Camping advice

[Ed Ames]

That's easy. Leave it in the holster, on your belt, around your waist.

I went camping earlier this year with some distant relatives. Young children, parents, etc. They are not people I care to discuss firearms with, and given the way they play the "we don't let our kids watch TV because it is too violent" card I wouldn't trust the kids not to shoot themselves if they laid hands on a gun. So what did I do? I wore an SP101 in an IWB holster throughout the trip. Throughout meaning it never left my side, even when I slept.

Didn't even get a strange look.

 

[Ledhead686]

Hi all, was wondering how to manage tent camping with kids and guns? How to keep the gun safe from little ones and still have it accessible. Brother and sister in law are anti gun. If they see a gun case they will ask what and why. Things will be tense. Thinking about locking it up in the car about 20 yds away. Any ideas?

Two common sense suggestions:

1) Forego taking/inviting your in-laws on any camping excursion, period. A cozy life in suburbia will no doubt afford them a better night's sleep, and the bone-chilling sounds of so vicious and deadly a beast as a gray squirrel treading the fallen autumn leaves in search of human prey on which to gorge its greedy little self won't send their bleeding little hearts into cardiac arrest. Well, at least we hope not anyway...

2) Keep the gun on safety, and stashed under the head rest(ing) area of your sleeping bag or air mattress. I mean, how on earth is anyone going to get at it from there without waking you?

 

[phil dirt]

I'm around people all the time who have no clue that almost everywhere I go I'm armed. If I'm concerned that they might see its print, I just carry a little smaller pistol, usually a Walther PP or a Sig 230. Bye the way, when I go camping I'm not worried about the 4 legged animals, only the two legged kind.

 

[Ledhead686]

IBye the way, when I go camping I'm not worried about the 4 legged animals, only the two legged kind.

Exactly the species those Ivory Tower-dwelling liberals should be most concerned with.

Of course, being safely ensconced in secluded, gated communities -- with 24-hour-patrolled and, oftentimes, armed security -- they feel safe; immune to the threats that affect the "common people."

 

[Robert]

Op has stated the issue has been resolved. Op, read over the posts and use what works best for you.