Oh boy....gun porn.
I agree. Glock 43 with 7+1 pinkie extension mag, in an IWB kydex holster, with the new SD ammo its perfect for me.
Light as a feather and just disappears.
In a perfect world, these rights would be afforded to every law-abiding citizen.
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Not in a perfect world, in a free country.
Which we are not any longer.
Good article. Thanks.
A video on carrying with one in the chamber or not.
Lenny Magill shares his personal Concealed Carry Techniques.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbjxxYPSuc
If your shot placement is good, the bad guy won't be able to tell if he got shot with a a 9mm or a 10mm or a .45acp. If you can't afford to train, your shot placement will be bad and, again, it won't necessarily matter if you're carrying a 9mm, a .45acp or a 10mm.
Cheap, plentiful and effective enough makes 9mm the better choice which I why I gave up on .45acp and 10mm. Don't even get me started on 460 Rowland.
If your focus is lethality than marksmanship is more important than caliber. The ability to put quick, accurate initial and follow up shots on target is most important factor according to the exhaustive 2015 FBI study. That’s why the feds went back to the 9mm from the 40 cal. The lesser recoil of the 9 enabled all test subjects to make quicker more accurate follow up shot. They determined that the “stopping power” of the 9mm, 40 and 45acp were essentially the same.
When I was in the Navy, there would always be that one Marine or fellow sailor who would say
"My mom's a nurse, and she said I need this"
To which the reply would be "then have your mom write you a script and go out in town and get it filled"
Or you can let me do my job and I will confer with my Doc and come up with an action plan.
Which ever works for you, works for me.
So when a law enforcement professional provides "advice" it is always considered, yet tempered with the knowledge that like medicine, the practice of law is just that, a practice, not an exact science.
And depending on the "Instructor" (and their ideology) of the knowledge gained will determine the value of the instruction.
Dr. Josef Mengele was a competent Dr. as the history goes, but still a monster.
No judgement, just an observation.
For the tee shirts and shorts days I would pocket carry a Smith J frame (Model 60, Smith's first stainless revolver) in a pocket holster, and it was comfy enough for baggy shorts, but the cylinder thickness made it too tight for slacks or blue jeans pocket carry.
Then my wife had surgery and temporarily couldn't rack the slide of her Glock 42, so I loaned her the J frame. Out of curiosity I tried pocket carrying the Glock 42 in a Desantis pocket holster, and it was fantastic! The 42 was slim enough to pocket carry in most pants front pockets, and was oh so easy to just slip the thing in my pocket rather than the ordeal of putting on the IWB holster for the Glock 26.
Reluctantly I gave her back her 42 after she recovered from her surgery, and she INSISTED on having it back.
So then I found a Ruger LCP on sale for $199, and I couldn't get to Dunham's fast enough to snap it up. The LCP was smaller and thinner than the 43 (but carried the same 6+1 rounds of .380 ACP,) and even easier to carry! I've been pocket carrying that LCP daily for the past 2 years, and loving it!
CZ75 Compact in an Alien Gear Cloak Tuck. Allows for decent capacity/magazine and the holster works tucked or untucked.
Alternate holster is a Bianchi 100 which takes up less space and is a little bit more comfortable but the metal clip loses its spring after a while.
I would not recommend the Taurus 709 slim. Trigger pull is almost all the way back before it fires, makes you wonder if the safety is on or not racked. And pulls the shot. There is no trigger work that can be done on them and they are all the same. Is not very accurate. It goes bang when you shoot it and that’s about it.
The five rules of a gun fight:
1) Gun beats no gun
2) Fast beats slow
3) A hit beats a miss
4) Big holes beat little holes
5) Two holes beat one hole
I have the hands of a 10-year-old girl.
Parents advised me: “Nobody wants to be shot, even by your mini revolver.”
While I’m on the subject, can anyone tell me where to find an instructive discussion on the matter of recoil, particularly how much a factor is the ammunition and how much the gun? If the gun shoots .357 or .38, how does that affect the recoil? And if another gun shoots only .38, would that mean still less powerful recoil than the heavier weapon? (In other words which gun has less recoil with .38 round?) I’m sure someone has quantified this but I haven’t found it yet.
I, as probably most of you, have multiple weapons in my safe. But I carry the same one every time because I believe familiarity and proficiency go hand in hand. I don’t need any doubts or last second paralysis of analysis generated by previous practice sessions from one gun to another’s idiosyncrasies. I use 9mm +P when carrying but in each practice session I shoot standard ammo in volume, using +P in final two mags for “muscle memory” and ammo rotation. Although with current ammo availability issues I’ve cut back on +P practice.
equal protection under the law... i am going to carry all the time now.
What about a pistol to sleep with? One strapped on the body somewhere.
bttt
What about a S&W 442 Airweight, NO LOCK .38 Special? Uh huh.
Oh wow this is the most coherent, decent English article I’ve ever seen from you guys!
I’d say good job, but w1n1 is just a bot pasting every single crap article from that site, so not much point in talking to it.
Am I the only one that carries a Walther?