Minimum Acceptable Capacity For CCW

[ArchAngelCD]

Very well said Hawk!

 

[loneviking]

I hate polls like this as both sides are right and both are wrong. I've had to kill, on several occasions, critters that wanted to hurt me including wild dogs. You can shoot these under 100 lb. critters multiple times with 9mm and it's (sometimes) almost like it doesn't phase them. Sometimes you can get them too stop, or withdraw and lick their wounds.

But too really stop them, you have to have real firepower such as a .357 or .44 mag. Great stopping power, but you've got to be able to place your shots at a time of real stress.

I solved the problem by changing what I'm carrying based on when and where I am. Daytime, I'll have a compact 9mm with two clips (approx. 24 rds) total if I'm out and about town or the .357 with 2 speedloaders. Nighttime, or maybe an uncertain area, 9mm on one side with two extra mags; .357 in a shoulder holster with two speedloaders---total of about 54 rounds.

I play for keeps!

 

[BikerRN]

Keep in mind that we are only discussing the capacity of the weapon itself and not the total amount of ammo carried.

I selected 5 Rounds, but I carry a 5 Shot and a 6 Shot Revolver.

Soon I'll be carrying two 5 Shot Revolvers and a 6 Shot off duty, not to mention my three knives, reloads, cell phone, pager and "creds". This also doesn't take in to account what I keep in the truck.

Biker

 

[Old Guy]

The practical side of CCW is intended use! not really capacity as such, but what has history in your local, history of use of concealed weapons by good guys been. Now having made the previous statement, history is what has happened in the past, what can happen is an entirely different question.

So as bullets do not need feeding, the most you can carry, comfortably, is what you carry! Me, Glock 19, go too magazine, Glock 17.

CCW or work, the same, IDPA, the same type, but vary between G19 or G17, so dropping my hand to a outside the belt holster has no surprises in the draw and fire department.

 

[Sistema1927]

Well, it all kind of depends. One might be enough, and 50 might be too few.

Way back when, while living in a gun unfriendly environment, I carried a single shot .22 derringer that I paid $5 for. It would have served in a pinch, was virtually undetectable (I probably could have kept it concealed during most pat downs), but it wasn't optimum for SD. It was a last ditch, I don't want to die here but I don't want to go to jail, option.

Today, with a CCW in a more friendly environment, I find that 6+1 9mm in a Kahr PM9, coupled with a 7 round reload, is probably about right.

 

[Floppy_D]

At least one.

 

[denfoote]

Mousegun= 8
Carry gun= 13

My mouser is the KT PF9 with 7 in the mag and one in the tube.
My usual carry is a G26 with the 10+2 mag and one in the tube.

 

[seeker_two]

I just have a question or two....

If you're carrying a hi-cap pistol and are attacked by multiple assailants, why do you think you'll have time to use all 10-20 rounds in that first mag?

Also, if you have enough time to shoot and reload with 10+ rounds, why don't you think the guys with 5-10 will have time to reload, too?

And where are you finding all these hardened criminal gansta-types that will run toward and attack someone shooting at them? All the hardened criminal gangsta-types I've met (thanks to TDCJ, TYC, and CPS) tend to run away from the people shooting at them....

Just askin'......

 

[BikerRN]

I've noticed that when bullets start flying that BG's tend to run, heck so do I. I usually run for cover though and then start assessing the situation.

With that said, the reason I carry three guns is to have a gun available to either hand and also accessable no matter what position I am likely to find myself in. Having had to use my Primary Arm to deflect a blade once, I was glad I had a BUG accessable to my weakhand.

One gun for the right hand, one for the left, and the third gun for when I'm on my back or sitting in the truck. It's not so much the capacity, for me, but rather the accessability.

Biker

 

[Harvster]

If you're carrying a hi-cap pistol and are attacked by multiple assailants, why do you think you'll have time to use all 10-20 rounds in that first mag?

Also, if you have enough time to shoot and reload with 10+ rounds, why don't you think the guys with 5-10 will have time to reload, too?

And where are you finding all these hardened criminal gansta-types that will run toward and attack someone shooting at them? All the hardened criminal gangsta-types I've met (thanks to TDCJ, TYC, and CPS) tend to run away from the people shooting at them....

I'll take a stab (or lampoon) at answering this.

Your questions just don't make sense. its obvious 50 rounds is better than five when the armed gangs attack. And while you are lying in a pool of your own blood, my tactical wheel barrow full of ammo and I will live to fight another day. Don't you read the news? armed gangs are everywhere and the only thing they want is you and your family dead. Wake up, they don't care about their safety they are coming for you. Now...where did I put that second trauma plate?


I voted 5.

 

[seeker_two]

Your questions just don't make sense. its obvious 50 rounds is better than five when the armed gangs attack. And while you are lying in a pool of your own blood, my tactical wheel barrow full of ammo and I will live to fight another day. Don't you read the news? armed gangs are everywhere and the only thing they want is you and your family dead. Wake up, they don't care about their safety they are coming for you. Now...where did I put that second trauma plate?

....and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why someone is going to try and build a belt-fed Glock.....

 

[Supertac45]

My BUG, a SP101 carries 5 rounds.