What's the Best Pocket Pistol?

[mgkdrgn]

Nothing wrong at all with any of the above.

However, what is in my right front pocket is an NAA Black Widow in 22 Magnum. Most of the year I'm in shorts and tshirt here in SC, and there isn't a front pocket I've seen that won't swallow the BW sight unseen. It's also light enough to be carried all day every day.

 

[orionengnr]

Everyone has his opinion. Since you asked, here's mine:

After owning half a dozen j-frames (including a 360 and two 340s) I no long own a j-frame in any flavor.

After owning four Kel-Tecs (P-32, P3AT (x2) and P-11) and having lousy luck (?) with all of them, I will never own another Kel-Tec.

I have also owned two LCPs, and currently own one, but do not carry it. (No lack of faith in the pistol, but a lack of faith in the cartridge.)

The Kahr PM9 is the only pocket pistol that I own, trust and carry.

YMMV.

 

[Great Scot]

Some of you have big pockets...

I, however don't. I wear jeans most of the time and I've found that j-frames seem to print in jeans and only very small pocket guns go unnoticed. I would love to get my hands on a Seecamp, but for now I carry a very small, flat, Beretta 418. I know it's a .25 and a relic, but it's reliable, decent capacity, and it's actually concealable. That said, I normally use a Kel-Tec PF9 in an IWB, but we're talking about favorite "pocket" guns. Thanks.

 

[NMGonzo]

I wear jeans at work and my j frame sized snubby conceals rather well

 

[smallbore]

j frame snubby

 

[shotgun-2]

When wearing a jacket, I carry a S&W Model 500 with a 4" barrel, and a Desert Eagle .50AE in a ankle holster for a back-up.

 

[oneounceload]

I wear jeans most of the time and I've found that j-frames seem to print in jeans

Change your style of jeans from the basic 5-pocket Levi's type to a baggier carpenter or cargo style and that J frame disappears, while remaining easy to get

 

[armsmaster270]

I carry the S&W 340PD

 

[TimM]

I am really liking my P238.

 

[mrt949]

Seecamp 32.

 

[Maia007]

J frame alloys with boot size grips
Ruger LCR

.32 or better autos:

FN Browning 1910/1955
Kahr PM/MK 9
Seecamp/Rohrbach
Colt 1903/08
Remington 51
Colt Mustang
Sig 230/232

 

[gglass]

For me, it is my Ruger LCP. None of my J-frames can conceal like this little beauty.

For my wife, it is the Ruger LCR. She IWB or purse carries as she does not usually have pockets... She hates my J-frames, but loves the LCR... It's a trigger thing.

 

[Browns Fan]

Keltec pf9 or p32, depends on how I'm dressed.

 

[mrwilmoth]

When are they going to make a 45 the same size of the ruger lcp

 

[SwampWolf]

You have to first go to sleep. Dreams will follow.

 

[Snubster]

For me, S&W 442.

 

[mikana]

as soon as they come up with a shooter man enough to hold onto it and pull the trigger!

 

[PX15]

SwampWolf:

Either great, or deranged, minds think alike, or you just have good taste in firearms..

Best Wishes,

Jesse

 

[Guns and more]

Best? How?

Best price? Kel-Tec
Best Value? Ruger LCP
Best workmanship? Seecamp.
Best one to show your friends? Rohrbach.
Best one to actually fit in a pocket? Kahr 380
Best overall? Sig P-238

Best one to buy? The one you actually carry. (Where did you guys come up with those monsters?)

 

[MICHAEL T]

Well we have 4 KelTecs in house for carry and I have 2 Mustangs that get time also

 

[lawandorder]

The best pocket pistol is.....

Just finished giving a class on secondary/off duty weapons to the officers in the department I work for and this is what I told them on selection of a weapon,


"The most reliable handgun, in an adequate caliber, that is comfortable enough that you will carry it always, and have the faith in it to bet your life on it."

Mine, a model 649 tweaked by Cylinder and Slide.

 

[SwampWolf]

SwampWolf:

Either great, or deranged, minds think alike, or you just have good taste in firearms..

Hmmm...I thought it over for a second or two and came up with the right answer: Great minds blessed with exquisite taste. Those are nice photos of the best "pocket" pistols around.