I have a scoped PC 629 8 3/8 barrel. I would like to get a holster for it and have been looking at bandolier and chest holsters. I will use this combo for hunting (still hunting spot and stock) . Which do you prefer and why? thanks for all responses.

Forum member "snubbyfan" builds them. He looks to be quite talented and the members here buy holsters from him.

Bianchi makes the best of them (if I do say so myself) called the HUSH. I used one with the removable flap, in a hunt with Dick Metcalf of Shooting Times in the late '80s when it was introduced. All-weather construction even for rain and crawling in the dirt/mud (antelope). Scoped Redhawk. It was Jim Buffaloe who created the first of the style, in leather.

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Red Nichols The Holstorian

Red, I agree about the HUSH - I finally found one - but they are hard to come by anymore.

Double-dipper, the chest holsters are nice because one has so much real estate across the sachets region and these big revolvers need it to be carried yet accessed easily.

Diamond D Custom Leather has a holster called a “Guides Choice” that they will make to fit a scoped large-frame S&W.

A friend has one, and I’d take a look at them perhaps.

The Hunter brand makes a bandolier holster, but the quality is no where near a “Guides Choice” holster. Just as vintage Bianchi holsters are light-years ahead of current Bianchi models when it comes to quality, Diamond D leave Hunter in the dust as well. You get what you pay for.

Yup, Contact Snubbyfan by PM - he has many posts here.