What Size Pistol do you Carry?

What Size Pistol do you Carry Most?

  • Pocket Pistol

    Votes: 83 27.6%

  • Compact in Holster

    Votes: 128 42.5%

  • Full Size

    Votes: 90 29.9%
  • Total voters
    301
  • Poll closed .
I carry the LCP about 98% of the time. I carry the PX4 fullsize when wearing heavy clothes, but it's a chubby gun and not ideal. I look forward to getting something in the middle range like the M&P Compact or a baby Glock.
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I think that sums up the crux of the whole thing. What's "Ideal" for carrying isn't the same gun as "Ideal" when the shooting starts.

Some feel that some guns are the "Ideal" compromise. For others, they're just a compromise.:cool:
 
Full size Sig 226 on hip & J-frame .357 in pocket.
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Nice pic, and mirrors my own set up. P229, P228, or P220, spray, Surefire (carried in BladeTech combo) and 642. 642 goes in an inside vest, or front pants pocket.

That's what I carry. Winter or summer.

When buttoned up in winter, the 642 feels "comforting" in my heavy coat pocket. On the few occasions that I travel light, I substitute a P239 9mm, use a single mag. pouch, and carry the SureFire in a pocket.

Hey, my light has the crenellated strike bezel.:D
 
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Full size was the answer that most closely describes my EDC as a
S&W mod. 66 is allways at my side, and I keep a model 042 in my vest, coat or pants pocket depending on weather.
 
I have a Ruger LCP .380 ACP right now, but I want something along the lines of a compact 1911A1.

edit: The LCP is my first handgun purchase, having prematurely received my LTC, Class A.
 
Like many folks I have two sizes that I use, but since the question has the qualifier "most", then the Seecamp gets more time, especially in the warm months. It's easy to see why.
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I carry either a Sig Pro SP2022 or a S&W 459, with a Taurus 85 as a backup pocket gun. Voted for full size, since I don't feel that either of my primary pistols really meet 'compact' requirements.
 
Mine's sort-of "considered" a compact, or at least Glock considers it so... it's the Glock 29.

Most of the dimensions of the pistol are quite similar to a G19/23, but it's much thicker.

I guess I'd call it full-size, but it's got a 3.78" barrel. So... what it is?

I carry IWB.
 
I generally carry my PCR in the OWB rig by FIST. However, sometimes I'm lazy and just throw my lcp in a pocket.

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This poll needs an "it depends" option. Sometimes I use a hip holster with my old Undercover and sometimes I slip something smaller into my pocket.
 
However, sometimes I'm lazy and just throw my lcp in a pocket.
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One of the gun forum world's most favorite & over-used lines is that "a .380 in the pocket beats the .45 left on the night stand at home."

I am annoyed by that line (and many of the other popular ones) because, IMO, it's a either an excuse for being lazy or it's a way to justify a sub-caliber pistol that may or may not be appropriate for the task.

I don't have the problem of being lazy with my carry gun because I don't have the option of going to some pocket mouse-gun.

I go armed in 100% of the places where it's legal and I don't own any sub-caliber "defense" guns or pocket pistols.

It's easy to avoid being lazy about it when you don't have the option.

Notice! I'm talking about myself... my thoughts, my requirements. I'm not judging anyone else. If you carry a .25 and you feel it's all you need, I am more than happy to support you. In fact, it makes me happy that you are carrying something. It means that there is another good guy out there who is armed, so you are my kind of people.

I don't have any desire to carry sub-caliber handguns for defense. Now I've got a shooting buddy that will take his NAA mini-revolver in .22 Mag when he runs errands around home on the weekends. Like running to the gas station for fuel for the lawn mower. "Just down the street, two miles from home, it's just so easy to slip in the pocket."

In my mind, he's saying that he doesn't expect anything to go wrong at a GAS STATION, of all places. As if a gas station is some how, the least likely place for some kind of robbery, assault or worse.

Yet he'll wear a 9mm or a much more capable revolver when he's going somewhere else. :confused:

That line of thinking doesn't compute with me.
 
I carry a 9mm compact in a belt holster when I can, and when pocket carry is the only option, that's either a .38 J-frame revolver or a mid-sized .380 auto, (not a true pocket pistol) in a pocket holster.

I hope to add a pocketable 9mm to the collection at some point but the budget has been tight recently.
 
I don't carry a full size unless I am walking the farm. Any other time it is one of these...

Dresser CZ82 or Kahr P40:
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Night stand Springer XD Service:
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I've gone from G 17 to LC9 and now to LCP. LCP is just fine but I miss the G 17 because it was good for all else. Now I'm happy with the feel of the LCP. I may pick up something else for range work that's full size. The Baby Eagle in 9mm is looking interesting for that.
 
S&W 340 J Frame splits time with a Rohrbaugh R9, the R9 has been getting the most time for the past couple of years. When clothing permits I like my HK USPc .45.
 
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