I carry an xdm 10mm 5.25 " barrel in a heavy recon kit bag while hunting. Binos and rangefinder in front pouch, and occasionally a spare mag, which is probably just silly.
If not hunting, I usually have the same pistol in a runners kit bag, with a small utility blade knife and my phone in the front pocket.
I've carried a 4" 629 and a 4" 329pd in the recon, and it works ok. With full size binos in the front pouch the cylinder sort of jams into my sternum after a while.
You are putting your binos in the front pocket of the Recon and not using the bino pouch on the front of it? Easy to get binos in/out?
