Preparations for large animal attacks hold a place somewhere between preparations for lightning strikes, I keep meaning to mount that lightning rod on my boonie hat but haven't gotten around to it, and preparation for alien abduction, where not changing my underwear for a month might just turn the trick. .....
Well now Art, humour is always appreciated, but I bet you still hesitate to go golfing in a lightning storm.
I don't carry a rifle every place I go in the bush, but there are times and places where I certainly have a rifle or shotgun in my hand.
I do mean "IN my hand" quite literally too. I don't mean in my pack, leaning on a log or stuffed behind the seat in the truck.
There are also places where I simply don't go alone if I can help it either.
However I can't be bothered taking the slightest care or precautions about crocodiles or cottonmouth attacks because to me they are very unlikely.
In spite of that I do not make fun of you southern people who take crocodiles and cottonmouth snakes more seriously, and I would never consider making a comment about alien abductions which equated you to the tinfoil hat paranoid crowd.