The last time I only had one handgun it was a 4-5/8" barreled Ruger single six .32 mag. It's job was to keep the bastards off of me long enough to get to my grandpa's old falling axe ... 40+ inch handle, 10" of cutting edge, around 8 pounds. Time t' get medieval leaving arms, legs, and heads on the floor.

If I really had to have only one handgun, of those I own today it'd be my 4-5/8" barreled super blackhawk. It might not be the most practical for all situations but it is a solid choice for where I live, for what I do. I've lived with this same gun for 12-15 years and it fits me. It does what it is supposed to do when it is supposed to do it, by instinct as much as deliberate thought, and that is hard to argue with. It is .. me. Me-esque, me-ish, you get the idea. I have no problem with someone else choosing something different and I probably would, too, if I lived somewhere else.

Tom

Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.

Here be dragons ...