My dad 5ft9in carried a 4 inch model 10 with a j frame back up but his brother uncle James carried a 6 in highway patrolman in a swivel type holster with stag grips . He was renound as an old school officer back in tne seventies . He had to chase a guy who broke into a store downtown store chased him up on tne roof the guy decided to give up uncle James ( true story) pulled that hyway patrolman and said hexx no you ain't givin up you either jump or I'm gonna blow you off this building .He probabaly would have done it to ,yea the guy jumped broke his legs but he lived by the time the ambulance got there uncle James had convinced him he had fell accidently off that 2 story building .Most of the older guys I grew up around carried either 357 6 inch guns and a few carried 41 mags in 6 inch but they were old school actual beat cops most had been there and done that and we're not to be fooled with and the bad guys knew it .Oh yea uncle James was 6 ft ,and built like a bull ,he was on the ( oh **** ) crew .I went on a couple of ride alongside with him and I must say I was impressed he was respected by good people feared by the bad ,I didn't meen to rant on but I just remember when a woman or kid could walk to the store after dark in my hometown and no one would dare even say anything other than good evening because of fear of those old school type cops .So thanks for starting this thread and to all you old school cops I salute you .