OCD Overland
Explorer
Answered, and then quickly placed on ignore. I don't need to be trolled one on one.
Do you feel the need to be upset when you encounter an armed camper in the woods?
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plainjaneFJC
Deplorable
From personal experience I've received quite a few looks, but I just wave,smile,ask about trail conditions,and carry on.
jeep-N-montero
Expedition Leader
You two should just get a room and get it over with....
plainjaneFJC
Deplorable
That what the PM was about, but he declined.
brentbba
Explorer
Suggest to the mods that this thread just get locked now.
If it's a serious query, I've only discovered in the past year how many of the people I have been off roading with actually do carry. Does it make me nervous - no...except for one guy. For strangers, usually you don't even see or know they carry. As one poster said, it's the plinkers, the ones that want to shut off both gun ownership and wilderness areas by shooting up anything and everything in site that concern me. Do I put those 'types' in the majority - NO. I just move as far away and as fast as possible from them. My experience is that they don't care and care less about you. Just not worth it.
If it's a serious query, I've only discovered in the past year how many of the people I have been off roading with actually do carry. Does it make me nervous - no...except for one guy. For strangers, usually you don't even see or know they carry. As one poster said, it's the plinkers, the ones that want to shut off both gun ownership and wilderness areas by shooting up anything and everything in site that concern me. Do I put those 'types' in the majority - NO. I just move as far away and as fast as possible from them. My experience is that they don't care and care less about you. Just not worth it.
plainjaneFJC
Deplorable
Thanks brent. It was a serious query.
I Leak Oil
Expedition Leader
To answer the question. No, I don't.
To OCD, so far you appear to be the only one transplanting discontent with the previous thread into this one. Just an observation.
To OCD, so far you appear to be the only one transplanting discontent with the previous thread into this one. Just an observation.
Christophe Noel
Expedition Leader
I'll offer a sincere reply as this thread hurls towards an inevitable lockdown.
Yes, there are occasions whereby I feel less safe because someone has a firearm in the woods. I log about 5,000 mountain bike miles every year on the singletrack trails in our national forest right outside town. Several times a year, I'll hear gun fire at a very, very close range. In most cases, it is someone from Phoenix up here for the weekend. They drive into the trees for five minutes and think they're in the middle of nowhere, when the reality is, they're often damn close to houses, trails, summer camps, or even a city park. While they usually (not always) have a reasonably good backstop, they often don't know on the other side of the hill is a popular trail. I can tell you, when I hear gunfire in close proximity, but don't know from where it is coming, or the where the bullets are going, it sucks. And it happens with alarming regularity.
I also have acquaintances who carry that I can't say I trust with that responsibility. Nice as they are, I would rather they not be in my presence with the tools to stop a heartbeat.
Yes, there are occasions whereby I feel less safe because someone has a firearm in the woods. I log about 5,000 mountain bike miles every year on the singletrack trails in our national forest right outside town. Several times a year, I'll hear gun fire at a very, very close range. In most cases, it is someone from Phoenix up here for the weekend. They drive into the trees for five minutes and think they're in the middle of nowhere, when the reality is, they're often damn close to houses, trails, summer camps, or even a city park. While they usually (not always) have a reasonably good backstop, they often don't know on the other side of the hill is a popular trail. I can tell you, when I hear gunfire in close proximity, but don't know from where it is coming, or the where the bullets are going, it sucks. And it happens with alarming regularity.
I also have acquaintances who carry that I can't say I trust with that responsibility. Nice as they are, I would rather they not be in my presence with the tools to stop a heartbeat.
plainjaneFJC
Deplorable
I completely understand where you are coming from. Knuckleheads out shooting is different then an armed camper in the woods. I assume an armed campers weapon is holstered.
I Leak Oil
Expedition Leader
On a similar note, I don't go into the woods around my neighborhood during deer season. Too many wacko city guys shooting at any thing they think is a deer. Campers generally don't go around shooting at stuff.
plainjaneFJC
Deplorable
You gotta get one of those antler hats to wear!
mvbeggs
Adventurer
No generators in Noel's camp!! LOL
Guns and Opinions. These two go together like... well actually they don't...
I'll bite though. Just because someone I see has a weapon doesn't show me they are smart, intelligent, and have the experience to handle it. So a partial yes in that I get on edge because I now have to be more alert and can't relax.
I'll bite though. Just because someone I see has a weapon doesn't show me they are smart, intelligent, and have the experience to handle it. So a partial yes in that I get on edge because I now have to be more alert and can't relax.