Hiking with Old School JayPee Shoulder Holster and Model 66-8

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Went hiking in the western North Carolina mountains with 2.75 inch Model 66-8 in an old JayPee shoulder holster. Shoulder holster is a great way to carry when using a backpack. The pack’s waist strap makes OWB carry impractical. Toted the 66-8 and that little girl (who is also a SWCA member [emoji4]) for about 6.5 mostly uphill miles, across streams, etc. Great day.



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God bless you and the children! The rest ... good idea. Have walked many a mile in the woods w/ one daughter in a backpack and the other daughter in contraption that allowed me to carry her in front. We saw deer and turkey and had wonderful times! God bless you and your children as you make memories together! Sincerely. bruce.
 
chief38 said:
Personally the fact that the loaded gun is facing in the direction of the child is disturbing - at least to me. Yea, I know it's a Revolver BUT STILL!
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No. She’s entirely behind me and out of the way. That, and the holster situation makes it completely safe.


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NCBeagle -
Hey there Dad! You're really building memories with that kind of outing with your daughter. Best Kind!
I did some of the same with my boys in Texas. They're all grown up and got young'uns of their own, but I still hear - "Hey Dad! Remember that time in the woods . . . . . . ?" Well, ole Dad's pushing 70 now, but the memories are still crystal clear and the questions from my granddaughters keep it real and refreshed! Great Times there. Good Job Young Man - they Will Remember.

WYT-P
Skyhunter
 
adwjc said:
Sorry, I agree with Chief 38, your precious cargo could easily swing into the muzzle arc on a draw.
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Yeah, no, that image is reminiscent of the forklift-accident-from-third-world country images; you know, the ones we'd never do ourselves? I wouldn't be walking with the OP if that's his level of safety awareness. If one could ignore the lead bullet -- which one can't -- ever seen the flame ball out of a revolver cylinder and its muzzle? Ever had a gun go off when you're not expecting it, and you're not wearing hearing protection? Now imagine being a child on someone's back, experiencing both from the one person she or he is counting on to protect him/her.

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We lifetime gunleather designer/makers don't create gunleather with this kind of carry in mind. Please stop.
 
I carry a very beat up Colt Agent when backpacking. I mount the holster to the Hip belt's adjuster straps. When younger it was a 1911!

Everyone's a critic! Having had 4 little ones and a house full of guns, I heard it all. They tell you all the things you already worked out, but never have anything useful to say (except maybe, buy product X). Continue to think things through, and build lots of those memories!

Ivan
 
NCBeagle said:
Shoulder holster is a great way to carry when using a backpack.
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I agree.

A few years back, my sons and I planned a five-day fishing trip into the Boulder Mountain alpine lakes in Southern Utah. We set up a base camp and hiked into the various lakes. I had my float tube strapped to my back, so a shoulder rig was perfect for packing my Ruger Vaquero Sheriff's model with a 3½-inch barrel in .45 Colt.
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I know this is totally off topic...but the fishing wasn't bad either.:)
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ladder13 said:
In a holster with the hammer and trigger covered? No.
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Then you have had it happen, but with an uncovered hammer and trigger?

Hopefully though you won't ever experience the 'rattled and holstered a DA revolver that had the hammer back and the trigger finger caught the covered guard'. Snake, maybe; or bear. Bang. I was a witness in a shoulder holster case in the '80s, where the miscreant -- an actual drug smuggler in the East -- had holstered his cocked Python; produced it to show it off to his conspirator in Boston airport and touched what he thought was a DA trigger pull and . . . shot him dead.

One doesn't need to have known about this particular incident, to have sense enough to realize that it can happen.

Risk management is not about 'managing risk'. It's about eliminating unnecessary risk. If Dad needs to rappel over a river between two cliffs to save his child from bears, then I say "Go Dad" with that carry. If Dad is having 'fun' with his child then I quote Judge Judy: blond is temporary; stupid is forever.

I'm keeping the image in my 'what were they thinking' subfolder; along with the crotch carry holsters and the partially covered triggers on Safariland Glock holsters.
 
NCBeagle - Great post and photos! But, as Gomer Pyle would say, Gaww-lll-eee - you sure brought out some interesting comments. Daughter in the line of fire ... ?? Some folks seem to just lurk around here looking for something to get their panties in a knot over. By the way, I have that 66-8 (I think) on my want list but I've got a 360/.357 and P938 Legion lined up ahead of it ...
 
rednichols said:
Then you have had it happen, but with an uncovered hammer and trigger?

Hopefully though you won't ever experience the 'rattled and holstered a DA revolver that had the hammer back and the trigger finger caught the covered guard'. Snake, maybe; or bear. Bang. I was a witness in a shoulder holster case in the '80s, where the miscreant -- an actual drug smuggler in the East -- had holstered his cocked Python; produced it to show it off to his conspirator in Boston airport and touched what he thought was a DA trigger pull and . . . shot him dead.

One doesn't need to have known about this particular incident, to have sense enough to realize that it can happen.

Risk management is not about 'managing risk'. It's about eliminating unnecessary risk. If Dad needs to rappel over a river between two cliffs to save his child from bears, then I say "Go Dad" with that carry. If Dad is having 'fun' with his child then I quote Judge Judy: blond is temporary; stupid is forever.

I'm keeping the image in my 'what were they thinking' subfolder; along with the crotch carry holsters and the partially covered triggers on Safariland Glock holsters.
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NO............. If, if, if, if ,if


If I said the sky was blue someone on this here forum would say no, it’s red. And so it goes.
 
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I worked for over a decade, with another detective that carried on of those style of rigs....
His handgun never went off not once, in all the time we worked together....

I've never had my sidearm go off while holstered in my entire half century of carry a sidearm.

Were some here come up with such foolishness...It's beyond me.

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