what are you? 140lbs?

do you wear clothing thats 3 sizes too big?

I KNOW!
you wear a fanny pack!

im a little bigger than that (lol)
i wear proper sized clothes
and i dont own a fannypack...

i have a mitch rosen IWB holster, which works great, and is very comfy but 80% of the time, its too bulky for what i wear...
i want something that i can ALWAYS have with me, even if i have to go smaller caliber, id rather have a .380 with me 100% of the time, than a .45 in my car, when i need it....

 

No, I weigh about 220 and I don't wear a fanny pack. I love using a shoulder rig when I wear a jacket, and I have a holster sewn into my laptop case, and I use an ankle holster as well as a belly band. I do, when I'm going casual, wear 5.11 covert shirts which are designed to help conceal guns worn on the belt and in a shoulder rig.

 

lol, im *about* 220 also.
and i dont wear a jacket unless i have to, 90% of the time im in a tshirt, and jeans or polo shirt.
i never carry a laptop case, but occasionally i have a bookbag with me, when i do its always loaded, and when i wear my heavy winter coat its loaded.
but when i take it off....im unarmed
thats why i want something smaller, like the keltec with the pocket clip right on the slide, i can clip it in the backpocket, like a knife and viola` always armed.

 

I'm thinking of getting a keltec for the same reason. I have a sig 229 for the house but it's a bit bulky for everyday wear. My workplace doesn't allow firearms on the premises though so I carry a knife in my pocket and a collapsible baton in the side car door pocket.

 

really leaning towards the kel tec pf9

i prefer .40, BUUUUT.....since ppl cant handle recoil, they wont make a .40 THAT small
i know the kahr mk40 and pm40 are super small, but i mean single stack thin, like the pf-9
and it seems like 9mm is the biggest you can get in a SUPER thin pistol
i guess 8 rounds of 9mm remington golden sabers ought to do enough damage to get my point across.........lol

 

.45 ACP ftw!

 

.45acp is great!

BUT for something to carry everyday.....I personally need something smaller....if i wore coveralls or carried a laptop case or something i could carry a .45 all day everyday.
but i sit alot at my job, and in the car...so i want something THIN, and light
keltec pf9 answers that....I have however found a few compact 1911 pistols i REALLY like but all of them are over an inch thick...at that rate ill just carry the p99 with my mitch rosen IWB ...i am thinking however that even though a compact .45 is a lil thicker than i would like...it will just look like a bump on my waist....the grip wont "print"....too bad i dont know anybody here that lives local and has a compact 1911 that i could try on, to see how it fits.....

and i could care less about recoil
at 230lbs, and with hands big enough to shoot a double stack 1911 or desert eagle comfortably, my thoughts are, if i have to shoot enough bullets for my hand to hurt....i did something VERY wrong....think about it....MOST self defense uses of a handgun are under 7yrds away....so is there a point in worryin about a 2" group at 30yrds?, or worrying about "the recoil after 100rds hurts......"
DUH!
if you EVER have to fire 100 rds out of a defensive handgun....LET ME KNOW....(if your still around to tell about it)

lol

EOR!

 

Try the Charter Arms snub-nose revolvers. They're small and I think also come in .357 mag. You can also try the Springfield EMP pistols. I hear they're awesome little guns.

 

When I need to go small, I carry my Beretta 9000s in .40SW. It fits really well in an ankle holster, and even nicer in the small of my back with my shirt tucked in over it. I really can't stand the idea of a 'pocket gun' because I don't want something I will be so limited in range and ammunition capacity with. My 9000s uses full-size Beretta 96 mags, and is pretty damn accurate thanks to the way the slide is married to the frame.

 

LOL, That reminded me of the movie "Shoot 'Em Up" I watched on HBO yesterday. Worst movie plot EVER, but plenty of shooting action.