TL;DR- Please advise on either a pocket carry or really easy to conceal belt gun for summer carry/t shirt and basketball shorts/ other light wear.

I live in Alabama, and it’s hotter than hell here a good bit of the year, especially during the summer.

I currently carry my first pistol, which I got earlier this year- a CZ P01. I love this gun, and am able to hit good groups with it (albeit a little left of where I’m aiming it) but the size of the grip makes it print very bad when wearing anything other than hawaiian shirts.

Granted, I wear Hawaiian shirts a good bit of the time, but sometimes I just want to throw on a T shirt and basketball shorts and go to walmart to pick up a few things. (I can wear my CZ p01 with this outfit, but again, it prints like crazy and is hard to conceal).

I am currently looking at pocket carry options, such as a SW 442, Charter Arms Undercover, Glock 42, LCP Max, etc. I have handled a 442, Glock 42, and an LCP max and like the feel of all of those, but I imagine the shootability of the Max and the 442 maybe a little rough.

Any input at all on these options, or anything else? I would prefer as good of a value as possible, and am willing to consider outside of pocket carry, such as subcompact, slim revolvers/automatics, as long as they conceal well under a t shirt and shorts.

Thanks in advance!

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    I do think that on handguns that small the details of the ergonomics become even more important than usual. Some of them will fit a particular individual much better than others and it won’t always be the same ones. I highly recommend renting and trying several of them if you can.

    Finally, I like to use +P founds for self-defense. Most manufacturers do not recommend shooting +P in their handguns. Springfield officially says the Hellcat is designed to handle them.

      • Curious Canid@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        The meanings of +P and +P+ have been refined over time. +P seems to have originally meant anything over the SAAMI pressure standard. That quickly evolved into +P meaning up to 10% above SAAMI pressures and +P+ meaning between 10% and 20% above SAAMI.

        At this point SAAMI does specify maximum chamber pressures for +P ammunition. SAAMI does not define pressures for +P+, but it is commonly used to indicate pressure levels up to 20% above the SAAMI standard.