We can carry here while bowhunting.The only time I don't is when hunting antelope out of a blind.What I carry,depends where I'm going.I fixed up this little Ruger .45 Colt just for protection in the mountains.Relatively light at slightly over 2 lbs but not too light to shoot heavy loads with 300 and 335 gr slugs.

QuoteOriginally posted by JimB:
We can carry here while bowhunting.The only time I don't is when hunting antelope out of a blind.What I carry,depends where I'm going.I fixed up this little Ruger .45 Colt just for protection in the mountains.Relatively light at slightly over 2 lbs but not too light to shoot heavy loads with 300 and 335 gr slugs.
 

love that grip

Jim, who did the work for you?  I recognize the Alpha Precision front sight and the S&W rear sight milled into the Vaquero backstrap and the milled gate but I haven't seen anyone lighten the hammer in that way and I like the scrimshawed grips.  He did the same thing with the front blade that I do for my customers on the Precision sights.  It also looks like you have the Aluminum grip frame.  I had a Vaquero I built for myself but sold in the same rough barrel length, 3.5" in 500 Linebaugh except with a Bisley grip and my 3 Screw 44spcl conversion I carry is probably about the same in weight.  Very nice gun!

Jim Stroh did the sights and bead blasting.I did everything else including action job and free wheeled it,plus built the grips and scrimshawed them.The micarta grips are even hollowed out to a thickness of 1/8".All chamfering etc was done freehand with a Dremel.The other panel has a moose scene.It rides in a full coverage holster made of cape buffalo leather.

Please let me know where you purchased the 45 colt cartridge carrier.  I too carry a Vaquero.  A lot.  All the time in the woods.  I'd like a belt slide cartridge carrier like that one.  Very nicely done!

Homemade but I'm sure someone makes them.

Jim, you did a nice job on that gun, that's one to be proud of.

Beautiful.45, stunning work and a great all round caliber for numerous outdoor uses. Plus, it has the added benefit of being "traditional".

I'm jealous !!!   I work in Fish/wildlife enforcement and I can't even legally carry a sidearm when i'm off duty.....  I wish!!

I'll have to settle for me Rem 870 with Dlask 8.5 inch barrel.......
Still not as handy as a good 45.

When I carry it's either the top S&W Model 610 10mm revolver, or the bottom Ruger BlackHawk .45LC. Most of the time it's the .45LC with wheel weight hand loads. The 6" barrel on my 10mm gets in my way sitting on stand. .45LC barrel is 4-5/8". Both are heavy on the hip..that's why I don't carry much anymore.

I sometimes carry my S&W Airweight 38, at 15oz. you hardly know it's there. But it is just in case I would happen to encounter a bad situation with a tweaked out meth head. That's really all we have to watch out for in the Missouri woods.

Always good to have a last resort if worst comes to worst!

Up here we can't carry during archery only, I don't worry about it much but then we don't have some of the critters up here that the rest of you do!

Glock 20 sf. I like the 10mm round and went to the sf frame to accomodate my small hands.

I've had this for almost 30 years to the day.  Generally only carry it bowhunting if I'll be near a salmon stream coming our going, or if I'm returning to a carcass to get another load of meat.  I have it in a lefty holster but I can shoot it well with either hand.  Ruger .41 mag, usually shoot Sierra 220gr full profile jackets (FPJ) but my supply is about out and they don't make them anymore.  Would really like a Freedom Arms in .454 but for now would rather have the $1,200+ bucks somewhere else in my life and this on my hip.
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Another vote for the sp101. That's what I carry in case I have to deal with any "undesirables" here in PA. Thats how we roll on the southern end of Lanc. county. Always better to have one and not need it.......

This.  Wilson Combat Sentinel in 45.

 

It is legal here in Colorado.