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Posted: 1/29/2023 8:05:10 AM EDT

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Sig P220.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:05:39 AM EDT

[#2]

It was a S&W 459.
Colt Agent .38 for BUG.
Still got the Agent.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:13:45 AM EDT

[#3]

Hi-Power.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:13:47 AM EDT

[#4]

4” S&W 686

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:13:58 AM EDT

[#5]

With the guns, ammo, holsters, and information available at the time?

Probably a Colt Detective Special with +P JHPs. Leather OWB holster at 3 o clock.

Clothing choices would be a little different, but not much.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:20:16 AM EDT

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With the guns, ammo, holsters, and information available at the time?

Probably a Colt Detective Special with +P JHPs. Leather OWB holster at 3 o clock.

Clothing choices would be a little different, but not much.

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Your leisure suit was going out of style, pawpaw, but we'll let you keep wearing it for a few more years.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:27:37 AM EDT

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In 1985 it was the BKM I bought for 110 bucks with a spare magazine and a 50 round box of hardball.

I traded it towards a 92SF around 1990.
So the picture is of my STAR BM I bought more recently.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:30:39 AM EDT

[#8]

Colt Detective in .38 Special 2”, “because semi-automatics will jam at a critical moment, wheel guns always go bang and you’ll never need more than five or six rounds,” followed by a bunch of approving head nods from fellow gun experts unless they were 1911 cult members.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:30:40 AM EDT

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S&W Mod 13 .357.

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.357 revolver

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:33:57 AM EDT

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No poll.

Qualify your answer.

I was rolling a SIG P226 but would carry a P7 if I had one back then.

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S&W Model 60 snub in .357

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:34:15 AM EDT

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Either a Browning Hi-Power or a CZ-75

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This would be the correct answer.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:35:39 AM EDT

[#12]

4” Security Six

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:36:39 AM EDT

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Your leisure suit was going out of style, pawpaw, but we'll let you keep wearing it for a few more years.

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If by leisure suit you mean cowboy cuts and a t shirt with a unlined denim jacket, it's always in style and you're not my supervisor.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:37:42 AM EDT

[#14]

S&W 686.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:42:05 AM EDT

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If by leisure suit you mean cowboy cuts and a t shirt with a unlined denim jacket, it's always in style and you're not my supervisor.

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Your leisure suit was going out of style, pawpaw, but we'll let you keep wearing it for a few more years.

If by leisure suit you mean cowboy cuts and a t shirt with a unlined denim jacket, it's always in style and you're not my supervisor.

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Posted: 1/29/2023 8:43:33 AM EDT

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HiPower

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Posted: 1/29/2023 8:47:40 AM EDT

[#17]

Heres one that was carried in 1985. Notice the high vis sights, light etc.

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Posted: 1/29/2023 8:47:52 AM EDT

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I didn't exist yet in 1985, however I currently have two guns in my collection that were around in that time period, which would have made excellent carry guns- the Star PD (.45 ACP) and Charter Arms Bulldog Pug (.44 SPL). Both of them are guns that I have carried. The Charter was my primary carry gun for a while. Both conceal nicely and are reliable. The Star is very accurate. However, neither gun is one that I would want to use for any volume of training because of the materials/ manufacture. For routine practice, I would use a 1911 as a stand in for the Star (again something that I have done in modern times- I shoot the Star sparingly), and some other DA revolver as a trainer for the Charter.

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Charter Arms Bulldogs existed, I still have one from 81.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:48:57 AM EDT

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Glock 17

I was only 13 and in 7th grade...first handgun when I turned 21 was a Glock 21SF but later sold it and got a Glock 19 which I was much more accurate with thing was a laser shooting pop cans floating down the Kansas River

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Didn't exist in 85.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:52:32 AM EDT

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PPK is still non importable.

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The PPK and TPH were imported by Interarms for government and LE use.

I mostly carried a 1911A1 and a S&W Model 38 as a bug.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:52:57 AM EDT

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I've been meaning to do a thread like this, where people can share stories they heard about other people carrying before permits. I think people now adays get so caught up in laws that are damaging to their personal well-being, some perspective would be enlightening.

