WOW chaim are you ever detail oriented! I actually won my pm9 on thusrday night (the
14th lol). I should have tied up the loose ends here before moving on to the obligatory "here's what I bought" follow-up thread. It should be here next week.
Mine won't be as nice as an mk9. Don't think it has the "elite" trigger. Snaps nicer than does my beloved (for some reason.. familiarity?) G34's trigger, but it'll take some getting used to. So after he traded it in, how did you guys like the pm9 trigger compared to that of the elite btw? I'm not worried about recoil so much, as the only kahr I've ever shot was a PM40, and I shot well with it; though we'll see if I feel the same way after the 200 round break-in period vs the 2 mags I shot.
Yeah, glock's where my heart was at. Maybe I should have worked around the pistol, instead of working pistol choice around my circumstances; so watch for a possible "wts/t pm9 for g26" thread in the near future! (j/k I've made my decision)
I don't know about pocket carry. I actually haven't tried that or IWB yet (I am still a couple of months from TExas CHL eligibility); but despite the nice IWB tuckable set-ups available, it
seems like I could draw faster right there from my pocket as opposed to digging how deep it would have to be stashed back there, tucked and conceslrd. Plus, and this is weird- my manager (who rarely sees me, < once every couple of months for two minutes- as I always work alone) has actually come up behind me and put her hands on my waist, and felt across my entire beltline (twice)! Playing it off like "why isn;t your shirt tucked in" when she did it. Both times it was when I happened to show up to work untucked, true, but all this was after I was robbed one morning (I work nights @ a hotel). I never sadi much about it (the robbing), but I think that
they think I am on some kind of enigo-montoya/prepare-to-die vendetta. I honestly think she was feeling for a gun. I would not have drawn a gun even if I had been carrying; even if a shotgun wasn't pointed at my chest (12ga> any handgun p3at or g20 even), because there were people behind him eating breakfast. If I had been using my (as you guys preach) "best weapon", I would have been as prepared for that at 6:30am as I am at 2:00am (door locked, tapes running, NOTICING a crackhead walking in instead of online shopping for a japanese frogman in the back office). That's on ME. But when he went to leave (with all of his $86 in loot), the door wouldn't open for him, and he pointed it at me again and said you better unlock this door- it
was unlocked, he was just too short to activate the sensor from where he was standing (actually too close to the door). I just wish I had one then, still wouldn't have pulled it at that point obviously, despite the background being clear where he was. But if it came down to it, I'd rather have a pistol than nothing in the off chance he didn't hit me square with the first shot (still would have to be birdshot to really have a chance), I might have a
fighting chance. Hand to hand, I would've killed the little POS. I would have grabbed his little cauliflower ears and repeatedly bashed his crackhead against the brick planter he was near... but, uh, I've totally let that incident go emotionally now
Whew! What-a-tangent. Anyways, yeah pocket carry. I guess I envision myself with my hand in pocket ready to draw in certain circumstances, as opposed to having to untuck my shirt then drawing, a whole procedure to be initiated only when intedended to be completed/ Not precautionary, where I couldhave my hand on the grip in my pocket (if I was untucked, i could see why iwb easily).
BTW whyT
F are kel-tecs illegal in MD lol?
BTW@GLOCKnation did your vote live up to your name?
I'm guessing you abstained, as the Rohrbaugh was not a poll option (admittedly even the Kahr was pushing my budget- it was hard to justify, compared to how much value
I see in my 34* which barely cost more than the Kahr). I am see a pattern of limiting returns on size* with pocket guns, in that, at some point, the smaller you go, the more you have to compromise (whether it be quality, reliability, price, firepower etc). I drew my such point of limiting returns at the Kahr. For some it's the p3at; yet others nothing smaller than a full size service model. For others yet, if there was something slightly smaller somehow that cost $1,500, and was even nicer, they'd go that route. I respect all the above decisions, as they are all so personal. Further, I have little doubt that the R-9/s' are indeed supremely engineered machines. How has yours been?
*YMMMFV