Six handguns: Pick one for CCW

[Safety First]

WHAT?

Not even one Sig or Beretta to choose from?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Out of just those? The Taurus.

 

[Tamara]

firestar,

I still don't believe that most people can or will carry a full sized pistol for CCW. I think most people will just leave it at home because it is too much trouble to strap on a 2 1/2 lb pistol with a 5" bbl. They say they carry it concealed but I don't believe it.

Hey, if it makes you happy, believe what you want, man.

 

[P95Carry]

Tamara .... doesn't that beavertail dig into your flesh?? That's what puts me off IWB ... I don't have too much ''padding'' and find it irksome to have stuff pokin me!!

 

[Tamara]

Er, not really. The tee-shirt's kinda bunched up around it from the position I needed to take the self-portrait in is all.

The holster is a DeSantis "Inner Piece" which I got about three weeks ago and have been happy as a clam with.

 

[Schuey2002]

You can learn alot about a person by what's in the background of their gun photos...

I take it by the shape of the knife in your pocket that it's an Emerson Commander, but I could be wrong.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Tams...

Putting your best "face" forward again...


It would appear that you are left handed...

Is that so?


WHOOPS! No, I don't think you are left handed. I thought the handgun was over the left rear pocket, and the knife was in the right rear pocket....

 

[Tamara]

Schuey2002,

I take it by the shape of the knife in your pocket that it's an Emerson Commander, but I could be wrong.

Yup, that's a matte stainless, half-serrated Commander.

 

[New_comer]

I'll take the CZ75BD, the PCR, then the SW65.

Tamara,

That's got to hurt or at the very least, irritate me somehow, with that beavertail digging into the ribcage.

I'd prefer a holster with an extended pad shielding my side from the metal protrusion, so as to protect me in any bending I may have to do while carrying IWB.

But that's me...

 

[dev_null]

Get a VersaMax II and you don't have to worry about the gun digging into you.

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[Tamara]

...but the beavertail isn't digging into my ribcage; that's just the way the tee shirt is bunched up around it.

 

[rgc]

The 65, but, . . .

what's up with putting the guns down on rough cement like that. I know you placed them there very carefully, however, it is just unnerving to me. I am getting the shivers like I was scraping my teeth along that cement walk. Please, please tell me that you have them all back in safer conditions and none are worse for the wear.

 

[dev_null]

...but the beavertail isn't digging into my ribcage; that's just the way the tee shirt is bunched up around it.

The plug for the VM2 wasn't aimed at you, it was for those who expressed concern.

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[Betty]

Heh. That's funny. I picked the S&W 65. Nice looking gun, too.

 

[Johnny Guest]

The S&W M65 is first choice of those listed.

Maybe the CZ or 908 for second.

The Beretta is too wide and heavy for a .380.

For the same size/weight as the Taurus .32, you could have .38 Spl +P.

One man's opinon . . . .
Johnny

 

[Tamara]

Johnny Guest,

For the same size/weight as the Taurus .32, you could have .38 Spl +P.

You can come join the discussion in revolvers right now :

6 rounds of .32 Mag (less recoil, one more round) or 5 rounds of .38 Special (more power)?

(Personally I think they're both adequate solutions, especially with the new 100gr .32 Mag ammo from Georgia Arms and Texas Ammo...)

 

[PCRCCW]

Personally, as an always carry....Id take a M60 2" snub. But out of the choices given...Id jump on the PCR.... Has all of the goodies much higher end guns come with, light, compact and 15 rnds of +P is hard to beat for its size.
I carry both of these......fullsize and PCR Customs.....
And NO the beavertail doesnt dig into my back either....
Shoot well

 

[Johnny Guest]

Okay, Tamara - - -

- - -If you mean the discussion at - -
http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17478
then, thanks for the invitation, and I did indeed jump in with boh feet. My opinion may not be very well articulated, but it IS lengthy.

Best,
Johnny

 

[gumshoe4]

I like Lendsringer's Browning .380 BDA. It's probably not the best solution, being too large for too minimal a cartridge, but it wasn't all that long ago that it was close to state-of-the-art for plainclothes detectives and armed citizens. The advantage of a gun like this is that shot-to-shot recovery time is excellent and the gun is quite accurate. Moreover, while the .380 is not the greatest thing going anymore, it still works.

I know there are better choices, here, but that's the one I like and I wouldn't feel undergunned with it at all....

Bob