Carrying without a reload is a bit risky if you ask me.

What if your pistol balks, and “slap-rack-bang” ends with no bang?

With single stacks I always carry two extra mags, and with hi-caps at least one.

Update: The holster is breaking in nicely, I can now remove the pistol with half the effort it took at first. I think another 24hrs and it’ll be time to remove the ziplock bag.

I’ve also ordered the metal mag release (recommended because the OEM is polymer and the mags are metal) to replace the polymer OEM one. I have also ordered my favorite sights to put on carry pistols (not that sights are needed). Trijicon HD night sights with orange front and blacked out rear.


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Yup. I even carry one for my turd slinger Shield .45

This^^^ Some guns can benefit from a good aftermarket trigger set.....M&P is a great example.

But, for me on a carry piece I will leave the OEM in tact. Just train to shoot it as proficient as I can.


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I hear ya and I’ve tried.

If “slap-rack-bang” ends with no bang then, there is something seriously wrong that an extra mag can’t fix (unless that mag is empty).

I’ll have 15+1 on tap with this single stack. That’s the same amount I would have with my current edc plus an extra mag!

I do want to try a pocket mag holder I have seen online. Looks to be minimal and will hold your mag like you are carrying a pocket knife (which I always do). Then I’ll have 32 rounds on tap.


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I will confess, I don't conceal carry with a spare mag either. I figure its going to work or not and the time it doesn't the time waisted ducking with it trying to clear and/or reload..that time wont matter and it would be too late. Maybe the wrong mindset but I feel like if you don't shoot first or soon after its probably going to be too late :(

That’s if you’re lucky to have only one bad guy.
Here we have roving bandits. They’re cowards and only are tough when they’re in groups and/or armed. It’s not uncommon to get robbed or carjacked by three or more.

I’m always prepping for worse case scenario. In my truck I have an O S bag with 4 additional magazines for each of the guns I may have on my person, a ballistic plate, trauma kit, and other essentials. In most instances I won’t need to act or intervene, but you never know.
I guess I can’t easily erase 25 years of acting.

Tony, I am begging you MOVE.....another reason to not be there! ;)

By the end of my wife's first weekend of training in Brownie’s TFP course; she was completing her reloads before the empty mag had hit the ground.

Again, advance training is the key to most things.

That’s the damn truth! The majority of criminal encounters one hears of these days (and for several years now) involve multiple BGs. If I need to go through an area where such types are found; my EDC for that day will be an M&P9 loaded 17+1, and at least two 17 round reloads, plus an AR with a few 30 round reloads in the floor behind my passenger seat. A Mossberg Shockwave loaded with six rounds of #4 buck lives back there.

Yep. In my truck, I keep a get home bag with extra mags, knives, compass, rope saw, kwik clot and sticky pads for sucking chest wounds, along with pepper spray and tazer in the console, a baby Kbar Mike Lutz gave me, a Cold Steel City Stick, and a Shockwave loaded with 00 buck along with a reload