On the livestream we ended up talking a lot about guns and one thing I have been asking myself was if you were limited to a single concealed carry handgun for the rest of your life, which one would it be.
Most people said something in 9mm and I get it, most people are human (ish) size and the 9mm is the standard round most people are comfortable shooting well enough without a huge recoil, and the usual 9mm has a high capacity magazines and semi-auto pistols are generally quite reliable nowadays. And yet…
I don’t like polymer guns.
I don’t like the 9mm caliber that much.
I am not fully invested in having/needing a bunch of ammo in my gun.
That said, I like the .357 magnum caliber and larger ones too, but larger than .357 magnum begins to get hard to control easily, other than .45 ACP that is, which is larger but also a lot slower.
Revolvers are inherently more reliable than semi-autos, and that’s just a fact, although I am aware if you keep your semi-auto clean and well maintained the jams are minimal, but you can’t always account for a dud round. Rare though they may be.
The parameter is that it has to be concealable though, which in itself is probably the one thing that affects the type of gun I would choose more than anything else.
So, given that, any revolver would have to be limited to 4″ barrel at most, and be a .357 magnum calibre. So a Ruger GP 100 or a S&W of some kind.
For a semi-auto, if I went for a 9mm the number of choices are almost limitless, but if I opted for .45 ACP, I really think I would limit myself to the Colt 1911. So it comes down to one of these two.
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Phillips & Rodgers Model 47 Medusa
Probably a ruger red hawk. They are built like a tank, and rjn, and run, and run.
The gp 100 is also good tho.
Love the 1911, but it’s just not going to last as long