Went to NJ with a G19 with EFMJs, a 638 loaded with wadcutters and a ZT folder. Also didn't lose any sleep that I didn't have the bestest ammo in my guns, etc.Originally Posted by JodyH
Mehhh...
Spent a week in Vegas carrying a wad-cutter stoked J-frame, Fox OC and a clinch pick, didn't lose any sleep.
Well if I had to carry a revolver as main service pistol it would be my 625 JM. When I have shot it in IDPA matches I could still finish in the upper 30% of who showed up in the overall standings. The time I tried using my model 19 the reloads killed me and I finished last. It was a real eye opener for me.
Pat
Wow, was it the reloads (cartridges) or the skinny chambers in the cylinder that foiled ya? I'm voting skinny chambers.
I tossed and turned fitfully every night I had to carry anything that held less than a dozen and a half rounds, so I envy you your composure.Mehhh...
Spent a week in Vegas carrying a wad-cutter stoked J-frame, Fox OC and a clinch pick, didn't lose any sleep.
I'd love to try a revolver as a daily carry if practice ammo wasn't too much. rsa-otc's post intrigued me. Not a pocket carry gun, a real carry gun.
#RESIST
Put a fair number of rounds through a nice 25-5 today. It may be largely superstition, but those big rounds sure feel reassuring...
Skinny chambers and semi wad cutter bullets.
Pat
While nothing scientific.....I don't remember a shooting at my old place where a single hit from a 25-5 didn't end the problem immediately.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard. Snarky and easily butt hurt. Favorite animal is the Cape Buffalo....likely indicative of a personality disorder.
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
Spent 2 nights in Dallas, in a hotel in a marginal section of town, unarmed, due to the quick flight in and out.Mehhh...
Spent a week in Vegas carrying a wad-cutter stoked J-frame, Fox OC and a clinch pick, didn't lose any sleep.
I would have given a month's pay for any one of my j-frames loaded with even 132gr FMJ, considering who I saw going in and out of the lobby; and I didn't sleep all that well, either. Make no mistake: 10+1 in a G26 beats 5 in a 642, but not by anywhere close to the margin that "five for sure" beats the hell out of nothing.
But I digress. Please, carry on.
Some interesting comments re being uncomfortable, etc.
Yesterday, I shot a registered trap shoot (300 shells, all day affair). Its still hot here, and in any event I don't "strap up" on the trap field... but I do have my ever-present M-360PD in a pocket.
On the way home, the wife calls and issues instructions to pick up a couple of items at the grocery store if I would like some supper. At the store, I shut down the ride, glance over at the HK45C/holster/extra mag/mag pouch pile on the seat next to me- hidden under a light shirt/concealment garment-, think a minute, and say "Nah".... I'm only gonna be in the store for a couple of minutes, so...
It was totally uneventful... but I felt naked.
So why did I feel that way in the store, but not on the trap field?
Thinking about it on the rest of the way home, I realized it was because, on the trap field, I'm surrounded by like-minded folks who are no threat to me; perceived or otherwise. Not so in most other public venues. And then I recalled that, for MANY years, I toted nothing but a J frame and Speed Strip off-duty, actually used it twice to prevent serious harm to myself, and never gave it a second thought. In fact, I was looking forward with great relish to carrying just that, and maybe a pocket folder, and nothing else into retirement. Times changed.
And THEN I recalled that guy who lit up a public shooting range trying to get one dude, getting a cop and a few innocents in the process. IOW, the Fickle Finger of Fate is alive and well.
All these thought processes take, like, two miles. I realize I am content with my preparations, and will continue to carry a serious handgun (as opposed to the comfort and convenience of a smaller piece) whenever I can... just in case.
And I have another, less charitable thought; my electing to not do so (strap up a serious piece), for a quick jaunt into the grocery store, may be what passes in my advancing age for "living on the edge"...
Now, THAT is a depressing thought...
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