posting.
Great visit, we visit the aircraft few year ago and my wife had to drag me out of it, since my passion for the A4Q planes.

czhen said:

Thank you for posting.
Great visit, we visit the aircraft few year ago and my wife had to drag me out of it, since my passion for the A4Q planes.

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My Dad served on the USS Midway. I took him and my Mom to the Yorktown. He loved it. It is a generation earlier but enjoyed going through it . A favorite thing he pointed out was the radio room. He said that he received a pink note from the radio room when my older sister was born.

Quite a few years ago, I was an "advisor" to a Boy Scout Troop (they were fire dept oriented and I was the medical advisor since I was EMS and we had a substation at the fire dept that we were based out of to run calls)

We took them to the Yorktown and had arranged to spend the night there and let me tell you, those sailors didn`t have 5 Star accommodations! We slept in rope hammocks that were packed in like you wouldn`t believe. Ship itself was fascinating though.

As a funny addendum to the story, once all the scouts were in hammock and hopefully asleep, us older guys (we were all about 30 then...sigh) decided to sneak out and check the areas of the ship that were normally off limits to any tourists. At that time of night there wasn`t anyone else on the ship except for us

We were able to go almost all throughout the ship except for some rooms that were locked shut but most areas were simply marked off with Do Not Cross/Keep Out tape, which slowed us down not at all. Finally got to the superstructure and couldn`t get to the top since there was a metal gate that blocked the stairs/ladders. However, there were multiple pipes and such that ran up there which wasn`t much of a problem getting up. We`d seen a light on up there and wanted to see for ourselves. After finally getting up there it seems to have been an automated radio station of some sort which makes perfect sense because the whole area is so flat.

Getting back down involved a bit of panic since going up the pipe was easy but having to look down the pipe and slide down it was much more difficult. Seems that it would`ve been the same as going up but that wasn`t the case. All of us finally got back down without any broken bones or deaths so we called it good

Oh, to be 30 again...

Im now legally allowed to carry when I go hiking so I exercised that right today.

Mars5l said:

I’m now legally allowed to carry when I go hiking, so I exercised that right today.

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Congratulations!

And nice choice of carry!

Went tent camping over the weekend up in the Idaho mountains and brought the G29 and my AR in .450 Bushmaster. Found a great spot next to Emerald Creek and right next to a large Thimbleberry patch.

My girlfriend is from California and couldn't believe we didn't have to make reservations months in advance or pay any fees in order to camp.

Did some panning for gold, but only one speck of gold and tons of garnets (hence the name, Emerald Creek...)