What is your primary carry configuration

Single stacker with no spare mag... sorta. I have extra magazines stashed here and there, including the console of the truck... so they are available, just not in my pocket. I probably carry an extra mag about 25% of the time, when we are going out on the town.

Either a Glock 19 with a spare mag or a Sig p365 with spare mag.

1911 with spare mag

Gun on the right (Ruger SR9c at 3:30 or LCP in a pocket holster), spare magazine in the front left pocket.
Don't expect to shoot that much, but the quickest way to solve most problems is to swap out the magazine.

Vast majority of the time I carry a semi-auto (double or single) with a spare magazine. There are very rare occasions where I will carry less ammo like going to the gas station and back home.

Even rarer is carrying 2 spares. I want to carry 2 spares with my 1911, when I get that in my rotation. And I carry 2 spares on long road trips. One on me and one in a bag.

The last year or so I have carried a Springfield Range Officer 5” 9mm 10 shot with 2 spares because I shoot it so well. I carried a Glock 17 or 17L for years with a spare mag, and I shoot it well, but the Range Officer is just more accurate and prints much smaller groups. I figure if I ever need it that extra bit of precision will be welcomed.

Double stack with a spare always, at least where legal and when I'm wearing pants.

If I head into the city I'll toss a second spare mag in my back pocket.

I voted single stack with a spare mag, but I actually carry a G42 with 2 spare mags. My CMC arthritis has forced me to move down to .380, and the more rounds the better.

G48 + 1 spare mag.

For years I carried a single stack alone. Then I added an extra magazine. The events of 2020 moved me to carry a double stack, and then I added an extra magazine after January 6. The bigger the mob gets The more ammo I want to carry. I replaced my PPS M2 with a Ruger Security 9 Compact. Whenever possible carry it with a 15 round magazine plus a same capacity spare. When deeper concealment is requires Imgk with two 10 round magazines. I am too old to run fast, but not too old to shoot fast.

You need to allow multiple options. In hot weather, I usually only have one gun, single stack 380 with two spare mags. This is my bare minimum.. When clothing allows, which is probably over 50% outside of work, I'll have a .40 or 9mm double stack with one spare mag as primary in addition to the .380 and two mags as back up. I have my own homemade holster rigs for the 380 and spare mags either in a belly holster or ankle. The full sized will be in a shoulder, hip, or appendix holster depending on clothing. This does cause me to have to practice with each of the different carry positions and I do find that the belly holster causes me to sacrifice some speed for the sake of concealment.

I have a single stack and a double stack in my EDC rotation. I keep one spare mag when carrying either.

J frame in my pocket

My primary carry is a Wilson Combat Professional

backed up by a KelTec PF9 in a Galco Pocket Holster.

Surprised so many do not carry a reload. I need necked carrying without a reload especially if I'm carrying a low capacity handgun.

my lcpII and two spare mags are always in my left pocket (one spare mag goes in my right pocket). i also carry my glocks and blackhawks owb on my right side @ 4 o'clock, but not over 50 percent of the time. no options for the two spares, so i didn't vote.

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Styx said:

Surprised so many do not carry a reload. I need necked carrying without a reload especially if I'm carrying a low capacity handgun.

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In my case wearing my work clothes with tucked in shirt but no jacket, my pockets are too full for a reload. Key ring full of keys, cell phone, pocket pistol, lock blade knife, car key with remote, and tri-fold wallet.

I do keep spare loaded mags and speed loaders in my car, but that's really for the off chance scenario that I suddenly have an empty gun and I got back to my car to drive away. The reality with that is sometimes when I go to the shooting range I don't remember to plan to shoot my pocket gun, but I fire a magazine through it anyway. Now there is a reload in my car for the trip home.

In cold weather when I can wear a jacket full time and I'm not on the job, I can carry a bigger gun with two spare mags on me. But its so rare I can do that. Most times I can't wear a jacket full time considering how high the heat is turned up in all the buildings here during the winter.

We have a weekly paper that usually contains the County Sheriffs Dept. and the counties largest population center Police Dept. activity reports. Thus over a period of time you get a sense of the counties criminal activity. With that said my EDC is a S&W Shield 9X19mm (8Rd) magazine plus a spare. Just as important I live a life style of avoidance that includes stupid people, places and things.

chicharrones said:

In my case wearing my work clothes with tucked in shirt but no jacket, my pockets are too full for a reload. Key ring full of keys, cell phone, pocket pistol, lock blade knife, car key with remote, and tri-fold wallet.

