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DoubleJ wrote:

Napier wrote:Oh, my! I feel like such a sissy with my .380 ACP. Anything bigger hurts my dainty hands and ears. Are all you big boys carrying protection (ear, that is) for when yoi\u have to draw down outside the range? The BGs may be dead, but YOU will be deef.

At the time I posted what I did, there were only 2 .380ACPs up there. the number has since gone up a bit.
regardless, I know you're kidding, and hopefully you know I was just kidding, but JIC, I'm JK.

as a side note, I've actually been shot at with a .380ACP in an apt, and I will say, although I wasn't rendered deaf, my ears rang the rest of the night! When you go to the range, the only shots I can definitely say are a "big caliber" are when someone shoots a .357Mag (or bigger).

anywho, the point is the first rule in a gun fight is to have a gun, so whatever you carry is better'n a sharp tongue!

That's scary. I have had friends shoot at me when we were kids, but never anyone intentionally. Foolish youth that I was, I used to shoot 32 H&R without ear protection all the time, and did the same with my first 380. That all changed when I got my first 9mm. So I was only partly joking. When conditions permit, I carry a Bersa 380 Thunder Plus with 16 round capacity. Otherwise a small 380. What worries me more than hearing now is that my eyes are so bad that I have to wear tightly fitting goggles with labyrinth ventilation because the overpressures on the range hurt my old eyes. And of course they always put someone shooting a 45 or 44 magnum next to me. That said, I am astonished at how few peoples' main carry is 380.

Oh, my! I feel like such a sissy with my .380 ACP. Anything bigger hurts my dainty hands and ears. Are all you big boys carrying protection (ear, that is) for when yoi\u have to draw down outside the range? The BGs may be dead, but YOU will be deef.