done with semi-auto carry

[LCC]

G19, G43, G42, LCP2, LC9...carried them all, drinking the Kool Aid that loaded magazine capacity plus spare carried magazines key requirements to self protection.

As of now most are sold, the rest are for sale, and a 642 with CT405 grip is now alternating between pocket and OWB, with a single speed strip of extra 158 gr shwc in weakside pocket.

And I somehow still feel fully protected.

 

[Zebra War Wagon]

If you are not a LEO, the J frame is perfect. 3-3-3 Three shots in three seconds and within 3 yards. NO FUSS, NO MUSS....

 

[gman51]

I agree and I did the same thing. Semi auto was supposed to be the cats meow for CC. When Ruger came out with the LCR 357 I then sold off most of my semi auto bought for CC. I have a few semi autos but only one sometimes will get carried. It is a 9mm LC9s occasionally used as a pocket carry basically only in the hot summer months. LOL Here in TX that can span several months. Mostly I carry a revolver because I believe it to be the safest and most dependable handgun for CC.

 

[Gundalow]

Carried a Model 60 for 5 decades; added a Crimson Trace Laser sight a couple decades ago. You are correct, in that most shootouts occur within spitting distance. I'm retired LE who carried pistols with an extra magazine when operating in hostile territory; now the Model 60 is always with me and very few strangers will suspect I am armed. The pistols still have a place in my retirement mode, but the Model 60 is my go to protection 95% of the time. Affords great peace of mind in these uncertain times.

 

[badge]

Carry what suites YOU and that with you are the most comfortable. Good Lord willing you'll avoid ever having to defend yourself or another anyway. Went to the Sheriff's Office to get his signature on my retired carry paperwork and one of the Deputies saw me after I identified myself placing two weapons into their lock box. He inquired as to my carrying two and I said I always have and probable always will. Old habit you know.

 

[ContinentalOp]

As someone who regularly EDCs a compact, double-stack 9mm, I think most non-LE people are well-served by revolvers, including snubs. I still carry my 642 from time to time. Everybody has different needs/wants, life situations, environments, etc.

 

[The Big D]

M60, NY -1 today.

Now usually carry a G43 on my LEOSA creds but was on a rather long and HOT motorcycle ride today. Carried my M60, NY-1 on my Maryland permit instead.

Yes, indeed, a j-frame is more than sufficient. Surely was for me for a long, long time. And still is.

Be safe.

 

[haywood]

Haven't carried anything but my Snub Revolvers for Six Years. Usually it's the Two 442s. One 442 is always in my pocket. The waistband gun gets rotated at times.

 

[mauser9]

Haven't carried anything but my Snub Revolvers for Six Years. Usually it's the Two 442s. One 442 is always in my pocket. The waistband gun gets rotated at times.

Nice pics of the snubbies. Was drawn to the 442 while buying some ammo at my local Bass Pro last week. Price was $450. Sure looks tough to beat for a pocket carry.

 

[Jessie]

Nothing at all wrong with the wheel gun.
I carry one often as a backup and feel very good about it.

 

[snowflake3838]

Carry a 637-2 Gunsmoke in wb, so comfortable forget its there.

 

[Rastoff]

And I somehow still feel fully protected.

You didn't state why you didn't "feel" protected with the semi-auto. So, why the change?

Further, why do you feel protected with the gun you're now carrying? Have you successfully defended yourself or others with it?

 

[LCC]

You didn't state why you didn't "feel" protected with the semi-auto. So, why the change?

Further, why do you feel protected with the gun you're now carrying? Have you successfully defended yourself or others with it?

felt well protected with the semi's. Just got to where I had to ask myself what was I expecting that I needed a semi-auto with two backup clips.
Have I successfully defended myself? With a handgun, no. With my hands, multiple times, including against a knife.
Protecting others? Other then my immediate family, is that my duty? Should I continue to carry a G19 with multiple clips for when the hordes of Mongol bikers come to rape and pillage?
I'm 70 years old, live a low threat, rural life. Feel well protected with the J frame on me.
And if driving into a higher threat area, my truck has a locking center console safe specifically built for it, and it has all the back up I will need if attacked on the road by a rogue bank of tweakers or a horde of zombies coming to eat us all

 

[Protected One]

felt well protected with the semi's. Just got to where I had to ask myself what was I expecting that I needed a semi-auto with two backup clips.
Have I successfully defended myself? With a handgun, no. With my hands, multiple times, including against a knife.
Protecting others? Other then my immediate family, is that my duty? Should I continue to carry a G19 with multiple clips for when the hordes of Mongol bikers come to rape and pillage?
I'm 70 years old, live a low threat, rural life. Feel well protected with the J frame on me.
And if driving into a higher threat area, my truck has a locking center console safe specifically built for it, and it has all the back up I will need if attacked on the road by a rogue bank of tweakers or a horde of zombies coming to eat us all

Curious as to what's in the center console safe.

 

[oldiesradio1560]

I did this in reserve. Since the 70's I carried models 66, 640 and 640Pro. Loved all of them until February, 2018 when I held a Shield .380EZ with No manual safety. My first automatic I've ever owned. I can put more rounds into the target in a shorter period of time which after all is what's matters in putting a threat down.

 

[Biggfoot44]

I go both ways, even though I have been gravitating to revolvers of late . Of course both my favored carry semiautos are single stack , so that screws up the huge capacity meme .

How well I shoot ( whatever ) , with emphasis on first shot hits from the holster , takes presidence over abstract capacity . I don't obsess over the number of rounds * in the gun * , as long as I also carry sufficient reloads, if not additional gun .

 

[shouldazagged]

I made the same decision twenty-one years ago, and have carried a .38 Special snub ever since. Sold my last automatic twenty years ago.

With good +P ammo I feel quite adequately protected. Sometimes a speed strip, often not. In old age, poor health and retirement, I don't get out much anymore; but when I did, I still felt the snubby was sufficient.

 

[DRJ]

I also have went back to carrying revolvers. As I'm getting older I find myself going back to what I know best and that's a revolver of some sort.

 

[CH4]

G19, G43, G42, LCP2, LC9...carried them all, drinking the Kool Aid that loaded magazine capacity plus spare carried magazines key requirements to self protection.

As of now most are sold, the rest are for sale, and a 642 with CT405 grip is now alternating between pocket and OWB, with a single speed strip of extra 158 gr shwc in weakside pocket.

And I somehow still feel fully protected.

All that matters is if your decision makes you happy.

 

[LCC]

Curious as to what's in the center console safe.

Glock 48 (their new Marksman barrel is just that) and several mags, primed with +p HP's. Next to it a 3" .38 stainless and several speed loaders with +P HP's.

And as needed, a Ruger PCC 9 mm carbine rides along as well, with two 27 round magazines, +P HP in one, Buffalo Bore +P hard cast in the other.

All about threat assessment...and my assessment these days is a J-frame with a CT grip, which should help those rounds find center mass, should suffice plenty for those leering old ladies at the community pool when I go swim my laps..lol