I don’t carry a single action because its the damn 21st Century!
OK I kid! I mean who am I to talk, I’m carrying a 1911 right now! I carry a 1911 because its a gun platform I’ve shot a lot and I’m very comfortable with it. For those who feel the same way I do about my .45 Auto as they feel about their .45 Wheelie this is a great video.
Be safe out there!
Nice!
I’ll second you on the 1911/PM45 combo
I still carry a DA Wheelie.
I do occasionally as well.
One of the very few times when I thought I was actually going to have to shoot someone, I was carrying a single action Ruger Bisley… In .44 Mag no less.
As a hobby, I was hand-sewing leather holsters. I picked up the hobby because I spent a LOT of money on concealment holsters, and none of them seemed to fit me very well. I had hit upon a pretty good design and made holsters for all the guns I normally carried… then started looking around for something else. Yep, the .44Mag Ruger Bisley.
When I finished the holster, on a lark I decided to carry the .44 to a shindig I was going to that evening at a friend’s house. Except, I didn’t have any “carry” ammo for the .44, The only thing I had was some full power .44 Mag soft point that I picked up just to have something to shoot. “Oh well” I thought, “I won’t NEED a gun tonight, I’ll be with friends”. So I tucked the .44 in the new IWB holster and went to have some fun.
It worked GREAT. Nobody at the shindig had a clue that I was carrying (I’m sure those who really knew me assumed I was). Later, when the evening quieted down, and only the close friends were left, someone finally asked because they were curious and hadn’t been able to see anything printing… and almost crapped themselves when I (very carefully) pulled out the .44
After the party, a lady friend and I decided we would hit the waffle house. Waffle House… 3 am… Yes, I’m an idiot. Not long after we got there, a woman ran in screaming that a man was choking her friend to death out side.
We went out side, and sure enough, a rather more than middle aged woman was being throttled by what appeared to be a homeless geezer. My friend weighed in (there is no holding her back, she’s a scrapper and can take care of herself, I knew better than to get in her way). I held back in case she needed me. The whole while thinking “DAMNIT, all I have is this .44 Mag! It would go right through 10 guys that skinny before it even started slowing down!” I spent my time angling for a solid backstop, just in case.
The geezer realized that he had a Red Neck woman that was seriously about to kick his ass, he backed off (much to my relief). The woman was ok after a bit. A little horse, but ok. Things started settling down and finally the boys in green (Sheriff Deputy) arrived.
Punch line: The woman wouldn’t press charges on her “man” because she loved him and just knew he was going to get his life back in order.
Damn… I wasted a whole hour, and a lot of sweat and worry, on that. Should have just let him choke her.
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