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I buy a .380 and eat Crow

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I know I said I'd never carry anything less than a gun that shoots 9X18MM Makarov, but here I am, eating my words. It turns out I'll be spending quite a bit of time south of the Mason-Dixon line, and it's just too hard trying to conceal a second gun the size of an E.G. Makarov along with a primary. So I bought a Ruger LCP six shooter in .380. After cleaning it, I loaded up two magazines (Yeah, I had to put out $30.00 for the second one) one with ball and one with HP. Functioned perfect mand shot just where I wanted it to at 25 feet I fired up a box of eachammunition with no malfunctions. Very good accuracy for a tiny gun, but it kick's hard. I wanted to break it in, but I won't be firing 100 rounds at one time with it again. Not cheap at $345.00 w/second magazine, but it gives that extra bit of peace of mind.
 
#3 ·
I've carried an LCP daily for over two years now, even when carrying something larger in addition. I've been very happy with it; not a single failure of any kind. I confess I've not used it on anything larger than *****, possums, feral cats and one armadillo, but "so far, so good".

I keep it loaded with the remington 102-grain jhp load. It has a good reputation in tests, functions perfectly in it, and even if it completely failed to expand (doubtful), it still gives me the heaviest-bullet factory loading available in the caliber.
 
#4 ·
i've been carrying a llama .380 for years. mine shoots better than i can, been happy with it.
 
#5 ·
I also have to admit to owning a .380- It was my first CCW after being blessed by the not so great state of CT. back in the 80's.........
It's an Astra Constible. Made some grips out of tiger wood, and carried that thing everywhere!
Best sd ammo I could find, and the cheapest target stuff all went bang every time...
 
#7 ·
I had a BG380 for the past year.

What an absolute piece of crap. Firing pin broke after a couple months. S&W replaced it - but I wasn't happy at all.

Dumped it last month for pretty much what I paid for it and went back to my .38 and Makarov.
 
#8 ·
I much prefer both the factory ballistics and the potential( in suitably resprung guns) of the 9x18 mm....to me the Makarov and related( steel frame ) guns are what the .380 should have been.
Although, truth be told; either will suffice when you " need a gun on you".
 
#9 ·
During the '70's I had a Llama in .22, .32 & .380, they were great little guns. About 2 years ago I got the nostalga bug and bought another .22. Works like a charm.
 
#11 ·
I've always wanted to get one of their fancy engraved pimp guns, just thought that they looked purdy!
 
#12 ·
...So I bought a Ruger LCP six shooter in .380. After cleaning it, I loaded up two magazines (Yeah, I had to put out $30.00 for the second one) one with ball and one with HP...
Fwiw, I've been carrying an LCP in my pocket for probably 4 years now, and am as happy with it now as when new. Never yet had a malfunction with it as far as I can recall, albeit it probably only has 500-600 rounds thru it in all that time.

After running several loads thru it over a chronograph, I've settled on remington's 102-grain hollowpoint in it. It's not overly fast, running 845 fps, but I figure if it expands, great; and if it doesn't, it's the biggest, heaviest bullet I can launch from it. My second-favorite is actually a 'generic' load, the winchester white-box 95-grain fmj. It's the fastest non-plus-p load I've tried in the LCP, and while it's not a hollowpoint, it's a flatpoint and I'm actually a fan of flatpoint or swc profile bullets myself.

Both of those loads run 160-170 ft/lbs, which is close enough to a lot of .38 snubnose ballistics that I can absolutely live with it when it means I can carry a gun this small, flat and light.
 
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