I have a concealed handgun license and usually carry when I'm out caching.
I hate to say it but in today's world I just don't feel comfortable without a means of defending myself or my family if need be.
God willing I'll never be put in a situation where I need to use it but last week my fiancé, my son, and myself were looking for a cache that was out of the way and near the cache site we ran into 3 men that had been drinking at the location and who were all pretty well lit.
As soon as they spotted us they became very routy, saying explicit things to my fiancé (in front of my 7 year old son) and trying their best to get me to engage back in this confrontation.
After some some creative talking I finally convinced them that it wasn't worth it and they stumbled off. But, I have to admit that I was frightened and honestly thought it was going to resort to me having to pull my gun out to get these guys to back off!
After a few minutes we left as well (I wasn't worried to much about the cache at this point). I just wanted to get us out of there.
Just a quick personal experience to share, watch yourself out there.