The little Bersa .380s are pretty dang reliable and easy to use. Smaller frame, good controls, and just work. My old man was a deputy for 23 years, his last 10 years or so he worked part time in Harrisville. When he started working there and doing more supporting calls for the Ogden City gang unit, he bought a little Bersa for a backup gun. Somehow he managed to hide that little Thunder 380 inside his trauma plate pouch on his body armor.
Ladies carry pistol?
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- West Haven, UT
Bersa .380's shoot very nice. I like the S&W EZ model - my wife has one (9mm), it is easier for her to rack. Remember, some guy told us that a 9mm will blow your lung out. 
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
So she won't be getting it for another nine days but ended up with Sig P365 in .380.
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- Stinkwater
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- West Bountiful, UT
This women's carry stuff is escalating and getting expensive fast at my house. Wife and daughter fighting over wife's pistol, blah, blah, blah. Both of the wearing me down constantly. Me saying Eff it, I need them to shut up for a little while, blah, blah, blah.
Well, like the old diamond commercial used to say, "that ought to shut them up for awhile". Or, no, it was "take her breath away". Same thing.
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Well, like the old diamond commercial used to say, "that ought to shut them up for awhile". Or, no, it was "take her breath away". Same thing.
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- West Bountiful, UT
Meaningless but interesting observation today.
I've got a Savage 1907 .32 ACP that belonged to my great grandpa and is about 110 years old. As the "original" double stack, it was the first pocket pistol to hold ten rounds in the magazine. Looks like it has a hammer, but it's actually striker fired.
The P365 is the newish hotishness in capacity and concealability. My Wife and Daughters P365 380's hold, wait for it, ten rounds in the magazine. Uhhh... Savage did that almost 120 years ago...
The two side by side.
The Savage is longer over all but a tiny bit shorter top to bottom.
And the Savage is noticeable thinner.
Of course, the Savage is heavier, being all steel. But it looks pretty good for 110 years old. Better than the plastic Sig will look in another month.
Most interesting today was all three of us shooting the old Savage. Trying to shoot fast at 7 yards. I shot the Savage a little bit better than the P365's. My Daughter shot the Savage noticeably better. My Wife couldn't shoot the Savage at all.
The recoil of the .32 in the heavier gun is just a lot easier to manage. But the fine iron sights are another story. I did okay with them, and so shot the pistol better than the P365's (which, I have a lot more rounds on the P365's recently). My Daughter, with her young eagle eyes made even better use of the fine sights. My Wife, basically couldn't even see the sights and just had fun blasting away with the mild little bugger.
Pretty meaningless. But kind of interesting. A 120 year old pocket pistol competed pretty darn well against the new ones.
My old P38 on the other hand. It just sucks...
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I've got a Savage 1907 .32 ACP that belonged to my great grandpa and is about 110 years old. As the "original" double stack, it was the first pocket pistol to hold ten rounds in the magazine. Looks like it has a hammer, but it's actually striker fired.
The P365 is the newish hotishness in capacity and concealability. My Wife and Daughters P365 380's hold, wait for it, ten rounds in the magazine. Uhhh... Savage did that almost 120 years ago...
The two side by side.
The Savage is longer over all but a tiny bit shorter top to bottom.
And the Savage is noticeable thinner.
Of course, the Savage is heavier, being all steel. But it looks pretty good for 110 years old. Better than the plastic Sig will look in another month.
Most interesting today was all three of us shooting the old Savage. Trying to shoot fast at 7 yards. I shot the Savage a little bit better than the P365's. My Daughter shot the Savage noticeably better. My Wife couldn't shoot the Savage at all.
The recoil of the .32 in the heavier gun is just a lot easier to manage. But the fine iron sights are another story. I did okay with them, and so shot the pistol better than the P365's (which, I have a lot more rounds on the P365's recently). My Daughter, with her young eagle eyes made even better use of the fine sights. My Wife, basically couldn't even see the sights and just had fun blasting away with the mild little bugger.
Pretty meaningless. But kind of interesting. A 120 year old pocket pistol competed pretty darn well against the new ones.
My old P38 on the other hand. It just sucks...
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glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
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- Pleasant Grove
Super cool pistol Dave and interesting comparison. Not surprising though given the 1911 is still competitive 100 years later.
