So, how many carry doing yard work?

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I carry just about everywhere I go these days. Recently, I realized I never carry while doing yard work or other outside chores. Even if I have a gun on me, I take it off before starting the work. I sweat A LOT in the summer doing yard work so that may be part of the reason but I don't carry even in cooler weather for some reason I can't quite explain.

So, of those who usually carry when out and about, how many of you carry or don't carry when doing yard work or other work outside the house?
 
Most of the time I am carrying if I am leaving the house. I don't take my weapon off as soon as I get home either. If I start to do yard work and I have not put my weapon on, then I am not carrying at that point, but if I have been out or carrying at any point and then proceed to do work around the house I am not taking the weapon off just to do the work.
 
It depends, I don't carry in my yard now because the whole thing can be mowed with a push mower in about a half an hour and I'm not that far from the house. If I still lived at my previous residence which took four hours to mow with a John Deere 318, I probably would as parts of the yard are over 100 yards from the house.
 
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I carry a LCP in a wallet style holster back pocket. I run a small plumbing business, and carry it every where I go...even when I carry another side arm
 
For the past six years I have mowed, maintained and cut wood for a couple of farms. The area is copperhead & 'junk critter' rich with the occasional meth goon thrown in for comic relief. I carry a pistol just about all the time.

Much as I love my single-action, I have really come to appreciate a good melonite-finished 40 midsize, like the Glock 23 or Allied Forces SW40VE. I have found that finish to be impervious to sweat.

These guns run with mild SWC reloads or full power defense loads. They offer substantial thump with good capacity and plenty of accuracy for 50 yard shooting. They are small enough to hide well. It's a package that is real hard to beat.
 
(Every day, every where. If I've got my pants on, I've got a gun.)


Same here. I always have my Smith 37 in my back pocket while doing yard work.
 
Absolutely, to date none of the neighbors have complained. I would imagine if they did I would have had a visit from the sheriffs department. Open carry is legal here in FLA on your property.
 
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Every day, every where. If I've got my pants on, I've got a gun.
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Same; I keep several styles of holsters about for various modes of dress, but unless it's legally prohibited, I am armed.
 
I'll take my chances with some sweat.

Here one almost has to. I like Vegas don't get me wrong but people here would not hesitate to rob, steal or kill. I live across from a piece of desert and like 2 months ago there was a body(a Hispanic, which I am) like 150 yards MAX from my home. Like one of the other members said.. I never disarm when I get home. Call me paranoid but I would hate to be doing yard work or taking out the garbage and have conflict without a peace maker. Better to be safe than sorry. A lot of home invasions or robberies here day/night it doesn't matter. It's either on me or within reach 99.999% of my day. :eek: It's more of a habit now rather than remembering to take it outside.

I would say it depends on how secure you feel in your home or neighborhood. We don't feel safe. ;)
 
Hilarious...


It seriously is always with me / on me. I promise.

Yard work, taking out trash getting up at 2am for a snack, left something in the car, someone knocked on the door, using the bathroom, in the shower it sits on the toilet under a towel.

Always....
 
You betcha!

This thread dovetails with another current one about what constitutes paranoia. I think one man's paranoia is just another man's being cautious, aware and prepared.

I spend a good bit of time in my yard, working with my dog, occasionally doing minor yardwork, or just sitting in a lawnchair enjoying a cigar, sometimes using my laptop.

As hot as it is right now, I'm often out there in nothing more than a T-shirt and shorts, but I have a waistpack that rides in front, covered by the T-shirt, and my trusty Colt Mustang is inside (in Condition 2). I can have it in my hand and just look like I'm scratching myself under my shirt!

I have a 4-ft. cyclone fence around my yard, and my dog is very alert, but my street is a minor thoroughfare through the neighborhood, and there's still a good bit of pedestrian as well as vehicular traffic going by, and some of them, frankly, are rather anti-social-looking people.

I wave and smile at everybody, even the ones who may look questionable (or maybe especially at the ones who look questionable!), but the bottom line is that I feel I have the upper hand (and the element of surprise) no matter what.

The downside is that, in most scenarios, my across-the-street neighbors' homes would be downrange.

P.S. [OT] A friend asked my how long it took me to mow my lawn; I told him it took about 25 minutes. He told me it takes him over 2 hours. I said, "Yeah, I used to have a mower like that!"
 
Don't forget the scene in Pulp Fiction - where John Travolta is sent to kill Bruce Willis and he's waiting at his apartment, and Travolta leaves his MG on the counter top while he goes to the bathroom. Bruce Willis come in, is standing outside of the bathroom looking at the MG thinking "What the heck?" Then he hears the toilet flush...

Ever since that scene - my situational awareness is so high, I even carry when I take a shower.
 
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