Who carries a pocket pistol?

[pockets]

Hornady makes 9X18 Critical Defence and it rolls at 95 grain bullet going 100 fps at the muzzle with 21 ft lbs of energy.

I think you are missing some numbers there. A 95 grain bullet going 100fps would have 2 foot pounds of energy.
Did you perhaps mean 1,000fps and 211fpe (what the Hornady website shows) ?
Most people can throw a bullet faster than 100fps.

Note: Hornady does cycle well in all of my 9x18 pistols.
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[pockets]

Oops....I forgot to answer the thread question; I carry a pocket pistol.
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[hariph creek]

I pocket carry my Sig P290RS, sometimes. Doesn't work with Jeans, though.
When I just can't carry a gun? My KelTec P32 will still work. Often in a pocket.

That said...I'm not a fan of pocket carry but, it sure beats no gun!

 

[sidheshooter]

Since I'm late to the thread, I'll just respond with 1000 words:

A classic in .32; very useful.

 

[Moondoggie]

Yes, sometimes I carry a Keltec P32, but my Glock 27 fits in the BDU pocket on my uniform trousers in a DeSantis Nemisis holster...where it is called a backup pistol.

 

[mgkdrgn]

"Pocket Revolver" count?

Warm weather (most the time in SC), NAA Black Widow, 22 Mag

Colder ... Taurus 450, 45 Colt.

 

[FAS1]

I always have a P3AT in my pocket, even at home. Usually also carry a G26/CBST holster when possible.

 

[Sergei Mosin]

Any pistol is a pocket pistol if your pockets are big enough. I carried a 5-inch 1911 in my pocket once!

I carry a .357 LCR quite frequently. I am one of the fortunate few to whom shooting the the snubnose revolver comes easily; the little gun feels like an extension of my hand, and it goes with me just about everywhere.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Any pistol is a pocket pistol if your pockets are big enough. I carried a 5-inch 1911 in my pocket once!

I carry a .357 LCR quite frequently. I am one of the fortunate few to whom shooting the the snubnose revolver comes easily; the little gun feels like an extension of my hand, and it goes with me just about everywhere.

I agree with you there... I'm also lucky because shooting a J frame comes easily to me too. Like you I don't leave home without one...

 

[CornCod]

I pocket carry a Bersa Thunder .380 most of the time. When I have to be discreet, I carry a Kel-Tec P-32.

 

[Goblin]

I live in Texas where its hot a lot of the time. Around here the uniform of the day is cargo shorts and polo shirts. That being the case, I carry a Bersa .380 in a IWB stuck in my front right pocket. The clip holds it in place and accessible.

 

[peacemaker45]

When I was carrying more regularly than I do now, (dratted work) I usually carried a Government Model .45, but always carried a Kel-Tec P32. Why? Because there are limits to what outfits I can wear that will cover a full sized gun. Most of the time, I can do it, but there are limits. Sometimes it's it's hot out. Sometimes you just want to look good, and want to wear a fitted jacket instead of a potato sack.

The tactical gurus would have us all carrying two full size pistols, a knife, a tactical light, a couple of reloads, a cell phone, and probably a major trauma first aid kit. There may be people to whom such a combat load strikes a reasonable balance against their threat profile to make it their EDC. I'm not one of them.

But, I'm also not one of the people who say "I don't feel under gunned with a mousegun.". I definitely do feel under gunned with one. I know what I can do with a real gun, and it's a lot better than I can with a pocket pistol. However, when faced with a 100% chance of being hot and miserable under batman's equipment belt and enough of a cover garment to keep it under wraps, and a one in ten thousand chance of actually needing the pistol, quality of life concerns tend to control.

 

[s9601694]

When I was carrying more regularly than I do now, (dratted work) I usually carried a Government Model .45, but always carried a Kel-Tec P32. Why? Because there are limits to what outfits I can wear that will cover a full sized gun. Most of the time, I can do it, but there are limits. Sometimes it's it's hot out. Sometimes you just want to look good, and want to wear a fitted jacket instead of a potato sack.

The tactical gurus would have us all carrying two full size pistols, a knife, a tactical light, a couple of reloads, a cell phone, and probably a major trauma first aid kit. There may be people to whom such a combat load strikes a reasonable balance against their threat profile to make it their EDC. I'm not one of them.

But, I'm also not one of the people who say "I don't feel under gunned with a mousegun.". I definitely do feel under gunned with one. I know what I can do with a real gun, and it's a lot better than I can with a pocket pistol. However, when faced with a 100% chance of being hot and miserable under batman's equipment belt and enough of a cover garment to keep it under wraps, and a one in ten thousand chance of actually needing the pistol, quality of life concerns tend to control.

I'm with you man.. I went from "I have to carry my fully loaded Glock23 and an extra mag" to "I'm just going to slip my NAA 22mag in my pocket"..

