OT: Small Carry Gun - What do recommend?

[Old Ironsights]

2 guns, 30 rounds of ammunition.

The "scare'em to death ugly" is a bonus.

Ruger SP101 & 2 speed strips
+
NAA Guardian & 1 extra mag.

[MikeS.]

I've been carrying an XD 9mm sub-compact IWB for several months now.

[FWiedner]

Recently purchased a Ruger LCP, test fired for function and reliability and wanted to see how it carried.

Carried it in a SmartCarry pouch for a week while travelling from Dallas to metropolitan anti-gun areas north to New Orleans and back to Dallas.

I usually carry a Kimber Ultra Carry II. The Ruger is a bit... smaller.

No chafing, no poking, no printing. No problems.

Easy concealed carry.

[Meeteetse]

S&W 442 or, on occasion, a S&W 317 in a Galco pocket holster. Works with all my dress slacks as well as my casual stuff. This is my city carry and when I don't have a jacket or other cover. I carry in the front strong side pocket.

In the country or woods bumming I usually move up to something larger like my S&W Mtn. Gun in either .45 Colt or .44 mag/spec. or perhaps my Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag. I have several different OWB holsters for these guns.

[scr83jp]

Thinking about asking for a small carry gun for Christmas. I currently carry an XD9 and would consider somthing smaller. I had a M85 for a short while some years back but traded it in on a 1895G. Picked up a G36 the other day in the gunshop and liked the feel of the semiauto. Also like the feel of the SP101 but was thinking more along the lines of a 3" model in 357 but none were in the shop. Several S&W's looked at online but have yet to get my hands on one.

What do you carry and why? Or recommend?

Johnny

Carry whatever weapon you're comfortable with.When I retired from le I carried my Sig Sauer P220 with 45acp corbon 165gr jhp whenever I headed anywhere west of my 20.It's been 8+ years so now I carry my Rossi SS Mod 88 2" 38spec (no longer made but it's a really accurate 5 shot), my Sig or my other accurately tuned wheelgun S&W Mod 19 6" 357 with th,tt,tg & ts.

[popeye44]

Working on a guvment site I cant cary anything that even looks like gun or any weapon. At home its a different story. I like my PPK 380ss. Also my PP 32acp bl. I use flush magazines in both. No holster. Autos are flatter than a wheel gun. I
think that helps me to hide it better.

[rjohns94]

scr83jp: Either you are stuttering or I am completely ignorant of what you were saying:

"with th,tt,tg & ts"


so I will assume its me and say HUH?????

[Idahoser]

scr83jp: Either you are stuttering or I am completely ignorant of what you were saying:

"with th,tt,tg & ts"


so I will assume its me and say HUH?????

He means "Target" stuff. Hammer, Trigger, Grip (probably?) and Sights. To my mind I'm looking for the less obtrusive and more streamlined fixed sights for this job.

[Doc Hudson]

scr83jp: Either you are stuttering or I am completely ignorant of what you were saying:

"with th,tt,tg & ts"


so I will assume its me and say HUH?????

In plain English, what he is saying is the sixgun needs:

th = Target Hammer
tt = Target Trigger
tg = Target Grips
ts = Target Sights

What's wrong with you? Don't you speak Smith & Wesson Catalogese?

[Blackhawk]

Glad someone asked. I didn't know either.

Think I've got it narrowed down to either a S&W M60 or SP101, both with 3" barrels. Thinking along the lines of the SP but still haven't come up with a good crossdraw system to carry either one of'em. Crossdraw IWB is hard to find.

Johnny

[Tycer]

but still haven't come up with a good crossdraw system to carry either one of'em. Crossdraw IWB is hard to find.

Johnny

www.crossbreedholsters.com

http://www.gunblast.com/Crossbreed.htm

He'll make you a crossdraw.

[AJMD429]

I had a holster Bianchi named the "Scorpion" which tucked a 2" .357 under the armpit. You could wear it under nothing but a loose dark T-shirt and it was not detectable. I modified it so the barrel was pointed back at a 45 degree angle rather than straight up.

For years I wore it over a T-shirt, but under a regular loosely fitted shirt, and as long as I had something in my shirt pocket (I usually wore a pocket protector then ) the gun was not detectable.

Ripping a button or two to get to the gun wasn't that difficult (I tried it with a couple of old shirts) and you could always leave a button or two un-done (or get real fancy and sew them to the left shirt panel and put a snap behind them) if you were out in a parking lot at night or whatever.

If you always have the chance to go to the restroom before leaving a secure area to go to an unsecure area, you can carry 'deep' and just slip the gun into a paper bag to carry so it is right in your hand - I did this when leaving a secure hospital pharmacy and walking ten blocks of ghetto to my apartment every day at 2 a.m. in Cincinnati. No CCW then, so I had to have the gun 'deep' when at work.