I'm really not sure why anyone is assuming I don't have a plethora of choices of daily tools for self defense, nor already have fairly high skills & legit training.
Was asking the pros and cons of getting one of these.
But out of the old ones, these two designs are pretty safe ones that can be carried in safe ways ready to go without a safety that is horribly designed like many others that therefore need either condition 3 carry-a no go for me, or loaded not necessarily drop safe and a safety that would need a bad guy to wait a minute as you manage to take it off in a unergonomic way. Ortgies hopefully would have a working grip safety. HSC DA pull. Both very thought out usable designs and engineering. Even if I did have one, one day, on me when needed I highly doubt statistically I would die in the streetz. In fact, of these designs I think the highest extremely low percentage chance of anything wrong in that precise moment would be an Ortgies just happen to be warn down that exact day and going burrrrrrrpppppp. That's the only severe breakage I am aware of, other than the grips being f'd up some on many.
Because they are classic old and I don't own anything pre 60's, look cool, functional engineering better than most of the era etc. HSC not only an art deco beauty, but earliest pistol of Alex Seidel.....so maybe it would keep the HK I am actually carrying 1/3rd of the time happy. I have a 9 and a 40 that split most of the time based on weight for that day, with a 45 and a 357 option carried less often. Because I can. And all shoot to high standards for me.
There is not nearly enough enabling going on here. Though an Ortgies would mean buying .32 ammo which costs a good deal, and an HSC well I would hope it would mostly run with at least one brand of ammo and not just being something to look at occasionally. Getting some 380 makes more sense...because it would enable something else more modern perhaps....but wasn't sure if HSCs would run, with hotter Euro ammo or not. WW2 .32s were better I guess, but then ammo cost and possible bad WW1 WW2 pistol collecting may start. So is a later run 380 HSC more likely to not run, or may run with something like PPU or Fiocchi maybe
Thanks