How come everyone packs multiple guns? Is it part of the strategy for spouse management - honey I took four guns and didn't get a deer. I need five next year. . It does make for more exercise loading and unloading the truck, but I can think of more effective conditioning. I can't think of the last time I brought multiple rifles. If they aren't trustworthy, they go down the road.
I suspect YMMV!
When I used to hunt away from home, and my sons were with me as well as a friend or two, I always took a spare, usually a .348. Anybody can fall and bang up a gun or scope and it was just prudent for someone to have a spare along. Now, hunting 20 minutes from home, I can just go home and get something (or take a nap and wait for the next day).
If I had a woman that I had to trick in order to buy a new rifle,
she'd go down the road.
