On occasion I may slip either a Model 60, or 649 in my pocket. Both are five shot, .357, but I usually load with +P. I stole the 649 at a garage sale a while back, almost new in the box, complete with all paperwork, screwdriver, cleaning rod and equipped with CT grips. Not to long afterward the model 60 got a set of CT grips too.
Powderman. That is good advice on checking the gun every now and then. My wife was in the insurance business for many years, she had to travel to the Dallas/Ft Worth area frequently, usually by herself. She had a Mauser, HSc .380 that she had bought many years ago, and started carrying it. On the trip home one evening she felt threatened by a group of motorcycle bums, since they continued to try to get her to pull over along the interstate. She took her gun out of the purse, and out of the Jim Beam bag she kept it in, and put it in her lap. She was talking to a truck driver on her CB, when he pulled in behind her car, the motorcycles sped off. When she got home she told me she wanted to fire the gun again since she had not shot it in several years. The following day we went to the range, set a target up at about 30 feet, she picked the gun up, aimed pulled the trigger, CLICK. She tried again, CLICK. I tried, CLICK. I unloaded the gun and took it home. At the time she smoked, tobacco had gotten into the action of the gun and jammed the hammer so it could not make contact with the firing pin, it had hardened with the gun oil and was almost like a cement. I soaked it over night in a solvent, blew it out the next day, and went back to the range. It never missed a beat. Even though the gun now worked, she had lost confidence in it, she went to the safe, pulled out a Nickle Model 10 with a 1 1/2 inch barrel. That was her carry gun until she retired five years ago.
