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Here's mine: Freedom Arms Model 97 .22 Magnum ![[Linked Image from i166.photobucket.com]](https://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u114/mrmarklin/Guns/IMG_0363.jpg)
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10MM DW Bobtail Classic with Bar Sto barrel, or S&W 460 Mag w/4 " barrel.
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Many years I packed a Ruger Single-Six while camping. hiking and timber cruising in the midwest. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/FGfl3dR.jpg) Then these started showing up. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/QJtDBAo.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/3D8b0XL.jpg) Ruger Security-Six .357 Mag is what I pack now. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/t82EpmK.jpg)
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Bob, guessing you carry that 'Ti' quite often, lightweight, but look at those WIDE FLAT NOSED 215s! Lol.. The Ti is a great shooter... Have the same gun in stainless and also a 6" Ti... MUCH better guns than the S&W 3-series...had them...hated them...and gone.. It is a great bullet...ran it through my waterjug setup and went through the carton, 5 jugs and cut a nice round patch out of the ballistic vest carrier. The meplat is .37...there was rifling almost all the way up the nose...and looked like it could have been reloaded. It was also accurate at 100 yards... Was so pleased with the way it shot I asked Accurate to add another lube groove and extend the base and it is now the 41-250F...they now also have gas-checked versions of both. Very nice Bob, had a SS 4" 41 Tracker in the past, Jerry Miculek even tried it one day when he asked what I was shooting  That 250 must be one heck of a performer! Sure the 215s would punch any deer/hog/bear, elk or moose. Broadside for sure. And they probably are shorter and may fit in the Taurus and FA97s. To the OP - 10mm is a good round. Anything close to a .41 is a good place to be, IMHO.
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Like others have said, if I'm carrying a shotgun or a rifle my handgun would usually be a .22lr. Which would be a Ruger 22/45 with a Tactile Solutions barrel on it that makes that combo super light on the hip.
If bowhunting or fishing in backwoods of Idaho, it's a Ruger Old Vaquero Stainles Bisley 5.5" 44MAG filled with cast 300g slugs at 1377fps over the chronograph. Powerfull with a "wee" bit of recoil.
General woods walking or fishing in main areas would be a Glock 22 loaded with cast 180g slugs at 1170fps with a back up mag in the pocket.
The search for the perfect packin' pistol seems like an eternal search with difficulty in finding just the one shooter that does all, hence the three above.
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I carry a SW360 scanadium J frame with 357s the most in the woods. I do have a SW329, but it is not as easy to carry.
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Mountain10mm: My idea of the "perfect packin pistol" has recently changed!
For decades I have "packed" one of my 22 L.R. calibered Smith & Wesson Model 34's, Model 63's or my Model 651 (22 Magnum stainless revolver J-frame).
Sadly with the number of large predators (including Black Bear, Cougars, Wolves and Grizz!) being allowed to increase dramatically, by the next to worthless Montana game department, and the huge increase in Grizzlies in my immediate area, I now choose/advise a Smith & Wesson Model 629 with the perkiest 44 Magnum loads available - in what ever barrel length you prefer - mine is 6".
Oh yeah, and as a last resort, "Bear Spray" should be packed as well.
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The 45 Colt mountain gun is probably closer to what he had in mind but I'm more likely to be toting the 32H&R SP101 or the Taurus 9mm G2.
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S&W 329PD.
Lightweight and powerful. In a high adrenaline environment the shooter wouldn't notice the recoil.
I load mine with 1 round of snake shot, 2 rounds of.44 Special, and 2 rounds of full power .44 Magnum. Ready for reptiles, people, and animals.
That said, I carry a Rossi 720 more often than any other handgun with 2 rounds of snake shot and 3 rounds of .44 Special 240 grain hard cast SWCs.
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S&W 329PD.
Lightweight and powerful. In a high adrenaline environment the shooter wouldn't notice the recoil.
I load mine with 1 round of snake shot, 2 rounds of.44 Special, and 2 rounds of full power .44 Magnum. Ready for reptiles, people, and animals.
