Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Pocket carry for easy coceal **** particularly the .380s

I picked it up at Fred Meyer

S&W 642; Ruger LCR.

Cut the bullschit and just get it done.

If you can figure out how to f'k up carrying either of those, you shouldn't be carrying anything other than a spare helmet for your window licking idiot self.

Alrighty then

I know the Op didn't ask, but am I the only one carrying the Taurus 738 TCP ?

No safety, double action only, 10.2 oz empty ( 13 loaded ) easy Crimson Trace adaptable. Slide locks open on last shot.

Mine has been utterly reliable with everything I run in it.

The CT laser sight works incredibly well and really brings out all the accuracy of the piece.

I put my Colt Mustang back in the box and bought a Colt Govt 380. Guess I like the Colts. It fits my larger hands and shots very well. All the neighbor hood cats (the ones left) run when they see me. "Here kitty kitty kitty"

Thanks for the info.

Dink

For some reason Colt is another one I forget about at times ... I'll look them up.

I called my local dealer yesterday and have him pricing several of the 380's out for me. Anxious to hear back from him so I can get a decision made.

How many rounds are these little 380 pocket pistols good for?

.... because I do plan on having some range time

The store about 3 blocks to the east of you.

314

I read on the internet 310 ... so who's right???

The only place of business 3 blocks east of me is a strip joint

Seriously though

2,000 - 5,000 - 10,000 rounds

I wouldn't think the lightweight polymers would last as long, but then again that part has nothing to do with barrel life

... just curious

Several years ago, there was a Rental Glock 17 at a Gun Range in CA that had over 200K documented rounds down range. Don't know if it's still going, but Glocks are Definately the Energizer Bunny of handguns.

Holy Smokes! Doubt I have anything to worry about then.

Really I find it very easy to go through 50-100rds a session with a semiauto pistol. If you do that once a month, maybe more, the rounds can add up quickly

Yes...always...1911, Glock, Kahr...makes no difference.

Having taught CC classes since 1991 I know what you are going through psychologically and I have had tons of new shooters feel the same way about carrying a "loaded" gun. If you would put a snubbie in your pocket you can put a DA semi in your pocket just as safely.

DO NOT put a "safe action" like a Glock of XD in a pocket or IWB without using a holster. There are way too many cases of something getting caught in the triggerguard and discharging the gun... But I have never heard of a DA revolver or semi going off if the gun was not cocked to the single action position. And with the DAO Kahr it can't happen anyway.

Go over to YouTube or LiveLeak and do a search on "shootings", "armed robberies", and see how these actually go down...then ask yourself if you want a manual safety between you and death...

Took a lady who wants to start carrying to a large gun store today...she looked at just about all of the above mentioned guns and came home with a Kahr P380.

Bob

Thanks a TON!

I really am liking that Kahr P380 if I can get past the no safety part ... and you're definitely helping move me in the right direction. I'm especially liking the model with night sights. I think lots of range time handling the pistol and lots of days carrying it and I would get comfortable with it. The "no safety" truly makes sense to me ... just hard to get past right now.

It's pretty simple to pack a small DAO pistol safely in a pocket. Just DO NOT have any other items IN THAT POCKET!

No worry about something hanging up in the trigger guard that way.

Virgil B.

I'd be surprised if you keep putting 100 rounds per month through a Kahr .380, because after the honeymoon is over (maybe around the 6 month mark), you'll start to enjoy shooting it less. The recoil is snappier (is that a word?) in those micros, making extended range sessions kind of a drag (my experience anyway).

Regardless, I wouldn't sweat wearing one out. For $330, if you put 10,000 rounds through it and kill it dead, go hang it on the peg board in your shop and proudly show it off. How many people do you know that actually shot a gun so much that they flat wore it out?!

Go buy another and do it all over!

Anyway...have fun!

Was going to visit a friend tonight and actually carried the P380 tonight instead of the Commander I normally carry...

This is the DeSantis Nemesis pocket holster...it also works just like a Remora IWB holster as it appears to be made out of the same material.





Night sights while not really necessary have a better sight picture than the standard ones...



Bob