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Posted: 2/2/2023 11:04:38 AM EDT
[#1]
Same as it is today, an M1911a1 in .45.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 11:05:35 AM EDT
[#2]
Not much would change there
Usually carry a BHP or a 1911 Got the 1911 on the hip today |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 11:25:22 AM EDT
[#3]
Probably a P7. Was the M8 available that year? I love the 92, but it’s kind of big.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:14:15 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Glock 7 It's a porcelain gun, doesn't show up on metal detectors and costs more than you make in a month! Wasn't even a thing in the states. To include that edgeless overplayed out and worn down stale and underarm sweat stained dad joke. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 1:17:10 PM EDT
[#5]
Probably a j frame
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:13:29 PM EDT
[#6]
Something just occurred to me.
In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:14:51 PM EDT
[#7]
BHP
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Posted: 2/2/2023 2:19:33 PM EDT
[#8]
In 1983 I switched from a BHP to a SIG P226.
Still carrying it in 1985. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:16:37 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington).  Coincidentally, that's not too far off what I looked like in 1985. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:26:03 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). Concealed was concealed. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:33:54 PM EDT
[#11]
9mm double stack were around. A steyr GB maybe.
Some short .38 special revolver. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:56:54 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 9mm double stack were around. A steyr GB maybe. Also Beretta 92s, Smith Model 59 and others. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:57:47 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:05:10 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: HiPower |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:06:30 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: HiPower |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:09:32 PM EDT
[#16]
Colt Combat Commander or a Smith mod 36
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:14:10 PM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably a P7. Was the M8 available that year? I love the 92, but it’s kind of big. The 92 is a bohemith of a 9mm. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:16:55 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Who said anything about carrying within the parameters of CCW permits? As someone mentioned, concealed means concealed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). I am an honest citizen of the Federation, I would never break the law. Breaking the law is WRONG. I would never carry illegally in a may-issue state in a county which was no-issue. I would, likewise, never carry someplace where guns were forbidden by law, like a major land-grant university located in that no-issue county. Nope. Not me. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:19:25 PM EDT
[#19]
Quoted: 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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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:25:03 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). "We're?" You got as mouse in your pocket? |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:27:27 PM EDT
[#21]
One of 3. P7, 1911, or Hi-Power.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:31:21 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I carried a Charter .44 Bulldog or a Star PD.  Attached FileMy first two carry guns in that order. 
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:37:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:39:42 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The 92 is a bohemith of a 9mm. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Probably a P7. Was the M8 available that year? I love the 92, but it's kind of big. The 92 is a bohemith of a 9mm. I don't think I've carried it for almost a decade now, except when hiking. P365XL does almost as much in a much smaller gun. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:44:49 PM EDT
[#25]
Lots of interesting choices in this thread.
Also interesting how many posters here were actually carrying something in 1985. Neat. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:45:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/2/2023 5:09:41 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of interesting choices in this thread. Also interesting how many posters here were actually carrying something in 1985. Neat. I was 18-ish and not carrying anything but a pocket knife. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:04:08 PM EDT
[#28]
I just realized that all of the pistols that I own and have carried physically existed in 1985. Hi Powers and Star BMs. All were made between 1973 and 1980.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:07:24 PM EDT
[#29]
Glock 19 Gen 5.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:07:30 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yup.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Colt 1911 because I am a boomer and it works.. Yup. Late Gen X, and I carry my stainless 5" .45 more than any other pistol. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:09:17 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Glock 19 Gen 5. Swing and a miss. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:10:35 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Swing and a miss. Glock 17 Gen 5? |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:12:38 PM EDT
[#33]
I have a W. German P226, or P220, probably that.
Though a 1911 would also make sense since 1985 9mm was weak sauce compared to today. S&W M19 might be a choice too. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:32:13 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Glock 17 Gen 5? Nope. Troll quality is very low by the way. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:42:42 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably a P7. Was the M8 available that year? I love the 92, but it’s kind of big. Yes. The M8 was introduced in 1983. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:45:52 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). Most of us had to do the "securely encased" thing in the vehicle. But some of us also carried while fishing, camping, hiking, etc. which was allowed in many places. And some of us, not saying me, just carried regardless. I know some guys who carried in NYC through most of the 80s, it was a game with definite rules. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:46:58 PM EDT
[#37]
1911.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:51:27 PM EDT
[#38]
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:53:03 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). I had a permit to carry in Georgia in 1987. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:57:39 PM EDT
[#40]
I think in 1985 my edc was a Colt Mustang. It might have been a 4” SW M66. I can’t remember when I added the Mustang. When you get old things get foggy like that.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:02:37 PM EDT
[#41]
P7m13
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:13:44 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Something just occurred to me. In 1985, unless we were in Vermont or politically connected... We're not carrying anything. There were only a few shall issue states (Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, N and S Dakota, and Washington). Upstate NY counties hadn't started the administrative over-stamping BS in 1985. Permits were unrestricted and the only place you couldn't carry were the five downstate boroughs |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:25:52 PM EDT
[#43]
Ruger P85
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:40:08 PM EDT
[#44]
In ‘85 I carried 2 guns, depending on circumstances.
On the farm or traveling, I carried (and shot a LOT) a Ruger Blackhawk in .44 Magnum. Everywhere else I carried a 1911. That was several years before Texas had concealed carry, but everyone I knew (me included) carried everywhere, and never thought a thing about it. We’d open carry in warm weather, under a coat in colder weather, and I never recall any LE even acting like they noticed when we interacted. I was a fan of westerns, and the Blackhawk was as close as I could get to carrying the gun of my heroes. We’d hand load and could therefore afford to practice a lot (had the old hand powder measure and hammer primer and bullet seating dies, before we ever owned even a single stage press). Would sit out nearly every night at the wooden picnic table hammering primers and bullets into cases, and shoot ‘em all the next day. Haven’t enjoyed revolvers in decades, the 1911 won out in the end and is still what I carry today (and a BHP periodically, I ‘discovered’ and fell in love with them about 1990). I’ve got a lot of pistols and a few revolvers, but the 1911 and BHP are still my carry and training choices. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:42:07 PM EDT
[#45]
Maybe a Sig 230.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:53:51 PM EDT
[#46]
Colt 1911Government pre 70's .38 Super.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:35:35 PM EDT
[#47]
Same as it is now. J frame airweight.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:48:42 PM EDT
[#48]
No MP5K with a giggle switch?
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:52:41 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No MP5K with a giggle switch? Uzi with 8" barrel in a Desantis rig. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:54:16 PM EDT
[#50]
1911 or HiPower
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