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    Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort: Reviews, expert advice & comparisons of the best concealed carry handguns, gear, clothing & more.
    Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort: Reviews, expert advice & comparisons of the best concealed carry handguns, gear, clothing & more.
    Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort: Reviews, expert advice & comparisons of the best concealed carry handguns, gear, clothing & more.
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    Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort: Reviews, expert advice & comparisons of the best concealed carry handguns, gear, clothing & more.

    By Massad Ayoob

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    In this excerpt from Combat Shooting, Massad Ayoob gives you expert tips for chooing a concealed carry gun or self-defense handgun, ammo, and related gear for combat shooting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440235306
    Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort: Reviews, expert advice & comparisons of the best concealed carry handguns, gear, clothing & more.
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    Massad Ayoob

    Massad Ayoob owns and operates Massad Ayoob Group (massadayoobgroup.com), teaching thousands of students annually about practical shooting tactics and the many aspects of self-defense law. He has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals, and authored more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including best sellers such as Deadly Force and Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob. 

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      Gun Digest's Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear eShort - Massad Ayoob

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      Best Concealed Carry Guns & CCW Gear

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      THIS S&W MODEL 28 .357 and department issue duty gear were carried by one of author’s brother officers in the 1970s. Many still rely on this technology.

      There are lots of choices to make in this matter. The trick is making the right ones for the right reasons.

      Choosing the Gun

      The gun? In the military it will be issued to you, and in police service or security work it might be picked for you, and that’s that. If the gun you’re likely to be fighting with is, say, an issue Beretta 9mm, that’s the gun to be both training and competing with, to best hard wire your abilities to reflexively use that weapon when your life is on the line. (And you’ve got a fine gun to do it with, anyway. I’ve seen champions like Ernest Langdon and David Olhasso win major titles shooting the Beretta 92 against everything else out there in IDPA, and have seen the Beretta in the hands of military aces like Marine Gunnery Sergeant Brian Zins win the Distinguished and the President’s Hundred against the most finely tuned 1911s at Camp Perry. I won the next-to-last PPC match I shot, a Police Service Pistol event, with a 92G.)

      You can live with the company gun, but wish it was more finely tuned to better win a match with it? Consider buying your own match version. I know lots of cops who carry a Glock 22 on the street, but use a longer barrel Glock 35 for IPSC Production Class competition. In the police revolver days, it was common for officers to carry a four-inch service revolver on the street, and maybe use it in Service competition… to get a six-inch version for Distinguished matches…and perhaps to have a custom gun made up on the same frame and action with a heavy Douglas or Apex six-inch bull barrel and a sophisticated BoMar or Aristocrat sight rib for open class competition.

      Each modification – lighter trigger, heavier barrel, sights – changes the match gun a little bit more from the street gun. The individual shooter has to balance his or her particular needs or goals. If a slightly lighter trigger, longer sight radius, or sights more suitable for ranges than dark alleys give that particular shooter a better score…and winning the match is more important than perfect replication of the street gun’s handling and shooting characteristics…the battery of similar but not the same guns may make huge sense.

      But if you’re shooting competition purely to improve your skills with your home defense gun or carry gun and could care less about winning a prize, shooting with the exact same gun you’re likely to be carrying on that day makes the most sense of all.

      Only you can make the which gun choice.

      BULLET TESTING ON MASSIVE COW femurs is predictive of whether a bullet is likely to smash a human pelvis or not.

      MSC (MAXIMUM SUB-CALIBER) AMMO, designed by Ed Sanow, was probably the best load ever developed for a .25, but history still shows us that a .25 auto is a poor choice for self-defense.

      X-RAYS CAN SHOW what to look for during autopsy.

      Choosing the Ammunition

      If caliber isn’t chosen for you, pick for your needs: the person giving you advice may have found the best choice for him, but not necessarily for you. The four-inch-barrel Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum was the gun the great Elmer Keith carried until the end of his days: he had helped develop it, over a lifetime of hunting big game, working cattle, and living outdoors with large things to shoot. Ross Seyfried, the second American world champion of the combat pistol, won the title with a Pachmayr Custom Colt .45 auto, but carried a Model 29 .44 Mag identical to Keith’s when working a cattle ranch, and for some of his

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