Carrying a handgun on your ranch - CHL needed?

Cant speak for the OP, but for us there is almost always multiple long guns in the Pickup's.
Some times the pickup is not close enough, most threats are the 4 legged or no legged variety.
Snakes,coyote's,rabid skunks possum, porcupine and such.
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Right. A pistol on the hip is infinitely more useful than the rifle back in the truck. For the most part, if you are in your truck, you are going to be safe from most ranch threats and not need a rifle or a pistol for that matter. It is when you are out of the truck that you are vulnerable to various threats and it can be quite cumbersome to try to carry a rifle while loading hay, getting a calf untangled from the barbed wire, fixing your water gates, filling feeders, etc.
 
There is that old statement I've seen attributed to Col. Jeff Cooper (though in fact it may not be his) - the handgun is for fighting your way back to your rifle.
 
Skadoosh and others who made similar points - my intent isn't to argue that you should or shouldn't do every last thing you are legally entitled to do. It's to suggest that all actions have consequences, even if they are 100% within the law. So, if you wish to engage your neighbor in a time-consuming feud involving the local gendarmerie, by all means feel free to do so. But most of these sorts of scenarios can be avoided in advance by the simple act of a friendly conversation.
 
If there are enough feral hogs, coyotes, mountain lions, zombies, etc. that I have to fight back to my rifle - they already ate me up.

Nice cliche - not reality.
 
Minor (?) point in Texas, you might be legal to carry on your residential property BUT not on sidewalk or the parkway between sidewalk and street as that is usually classified as public access and not private property. I used to carry on my property because crime can happen anywhere.

I always carry on my hunting lease in South Texas for 2-legged and 4-legged threats and snakes.
 
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Minor (?) point in Texas, you might be legal to carry on your residential property BUT not on sidewalk or the parkway between sidewalk and street as that is usually classified as public access and not private property. I used to carry on my property because crime can happen anywhere.

I always carry on my hunting lease in South Texas for 2-legged and 4-legged threats and snakes.
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The last time I checked, in CA, the front yard is considered public space unless it is fenced off. That explains why all of the school kids thinks it belongs to them. Carrying on our property in CA is limited to the fenced off back yard only. In addition, some contend that the garage is open to the public space and is questionable to keep and carry in the garage.

I am working on getting out of this place completely and totally. Half way there so far. Thankfully, I live in Idaho for the summer and fall months so that the time I am in CA goes much quicker. It is just not a reasonable place.

Oh, throw in the fact that my house is within the 1000 foot school no gun zone as well making the front yard a double whammy. You should enjoy and protect the freedoms you have in TX, not so many folks have it as well.

God bless,
 
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Jim Page: I know the rules for NY, my in-laws live in NYS...and yes, you are correct, you may not posses, or even handle, a pistol in NY without a permit for that weapon...I am very aware of that. I own a pistol that came from NY, gift from my FIL. The same goes in the whole of the US for convicted felons.

The assumption is: If You can legally posses the weapon in the first place, then on your own property, or on private property you are a welcome guest on, you can OC or CC a legally possessed pistol...OK? like that better...and yes, that goes for NY too.
 
This is kinda funny! After I was divorced a while I bought myself a 686. I was wearing it out in the yard when the ex dropped my daughter off. Well she calls the law, then calls my mother because they couldn't do anything about it.
I guess she figured my mother over rode the law.
 
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