feslandsurveys
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I have open carryed on the job for3-4 of years now. I have a right to trespass the same as the DNR while surveying in order to get to section corners. I live and work in very rural and hilly Southwest Wisconsin (one of the few Republican parts of the state, thank goodness), but we do believe in the right to bear arms. I got tired of people pulling guns out on me and me not being able to return the favor. Normally, I let the landowner know that I will be crossing his land, but if no one is home when I go in and is there when I come out, people sometimes react with anger and do not want to hear about the statutes giving me the right to trespass. I have been threatened too many times to remember, open carry tends to stop the threats. The person seeing my hand resting on the grip usually tones down the anger and allows me to explain what I'm doing and why and that I have the right to do it with or without their permission. I am dead on w/in 40 yards if they choose to go that route. I was very happy to learn we had open carry in our state, I wanted a liscense to carry, but unfortunately in Wisconsin, that was not an option. Anyway, while working along the highways I've had tons of county cops and state troopers pass by seeing me with a gun on my hip and they have never stopped and inquired. They have "rubber necked" quite often though.
I have open carryed on the job for3-4 of years now. I have a right to trespass the same as the DNR while surveying in order to get to section corners. I live and work in very rural and hilly Southwest Wisconsin (one of the few Republican parts of the state, thank goodness), but we do believe in the right to bear arms. I got tired of people pulling guns out on me and me not being able to return the favor. Normally, I let the landowner know that I will be crossing his land, but if no one is home when I go in and is there when I come out, people sometimes react with anger and do not want to hear about the statutes giving me the right to trespass. I have been threatened too many times to remember, open carry tends to stop the threats. The person seeing my hand resting on the grip usually tones down the anger and allows me to explain what I'm doing and why and that I have the right to do it with or without their permission. I am dead on w/in 40 yards if they choose to go that route. I was very happy to learn we had open carry in our state, I wanted a liscense to carry, but unfortunately in Wisconsin, that was not an option. Anyway, while working along the highways I've had tons of county cops and state troopers pass by seeing me with a gun on my hip and they have never stopped and inquired. They have "rubber necked" quite often though.