Ruger LCP

[AGB]

LCP - BG first impressions

First post guys and gals.

I have both an LCP and a 380 BG. They are just about the same thickness and overall size, the BG seems a bit "thicker" and is slightly heavier. The SnW is - my thinking only - far better made. Better engineering...I have not yet shot it, just got it. Its feel is better, it fits my hand better even though I use a mag X-tender on the LCP. The LCP's handle is really tiny...the Smith's has the right dimensions I think for the average hand. A beautiful, well thought out design...and only this opinion from an engineering standpoint. After all, the LCP is not an original design, but a refinement of the KelTec - who should be getting most of the credit.

If I knew how to do it I'd post the photos, side by side, of the two.

 

[AGB]

I can email the photos, maybe one of you can post it.

 

[Rule3]

It's easy to post photos. If you do not have a online account like Photo Bucket, you can link directly to the photos stored on your computer. Just make sure they are not huge files. On the top of your message when you post there is a paper clip icon. (just 2 to the right of the smile face.) Click on that. Browse on upload from your computer to where you have the pic files. Click up load, JPEG file can only be 250K.

Sometime it takes a few moments to upload.

 

[pistolpal]

While my S&W BG is off to the clinic I bought an LCP II. Today shot 75 rounds Critical Defense. Had 11 stovepipes. Not all that accurate at 15-feet. I may keep it. And I may not. Disappointed because I have been a Ruger guy for a long time and I won't part with my LC9 (the original one-I LIKE the trigger!)
For what it's worth fellas.

 

[LVSteve]

Not all that accurate at 15-feet.

Can you quantify that a bit for me? If I can get fist sized groups out of a gun that small at 5 yards I consider it good enough for social work.

 

[sigp220.45]

I hope the OP checks in and updates us with his 7 years of LCP experience now!

I've had a couple, and both have been great. This one choked a few times on some crappy steel cased Wal Mart ball, then settled in and works fine with brass cased stuff.

 

[wingriderz]

Wow looking at the age of this thread 2010 lol. I can rember well the craze of the .380 2008. I got tired of wating on LCP and bought the Kel Tec its been flawless with thousand of rounds threw it. Thank God the rounds don't cost now what thet did in 2008 . Very hard to find back then