What's in the sixth chamber?
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S&W 329PD.
Lightweight and powerful. In a high adrenaline environment the shooter wouldn't notice the recoil.
I load mine with 1 round of snake shot, 2 rounds of.44 Special, and 2 rounds of full power .44 Magnum. Ready for reptiles, people, and animals.
What's in the sixth chamber? Rainbows
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John Taffin created it. "Basically a Perfect Packin' Pistol is a handgun — either sixgun or semi-auto — with an easy handling barrel length between 4″ to 51/2″ chambered in a cartridge capable of handling anything you may run into. It's packable, portable and potent. It may be chambered in anything from .22 LR up to .500 Wyoming Express." In terms of "packing pistol" my understanding is that John was referring to a woods gun, not a CCW for packin on the street.
Mine varies, but is typically a Volkmann tuned Kimber Custom II in 10mm and more recently a Dan Wesson Bobtail Valor Commander in 10mm. Occasionally it's a G23 or SW 44 mag Mountain Gun. Been really digging the DW lately; I give up some velocity but it's packable, extremely accurate, great sights, and will cover 95% of my needs in the woods.
Leaving Glock 29 out of that lineup is a major omission.
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Then these started showing up. Bayfield orchards or closer to your home?
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As for myself the LC9S is still the most commonly carried. It is beginning to look kinda worn. Function is and always has been 100% Never once a failure with this pistol and that means a lot to me. And I shoot it well. Almost as well as the p320.
I can see me replacing it with a p365. Kinda wish now I'd bought a couple more LC9Ss when they were available dead cheap.
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S&W 329PD.
Lightweight and powerful. In a high adrenaline environment the shooter wouldn't notice the recoil.
I load mine with 1 round of snake shot, 2 rounds of.44 Special, and 2 rounds of full power .44 Magnum. Ready for reptiles, people, and animals.
What's in the sixth chamber? Should have read "3 rounds of full power .44 Magnum.". Since I shoot the 5-shot Rossis and Taurus' much more frequently than the 6-shot 329PD and 624s, I guess that I'm conditioned to think of them all as having 5-shot cylinders rather than a mix of both 5-shot and 6-shot cylinders.
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S&W 329PD.
Lightweight and powerful. In a high adrenaline environment the shooter wouldn't notice the recoil.
I load mine with 1 round of snake shot, 2 rounds of.44 Special, and 2 rounds of full power .44 Magnum. Ready for reptiles, people, and animals.
What's in the sixth chamber? Rainbows What does that mean?
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The two revolvers on the left, M-63 & M-65 or the two pistols on the right, Sig P220 and Browning HP and the Ruger MKII 5.5" in the center. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/VCjGpa2.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/ReiRKh1.jpg)
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MId framed sized old model Ruger conversion to 41 Mag. Light, short barrel, potent. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/FzoiXxu.jpg) Very nice SA Sir.
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Wow, you guys have some great hardware! Love those .41s. Used to be a Ruger Single Six in .22mag went everywhere on the farm. That changed into a Ruger LCR in .22 mag when they came out. Kinda got rattled and felt under gunned when I came in from fixing fence and had a truck and visitors in the drive way. After assuring these gentlemen that So and So didn't live here, I started carrying a 4" 1911 model and the LCR. With rubber grips on the 1911, I don't have to worry about banging up the grips with the tractor seat, etc. Novak sights and two mags of 230gr HP. A little much for raccoons and woodchucks, but it definitely gets the job done and I prefer the feeling when I get back to the house.
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I'm way more used to carrying in Alaska than Idaho. I usually packed a NM Super blackhawk cut down to 5-1/2" in 44 mag which is one of my oldest carrying guns, or a Ruger Alaskan 454 loaded with Buffalo bore 325 grain hard casts. Sometimes a Ruger Redhawk 4" also 44 mag. Here in Idaho I'd include a 4" Ruger Security Six 357 mag with 170 - 180 grain hard cast would get included. As others have said if I am carrying a rifle I'll probably have a Ruger Single Six that I've carried for several years.
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