Boondocking safety-Are you armed?

To a large extent you are right Don. And yes cities are the high liklihood areas, but as everything from coyotes and mules find more remote transport routes, Home cookers look for hidden production locations, and in general gangs move from the bigger cities to the smaller towns, all of those types of encounters go up. I'm already 60, so I dont need too many more years of being left alone, but as each year goes by, getting that "alone" gets tougher.