On a good day? One.
All of them.
Sheesh, the gun by itself is heavy enough...now you tell me I need to carry rounds for it.
Seriously, how many are enough?
It's been my experience that the more difficult concealed carry is, the less folks will do it.
Way back when, I counseled folks to have at least two reloads on their person.
I no longer feel that is necessary and I personally carry one reload for my Defender and have several in my truck/car console.
But, individual preferences vary greatly, but just be realistic in what you expect to encounter.
So he’s saying my LCP is woefully inadequate. I guess in some parts of town that could be the case.
I don’t want to get in a gun fight. The object of that game is not to get shot, it isn’t to stand there and swap rounds. If I haven’t gotten myself out of trouble in 5 to 8 rounds I don’t suspect 8 more or 16 more is going to make a difference. Depending on the situation I’m either in defensive mode or offensive, offense is a completely different situation.
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This is a ridiculous analysis. LEOs are paid to intentionally enter dangerous situations, sometimes with multiple armed assailants. The average person can raise or lower their statistical probability of attack by more than a lone assailant with personal choices.
I do not choose to enter situations which would expose me to multiple, armed assailants and most assailants will run when confronted by even a single armed civilian.
13.5 rounds means absolutely nothing if a person can’t hit the target under stress with 3, so any analysis must be weighed not only with personal choices, but training...including stress/fear situations for which most people are ill-equipped.
In the latter, a 30-round mag in a machine pistol would be less effective than a snub-nosed .38. We also never hear about the cases in which there was an armed civilian but they made a choice - fear or otherwise - not to engage.
Thus for more most people statistical probability demonstrates that it comes down to not only the choice to carry, but the choice to engage and - most pertinently - to kill, for which the number of rounds means absolutely nothing when weighed against the ‘between the ears’ & ‘gut’ factors...all of which presume good choices & situational awareness...the latter of which is appallingly-lacking for most people who carry.
The number of rounds to carry is dependent upon far more factors than being discussed.
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I would say one 99% of the time.
Minimum of 1
I only carry a spare mag when I’m expecting to be in areas with higher risk factors.
If it takes more than 7 rounds +6 in the spare mag, then the fight probably requires more than I am likely to ever carry.
On Easter 2010, a crazed neighbor armed with a shotgun and a pistol attacked a family that had had previous physical altercations with the nutjob. He murdered the father & mother and attempted unsuccessfully to do the same to the son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. The father tried for his handgun, but was overmatched by the mental case and his shotgun. The two sheriff’s deputies who responded to multiple neighbor 911 calls fired 18 rounds from their pistols to take down the perp as he began to level the shotgun at them. Moral of the story, to my thinking, is that one will typically fire as any rounds as one has in order to neutralize a lethal threat.
As many as you can, comfortably in order to fight your way back to your vehicle/home/rally point to grab your shotgun or AR pattern rifle.
Then they stuff their phone, wallet, and keys, the stuff they’ll touch repeatedly throughout the day, haphazardly into their pockets.
If you need more than one or two rounds I would say you either live in a place I would NEVER go or your situational awareness sucks and you will probably never feel secure even with a deuce-and-a-half full of spare ammo.
If I lived in (say) Edmond Oklahoma, where typical crime is driving 5mph above the school zone speed limit, then I’d carry a small BUG-type gun with 7+1.
I however live in Nairobi Kenya, where unfortunately Somali Al-Shabaab terrorists have attacked public places. I thus got licensed (you have to here) to own a firearm, and on ANY day I will carry my Glock 17 with 16+1 (I download one on my carry magazine, thus its 16+1 rather than 17+1), and two extra 17 round magazines. If I am with family at the mall I will add two additional magazines.
Why? Simple - because the threat I would face would be terrorists moving in groups of two or three toting Kalashnikovs, and although I am a ranked IDPA competitor and I’m certain I can outshoot the terrorists, I do not want to be in anyway outgunned by them. Already I am by the fact I’d have a pistol while they have carbines, but I will not be in a position where running out of ammo is a concern.
Met a guy who went thru all 150 he was carrying.
Guard going off duty, in lit parking lot, attacked by 3 who were hiding in dark bushes.
Find the best training near you.
PRACTICE what you learn in that training.
Take more training!
Rounds, as in shot rounds, 2 to the heart, one to the head.
Round, as in “carry loads”, old military was “a full cylinder, plus two reloads”, or, as was once issued, with the 1911, “one charged magazine in the pistol-condition one, 2 charged magazines on the belt.”
30. Fifteen in each gun
Unless you’re LE or military, your objective in a conflict is to survive, not necessarily take anyone out. So: zero if we’re able to avoid the problem entirely, up to lots and lots.
Statistically if you’re avoiding trouble you’ll never have to care, and the vast majority of times when a CCW is deployed no shots are fired.
The good news is that “need” is not the determiner. Carry more or less or larger or smaller as you wish. If possible, leave the ego in the safe :)