My .380 is a Kahr PM9 9mm. Roughly the same size as most .380s............or close enough not to matter...........and a heck of a lot more firepower. Still easy to shoot.WildBill wrote:My .380 is a Sphinx AT-380. When I first got my CHL I picked it up at a gun show as my first carry gun.aaangel wrote:"build-quality." only one comes to mind- GLOCK 42
Excaliber, I took a friend to DPC not too long ago and we shot his newly acquired Bodyguard .380, inherited from his recently deceased father. Despite the emotional attachment he had to the gun due to its provenance, he agreed with me that it was a lot harder to shoot than he expected it to be. I found that the trigger--which was functioning exacctly as designed--must have stacked up to about 20 lb (on my finely tuned seat of the pants scale) at the end of the stroke. My friend, who has some congenital orthopedic issues affecting his joints and his hand strength, found it very difficult to shoot because of the abysmal trigger. Compared to it, the trigger on the Kahr was a breeze. I used ot own a Kel-Tec P3AT a few years ago, and while it had a reasonably easy trigger, it was a knuckle-buster to shoot. In comparison, the Bodyguard was a knuckle-buster with a horrible trigger. My friend shot my PM9 and was surprised at how comparitively easy it was to shoot, and then he fell in love with The Annoyed Woman's CW9 and ended up buying one for himself.
The PM9/CM9/CW9 are excellent little 9mm pistols at a reasonable price and very easy to conceal. With the addition of the Springfield XDS-9, the M&P Shield, the Beretta Nano, and the Kimber Solo 9mm--to name a few--I just don't think there is any reason to carry a .380 that can't be negated either by a change in wardrobe or concealment method. Yes, a .380 is better than nothing, but I also think that people often default to a .380 because they don't think they can get a deeply concealable 9mm. But that is simply not the case, and one can get a gun which is more powerful, and which is so small that any extra effort to conceal it is negligible.
That's my 2 cents.