How expensive is your carry gun?

I don't know about the rest of you but I bought my carry six or seven years ago. A Glock 26, it cost $450 back then so that was the price I picked in the poll. If I bought one today it would go up a category.

By the way I shoot my carry or another just like it Glock 26 100 rounds pretty much every week.

If someone could only afford a hipoint for SD. I dont see that person being able to afford a 1000rd course.

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Totally irrelevant to the what does a $500 gun do that a $100 wont question?

Glock 27 w/ Trijicon NS and Lasermax.
Sig P 938 are two of my primary carry guns.
It doesn't take long for them to get expensive.

2nd Rorhbaugh owner to post in this thread. Mine is low serial number, carbon fiber grips and one of the <10% that was made without sights. $1K+ to replace.

Now I picked up a stainless slide Ruger LCP for $161, tax included this week. Went out with 70 round or so. Works perfect with Winchester FMJ flat points (which will be it's load.)

And the Glock 43 I got from a guy for $320 (with Tru-Glo night sights, 2 7 round mags, and a great professional grip reduction) worked perfect with Federal HST 125 gr jhps, it's carry load now.

And my Glock 26 I got with Bowie Tactical Concepts grip reduction and Hinnie night sights for $400 years ago, after shooting the same Federal HST ammo, I now have adopted it (and ordered LOTS of it off the net.)

But right now I'm using my Glock 32, .357 Sig, till the ammo comes it. I got it maybe 8 years ago for $350. It's stock and it uses CCI Gold Dot 125s.

Yea I have some $1000 guns, Kimbers and Colts and a few S&Ws, but I pack these guns and am totally happy with them.

Deaf

I carry a Wilson CQB that ran about $2,800. Didn't buy it to be a safe queen.

2nd Rorhbaugh owner to post in this thread

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I carry one every day and JohnBT carries one every day.

Glock 19. Paid $600 for it. As it sits it would cost $775 to replace. No emotional connection to it and they are easily found.

cfullgraf said:

Function and reliability is more important than price.

But price does not necessarily make a good, reliable, functioning gun.

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Kind of my thoughts. In terms of utterly reliable, my personal experience has led to Sigs or Glocks.

I typically bounce back and forth between a S&W Shield9, and a S&W Airweight .38, both loaded with top-quality HP's like Gold Dots or HST's, and both carried in sub-$10 pocket holsters from ebay.
Both are highly reliable, sufficiently capable, comfortable to carry, and wouldn't be a major heartbreaker to lose or have to replace.
Pretty hard to beat, IMO.

My carry setup cost right at $1100. The hardware doesn't cost near as much as the software, though.

Some people would say that........

.........I polished a turd, but my FEG High Power runs about $600 with what I have into it between hard chroming and a Sprinco buffer. But man does it shoot! Originally bought it to hold me over until I could afford a Browning. Shot so well that I was satisfied with it. Got the hard chrome job to aid in maintenance. The Sprinco buffer aids in getting back on target quicker.

The Astra A70 got a hard chrome job as well. Unfortunately no buffer available.

Neither one of these will go for sale so I'm not worried about getting money back in a sale. They shoot too well.

And then there's always the LCP. No great love for it, but it will do the job.

My carry gun is by far the most expensive gun I've ever owned. My personal opinion is the people who won't carry an "expensive" pistol for self defense because they might lose it if they ever have to use it are out of their minds. If I ever find myself in another situation where I need a handgun I want to have the very best one for the job at hand on my person. If it saves my life I couldn't care less how much it cost or if I ever see it again, as it was money well spent!

To put a little perspective on this, I'm disabled with spinal injuries but continue to run my own little manufacturing business as best I can (rather than collecting a disability check from Social Security) and have made $15-17k per year for the last five years.

My carry gun is an XD45 Compact with a professionally done combat/carry trigger job, Trijicon night sites, and a Lasermax internal laser. I'm into it about $1100 and carry it every single day. I've got another ~$200 into my gun belt, holster, and mag pouch. If I did lose the XD it would take me years to replace it but it's the best tool for the job so it's the one that's always with me.

Usually I carry a S&W J frame air weight mod 637 that cost me $325.

Recently, since Dallas, and I was travelling west I chose to carry my Kel-Tec PMR 30. 30 rounds and 14 ozs that I paid $350 for. Both pistols conceal well and are light weight.

Sig 239 used? I bought this one for $450.
S&W 3904 used? $325
S&W 4006 used? $365
S&W M&P40 pro series new? $585

Holsters? 6 holsters- $530
xtra mags- about $300

If I found a $800- $1000 gun I wanted to carry, I'd buy it. My carry guns are not fluff guns. Most of them came ''pre worn''. {slightly} Actually the 4006 is the only one that looked like it had been carried.

My most-of-the-time carry is an aluminum-frame revolver that was inexpensive when new. Now that it has been thoroughly "customized" by my Alien-grade sweat, it's now "tackle box grade" at best, even though it has had only one box of ammo through it.

I regularly carry one of two pistols. One is a $350 1911, the other is a custom build costing well over $1,000.

Expensive pistols are nice but not necessary. My cheap gun works just as reliably as the expensive one, is just as accurate. The difference is merely in fit, finish and quality of internals. Yeah, that means better trigger, etc., but you'll not find me laughing at somebody's "cheap" carry gun.

C0untZer0 said:

Third

I carry one every day and JohnBT carries one every day.

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Excuuuuse me for overlooking one of you............................


It's too bad you don't carry a 'real' Rohrbaugh Count, I noticed yours had sights on it.

(So others will understand that, 'Real' Rohrbaughs are how the two gentlemen that produced our guns, Eric and Karl, refer to those original design guns that do not have sights.) (Count should already know this as he has 566 posts on their forum.)




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I'm going to buy a Hi-Point.