You mean like this?Shaved head, blue eyes, big white beard, I look like the white devil himself. I figure I'd be the first to be shot in the face! If you can't shadow might as well look like you just escaped death row.
Open carry is common here as are beards and long hair. I live in a county that's 432 sq mi with less than 13,000 people. Most of the county is timber land with a few farms along the larger roads.
@Biggkidd Most of me says stay true to you. If you're comfortable, go with it. If it makes them uncomfortable, let them deal with it. I'm a runt in jeans, t-shirt & flannel in a polyester & high-heel town. I could give a rats hooey. They are not folks I want to "blend in" with. On the other hand there are things that used to be common for us. In HS most of us had gun racks with guns in them - yep even at school. Out on the ranch, we left the keys on the visor in the rigs, all unlocked, in case someone had a flat and needed to borrow a rig (woulda been a long walk). Always used to leave our doors unlocked in case a neighbor needed something. None of those things happen now. Between drugs and new & improved idiocy, it's not wise. So I guess that's the long version of I don't have an answer but feel for ya.
I will never understand "open carry". To me, you are just advertising to the bad guy who they should take out first.
Sometimes there are situations you need to advertise that it's better for all if you are left alone.
John Wayne in "Big Jake". They are riding into town with a chest full of a million dollars strapped on a mule. They got their rifles and shotguns on display for all the town folks to see. JW's son asked if they weren't drawing attention to themselves by "Open carry". JW answered that word of what the mule was carrying had spread and by showing their firearms they are telling everyone that if anyone tried for the money it was going to cost them dearly for trying.
This is true. But it is not the "gray man" concept that this thread started about. The gray man concept is not to advertise or be noticed ... at all. The "visual deterrence" concept is to show what you got and be noticed, in hopes of scaring others away. You can't implement both concepts at the same time.Sometimes there are situations you need to advertise that it's better for all if you are left alone.
You mean like this?
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