Let me preface this post with the following:

I am a diehard S&W revolver fan. I have four Governors and two S&W 625 JMs. I could not be happier in my choice of wheel guns... To me, anything .45 is preferable to anything less... It is because of my affinity for these pieces, that their carriage is of paramount importance to me...

I'm a Big Fan of De Santis holsters, and have them for my Governors, via S&W's Store:

Product: RH Tan Dual Angle Holster for S&W Governor

and

Product: LH Tan Dual Angle Holster for S&W Governor

I wear both in cross draw mode, and because of their weight distribution, use suspenders and belt. Otherwise, I'd be sans weapons AND shorts or slacks... They ride well, are comfortable, and draw well seated in my FJ Cruiser, or when walking my dogs. First loads are two rds of .410 2 1/2" 000 Buck, followed by four rds of .45 Colt 200gr Corbon SCHP. Reloads are full moon clips of 230gr PDX1 .45acp.

For open carry, I've found Simply Rugged's holsters to be exemplary. Comfortable, carried also cross draw, my holsters sport three cartridge loops on each side of the revolver. The loops are filled with .410 2 1/2" 000 Buck. The revolvers carry two rds of #6 shot .410 2 1/2", followed by 4rds of PDX1 230 gr .45acp.

You can begin here, for Simply Rugged's holsters for the Governor:

Holsters

Fit and finish of Simply Rugged's holsters for the Governor is superb. Likewise, De Santis' holsters for the Governor are also exemplary. I highly recommend both...

OA, out...

I also have the De Santis holster. A very good holster!

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I used to carry a 1911 with a spring metal clip slid into the back of my jeans waistband. Then I "upgraded" to a Glock M19 carried in the same manner. If I were to hoslter carry I'd almost certainly opt for a "Small of the Back" solution with a flat-ish semiauto, but I don't see that happening.
Nowadays I carry either a Beretta tomcat in my right front pocket with a spare mag in my left, or a Kahr P380 with the same setup...I've gotten too old, to fat, and too tired to go "all rigged out" I guess.

I DO have a much younger friend who loves to carry oversized handguns in "impossible" arrays, but he's thin enough to carry it off.

The OP's choice of weapons is certainly impressive, and if worn by a man more "slim" can be carried off with the right outer wear.

Of late I've been thinking more along the line of BACKPACK carry which would allow me to carrying anything and everything short of a small howitzer and walk around with nary a blink of suspicion. "Fanny/Waist" packs used to the the thing back when people just dropped in a small, light pistol, but then commercialism got involved and these monster waist packs appeared to carry chopped 1911's (God knows WHY anyone would choose that) and of course now "gun packs" LOOK like what they are....like some dude is carrying a gun.

A backpack on the other hand looks like what it is. It need not be sized up further to accomodate an overly heavy, low-capacity, all-steel handgun any more than it need be sized up to accomodate a 20 oz. FNH Five-Seven with 30 round mag in pace, and 5 spare 30 round mags, each filled with EA T6 turned copper 31 grain bullets leaving the muzzle at 2,500 feet per second and capable of punching through...whatever needs punched.

Or perhaps the same backpack fitted out to carry a Springfield Armory XD Tactical 5" .357 Sig for the "Tac" crowd with similar spare mag array, or for the "Power-Boss" a SA XD Tactical .45 fitted with a .460 Rowland barrel, capable of hitting with 2X the KE of the .45ACP with minimal increase in felt recoil.

I'm also not adverse to carrying an SBR'd 11.5" AR-15A3 in 5.56x45 with collapsible stock in a gym bag complete with 15 spare mags for a total throw of 480 rounds....mainly for use in a pinch.

Today the UPS truck delivered, two weeks ahead of schedule, my two DeSantis Dual, Horizontal Shoulder Holsters for use with my S&W Governors...

I could not be happier...

They can be set-up to match the physiology of the carrier, and in my case, with a 48" chest, on a 5'6" body, this is crucial... Being built like a beer barrel on short legs, 29" inseam, HOW you wear your pieces is vital...

DeSantis' rigs are fully configurable, both fore and aft. After experimenting for a bit, I found the "perfect" fit, and now I don't have to wear suspenders, or cinch my slacks so tight, well... If you're a geezer, you get the idea... All sorts a bad things can happen...

Anyway, DeSantis has done themselves proud, and their New York Undercover Holsters, both L&H, are true winners... Their cross-draw holsters are my 2nd favorite, followed closely by Texas Pancake holsters from Simply Rugged, round out my top three... (There was another, that has gone away, called West Woods Landing, that also merited positive mention- I hope they're able to make a comeback...)

I love the S&W Governor, otherwise I wouldn't have directly bought eight of them, or given the funds, for my Daughter and her wonderful husband, to buy one each... Getting holsters for this magnificent example of functional art, ain't easy... Only DeSantis and Simply Rugged, are able to step-up to the plate, and "make it happen..."

IF you are blessed to have a S&W Governor, or any other superb revolver from S&W, please contact DeSantis or Simply Rugged for some of the finest leather to ever carry the world's best revolvers...

OldArcher, finally not holster challenged, out...

Holy Jesus Palimino! You're carrying Governor's concealed? Dude, that's got to be a 30 minute "get ready" everyday!

R/E the title of your post - You are correct. Just as important is you have confidence in what ever you choose to carry, along with the proficiency to use it effectively under stress.

