Today was the new USP's maiden voyage into the backcountry, so a photo is in order:
This was taken in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, 179,000 acres in SW Oregon, near the less used west entrance (Johnson Butte trail). It's a unique place in it's own right, rocky granite, serpentine, and peridotite soils, conifers all mixed up in assemblages found nowhere else...if anyone has read The Klamath Knot, although this is technically part of the Siskiyous it's covered extensively in that book. And that was before it burned twice, in the 2002 Biscuit Fire and the 2017 Chetco Bar Fire. It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. It's also a rugged hike, hardly a flat spot, lots of up and down, loose rock on the trail. There was one Jeep parked at the trailhead, but I've yet to actually see another human inside the wilderness boundary; and one can see a long way from the ridgetops.
One nice thing about the USP, with the flat sides it's fairly comfortable to carry over rough terrain.
On the way back through Brookings at the end of the day, a middle-aged lady got out of her car at the DQ and dropped her Glock on the sidewalk, didn't notice til she was inside. By that time two LE in the parking lot had picked it up. When last seen she was being asked to follow them to the station to do some paperwork and presumably receive a lecture.
And a difference between California and most anywhere else: In Oregon I can carry any legal pistol pretty nearly anywhere on my permit. In California, I need to add this one to my permit before I can legitimately carry it. Typically takes a couple weeks, in this case it's bi-annual renewal time anyway so it will happen as part of that process. But today, I had to lock it up before crossing back over the state line.
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Originally Posted by Hunter Rose
