Carrying a gun is not about logic, it's about psychological comfort.
Maybe Photoman has been reading too much Sigmund Freud stuff.
If he wants self defense comfort he can get a candy bar.
Of course it is all about logic as we make the tradeoffs and
compromises between concealability, accuracy, power, comfort
and number of rounds etc. Like a famous football coach once
said "every individual contest on the field will be won by whoever
gets there the firstest with the mostest".
Sometimes the maximum of any one of those objectives
will require the minimum in all the rest. For instance,
the Keltec 380 in the back pocket results in the maximum
in concealability and pretty much the minimum in all
other areas.
For myself I have to say that I had great ambitions of carrying
a hi-powered hi-capacity concealed weapon but the difficulties
of concealment have forced me back to a single stack mag and
shorter barrel in a smaller caliber with an IWB holster.
Basically 8 rounds of 9mm and a 4 inch barrel instead of
10 rounds of 45 and a 5 inch barrel.
In the winter time when I would more likely be wearing
sweaters and jackets and the OWB holster can be covered,
I have no doubts the bigger pistol 40 ounce 10mm 1006
will come out. I cannot imagine shooting the similar power
357mag out of a gun that weighs only one third as much
AND does not benefit from the recoil absorbing slide action.
I rekon that would make the recoil at least four times as
much per shot.
Anyone that wants to carry and shoot the mag power shells
in a scandium airlite snubbie has all my respect
