I have watched her trying to find things in her purse. Better hope you don't want that revolver in a hurry.
-
This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.
Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades -
Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.
We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.
Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103
Carrying Heavy Revolvers
- Thread starter Walkabout
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
kaotikross
36 Cl.
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2022
- Messages
- 72
- Reaction score
- 144
If not that exact gun pretty darn close. It wasn't any cap and ball.
https://truewestmagazine.com/article/hickoks-number-one/
I carried the last 20 years before retiring. A function of where in Philadelphia we worked and the night hours we did it. After a couple of years of trying various things I settled on the S&W Mountain Revolver. It was a light weight version of the 629 chambered for .44 mag. I loaded with .44 special. It rode high on my right hip in a Galco holster on a belt that just barely made it through the loops on my jeans. I did sometimes swap out for a Combat Commander in .45ACP carried in the same way.
Comfortable. Easily accessible. Fairly unobtrusive. A lot of punch for the weight.
If I had to dress up for anything I had a Browning .22 in a holster made to resemble a wallet. It could be fired without removing it from that holster. I felt undressed without the .44 . But not buck naked.
Comfortable. Easily accessible. Fairly unobtrusive. A lot of punch for the weight.
If I had to dress up for anything I had a Browning .22 in a holster made to resemble a wallet. It could be fired without removing it from that holster. I felt undressed without the .44 . But not buck naked.
it would be scary looking down that barrel when you pull up to deposit the MAIL!!!
who was he? never heard of him? he is sure kitted out! I like the beaver top hat, never seen a cowboy with one.
how was it carried on the belt? with a belt hook.? it is a real beauty!!The Paterson models preceded the Navy by two decades. I'm sure it wasn't the first handgun to be carried on the belt. This .54 is a dainty 28oz.
The wide gun belts did not arrive until after cartridges. Before that, they were mostly around 2".
that is why they wore / used muff's. with DERINGERS in them. jmho.
DixieTexian
Pilgrim
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2007
- Messages
- 397
- Reaction score
- 613
Legendary Texas Ranger. He fought in the Mexican War, Texas Rangers, and then in the Civil War.
Last edited:
I edited my post to keep from hurting anyone's feelings.
Dark Angel
40 Cal
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
- Messages
- 129
- Reaction score
- 254
Though not C&B, I would have my wife, now ex, carry my small automatic, a 9x17 Makarov, in her purse as at this time there was no CCW in the state and city in which we lived and like most large cities, San Antonio was and still is, overrun with crime and would be criminals. And YES, she could find anything instantly in her purse, she was that organized.
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2010
- Messages
- 165
- Reaction score
- 151
Very funny, I pack because I am expected to as owner of my custom gun shop! Thanks for the laugh.
Dark Angel
40 Cal
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
- Messages
- 129
- Reaction score
- 254
The original poster said, when carrying, be polite, be professional, have a plan. All good advice. Texas has Constitutional Carry; you can carry either open or concealed. I have no problems with those the wish to advertise that they are armed. Me, I want it to be a total surprise when I have to pull my weapon on some gremlin. I always have a plan, but I think that it was Mile Tyson that said, 'Everybody has a plan until you get smacked in the mouth.'
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2010
- Messages
- 165
- Reaction score
- 151
Dark, I am always polite, as we tend to be in small Prescott, And I carry concealed when not in cowboy garb,
when I wear my SASS rig. Usually I have a Commander in an IWB. I am not a "tactical Tommy" churl.
Actually there is not much need to carry in Prescott at all, as we have almost zero crime. Because most people are packing, men and women. I just do because I am a California refugee, AZ resident for 11 years.
Keep smiling'!
when I wear my SASS rig. Usually I have a Commander in an IWB. I am not a "tactical Tommy" churl.
Actually there is not much need to carry in Prescott at all, as we have almost zero crime. Because most people are packing, men and women. I just do because I am a California refugee, AZ resident for 11 years.
Keep smiling'!
Robert Heinlein said an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Worked in feudal Japan. Not so much so in the inner cities of America.
That said, the first element of my plan is to avoid places and times where and when aggravation, grief and trouble are common.
That said, the first element of my plan is to avoid places and times where and when aggravation, grief and trouble are common.
Dark Angel
40 Cal
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
- Messages
- 129
- Reaction score
- 254
There usually isn't much need to carry while at home either, but I do. even as peaceful and relatively low crime as where I live in Texas, there are still home-break-ins. Carry my NAA .22 in my pocket my 1911 & .44C&B are easily accessible. Paranoid? NAH! Just cautious.
Sounds like a wise course of action.
Dark Angel
40 Cal
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
- Messages
- 129
- Reaction score
- 254
Read a lot of Heinlein over the years. Which book was this in? Plus saw basically the same saying in The Probability Broach and The Weapon Shops of Isher. Been many years, can't remember the authors of either.
Similar threads