This is an interesting video
Short version: Carry a pink gun, so no one can falsely claim you pointed it at them. Unless they can identify a pink gun, they lied.
Paul Harrell (RIP) said to keep grandpa's shot gun next to the bed instead of your tricked out AR-15. So if anything ever does happen, you don't look like you spent your life waiting for that moment. It looks better in court to prove self defense if you weren't excited for it to happen.
Short version: Carry a pink gun, so no one can falsely claim you pointed it at them. Unless they can identify a pink gun, they lied.
Paul Harrell (RIP) said to keep grandpa's shot gun next to the bed instead of your tricked out AR-15. So if anything ever does happen, you don't look like you spent your life waiting for that moment. It looks better in court to prove self defense if you weren't excited for it to happen.
Die Blaue Ziege
Working on a Ford somewhere
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- Logan ut
I love my p38t, small, fits in my front pocket, has a belt clip. And dead reliable.
I had an original lc9, but found it a bit uncomfortable and that made me not carry it. The p38t is so small I keep it on myself all the time.
I had an original lc9, but found it a bit uncomfortable and that made me not carry it. The p38t is so small I keep it on myself all the time.
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- West Bountiful, UT
These things seem like they are starting to multiply like the fur ball things on Star Trek...
P365 XL Spectre Comp
Shot it for the first time this morning. I put 150 rounds through it and my daughter put 50, plus she put 100 through her .380. We started with some trigger stripe and dot drills for 50 rounds each then just started bullseye shooting at whatever distance and speed we felt like.
I'm not even a competent pistol shooter. And my daughter is usually not quite as good as me (yet, with these pistols - she's better than me with the .22/45 and gaining fast with the P365's). But we were both banging the 10" gong at 10 yards every time with slow controlled fire. I was able to keep a full 17 round magazine on an 8" splatter target at 5 yards shooting as fast as I could for my last magazine.
We like this one.
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P365 XL Spectre Comp
Shot it for the first time this morning. I put 150 rounds through it and my daughter put 50, plus she put 100 through her .380. We started with some trigger stripe and dot drills for 50 rounds each then just started bullseye shooting at whatever distance and speed we felt like.
I'm not even a competent pistol shooter. And my daughter is usually not quite as good as me (yet, with these pistols - she's better than me with the .22/45 and gaining fast with the P365's). But we were both banging the 10" gong at 10 yards every time with slow controlled fire. I was able to keep a full 17 round magazine on an 8" splatter target at 5 yards shooting as fast as I could for my last magazine.
We like this one.
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- West Bountiful, UT
And three things my daughter said when we got home that made me smile. She said her hands hurt. I take that as she was listening to me when I keep reminding her to squeeze hard with both hands and the trigger stripe drills and later shooting showed. She said she felt like she was a better shot when we got home than when she woke up this morning. And she said we should really get more steel targets .
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- West Bountiful, UT
So, two of the tribles have grown dots and I'm sure the other one is about to.
Today was the first day for Summer shooting the dot on the .380. Did a few drills and it took her a bit to start picking up the dot but once it started to click that she didn't need to look at the pistol while she was pressing it out but just focus where she wanted to hit, she kind of went "Oh!" and started to run with it. Wish I could pick it up that fast...
She's hot on my heels. I can still mostly outshoot her but only by a little bit and not all the time. Her five yard practice target today. None of it was shooting real fast but most of it was trying to shoot faster. Need to get a timer. Tried using an app on phone but it's janky.
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Today was the first day for Summer shooting the dot on the .380. Did a few drills and it took her a bit to start picking up the dot but once it started to click that she didn't need to look at the pistol while she was pressing it out but just focus where she wanted to hit, she kind of went "Oh!" and started to run with it. Wish I could pick it up that fast...
She's hot on my heels. I can still mostly outshoot her but only by a little bit and not all the time. Her five yard practice target today. None of it was shooting real fast but most of it was trying to shoot faster. Need to get a timer. Tried using an app on phone but it's janky.
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- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
I'm going to try silvery white nail polish. To match my hair.
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- Grantsville, Utah
Thursty
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- Green River
This is awesome! I haven’t been behind a trigger since I left LE three years ago. This thread is nudging me to get to the range again.
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- West Bountiful, UT
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