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I'm not retreating. But there are miles of forest behind the rock. I got a cabin about 150yds behind the rock. I've got a water well near, and I'm gonna build, where the Gladiator is.

This is the view from behind the truck:

Very nice. Both the land and the Gladiator.

Yes indeed to both.

I like my HK P30L, but might go with a standard VP9.

Preference is to have both, but currently just have the one.

I just need to build out there. Just got through a nasty, but ultimately morale-inducing, divorce from something close to Satan, which delayed things, and I'm going through a job change in a few days. So, I hope to pull the trigger in a few months.

This is what the elk and mule deer do in the trees just below the rock. They don't even know I'm there.

Sweet.

I'm all in with my P229 in .357 Sig. The weapon and round does almost everything well except for the grizzlies....but if I'm in an urban area and could plug an antifa thug in the leg and make my getaway while the bear takes out the trash.

I love my accurized 1911 pistols, but just one gun? A plain ole GI Colt.
Bob

One handgun? I’d pick my well tuned 4” Ruger Redhawk. I can load it down or up and it will handle anything that should be asked of a handgun, and I don’t think I would wear it out.

Nice Tisas.

And that’s how the fight started .....


Ha

Made in '43 in Hartford.
Bob

Hawk, Hang in there. And enjoy the peace when it comes. It will come.

My M29 4" 44 mag, BUT only of I get unlimited amounts of my choice of powder, primers brass and bullets.

When I was a teen my only 3 handguns for a few years were my Cap and Ball Ruger Old Army, my Colt New Frontier 22 and my 44 mag. I found that by making my own hand loads the 44 mag did it all.

I would load a lead ball with 3 grains of Unique to do what my 22 would do. The day to day load was 8.5 of Unique with a 250 grain SWC and the heavy load was 22 grain of 2400 and the same bullet but cast from Lino-Type. I stopped using the Old Army much after I started using the 44 mag, not because the Cap and ball didn't work well, but the 44 mag did everything cleaner and was easier to reload.
When I got out of high school I went into the Marines and later worked for DOID and also did a short time as a Sheriff's deputy. In that time I used various handguns at various times from a 1911 to a S&W M58 41 mag, a S&W M28 357 mag and a S&W M12 38 special. But at no time did I ever find any of them that I could shoot any better then my 4" M29 and many of them not as well.

So coming full circle, if for some reason I was forced to own only 1 handgun again, it would be the one I started with as a teen.

A 4" 44 magnum and a full reloading set-up.

What a tough question. Right now it’s between my Springfield 1911 and my Ruger carry hawk in 45 LC with the 45 acp cylinder (no moon clips).

Interesting, given the concealment necessity parameter, that many of you are going with full-sized autos or wheel guns.

For myself, I was thinking of a compromise between the Sig P938, that I comfortably carry all day long, and something like the G40 or DW Bruin that would be my first choice if there was no need to conceal.

I like the G29 because, like my G27, it and two spare mags can fit into a modest-sized camera bag that I can strap to my belt that doesn’t say “Galco” or something on it and doesn’t necessarily look like it’s containing a firearm; doesn’t weigh a lot; and puts out more power than most .357 loads.

Thanks for the kind words Dirt. I'm so much more peaceful since I moved away from the Beast about 15 months ago. Got a new fiance who is wonderful and supports everything I do, and vice versa. Talk about day vs. night.

Yeah, the President's 100 tab means he probably won't let ya get close enough for "which handgun" to matter.... .

Which bag is that? My G27 needs one