Hello all!
I guess the best way to introduce myself is to give you a little background.
I've had a CCW permit for forty years now. I started, like most at the time, with a snubbie revolver. That gun, and the Hi Standard .22LR derringer served me well for a number of year. Then I got into reading gun magazines and learned I was woefully inadequate in the self defense area. I had to have an autoloader, and it had to be a forty five, so I went out a bought an H&K P9, a great little gun, and now I was prepared for anything.
Then I started reading Jerry Ahern's series of novels, The Survivalist, and the gun magazines were telling me I really needed a 1911. Off to the gun store again and this time I had a Colt Officer's model in stainless steel and an Alessi shoulder harness with the retention snap in the trigger guard and a double magazine holder on the off side. I was really prepared.
Life was good for several years until I learned that the Colt didn't carry nearly enough rounds and what I really needed was a “wondernine”. Also, the shoulder holster was really out, I needed to be carrying on the strong side with a double magazine holder on the opposite side.
Back to the gun store. This time it was a Taurus PT92 with two extra magazines. Forty six rounds on my person and, as Michael calls it, “a brick”.
Now I was really ready for anything, if I could figure out how to hold my pants up!
Life again was good for a little longer. Then I read a quote. I don't remember who said it but it was; “A handgun is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle that you should have brought with you in the first place.”
I actually found myself wondering where I could conceal my Mini 14 in the truck!
Okay, enough is enough. I looked back at thirty plus years of carrying a gun and found only two times that I was in a situation that I was glad I was armed. I didn't need to pull the gun, or even show it, it just allowed me the comfort of knowing I had an option if things went bad. Both times I was carrying the old Hi Standard derringer because, frankly, my “prime” carry gun was too much of a bother to carry.
We live in the suburbs of a small city. Most of the violent crime takes place in the inner city in the middle of the night. I'm in bed by ten.
I went back to the snubbie. My pants stay up and I can carry it almost all of the time.
Several years ago we bought a piece of wooded land south of here that we have been clearing in preparation of building our own “homestead”. Our nearest neighbor is probably a quarter of a mile away, “as the crow flies”, further by road. There I carry a Dan Wesson 4” barrel .357, my wife carries a Charter Arms 4” barrel .357, and we both have lever action .357's with 16” barrels.
I think we're both really prepared, but just to be sure, we don't read gun magazines anymore.
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