I’m glad we can carry concealed in the national parks again. I always carry openly when in the national forest. Prospectors usually have gold with them and I often do. There are bandits living in box canyons that would kill you for an ounce of gold. Walk into a 10 million dollar pot grow and you’ll get shot. Stumble onto a meth lab and die. That’s only the 2 legged critters. Kneeling down along side a stream to pan and you look like prey to a mountian lion. There are rattlers, wild pigs and black bear that need food every once and a while too.
My 44 Magnum is always with me in the woods.
I hear you.
I, too carried a .44 when I worked in the woods in No. CA and when working the creeks. You’re right about the pot farms. You could get killed and buried, never to be found. Lots of illegals out there and desperados looking to take what you have, no matter what it might be.
CA is a beautiful state. Too bad the libs screwed it up.
Stay safe, stay armed.