Ever have a pistol regularly jump carry rotation?

Old Dog said:

Variety is the spice of life? Why is this so difficult to understand? If you like guns, know your guns, train with your guns, what is the problem with a carry rotation?

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Really the important part there. I'm not an advocate for willy nilly carry gun swapping on a regular basis, but if your routinely train with them properly, I don't see it as a huge issue.

Folks who train all the time with a Glock at 3 oclock and never touch a DAO more than a few times a year, yet switch to a pocket J Frame for carry randomly might have some issues if the fit ever hits the shan. Same goes for carrying a gun with a safety but not training to disengage it instinctively.

Trunk Monkey said:

To be fair Mas is an active member of a private forum that I'm a member of and he does change guns frequently but every time he talks about it on that forum he also mentions the reason why he's changing guns and it's never because of random whim.

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Actually have been part of a discussion with him about this very topic and he's expounded on it. He likes different guns and has gone back and forth between vastly differing platforms. He has come up here and instructed his MAG courses at FAS.

JR24 said:

Folks who train all the time with a Glock at 3 oclock and never touch a DAO more than a few times a year, yet switch to a pocket J Frame for carry randomly might have some issues if the fit ever hits the shan.

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This.

Actually spotting someone at one's local range or club doing some productive, lengthy and challenging training with any J-frame is like spotting a unicorn in the wild. IF I ever see someone shooting a J-frame at my ranges, they're typically doing a couple quick cylinder dumps from 3 or 5 yards and calling it good with an 18-inch group. The J-frame, particularly the DAO models (442/642, etc), when shooting plus-P or .357, can be brutal to shoot for extended sessions and the learning curve to get to the point where you shoot them well, at other than bad-breath distance, is substantial.

I don’t rotate, but I do have different guns based on what I’m wearing. For summer with an untucked shirt it’s a Kahr P9 IWB. For winter when I can wear a jacket or sweatshirt it’s a CZ P07 IWB. For dress clothes it’s a Kahr PM9 in a pocket holster. For just walking around the yard (or whenever I’m wearing pants) I have a Ruger LCP in a pocket holster I just bought last year.

What they have in common is a relatively similar trigger stroke.

Every other gun I have jumps carry rotation because I only carry one gun and don’t have a rotation.

Either I dress to suit my carry gun or I choose my carry gun based on how I’ll be dressed. But all I carry these days are blocky, safety free, striker fired, black plastic semi’s, so they all work the same...

OP seems to infer he simply found a new favorite carry gun....nice!