@Smokin Joe
I like the A-75 Astra in .45 for a town piece, and std Colt mags will fit with a tiny amount of doctoring to the notch in the mag. Double action out the gate, decocker, but not DAO.
In winter, I have a (okay give me crap) Ladysmith wheel gun in .38+P in the parka pocket, and I can buy a new parka if I need it. Light, hammerless, nothing to hang up, but the only reason to draw it is to use it, so why telegraph a punch and take a chance on being outdrawn?
When I am wearing the minimum amount of clothing in hot weather,I carry a Kel-Tec 9mm. In cold weather I carry anything I want,plus my 44 Special in a coat pocket.
I like the PF-9, had one, a relative (by marriage) stole it, but I can't prove it. He knows better than set foot on the place ever again (They divorced and he's out, now, anyway, so he has no excuse to be here). I should get another, because the Sig is just too thick with thin clothes, even though I like that P-228. In cold weather, a coat can cover anything, but the pocket gun is the first line of defense. "Stay frosty, wait a second, I got it right here."--hand in pocket, game over.
NOT a big believer in holsters, I AM a big believer in if I THINK I MIGHT need a gun,having the gun IN my hand and pointed where it needs to be pointed. I don't care how fast you think you can draw from a concealment holster,I can shoot through a coat pocket quicker.
Yep, but sometimes you gotta do the holster thing.
If I am out walking around in my yard at night,I normally carry a 12 gauge riot gun with magnum loads of number 4 buckshot,and a 357 magnum for backup in case I happen to bump into that damn bear that likes to take a dump by the telephone pole in my yard. I have seen him in the daytime and he's not huge,but you don't want to get into a wrestling contest with a bear. Not even a 350 or 400 lb black bear.
Still no bear here, although with moose moving back in, it is likely a question of which major predator and when, not 'If".
My M-1 Garand is my alternate weapon of choice for walking around in the yard at night. I don't have any neighbors within a mile,so I don't have to worry about harming innocents,and nobody wandering around in my yard after dark is an innocent. You don't get here by accident. Off the main road x 2.
If I were going to Newark,Detroit,or Atlanta,I would be in the market for something belt fed and 30 caliber.
I understand that sentiment. There are some places I just don't go. Newark, Detroit, Atlanta, parts of Chicago and NOLA, East St Louis, to name a few. Nothing there I need to see, anyway.
No,I am NOT the most "sporting gentleman" you will ever meet. A friend of mine and myself once stopped a whole damn bar full of blacks that were screaming stuff like
"kill the honkie MoFo's,etc,etc,etc and advancing towards us because we wanted a cold beer,and by accident walked into a "black bar" in Pleiku filled with hostile black REMF's. We were obviously guilty of not being black,and we stopped the advance by pulling out pistols and grenades and sitting them on the bar and smiling at the crowd. It's amazing how quiet a crowd of hostile blacks can get by just showing them a smile and a grenade.
We finished our beers with no more hostility in the air,waved bye-bye to them,and left.
[Funny how a show of overwhelming force leads to moments of civility. I, too have seen the conversion from "MoFo" and attitude to "Yes sir, may I help you sir?", but with a lesser display of intent (It was just a nice smile and a machete).
I am SOOOO freaking glad I wasn't in the regular army and have to deal with that rear echelon racial shit on a daily basis. The only downside was I never expected it when around black soldiers,and it always came as a surprise.
I didn't have that experience, but I could date that change by what was happening stateside. The whole "white man's war" thing was raised in concert with the hippies (communists, fellow travelers, and useful idiots) and the incited race riots (more communists, fellow travelers, and useful idiots) hijacking the Democrat party while calling themselves "The New Left". (Unfortunately, they're still around, and the Democrat Party has become the Party of communists, fellow travelers, and useful idiots. Unfortunately, they are taking over the Republican Party, too, because the (alleged) right doesn't have the spine to resist, and decries those who do.)
But you'd think guys who faced a different and bigger threat (another whole country full of SOBs who really want to kill you) would put it aside, deal with the common enemy, and not fight among themselves. But then, when the Communists started pushing that shit, it was to reduce combat effectiveness and try to cause insurrections in the ranks.
They were winning the propaganda war, and that's the one we lost in at home, not the one in SE Asia. The same MSM, the same 'news organs', even some of the same people are still at it, and all this sixties redux crap is just an extension of that 'long march'.