How many rounds?

[Guest jackdog]

13 +1 in the tube extra 13 round mag and keltec bug. also extra mags in the truck.

Might be over kill but better to have what ya might need.

[Guest 270win]

5 in the cylinder when i carry my hammerless Airweight on my person. I keep a speed loader in the car. I feel if i need more than that, I better start running.

[Guest JeepMonkey]

God forbid I am ever in this situation, but with 1-2 assailants, my rule of thumb is fire 4, reassess the situation, and fire again if needed. Looks better to an investigator or jury if there is still 1 or 2 rounds left in the mag/cylinder and the perp(s) are dead or fully incapacitated (that advice came from a lawyer friend of mine in the NC legislature).

[Mark@Sea]

but I think I have to be practical in my daily life. No point in gearing up like I'm storming Fallujah to run to the grocery store...

Great. With an attitude like that, you'll never be able to justify that surplus armored vehicle.

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[Daniel]

If i have my g19. I generally go with the one 15 rnd mag. I have carried an extra mag but just havent gotten into the habit with the glock. If im carrying the 1911 I have 8+1 and an extra 8 rnd mag.

[RoDan]

g26, 10+1 extra 10rnd mag OR maybe a g19 mag with 15 in it as backup.

[Punisher84]

8+1 and a spare 8rd mag. Usually 5 extra mags in my MAX bag if I'm in the car or whatever.

[deerslayer]

Glock 19 or 23 w/ an extra magazine. The spare is more for fixing a malfunction that for having extra shots on tap. Now that I own a S&W 442, I sometimes carry a BUG in the front pocket.

Whether talking about BUGs or extra mags, I think the SEALs sum it up best: "Two is one and one is none."

[ZenDog]

I live, work, walk, shop, and bike in Memphis, just a couple of miles from Orange Mound. G17 topped off with 18 rounds + an extra 17 round mag = 35. Sometimes I'll add the G26 as a bug for another 10.

And I often have a wife with me who has 5 rounds in her 642 or 15 in her g19.

On walks we both carry OC for dogs and pesky panhandlers. I'll usually have a knife or 3 as well, in case I need to trim a broken fingernail or something.

Haven't figured out how to conceal the RPG yet, so I'm carrying a folding stock AK in a skateboard bag with 3 30 round mags in case we have to engage in house-to-house fighting to get home from shopping (just kidding about the AK, at the moment, however, if the economy keeps dropping... well, the AK folder might start making sense)

[Guest Loaded247]

Right now, I carry a Glock 17 loaded with 17+1, and a spare magazine of 17 rounds as well. I also carry a fixed blade knife in a sheath on my belt...all of it well concealed. I carry this way all of the time....

[dralarms]

Ok, I'll play. I carry my S&W40C with 10 in the mag, 1 in the chamber, 1 extra mag in a gerber pouch and 1 in my pocket. Then there are the 2 12 mag holders that ride shotgun most of the time @ 10 round each. And on election day I also carried my PLR16 with 4 30 round mags in the truck as well. so added up, let's just say I was going home that day and leave it at that.

[Daniel]

Ok, I'll play. I carry my S&W40C with 10 in the mag, 1 in the chamber, 1 extra mag in a gerber pouch and 1 in my pocket. Then there are the 2 12 mag holders that ride shotgun most of the time @ 10 round each. And on election day I also carried my PLR16 with 4 30 round mags in the truck as well. so added up, let's just say I was going home that day and leave it at that.

I am glad you mentioned that. I have one sitting right here not in use and that looks to be my new mag pouch since both my glock and 1911 mags fit.

[Punisher84]

I live, work, walk, shop, and bike in Memphis, just a couple of miles from Orange Mound. G17 topped off with 18 rounds + an extra 17 round mag = 35. Sometimes I'll add the G26 as a bug for another 10.

And I often have a wife with me who has 5 rounds in her 642 or 15 in her g19.

On walks we both carry OC for dogs and pesky panhandlers. I'll usually have a knife or 3 as well, in case I need to trim a broken fingernail or something.

Haven't figured out how to conceal the RPG yet, so I'm carrying a folding stock AK in a skateboard bag with 3 30 round mags in case we have to engage in house-to-house fighting to get home from shopping (just kidding about the AK, at the moment, however, if the economy keeps dropping... well, the AK folder might start making sense)

LOL you must hang out by where I work.

