Was heading into Mpls today with my wife, and opted to carry the XDm 3.8 - 9mm instead of my P220 10, which is typically my primary carry weapon. I have to say, it?s almost like I wasn?t carrying it was so darn comfortable : )

      We are heading to town in a few minutes and per usual are toting one of our aluminum framed CCO 1911 pistols; today it's a DW Vigil CCO in 9mm. We are big fans of the CCO concept for CCW and have several by Wilson, Guncrafter, Colt and DW. .45, 9mm, or .38 Super? it depends on the day and whim.

I swap from the G-29 to the G-30 IWB

Options are a wonderful thing

I had to go to the "big city" today, thankfully in the better part of town, without the egregious rascals that normally infest Louisville (one of the top 20 cities for high murder rates this year). I keep an S&W M&P 9mm with me whenever I go up there to that miserable place. It holds 18 rounds, of course, and I keep some spare magazines handy, too.

I'd much rather carry one of my good 1911s, but if I had to use it, and lose it, I'd rather lose a plastic tool rather than a fine 1911. Besides, it works well, and shoots "okay, I guess", it's no tackdriver, but it ain't awful, it's just a tool. I do keep good ammo in it, at least.

      Find the concern over losing a "nice 1911" to be pretty common. However, we've carried Custom 1911s as well as semi-custom and factory versions for many years and always figured if a given gun save our bacon it had earned its' keep; what ever happened to it after that we could deal with. Over the years we dabbled with Sigs, Berettas, and even a few Glocks, but always returned to the 1911 with which we felt comfortable and competent. Our "rotation" has been limited to an assortment of 1911 pistols of assorted calibers. For us simple is better; one manual of arms no matter which gun you are carrying. As we've gotten older, the aluminum framed guns are our preferred carry pieces, especially CCOs.

Quote from: The_Shadow on January 21 2022 09:04:33 AM MST
I swap from the G-29 to the G-30 IWB

Those models being the same size, it's nice that holsters will work with either.

I take the G-29 if I must travel through high crime areas. Sometimes the Hellcat will be in the console as well. Otherwise it'll be the Hellcat or the 642-1 tucked IWB when running errands.

Throw the 1095 in the trunk and your set😀, sure like mine for being so inexpensive

Quote from: Markwell on January 22 2022 08:10:59 AM MST
      Find the concern over losing a "nice 1911" to be pretty common. However, we've carried Custom 1911s as well as semi-custom and factory versions for many years and always figured if a given gun save our bacon it had earned its' keep; what ever happened to it after that we could deal with. Over the years we dabbled with Sigs, Berettas, and even a few Glocks, but always returned to the 1911 with which we felt comfortable and competent. Our "rotation" has been limited to an assortment of 1911 pistols of assorted calibers. For us simple is better; one manual of arms no matter which gun you are carrying. As we've gotten older, the aluminum framed guns are our preferred carry pieces, especially CCOs.

Louisville is about as "woke" as anyplace in Kentucky can possibly get, that's why I moved out of the place. Locally, my new town is much more practical, but Louisville is a cesspool of liberal dumbassery, and I'm not leaving a good pistol in their filthy mitts. Besides, I know some of their officers, some of whom oughta be locked up along with the more obvious rascals. Louisville has changed remarkably in the years I lived there, and not for the better, it is reviled all across the state. Lexington isn't any better, really, it's just a smaller cesspool of the same smelly content. I'm glad I moved away from the place.
It has always been messed up, but the prior and current "mayors" have utterly ruined the place for decent citizens. I wouldn't be too upset if the Air Force used it as a bombing range.

I carry the one I have. XDM 4.5? 10mm. Sometimes the wife lets me carry her elite 3.8?. It?s easier to carry for sure.

     You gotta love living in truly rural America where you know LEOs by first name and your neighbor asks you to look after his place while he's away (and has left the basement door unlocked in case you should need to get in). County has one stoplight that almost always works and we get both our mail and the latest news at the PO (where you can leave your carry gun in your unlocked car with the engine running).