Thanks all. Picking it up today. i'll just have to figure out it's carry status after I shoot it a while. No bad guns, just some better than others.
If you want to be "well armed" you can get used to anything that is concealable.
The thing is "well armed" means different things to different people.
Some people feel well armed with a micro .380, me, not so much.
I've carried an all steel government model for years. A friend asked me which .45 I would recommend cause he wanted to buy one like mine, but price was a consideration. I told him that what I bought in 1981 had no bearing on today. I said if I was buying my first .45 today I would probably buy a G30. Very popular with the private personal security crowd, so I hear. He bought one and loves it. That was 4 or 5 years ago . . . or longer. He still loves it.
If you are worried about "printing", because it is thick. I found that anything 3 or 4 o'clock prints bad with even a baggy tee shirt. So bending all day at work I found that @10 o'clock cross draw with the muzzle riding past the left hip is the best way to conceal, WITHOUT that thing aimed at yourself. (I know, everyone loves appendics carry) It's really good there while driving too, better than appendics, the way the belts run, an added bonus. The more you bend, the more the shirt covers everything. You just gotta worry about reaching for something up high & your shirt riding up high. Even a thick G30 will conceal well there. For some reason with something 3 or 4 o'clock it seems my pants just want to slip down & I gotta keep hiking them back up, cross draw, not so much for some reason, most comfortable way I've found, & if standing in a line you have control with it in front, instead of it being at 4 o'clock & some psycho behind you getting bright ideas. In the summer with an IWB if your shirt is long enough you can put it in your belt and outside your pants so there is a buffer between you, sweat, & the gun.
Yeah, it's a problem, I overthink everything.
But I will give it a try, certainly seems like an option when travelling in the car.
