30 years of
many pistols in my hands and I stopped looking when I got a CC-Permit, needed a
smaller lighter yet
rugged weapon and found the
Springfield XD-9. IMHO it is the easiest (non-
micro-built Derringer
LM5 type) pistol to conceal if you want a good
CQC semi-auto pistol that does not look like it belongs stuck in a
bar-fly's leg
garter holster. It's
discreet concealed carry even in a normal pants/jacket pocket. Fine quality, accuracy, reliability and
STOPPING POWER with its 10-rd clip of 9mm
COR©BON HP 115gr rounds, plus 1 in the 'spout' (11 rds vs 5 same for
any Lady Smith revolver) for
fast deployment, less manual safeties to slow U down; just draw, aim (nice front/rear combo sights) & squeeze off something moving @ 1350fps that hits like a
soft-lead .45-.50cal
ball round the closer the target is 2 U.
Rubbish U cry :39: ? Try it on a
soft target (like a dead dear strung-up which simulates a human
very well) and watch a 2-2.5" hole spider-out from point of impact, followed by the
crimson-spray of
about 1lb of meat ejected outward upon impact and splinter into
hundreds of
micro mini-bits of lead & copper stuck inside to a depth of 4-6"
! vs. a normal 9mm
FMJ that just leaves a nice round hole big enough to stick a
pencil through on it's way thru &
probably out the other side of a
skinny perp or paper target on a range.
HP stopping power even against
body armor will knock a
big perp down, not pass right thru leaving perp just more
P.O-ed :Image15: unless U hit that inner eye/nose tear duct sp
ot, the '
Drop-dead Fred' spot snipers
love. But this is
no sniper rifle & that shot takes a
LOT of practice to make when the SHTF. For the price, quality and
short range accuracy it is small and
deadly if U use the
right stoppng ammo, or 4-get it and go with a
LARGER 1911 stlye 'shooters', leaving a hole U can
now stick a finger in, unless it's shooting HP's, then
that stops the
human tanks of this world, is
twice as big,
twice as heavy and packs a
hefty recoil. A larger good quality pistol
is a must for @ home/range uses, but CC
is hard to keep it legal. Try conceal that size/
any make of
hand-canon in your
jeans & a
T on an
80' day
! I'd love 2 know how that is legally done & still stay out of sight & out of a fanny-pack. It doesn't get
much better for sub-compacts but the right ammo is IMHO what gives it
best in class short-range
awesome stopping power, and
practice or U
may just blow your foot off looking for a safety to flip up or down that are
not there
500+ various rds to date with no MF's, jambs or hangs; poetry in pistols.
Regards,
Canis-Lupus :duim: