My wife has a LCP as her only EDC. She shoots it quite well without a complaint. I, on the other hand find it to be a handful . . . And, yes indeed, it is snappy to me.Lol, thanks I think. I guess I thought big hands would make it harder with a tiny gun but perhaps not.
A Glock 20SF 10mm has less felt recoil than a LCP 380.
Rabid Wombat and I discussed this elsewhere; my current Bodyguard has a heavy trigger, but it is butter smooth. Frankly, it's no worse than the trigger on the Gen I LCP, and it's bunches nicer to shoot.But S&W makes up for it by being gritty and lumpy, too…. I can shoot groups with it, but it is VERY deliberate….
Therein lies the rub. Always loved the LCP for times that you really needed to hide a pistol; it worked, and I could hit with it. But range practice was not something to enjoy, and there was always a question in my mind about how much shooting the LCP will tolerate.Practice makes perfect - regardless of hand size.
My sentiments exactly. Have you tried a P238 HD with the all-steel frame? Best-shooting small .380, IMO. Pardon the cliché, but it "feels like a .22" .Sig P238 is better than the KelTec though, obviously. Colt 1903 (.32 blowback in a larger form factor, heavy steel) better still.
So I’m an occasional .380 user, slipping the regular LCP in pocket during urban rucks. I’ve put a decent amount of rounds through this little thing. I keep reading of how snappy, uncontrollable, or inaccurate these guns are. What are people talking about?
My XL mitts hold the thing like a toy and every shot makes me ponder the lack of umph this marginal (but better than nothing for sure!) pistolola has to offer. Zero concern for recoil though; it shoots soft.
What gives and what am I missing? Who finds these little marginal pistols to be hard/painful to shoot?
Here’s a mag shot at 7 yards with God Dots. Again, marginal fight stopping performance but EASY to shoot. What say you?
Yes I mean perceived.I assume you mean a Glock 20SF has less perceived recoil than a Ruger LCP because it has a much larger grip area to distribute the recoil impulse. However, a Glock 20SF actually has 10.17 ft-lb of calculated recoil compared to 5.35 ft-lb for a Ruger LCP.
An LCP's calculated recoil is slightly less than that of a Glock 17.
While no locked breech 380 is particularly punishing, the same is not true for blowback designs, which are simply nasty.
Blowback .380s are "snappy", compared to similar sized lock breech guns.So I’m an occasional .380 user, slipping the regular LCP in pocket during urban rucks. I’ve put a decent amount of rounds through this little thing. I keep reading of how snappy, uncontrollable, or inaccurate these guns are. What are people talking about?
My XL mitts hold the thing like a toy and every shot makes me ponder the lack of umph this marginal (but better than nothing for sure!) pistolola has to offer. Zero concern for recoil though; it shoots soft.
What gives and what am I missing? Who finds these little marginal pistols to be hard/painful to shoot?
Here’s a mag shot at 7 yards with God Dots. Again, marginal fight stopping performance but EASY to shoot. What say you?
Who finds these little marginal pistols to be hard/painful to shoot?
So I’m an occasional .380 user, slipping the regular LCP in pocket during urban rucks. I’ve put a decent amount of rounds through this little thing. I keep reading of how snappy, uncontrollable, or inaccurate these guns are. What are people talking about?
My XL mitts hold the thing like a toy and every shot makes me ponder the lack of umph this marginal (but better than nothing for sure!) pistolola has to offer. Zero concern for recoil though; it shoots soft.
What gives and what am I missing? Who finds these little marginal pistols to be hard/painful to shoot?
Here’s a mag shot at 7 yards with God Dots. Again, marginal fight stopping performance but EASY to shoot. What say you?
Hmmm. That's interesting; had one years ago, and don't recall the problem. I went through two of them; the second had a flat, leaf spring to operate the extractor, and it was stone reliable. The first generation, not so much. Finally went to the Ruger when they became available.Another thing I’m not fond of the KT P3AT is it wrecks brass. All ejected case mouths are crushed halfway. The mouth looks like a “D” when I pick them up.