I generally carry a Shield 9MM or a Glock 26.
But I just went through this drill with my daughter (27 years old). She’s become a shooter, but not a carrier, ever since our “vacation” to the Grand Canyon, with a side trip to Gunsite for a 250 Pistol class 5 years ago. She did get her CHL a few years ago, but never carried.
She’s has tried to concealed carry with her XDm 3.8C. She won’t/can’t make it work, but she’s tried enough lately to spur me to get her out with some different carry guns I own to see what works best.
So we hit the range with 4 single stack subcompact 9’s, a pair of Shields (one regular, one performance model), a Sig P290, and my new Glock 43 that I bought a few weeks ago on a whim.
She had shot some of them before, but I asked her to load every mag and shoot at least three mags through each gun after first performing a half dozen dry fires before shooting each gun. After the required three mags, she narrowed it down to the PerformanceCenter Shield and the G43. So she went through a few more mags with each gun, back and forth. Then, she started focusing on the Glock, and after another 4 mags, she was ringing the 10” steel plates at 25 yards consistently.
So...my new G43, the new Sticky holster and DeSantis pocket holster, 4 boxes of range ammo, and a 50 round box of HST’s went home with her when she left the house. And I have a new Bravo Concealment holster on order that she’ll get soon. Yeah, I’m a sucker!
When I told my wife I gave her the new Glock, and she laughed and replied “you’ll do anything to buy another gun, won’t you?”