Kingcreek
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My truck has an old single shot Hercules 12g with the barrel cut down to 23" and no choke and no bluing. I fashioned a recoil pad from a flip flop sandle I found on the road. It's as beautiful as the spare tire.
I have a friend who took his family for a weekend trip to St Louis. After doing a touristy thing they got in their car only to discover there were riots happening only blocks away from them. (Ferguson) About then he started to feel awful naked with only a 9mm and a couple dozen of rounds of ammo.
So what you carry in the vehicle depends on what you want to be prepared for. That random coyote/hog you may come accross? Civil unrest that springs up unexpectedly? A prolonged hike out of a sudden disaster area to safety?
In my normal everyday "range", yes my EDC is probably sufficient. Go into downtown metropolis, or on an overnight trip I'm feeling a bit more firepower to insure my return home isn't a bad thing.
In my path finder I carry a very stripped down AR in a yoga bag. It's simple and rugged. 16" barrel w/ no muzzle device and a cut off hand grip. A light weight stock. Fold down iron sights. (New pictures later this week)
(Full disclosure: It started life as a 12" pistol, but I decided to make legal matters simple to go to a 16" barrel and a real stock. It also started out life in the bag from a 1 man tent. I upgraded to a yoga bag to look less suspicious if I carry it into a motel.)
(Full disclosure: It started life as a 12" pistol, but I decided to make legal matters simple to go to a 16" barrel and a real stock. It also started out life in the bag from a 1 man tent. I upgraded to a yoga bag to look less suspicious if I carry it into a motel.)
To my way of thinking "truck gun" implies some type of long arm. Handguns can be carried in pretty much any sort of vehicle with an enclosed cabin.
I've looked at these a few times. Luckily the rear seat in my pickup truck folds down and there's built in storage behind it.I've had some difficulty with planning long-gun storage in vehicles. I drive a mid-size, quad-cab pickup truck and a 4x4 SUV, neither of which, of course, has a trunk. In the Jeep, I could store a cases LG behind the rear seat, but the pickup truck leaves no options because the rear seatback does not fold forward, and because my daughter is often in the rear seat. On top of that, I drive the pickup truck far more than the Jeep these days due to the latter's advanced age and mileage.
I've been looking to stow a .22LR rifle, probably my Mossberg 702, along with the two additional magazines I have for it. I'd probably remove the buttstock cap screws, keep the magazines in there, and rig the buttstock cap to fit snug, but be able to be pulled off.
Where I live and work, so-called "civil unrest" of any magnitude is extremely less-likely than in other areas, so that's not a real concern. What could be include hurricane evacuations (which offer plenty of notice) and the remote possibility of a problem with the nearby nuclear power plant, about eight air miles from my house.
For the time being, I may simply start stowing another handgun somewhere within each vehicle. It could be used to arm my wife, or just to be there in case I expend the one on my person (or have to surrender it to LE after an incident.) The center console in the pickup is remarkably deep; a Hi-Point .45 would disappear in it easily.
I was wondering the same thingAlte, thats a nice looking 9mm pistol, but isn't a verticle foregrip a no-go on an AR registered as a "pistol"?
Alte, thats a nice looking 9mm pistol, but isn't a verticle foregrip a no-go on an AR registered as a "pistol"?
I was wondering the same thing
THR, does your choice in vehicle play into your choice in “truck gun”?
Tired of $600 a month payment and $250 a month in gas. The car I traded for is paid for and should be about $120 in gas.How can you not have a truck? What the heck are you thinking?
Negative if it's more than 26" with the Shockwave brace fully extended. Mine is 27".Alte, thats a nice looking 9mm pistol, but isn't a verticle foregrip a no-go on an AR registered as a "pistol"?
Tired of $600 a month payment and $250 a month in gas. The car I traded for is paid for and should be about $120 in gas.
That’s a turnaround of $730...part of that might be gun money.
I carry what I carry.
Didn’t have to, but it was the right thing to do. The truck was a 16 Tacoma TRD Off-road. I bought it to go and play off-road. As soon as I got it I did a little rearranging in life and ended up with nowhere to go play. I loved the truck, but just the sight of it made me mad because it was a $37000 toy that I couldn’t play with. It took me 1 trip from work to home in the car to get over the truck. 34mpg be 17.5 warms a cheapskates heart. The plan is to buy a beater 4x4 in about a year.Or you could save it up to buy a truck to go with your “truck gun”.
Just messing with ya. Family has to come first. But having to sell your truck is a bitch.