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Outside of concealed carry handguns, when do you carry a firearm as survival gear? Do you carry it, or is it a home in case of a wider scale disaster? If you are carrying a "survival gun", why? Dangerous animals? Hunting? If hunting, what kind of game do you expect to be hunting? And finally, where do you live, work or recreate that you carry your survival weapon?


I carry some type of gun wherever I legally can. In my state that is darn near everywhere. I carry one mainly for defense against human or (far less likely) animal attacks, primarily dogs, cougar, or bear. When I bowhunt (for deer) I carry a revolver, usually a .44 mag. On other hunts I may be carrying a rifle (elk), shotgun (grouse), or the aforementioned Savage 24 combo (rabbits.) In the city it's either a Keltec P3AT, a Sig Sauer 239, or a 1911 (rarely).

I have no quarrel with people who decide they don't need to carry a gun, as long as they don't thereupon decide that I don't need to carry one. After all, who am I to decide what's best for them? I am however firmly convinced that everyone should know how to use one. it is just one more survival skill to have. It may never be used, but then again....