I have been struggling with this one a little. Would love to hear some opinions and thought processes behind them.
I have sometimes heard the mantras of: “carry what you shoot best” and “a gun should be comforting and not comfortable.”
But from competition, I know that I shoot heavy CZs with light triggers better than most other traditional carry guns.
When I carry something like my P365, I definitely give up objective performance in order to be comfortable.
I try and run most performance drills back to back with carry and competition guns so I get a sense of how much I’m giving up and it’s a real thing.
How good is “good enough” though? I try and vet my carry gun against objective performance standards like the Federal Air Marshal, FAST and Gabe White standards. I set a minimum performance requirement and whatever gun I carry has to pass this.
I thought this might be a good place to ask for opinions and learn what people are carrying and why?
And as a follow up question, if you were to do a pistol class with one of the famous trainers... would you use that carry setup?