{"id":1579,"date":"2014-06-26T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2014-07-03T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:39:13","slug":"five-great-concealed-carry-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/five-great-concealed-carry-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Great Concealed Carry Guns That I Stopped Carrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The End is Nigh<\/h3> <p>Since the beginning of Spring, the focus here on the Lounge has been on the topic of concealable firearms.<\/p> <p>We&#8217;ve gone down a couple of rabbit trails here and there, but in general, we&#8217;ve mostly talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/springfield-armory-xd-s-4-0-review\/\" title=\"Springfield XDS-4.0\" target=\"_blank\">carry guns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/muzzle-flash\/\" title=\"Muzzle flash and ammo\" target=\"_blank\">handgun self-defense tips<\/a>, and even some stuff about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/takedown-rifle\/\" title=\"Takedown Rifles\" target=\"_blank\">concealable rifles<\/a>. Today is the last official post of that series. Topics related to concealed carry guns will definitely still be a big part of the Lounge, but we&#8217;ll also be spending some more time with long guns and some shooting topics not directly related to carry and self-defense.<\/p> <h3>The Rejects: Concealed Carry Pistols I Gave Up Carrying<\/h3> <p>As a wrap-up for the series,\u00a0I thought I\u2019d let you guys in on a little background about my personal carry gun history, so maybe you can learn a thing or two from some of the mistakes I made in the last decade or so.<\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1580\" style=\"width: 752px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-36.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1580 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-36.jpg\" alt=\"S&amp;W Model 36\" width=\"752\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-36.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-36-600x410.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-36-350x239.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The S&amp;W Model 36: When you absolutely, positively, don&#8217;t want any rear sights.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>The very first gun I carried after I got my permit was a nickel plated <strong>Smith &amp; Wesson Model 36<\/strong>. This is the old school all steel frame .38 special snub nose. I couldn\u2019t shoot it very well, and it was a heavy thing to carry around for only having five shots. Also, it wasn\u2019t even mine, it was my dad\u2019s. So I gave that back and I went looking for something of my own with a little more firepower.<\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1581\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Beretta-PX4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Beretta-PX4.jpg\" alt=\"Beretta PX4\" width=\"750\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Beretta-PX4.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Beretta-PX4-600x440.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/Beretta-PX4-350x257.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There&#8217;s more airbrushing in this Beretta product photo than on all of the magazine covers at the grocery store checkout line combined.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>And that ended up being a <strong>Beretta PX4 Storm 9mm<\/strong>. This was right when they first came around 2005. It\u2019s a good gun, and I liked a lot of things about it, but compared to the revolver, it was really big and bulky and I just couldn\u2019t find a good way to conceal it, which probably had a lot to do with the cheap holster that I had for it.<\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/makarov-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/makarov-11.jpg\" alt=\"East German Makarov PM\" width=\"753\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/makarov-11.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/makarov-11-592x450.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/makarov-11-350x266.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">East German Makarov sitting on a beautiful bed of surplus .30-06 ammo because&#8230; that&#8217;s all I had sitting around when I took this in 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>I kept the Beretta for a while longer, but quit carrying it and picked up a pristine surplus <strong>East German Makarov PM<\/strong>. My thinking was that it\u2019s a double action\/single action just like my Beretta, it\u2019s just a little smaller. What I found out later is that unlike the Beretta, the sights were small and hard to see and the double action trigger was really stiff.<\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-442-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-442-2.jpg\" alt=\"S&amp;W-442-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-442-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/SW-442-2-350x230.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I thought I had a really nice picture of the actual 442 that I owned. Turns out I had a really nice thumbnail of a picture that I took with the best resolution a camera phone from 2006 had to offer. We&#8217;re all better off with this stock image from S&amp;W.