Carry outside of House in the Yard?

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Just curious if anyone does this? I wouldn't mind advertising that my house is protected by Smith and Wesson but I don't know if I want to advertise that there are firearms in the house, especially since I travel for work.

Any opinions on this?
 
I personally prefer not to advertise (I just think it looks tacky). But I see nothing wrong with publicly advertising the fact that you will protect your home. An intruder will likely look for the path of least resistance. The chance of getting shot increases that resistance, eh?


-T.


EDIT: Re-reading my post, I sound off topic. By "looking tacky", I meant I prefer not to open carry. I still however see no issue with others doing it. Nice visible deterrent for anyone who may be casing the place, eh?
 
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I carry all the time while outside, but it's generally hidden. Being in an urban setting, I don't want anybody really knowing or doing something stupid. (EEP, he's got A GUN!:eek:) It's still too early in our state's shall issue laws for the general population to be perfectly fine with it. I do ride my bike with my G26 in an Uncle Mike's kydex OWB under a safety vest, and if anybody recognizes a gun under the vest, I don't care. And I have gone out on occasion with a gun on my hip in plain sight to venture into the garage, lock my truck, etc. After all, they're going to have to get used to it sometime.:p
 
I'm out in the rural area and I carry open. We have rattlesnakes and other critters that sometimes have to be dispatched. I caught one rattlesnake tonight, took him some miles away and turned him loose!
 
I really wish people would stop making a big deal out of carrying around a firearm, especially on their property.

I'd rather not leave it sitting on my computer desk just to go check the mail or get something out of my car. Good grief.
 
I often OC while doing yardwork. No reason in prticular other than it's more comfortable than CC.

I didn't think anybody would really notice until I came home one day and my neighbor was outside trying to catch his cat. He asked if he could borrow my gun to shoot the damn thing. To this I replied "Which gun?"

Since then the guy has seen me carrying guns to/from my truck many times, and has never seemed the least bit bothered by it. I'm sure he owns at least one himself, and perhaps some day I'll talk to him about it.
 
I have Oc's and CC'd while taking out the trash and getting the mail at my apartment.I dont see it as any different than when I CC or OC anyplace else like around town, or out in the forest.I carry the same way, for the same reasons, regardless, which is that I carry for SD, and wether I carry open or concealed is just a matter of if I happen to have a jacket or shirt on that covers it due to weather, or no particular reason at all.
 
I live in a somewhat rural area and there have been many times when a gnarly looking stray dog has wandered into our yard. One recently cornered my wife while she was gardening but I was able to shoosh him away with the hose. Our neighbors even watched a coyote chase a deer down our street! So every now and then I take my Kel Tech P11 out with me when I work outside.
 
We live in a very evil world. We have some very sick people living among us. I don't let my 10 yr. old daughter play out side without my self or my wife out there with her. If I am out in the yard with her, I am armed I just carry it concealed.
 
chris in va said:
I really wish people would stop making a big deal out of carrying around a firearm, especially on their property.
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If this was a distasteful discussion to you, perhaps you should have passed is over, yeah? :rolleyes:


-T.
 
I carry just about any time I'm awake and wearing enough clothes to support a holster. Why would being out in the yard be different?
 
I carry when I do my own yardwork (get a break on the rent) and I carry when I do my parent's yardwork. It's a nice little suburb that had some trash move into the newly erected apartments that have ended up as Section 8 housing (welfare houses that end up acting as dens of drug dealing and murder) and so the local crime stats went up 300% or more. Finally had a murder in more than twenty years, probably longer because the neighborhood just outside my parent's little suburb didn't come into existence till about fifteen years ago and my parent's suburb is only twenty-five years old. It's where I grew up and I'm 23.

I put my SBH .44 Magnum in a hip holster and my Taurus 617 .357 snubby in my pocket. Plenty of times now I've caught little 'hood' trash who don't belong in my parent's neighborhood taking peeks in my parent's windows when they absolutely shouldn't be when I've been pulling weeds and picking up yard trash. And when I've stayed at my folks house when they go out of town for more than a night I've greeted 'hood' trash unwelcome in-lookers with the .44 Magnum in my hand drawn out of it's holster, hammer back, and pointed harmlessly and the ground in a non-threatening manner.

I've bought my mom a Kel-Tec .32 (the only gun she'll shoot reliably and accurately with her arthritis) and my Dad finally let me buy him a used Rock Island .45 ACP and it's the only gun he'll shoot. Thankfully my Uncle and Grandpa taught me to shoot. And I can get my parents out to the range once every two months(not enough as I see it, but at twelve yards they can do center mass).

My neighbors have thankfully started carrying openly on their properties when washing cars and doing yardwork, in part because of my example as some of them say so I figure carrying openly on your property when it's legal is perfectly okay and stands to encourage your neighbors to do so. The more of us who demonstrate our ownership, the less we stand to have fools and scum attempt to make us victims. My parent's suburb hasn't been bothered by the crime increase, just the local nearby houses outside their little gateless suburb. Probably also helps that most of my parents' neighbors are retired law enforcement, regular hunters, and former military service members.
 
I was just now out mowing part of our big yard while open carrying, and sitting here cooling off right now.

But of course from the county road you would have to have binoculars to know that I had a gun while mowing :p

Though I have been out working in the yard and had unknown vehicles drive in. :uhoh:

I also open carry (at least in the summer) when I'm out riding my horse. All the nearby neighbors know that and have no problems with it.
 
Living in a very rural area where I do I carry openly when I am working in the yard or out and about my property. I have ran into black bear, mt. lion, rabid raccoons, rattlesnakes and copperheads, not to mention if I have to call the sheriff I am looking at least a 20 min. response time.

If someone comes on my property and dislikes my open carry, tough, get over it or leave.
 
I was just now out mowing part of our big yard while open carrying, and sitting here cooling off right now.

But of course from the county road you would have to have binoculars to know that I had a gun while mowing :p

Though I have been out working in the yard and had unknown vehicles drive in. :uhoh:

I also open carry (at least in the summer) when I'm out riding my horse. All the nearby neighbors know that and have no problems with it.
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TallPine,you are making me sick with envy.Please desist!:D
 
Carry Always

I carry everywhere I go. Especially outside at my house, we have many bears and moose with young in my area.
 
Working in the yard is about the only time I OC. 95 degrees and high humidity aren't conductive to CC in a OWB holster. Since I have to use a riding mower, any other form of carry would take to long to get at, at least for me. Out here in the "boonies" it's not a big deal anyway.
 
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