Anyone still ccw the 357 magnum?

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Pull that sucker out of the holster and take another picture for me.

lol. That’s a little personal isn’t it? I mean, I don’t even know you. :rofl:

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I'm not fully sold yet on the Model 60. I think it's just that I am still getting used to it. The single action is great and double action isn't too bad. The front night sight isn't great so I broke out some orange nail polish.

I have a lot of range time with the LCR, ranging from puff 38 wadcutters to some nasty 357 loads my uncle made back in the 70's. The pistol handles then in stride.

If I was aware that there was a 357 LCRx then I might of purchased that instead. The LCR platform is an old comfortable shoe for me.
 
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Simply Rugged.

I carry it open on the trail and believe it or not, it conceals fine with a jacket. The end sticks out a bit if you move wrong, but no big deal for me since open carry is legal here.
How do you like IWB with the straps. I was amazed how comfortable my 4.2" GP100 357 is carrying IWB Simply Rugged Sourdough at 3 o'clock. I tried my 5" GP100 IWB at 3:30 position and it worked too. I don't feel the weight as much IWB as OWB. I'm very impressed with Simply Rugged.
 

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How do you like IWB with the straps. I was amazed how comfortable my 4.2" GP100 357 is carrying IWB Simply Rugged Sourdough at 3 o'clock. I tried my 5" GP100 IWB at 3:30 position and it worked too. I don't feel the weight as much IWB as OWB. I'm very impressed with Simply Rugged.
I actually only carry it OWB.
 
lol. That’s a little personal isn’t it? I mean, I don’t even know you. :rofl:

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I'm not fully sold yet on the Model 60. I think it's just that I am still getting used to it. The single action is great and double action isn't too bad. The front night sight isn't great so I broke out some orange nail polish.

I have a lot of range time with the LCR, ranging from puff 38 wadcutters to some nasty 357 loads my uncle made back in the 70's. The pistol handles then in stride.

If I was aware that there was a 357 LCRx then I might of purchased that instead. The LCR platform is an old comfortable shoe for me.
I swapped to the Altamont bateleur grips and it made a big difference on my model 60 over the altai's. They cover the backstrap and give you a longer trigger reach. I rounded the point off the bottom of the grip with some sand paper than hitnit with some 1000 grit and 2000 grit to smooth it out ,can't even tell. Laminate is super easy to reshape and blend.
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I swapped to the Altamont bateleur grips and it made a big difference on my model 60 over the altai's. They cover the backstrap and give you a longer trigger reach. I rounded the point off the bottom of the grip with some sand paper than hitnit with some 1000 grit and 2000 grit to smooth it out ,can't even tell. Laminate is super easy to reshape and blend.
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Thanks!!!

Now that I think about it, that is exactly the problem I am having with the Model 60. When I switch from single action to double my whole trigger finger just winds up diving in there.

Doesn't happen with my LCR even when I rattle shots off as fast as I can go. So I would say that the LCR has a longer reach for me because of that hogue grip.

I'll check out the Altimonts.
 
Both of these 357mag revovlers are
5 shot and lightweight....
The Ruger LCR357 is quite lively with 357mag ... I have been shooting quite a bit more 38+P out of it and carrying
Underwood 125gr +P
The Charter comes in at 21 oz , which is light for a steel frame 4 inch barrelled revolver .. I carry Hornady 125gr 357mag +P in it ...
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A three inch model 65 Smith in a Simply Rugged pancake with the iwb loops disappears and is very comfortable and accessible carried cross-draw at 10:30 or 11:00 with the butt about the left edge of the belt buckle.
 
A three inch model 65 Smith in a Simply Rugged pancake with the iwb loops disappears and is very comfortable and accessible carried cross-draw at 10:30 or 11:00 with the butt about the left edge of the belt buckle.
anyway you could post a picture of that in crossdraw
 
Yup. I live in the woods bordering Government land so tote a magnum. Mostly 2019 Colt King Cobra In a George Bowers
Leather Co OWB open top pancake holster and some what frequently a 7-shot S&W 386 NG in a Galco OWB open top pancake holster for CCW. For ridge walking, it’s a GP100 Match Champion loaded heavy in an open carry Diamond D Guide’s Choice chest rig.

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hi , I live in the north east I carry a old Colt .357 with a 4 inch barrels under
light to heavy coat in a old Lewis Police Special holster.
 
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camera issues, so not great pictures (with gun exposed, holding shirt up with chin, so kind of pushing belly out making the grips hang over the belt, but that is a fairly unique posture)

I intentionally have the iwb loops attached so as to make less slack in the rear one and more in the front to give more cant to the holster. I asked about getting a shorter loop from Simply Rugged, but he said no. gun lays in front of hip, above thigh and under belly when sitting, easy to reach in a car.
 
