carring a gun

I never go without a firearm of some kind......no exceptions. I do understand that some of y'all, ninja included, hunt on places that don't allow you to carry. Plus a lot of you hunt at night which can present another kind of problem. It's my opinion that when you're hunting an animal that has the potential to do serious harm to your dogs,....then you should carry a firearm in the case that it becomes needed to dispatch a hog or bear or whatever you're hunting. If I used a catchdog I'd for dang sure have at least a 22 Mag. handy. I don't really hunt at night so shooting is safer than for some of y'all that do. I carry an M1 carbine, which is a short 30 caliber rifle from WWII. I put a synthetic stock on it and it is, in my opinion, the perfect gun for hunting hogs with dogs. This cartridge will not shoot through a hog from the side if it's over 75 lbs., yet it will kill a 300 lb. hog outright if you hit it in the vitals. I've read too many stories on here from guys that don't carry a gun about their dogs getting killed by a big, bad hog that could have been shot to save the dogs. I know that shooting hogs isn't too popular with some folks and that's fine, but where we hunt we have to kill all hogs, period, that's how we get access to these places we hunt.