LoneGoose
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I carry my BUG Bauer .25 "Noisy Cricket" in a Hedley pocket holster, in my weak side front pants pocket. My Sig 938 rides on my right hip.
Easy to say when you are young and healthy.
Get back to me after you have celebrated your 60th birthday...and have three back surgeries.
I used to carry a 4" N-frame, or a steel 1911. Those days are gone for me.
Unpleasant reality tends to shatter some idealistic paradigms.
There was no poll choice for I don't need a BUG and don't carry one.
The OP is referring to a BUG as a type/size of handgun, not as carrying a second gun.
I see and hear a lot about only using "Bug's" or "Mouse guns" as back ups, but also see a lot of folks on gun forums claiming to use them as primaries, either during the warm months or year round.
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The OP is referring to a BUG as a type/size of handgun, not as carrying a second gun.
That's been the crux of the problem. I guess the term "Bug" implies "small," as in bug, insect, to some people and got mixed up somewhere in the past with what I consider the original sense of the term as Back Up Gun, size alone being immaterial.
Basically, we're discussing two different conceptions of the term "BUG."
The Back Up Gun is usually smaller, but not necessarily so.
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I see and hear a lot about only using "Bug's" or "Mouse guns" as back ups, but also see a lot of folks on gun forums claiming to use them as primaries, either during the warm months or year round.
So some of us are talking about BUGs and the others are talking about Mouse Guns.
So my "primary" is a small pocketed fast-first-shots J-frame, and my BUG is a medium 9mm auto on my belt. (I of course retain the option of using the auto first, and on occasion, that auto might be a full-sized .45.)
And as I said, I hope I never have to use either.
Terry, 230RN
That's a valid point. However I never thought in a million years there were folks that carried something like a LC9 as a primary and a 5" 1911 as a back up. But hey, you learn something new every day.