To me it is. I like that carry position best. A J frame or LCR is thinner, shorter, lighter and more comfortable and invisible there for me with holsters with belt clips worn iwb (actually more comfortable iwb, and outside pants). But I REALLY like a K frame, and a 3" M65 works great for me in that position. The sourdough Pancake was for a 4" Ruger, but is so flexible it works great with the 65. I'm just too cheap to get a smaller (and therefor more comfortable) Sourdough for the 3" M65.
I've come to understand that there isn't a best carry method, there is only what works for you. If you try it and don't like it, it probably isn't because you're doing it wrong, sometimes what feels good to someone feels awkward/uncomfortable to someone else.
 
To reply to the title question, in short form: Oh, yes, indeed.

Rotation? Well, cylinders rotate. I thought that “carry rotation” simply meant that one carries revolvers. ;)

Depending upon my clothing equation, at any given time, I may tote a GP100, Speed Six, SP101, all .357 Mag, or, a 9mm Glock, or a 1911, .45 ACP. (Other weapons are special-occasion, as-needed weapons.)

My favored revolver holsters include the Milt Sparks PMK, VM II, 200AW, and HSR; the Kramer Vertical Scabbard and pocket holster, and, the JM Custom Kydex George and AIWB. I have recently added a few more, that may become favored, over time.

If there is a rush, I can tuck a GP100 into my waistband, at the appendix position, and it will stay there, quite securely. The grip acts as a kind of brake, where it touches the belt, keeping the gun from sinking any deeper into my trousers. I am not advocating holster-less carry, but this works, amazingly well, for me, if I have to dress in a hurry, or, if I want to quickly add a weapon, when I already have one holster at the usual 0300 position.

In one particular pair of dress slacks, the huge front pockets can accommodate a 3” GP100, and my sample of this weapon was customized, by the previous owner, with a carry-bevel, which is easy on pocket linings. This carry method got me through a visitation and funeral service, when I was wearing a closely-cut jacket, which would have bulged with just about any weapon worn at belt level, and I expected much hugging and such.

I shoot a 4” (or longer) adjustable-sight GP100, or similar-length/sighted K/L-Frame S&W with suitable custom/aftermarket grips/stocks, more consistently better than any other handgun. A 5” all-steel 1911 is as shootable, for me, on a good day. (Not all days are good days.) A G17 will never be as accurate, in my hands, but is usually deemed accurate enough, and Glocks handle abusive environments without needing to be detail-stripped and cleaned as soon as the all-steel weapons.

In the beginning, which, for me, who grew up in a non-shooting household, was 1983-1984, I thought revolvers were quaint, and that the 1911 was the way to go. I was, however, required to train in the PD academy with one of three or four specified 4” .357 Mag revolvers, carried in a low-slung swivel holster. It looked like that huge huge rig was wearing me, rather than my skinny self wearing the rig. We could get a really good deal on 4” L-Frames and 2.5” K-Frames, from two local LE distributors, so I started my career with Models 686 and 66, for uniformed duty and concealed carry, respectively. (We had to buy our own weapons; nothing was issued. Financing was available.)

For my first year of sworn duty, March 1984 to 1985, I was required to use only DA revolvers, on and off the clock. Well, I reckoned i needed to survive that rookie year, so not only trained diligently, but learned to love DA sixgunning. I still believed on big bores, but gradually accepted that the 357 Magnum was doing the job of stopping erect bipeds very decisively, and by the end of the Eighties admitted to myself that I had K/L/GP100-sized hands, not N-Frame-sized hands.

In 1993, I was temporarily carrying my first GP100, on duty, when I faced an armed opponent, and stopped him with a Federal Hi-Shok 125-grain Jacketed Hollow Cavity bullet. The result was not only decisive, but that was the largest-volume wound channel I have ever seen, caused by a handgun bullet.

Lesser-velocity bullets can do quite well, too. One of the most decisive one-shot-stops my wife investigated, as a death scene investigator, for the Harris County M.E. was caused by a Speer Short Barrel 135-grain Gold Dot, diagonally through a torso. The decedent ceased al movement, immediately, and bled very little, indicating that his heart immediately stopped pumping blood. The weapon was a 4” revolver.

When I can find them, I use Speer Short Barrel Gold Dots in all of my .357 revolvers, except for the ones with 4” lugged barrels, or longer barrels on frames larger than K. It is not fun to beat-up my aging hands. Another mid-range load that I favor is the Winchester 145-grain STHP. I reserve the full-pressure ammo for my lugged-barrel GP100 sixguns.
 
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Is it comfortable Having that holster Infront like that can you get to it If your sitting in your car

I appendix carry my model 60 and G19.

The only time I’m uncomfortable is leaning over to tie my shoes when sitting.

Aside from that it’s great for me.
 
To reply to the title question, in short form: Oh, yes, indeed.

