Please tell me I'm not the only one with a daily carry back pack.....

[Cosmoline]

Access would be the biggest problem I can see to a packpack carry. OTOH I really like the maxpedition fatboy man purse. Draw time is good, and it sits *above* winter clothes not buried beneath them. I can also carry a lot of other useful things in there. Makeup, extra nylons, mirror.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

That seems like a lot of stuff to be packing around all of the time. If I were to attempt this I think I would choose a more discreet, less "tactical" looking bag. The idea, I am assuming is to be prepared but not draw attention to yourself. Unless the idea is to draw attention, even to go as far as ask "Am I the only one who carries a backpack at all times?" on a web forum.

 

[Badlander]

ColtPythonElite I do find it strange...



Me to!
I have A gun, A knife, and A lighter on me at all times.
I'll get by. If I go into the woods I'll take A back pack.

 

[lloveless]

I am a nurse. When I go to work I take a backpack. Inside is a ditty bag with essentials for an over nighter (I work 12 hour shifts), a clipboard, ACLS algorithims, food for the shift, calculator, pens, scissors, forceps, pencils, stethascope, flashlight and extra set of socks and underwear (we get vomited and defecated on-hospital provides scrubs), a light weight jacket(windbreaker).
I was a deputy sheriff for 11 years, and 4.5 of those years also the jail nurse. Part of the jail I could carry in, but in the cell area it was a no no. I had a lock box in the clinic to leave gun, and knives, scissors etc.
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[sm]

Okay I won't. Still...when I carried a backpack it was for college books, laptop and academia related items.

Before college, well, I won't share on public Internet what-all I carried in one. I assure you, it was not what all you carry, and what for.

I will share, besides the theory they charge by the pound for college textbooks, that I and others trained to use a backpack with books and school items for serious situations.

Yep, I have been on a college campus, more than once, when there was gun fire and what not going on.



I am the weapon the world is my toolbox - me

 

[Ruddie]

The only thing that really adds weight to my bag is when I have my extra gun and ammo in it. As far as carrying the bag around inmates, never happens. The gun obviously doesn't enter the jail with me. The bag is always in a secure area and usually in the area of a deputy. As far as it standing out, around here there all kinds of people with all kinds of bags so it goes unnoticed for the most part. I don't walk around town or go waltzing through Walmart with it.

 

[mcdonl]

I don't walk around town or go waltzing through Walmart with it.

What do you do with it when you do waltz? When and where do you carry it?

Do you hunt? I find most hunters learn the valuable leason of less is more.

 

[Ruddie]

I do hunt. I have a hunting pack. i grab my bag when i leave my house. if i go into a store, i leave it in my tahoe. if i go to a specified place, ill take it in for the notes and computer access.(example: Ill be going to my gunsmith this afternoon and going over some things with him on a gun build ive been plinking around with or if i am wanting to piggy back a wifi at lunch to do some research, ill take it while i eat.) as far as the tools, im always tinkering on something, somewhere.

 

[NMGonzo]

I have a bmw messenger type bag which has a perfect pocket for all types of pistols to be stowed away on the upper flap.

No one looks at a man with a man purse as a threat ... so it is a concealment win.

 

[Weekend Plinker]

WOW!

 

[qwert65]

nice cosmoline

 

[BENBRU]

To me, back pack says "I have something worth value" whether it's text books I could sell to a college bookstore, a computer, tools, who knows. So I try and just have whatever I need in my pockets. That means, small LED flashlight, extra mag for the M&P40c, CRKT folder, car keys and wallet. If those things cant solve my problem it's more than likely game over.

I'm all about being prepared, but bags draw attention, and get clumsy...

 

[mustang_steve]

If I have my netbook with me I'll use a bag. Otherwise I carry everything in my carpenter jeans.

knife, pistol, wallet, keys, pipe/tobacco/tamper/lighter, coins, flashlight...it all goes in the pockets.

That said, I'm pretty minimalist in my equipment choices. I like things that take little space so I don't look like a bipedal pack mule.

 

[Martin51]

I carry a Tactical Tailor 3-day pack as a briefcase/commuting bag. I got tired of the laptop bag or briefcase stretching out my elbow. Usually it carries a few tools for a particular job, work notebooks, laptop, books for the bus ride, eyeglasses, small binos, first aid, lunch, and so on. If I put it on my lap on the bus, its shape makes it a good reading platform. Been carrying it for over ten years, bought it for a deployment to the Balkans.