I have a COP on the Right side.

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I have had a concealed carry licence. ever since I turned 21 many many years ago. Lately I have settled down to just carring my 4 round 357 COP Derringer in a OBH. I like how it is compact, comfortable to grip, weighs just enough to take out the sting, and the trigger pull is long however there is no way in hello it will accidently discharge. I can hit a man size targer to point at 15 yard easily.
Just wonder...Anybody else out there carry one?
A lot of review i read on the WWW seem to be by people who have never carried or owned one themselves.

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I briefly owned and carried one as an off-duty weapon for a short while as a young cop. The oddity of the design intrigued me. (Hey, I was a young man. ;) )

I decided it was too heavy for only having 4 rounds in a dedicated defensive handgun. The trigger pull weight could double as a hand grip exerciser.

Practical accuracy was minute-of-beachball at 10 yards with various Magnum loads.

I returned to carrying one of my medium-framed .357 revolvers, as they gave me 2 more rounds, better triggers and much better inherent & practical accuracy. (Repair parts and servicing traditional revolvers was more easily accomplished, as well.)

I eventually traded it to my father, who got rid of it after it began exhibiting a mechanical problem.
 
I read about it long ago. I also read that it sometimes shoot double rounds at the same time. They said it was painful. Ever happen to you?
 
Never read about it happening. Never experienced it, either. Wonder how such a thing can happen with the way the firing pin is designed, though.
 
Impossible to shoot 2 rounds or more at a time unless the gun was modified as it was for Bladerunner in Hollywood.

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Each of the four chambers has its own dedicated firing pin. It uses an internal hammer, which is activated by depressing the trigger to hit a ratcheting/rotating striker that in turn strikes one firing pin at a time.
 
What I've read was in a gun magazine as we didn't have internet back in the 80s. :)

If they say that it double fired sometimes maybe they have something there, maybe it was a defect.
 
For me I have to have at least 5 or more rounds available with reliable and quick reloading capability which translates into either mags or speed-loaders (moon-clips in rare circumstances). So I would only consider this (perhaps) as a BUG but that's just me.

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I had a friend who had one. Nice concept. Wrong cartridge. The length of the .357 cartridge case subtracts from the potential barrel length. The 38 Super gives better ballistic efficiency because the barrel (for the same size gun) has .4" more barrel length. I daresay the 38 Super might deliver better velocity than the .357 magnum simply because of the extra barrel length even though the .357 has 16% higher pressure than the 38 super.

But if you really wanted to have a barn-burner, the 9.23 Winchester operates at 40,000 psi rather than the 30,000 of the 38 Super and the 35,000 of the .357 Magnum

The C.O.P. is neat. Great intimidation value, too. But a Semmerling is a 45.

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It uses an internal hammer, which is activated by depressing the trigger to hit a ratcheting/rotating striker that in turn strikes one firing pin at a time.
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Yeah, I thought I vaguely remembered something about the hammer only being able to contact the firing pin on any individual chamber one-at-a-time (unless modified in some other manner).
 
The OP asked if "Anybody else out there carry one?" He stated the drawbacks too. Not trying to defend it. The OP likes it.

Sure would be a better gun with a 3 or 4 lb trigger pull...., just set the safety.....no wait there isn't a safety. ....but than I do have a Semmerling with a butter smooth DA trigger pull and a Downsizer Derringer with a heavy DA pull in 45APC too.
 
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I have a COP 357. I bought it because I liked the design. It's actually a very well made gun and the internal parts are decent quality. Mine is reliable.

There is no possible way that this gun can double, unless someone tried to modify it. this is because there are 4 independent firing pins and the striker portion of the revolving disk isn't large enough to hit any two pins simultaneously.It can be modified to fire more than one cartridge at a time, but that involves adding something.

There's no sense in carrying one of these with all of the smaller, lighter weight options now available. However, it is a very cool gun, and I would never sell mine.
 
I almost bought one at an estate auction a few years ago. It was in excellent condition and went for about $500 as I remember. There was a sporterized 03A3 that sold next for more than I was willing to pay. Had the order been reversed I may have walked out with the COP. Seems a novelty though.
 
Seems a novelty though.
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It is a novelty. But, then again, so are many of the guns out there. In fact, out of all of the guns I own, only about 5 of them aren't novelties:

Ruger LC9
Glock 17
S&W 659
Savage 30-06
If I owned an AR-10 or an M1A, I'd add them to this list. But even a semi-auto AR15 is really just a novelty - makes sense in full-auto or burst, but not so much in semi-auto (5.56).
 
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