OregonJohnny
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My PPP choices are:
• Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum, 4.6" barrel, blued finish
• Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum, 4.2" barrel, stainless finish
• Ruger GP100 .357 Magnum, 4.2" barrel, stainless finish
All 3 of those fit Taffin's PPP idea pretty well. However, the Redhawk is the largest and heaviest handgun I own, the Super Blackhawk has it's limitations (with my skills) in rate of fire and reloading ease, and the GP100 itself is pretty dang big and heavy for a .357. So another idea I've had for a PPP, in areas where you have no chance of brown bear encounter, is this:
• An all-steel, stainless, government size 1911 in .45 ACP, with rubber, micarta or G10 grips, heavy recoil and magazine springs, and tested for reliability with one of the following rounds:
- Buffalo Bore .45+P 255-grain hardcast lead flat nose at 960 fps. (my personal chrono results)
- Buffalo Bore .45+P 230-grain FMJ flat point at 980 fps. (advertised velocity)
I tend to shoot better and faster with large semi-auto handguns, anyway. The idea of a crisp single-action trigger pull, and 8 quick rounds of heavy flat .45 caliber bullets zipping along near original .45 Colt numbers sounds pretty good as a woods gun.
Plus, a flat semi-auto which is hardly more than 1" thick, and weighs only 40 oz., would be a lot easier to conceal (if the need arose in more populated trail areas) than my massive Redhawk.
• Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum, 4.6" barrel, blued finish
• Ruger Redhawk .44 Magnum, 4.2" barrel, stainless finish
• Ruger GP100 .357 Magnum, 4.2" barrel, stainless finish
All 3 of those fit Taffin's PPP idea pretty well. However, the Redhawk is the largest and heaviest handgun I own, the Super Blackhawk has it's limitations (with my skills) in rate of fire and reloading ease, and the GP100 itself is pretty dang big and heavy for a .357. So another idea I've had for a PPP, in areas where you have no chance of brown bear encounter, is this:
• An all-steel, stainless, government size 1911 in .45 ACP, with rubber, micarta or G10 grips, heavy recoil and magazine springs, and tested for reliability with one of the following rounds:
- Buffalo Bore .45+P 255-grain hardcast lead flat nose at 960 fps. (my personal chrono results)
- Buffalo Bore .45+P 230-grain FMJ flat point at 980 fps. (advertised velocity)
I tend to shoot better and faster with large semi-auto handguns, anyway. The idea of a crisp single-action trigger pull, and 8 quick rounds of heavy flat .45 caliber bullets zipping along near original .45 Colt numbers sounds pretty good as a woods gun.
Plus, a flat semi-auto which is hardly more than 1" thick, and weighs only 40 oz., would be a lot easier to conceal (if the need arose in more populated trail areas) than my massive Redhawk.
Guess I will "Imperfectly Pack". 
