Originally Posted by
Rex G
...At that moment in time, I wanted my trusty 4” GP100 to be in my hands.
Well, where was my GP100? I was prone, and my GP100 was inside a Safepacker, worn on a strap, pinned between my belly and the mud. So close, yet, a thousand miles away. I would have been able to reach my G22 duty pistol quicker, but, I shot the GP100 notably better. Sigh.
Actually, in the 2000-2008-ish time period, quite a few felons, or suspected felons, got to look into the barrel and chambers of several of my four-inch revolvers, while the duty 1911/Glock/SIG remained in the duty holster. At first, it was because .357 Mag shoots flatter than .45 ACP. Then, it was because I could never shoot a Glock up to the level I could shoot the sixguns. After I dumped .40 Glocks for SIGs, I soon felt confident in my accuracy capability with SIG DAK, but the Magnum sixguns remained my comfort guns.
Of course, when using the above-described methodology, the four-inch sixgun was, in effect, acting as a carbine substitute, and the duty auto, with its accompanying spare magazines, was still an important part of the equation....