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guns while shed hunting?
« on: April 20, 2009, 05:44:59 PM »
anyone carry a gun while shed hunting? I normally carry a pistol for snakes and such and depending on the area I'll carry a rifle for coyotes.
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2009, 05:55:00 PM »
you shouldn't need a rifle for coyotes, unless your going small game...my opinion, not exp.

and snakes...you leave them alone, and they'll leave you alone...the worst your gonna find is an over gown, venomless gradner snake.
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2009, 05:56:31 PM »
a rifle everyonce in a while for coyotes..that is if i feel like hunting em while im shedding....most the time nothing.

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2009, 06:00:33 PM »
I don't leave my house without a sidearm, certainly don't enter the woods without one. You never know what you may run in to; bear, big cat, rabid coyote, tweakers, you get the point.
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2009, 06:02:27 PM »
I carry when Im shopping,shed hunting,dinning :IBCOOL:

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2009, 06:05:49 PM »
      I carry a side arm         THE HILLS HAVE EYES  :yike:
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2009, 06:10:28 PM »
I don't.  I probably would carry though if I owned a pistol.  I have had that "somethings watching me" feeling more than once.  I have bumped into a handful of bears but they always turned and burned if they saw me, cats just watch, and tweakers don't go where I go.

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2009, 08:01:14 PM »
i carry a raging bull 44 mag...

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2009, 08:02:26 PM »
Carry a rifle makes it more fun if the shed hunting turns into just hiking with no sheds showing up then you can start looking for yotes too.

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2009, 08:03:34 PM »
Sometimes I carry my 40 S&W Glock, sometimes I don't.  Just depends on my mood I guess.   :dunno:
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2009, 01:45:12 PM »
.45 glock always.

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2009, 01:48:37 PM »
I carry a sidearm every time I go shed hunting.  You never know when you are gonna run into a cougar, rabbid coyote, etc.  When I am shed hunting, I am out there to shed hunt, not to kill anything (but I would shoot a cat if it was within pistol range).  Just my  :twocents:
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2009, 01:54:14 PM »
Never know when youll see a wolf  ;)

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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2009, 02:20:43 PM »
I always carry a side arm. I 'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!!!
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Re: guns while shed hunting?
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2009, 06:14:51 PM »
Never know when youll see a wolf  ;)
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