BosnMate
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I guess it depends, however since I carry most all the time, I reckon the answer would be yes. If I'm in a park without a detector I have a gun, so why would I not carry a gun detecting, and the same at the beach. My health doesn't let me get out in the pucker brush like I used to, but when I did get out in the woods, and if I go out now, I for sure go armed. I remember years ago I worked on a cow outfit in Nevada, and was detecting an old home site on the ranch. Tons of square nails and the machine I was using didn't have any discrimination, and I didn't have ear phones. The constant peep peep of those nails called in two coyotes. The same could call in a lion. Lions in Oregon have been more or less protected to the point that there are a lot of them, and lion/human encounters are happening more and more. I wouldn't go berry picking, hiking, rock hunting, prospecting or fishing in Oregon without being armed. Every time there is a lion story on TV they remind the public to puff up and look bigger, and don't run. I've always figured I'd just shoot the darn thing, which I might ad goes on a lot around here. The term used by the local ranchers is shoot, shovel, and shut up, and there are lots of lion encounters that never make the news, but the locals know. So yeah, I go armed as protection from all sorts of predators, two and four legged.