CCW: How many have you actually carried ... at one time?

[Legionnaire]

Curious. I hear about primaries, and backups ... but how many have you actually carried at one time?

When I carry it's typically only one, and despite having spare mag and flashlight holders, it's usually the one gun with fully loaded magazine plus one in the chamber and no spare mag. But I have carried three concealed guns at once, just to see if it could be done.

How about you? It's got to be CCW in public, not just "around the house."

 

[axmurderer]

I'll carry a backup if I'm going to visit one of my friends that lives in a rough part of town, but otherwise hardly ever.

 

[grimjaw]

Three, but only to see how difficult it was to manuever, and only on a short trip to the store and back. I'm usually carrying just one.

jmm

 

[Checkman]

FWIW. On duty I carry two. Usually concealed. Off duty I typically carry one with one reload and my folding knife.

 

[Reed1911]

Most of the time two, I spend a lot of time in a vehicle and the ankle is much eaiser to get to, when I'm upright the hip is the eaisest. Needless to say my full size 10mm does not fit my ankle very well, so a back-up was the solution.

 

[joab]

Always one in the glove box
Usually one one my ankle for the reason Reed stated
Sometimes one on my hip when I'm not working.

About three years ago when I worked night shift in the worst part of town I planned all my bad accounts for the same night.
That night I carried five
One on my ankle, one in my right shirt pocket, one in my right pants pocket, one at 4:00 and one crossdraw, plus the one in the truck and a shotgun behind the seat.

My hands were usually full of vaeious pieces of equipment plu I had to unlock doors.
I would never be in a position where a gun was not within easy reach.

Don't laugh too hard a guy was robbed killed out side one of my accounts while I was inside.
Apparently within just minutes of me getting there

 

[XLMiguel]

Seven, for a presentation on concealed carry. I was wearing a blue oxford cloth button-down shirt, Dockers, and a Orvis travel vest. I used a double shoulder rig, one each strong side, SOB, cross-draw, one in pocket, one on ankle. I didn't even clank, and I had room for more. have a few knives and some OC, too. Normally (?) Ijust have one pistol & reload, one knife.

 

[MCgunner]

One primary, one back up, one hide out. It was on a trip to New Orleans some years ago. Looking back on it, in light of Katrina's aftermath, I was prudent, not paranoid....

 

[Standing Wolf]

One.

 

[bpisler]

XD-9 on the right hip at 4 o'clock and a beretta
21-A in the front pocket.I'll switch out the XD
for a 3" 65-3,4" 686-4 or a 3" 625-7 if my mood
swings that way.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Used to carry 2 but when I sold the Kel-Tec I went back to 1.

Kimber Pro Carry with one 8 rounder in it and 2 each 8 rounders on standby.

 

[ACP230]

Usually carry one, my 649.
In winter I often add my M38 in a coat pocket.
I have carried both of the snubs and a BHP in an IWB holster a couple of times.

 

[Ala Dan]

Two- Primary weapon can vary these days; but the BUG is always
a Seecamp LWS-32 ACP~!

 

[Geno]

I had a post very similar...max carry ability, etc.

In short, max. ever was 3 pistols: (2) 1911s and (1) G17, with somewhere just south of 800 rounds of ammo in mags.

But, the normal day for me: 2 pistols, and as much ammo as I can hide.

I got a very weird look from a local detective yesterday as I sat and talked with a friend (at the friend's cigar shop). Apparently the detective is anti-gun. Lest I come across as anti-cop, I'll leave it as his conduct was unbecoming a professional; as was his attitude about civilian carry.

I'll be comical the day a police pulls me over and wants to "disarm me"...that'll take some serious time.

Who knows, maybe someday concealed carry will become illegal; and open carry will be mandatory.

Yeah!

Doc2005

 

[Double Naught Spy]

For about 4 hours, I carried 3 1911s, 1 Colt Pony, 1 Colt 1903, 6 spare 1911 mags and 2 spare Pony mags, all concealed.

Oh, and somewhere in there was an Emerson CQC7 knife, wallet, keys, pepper spray, and a cell phone.

It was for a class demonstration. I gave up after the belt was digging in to my hips painfully.

Nobody knew I had that many guns or spare mags on me even though I demonstrated several things, the last of which was what I was carrying.

Outside of such nonsense, no more than 2 guns and a knife on my person with various #s of mags.

 

[GEM]

I went to visit my kid in Austin. I wore a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, floppy outdoors canvas shirt over it and a light jacket as it was chilly.

Thus, I could carry a

G19 and two mags
A Surefire Executive - forgot the number
2 Delicas
A cell phone
A small FOX oc in one jacket pocket
a small BUG in the other jacket pocket.

No one noticed. It was not uncomfortable, I have quality holsters. I was accused of being a surburban ninja for this by someone on another board who claims to be a cop - probably Barney Fife with one bullet.

Can you go through life without a gun - yes, most of the time.
Can you win most DGUs with an unloaded gun - supposedly.
However, if you got it and it is not uncomfortable - why not!

 

[Mad Magyar]

Just one...Did you know that a 9mm fired from a revolver has a higher velocity than from an autoloader? BTW, that's a 547 in there...

 

[Pilot]

I typically just carry one, but I do carry a Beretta Bobcat 21A as a BUG sometimes.

 

[scbair]

Way back when I was a plainclothesed LEO on felony stakeout duty, I carried:
S&W M19 in Bianchi X-15 (with 2 charged speedloaders)
Colt Commander .45 in Safariland hip scabbard (with 2 charged mags)
S&W M36 Chief's Special in right front pocket (1 Speed strip in hip pocket)
NAA .22WMR mini (never mind where and no spare ammo)
Balisong knife in left hip pocket
Bucheimer blackjack in right hip pocket (alongside the Speed Strip)
2 sets of handcuffs

My partner was similarly armed, and we had an issue Ithaca M37 and a personally owned CAR 15 in the vehicle.

We both took pains to avoid deep bodies of water . . .

 

[Biker]

I sometimes carry two, three if you count the hidden one on my scoot>
Biker

 

[Snake Eyes]

The largest grand total was: NINE. But it was really more open carry than CCW.

 

[AirForceShooter]

just one at a time.
Which one depends on the weather.

AFS

 

[cordex]

Typically two.
Gov't 1911 and Kel-tec P3AT.

 

[Bulldozer]

Had occassion to spend an evening with several LEOs from downstate when my brother threw a Christmas party a while back.

We all got to talking, and wouldn't you know it, there was a guy (don't recall agency in NY) who pulled out the following...

G26 from an Alessi ankle rig, Taurus 85 in PCH Pocket Holster, G19 from a DeSantis Speed Scabbard, G26 from a crossdraw rig, 2 NAA Minis -- one around neck lanyard and the other in his offside boot, Shoulder rig held two more G19s and 4 spare mags, 2 double mag pouches on the belt, mini-light, cuffs, ASP, a tactical folder....

seems every year the guys have a contest to see who can carry the most hardware as unobtrusively as possible. This bozo wins every year.....

As for me, it has been three K-frames.... and only once. Other times, it has been a G19 and a G26. Most times it is just one and a few reloads.

 

[Bulldozer]

DOUBLE TAP... SORRY.