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Personal Carry Solutions

Suggested on another thread that a HPG Recon kit bag with a HPG bino harness would be an ideal combo for bow hunting.
I have 3 HPG kit bags, 2 OG, and one Recon. I used a FHF Pro M this season and didn't take a pisto ll. May try to add a holster to the FHF but o only carry shield size weapons
 
This attachment on my Safariland ALS (glock 19) fits between two molle straps on both my kifaru packs. Carried everyday for three weeks with no issues. Once at the bottom of the tree, pistol goes in small pack up the tree with me.
 

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Chest holster. I use an alien chest holster. I've found it to be the best solution for hunting. The guns always easily accessible no matter what, bibs on (all waist options are gone), coat, pack and saddle on. Guns still right there in the middle. You can beat through brush, climb in your saddle, Shoot your bow or rifle, do literally anything and its always there and never in the way. And you can easily zip your coat over it to protect it from the rain. There no other option that can do all of that. You can take your pack on and off and its never attached to your pack. No moving it.

Now. Do you have tritium sights, a weapons mounted light and hardcast ammo in the gun? Gotta see that mountain lion/bear/criminal in the dark and aim. And hardcast for bears.
 
I don’t think it’s legal to carry on WMAs or reserves here in LA, never crossed my mind either way, I’m hunting I’m already armed but I also don’t live or hunt in grizzly,wolf or lion country. Hogs are the most dangerous thing in these woods and I’ve only been charged twice both while squirrel hunting walking fast through the woods with a shotgun and coming up on them quick and surprisingly. But yeah I tell the wife everyday be glad we don’t have grizzleys or wolves, I’ll take alligators and water moccasins (cottonmouth) any day of the week lol
 
Glenn said:
My badlands super day pack has the holsters built right into the hip belt of the pack. One on each side.
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Superday is what I use as well. Pair it with this trigger-guard holster on a lanyard tied to the pack. Super-safe and secure.

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VanGuard 2 Standard Kit - IWB Minimalist Holster

The VanGuard 2 is a minimalist IWB holster. Unlike traditional IWB holsters, the VG2 covers only the trigger guard of your weapon. This unique design eliminates the bulk of a traditional holster.
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My pack also has a holster slot on the waist band part. I found it annoying to have to keep swapping my pistol back and forth between my clothes then my pack then my clothes. If you are going to go that route, I used a paddle holster and it worked well.

The other problem for me was it got cold and it was time for the camo bibs to come out, then I couldn't attach the paddle holster to myself anymore when I took my pack off.

Also I've got a couple deep scratches in the stock on my beautiful rem 700 cdl from carrying my darn 357 in a holster on my right side. Another reason I went to chest holsters
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Hogs make me a little nervous on the ground. The other evening, I was sitting on the ground and about 15 minutes before dark I had a big boar squealing and grunting angrily at something not 100 yards away. Probably another boar. I was wishing for that 10mm at that point. He was heading away from me, but it really was a little unnerving.
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Absolutely man !!! I got a .357 Ruger but I downsized to a Glock 30S 45, I really like it ..but it may just piss off a big boar lol


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bowhunthard88 said:
Razco under a chest rig/bino harness, or if I'm carrying a pack it's a molle attached holster on the strong side of my waist belt. It's no good if you can't get to it, same with a knife...

Also check out the Lehigh Defense Xtreme Penetrator bullets/loadings...
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I think the waistbelt would be my go to


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GreginPA said:
I use an alien gear backpack strap holster or a one tigris velcro holster depending on which gun/backpack I'm taking. specifically because of the thumb release option on both.

I strongly recommend using a holster that has something more than tension retention. You don't want to be in a position where your carry falls out because you are traversing tree falls etc while managing the rest of your gear and you don't notice. Happened to me. Yes I found it after a search, but it ruined my hunt and nearly gave me a heart attack thinking of the implications if I couldn't find it, especially since I was on public land.
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Absolutely..i lost my phone like that once luckily I got out and back to my truck. When I got home my iPad showed me where it was but with the leaves i never could find it


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GreginPA said:
I use an alien gear backpack strap holster or a one tigris velcro holster depending on which gun/backpack I'm taking. specifically because of the thumb release option on both.

I strongly recommend using a holster that has something more than tension retention. You don't want to be in a position where your carry falls out because you are traversing tree falls etc while managing the rest of your gear and you don't notice. Happened to me. Yes I found it after a search, but it ruined my hunt and nearly gave me a heart attack thinking of the implications if I couldn't find it, especially since I was on public land.
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I have an Alien Gear paddle for a different pistol, thanks for the info I’ll check it out and thanks for the warning!


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Black Titan said:
I've been searching for a solution as well. Something that would tuck behind my bino harness would be ideal, but not sure if that would make it too thick and interfere with my bow string. Still not 100% in love with the idea of a chest rig though. It took me awhile to get used to the bino harness and I still don't like it much. I don't like having weight on my chest. Makes me feel...confined I guess. Adding a pistol would just add to that.

Other ideas I've had are a shoulder holster, or possibly a drop leg holster but for that one I don't know if I could pull the bottom panel all the way down on my CGM Cobra.

I do know that I don't like having it in my pack. Already had to do a rapid rappel this season to grab my bag due to a coyote coming too close for comfort and snarling towards me. Would have been better to have it on me.

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Same concerns …dude where I hunt told me he had a bobcat screaming under him in a tree…he said even in the tree it will make you think


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The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
I don’t think it’s legal to carry on WMAs or reserves here in LA, never crossed my mind either way, I’m hunting I’m already armed but I also don’t live or hunt in grizzly,wolf or lion country. Hogs are the most dangerous thing in these woods and I’ve only been charged twice both while squirrel hunting walking fast through the woods with a shotgun and coming up on them quick and surprisingly. But yeah I tell the wife everyday be glad we don’t have grizzleys or wolves, I’ll take alligators and water moccasins (cottonmouth) any day of the week lol
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Understand, I’m a bow hunter but in Ky we can carry honestly there are two concerns I have one is four legged one is two in the woods.


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First day bowhunting this year had a sow black bear and 3 cubs walk about 60 yards by my tree. Felt very happy to have 15 rounds in my glock and also very scared I only had 15 rounds in my glock. And yeah we got sketchy folks too. My number one goal is going home alive
 
USSHornet said:
Absolutely man !!! I got a .357 Ruger but I downsized to a Glock 30S 45, I really like it ..but it may just piss off a big boar lol


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I think a 45 with some good hardcast flat nose would be fine for a big boar. Maybe look into Buffalo Bore. In the 10mm I have worked up a 200 grain hardcast load doing an honest 1200 fps. I think it will go end to end on just about anything I am likely to run into. When I get some time, I plan to get a couple of pieces of steel belted tire and strap them on either side of a foot of soaked magazines and see if I can punch through them. That load was punching through 14 inches of tightly bound water soaked magazines and the plastic bucket they were in without any problem this summer during load work up.
 
crawford1775 said:
Suggested on another thread that a HPG Recon kit bag with a HPG bino harness would be an ideal combo for bow hunting.
I have 3 HPG kit bags, 2 OG, and one Recon. I used a FHF Pro M this season and didn't take a pisto ll. May try to add a holster to the FHF but o only carry shield size weapons
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I have the runners kit bag and the heavy recon. I tried the bino harness on the front of the recon and do not care for it when saddle hunting. I prefer the runners kit bag with a rock young style harness overtop.

Note that if I were in grizzly country my choices would be different...I'd be rocking a kydex chest holster instead.
 
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