My CCW (my "in town" gun) is a Glock G19, loaded with Winchester "Train & Defend" (the "Defend" JHP ones). I used to carry a Smith snubby with factory +P JHPs of some kind, but I've grown to like my Glock G19 a
lot. Besides, it holds more ammo.
My EDC gun for just working or puttering around the house and property (rural) here is a short-barreled Taurus .32 H&R revolver. In fact, I'm wearing it right now, and it's loaded with Federal 85gr JHPs. However, I have a pouch with 12 or 15 handloaded 95gr SWCs in it in my pocket.
Sometimes my Taurus .32 H&R is concealed (like when I'm wearing a long shirt or jacket), usually it's not.
We don't have much for "beaches" here in SE Idaho, but when we were younger, my wife and I did a lot of backpacking in the Idaho mountains. I changed my mind about which gun was best for grizzly bears and sasquatches
several times over the years while we were backpackers. I finally decided on a Taurus "Tracker" .41 Mag loaded with very stout 250gr SWC handloads.
As I've said before though, the times when I felt most ill at ease when my wife and I were into backpacking, was when we were at the trailheads. Sometimes two-legged miscreants hang out at trailheads, and I always feel more ill at ease when I'm around those types than I do when I'm five miles into the wilderness where there might be grizzlies and wolves and mountain lions, oh my!
So, the fact is, I'd have probably been better off carrying a reliable 9mm, 40, 10mm, or even a 45ACP semiauto of some kind on our backpacking trips than I was carrying a powerful revolver.
One more category - fishing guns. I've had a stainless Smith 22/32 "kit" gun for probably 40 years. I like to have it in my tackle box just in case the fish aren't biting, but there are makeshift targets that need perforating.
I really like my old "kit" gun, and I'm feeling kind of guilty about the fact that in the last year or so, I've spent a lot more time target practicing, fishing, ground squirrel hunting, and just goofing off with my Glock G44 than I have with my
first loved .22 handgun. I've strayed.