Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns I now own the ULTIMATE backpacker's sidearm

i do load a 200grain and a 230grain 357mag load for a k frame.
does that count?

yes there are, on both counts.

Nobody's holding the ultimate backpacker's sidearm to your head.

I hope not anyway.




Dave

Travis,

great adventures there--and photo documentation--all made the better by those great handgun rigs attending the trips...

for several years, i carried either a 4 or 6 inch inch 629--great rigs. on one trip, a belay rope caught the thumbreak, and the 4 inch rig went down a coulior that was several hundred feet long. hurt the eyes just to see it.

for the past 29 years, i've most often taken a 5.5 inch Redhawk on most trips--even if only going a couple miles in. it's heavy, but reassuring--especially on those trips when staying overnight in the AB or Taylor Hilgard...

biggest problem with it?

all the "tin horn ignorants" within the first mile or two of the trailheads that often ask, "what's that for?"

Just tell 'em "It's for tin horn ignorants."

Whatever it takes to get this sorted once and for all.

i had to kind of laugh, given this thread, i was reading ken watters "pet loads" on the throne this morning, on 357 magnum.
he mentions a 357 being a pretty good mid weight versitle type weapon/round. then he lumped 44special hot loaded in there with 41magnum, 44magnum, etc. which of course is all true in some loads.
I don't have a 396 but i do have a 696, and it is a nice and light gun to carry. And given some loads by brian pierce, i put some together that it's capable of taking in excess of the typical factory fodder you get.
or you buy some buffalo bore.
But it ain't gonna sort easy.
my poor glock 20 i had to take out of the safe and put in my desk for a while. Thought the other stuff in there would pick on it.

Yep, they're best stored on their own, wrapped in a diaper or a pink tutu.

would be nice if you had a 45ACP barrel for your Glock 20 it could "self identify" as a 45.

A 10 barrel drops in on a G21 frame. A G21 can be converted to 10, .45Super, maybe .460Rowland, and .40S&W, as well as running .45ACP.

yep I have had my eyes set on a 41 for some time now, an Edge trigger and a 10mm barrel plus magazine would sure make it a versatile weapon.

The 10mm, a cartridge by trannies, for trannies. No wonder 4ager loves it!

I don't do this anywhere else, you guys bring out the worst in me.

Craig,

Do you backpack?



Dave

I don't backpack, but I do sack lunches.

wonder what caliber this gun was?

My three season pack weighs in around 12 lbs base weight. With no wolves or Grizzly round here. I can't see carrying something as heavy as a mod 20, Heck it would be as heavy loaded as 1/5 my pack. In over 2000 miles of backpacking I haven't ever had to fire my handgun (fired for fun yes, but not for need). So went a little lighter than a glock. 12oz 357 mag. it kicks a bit with a top end 158g load.

As long as you're carrying one and are accurate with the first and even the second shot (if you have time for either) you are better prepared than most other hikers. Guns are like Kaopectate; when you need one or the other you really need it, like right NOW.

What ever it was it didn't take 15 shots...hmmmm

Thank heavens there was only one moose...hmmm.

No, "only" five!