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Posted: 1/29/2023 2:44:40 AM EDT

No poll.

Qualify your answer.

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

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:45:59 AM EDT

[#1]

Probably a Makorov or a C96 Mauser.

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:47:25 AM EDT

[#2]

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

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:48:44 AM EDT

[#3]

Beretta 85

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:49:10 AM EDT

[#4]

Either a Browning Hi-Power or a CZ-75

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:50:11 AM EDT

[#5]

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

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Yup.

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:50:54 AM EDT

[#6]

I turned 17 that year and the only handgun I had any familiarity with was the M1911A I carried at basic training that summer.

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:56:56 AM EDT

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Beretta 85

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Came to post this. It's what I carry right now.

Posted: 1/29/2023 2:58:07 AM EDT

[#8]

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

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:00:50 AM EDT

[#9]

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

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Or a smith and wesson model 36

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:02:47 AM EDT

[#10]

HiPower

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:04:22 AM EDT

[#11]

That's easy: AMT Hardballer. Longlide. fuck you asshole.

probably a COP.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:04:47 AM EDT

[#12]

Sig P226!
Have a 1990 model, one of my favorite guns.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:04:55 AM EDT

[#13]

One nine one one

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:05:25 AM EDT

[#14]

S&W Model 39

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:06:10 AM EDT

[#15]

S&W Mod 13 .357.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:07:21 AM EDT

[#16]

I turned 3 that year so maybe some sort of Mattel.. you know, like they used in 'nam..

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:07:31 AM EDT

[#17]

browning hi power chambered in 9mm luger.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:09:32 AM EDT

[#18]

1911, hi-power, or sig 225/ p6

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:10:45 AM EDT

[#19]

Walther P 38

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:10:59 AM EDT

[#20]

Bren Ten. Because Crocket did.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:11:13 AM EDT

[#21]

I carried a Colt lightweight Commander then.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:12:45 AM EDT

[#22]

Colt Single Action Army 5.5" 'Artillery' model - .45 Long Colt

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:12:50 AM EDT

[#23]

It WAS a Browning HP MKII. But it wasn't carried daily, because I was in the Navy, and you couldn't bring arms on base. I carried it when I travelled.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:14:50 AM EDT

[#24]

Glock 17

ETA: Plus it's '85. It would have a switch.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:17:03 AM EDT

[#25]

Browning hi power.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:17:08 AM EDT

[#26]

1911.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:19:32 AM EDT

[#27]

Heckler & Koch P9S in .45 ACP.

Beretta 92F/92SB-F

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:19:53 AM EDT

[#28]

1911 or a 2.5 inch S&W Model 19

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:20:16 AM EDT

[#29]

Cue Jan Hammer!

S&W 59 in a Galco Miami Classic!

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:21:05 AM EDT

[#30]

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Or a smith and wesson model 36

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Which is what I carry now and would have carried then. They work, and conceal nicely.

Open carry/woods carry - same as I do now. A 1911a1 or a Hi Power. Love them both - and they work well, too.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:21:34 AM EDT

[#31]

S&W 442 or 642, 637.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:31:09 AM EDT

[#32]

Usually carried an M16A1 and a 1911, back then.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:34:23 AM EDT

[#33]

One of these two:

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:34:31 AM EDT

[#34]

Colt Commander and I still have it.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:35:32 AM EDT

[#35]

Our shop guns were all 38 specials.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:40:22 AM EDT

[#36]

I was 15 but my first centerfire handgun purchased when I turned 21 was a P228. So I guess that.

ETA: Oops, I don’t think it existed in ‘85 so P226 it is

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:40:58 AM EDT

[#37]

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Glock 17

ETA: Plus it's '85. It would have a switch.

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Glocks weren't imported into the US until January 1986. I think that is why OP selected the year 1985.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:41:19 AM EDT

[#38]

In 1987 it was either a S&W mod 60 or a 3" 65.

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:44:01 AM EDT

[#39]

1911. Probably commander length

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:45:24 AM EDT

[#40]

What if my aunt had balls?
Would she then be my uncle?

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:45:25 AM EDT

[#41]

S&W 19 2-1/2"

Or maybe a PPK

Posted: 1/29/2023 3:56:10 AM EDT

[#42]

Officer size 1911 with an alloy frame.

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:06:03 AM EDT

[#43]

Beretta 92f

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:11:42 AM EDT

[#44]

Smith and Wesson 6906

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:12:10 AM EDT

[#45]

p226.

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:17:56 AM EDT

[#46]

Colt Mustang .380

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:18:22 AM EDT

[#47]

Same thing I was carrying up till three years ago: Browning HiPower.

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:20:13 AM EDT

[#48]

Attached File

Remember the 9 sucked then (it sucks slightly less now) and .40 wasn't invented then. 1911s of the time could only feed ball reliably, plus I don't like them anyway. P220 with flying ash trays please...

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:26:42 AM EDT

[#49]

Browning High Power

Posted: 1/29/2023 4:28:33 AM EDT

[#50]

HK P7

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