What Do You Carry And Why?

Just did a little work to the XDS.

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Big improvement! Did you do the grips, too?

Ronin38 said:

Big improvement! Did you do the grips, too?

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Yup. My first time. I didn't think they'd fit as well as they did. You can't even see where they meet in the back.



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I had one of those XDS 9mm's up until recently, although it was the 4.0" model (two-tone, though, just like the above). Trigger? Great. Accuracy? Ehhhh ... not good. Shot WAYYYYY low. Reliability? Nope. Light primer strikes, again and again. Traded that sum'bish back in and got me a Glock 30S. All is well again. As much as I hate Glock as a company and Glock fanboys ... dammit, the friggin' things just WORK, and for whatever stupid reason, I shoot them more accurately than I shoot M&P's and other models.

As often as I change up what I carry, I guess the best way to answer the title, "What Do You Carry, and Why?" is as follows:

"The biggest damned thing that is reliable, concealable, and I can shoot accurately."

For me, as of late, the list is as follows (from big to small):

1. Glock 40 MOS;
2. Smith & Wesson SD9VE (shaddup, it goes bang and shoots straight for me);
3. Glock 19;
4. Glock 30S;
5. Glock 26;
6. Glock 43;
7. Kel-Tec P11 (when I want something G43-sized but holding more rounds);
8. Kel-Tec P32 (carried as a backup piece at all times in the right-rear pocket).

Every once in a blue moon, I'll get a wild hair in my butt and open-carry to and from work my pimped-out Tisas/Regent R200S (1911), my Rock Island 1911A2 (18+1 of .22 TCM!), or Tanfoglio Witness (10+1 of .45 ACP), but mostly just because it's a near-zero-risk thing and I just do it for giggles - co-workers are always going "Now WTF is THAT thing on your hip?" when I hop outta the car.

Must be nice. The company I currently work for does not allow firearms on the property (including in your own car). As a matter of fact, I am leaving them, but not really for that reason.