New EDC added recently! New toy, and new weapon too. All in one! 🙂
Kinda an impulse buy. I’d wanted to shoot and look at a 1st gen LCP last year. Then changed to the LCP2 after I got to shoot one in the spring. I just couldn’t justify the $$ till now.
I’d started to buy a $100 to $140 knife a couple weeks ago and realized it was a single days wage away from the gun. No brainer! 😉
My favored LGS has an online live inventory, showed the black for $295 and the FDE/Jungke green for $305. For $10, I can get fancy cerakote and not be boring black? Why not! 😉
I grabbed cash and headed to town.
SNAFU in their database, the gun was gone.
The guy actually had a slight panic moment when the online and their internal inventory showed it in stock, but he couldn’t find it, not even in the safe!
Turns out it had been sent to their store in the next town, sold there, and didn’t get pulled from the inventory here. He orderd another one, and I put my name on the list to be called. He said probably be in by that weekend. That was the Monday two weeks ago.
Took week and a half to come, with 3 updates on ETA. Then they missed calling me when it did– busy place, its understandable.
So yeah, impulse buy that took 2 weeks to do… lol.
On the flip side, the actual purchase was a breeze, background check came back in 10 minutes, I was in, and out in half hour flat, if that long. 4pm I arrived there, by 4:45 I was at the range ~8 miles away, (and that’s crossing town in rush hour traffic included!) shooting. 😀
With my previous CCW, a Bersa/Firestorm. 380.
Impulse but not a blind buy. As I mentioned, I got to shoot one before. A friend at church has and carries a first gen LCP, and I’d asked if he could bring it to a mens shooting weekend we had in the spring. He forgot, but someone else there had a LCP2 and I got a couple mags through it.
Great shooter, light, compact! Just what I’d been looking for. My Bersa 380 gets a little big sometimes.
I swear the Bersa gets heavier after you have it on for 8 hours straight!
I wanted something smaller, lighter, and pocketable so I could tuck a shirt, or do away with a cover shirt/jacket if I wanted to.
The Bersa I’ve had for over a decade(wow… closer to 15 years I think..).
It amazes me, when I got the Bersa, it was a pocket gun!
The micro polymer guns hadn’t really come into play, or werent as common… At least to me they weren’. I don’t remember that craze starting til a few years later. Now that class of gun is still a small carry, but for a pocket gun its HUGE!
The Ruger weighs Literally half as much (unloaded specs), is smaller, thinner. But at only a single round loss! Shoots good to boot, with amazingly controlable recoil for its weight.
But anyway, back to the range; I was Extremely happy to be hitting within 2″or 3″ of a clay pigeons at 20 or 25 yards, some rounds hitting them, within my 2nd mag! Those sights aint much but they’re really actually pretty good! The ergonomics and fantastic trigger help, it shoots like a much bigger pistol.
I was expecting to need a LOT of practice to get “on the pie plate” accuracy at half that distance.
Sorry, no target pics. The range was surprisingly busy for a cold wet, snowy saturday (everyone getting in any time they can before its freaking cold) so when I was hitting remnants of other targets so easy in my first couple mags, I decided to hell with trying to get a cold range to set anything out for a grouping, and just had fun with it. 🙂
It comes with a light but very nice pocket holster, that works really well. It adds some bulk to pocketing it, but with no safety other than the center trigger bar, you REALLY dont want anything getting into that trigger guard with it in your pocket!
Covering the trigger/guard etc is the best, and also having Nothing else in the pocket with it.
So far the holster is nice, light, comfortable, and provides a great draw. Even including reaching into my pocket, this is a smoother, simpler, easier draw than I’ve ever had with non pocket guns!
Here it is in the pocket holster, on top of my homemade Bersa holster.
It does actually fit in the Bersa holster too, and rather well. Just a bit short, and of course the retention strap is far too long. I might use it as a pattern to make one for the Ruger.
Serriously considering just adding belt loops to the pocket holster though. Would be simple to do, and would make it a dual use holster.
Will note that I’m Not completely replacing the Bersa. It will still spend a lot of time as a truck gun(where its spent most of its time the last few months as I’ve gotten less and less fond of the weight to carry), and I’ll still carry it on shorter days out… But its just gotten to be too much on looonnnggg days on my feet, which us where the LCP will really shine.
Its not like I carry every day anyway. Its hit or miss for me, and I can alternate as needed, or not. Options are great to have, no matter how often you use them!
For a last fun comparison, here is my pocket .22. 6 rounds of .22 Short. The lcp is smaller, thinner and LIGHTER!
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