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My son, DIL, and grandkids live on a 77-acre ranch on the northwest side of DFW. We've got a nice year-round creek flowing on one side of the property, which means that we get all kinds of critters running around including deer, feral pigs on occassion, coyotes, snakes, armadillos, and numerous other four and more-legged animals, some of which can be hazardous to our cats, dogs, goats, cattle and... Well, you get the idea. We're also outside the city limits of any towns, so we rely upon the Sherrif's Office for law enforcement services and in the evening hours there may be as few as six deputies on duty throughout the entire county. And though they've responded fairly quickly to the non-emergencies that we've already had (my son discovered an open front door one evening while returning with the family after a dinner out, and we've had the odd tresspassers using our and neighbor's property as their hunting grounds), I wouldn't want to wait that long in an emergency.

Long way of saying: yes, if we're out on the property, we're armed. Inside the main house, my son is usually wearing his, and I've got mine nearby, if not on me. He tends to wear his OWB, i tend to have mine IWB, though I do carry OWB occassionally when I'm out on the property in the Gator.