blcfalcon1
Regular Member
So I was forcefully volunteered to help chaperone a youth group camping trip last weekend. Therefore, I decided I might as well bring along my Px4 and try out my new thigh holster. Turns out they didn't really need my help when we arrived to the campsite so I went on my own little adventure. It was actually pretty nice wandering the trails with the .40.
Overall, it was pretty uneventful...save for when it started getting dark and I happened to have twisted my knee. Then being paranoid, I managed to sprint 9 miles on my injury. I know there weren't any recent mountain lion attacks but whenever I knocked over a rock, it would thud as if a large animal was chasing after me. So I'd draw my weapon and use the weapon light to check for eye shine before taunting the beast and moving on. It really sucked to lose track of time then hike at night.
The next day, I got help for a fellow hiker who happened to twist her knee falling into a crevasse two miles into an intermediate trail. After helping stablize her leg, I ran the two miles back with my sidearm secure and not falling out heheh. Eventuality got to a ranger station and reported the incident.
As for OC grief, there wasn't really any. A ranger asked me what I carried and we talked about his old .38. During my rescue run, a hiker caught me when I stopped to take a breathe what I carried. The rangers at the station thought I was an LEO because of my sidearm, to which I denied. The only grief I got was the rangers asking me to put my weapon away because I was making people nervous, which I denied. But I was happy that the rangers assured the complainers that I was a good guy that assisted an injured hiker. So instead of waiting out in the sun, I started to go to a bench in the shade to wait for the rest of my youth group to return from that two mile hike, when the same ranger asked me to sit down to make myself less obvious. Since I was already heading to sit, I complied.
My only complaint is that my grief came from uneducated people who don't know their rights. Everyone else was cool though.
Overall, it was pretty uneventful...save for when it started getting dark and I happened to have twisted my knee. Then being paranoid, I managed to sprint 9 miles on my injury. I know there weren't any recent mountain lion attacks but whenever I knocked over a rock, it would thud as if a large animal was chasing after me. So I'd draw my weapon and use the weapon light to check for eye shine before taunting the beast and moving on. It really sucked to lose track of time then hike at night.
The next day, I got help for a fellow hiker who happened to twist her knee falling into a crevasse two miles into an intermediate trail. After helping stablize her leg, I ran the two miles back with my sidearm secure and not falling out heheh. Eventuality got to a ranger station and reported the incident.
As for OC grief, there wasn't really any. A ranger asked me what I carried and we talked about his old .38. During my rescue run, a hiker caught me when I stopped to take a breathe what I carried. The rangers at the station thought I was an LEO because of my sidearm, to which I denied. The only grief I got was the rangers asking me to put my weapon away because I was making people nervous, which I denied. But I was happy that the rangers assured the complainers that I was a good guy that assisted an injured hiker. So instead of waiting out in the sun, I started to go to a bench in the shade to wait for the rest of my youth group to return from that two mile hike, when the same ranger asked me to sit down to make myself less obvious. Since I was already heading to sit, I complied.
My only complaint is that my grief came from uneducated people who don't know their rights. Everyone else was cool though.