Glassman, I recently picked up a PF 9 and have been duly impressed with it. I would stick with a newer one (serial #800 range and above) just to be sure that most of the kinks are worked out. There is a post above from JShirley that mentions KTOG, go there and they can help you out with an informed decision. It is a KelTec owners site, but they will definately shoot straight with you on your questions. As for me, I had a P3AT that went everywhere with me until the 9 came out. It is a pretty accurate gun at decent range. I must be recoil sensitive of late because I took it out with my Taurus 1911 and definately preferred to shoot the full size pistol. But I will always be carrying the 9, especially with warmer weather coming, besides, if it ever needs to be deployed the recoil thing would be the last thing I would be thinking of.