If you keep a handgun in your vehicle (as opposed to carrying on your person), what is your choice of weapon? Why? What is it loaded with? Why?

Thanks, RS

S&W Model 66 4inch, loaded with 125 gr HPs....for bad people.

Glock 21. 230 grain Gold dots, equipped with a laser max

Yugoslavian M57.

100 grain .312" Hornady XTP over 9 grains of Blue Dot in cases converted from Lake City 5.56 cases.

Startlingly similar to this, save only reloaded PRVI brass.

The perfect gun, a 686+ seven shots of pure death-ray. It has a 3 inch barrel, fits right in the pocket of the door to my left. It is handy for grouse out the window as a secondary use...

Springfield .40 XDM 5.25" with three 16rnd magazines. It's my main pistol I wear when outdoors, but it resides in the truck when not being worn. Fairly light and very easy to hit with. Probably the softest-shooting .40 I've ever fired. I also like a semi-auto for automobile duty, as I leave the chamber empty when it's in the console. Kids can't rack a slide.

I keep a magazine of 180gr XTP ammo in it, with a spare close by, and the third magazine is just flat-point plinker stuff in case I don't want to burn my good ammo.

Well, my truck gun had been a scoped Ruger RAR Compact .22 Magnum rifle. But, now it is a Ruger 22/45 with a Burris Fastfire III and backup irons, carried in a soft case with a few magazines. I also keep a big box of .22 LR bulk pack and hearing protection in the truck, so I am ready to go to the range whenever I feel like it.

When we travel I keep my Shield to wear but also have a full size pistol of some sort with a light in the car. First aid kit has a spare mag for the full size pistol.

Yeah, I usually wear an Airweight S&W on my person, but like for there to also be another handgun in my vehicles.

Sit p250 compact 9mm and Winchester silvertips

Sig not sit damn auto correct

Springfield XDm 45ACP with several 13rd mags.

Charter Arms Bulldog 44 Special.

Glock 19 in the console with a 2 reloads, Sig M11 and 2 reloads in the bag behind the seat with the med kit, water and flashlight.

Glock 20 10mm. It's the gun i don't care too much if it gets dirty or rusts a little

Whatever is on my belt or in my pocket, I don't leave guns in my vehicles.

This but with a 2.5 inch barrel and golden sabers. I like the sense of reliability a revolver gives me. Also for bad critters, 2-legged and 4.

There you go posting that one again - cost me $729 last time you did that. Then more $ for brass and bullet molds, and a big dent gone from my supply of WW alloy...

either a Marlin .30-.30 or a .45/70


never know when you need to jump outa the truck to go investigate something you see in the woods.


the woods were made to carry a rifle

don't keep handguns in the car unless Momma's along and we have one of her handguns, G29 these days, used to be a 629

Used to be a glock, but now I'm worried about it melting.

You only have to worry about that with those chocolate Rock Island 1911s.

Nice job getting two game violations into one post.

Yep.

This

It's OK unless you're parked in the parking lot of a casino. Because gamblers go to hell, so the parking lot is hotter.

I have noticed that you have an absolutely good sense of wood, which makes me very jealous.

A cheap azz Taurus Millennium Pro 9mm with an extra mag in the console. Don't give a crap if it rusts, and has been 100% reliable for the 700+ rounds I have put through it. If some cull breaks into my truck, I'm not out much

My bedroom and traveling gun is a Beretta PX4 Storm with laser/light and 2 clips of .45 220gr FlexLock

In the Console of my F-150, rides a Glock 31 in 357sig with a Surefire Lazer / Light Combo mounted on it. And 5 extra 15 round mags.

In the side pouch on the driver side door, is a S&W Governor in 45 / 410.
First round is a 2.5" .410 skeet load with # 9 shot, and the next 5 rounds are 250gr Speer Golddot HP 45 Colt rounds.
The .410 is for killing Rattlesnakes at the Ranch, which is usually at night when I get out to open the gate.

And of course, a .556 AR-15, laying in the back seat for Hogs, Coyotes, or Cans

My girlfriend keeps her gun in her car- because it's too big for her pocket.

