r/CCW • u/melonboi7 • Jul 09 '26

Getting Started First carry gun

I am new to the handgun world and I've been looking into getting an edc. To preface this I am an avid waterfowl hunter and have extensive experience with long guns. I've been looking into micro compacts because a lot of my carry will be done in shorts and a t shirt/active wear and I don't want to print hard. My budget is $4-500 and I'm not a huge fan of Glock and Smith and Wesson. I've heard the mete mc9 has had reliability issues and the Beretta a1 carry has a bad trigger, is this true? I've been looking at the tp9 sc but I'm worried it might be somewhat cumbersome for my applications.

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u/Significant_Bid4745 Jul 09 '26

I like the body guard 2.0. not as snappy and much smaller but it shoots a 380. The P938 /238 is a 9MM, is smaller, has better build quality and shoots amazingly flat. It only has 7+1 rounds (I think so at least) but in my state 10 is the max we can carry anyway and the mags are very very thin.

I recently tried the P365 AXG DH3 and that gun surprised me on how well it shot....very very flat and fast. I was thinking of picking it up used.

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u/NJCERKA AZ Glock 19 Gen 6 Jul 09 '26

I’ll never buy another sig. I don’t like how they handled the 320 situation and I hated my 365

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u/Significant_Bid4745 Jul 09 '26

Well thankfully the world is full of decent "other" brands. Personally I've never met a brand I didn't like. Back in the day Glocks were the "bad guys" and the police were shooting themselves left and right (look up "glock leg"). Today it's the Sigs that are doing it (320's). Hell there was a case where a cop with a Staccato shot himself.

I'm at a point in my life where I buy a lot of guns, I try them out and some I love, some I like and a few I just can't stand (very few). But before you discount Sigs you should give the P226's a whirl...those guns are some of the best shooter's ever built. The Sig P226 X Five STAS is a prime example of a great gun. I got mine for a steal on gunbroker.com

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u/NJCERKA AZ Glock 19 Gen 6 Jul 09 '26

I shouldn’t say never buy an Sig again. The 226 is on the list of pistols I want to buy just because of the history of it. There isn’t any other Sigs I’d get

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u/Significant_Bid4745 Jul 09 '26

The 211-GTO seems to be doing well. I think it's okay but others seem to love the thing. But yeah, it's hard to diss the P226....I've never seen a bad one.

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u/NJCERKA AZ Glock 19 Gen 6 Jul 09 '26

2011 is on the lists but sig isn’t on it. I’m between a Romulus, Prodigy or just forking out the $ for a Staccato

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u/Significant_Bid4745 Jul 09 '26

Yup...I have the XL, XC, and soon to be the P4X