What do people do with full size revolvers?

[batmann]

Besides the obvious, shooting them, I carry my Ruger SRH Alaskan in a pancake style holster my Simply Rugged.

 

[NMGonzo]

My redhawk 5 1/2 was too big for anything practical like hiking or conceal carry except on very few occasions.

The 6 inch Python was too pretty and too big.

The 4 inch GP100 works best for me.

But I would like to play with a Ruger Alaskan in 44 magnum.

 

[orionengnr]

If a revolver is too big to put in a pocket and too small to stop a bear, what is it good for?

Who says a .41 Mag or a .45LC, properly loaded, won't stop a bear?
I am not a large man and even in TX I can carry a 4" N-frame 3 or 4 months of the year (I did the winter of 08/09). I can carry a K-frame far more often, and do so sometimes. That Hoffner's Miurage holster works great with a K-frame; I need to buy one for my N-frames.

 

[Guillermo]

I didn't notice Bushie answer the query

Riddle me this bushmaster1313 -
If an auto is too big to put in a pocket and too small to stop a bear, what is it good for?

 

[Ops Officer]

Right now I have a Performance Center 625JM and a 624 parked and ready in a small safe near my bedside. There is no doubt that either will work if I need either one to defend me and family members in my house. Since I have more wheel guns than bottom feeders, wheel guns normally show up for duty in my safe than bottom feeders. Though I would not park a semi-auto in the safe unless I recently fired it without issue, I feel more confident about the reliability of a revolver.

 

[22-rimfire]

You shoot them. When I buy a large revolver to shoot, I buy a holster almost immediately if I don't already have one that fits. Most people don't buy holsters just to see them get moldy in the closet. You don't buy holsters for guns you have no intention to carry or shoot.

 

[gspn]

I just bought a Ruger Blackhawk in .41 Mag with a 6.5 inch barrel and I'll use it to put deer in the freezer this year. I'll also target shoot with it. Like someone else posted...it's nice to not have to chase my brass.

Plus I just wanted a revolver...I didn't own one and I felt...incomplete.

 

[sonier]

I carry blackpowder 1851s for carry guns sometimes i can do it all day no problem. but i live in different place than most lol but favorite carry is my python 357 mag and its good nough for cougars and black bears where i live.

 

[22-rimfire]

Real men shoot revolvers!

Plus I just wanted a revolver...I didn't own one and I felt...incomplete.

I bought one of the Blackhawks in 41 mag too. I felt completed.

 

[XxWINxX94]

You can pretend like your Dirty Harry!

 

[Rexster]

A full-sized .357 sixgun is arguably the best weapon extant for hunting people. (Opinions vary, of course.) This best not done with pocket-sized guns, and most people are smaller than most bears. (No bloodlust intended; some of us do hunt men as part or our duty.)

While I am presently mandated to use specified .40 autopistols at work, and generally carry them on my own time, too, my favorite handguns are full-sized revolvers. I have previously toted an S&W Model 58 .41 mag sixgun all year 'round here in Texas, and have done the same with a 4" GP100; the slightly smaller 4" K-frames and 4" Speed Six made it even easier. To be clear, this was CONCEALED carry, and quite comfortable.

 

[StrawHat]

Vern Humphrey Quote:
A .38 Special with a 148-grain wadcutter loaded ahead of 2.7 grains of Bullseye hits squirrels like the Hammer of Thor.

Vern,

Try a hardcast wadcutter at about 900 fps, truly impressive.

 

[Guillermo]

hits squirrels like the Hammer of Thor

you guys are tearing up a lot of meat

 

[Stainz]

Of course, I keep mine in rugs in my safe - until they ride in my range bag to the range for some fun. A little cleaning follows - then back to the safe.

Stainz

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I keep mine in my holster, and they ride with me whenever I'm on horseback, or out in the woods for any reason.

 

[aka108]

My 22 rf's make small holes in a paper targets. My S&W 625 makes big ones. For the bedside I have a Star 30M 9mm which has proven itself to be fair safe.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

BTW you can hunt with ANYTHING that throws a projectile. As a kid I hunted flys with a bic ink pen tube and spitwads.

 

[R.Clem]

Why would you buy a handgun that wouldn't stop whatever type of critter is prevalent in your area? 2 legged, 4 legged, slithering, or paper.
I carry a Glock 20, Taurus 66 4" .357, Colt Officers ACP, Ruger Blackhawk 4 5/8" .357, in high ride belt holsters. The Glock is probably the worst to carry followed by a shoulder holstered Ruger SBH 7 1/2".
All of these will stop a bear, as well as most anything else on the North American continent, it just takes the right bullet/load and being able to put the round where it will do the job. (The exception to that statement might is the Colt, it is city carry/bedside only gun.)
This type of discussion really gets one to thinking about why one would buy any gun that won't do the job you bought it for.

Ray

 

[HGUNHNTR]

^ Well if it weren't intended for defense that would be a good reason.

 

[harmon rabb]

my gp-100 is fun to shoot, does nightstand duty for the fiancee, and would be a good trail gun with some hardcast buffalo bore .357's. plus i just like owning a gun that i know will last far longer than i will.

 

[rWt]

They usually carry bullets that make holes in paper that I can see with my old eyes.

 

[Magnum.35744]

Wc145

Do you carry your S&W 646 as your duty weapon?

 

[Deaf Smith]

I use them to drive in nails when putting our garage sale posters on telephone poles, just like the cowboy movies.

 

[StrawHat]

Guillermo ...you guys are tearing up a lot of meat...

What do you suggest?

It works for me, I try for head shots, otherwise I eat right up to the hole.

 

[Guillermo]

I use a 22lr pistol. An old Smith model 41. More than enough for a squirrel.