Sidearm Opinion
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Snake Charmer
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i have been wanting to get a G40 to carry. Read lots of reviews it's a good hunting choice but hard to come by, at least at the moment.
I'd would carry the most accurate, fastest to deploy gun i can shoot.
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stikbrandon
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I used carry a 3-5/8" Balckhawk in 45LC loaded with Buffalo Bore ammo, but my wrist's can'ty handle it anyonre. I love my Kimber, but I also like my Glocks. The Glocks are a bit little lighter and slimmer and that's what has got me thinking. Most of my hunting these days is trying to help my kids get game, so I'm usually not carrying a shotgun or rifle around. Unless we are Quail hunting... then I'm definitely carrying my shotgun.
Go big... When I carry, it's a Ruger Alaskan 454 casull tucked in to a custom thigh holster. Nothin' fuks with me. Ed F
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stikbrandon
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Maybe one day when I trespass to Arizona and put the mic in front of you, the words will come to mind. Better yet Pretty sure your story of your first big game animal will put the podcast in the top trending category .
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I love the 10MM round, but I’m partial to the mid-size frame as opposed to the full or sub.
I started carrying a side arm 40 years ago when I use to go on annual backpacking/trout fishing trips in the Bear Tooth Montana Wilderness. The gun then was a Ruger Redhawk 44mag 7.5 inch barrel, loaded with 300 grain custom hunting loads. The gun was really too big and heavy for backpacking but I wanted something for grizzly. I wouldn’t really want to try to take down a griz with it but it was the best I could do. For smallEr black bear a 44mag is considered marginal.For a griz don’t want to find out.
Then I got a short barrel S&W 44mag mountain gun. That kicked like a mule so I so I quickly sold it. Now I carry. Taurus Tracker 4 inch barrel, in stainless which is ported so it reduces “felt” recoil.
Im a wheel gun guy, although I have a number of autos. When I’m in the wilderness I don’t want to deal with a safety, or with clips or anything else. I want a simple revolver I can just draw and fire. And I like my revolvers in stainless. Sometimes I carry a 357 mag which I feel the most comfortable with of all the handguns I own. My recommendation in California is a 44mag in stainless.
The odds of ever having to use your gun in the wilderness for protection from a wild animal is minuscule, probably close to zero. Even knowing this I still carry. It’s a habit. I carry both for 4 legged animals and for the most dangerous 2 legged lowlifes. There’s a lot of drug addled lowlifes wandering around. I’ve experienced 2 occassions in the wilderness where packing a gun saved my ass.
So carry a gun you feel comfortable with, and with a large enough caliber that it’ll take down the biggest thing you may run into.
Then I got a short barrel S&W 44mag mountain gun. That kicked like a mule so I so I quickly sold it. Now I carry. Taurus Tracker 4 inch barrel, in stainless which is ported so it reduces “felt” recoil.
Im a wheel gun guy, although I have a number of autos. When I’m in the wilderness I don’t want to deal with a safety, or with clips or anything else. I want a simple revolver I can just draw and fire. And I like my revolvers in stainless. Sometimes I carry a 357 mag which I feel the most comfortable with of all the handguns I own. My recommendation in California is a 44mag in stainless.
The odds of ever having to use your gun in the wilderness for protection from a wild animal is minuscule, probably close to zero. Even knowing this I still carry. It’s a habit. I carry both for 4 legged animals and for the most dangerous 2 legged lowlifes. There’s a lot of drug addled lowlifes wandering around. I’ve experienced 2 occassions in the wilderness where packing a gun saved my ass.
So carry a gun you feel comfortable with, and with a large enough caliber that it’ll take down the biggest thing you may run into.
I fully agree that it is for the 2 leg threats as much as it is for the 4.
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If your into reloading a .41mag would do the trick, used to have a Redhawk best handgun I ever had and wish I had never parted with it. Just about the same stopping power as a .44 mag with 20% less recoil. I like the Taurus Tracker as well but they are not on the CA . JOD list as an approved hand gun here in CA.
Wow, I had no idea. I bought the gun several years ago from a gun store and there was no problem then. Actually I bought a second Taurus Tracker 44mag from a friend a couple years ago and sold it last year to another friend. (Done through an FFL) I would have kept the extra Tracker had I known. F... California.