I don't mean carrying two guns at once. But I already have an idea from other posts what some people think.
My question is, it is better to carry a single handgun as your self defense weapon all the time (all the time you carry one, that is) or better to have a big one and another, smaller one for the times your "full sized" one is too big. Or, do you have a half dozen you pick from.
Any solution is a compromise. But my question is not for policemen, who usually have their own set of rules to follow that others don't have to worry about.
I was doing some research and realised that very little was written by the older authors about the subject. Apparently none of them considered the subject of a private individual carring a concealed weapon. Elmer Keith was apparently only addressing the need of plainclothes policemen when he addressed the subject but he clearly advocated one gun only. Of course he also advocated that it be a 4" model 29 or, for those with weak hands, a combat magnum (model 19).
But if it has to be concealed, and it absolutely has to be if you aren't a policeman, then considerable compromise might be called for, at least if you think a Glock model 19 or the same in other calibers is a compromise. At any rate, I tend to go with the one gun all the time approach, even if my list of possibilities is longer (shall we say, goes lower?) than others.
It isn't my intent to bring up caliber or action type selections but rather if one is better or one of two is better.
And if two (a big one and a little one), should they be of identical action types, like a Colt .45 ACP government model and a Colt government .380.
Also, I was wondering if concealed carriers carry additional ammunition and if so, how?
My question is, it is better to carry a single handgun as your self defense weapon all the time (all the time you carry one, that is) or better to have a big one and another, smaller one for the times your "full sized" one is too big. Or, do you have a half dozen you pick from.
Any solution is a compromise. But my question is not for policemen, who usually have their own set of rules to follow that others don't have to worry about.
I was doing some research and realised that very little was written by the older authors about the subject. Apparently none of them considered the subject of a private individual carring a concealed weapon. Elmer Keith was apparently only addressing the need of plainclothes policemen when he addressed the subject but he clearly advocated one gun only. Of course he also advocated that it be a 4" model 29 or, for those with weak hands, a combat magnum (model 19).
But if it has to be concealed, and it absolutely has to be if you aren't a policeman, then considerable compromise might be called for, at least if you think a Glock model 19 or the same in other calibers is a compromise. At any rate, I tend to go with the one gun all the time approach, even if my list of possibilities is longer (shall we say, goes lower?) than others.
It isn't my intent to bring up caliber or action type selections but rather if one is better or one of two is better.
And if two (a big one and a little one), should they be of identical action types, like a Colt .45 ACP government model and a Colt government .380.
Also, I was wondering if concealed carriers carry additional ammunition and if so, how?
