You Pack a Firearm?
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priest lake rmk
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I have a permit to carry and have yet to pack while riding. But at least I have a choice.
Bang bang
After hearing from some of our Canadian freinds, I can see why it was so easy for their government to take away their guns. "They dont need them".
I hope I never need mine, but I will have it just incase.
I hope I never need mine, but I will have it just incase.
I don't carry a firearm while sledding but a couple of years ago while helping a friend retrieve a broke down sled we ran across a wolf that was pretty friendly.
Long story but here goes... Brian's sled was broke down in Elk Meadows up Lolo Creek on a Saturday and we went in Sunday morning to retrieve it. We left the parking lot with Brian and his son riding double, then me, and then my son. We took the skid trail on the ridge out of the parking lot and after making the first switch back there was a large adult wolf standing in the trail facing us. The wolf stood in the trail only 20 yards away from Brian and his son for 30 - 40 seconds before slowly stepping off to the side of the trail and into a small stand of trees now about 15 yards off the trail. Brian and his son took off up the trail and I moved ahead and stopped to show my son and he first thought I was trying to point out a deer until the wolf took a step closer to us and then he saw that it was a wolf and we took off up the trail. We went up the trail about 3/4 of a mile or so and stopped again. We just started talking about how the wolf didn't seem to be afraid of 4 guys and 3 piped sleds and thought that was kind of odd when looking back down the trail here comes the wolf at a dead run. While starting the sleds and yelling at the wolf it stopped 20 yards away and started quartering around us when we took off again. This time we traveled quit some distance before we stopped again. We did end up getting Brians sled back to the truck that day and the wolf topic was talked about for a while about how when we first saw the wolf he was walking down the trail and then turned around and ran back up the trail to us and so on. I posted a sign at the parking lot to warn others to at least be on the look out as I think if you were walking out you would of had a hard time getting past that wolf anyways. This all took place about a mile or so from Woodman School not in the back country.
One thought was that by running from them we are training them to run after us. Not to sure but when they first started reintroducing the wolves they kept them in large holding pens and one guy said that they would drag road kill out into the pins with sleds to feed the wolves and if thats true maybe he thought it was feeding time.
At the time I looked for a light weight handgun but never did pick one up yet but it would be nice to have when its feeding time again.
Long story but here goes... Brian's sled was broke down in Elk Meadows up Lolo Creek on a Saturday and we went in Sunday morning to retrieve it. We left the parking lot with Brian and his son riding double, then me, and then my son. We took the skid trail on the ridge out of the parking lot and after making the first switch back there was a large adult wolf standing in the trail facing us. The wolf stood in the trail only 20 yards away from Brian and his son for 30 - 40 seconds before slowly stepping off to the side of the trail and into a small stand of trees now about 15 yards off the trail. Brian and his son took off up the trail and I moved ahead and stopped to show my son and he first thought I was trying to point out a deer until the wolf took a step closer to us and then he saw that it was a wolf and we took off up the trail. We went up the trail about 3/4 of a mile or so and stopped again. We just started talking about how the wolf didn't seem to be afraid of 4 guys and 3 piped sleds and thought that was kind of odd when looking back down the trail here comes the wolf at a dead run. While starting the sleds and yelling at the wolf it stopped 20 yards away and started quartering around us when we took off again. This time we traveled quit some distance before we stopped again. We did end up getting Brians sled back to the truck that day and the wolf topic was talked about for a while about how when we first saw the wolf he was walking down the trail and then turned around and ran back up the trail to us and so on. I posted a sign at the parking lot to warn others to at least be on the look out as I think if you were walking out you would of had a hard time getting past that wolf anyways. This all took place about a mile or so from Woodman School not in the back country.
One thought was that by running from them we are training them to run after us. Not to sure but when they first started reintroducing the wolves they kept them in large holding pens and one guy said that they would drag road kill out into the pins with sleds to feed the wolves and if thats true maybe he thought it was feeding time.
At the time I looked for a light weight handgun but never did pick one up yet but it would be nice to have when its feeding time again.
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gotvertical
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pack a firearm
i carry one ,only when i go out on a search and rescue mission
i carry one ,only when i go out on a search and rescue mission
Self defense is important not only from four legged creatures, but from two legged ones as well.
what about towing a cannon or callin in an air strike...never know when those canadians will try someting funny...haha
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Nate
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As soon as they get a trageting system that displays on the windshiels or in my open faced helmet, I am buying.
Mainly cause you never know what call your going on when the pager goes off. you are prepared for anything or anyone. cause sometimes people get lost on purpose and don't want to be found.
Or you know when your called there is a problem who knows what until your on site with injured party or person
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only time that i ever carried a gun was when we were runnin down yotes. but here is interesting tidbit for everyone. a forest service cop can not arrest you, for packing a gun(or anything else for that matter) they have no legistlative power to do so. if they want you arrested they have to call the local sheriff. they are only employees of a land owner(i.e. the people of the united states). we don't live in a country where the cops make the laws. they enforce the laws that we vote in. all of the forest service reg's are just s*** that they have made up and tried to enforce. they have lost many times in court, and yet still arrest people, just becuase they have a badge and a hard on. look up the case with wayne hage, it has allot of really good info on it.
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trlkidd
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Wheres the smoke??? Or was that a water pistol?
The bigger the clip the better.
oh yeah...you know whose turbo 7 i'm sure....you been up anywhere fun...spent 3 days at togwotee, had some great rides
So....why do they carry cuffs and a gun? I think you need to do a little more research.
"Bullets from a tire store.....Like buying a pellet gun from a glass shop"
If its one thing Americans don't know about, its Canadian Tire, they sell just about everything and anything in there, not just tires LMAO.
I really don't see the need to pack a handgun when I'm out riding. Unless sasquatch attacks are more common in the states? Hell forget a Tekvest, I'm gonna go all the way and get a bullet-proof vest so I don't have to worry about being shot in the backcountry
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And for the record, I own guns and I hunt.
If its one thing Americans don't know about, its Canadian Tire, they sell just about everything and anything in there, not just tires LMAO.
I really don't see the need to pack a handgun when I'm out riding. Unless sasquatch attacks are more common in the states? Hell forget a Tekvest, I'm gonna go all the way and get a bullet-proof vest so I don't have to worry about being shot in the backcountry
.And for the record, I own guns and I hunt.
Luke, you may not see the need, but I do! What happens if you have to spend the night? I've seen what a mountain lion will do to a person, and I know its rare, but its still a chance! Not to mention, what if you have to spend multiple nights? Can you say buffet? You can do what ever you want, but I'm going to pack a pistol as a survival tool.
P.S.- How old IS this thread?
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