Personally not a fan of open carry. Colorado is not a difficult state to get a CCW permit, so I say wait & get the permit. Open carry causes a lot of alarm among the sheep and has a good probability of them calling LE and then causing you to get contacted.

Another school of thought I like...I don't care if the bad guy looks me up & down and "thinks" I may be armed, but I like the idea of not completely giving it away. What I mean is, most the time I wear 5:11 pants with my Glock polo shirt & contractor hat proudly bearing my American flag patch. It may suggest I could be armed, maybe - maybe not. But for me, I don't prefer the threat know I am armed until my rounds are headed his way. If they plainly see I am carrying a firearm (open carry), I become the first target. One of the first victims in the Utoya massacre (Norway) was an off-duty police officer working as security.

This has always been my position on this topic. Some agree, some don't. I know it's all a matter of preference, but there are still a lot of people here (Denver, Boulder) that get freaked out by seeing a gun on a non-unoformed hip. An example, I got a call at my full-time job today where a patron was concerned because they were riding a bus and heard a guy talking on his cell phone about purchasing a firearm and where would be a good place to go to get one. My first response, "Really?..". Regardless, this is just my 2 cents on the topic. Take care.