.380ACP Cor-Bon DPX versus gelatin block

[kokapelli]

That's the reason it doesn't make much sense to carry a super-light pistol and try to shoot hot loads out of it. My little NAA Guardian is solid steel and it's moderately unpleasant to shoot with target loads, let alone hot loads. And yet people ridicule the NAA for being too heavy. It may be heavy compared to the competition, but it's not too heavy for the caliber.
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- enfield

I used to carry a NAA Guardian. It felt like I was carrying a brick in my pocket and was punishing to shoot.

The P-3AT I now carry is much lighter (I hardly know it's there) and it is actually a little less punishing to shoot than the Guardian, because it is a locked breach action rather than the harder kicking blowback action used in the Guardian.