Larry

I recently bought a very nice DeSantis horizontal-carry shoulder holster rig off this site for my 2" j-frames. It's got a 3x3 dump pouch which doesn't really balance out the gun on the other side, even though the j-frames are quite light. I was thinking a LH holster would be a nice replacement for the dump pouch, it would balance better plus give me a "new york reload" option. I felt carrying two guns might be overkill, but compared to packing two Governors a pair of j-frame 38's is almost like going unarmed.

No offense to anyone, but I really do not see the real value of the big Governor over say a 325/625 in .45 Colt or even ACP. .410 shotgun ammo is just about useless against anything except birds with birdshot, and no more effective than the .45s with a slug. The buck option will get you 3? hits with minimum caliber balls that don't weigh much, and the gun is quite impossible to conceal IMHO.
Of course YMMV.

As a person who's primary carry method is cross draw I didn't have much
hope that the dual position holster was going to be all that effective in
the cross draw position. Boy was I ever wrong, what a sweet design!



The reason I didn't think that it would be as good as it turned out to be is
based on my experience with "3-slot" designs. On larger guns the bulk of
the weight of the gun is way above the support of the belt, when
carrying cross draw, and they want to tilt away from the body.

My Governor is used in a "yard gun" role, which allows
me to have it on it's own belt, kinda like a duty rig.

By doing this I can position the gun in such a way that the grip is about
right in the center of my body. Easy to get at through the opening in my coat.

This summer, due to lot's of suspicious activity around here, I spent well over 150 hr's
outside at night, in and around the many acres of corn that surrounded the house.

One night, while out in the corn, wearing full camo, including a ghillie coat, I had what
sounded like a sizable pack of coyotes "open up" no more than 50 yd's from me.
Since I had The Governor I quickly opened the cylinder and removed the five
.45 Colt rounds and fully stoked the cylinder with Federal 000 Buck.

I knew that it wouldn't be a fight to the finish with coyote's, and in that enviroment,
you might as well be in a green closet, I figured that if they "came around" and I
could get just one pellet into one of them and set them to ki-yi-ing that they would
think better of messing with the funny smellin' bush hangin' around their turf.

This summer I had three times, out there at night, where a guy came
out of the corn and got picked up out on the road not far from me.
I just never knew if I was alone out there......or not.

Because, this summer, I spent my fair share of time in the prone position, or
crawling down corn rows & through thick weeds, I made sure that I ordered
the Governor Holster with the thumb break, for the retention it provided.

Some may never have a use for The Governor, but, for
me, it's versatility makes it the right tool for "the job."

For the record, I keep two moon clips of .45 acp hp's on my Gov Belt for quick reloads.

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Ogy

Love to see some carry pics

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here are a couple of mine that require scabbards--one is obviously a farce.
Honestly though, I have carried 1911's of all sizes for 40 years without using a holster and it is very comfortable, easily concealed and safe.
Blessings

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Gecko45 is that you?

Emory

What the hell kind of activity is going on or suspected of going on? Meth labs out in the cornfields? At first I figured you were down along the mexican border somewhere, but I see you live in Michigan. Is the northern border getting as bad as the southern one?

I never did figure out what was going on out in the cornfields, other than they
were using them to access houses on the crossroad about 1/4 mile away.

I was out watching the nights that one neighbor's mtn bike was stolen
and another neighbor lost his four wheeler. I was on the phone
with 911 when the pick-up vehicle came back for the guys snatching
the bike. From drop off to pick up was something like only 4-5 minutes.

I ended up with many pages of field notes, and
that was only writing down the noteworthy "stuff."

Local 3rd shift officers knew I was out & about at night so
they would stop in and pass along information about things to
look out for, which, as time went on, I sometimes seen.

There are a few things that went down that still has us scratching our collective
heads, like why someone lit a fire in my neighbor's wood pile at 2 in the a.m?
That house doesn't have anybody living in it and it was this event that got
me outside for hours a night. The Fire Chief said that if I wouldn't have
spotted it when I did, the house is 200 yd's away, directly across from our
driveway, that the whole she-bang (their barn, garage & house)
would have probably gone up about 15 min later.

The local officers, later on, told me that there were reports of teens using the corn fields
for occult ceremonies so I don't know if that had anything to do with the fire, or not.
I was down in the yard of that house about a week later, at 3 a.m., when someone
was in there, someone who had to access it from the corn field because I had
been out there for hours prior and there was no vehicle involved.
That one kinda freaked me out

This lists goes on & on until, one night, things calmed down after a local night-time
B&E ring was caught in the act, a ring that used corn fields to access the houses
they were hitting. If they would have tried hitting us during that time frame
there was a good chance that I would have been out there to welcome them.

To put this into perspective, there are only four houses on
"our mile" and we're the only one on our side of the road.

One thing I learned over the summer was, never assume anything
and never, I say again, never drop your guard, not even for a minute.

EDITED TO ADD:
Here's a shot lookin' down our driveway, towards the
"fire house," before the corn reached it tallest height.

The clump of weeds down by the end of the driveway, on the right, is two overgrown piles
of dirt that was one of my main observation posts (OP). The other was a step ladder leaned up
against a tree not far behind where this picture was taken from. The ladder allowed me
to see most of what went on, over the corn, down on the road. Because I don't like to
stay in one location too long I rotated between the two OP's & the corn along the road...

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Ogy

Good stand of corn---maybe moonshine is their business.
Blessings

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