Home› Main Category› Personal Defense
Quinian
Senior MemberPosts: 707 Senior Member
Loooking for a new CC gun.
Quinian
Senior MemberPosts: 707 Senior Member
Currently I carry a Kahr K40. I picked this gun because it has no safety, no external hammer, and it's DA only. So every shot is the same and there's no switches to fumble with, nothing to get caught on your shirt.
My problem with it, is that it's super heavy. I was considering the Ruger LC9 w/ built in laser but thought you guys might have a better idea. Need something small and light but not too small. The wifes Bersa 380 thunder is too small for my monkey hands and who wants to carry 380 anyway :tooth:
My problem with it, is that it's super heavy. I was considering the Ruger LC9 w/ built in laser but thought you guys might have a better idea. Need something small and light but not too small. The wifes Bersa 380 thunder is too small for my monkey hands and who wants to carry 380 anyway :tooth:
Replies
http://www.impactguns.com/walther-pps-40-32in-black-wap10002-698958029831.aspx
http://www.impactguns.com/smith-wesson-mp-shield-40-sw-compact-180021-022188147209.aspx
Otherwise both are available in 9mm if you want to change or go with the Ruger.
Winston Churchill
+1 on the Walther PPS. I own one in .40 and am totally in love with it. Striker fire, no external safety, incredibly simple (takedown is identical to Glock). The one element that might take a little getting used to is the *European-style* mag release, an ambi lever in the trigger guard. Some love it, some hate it. I love it, as it's quick and requires no shift of hand position. Really only took me a few minutes at the range to get used to it. The fit/finish/quality of the gun are ridiculous.
ETA only gun I refuse is any more with that stupid middle of the grip mag release. My S&W 22a has that button dead center of the grip so the meat from my finger ends up dropping the mag for me when I don't want it to.
It's Springfield's new XDs
It's 1 inch thick or rather it's 7/8ths inch thick and the slide release and takedown lever make it 1" thick.
It holds 5+1 and is very accurate! Handles the recoil of .45 acp better than the PF9 does 9mm.
People talk about magazine capacity as if to have less than 10 rounds is asking for failure. Yet time and time and time again, the citizen shooter, even that granny who faced 5 armed thugs/robbers, only have to fire one or two shots and it's over.
This is the gun for me. And, if you absolutely have to have more ammo, they make a 7 round mag for it to give you 7+1.
The fiber in the front sight is buried in a groove that completely protects the fiber even from the top. If the worst should happen and the fiber is damaged, the rear of the sight still provides a full sized post so the sights are still intact.
They have pretty much thought of everything on this pistol.
The trigger has been improved greatly and takes away all the complaints from the Glock crowd who claimed the XD (and rightly so) did not have as good a trigger as the Glock.
This is a great carry piece.
But, I do understand that people are always hunting a 'better' carry combo, because I'm buying an XDs like Dan's, as soon as they start showing up, locally.
I'm thinking I might want one too (xds 45)! I need to get one in my hands and see how it feels. I have an xdm 40 compact, but it's not small enough.
Aside from that, the Shield seems to be one heck of a pistol. I really liked the one I handled.
The XDs looks pretty great, too.
Some guns with sensitivities might lose them after a couple of thousand rounds. I don't like that approach. My carry guns do not get shot that amount. Couple hundred rounds of range ammo to break it in, 20 of self defense ammo to be sure it works ok and then maybe a box or two throughout the year just because. Besides, if the issues go away after 1000 rounds are they completely gone? Might it return when you least can afford it? Why put yourself in that position? I had a Glock 26 that shot everything, every time, never failed and was very accurate. I had sold it on my quest for a slightly thinner gun. Bought another one after the string of failures noted above. I absolutely trust it will not fail me.
Just my thoughts of course, others have very different opinions.
- Jay
I got this K40 used. I've shot the heck out of it because at one point I found a great deal on .40 ammo and picked up a ton of it. Never once had any issues with it. It's just heavy. Maybe all I need is to find a better way of adjusting my belt.
Well in all honesty what happens is, unless it's so tight I always feel like I gotta go, when I stand up the right side of my pants is sagging to the point the top of my butts hanging out. You can't see that for the shirt but it feels odd anyway. At my car, adjusting isn't a problem but if that happens while walking any adjustment would either expose it or make it print really bad so my only option is to sag for a while
You can try a pair of Perry type suspenders, worn under your shirt. Although the adjusting 'buckles' will sometimes print slightly, through a light tee shirt, nobody ever seems to notice. People really don't pay much attention to such things (on men), unless you have said or done something that makes them want to try to 'make' you.
lol bisley I already need a cane as it is might as well go with the candy stripe suspenders over my shirt, embrace the old man make over in my 20s and be done with it.
Well, I didn't truly embrace the 'old man' look until my late fifties, but when I finally did, it set me free, and I ain't going back. :tooth:
My point in telling you to wear them under your shirt has nothing to do with vanity, though. If you wear the suspenders on the outside, you have to tuck your shirt tail in, which makes it harder to conceal, and harder to draw. I do that, sometimes, but it is not my preferred carry method. Since I mostly wear blue jeans and an untucked tee shirt, a comfortable IWB with a good belt and suspenders underneath is the best method I've found, though it is still far from perfect.