Favorite handgun caliber for carry?

[Mark 40]

32 hr magnum

32 H&R Mag for me too

 

[MetalMan]

Favorite = .45 ACP

EDC = .38 Spl + P in 640-1 Pro Series

 

[Rich Richardson]

At my home in the Colorado woods at 11,000 ft a S&W 44 mag.
At my home in Phoenix a Sig 229 running Underwood in 40 cal.

 

[AlHunt]

There's just something about that big, enormous hole in the business end of a 45 that I like.

1911 for me, please.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

For me it's the 38/357.

 

[RSinOR]

I'll take 45 ACP any day of the week

 

[375hh1973]

357sig closely followed by 45acp

 

[Echo40]

.380 ACP

As much as I love .40 S&W for Self-Defense, and as often as I carry my M&P40 Shield, the gun that's always on my person, even when I'm just walking around the house, is my Ruger LCP.

 

[Laketime]

.45 acp 180 gr JHP

 

[BigBelle]

For me, It's a 9mm for sure.

 

[pawncop]

.357 Sig and 9mm.

 

[.38SuperMan]

Depends on where I'm going but anymore my default gun is my S&W 640 no dash so it's 38 special. Once in a while though I'll carry a Kimber Aegis Ultra 9mm or S&W 3" Shield 2.0 9mm.

 

[otis24]

.36 caliber (38/.357/9mm)

 

[otis24]

Carry 640 no dash and Kahr K9.

 

[Ingramite]

Honest Wear

.357 Magnum

I like the .38 Super from a stainless government too.

The .38 Super was supposed to be the gang buster of the day. Made to penetrate the thick car bodies of the new mobile outlaw.

But wait, law enforcement was still in their love fest with the wheel gun and have you heard of this new round that makes the 38 Super look like a pea shooter? That's the dung heap that the .357 Magnum seeds were sprinkled over...and wow.

In the 70's most urban big city police departments had a lot of legal cement blocks to drag around. As you might remember, a racially charged atmosphere like a powder keg. Political and civil unrest combined with dense populations kept the .357 Magnum on the leash. At least officially. Anybody who heard the report and saw the muzzle blast probably had both pant legs wet and that don't play well at City Hall or the 5pm news.

I was handed a Model 10 department issue but had the opportunity to upgrade as long as my personal revolver was either S&W or a Colt in .38spl. My Model 10 stayed in my uniform holster....and my Model 19-3 got carried in BUG...with some Super-Vel JHP magnum loads.

Stainless was the way to go but it was still scarce and pricey. The working man solution for me was a new 19-3 that was sent off for trigger work and hard chrome plating.

How does hard chrome stand up to decades of abuses of EDC?
I'll let you be the judge.

Sorry for the long winded answer.
.357 Magnum.

 

[biku324]

Now 45 ACP semi auto or revolver. In the Dark Ages 357 k-frame, 38 spl j-frame. In between, 40 S&W.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

.38 Special or 9mm

I have alternatives but the OP said favorite so there you have it.

 

[STORMINORMAN]

Typical: a 442

Smallest & Easiest to Conceal: KAHR CW380

For the REAL "Possible Situations": KAHR PM40

Cheers!

 

[BigBelle]

I prefer 9mm, no wait, 45ACP, well, really, 44MAG, NO, WAIT,

 

[Dave Lively]

9mm. Anything larger or heavier than a P365 and I tend leave the carry gun at home. Anything less than 9mm lacks the power to both expand and penetrate. Might give 30 SC a try if the right gun is chambered for it.