Do you carry anything unusual in your camera bag?
Mar 5, 2024 11:38:35 #
Dan' de Bourgogne wrote:
Yes, it's crucial to have 2 tools to shoot instead of just 1: it makes it simpler a fast moving "talent" becomes suddenly still
Yes, it's crucial to have 2 tools to shoot instead of just 1: it makes it simpler a fast moving "talent" becomes suddenly still 
Mar 5, 2024 11:51:50 #
FalconChase wrote:
Although I do own a S&W .38, I have never in my 75 years felt the need to carry it. Perhaps I’m naive.
Perhaps so. Why do you own it if you don't carry it? I Just turned 70 two days ago. And feel even more certain that I should carry. I'm a pretty big guy (six feet 225 pounds) and retired military with self defense experience. But I know, that at 70 years old, I'm not as physically capable as I once was.
Every day, many times per day, assaults happen. Especially on senior citizens. It gets worse every day! And the Cops can't be everywhere.
Mar 5, 2024 11:52:25 #
Doyle Thomas wrote:
I carry dental floss to tie back branches et.al. that may interfere with my composition, black tape, safety pins, and other handy items.
A couple of wide rubber bands. I used to carry filter "wrenches," but I've found that rubber bands work just as well to remove a stuck filter.
Mar 5, 2024 11:53:49 #
dennis2146 wrote:
As a retired cop I can't agree with you more. I don't have the statistics and it is not worth me looking them up but I believe more criminals are killed by citizens carrying a firearm than by the police who get there AFTER the shots are fired. Many times the act of citizens just displaying a firearm leads to no crime happening that day or not to that citizen.
Dennis
Dennis
You are absolutely correct Dennis! The media refuses to publish incidents whereupon a citizen prevents or terminates a crime from being committed by his use of a lawfully carried firearm. It happens over a million times a year.
Mar 5, 2024 11:56:42 #
Doyle Thomas wrote:
I carry dental floss to tie back branches et.al. that may interfere with my composition, black tape, safety pins, and other handy items.
Hadn’t thought of that! Good idea!! Thanks!
Mar 5, 2024 11:56:44 #
sourdough58 wrote: one of my favorites
one of my favorites"ONE" of my favorites too!
Mar 5, 2024 11:57:03 #
coolhanduke wrote:
I carry a roll of black electrical tape. Comes in handy when you need to secure something that is unsecure.
I used to carry gaffer's tape. Unlike electrical tape (or duct tape), it leaves no sticky residue even under the worst conditions.
Mar 5, 2024 11:58:09 #
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Mar 5, 2024 12:03:55 #
Mr. B wrote: With a lot of the old .45 ACPs that would be perfectly normal. Now, if you couldn't hit a six-pack at 30 feet...
With a lot of the old .45 ACPs that would be perfectly normal. Now, if you couldn't hit a six-pack at 30 feet...Yep! I had to qualify semi annually at the range when I was in the military. With those 1911 .45's with @100K rounds through them it was pretty tough. A six-pack is about the size of a man's chest!
Mar 5, 2024 12:06:37 #
richardsaccount wrote:
I hope that you never had to employ the heat.
Me too!!
But a couple times just having it in hand was all that was needed! Mar 5, 2024 12:08:47 #
Warhorse wrote:
Although, I'm not a fan myself of off body carry.
Although, I'm not a fan myself of off body carry.
Me either! But sometimes concealed carry or open carry isn't an option!
Mar 5, 2024 12:11:00 #
Mar 5, 2024 12:12:52 #
DaveyDitzer wrote:
It's just common sense if you are lugging $5-10 M in equipment with you. I'd carry if I were lugging that much cash, so why not the same rational with cameras.
I'm not sure what you are saying? The .45 is for personal protection, not for camera gear or cash.
Mar 5, 2024 12:14:04 #
home brewer wrote:
Retired CPO
I agree although I tend toward Glock G24 or G23
I agree although I tend toward Glock G24 or G23
That works too!
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