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I carried in my glove compartment which was legal and most places I was walking it was legal on my hip. Couldn't take it in the mall though...damn.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:53:07 AM EDT

[#22]

It would be what I actually carried in 1985.

Beretta 70S .380.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:55:07 AM EDT

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Walther PPKs. It's about the same size as my current EDC, and they were available back then.

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My business partners gave me a Walther PPK/S as a Christmas present in '88. It was my EDC for about 15 years.

It's still a respectable EDC.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:55:19 AM EDT

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The PPK and TPH were imported by Interarms for government and LE use.

I mostly carried a 1911A1 and a S&W Model 38 as a bug.

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Accepted.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:55:50 AM EDT

[#25]

In 1985 I carried a ppk/s.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:55:54 AM EDT

[#26]

I was 2 years old so something lightweight and easy to operate with smaller hands like a S&W Model 29.

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:58:21 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2023 8:58:35 AM EDT

[#28]

Ruger RedHawk 44

Posted: 1/29/2023 8:59:04 AM EDT

[#29]

Hi Power

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:05:03 AM EDT

[#30]

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browning hi power chambered in 9mm luger.

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My choice as well. Browning introduced their Mark 2 in 1982...I probably would have been talking shit about plastic guns, big-ass pistols like the Beretta 92F for CCW, and bragging on my 13+1 capacity over 1911's

. Oh, and I would be watching Magnum PI

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Posted: 1/29/2023 9:06:12 AM EDT

[#31]

Probably a BHP, CZ75 if I could've gotten ahold of one, possibly a Makarov.

But realistically a 3" S&W of some flavor.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:07:46 AM EDT

[#32]

Ruger Security Six snubbie

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:08:57 AM EDT

[#33]

Always 1911 junior

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:11:19 AM EDT

[#34]

My dad had a blued Walther PPK/S back then. He knew a guy with a Walther P5, which was nice too.

So I'll say one of those. With a Bren Ten in a shoulder rig for special occasions. Hopefully one with magazines.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:15:50 AM EDT

[#35]

1911 in the Lord’s caliber.

Edit.

Read that as 1965 not 1985.

Opinion doesn’t change.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:18:21 AM EDT

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Colt 1911 because I am a boomer and it works..

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Yeah, in 1985 I was carrying a Colt Combat Commander in .45 acp.

And completely happy with it.

I also had a Ruger Speed Six .357 stainless with the 2&3/4" barrel. It was a sometimes "carry in my jacket pocket" gun from my duty coat a few years earlier. Winter time, heavy duty coat, bobbed hammer Speed Six in my right coat pocket and two speed loaders of 125 grain hollow points in the left coat pocket.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:19:32 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2023 9:39:07 AM EDT

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This right here, hands down.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:40:24 AM EDT

[#39]

Edc rotation

Beretta 70s - .380

Beretta 92s - I’d upgrade to a 92sb or 92f but not sure if availability would be an issue in 1985, probably for sure the 92f wouldn’t widely be on civilian market at that time.

S&w .357 mag- 3-4” barrel

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:43:35 AM EDT

[#40]

Well, in 1987, it was a Browning Hi-Power MkIII, so in 1985, probably a MkI, or a MkII if I could find it for sale in 1985. I'd spend the money for a good holster this time though, knowing what I know now.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:43:40 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2023 9:49:34 AM EDT

[#42]

1911 or 5 shot .38 of some sort.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:55:50 AM EDT

[#43]

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Walther PPKs. It's about the same size as my current EDC, and they were available back then.

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And that's what I bought. It's a snappy lil jamomatic. Glad I never had to depend on it.

Posted: 1/29/2023 9:58:40 AM EDT

[#44]

It was a G19 2nd gen.

Posted: 1/29/2023 10:06:16 AM EDT

[#45]

A S&W 469, which still gets some carry time today. In reality, I toted a Rossi revolver in 1985, when I carried sans license. I was a poor back then, but that .38 special wasn't a bad gun.

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