I shoot all kinds of stuff, but for carry, I have my two favorites. I’m loving my new Springfield XDs .45! And I still carry my old Charter Arms Target Bulldog .357mag that I chopped the barrel as short as I could and still have the barrel shroud over the ejector rod, and minimized the grips to about Uncle Mike’s boot grips. Both are really small, especially for my size, 6’3”, 225lbs. Neither are target pistols by any stretch, but with as much as I shoot them, they hit nice short range groups, even with their less than ideal triggers.
I shoot all my double action revolvers in double action all the time except my Redhawk hunter which I practice both ways. I have an old shooting buddy in L.A. that has a couple of 686 S&Ws that are nicely tuned, and after a few good “shootin’lessons” (he spanked me!) from him I decided to make a habit of shooting them double action so my shots under the stress of life or death would be trained for good trigger control on long pulls.
Wow. That's my other carry weapon too (winter carry mostly). I have the now aging, XD .45 compact with the big clip and a little clip. ;o)