I do keep spare loaded mags and speed loaders in my car, but that's really for the off chance scenario that I suddenly have an empty gun and I got back to my car to drive away. The reality with that is sometimes when I go to the shooting range I don't remember to plan to shoot my pocket gun, but I fire a magazine through it anyway. Now there is a reload in my car for the trip home.

In cold weather when I can wear a jacket full time and I'm not on the job, I can carry a bigger gun with two spare mags on me. But its so rare I can do that. Most times I can't wear a jacket full time considering how high the heat is turned up in all the buildings here during the winter.

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When I can't carry a reload for a semiauto, I carry a revolver with speed strips. I just feel like 7 or so rounds is not enough when dealing with someone else who is armed and shooting back. You'll be empty in a matter of a 2 or 3 seconds.

If you have time or opportunity to go get the reload out of the car, you have time to get away. To each their own, but I kinda sorta feel unarmed unless I have a reload.

Styx said:

When I can't carry a reload for a semiauto, I carry a revolver with speed strips. I just feel like 7 or so rounds is not enough when dealing with someone else who is armed and shooting back. You'll be empty in a matter of a 2 or 3 seconds.

If you have time or opportunity to go get the reload out of the car, you have time to get away. To each their own, but I kinda sorta feel unarmed unless I have a reload.

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I'm in a changeover in my carry revolver set up. I got rid of a rarely carried pocket 5-shot snubnose for a belt carry 6-shot snubnose. That will leave me with a spare pocket for one of my Safariland speed loaders.

My vote would've been "All of the Above". My normal retirement CCW choices remain mostly the same as when I was working and carrying off-duty. I'd carry a snub revolver (and speedloader/strip), a single stack pistol (and spare magazine) or a double stack pistol (and spare magazine). Why? Because I constantly trained, drilled/practiced and qualified with all of them, as part of my role in being an agency firearms instructor. Didn't see much reason to change in my retirement.

That said, I do often find myself reaching for one of my 5-shot snubs, or one of my pair of LCP's, especially in hot weather. I choose based upon a variety of factors, including my current threat/risk assessment (areas of retirement activities); my chosen manner of dress; my planned activities; as well as things like perhaps using one of the guns that I've most recently used during a range session. Since I typically run one or more of my 5-shot alongside one or more of my long-used pistols in my range sessions (scheduled at my former agency range, as a former longtime range instructor), it's sometimes a coin flip, or just a simple preference for the moment.

Since I own many guns that have seen thousands and thousands of rounds fired in quals, training and drills, or in issued guns of similar make/model/caliber, it's not like they're strangers to me, anyway. It's more like carrying a familiar, well-used and time-worn bit of gear that's comfortable to the hand. Like riding a well-liked bike.

Well, two of the above apply, more-or-less, but the poll only allows selecting one. (Plus, I do not think of “load-out*” as meaning the same thing as carrying a “reload.”) So, “none of the above” is most correct. I am only four days away from a scheduled range visit, the first since before the panic-demic lock-downs, which might result in reassessment, and therefore, a potential for change.

One potential change might be a switch to lefty “primary” carry. This might result in a resumption of an autoloader as a primary handgun. It might take multiple range visits to be sure whether switching carry positions is a best practice. One can only determine so much from dry fire and solo drills. My right thumb/hand/wrist have been in decline, but a change in the hand used for one’s reflexive draw stroke is a daunting prospect. If my right side remains my “primary” carry position, well, I will probably be revolving around, due to a lessening faith in my right hand’s ability to provide a firm platform for reliable auto-loading function.

A long-term switch to lefty primary may, or may not, result in a discontinuation of wearing a weapon in the right hip area. I might remain permanently stuck in the transition.

I do like to carry at least some extra ammo, whether the weapon is a revolving pistol, autoloading pistol, pump gun, or whatever. Some autos, in my past, tended to “double-feed,” so, I became a believer in the importance of the capability of quickly stripping-away a mag, as an immediate-action, if the tap-rack fails to resolve the problem.

*I have thought that “load-out” referred to the entire load of gear/equipment that one carries.

Glock 23 + spare mag for walking the dogs in my "excellent area" or going to an area of "perceived greater threat" (WalMart)
I specify that I live in a good area because often someone will post how they don't live in a war zone or Mogadishu, me either.
Glock 23 + spare mag is most frequent (and my minimum) but Glock 20SF or 35 are frequent alternatives, in FL, where its hot...