How often do you carry?
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How often do you carry?
50% of the time?
100% of the time?
or somewhere in between?
100% of the time?
or somewhere in between?
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Re: How often do you carry?
100% of the time (not counting when I'm asleep in bed).
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Re: How often do you carry?
Whenever I am awake and not at a prohibited location. Which unfortunately means about 50% of my time since I work at a prohibited location. :(
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Re: How often do you carry?
24/7 unless at a prohibited location.
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Re: How often do you carry?
What he said...except at very rarely visited prohibited locations.The Annoyed Man wrote:100% of the time (not counting when I'm asleep in bed).
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Re: How often do you carry?
What Will said . . .
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Re: How often do you carry?
When I first considered getting my license, I often pondered this question. How much was I realistically going to carry? I don't know if it's just me, but I feel that the amount of brazen violent crime has increased over the past few years. So as many on this site have said, "24/7 or guess right."
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Re: How often do you carry?
The only time I don't carry is where prohibited by law (which is not much, since I refuse to do business anywhere with a 30.06 sign except hospitals when I'm bleeding or visiting) and work, since they have policies that give me no choice but to drive 'naked' or risk forfeiting my job. Heck, I even have the Kimber strapped on when I'm riding the lawn mower in the front yard.
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Re: How often do you carry?
I put in on when I get dressed in the morning and take it off when I crawl into bed at night. It sleeps in a safe on my nightstand next to me :)
On the rare occasions where I go somewhere where carrying is prohibited, I disarm when I'm getting out of the car and put it in the safe under my seat. It goes back on my hip before I drive away.
On the rare occasions where I go somewhere where carrying is prohibited, I disarm when I'm getting out of the car and put it in the safe under my seat. It goes back on my hip before I drive away.
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Re: How often do you carry?
Yep, that's me too. I liked what I heard from someone else here once: "If I'm wearing pants, that means I'm carrying."Sangiovese wrote:I put in on when I get dressed in the morning and take it off when I crawl into bed at night.
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I did a site search for other discussions concerning vehicle safes before I posted. I looked for a single handgun safe that would fit under the seat of a sedan. I settled for a lock-box type on a cable.Sangiovese wrote:I put in on when I get dressed in the morning and take it off when I crawl into bed at night. It sleeps in a safe on my nightstand next to me :)
On the rare occasions where I go somewhere where carrying is prohibited, I disarm when I'm getting out of the car and put it in the safe under my seat. It goes back on my hip before I drive away.
Sangiovese, when you say "in the safe under my seat...", what sort of safe do you have and (to others) what else is available?
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...and where is it parked, what make, model, and color is it? Can you send me a tracing of the door key?ninemm wrote:
Sangiovese, when you say "in the safe under my seat...", what sort of safe do you have and (to others) what else is available?
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Actually, "safe" is probably not accurate. What I have is more of a lock box on a cable like you mention. I use one from http://www.center-of-mass.com/ and really like it. It's not going to withstand a determined attack... but it looks like it will defeat a pair of diagonal cutters and a screwdriver - so the typical smash and grab guy won't be walking away with my XD.ninemm wrote: I did a site search for other discussions concerning vehicle safes before I posted. I looked for a single handgun safe that would fit under the seat of a sedan. I settled for a lock-box type on a cable.
Sangiovese, when you say "in the safe under my seat...", what sort of safe do you have and (to others) what else is available?
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Re: How often do you carry?
Whenever I am awake and not at a prohibited location. Which unfortunately means about 50% of my time since I work at a prohibited location. :(
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Re: How often do you carry?
Cabela's has an underseat lock box on a cable for $30. Check it out.tfrazier wrote:...and where is it parked, what make, model, and color is it? Can you send me a tracing of the door key?ninemm wrote:
Sangiovese, when you say "in the safe under my seat...", what sort of safe do you have and (to others) what else is available?