Rotation? Well, cylinders rotate. I thought that “carry rotation” simply meant that one carries revolvers. ;)

Depending upon my clothing equation, at any given time, I may tote a GP100, Speed Six, SP101, all .357 Mag, or, a 9mm Glock, or a 1911, .45 ACP. (Other weapons are special-occasion, as-needed weapons.)

My favored revolver holsters include the Milt Sparks PMK, VM II, 200AW, and HSR; the Kramer Vertical Scabbard and pocket holster, and, the JM Custom Kydex George and AIWB. I have recently added a few more, that may become favored, over time.

If there is a rush, I can tuck a GP100 into my waistband, at the appendix position, and it will stay there, quite securely. The grip acts as a kind of brake, where it touches the belt, keeping the gun from sinking any deeper into my trousers. I am not advocating holster-less carry, but this works, amazingly well, for me, if I have to dress in a hurry, or, if I want to quickly add a weapon, when I already have one holster at the usual 0300 position.

In one particular pair of dress slacks, the huge front pockets can accommodate a 3” GP100, and my sample of this weapon was customized, by the previous owner, with a carry-bevel, which is easy on pocket linings. This carry method got me through a visitation and funeral service, when I was wearing a closely-cut jacket, which would have bulged with just about any weapon worn at belt level, and I expected much hugging and such.

I shoot a 4” (or longer) adjustable-sight GP100, or similar-length/sighted K/L-Frame S&W with suitable custom/aftermarket grips/stocks, more consistently better than any other handgun. A 5” all-steel 1911 is as shootable, for me, on a good day. (Not all days are good days.) A G17 will never be as accurate, in my hands, but is usually deemed accurate enough, and Glocks handle abusive environments without needing to be detail-stripped and cleaned as soon as the all-steel weapons.

In the beginning, which, for me, who grew up in a non-shooting household, was 1983-1984, I thought revolvers were quaint, and that the 1911 was the way to go. I was, however, required to train in the PD academy with one of three or four specified 4” .357 Mag revolvers, carried in a low-slung swivel holster. It looked like that huge huge rig was wearing me, rather than my skinny self wearing the rig. We could get a really good deal on 4” L-Frames and 2.5” K-Frames, from two local LE distributors, so I started my career with Models 686 and 66, for uniformed duty and concealed carry, respectively. (We had to buy our own weapons; nothing was issued. Financing was available.)

For my first year of sworn duty, March 1984 to 1985, I was required to use only DA revolvers, on and off the clock. Well, I reckoned i needed to survive that rookie year, so not only trained diligently, but learned to love DA sixgunning. I still believed on big bores, but gradually accepted that the 357 Magnum was doing the job of stopping erect bipeds very decisively, and by the end of the Eighties admitted to myself that I had K/L/GP100-sized hands, not N-Frame-sized hands.

In 1993, I was temporarily carrying my first GP100, on duty, when I faced an armed opponent, and stopped him with a Federal Hi-Shok 125-grain Jacketed Hollow Cavity bullet. The result was not only decisive, but that was the largest-volume wound channel I have ever seen, caused by a handgun bullet.

Lesser-velocity bullets can do quite well, too. One of the most decisive one-shot-stops my wife investigated, as a death scene investigator, for the Harris County M.E. was caused by a Speer Short Barrel 135-grain Gold Dot, diagonally through a torso. The decedent ceased al movement, immediately, and bled very little, indicating that his heart immediately stopped pumping blood. The weapon was a 4” revolver.

When I can find them, I use Speer Short Barrel Gold Dots in all of my .357 revolvers, except for the ones with 4” lugged barrels, or longer barrels on frames larger than K. It is not fun to beat-up my aging hands. Another mid-range load that I favor is the Winchester 145-grain STHP. I reserve the full-pressure ammo for my lugged-barrel GP100 sixguns.

I appreciate you sharing your experience.
 
I have 2.25" SP101 Wiley Clapp (or "Novak" SP101) in my carry rotation, it's usually loaded with either Barnes 125gr TAC XPD .357 Mag or 130gr +P Federal HST 38 Special. I've considered getting the M&P 360 .357 as I've had smaller J-frames in the past and they are certainly lighter weight which is great for carry, but they give up a LOT of shootability compared to the heavier SP101.

I suppose if I were to carry a larger 357, I might look at the 3" GP100 7 shot, it's a good looking gun, but a bit pricey.
 
My EDC is a 4" S&W 19-3 carried strong-side IWB in a Tucker "Texas Heritage" holster. I'm 6'1" and 190 pounds, so even a light cover garment (usually a fishing shirt) hides it completely, and with a good belt, the rig is comfortable for all-day wear. Load is a midrange 158 SWCHPGC. I carry six spare cartridges in loops and hope to hell I never need a fast reload. (Or the gun, for that matter.)
 
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