I’m like Geezer on my carry gun. You just can’t beat the simplicity and reliability of a hammerless revolver IMHO. Mine is a two tone 442.Here lately it's been a J frame Smith & Wesson 442. I have an old Model 36 that I like to carry but the Airweight 442 is much lighter. I even pulled out my new spare Mika pocket holster to carry the 442.
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Welcome to the Forum!I’m like Geezer on my carry gun. You just can’t beat the simplicity and reliability of a hammerless revolver IMHO. Mine is a two tone 442.
I don't carry a backup gun often. The times I carry a backup, it's usually a 442.I’m like Geezer on my carry gun. You just can’t beat the simplicity and reliability of a hammerless revolver IMHO. Mine is a two tone 442.
Thank you Sir, seems like a real fine close knit community. Just my kind of people.Welcome to the Forum!
I’m like Geezer on my carry gun. You just can’t beat the simplicity and reliability of a hammerless revolver IMHO. Mine is a two tone 442.
About 70% of the time I carry another J frame or a little Ruger LCP as a backup because, well....Murphy is alive and well.Anyone carry a backup to their backup in case their main carry and their back up backs up?
I can't see the hammer but, I know it's there.You just can't see the "hammer". . . . . . .
Can't use as single-action.
Pros & cons to that. . . .
Still a good choice !
In my early years as a wet behind the ear knuckle dragging boy in blue I met a seasoned vet who told me his near death experience. He advised a felon got his primary (S&W 5906 with mag disconnect) and if his magazine hadn’t dropped during the altercation he probably wouldn’t have been there to tell the story. Laying there in a fetal position getting bludgeoned with his primary weapon he remembered his j frame Smith in his ankle. He was able to deploy it and it saved his life. Made a real believer out of me. I went out that weekend and bought a 442 and the love affair started.I don't carry a backup gun often. The times I carry a backup, it's usually a 442.
You have a valid point. I’ve practiced with mine enough that I’m extremely comfortable out to 15 yards. I qualify every year with it and she goes everywhere with me. From duty to being at home going to the mailbox in my gym shorts. Paranoid? Maybe! Unprepared? NEVER!You just can't see the "hammer". . . . . . .
Can't use as single-action.
Pros & cons to that. . . .
Still a good choice !
Anyone carry a backup to their backup in case their main carry and their back up backs up?
You have a valid point. I’ve practiced with mine enough that I’m extremely comfortable out to 15 yards. I qualify every year with it and she goes everywhere with me. From duty to being at home going to the mailbox in my gym shorts. Paranoid? Maybe! Unprepared? NEVER!
Whenever I go out the front door I'm carrying, take out the garage, mow the lawn, check the mail.During our recent decade in central New Orleans, I had to carry a .45 to take our garbage to the dumpster INSIDE our gated, guarded complex ! When I'd tell "outsiders" about this, they'd laugh, as though it were some kind of joke. No joke !