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I'd like to carry one of them Springfield 1911's....to the range, or in the glovebox, or out in the woods, or around the house.

But it'd be close to my last choice for concealed carry.

What would be your top last choice Newby?








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Thanks Gibby.
Probably something lighter and more concealable.
You see, where I come from it's cornbread and chicken...I meant it's pretty warm, or some might say stifling, for a good part of the year. And I'm not a really big guy that can easily conceal a 1911 when wearing cargo shorts and a t-shirt.
Now in the winter time, on a few of the colder days when a coat is required, I could probably hide a 1911 or a double stack plastigun.
But I'd say if I felt the need to carry everywhere I went, that something like a CW9 would get a good bit of use. And an LCP might find itself in a pocket here and there. And I'd probably have to include a snubnose .38 in the mix.

Not the most powerful sidearms I know. But even a PMR30 could put a world of hurt in the right spot.

I sure do admire a 1911 though.

Not the top of my list for concealed carry these days, but believe it or not, I carried one very much like it for several years IWB. It’s not actually as uncomfortable or hard to conceal as you might think.

Two words:

Forty Five

Looks like Colin Flaherty doesn't like this guy very much either.

Ruger LCP with crimson trace laser and DeSantis pocket holster, loaded with 90 gr Gold Dot at 1100 fps.

It weighs 10 ounces loaded, 6 ounces unloaded, recoil is painful.

It will not fit in the shirt pocket with the holster. So it is in the inside pocket of my jacket, over my heart.

Lately it has been 2 airweight J frames. 1 in pants pocket and 1 in my jacket pocket. If my hand is in the jacket pocket, I'm holding the gun.

Hi all the answers are wrong except the Phoenix Arms 25 ACP. The bone crushing power of this cartridge has to be witnesed to be believed.

It doesn't hit like a brick through a plate glass window like the .32 ACP.

The 25 ACP is easily lethal and can cause terrible injuries. No joke.

Within its useful range of 6 feet and closer...and no leather jackets and other winter clothing to penetrate.

I have some 25 acp handloads I made, with recoil so painful, you can only shoot a few shots.

In a 25acp work up, the good ones stop when the primer pocket enlarges. The beat up 100 year old Spanish 25acps may have a primer pierce before the primer pocket gives up.

I did know a guy with a pawn shop in Crystal springs FL that was run through by a customer with a samurai sword. [that might be where they got the plot for Pulp Fiction] He killed the guy with a 25acp, and got out of the pawn shop biz. My friend died 15 or 20 years ago of natural causes.

Paul Harrel claims he carries a little .25 auto. I think the guy in the video is that fellow from Cold Steel.

Colt Wiley Clapp CCO, .45 acp in a Simply Rugged Cuda holster and 1 spare magazine in Simply Rugged mag carrier.

Bond carried a 25, James Bond

It was taken from him pretty early on and replaced with the .32 ACP Walther PPK, because "the CIA swears by it."

I worked with an old guy, down in Fla.I belive he was from the New York, we drove beer trucks, he carried a 25acp in each front pocket. He was a former Boxer, boy he had some stories!

I had a cousin who was shot with a .25 in a bar. He went to jail for the beating he gave the guy after he shot him. Bullet stopped in his breastplate.