We don't want that.
We don't want that.
Then that really simplifies the issue. I feel the best decision when dealing with easy to stop targets like humans, you are always better off going with the highest capacity gun in an effective cartridge. On humans I feel 9mm is adequate and leads to mor capacity to stop multiple attackers. So why go to a larger cartridge if you feel 9mm is effective? Seems to me you have your bases covered by your G26.No bear country. Nothing more dangerous than Walmart
I'm really not treating it as one. Honest.This really wasn't supposed to be a smart ass thread.
Generally speaking, I'm also a "same gun, same way, same place" guy. Of the times that I carry (which is everywhere I can), the Shield 9 goes into a DeSantis Speed Scabbard at 4 o'clock about 98% of the time. (The other 2%, I pocket carry an LCR.) The Shield 45 will be going into an OWB pancake at 4 o'clock.I was reading a discussion on another forum about how .40 S&W guns are selling at steep discounts and I got to think how much I'd really like a Glock 23. I
The problem is I tend to be a same gun, same way, same place person and can see myself going into brain lock every day trying to figure which one to carry....
This really wasn't supposed to be a smart ass thread. I was reading a discussion on another forum about how .40 S&W guns are selling at steep discounts and I got to think how much I'd really like a Glock 23. I
The problem is I tend to be a same gun, same way, same place person and can see myself going into brain lock every day trying to figure which one to carry.
So I started this thread to see how other people made the same decision.
I can see owning two identical guns in the same caliber as being prudent should one ever need repairI'm trying to ask a pretty specific question but I'm not sure how to get it right.
Given situation: you have two handguns that are identical in all respects except for caliber.
As an example a Glock 19 and a Glock23 (for my example capacity is equal on both)
Or a (brand of your choice) 1911 in .45ACP or 1911 in .38 Super.
Or a given revolver in .357 or .44.
So, essentially you have two guns that occupy the same space.
It's a normal day. Assuming it's legal you're going to take the kids to school, go to work, go grocery shopping and come home.
How do you decide which gun you're going to carry on that given day?
Flip a coin? Switch off every other day? Whichever is on the nightstand?
ETA: I own a Glock 19 and a 26 and a gazillion magazines for them and enough 9mm to start WWIII (It on took about 5 rounds to start WWI).
Every so often I get a bug up my but and I want a Glock 23.
My problem is if I buy a Glock 23 I'm one of those people that's going to get 19 magazines for it, three or four cases of ammunition for it, a half a case of Speer gold dots for it and a $120 Kramer holster for it (by which time SWMBO will have already thrown a conniption and relegated me to the couch FOREVER. )
And I know that either it or the Glock 19 (for which I've already bought all of the above) is going to end up a safe queen and SWMBO will be really twisted.
I'm trying to decide if the financial outlay is justifiable but based on the answers that I've gotten before I added this edit I don't think it's going to be.
Well, it depends on what I'm wearing and if my holster for a particular pistol matches my belt and shoes ...This really wasn't supposed to be a smart ass thread. I was reading a discussion on another forum about how .40 S&W guns are selling at steep discounts and I got to think how much I'd really like a Glock 23. I
The problem is I tend to be a same gun, same way, same place person and can see myself going into brain lock every day trying to figure which one to carry.
So I started this thread to see how other people made the same decision.
It sounds like "cartridge envy." 40 just isn't going to do anything that 9mm won't other than cause strife in your life. I'm not a 9mm fanboy. I shoot .357, but I have plenty of opportunity to envy the big bores, 41, 44, 45, or whatever. I know it's a waste of time and thought, but it can nag me every once in a while, so maybe I can empathize why you'd be thinking about something like that.
If you really want to do something productive with respect to your carry capability, take more training. If you need to, ask yourself afterwards if having a 23 for the training would have been better than having a 19. Then ask yourself if having a 23 instead of a 19 could make a bigger difference in the outcome of what you trained for than the difference that even more training would make. If you're not sure, or still think the 23 will make some difference, ask yourself if that difference is urgent in the next 6 months. If it isn't, then do all this again 6 months from now.
You sound OCD.
Like you're worried that you must pick the most effective gun or else your family will die. I'm not picking on you because that's basically how I am. This is important stuff. I have a 40 and I've racked my brains and I ended up deciding on the 9mm. Of coarse until you get the 40, it will probably keep calling your name.
so in the end, for me, it's just … whimsy.
Rule of thumb, if you have no idea what you're talking about you probably shouldn't
You know after thinking about this a little more, I guess I kind of feel that even though you have a lot of 9mm ammo, there’s something to be said for options and diversity. 40 cals can be had cheap, and you aren’t talking about getting into 20 different cartridges, and you aren’t talking about a real expensive gun.
Maybe executing on an affordable gun now, rather than during an ammo crisis due to politics isn’t a bad idea. If you feel the need to save a bit of 9mm in a shortage, at least you’d have the 23 around to shoot.
Just a thought. I have a VP9, and I enjoy it and have taken a training class with it. I shoot it well. I may pick up a VP40 as a “stash it” gun.
Don’t see it as a gun that NEEDS to be shot frequently, just as a gun you have on standby during rough times. It’s an option if others run dry.
I have no family though, so money is selfishly used for me on a daily basis. Your situation sounds different.
Oh right. Your Smith..... well the only advantage then would be the similarity of operation and shooting characteristics.I agree in principle but I actually own a Smith & Wesson 4006 that I'm already set up with. So if something came up where I thought I really needed a 40 caliber I do have one it's just not something that I really support and I never carry it because it's not Striker Fired.