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I don't know how many guns are in my vehicle right now but I can tell you if something needs shooting there is a 99% chance I have the right tool for the job.



Travis

AR-10 308 Winchester with three 20 rounders banded, why?...capacity/penetration, loaded with?....130 gr TTSX's, Why?...penetration.

Any pistol will be attached to me in a holster. It will always be a Glock, a 19,17 or 23. If I leave a gun in the truck it will be disposable. a RAR223 or Tikka T3 Lite 308 or a Vector Ak w/ folding stock in a tennis racket case for urban travel.

mike r

Has anybody ever considered something like this?

only cops.....

us civi's use these..

Both options are very cool. I usually just throw a dirty sweatshirt over mine.

Huntsman, how does that overhead mount attach?

mike r

The brackets attach with metal screws thru the inner flange above the windows. Nothing pokes thru the roof.

I don't believe in guns in cars, they actively promote violence. Once a gun is present its hypnotic properties will force you to shoot someone that is merely standing there just doing nothing. Carry some nunchucks and learn a blood curdling Ninja scream, folks are terrified of Ninja's.

Thanks Huntsman, I will have to do some measuring to see if I have enough overhead in my 4Runner. I really like that set up.

mike r

+1

No way would I carrying a gun in a car, etc. One of the best ways to arm the bad guys is to do that. If you carry on gun it belongs on your person.
The other thing is what happens if you step out of the car/truck/SUV and need the gun ? Think you'll have a chance to get to it ? You might not. E

My car guns are in addition to the one I am carrying, not in lieu of it. I lock my car and it has an alarm. To me, it is no different than my house. It is not like it is really tough to break into a typical American house.

My life isn't your life and I don't live in a chithole.

And I'm sure not carrying 3-5 guns around when I step out of my truck.

If I'm out of the truck and need a gun, I'll drag the one out of my britches.

If someone breaks into my truck and steals a gun, he's the bad guy-not me.

Ruger SR9C and a spare mag both loaded with HST 147g. +P.

Very sweet trigger and accurate, simple.

Beretta M92A1 carting a streamlight laser/light with 3 17 round mags loaded with Win 147gr jhp. And a Ruger MKII Goverment Target with 3 mags and a brick of ammo.

For you young guys that don't know what a brick of ammo is, it's from back in the olden days when you could get a whole big box of 22lr with 500!!!!!! Rounds in it. And can you believe they only cost about $20:)

Shrap would need a sherpa.




Travis

There is no way. NO WAY Shrap would jab a Model P colt down in one of those plastic, push button holsters.



















Oh, you mean one of those little fellas to carry 6 or 7 of those long guns for him....Yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah he would!

I see the one, but I miss the other.

We used those in the USAF. They worked pretty well with the full size 20" barrel M16s, but for the M4 we just put them in the door pocket. With the stock at its shortest position and the 14" barrel it fit and stayed really well.

Do not leave a gun in my vehicle but have a 5" 1911 on my person in a Milt Sparks IWB whenever I'm driving.

Virgil B.

My truck is normally unarmed but has been known to sometimes carry a 4" 686 or a Glock 19 in the console on certain occasions.

Expedition?

Yeah, haven't figured out a system both accessible and invisible.

But if I did, the 5" 625 45LC would go in the the "truck of doom," and the little astra 75 9mm in the car.

I just augment more ammo for what I am carrying. I run with a Glock 22 most of the time and I keep two extra 33 round mags in the car and a pair of 30 round AR mags. Both spares are loaded with ball ammo, I figure if I get through 15 without solving the problem more penetration might be beneficial. Also it give me a little plinking ammo if I decide to stop someplace.

30 caliber machine guns behind the headlights.

THe top mounted ones where you stand up through the moonroof are too obvious.

i prefer to CC to prevent theft. About 25 years ago some azzhole broke my window and removed the 9mm from my truck.

I had one stolen out of my truck about 25 years ago. I got over it. Not really a big deal in the big scheme of things.

VI, if you're talking about Scherer 30-rd .40 mags, don't trust them! Treat yourself to a few Glock OEM 22-rd G22 mags. They work great!