This is the nature of my post. More of the principle of the thing than feeling that I will NEED that much power.

In populated areas, I'm usually not dressed appropriately to carry a full size piece, so the Kel-Tec gets the bill, but I DO spend a lot of days where an opportunistic shot at a coyote is more likely than seeing another human being, so on those days, I wouldn't mind carrying a bigger piece.

Most of this stems from how I grew up. Kansas is open carry (Overt Carry-God bless Kansas!), so growing up on the ranch, I hung a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44mag on my belt every morning before I went out checking cows. Fast forward through college and now I'm working in town, where OC is considered a public nuissance, so I reverted to CC. Back then, you were more likely to see me WITH a pistol than without, which is still true today, except you just can't see my pistol. But in memory of the old days, I'm a little nostalgic about carrying a .44mag at my side...

So like I said, I already own the .454, and the .44 alaskan is coming soon, and I kinda miss carrying a .44. I ususally DO carry that same old blackhawk when I'm out riding, but I sure wouldn't mind having a hogleg that didn't take up MY entire leg to carry. (The SBH is 14" long)

I suppose if I did like carrying the hogleg for CC, I'd load up some of my pet .44spcl loads, a 200grn pill only pushing about 810fps. I've used this load for Cowboy Action Shooting in the past, and she's a dream. At least that'd help reduce risk to bystanders in populated areas.

Like I've told other people on here when they ask about a carry piece, I'm typically a minimalist when it comes to CC, but if a guy had a Viper for fun and a jetta to commute, it'd still be fun to drive the Viper to work from time to time...