Colorado Luckydog

I like to carry the bigger hanguns form time to time, just to carry them. I like to use all of them just for the sake of doing it. The large guns don't bother me at all unless I'm in a situation where I have to sit a lot. As long as I'm standing they don't really bother me. They bother my wife more than me. She gets torqued when she puts her arm around me and whacks it on my 1911. She likes the .380 much better.

I know the chances of needing one are slim but growing daily. If I ever do need mine, I'll be glad I have it. But if I'm carrying the .380, I'm sure the first thing I will think about is, I wish I had my 45. I would much rather take someone out with one bad shot than a couple of well paced shots.

Nomercy448

This is the nature of my post. More of the principle of the thing than feeling that I will NEED that much power.

In populated areas, I'm usually not dressed appropriately to carry a full size piece, so the Kel-Tec gets the bill, but I DO spend a lot of days where an opportunistic shot at a coyote is more likely than seeing another human being, so on those days, I wouldn't mind carrying a bigger piece.

Most of this stems from how I grew up. Kansas is open carry (Overt Carry-God bless Kansas!), so growing up on the ranch, I hung a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44mag on my belt every morning before I went out checking cows. Fast forward through college and now I'm working in town, where OC is considered a public nuissance, so I reverted to CC. Back then, you were more likely to see me WITH a pistol than without, which is still true today, except you just can't see my pistol. But in memory of the old days, I'm a little nostalgic about carrying a .44mag at my side...

So like I said, I already own the .454, and the .44 alaskan is coming soon, and I kinda miss carrying a .44. I ususally DO carry that same old blackhawk when I'm out riding, but I sure wouldn't mind having a hogleg that didn't take up MY entire leg to carry. (The SBH is 14" long)

I suppose if I did like carrying the hogleg for CC, I'd load up some of my pet .44spcl loads, a 200grn pill only pushing about 810fps. I've used this load for Cowboy Action Shooting in the past, and she's a dream. At least that'd help reduce risk to bystanders in populated areas.

Like I've told other people on here when they ask about a carry piece, I'm typically a minimalist when it comes to CC, but if a guy had a Viper for fun and a jetta to commute, it'd still be fun to drive the Viper to work from time to time...