Shooting your real carry gun?

I shoot my carry with the hp that I carry in it because I like it...:D and also I don't want the ammo to get old. I use regular fmj mostly for practice but I do use up whatever I have been carrying since my last range visit.
 
Find what gun works best for you.
Get two or more identical examples of that gun.
Carry one, shoot the other a lot for sake of practice.
Shoot the carried one at least occasionally to ensure reliability.
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What Sawbones said. I chose Glock 19s, identicall set up with Heinie night sights. One for matches, one for carry. I do carry my 1911 5" sometimes too...love it too much not to!

Several ranges I shoot or have shot at routinely have a Backup Gun match, or unofficial class for BU/secondary type guns...G26/26, J-frames, etc, so that all shooters are shooting like guns. Good practice once in a while, for that smaller gun you carry less often than your regular CCW gun.
 
T O'heir, your profile says you're in Canada. How much pistol shooting can you do there? Can you even carry a gun?
 
only carry guns

I compete a lot in IPSC and I carry 24/7.
And I would never shoot any other guns than my carry guns. So I compete with Glock 26s and 19s. And I carry these guns.
I don't pracitce a lot with my carry ammo - too expensive, EUR 1,- / U$ 1.3 a shot (Fiocchi EMB). But sometimes I even do that.
There should be no technical suprises in a gunfight...
 
I think one problem with using a 1911 is folks tend to tune them way too much. My carry guns are fairly stock. I shoot them often, and can't recall any untoward incident in years.
A friend carrys what is virtually a race gun. He has problems with FTF.
 
I compete in single stack division with my carry gun (Taurus PT1911). I carry all of the time. As far as reliability goes, the notion that 1911's are unrealiable is a relatively new notion. 1911's have enjoyed a reputation for reliabilty throughout their history. I can show you a Para .38 super with about 1 million rounds through it that is still reliable. My Taurus (.45) went literally 21000 rounds without a single malfunction. When it did malfunction, it was bad ammo. 3,000 rounds later, the trigger job went to crap and I replaced the sear and hammer. Other than hammer, sear, trigger, mainspring housing and mag release button, the gun is stock. Having shot lots of 1911's over the years, the only ones I ever had trouble with were the ones worked on by gunsmiths who didn't know what they were doing.
 
I'd like to see folks try this with their NAA mini or Keltec P3ATs. :p

When I was shooting USPSA, I shot my Colt CCO quite a bit. I did well with it and it sure reinforced my confidence in the weapon. My other gun was my CZ40B, which gets car duty very often. I never did try my 642, or any other revolver though. I don't know why I never considered it. I only ever saw one guy compete with a revolver, and he had a tricked out full size Performance Center gun. I'll need to set something up for my 642 and SP101 next time I'm the only one at my local range.
 
The IDPA magazine has a letter about the BUG division being screwed up because some folks shoot short barreled SW 66s, Model 10s, etc. He thinks it should limited to J frames and similar pocket snubbies (Colts, Taurus, Charter Arms).

I think he is correct but IDPA when blah, blah. They should come up with an IDPA realistic pocket like the box for BUGS.

Also, it depends why you shoot IDPA. IPSC is a total fun game and some trigger practice - no reality to most of the guns. Who walks down the street with for 33 round double stack mags in front of their pants with a gun with the Hubble telescope on the top and the Holland tunnel for a mag well?

But it's fun.

I shoot my 1911 in IDPA for FTF and malfunction practice.

Being a FOG is useful because I don't get crazy about shaving a microsecond off my time by preplanning each step. I just lumber over to the next target.
 
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