I am going to get a CW380 or (if that fails) a P380 though. I feel those fit in a pocket very similar to the NAA

 

[Praxidike]

I carry a pocket revolver (LCR .357) with +p 38 ammo and 2 quickstrips. I just do not trust a pistil as much. In a high stress situation, I do not have to worry about jams, failure to extracts, magazines falling out the gun, not being able to shoot from my pocket, limp wristing, gun being more picky on ammo, safeties, etc.

 

[zxcvbob]

I just found that a P3AT with the right-side belt clip fits *very* nicely in the watch pocket of my khakis. It's on the wrong side, but that's okay for a BUG. If I'm seated and can't get up (like in a car), it might be easier to get to than my real gun.

 

[dbp]

Yep -- my Nano all summer long in my shorts pocket. However, when I can find some extra funds I may replace the Nano with a lighter weight CM9.

 

[stressed]

People here seem to forget that you don't need to be on drugs or "mentally ill" to not notice being shot. When weapons are drawn, adrenaline rushes. When I was wounded in Iraq I didn't know until after the fact, and when I was shot through the left hand with a 7.62x39mm Soviet while loading a 240 Bravo with the feed tray up It felt like a burn/sting at first. (Funny, bullet did nothing to the tray of the 240.) This was a RIFLE round and I easily wrapped it and continued firing. Shock did not set it until after the fact, and my hand required surgical reconstruction.

As for small calibers, I have a bodyguard .380 I have tossed in my pocket and it goes everywhere with me. I agree with you .380 has a much higher tendency to wound then kill without proper shot placement, but that is any handgun I'd even be willing to bet that goes for the .500 S&W mag as well. It's harder to kill someone then you would think, even with rifles. You want the brain or heart, period - or your going to wound them. May be mortally, but it's still wounding.

I also have a Davis .32 ACP derringer loaded with BB hardcast, however I bought it from a friend to help them out and I don't really carry it, however I would rely on it if the right area had a hole put through it.

 

[stressed]

Marlin 45 Carbine, people may question the .25 ACP, but ask each of the 7,000 men personally executed by Soviet General Blokhin... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin)

As heinous as these acts are, they were all committed from a single shot from a Walther model 2 .25 ACP pistol to the head.

I wonder how lethal that was for those 7,000 men.

To the OP: That should answer your question on if the .25 ACP is effective enough - with proper shot placement. Point blank to 15 feet, where such a small pistol would probably be used.

 

[aarondhgraham]

This is often in my pocket when I am out walking,,,

This is often in my pocket when I am out walking,,,
It fits into the belly pocket of my sweat shirt very nicely.



It's a Taurus 25-PLY,,,
10 rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger,,,
Or several bursts of three.

It's never jammed on me,,,
And it weighs almost nothing.

Aarond

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[jad0110]

I pocket carry a S&W 642 sometimes, usually as a BUG. I do carry it as a primary around the house when an AR or M-1 is close by, or out and about on rare occasions when I'm working in the yard on hot days. I'm perfectly content with the caliber (.38 +P), it will do the job if I do mine. I shoot it just okay (I can get 5 rounds into a 5" circle at 5 yards 5 seconds, usually), but I do better with larger guns which I carry IWB.

 

[browningguy]

I have a Beretta 21 in .25 ACP, Browning Pocket in .25 ACP and a Keltec P32 that get pocket carried. I prefer any of them to getting involved in a knife fight.

 

[golden]

Pocket Pistol Almost Every Day

I carry a pocket pistol most of the time. I do not use a .25ACP, because I have two pistols that can fit in the same space, a NAA .32ACP Guardian and a BERETTA Tomcat, also in .32ACP.

The Guardian is miserable to shoot, but is really small, while the BERETTA is much easier to shoot and is not much larger than most .25ACP mini pistols.

The only .25ACP that would interest me as a carry gun would be the BABY BROWNING .25ACP made by FN. In the aluminum framed version, it might even make sense as it would as light as a plastic .32ACP and is very small.

Jim

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Looking to getting a Kel-Tec

 

[Archie]

Sort of...

I sometimes carry a pistol in my pocket. Normally it's either an H&K USPc40 or - if I 'feel light' - a M36 S&W in .38 Special. I'm not that big a man, about 5'6" at best and somewhat 'round'. No one seems to notice; perhaps they're being polite.

I do have one .25 ACP pistol in my collection; a Beretta 418 from about 1958, as I recall. According to my CED chronograph, Magtech ammo averages 834 f/s, Olin (Winchester) averages 766 f/s, and Aguila shows 758 f/s - all with 50 grain FMJ ammo.

 

[armsmaster270]

I carry in my pocket a S&W 340PD .357 Mag as a backup to my Sig 226 357Sig.