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"I could postulate a number of potential offenses, but the one most likely to be relevant to the situation would be poaching as it hunting out of season or without proper license (since the report indicated that it was a rural area)."

And what would you postulate had he been open carrying in an urban area?

I could postulate you're a kiddy porn addict because you have an internet connection. Just turn your smart phone over to the nice officer now so he can clear you of any wrongdoing. You have nothing to hide, right?

Well, there is the catch all ... “disorderly conduct” (which defines an offense, in part, as “displaying a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to cause alarm”). Now the fact that someone was already alarmed enough to call in a police report would be enough to support reasonable suspicion.

Now I understand you may not like the current laws and how SCOTUS has ruled on them. But the current state of affairs is that just about anything can be used to support “reasonable suspicion” as I have tried to show.

- walking down a rural road with a gun on your shoulder (poaching)
- walking down a city street when some liberal pansy metro-person gets all upset (disorderly conduct)