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>So at the time, I guess I figured if I was going to carry a gun with sights I couldn\u2019t see and a heavy trigger, then it might as well be light and easier to carry. So I went back to a snub nose, but this time I got the <strong>S&amp;W 442<\/strong>, which is just like the Model 36 but there\u2019s no hammer, and it has a light aluminum frame. It was really easy to carry\u00a0and very comfortable, but a bear to shoot. The recoil on those things is just not fun, so I didn\u2019t practice with it and never got very good at shooting it.<\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" style=\"width: 1449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11.jpg\" alt=\"Kahr CW9\" width=\"1449\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11.jpg 1449w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11-600x380.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/kahr-11-350x222.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1449px) 100vw, 1449px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you click this image for the high-res version, you can see one of the key features of every used CW9 I&#8217;ve ever seen: the ability to collect toe-jam-like crud in between the slide serrations.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>So then I moved on to what I would say was my first carry gun that actually made sense, and that was a <strong>Kahr CW9<\/strong>. I say it made sense because by that time, I actually knew what factors to really consider when I was picking it out. I knew I needed something I could carry comfortably, conceal easily, and actually shoot well. And the Kahr worked fairly well for me for all three of those things.<\/p> <p>I did eventually get rid of it because I could never really get used to the weird light double action on the Kahr pistols. I also found that the double stack M&amp;P9 compact was not any longer in the grip or the barrel on the Kahr, and the extra width didn\u2019t make it much\u00a0harder to carry. With higher ammo capacity and a better trigger, the M&amp;P has been my main carry gun for the\u00a0last several years.<\/p><p><\/p> <figure id=\"attachment_1593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1593\" style=\"width: 1044px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c.jpg\" alt=\"Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P9c\" width=\"1044\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/media\/MP9c-350x227.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1044px) 100vw, 1044px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My current carry and frequent model here on the Lounge: the Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P9c with Crimson Trace Lasergrips carried in a Custom Carry Concepts &#8220;Looper&#8221; holster.<\/figcaption><\/figure> <p>I\u2019ve tried carrying a few other guns\u00a0on and off\u00a0since then (most notably, the Walther PPS and M&amp;P Shield, both functionally similar to the M&amp;P9c), but I keep coming back to the M&amp;P compact. I have a lot of trigger time with it by now, and with that has come a lot of confidence in the gun and in my ability with it.<\/p> <h3>The Takeaway<\/h3> <p>Here&#8217;s the kicker: All of those &#8220;rejects&#8221; were actually pretty good concealed carry guns. They were reliable, well-made, and chambered in decent self-defense cartridges. The problem wasn&#8217;t that they were bad guns, it was that they weren&#8217;t quite right for me, but I was too inexperienced\u00a0to know that without a lot of annoying (and expensive) trial and error.<\/p> <p>If I could give one piece of advice for picking out a carry gun after all of that, it would be to learn as much as you can about actually carrying and using a gun for self-defense <em>before<\/em> you start trying to find the mythological &#8220;perfect&#8221; carry gun. In the beginning,\u00a0I was all wrapped up in learning everything I could about just the guns themselves. That\u2019s a lot of fun, but I had a hard time putting that knowledge in context and knowing what it would be like to carry them. I wasn\u2019t spending nearly enough time practicing, nor was I going out of my way to read up on things like what a good holster or gun belt can do for you, or why it\u2019s helpful\u00a0to have a carry gun with a good trigger and sights.<\/p> <p>So if you\u2019re still trying to find the right carry gun, stop shopping for guns and start trying to learn how to shoot better, and you\u2019ll have a much easier time figuring out what is going to work best for you.<\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End is Nigh Since the beginning of Spring, the focus here on the Lounge has been on the topic &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luckygunner.com\/lounge\/five-great-concealed-carry-guns\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,22,21,17,58],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toolbox","tag-concealed-carry","tag-gear","tag-handguns","tag-self-defense","tag-training"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five Great Concealed Carry Guns I Stopped Carrying<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn from Chris at Lucky Gunner&#039;s mistakes before diving in and purchasing a concealed carry gun that might not fit your needs. 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