You’re one of those guys that goes out and buys a new 4×4 vehicle, goes hunting but then absolutely will NOT actually use it cause it might dirty or worse a scratch!!! When you buy something use it or don’t bother buying it!

LifeSavor,

Yes, we were more civilized – I didn’t look at your gun rack in your truck and think “Ooh! He’s got nicer guns than I do! I’m gonna steal them!”, nor did I freak out because someone else displayed a gun. If the person looked approachable, and it was a nice firearm, I MIGHT walk up and say, “Wow, COOL gun! How does it shoot? Do you like it?” Back then, the usual response was, “Yeah, it’s a pretty sweet set up! Here, let me unload it, so you can see how it feels!”

And (with the exception of one year, where there was an “unexplained spike” – Lamp is guessing a little dispute over cooking meth) there hasn’t been a homicide in that town in over ten years. And, again, everyone in that area owns/carries guns. It ain’t the guns, it’s the people who use them improperly.

Yes. Back in Jackson, New Jersey, during my teenage years, it was rural…chicken farms, corn farms, horse farms. I saw pickup trucks with rifles mounted in the rear window. Not uncommon. But we were civilized back then.

LifeSavor (and Dimitar),

Well, I slightly disagree about the practicality of a “truck gun”. “Back in the day”, at least where my Dad was from, most ranchers/farmers drove trucks, and damn near every truck had a “3 gun” rack in the rear window. Once the culture changed, and people had to start thinking about those guns (i) being stolen, or (ii) freaking out the GFWs, that changed, but the need for a gun didn’t. My uncle’s ranch, in north eastern Texas, had lots of wild pigs (who would tear down fences, dig up and wallow in pasture land, and destroy any garden you planted, if given the chance), coyotes (only the real kind, back then), prairie dogs, rattlesnakes, etc. The old set-up (which seemed to be “standard” in that part of Texas, was a .22 (mostly for snakes and prairie dogs), a shotgun (usually a cheap pump, often 20 ga.), for snakes, wild pigs, coyotes, and a lever action (either .30-30 or .357) for wild pigs or putting down cattle that had busted a leg in a prairie dog hole. Seemed to work, and it was ubiquitous.

Since people don’t feel comfortable with the old “3 guns in the back window) set up, any more, but there is STILL a need for firearms for all those uses, the right “truck gun” can be useful. I found an old SKS that I was able to pick up for only $75 bucks. It shot fine (not the most accurate gun in the world, but good enough for those uses), and given its price and condition, I didn’t worry about having it in a duffle bag under the rear seat of my quad cab F-150. Worked fine on hogs and coyotes (as long as they weren’t too far away), certainly took care of a steer with a busted leg, and worked fine for snakes – not so good on prairie dogs, of course.

I think the idea of putting a $2700 rifle in your truck, or even in a saddle scabbard, is retarded. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a need for a valid replacement for the old “3 gun” set up. But, yeah, only an idiot would drive around with a $2700 rifle bouncing around in his truck.

Dimitar,

Agree…I guess there are areas of the country where people still store firearms in theor trucks, but none of my rural friends, none of the farmers I know do so.

As far as ranch rifles go, this Sig is too expensive to strap it onto the saddle and go galloping out to the range.