I carry 100% of the time because it’s just easier to keep track of where my gun is, and not worry about whether I forgot it when going somewhere that it makes sense to have it. I’m not a “sir”, I’m a ma’am, and my gun lives in my shoulder bag just like my wallet. And I think it makes good sense to carry regularly, since any place you’re going “in public” is somewhere that criminals can go too. But if I was mowing my lawn, my gun would be right inside and easy to fetch in the unlikely event the need arose. I don’t know the details of Wisconsin law, but I’d be surprised if it’s illegal to carry concealed while on your own property (at least residential property, that’s not open to use by the general public). For the grocery store example, there’s a decent argument for open carrying as long as the concealed carry prohibition is in effect.
Sorry, I didn’t get you were a ma’am.
I don’t think you get the deal with what you’re asking. You carry the same way all the time. It becomes a habit. You know where you always keep the gun. You develop the habit and rituals with the gun because if you ever have to use it you automatically have an instinct to reach where you know it is. Because if I’ve learned anything from talking to people who’ve been in such situations, you are acting automatically on instinct.
The guy open carries because 1, that’s the only lawful way to do so, 2) because it’s the habit and that’s where he’s expecting the gun to be, 3 if he leaves his property he is not carrying concealed, and 4, he doesn’t have to switch to a carry position he doesn’t normally use.
There’s nothing wrong with open carry. All the people we know as ‘good guys’ in our community open carry. You don’t carry like a crook when you open carry, you carry like a good guy does.
And if you were mowing your lawn, a gun inside the house doesn’t help you if someone wants to get you outside. In the city I live around gangbangers have driven by houses where crowds of people are and were after certain people and took them out, along with a few extras. You have a disgruntled unstable ex stalking you, no restraining order on earth can prevent him getting you outside while your gun is tucked away nicely inside your house.
For you to sit there and ‘armchair quaterback’ anyone else’s security needs is wrong and arrogant. It is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all kind of thing we all must fit into based on what YOU feel is obnoxious or not.
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Carrying concealed while mowing the lawn might damage a sidearm's finish due to the salt and moisture in sweat.