Who carries the 10mm?

[Milhouse58421]

My G29sf is what I have on me 90% of the time, loaded with Underwood 180 grain Gold Dots,  but occasoinally I will carry a Kimber Ultra Raptor with 200 grain Gold Dots.  I think either one will stop a fight in short order, but like the extra capacity of the Glock (11 vs 8  ).

[Breadman03]

Practice makes perfect.  It is pretty amazing how comfortable you get with something you practice with compared to not.  I know that simply sounds sooooooooo obvious, and it is.  I guess it's just simply amazing to me how sometimes it's kind of like you ended up being better with something you put the time in with than you would have even guessed from the start.  It's always a good feeling when something comes together like that.

I was issued an M9 in the Marines and probably have close to 100,000 rounds through one.  I hadn't touched one from 2003 until a couple days ago.  I closed my eyes, brought the pistol on target, and opened my eyes with perfect sight alignment.  With all of my pistols, the sights will be close but not perfect.

That actually made me decide to sell my Glock 35 so that I can pick up an M9/92.

[sqlbullet]

And definitely shoot what you carry and don't carry anything you haven't shot.

Case in point.  My recent P12-45 that I picked up for a conversion to 10mm.  I carried it once before I took it to the range...The day I bought it because in my race to make it to the gun shop before it closed I left my carry gun at home in the safe.  So, I bought a box of gold dots and holstered it for the ride home.

On my first range trip I found the extractor was worn.  Every other shot it failed to extract.

I also remember well a story one of instructors at the police academy told.  Every year in his department they would shoot their carry ammo up during qualification, then be issued new ammo for carry.  One year they found that they had a bad lot of ammo.  Only about 50% of it went bang.  This was the ammo they had been carrying for the whole year.  Luckily in the sleepy town they worked, there had been no altercations that had escalated in the year.  But if there had been it would have been very bad news.

So, shoot what you carry, both in terms of ammo and guns.

[pacapcop]

That practice is still being done.Good point.

[sqlbullet]

Most of the departments around here have changed the policy.  They now shoot a warm up drill with last years carry ammo, then shoot qualifier with ammo drawn from the new ammo.  Any old that is left is given to the officers for their own practice.

[pacapcop]

The old carry ammo in my dept is used for warm up,then they go to ball,then provide new H/P.ill bring this up no doubt.

[s0nspark]

I carry either my G19 or my G20, depending on how I need to dress...  been carrying the G20 more and more these days.

[cwlongshot]

And definitely shoot what you carry and don't carry anything you haven't shot.

Regardless of the gun or caliber you choose... This statement could SAVE YOUR LIFE! PLEASE, Read it, listen to it and KNOW IT!

CW

[Mike_Fontenot]

Kimber 10mm Eclipse Custom II (full-size, all-steel) ... any time I'm awake ... in a homemade under-the-shirt vertical shoulder holster.  S&W360sc scandium/titanium .357 snubby in my front pocket, as BUG.

[s0nspark]

Kimber 10mm Eclipse Custom II (full-size, all-steel) ... any time I'm awake ... in a homemade under-the-shirt vertical shoulder holster.  S&W360sc scandium/titanium .357 snubby in my front pocket, as BUG.

Sounds interesting ... can you share some pics?

[Mike_Fontenot]

Sounds interesting ... can you share some pics?

I don't have any pics of the shoulder harness, but I can describe it:

Mostly, it consists of a single long length of 2"-wide  KNITTED elastic.  That attaches to the upper rear of the holster (behind my arm), and runs upward along the back side of my shoulder, behind my neck, and then downward along the right side of my chest, then curves under my right arm, then along the lower part of my back, and attaches to the lower rear part of the holster.

Another 2" strap goes from the upper front of the holster, joining that first strap about 1/4 of the way from my neck to the edge of my left shoulder ... the two straps meet at a fairly small angle, slightly aft of the "fall-line" of my shoulder.  And there is a small length of 2" strap that connects those two straps, going over my shoulder about 2/3 of the way between my neck and the edge of my shoulder (which supports a small part of the weight of the gun ...  but the majority of the weight gets distributed over almost the whole length of that long 2" strap ... that distribution of the load is what makes the gun feel so much lighter than it does with a belt holster).

There are also two 1"-wide braided elastic straps that criss-cross between the forward side of the holster and the part of that long 2" strap that runs vertically along the right side of my chest ... and each of those two 1" straps has a plastic quick-connector (like those used on backpacks, etc) near the center of my chest ... that's how you get the harness on and off.  (These criss-cross straps in front of course wouldn't work for an outside-the-shirt holster, because they would be visible ... but they are invisible in the under-the-shirt holster rig, and they keep the gun from flopping around, and snugged in close to the body).

[rjinaz85308]

G29 here or a STI VIP in 10mm

[BlueLineFish]

Just ordered my g20 gen 3

[REDLINE]

Congratulations!  A Generation 3 G20 is never a bad way to go.

[BlueLineFish]

It will be my second. I also have an eaa witness elite match. Also have a new delta elite on order