[Guest gunslinger707]

7.62 Mini Gun 1500 rd belt feed !! yeah i'm screwy lol

[Guest m&pc9]

4 young brudders who all could have fit in one pair of pants followed me for several blocks toward end of a long walk right at dark not long ago, even switching sides of the road when I did.

Worst happens, shoot one three times as you say and the others run?

Maybe. Maybe the other three are grabbing heat too.

Those thoughts entered my mind as I made it inside smallest gas mart in town and waited for them to (slowly and with lots of looks) to pass on by.

Same situation can play out at most any parking lot, anywhere, anytime, too.

- OS

Thats easy (you do a Kenny Rogers as in the Gambler movie)

You ask them "which three of you are going to die and which one is doing the robbing"

I carry 12 in the clip and one in the pipe.

I know its a magazine, Im just pullin your leg.

[Guest pjblurton]

14 + 1 + 14 + 14 = 43

[Guest SUNTZU]

I carry an extra magazine with either my G21 or G19. I have more in the truck.

[dralarms]

I am glad you mentioned that. I have one sitting right here not in use and that looks to be my new mag pouch since both my glock and 1911 mags fit.

Yea, I bought the gerber, tossed it in my tool bag. and used the pouch for a mag holster. Wore it out, called the company and asked if I could buy a couple "since in my business, I seem to go through them" and they sent me a couple for free.

[Guest nraforlife]

Whatever the particular piece I am carryingy will hold plus the same amount of extra for one reload. IF I ever get into a situation where I need more than that than did I end up in a SHTF mess.

[Guest burninbarns]

Lets just say 66 rounds of 230Gr HST makes you walk a little taller.......

.....and for considerably shorter distances.

[war4peace]

16+1. I figured that is all i need unless i am some place where i am not suppose to be. If the latter was the case then i would have went with a few extra magazines and more than just a handgun.

[Oh Shoot]

Lets just say 66 rounds of 230Gr HST makes you walk a little taller.......

.....and for considerably shorter distances.

- OS

[wjh2657]

I EDC a 640 or 642. 2 Speed Strips in the left front pocket. Total 15 rounds.

Will I be able to reload all 15? Doubt it.

Will I be alive to reload if I don't stop threat in first five? Doubt it.

30 Years USMC, Gunsite, In-service pistol teams and some IPSC shooting but I still state the above points.

Multiple targets at close range and advancing, in the dark, heavily armed. Can I stop them alone with a handgun? Doubt it.

Above scenario, the favorite of forum posters, you need a squad of Marines or SWAT,all with long guns. Anything less is a fool's game, all of the Combat Pistol training aside. Also just because you spend 1200-2400 dollars on a really neat BIG pistol does not make it a death ray. If you let yourself get into a multiple, heavily armed adversary scenario your handgun is going to be found clenched in your cold, dead hand.

Read police reports of cops who got into it with gangbangers without back-up, they die! The very best thing a gun carrying citizen can do in those situations is the same thing an unarmed citizen could do. Avoid or escape it.

Priorities:

1. Try to escape (run, FAST)
   
2. Try to find cover (Hide)
   
3. No other choice, shoot the first one till he goes down and hope the others run away (not really likely, bold enough to attack, probably bold enough to stand ground!)
   
4. Hope wounds (yours) aren't fatal.
   

Combat always ends with casualties on both sides.

So why do I carry then. I refuse to be executed. The one that gets too close to me to be a real threat gets shot. I have been wounded before, I'll take chance that it won't be fatal if the others start shooting. But I am realistic enough to realize that I am going to get shot, I'm not Rambo, and neither is anybody else. That was a movie!

[Glock30Owner]

I carry a G30 with 10+1 of .45 ACP. When at work I carry an extra mag for the G21 with 13 rounds. When not at work I sometimes carry my spare G30 10 round mag.

[Guest Centennial]

Primary- XD 40 with a 12 round mag and two more mags. BUG- S&W Model 640 38 Spl. 5 on board, with 5 in a Bianchi Speed Strip in a Galco 2X2 pouch. I also carry a small Sure Fire flashlight.