Hiking Revolver, what do you pack?

[Peakbagger46]

Cold months find me out for fairly vigorous fitness hikes in cat country or urban rucks. My PD340 is loaded with 158g .38 +P with a Barnes .357 reload and carries well in the front pocket :


Summer time and the bears are up. In the high country this gal goes along tucked in an OWB holster and holding six shots of hot 180g hardcast:


What do you all pack when out wandering the hills?

 

[Blue Jays]

Those are both excellent choices for the scenarios described. Perfectly selected!

 

[Tallball]

Dog, knife, and my bob-hammered 3" 38 special with boot grips.

The dog will let me know if there is a hog or a gator. Yes, I have seen a gator at our local lake with my own eyes. 38 special should be good enough for the small hogs and gators we have around here, but they just flee whenever I see them anyway.

If there are two-legged critters not smart enough to be wary of my dog, 38 special is fine for them, too.

My most realistic use is putting down a badly injured critter that the buzzards are circling.

Taurus Model 82 spurless

• Tallball
• Dec 11, 2021

 

[crestoncowboy]

I carry the 329 PD. For a "carry a lot, shoot very little" woods gun....I don't think there is anything better.

 

[mcb]

No bears in middle Tennessee. My Model 10 with some 148gr lead hollow points does everything I need without being abusive to my ears.

 

[captain awesome]

I carry the 329 PD. For a "carry a lot, shoot very little" woods gun....I don't think there is anything better. View attachment 1133297

This is what I do as well. 6 265 gr Copper solids with a wide meplat from Lehigh trucking along at 1300 are going to put down with authority anything I could run into in AZ. And I barely notice that light weight revolver on my belt.

Edit: Interestingly the recoil is not as severe as I expected, and with focus I can get all six rounds on a steel silhouette at about 15 yards in less than three seconds.

 

[crestoncowboy]

This is what I do as well. 6 265 gr Copper solids with a wide meplat from Lehigh trucking along at 1300 are going to put down with authority anything I could run into in AZ. And I barely notice that light weight revolver on my belt.

I carry 240s. I had issues with bullets creeping when using 300 GR xtps. I did order some lehigh to load and try. Didnt get them in time for deer season.

And your right, I can forget that the 329 PD is even on me.

I did swap out the rear "V" sight and put on some x-frame grips. I also had a nicer brass bead front sight but when my yoke and release broke I removed my front sight to send it to them. It came back with yet another fiber front and ive left it.

 

[captain awesome]

I carry 240s. I had issues with bullets creeping when using 300 GR xtps. I did order some lehigh to load and try. Didnt get them in time for deer season.

And your right, I can forget that the 329 PD is even on me.

I did swap out the rear "V" sight and put on some x-frame grips. I also had a nicer brass bead front sight but when my yoke and release broke I removed my front sight to send it to them. It came back with yet another fiber front and ive left it.

I put X frame grips on mine as well, kind of played grip around the Rosie, the nice wood grips that came with it now reside on my 629 classic 5 inch, and the grip that came on that is now on my 14" 460 S&W, and it's grips went on the 329.

 

[crestoncowboy]

I put X frame grips on mine as well, kind of played grip around the Rosie, the nice wood grips that came with it now reside on my 629 classic 5 inch, and the grip that came on that is now on my 14" 460 S&W, and it's grips went on the 329.

I've seen some come with checkered/stipled grips that look good but mine came with plain jane ahrends.

Recoil is pretty decent but I have shot right at100 RDs in a session. It's not terrible but worse than my 460/500/454 etc guns.

 

[Starter52]

First generation Charter Arms .44 Bulldog.

 

[AK2]

686 is my do-everything revolver. House gun, target practice, hunting, camping/hiking.

 

[Haywood]

When I camped and hiked. I carried a pocket gun and a 4” 357.

 

[tominboise]

Sometimes a 624 44 Special in a chest holster.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Walking around in the Eastern Sierra's[fishing, camping].Uberti/Taylors .45 Colt, 5.5" barrel. 250gr coated rnfp and 8.2gr Unique.

 

[Pat Riot]

My S&W 327 Night Guard is my “go to” for carrying and all around protection. I may also carry my 442 in the future, but in the past it’s always been my 327.





I may try out my Ruger GP100 for shore fishing as there’s not a whole lot of hiking involved. I recently bought a nylon chest / shoulder rig that I might use.

 

[Switup]

Taurus 817 - 7 shot titanium .357 mag.
Unloaded, the gun feels like plastic.
All the weight is in the ammo.

I have also been known to lug a 1911 or a Glock 22.
But the Taurus replaced them.

 

[bangswitch]

City hiking, my usual CC, a M66-1 snubbie:


If I go in the mountains, though, I go loaded for bear. M57 and at least one speed loader:

 

[.455_Hunter]

A multi-day wilderness backpack trip will cause you to dump most everything with extra weight. A 317 snub offers reasonable firepower with minimal mass in reduced large four-legged threat areas, but can be upgraded to a 442/438/642/638 with Buffalo Bore Outdoorsman loads in areas of concern.

 

[WrongHanded]

On the most recent excursion I took with a revolver, I was carrying a 686+ 4", with some 180gr WFN handloads.

 

[doubleh]

Back in my hiking days I carried a single six in 22LR as the largest thing I would run into would be a jackrabbit. There were some coyotes but I never encountered one. Even before they became heavily hunted they knew what man smell meant and stayed away. I did encounter a porcupine once upon a time ambling along just below the caprock (Llano Estacado) and wondered how he had become so lost. Why would he be where they are no trees in any direction for many, many miles. If I could still do a hike the old SS would again be my companion.

 

[bannockburn]

Depending on the time of year (warm versus cold weather), I might carry my S&W Model 686 under a jacket or hoody while in warmer weather I would carry either my S&W Model 649 or 638 in an IWB holster.

 

[.38 Special]

I just took delivery on a new 340PD. Trail running has been taking me further and further into the backcountry and I just can't think of a better gun for tucking into a running vest. I have it loaded with "Minus P" .357 rounds - 158 grain cast and gaschecked SWCHP with 13 grains of 2400.

 

[375supermag]

Hiking revolver is generally a DA or SA in .41Mag, .44Mag or .45Colt in northern Pennsylvania. Some big black bears up there.
In southern Pennsylvania, its a DA or SA .357Mag or a DA .45AutoRim. Mostly because of groundhogs, rabid animals or feral humans.

 

[Armored farmer]

Probably a ho-hum answer, but in all honesty my main hiking gun is likely a rimfire.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Nothing wrong with that farmer.