My land I work with the tractor actually is a gun range. That's the reason I bought the land. I grow some grapes, sometimes a small garden, hunt the occasional coyote, but primarily it's a place for me to shoot without bothering anyone or being bothering.
It's pretty well secluded at the end of a 1/2 mile private road and every property leading to it is undeveloped woods or fields. Yet frequently people stop by to see what's going on, ask if they can hunt, just say hi, snoop, whatever. I found that when I'm busy with work and anything noisy is running like a generator or tractor, people can literally get right next to me before I notice they are there. My wife drove down to the lower part last weekend while I was building a ramp into shipping container. Tapped me on the shoulder and about gave me a heart attack
But just a 4k generator 75 yds away and me focused on work was enough that she was able to drive right in, get out of car, and be right on me without me knowing about it. So much for my situational awareness....
But that was a real good illustration for me. ANYONE could wander back when I'm doing something and I'm likely to not notice until they are way too close. So I do like having a pistol on my hip.
What I ended up going with for field work was a Taurus PT111 Gen 2 in a Blackhawk Serpa holster. I'm typically somewhat of a 'gun snob' and will turn my nose up at a Taurus (Diamondback, Sccy, KelTec, HiPoint, ATI, etc). But I wanted something inexpensive that I don't care about knocking around and my dealer steered me toward this. Wife has a gen1 of same gun and while it is reliable, I really dislike it overall. He offered to let me return it if I hated it (what dealer does that?!?! my guy is awesome) but after putting it thru its paces, I actually like it. I have maybe $225 in the whole rig, a gun that is small enough that it doesn't bother me to have on while working, decent enough retention holster that it will stay put during vigorous activity, and I could care less about how many times I knock it around or how grimy I get it. Would I rather have a Sig, HK, Les Baer, etc in my hand if I truly 'needed' it? Sure. But I'm not going to subject one of those to that kind of abuse. They would handle it just fine, but I just have an issue beating the crap out of a nicer weapon like that. A <$200 Taurus on the other hand....ya, beat it to death