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Operators Edge wrote:

stevie_d_64 wrote:I don't carry for a gunfight...

I carry just enough to deal with a threat...

If you pull it and engage, it's a gunfight.

Only if the threat has a gun...

I can think of a lot of things that would be reasonable and justified to "pull it" and "engage" (as you state) that have nothing to do with a gun...

flintknapper wrote:One up the pipe, one full mag. and one spare mag. = 25 rounds of .45 acp

You carry a double-stack .45??? I didn't know that!

(See, you think you know someone, and this happens! Geesh...)

The realization being that after you get all loaded up and carry ALL that stuff, I'm extremely confident that most will eventually pare it down to:

- 1 holstered gun (duh! I can't thrown mine hard enough to make a dent) Magazine +1

- one spare (loaded, duh!) magazine left hip pocket, yeah, I'm a righty...

- clip knife (cleans under the fingernails pretty good)

- cell phone (to order the post shooting pizza, JUST KIDDING!)

One other thing I like to have somewhere on my person...

Is a pen, and either a small notebook, or even just a plain old folded piece of 8.5x11 paper to jot "stuff" down...(might come in handy)

It sounds like a lot...But I'm a firm believer in minimalism...

I don't carry for a gunfight...

I carry just enough to deal with a threat...