"Starts with FOUR" Big bore snub nosed carry gun

I'm here to represent the S&W 296. It's one of my favorites - centennial style, double-action only, scandium/titanium light but with a big bore... and it also leaves a big mark on my thumb when it recoils.. heh heh heh. It's a firearm with a pretty specific niche, but since this thread is about big bore snubs I'm probably preaching to the choir.

This spends most of it's time in a pocket holster made by Robert Mika. I also enjoy carrying it in a Lobo Gunleather IWB.

44 mag


44 special triple lock. i bought it like you see it

Taurus Judge Public Defender 2"

Tony_the_tiger said:

I'm here to represent the S&W 296. It's one of my favorites - centennial style, double-action only, scandium/titanium light but with a big bore... and it also leaves a big mark on my thumb when it recoils.. heh heh heh. It's a firearm with a pretty specific niche, but since this thread is about big bore snubs I'm probably preaching to the choir.

This spends most of it's time in a pocket holster made by Robert Mika. I also enjoy carrying it in a Lobo Gunleather IWB.

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wow tony thats a cool 296. FYI a steel 696 cylinder will swap in to give it just a few more ounces of heft. are those corbon DPX ? cant go wrong with that set up you got there. will get some bad dudes attention right quick!

Wanna take the bite out of the 296's backstrap hump? Pad it in a made-for-S&W Hogue .500 Magnum X-frame monogrip!



Yeah, the X-frame grip fits K, L, N, X, & Z frames. It makes really big pockets a necessity for pocket carry. Mine sports the OEM boots. The Speer 200gr Gold Dots are perfect - they make just over 800 fps from the 2.5" barrel - enough to fully open in gelatin. I won't use the Al-cased CCI Blazers after one split in my 696's SS cylinder several years ago. GA Arms makes a brass cased variant reasonably priced.

Stainz

S&W 1917 D.A., .45acp

Charter Arms BullDog (Mag-Na-Port Backpacker)


Colt 1917

My new favorite carry piece is this 3" 625 I picked up a short time ago. Conceals easily IWB w/a Simply Rugged Sourdough.

Oh man...this thread is making me add guns to my list...

Dang, I miss my .44's.

Smith & Wesson 310 Night Guard 10MM/40 S&W. I carry it in a Lobo Enhanced Pancake. I have S&W Finger Groove Checkered Rosewood Grips on it.

Smith & Wesson 3" 625 Power Custom Combat. It has been converted to a Full Length Ejector Rod, and the chambers lengthened to shoot 460 Rolland. I have S&W smooth Finger Groove Combats on it for grips. I carry this one in a Lobo Model 1 Pancake.

Bob

nothing "special", just .45 acp...my 3" 625 and my sub 325 carry in a pancake

My "Son Of Sam" Bridgeport Bulldog.

Lew Horton Model 24-5

Another 1917 S&W vote. [/IMG]

I stumbled on my dream gun last year. $499 out the door. A S&W 25-5 .45 Colt. It looks to be a former 6 inch cut to a ported 3 inch, round butted with night sights. Unknown gunsmith. It would have cost me $1500+ to build this gun.

At 15 yards it keyholes pretty bad with .452 SWC 255 grain Keiths (for my Bisley Blackhawk and 94 Trapper) but is still damned accurate, out to at least 50 yards. It is at least 1 MOA (minute of A$$****). I love it.

Besides the S&W Governor, I also have a 2.5" 296 (below - with a Mika pocket holster) and a 3" 696, both 5-shot .44 Specials. They seem kind of boring now.

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If you are bored with your 696, feel free to send it to me. I've been looking for one.

Bump a cylinder full of .454s out of her and see how they shoot - but hey, 250gr of keyholing lead still does the job.

You mean .454 dia bullets, not .454 Casull ammo, right?

I had a 625-10. I regret trading it away. I really wanted to love it, but with the lightweight scandium frame it just beat the piss out of my hand with every trigger pull. Still dreaming of doing a custom one with a steel frame. Lightweight has serious diminishing returns when the first number is a 4!

My 24 snubby wearing a pair of Miculek grips.

I carry a Charter Bulldog loaded with Hornady Critical Defense 165 grain rounds.

Have also been known to pack around my 4" 629-5 or 6.5" Blackhawk .44 magnums.

29-3, special ordered by Horton...

3" 624 in a Lobo holster. Works surprisingly well as a carry gun.

1917 Colt .45 ACP with a few modifications. Carried in a Saguaro Gun Leather cross draw holster.





Same Colt, different grips.



Same Colt, another set of grips and in a Tex Shoemaker holster.




S&W 629-5 .44 magnum, 2.5" and fixed sights. Usually carried in Saguaro holster pictured above with the Colt.

+1 for Charter .44 Spl. Bulldog in a pocket, just like most folks do with a .38.