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As a land surveyor (past retirement age - still working) I've carried a revolver "in the field" for many, many years. Been through a lot of .38 spl field guns and all the blued ones were kicked out in short order. Running a business and taking care of the field equipment (and every thing else) every day kinda made it hard to deal with the nightly clean/lube the blued revolvers to reduce the certain rusting. I finally settled on nothing but stainless about 15 years ago - S&W and Charter Arms, but wasn't really satisfied. About 10 years ago +/- I was offered a "like new" 1993 Ruger SP-101 - 3" barrel, .357 mag, for a reasonable price and jumped on it. I bought one box of factory .357 mag just for that revolver and immediately bought what I needed to start reloading for it. No telling how many thousand rounds of nothing but reloads have been through that barrel (and quite a few other barrels) since that purchase. And, yep, after 10+ years it's still on the top of my list to be thrown into the box with me for the final ride. It gets carried 5-6 days a week, and only requires a little bit of occasional cleaning, particularly after a once a week range trip.

I realize that being in halfway "rural" East Texas, my life style is not quite the same as "city life". I figure that I'm fortunate that God has smiled on me, on many ways.


jd