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I carry a full size 9mm OWB when I plan on being primarily upright
I'll carry a more compact 9mm AIWB when I'll be mostly seated.
J-frame when hiking or hunting with climbing.

I started with a full size 1911 .45 inside the waistband as the only carry gun for a few years. It got to the point the weight bothered my back when I had to be on my feet all day. After that I went to a 642 during the summer and a 3" SP101 .357 during the winter. A couple years ago I had a brief stint with a Ruger LCP always with me but I sold that for quick cash to jump on another deal. Have intended to replace it but just haven't yet. Gave my brother the 642 because he always liked it and he helped me out a bunch with a few things. For the past year or so I have been carrying a Ruger LCR outside the waist band but have come to the realization that 1911's in particular and semi autos in general get on target a bit quicker for me. I am about to make the transition to a lightweight bobtailed commander size 1911, just need to find a dedicated holster that I really like for the shorter barrel. Every now and then I will change up and carry something different for one reason or another, sometimes for a few hours and sometimes for a few days.

A lot of people are giving their carry history rather than their carry rotation. That's a different subject. For me, that would be a long paragraph, since I've been carrying concealed since 1981, and my carry choices have regularly evolved since then.

I carry a Kahr CM9 in a front pocket (in a pocket holster) in the summer or anytime during shorts season. I carry a Glock G26 in a IWB holster the rest of the time. Sometimes I will also carry an LCP in a front pocket in just stepping out for something quick.

..not really looking for history as much as "current rotation"...if one has one... Some people just carry one gun all year...a lot of snubbie people are like that...

Bob

I've now settled for a Sig P365 with 124 +P Speer JHP GD during warm weather - here that's most of the year. This was a very tough decision for me because my preference, as the OP knows, is for 1911s. However, the positives of the P-365 are: the same trigger pull each time, high cartridge capacity, need only one spare 12 round mag, extremely concealable, excellent ergonomics, and very good sights for both day and dark.

When cool weather and coats are in season, I've settled on a 1911 LWT Commander in 9x23 Winchester with factory-duplicate Speer 125 JHP GD component bullet designed for the 357 Sig. This set up is ballistically equivalent on my chrono, to a 9+1 357 Mag with the same weight bullets. Enough penetration with the GDs and sufficient terminal ballistic impact.

2 back up Tripp mags are filled with the same load in the front mag and Winchester factory SP loads in the 2nd reload. Unlikely a CCW civilian would need any reloads, but while the use of SD weapons is happily an extremely improbable event, it is one that is totally unpredictable as to occurrence or circumstance.

Of course one rotates. When I know I'll be in the company of crude men, jaded blondes and cheap whiskey only the Dick's Special with split wadcutters will do. The other end are those soft spring days on the croquet lawn, lemonade and sparkling ladies and the pair of London duellers under the raw silk jacket.

I've carried Glocks for years (19, 23, 26, 27, 42), but once I put another 200 or so rounds through my Sig P365, that's going to change. A 12+1 9mm that fits in the same holster as my G42 is simply amazing.

So amazing, it's hard to believe it can be done with reliability equal to a Glock.

The first G42 I owned was a complete POS and wouldn't feed anything but FMJ's, and if you go back to when they were first released, people reported all kinds of problems. I've got 250 rounds through my P365 so far and it hasn't hiccuped once.

Have you ever seen a P365 in person, actually held one in your hands? My guess is no.

What do you have for mountaineering in the Alps?

If we all thought this way we’d still believe the Earth is flat and that it is the center of our solar system. To each his own.

Mine rotates from my right hip to the nightstand

and back again

This!!! memtb

I don't carry full size pistols. They are just too bulky and heavy. I rotate between a Sig 380 and a 38 snubby.

I think it's important to limit the number of guns as they all shoot differently, with a different trigger pull, point of aim, safety/or not a safety, etc. In instant you acutally pull that gun to use it you need to rely on muscle memory and training. Just my thoughts.

For me it's usually a Glock, 27 or 17. Once in a while it's a 1911.

I tend to carry what I am currently most practiced with, unless some temporary mechanical or physical restriction is in effect.

I carry and use one pistol platform...the M&P. I have a compact for concealed/off duty, a 2.0 Compact for daily carry, a 5" Pro for uniformed or other overt carry, and a .45 for giggles. Makes life much simpler....

The entire "rotation" thing is silly.

Well, after finishing loading and shooting the rest of the 100 sticks of brass with the 200gr xtp's at 1K, reloading, and firing near half of them again, I'm ready to add the little Fusion custom bobtail commander to the carry list, I had already put a hundred rounds thru the pistol before this load workup, slap full of new springs and extractor from my 'smith a few months back, this thing is ready, it's very accurate, and shoots perfectly to the sights.

I even tried limp wristing it a few times to induce a failure, nope, it ran, I am however embarrassed to say groups with my Glock 21 ran twice as big, I HAVE to learn to shoot that damn Glock trigger! gotdamn different critters here men, although, I guess ten inch groups with the Glock at a braced and semi fast rate of fire at 20 yards would be plenty good enough for sd, they were all in a good circle, the pistol wants to shoot, it's just me.

At any rate, no failures of any kind with either arm.