What do you carry on your boat?

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There are threads about what handgun one carries when hunting, hiking, biking, walking the dog, riding the tractor and on and on. I may have missed it but I haven't seen one for fishing boats. I know off shore boats sometimes have a long gun stowed on board, but I'm in Kentucky and am just curious.

I just bought a new fishing boat and it seemed interesting to me. I'm 58 now and have carried a handgun since I was 21 both professionally and since I've retired. I still carry everyday because I'm so used to it and it's the same as picking up my wallet and I feel funny without it, not paranoid, just funny. My EDC now is usually a S&W Shield or a .380. My Glock 23 is mostly relegated to beside the bed for bump in the night duty.

So, when you go out fishing, what do you throw in your pocket or on the boat, if anything?
 
just got back from taking my boat out i just carry my same set up XDs 45
but i almost took my SP101 I my make that my boat gun :evil: now JIC i
fall in i can strip that down
 
A 4" 357 stainless steel revolver with 3 shot loads and 3 Federal Hydrashok. We've got water moccasins and alligators, but they've not bothered me yet.
 
I've deleted a couple of off topic posts: We're not going to do the juvenile made up boating accident comments here. Keep it on topic please.
 
If I had a boat I'd carry my VP9t. 15 rounds of 9mm should take care of any issue you have, and the combo of polymer, stainless steel, and the nitro carborizing they use, and you'll have a highly corrosion resistant gun. Plus, it's a common gun now and easily replaced if lost to the depths somehow.
 
Something I don't really care about. A real beater because things tend to get wet in boats or worst case go overboard. I couldn't count how many needlenose pliers I've donated to the deep.
 
"So, when you go out fishing, what do you throw in your pocket or on the boat, if anything? "

Fishing equipment!
 
Living in Fla I mainly fish salt water so it needs to be stainless and if it stays on my belt it has to have a strap across the hammer. As someone pointed out to me once, they make anchors that sink slower than your favorite and expensive side arm. I carry only because I've done so over 40 yrs. and am naked without one.
 
Here in SE Louisiana, when you say boat, you generally mean salt/brackish water.

Stainless steel is the only thing that won't corrode just exposed to the air.

I have a piece of PVC tube with a couple of end caps. I put a NAA 4" barrel .22 mag in it. It floats if it goes overboard. If I need it, I can get to it soon enough.

Good for sharks and other bothersome things you might find on the water.

It's LOUD.
 
I have a stainless steel revolver on my boat hidden in a secret compartment.
 
MICHAEL T said:
If I can't wade to shore. I am not going on a boat.
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You'd never go out in these wetlands! There are times when I'm unsure where the river ends and swamp begins. Only option for getting out of the water is climbing a tree!

Plenty of snakes and gators, but they want no more of me than I do of them. It's the folks with a perverted pleasure of swamping little wooden boats that ruin my day. My SP101 is off little use against them.
 
I carry 2. Arminius hw3 22lr serves pocket duty and the pardner pump 20 ga youth gun rides in my long box in one of the knockoff floating cases. Where I'm at in my boat my biggest concern would be walking out to the truck, the revolver would handle snakes and the shotgun would get me a squirrel or rabbit for dinner.
 
I carry the same firearm on my boat as I do in my car, on the Harley or just walking down the street.
 
Since this discussion is now involving handguns and long-guns I've moved it here to GGD. Carry on.
 
Depends where you're going. If you're local, probably a stainless version of something you can afford to lose.
It's when you get out into international waters that things get interesting. Many countries won't allow pistols, and semi auto rifles such as an AR are anathema.

You also have to think of repelling boarders in the Caribbean, no really. Boat thieves are alive and well down there. Local laws would probably dictate a shotgun. Cartridge choice also becomes a consideration, bird shot probably won't penetrate a hull, a slug probably will. A few well placed slugs near the waterline would probably be a good idea, but extremely difficult from a rocking boat.

Here's an article comparing the Mossberg 500 Mariner and the Remington Marine Magnum: http://chuckhawks.com/compared_mossberg_remington_marine_shotguns.htm
 
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