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Just carried my Glock 42 this morning for a blood draw. Normally, I carry a Glock 26 IWB, but when I need to be right next to someone for any length of time without any chance of printing, the 26 comes out of the holster and the 42 goes in. Alternatively, I'll remove my IWB holster and carry my Sig P238 in my right front pants pocket.

Beretta 950 25 ACP

My 3AT probably won't hang with the Gl. 42 for dependability, but it's dependable & wins for smaller length, height, width & weight. It's with me nearly all the time in a padded nylon pocket holster.
Without the holster it will wear an imprint on every pair of dark colored pants ya got, jeans in particular, & you'll look like you're carrying whether you are or not.

G 26

Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan .454 Casull.

Colt Detective Special with a 2 inch barrel chambered in 38 Special. Carried it for years. Gave it to a girlfriend to put jn her car when she worked in a bad area of town. Broke up with her and forgot she had it. By the time I remembered she had moved.

Now I carry a Ruger ECP in 9mm but I liked the Colt a lot better.

I’m a lefty, every semiautomatic I have tried in my left front pocket has had issues with the magazine release occasionally getting pressed in pocket carry. Not all the time but enough to make me lose confidence.

OTOH pocket carry is where an Airweight shines.

Sig 365

Glock 43. Also an excellent ultralight backpacking pistol.

Glock 43X with Shield mags/ mag release* for 15 +1 9mm in a format that still drops into the back pocket of most pants.

*be sure to just order the mag release when you order mags

Beretta .25

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It is a joke of a gun. But, working over 200 GSW as a Paramedic, I did see a man killed with it one time. 72 year old black mammy got mad at 75 year old black daddy, and she started firing the .25! One bullet took out the light fixture in the ceiling. One bullet went through the refrigerator. Several bullets in the floor.
And one bullet hit the man. It hit him on the outside of his upper arm. His left arm. It travelled through the arm, and missed the bone. It travelled into the chest, and missed the rib. And it stopped right in the middle of his heart. Dead Right There. Hell of an xray.

What a fluke! Had it hit the arm bone it would have stopped. Had it hit the rib it would have stopped.
I saw lots of people hit with a .25, often doc put a band aid on the little hole and the guy walked out of the ER. But not this guy.

My 442 or my S&W Bodyguard .380. My shield with a rds is too big for my pocket. I need to step up my knife carrying though, my swiss army knife isn't much of a back up.

I heard this about a .25 one time- "be careful using a .25 pistol- if you shoot it someone you might hit him with it and they might notice and then they will get mad and kill you"....

I have carried my S&W 340 SC and like it, but.. I normally carry a .380. Rides a little flatter and holds an extra couple rounds.

Used to be a Ruger LCP "Custom"- the one with the red trigger and big sights- but on a whim, I bought a Kahr CW380. After I added some big night sights, it's quickly became my go-to gun. Never a bobble, prints where the sights look, and recoils softer than the other two.

I have a Sig 365 too, but it's just a little too heavy to pocket carry comfortably, and a little too bulky to get out of a normal-sized pocket in a timely manner.

What would you recommend for the slim and tall crowd? (those of us with NO azz)

Ruger Alaskan 454 Casull. Just need large pockets

Colt Mustang Pocketlite. Bought new in 1993.

Smith 442.

I hear that, but have yet to find a volunteer to let me shoot them in the face with one. Mine generally is loaded with XTP, but I recently saw that Buffalo Bore now has a 60gr Hard Cast that would probably be the cat's ass for head shots at fist throwing distance.

Sig P238 in a Galco pocket holster.