As I've posted before, I really like shooting my LCP. I got mine through Cabela's a couple years ago, they were deeply discounted and I had Cabela's bucks so what the heck.
This stuff was on sale, I'm on my fourth or fifth box:
https://www.cabelas.com/product/shoo...4.uts?slotId=2
I use these for carry:
https://www.cabelas.com/product/SIG-...MO/1838183.uts
Here are two reviews:
https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/amm...0-acp-v-crown/
https://www.policeone.com/police-pro...n-in-380-Auto/
My ammo choices were based on the bulk stuff being on sale and the SIG Elite 90gr JHP because the practice stuff was labeled the same. As I mentioned, this was a spur of the moment decision, so I hadn't researched the HD ammo. The SIG Elite 90 JHP was reasonably priced so I picked up three boxes - to make sure it fed and to load mags. Later when I looked for reviews of the ammo, I was happy with my choice.
Once I knew the pistol functioned with the HD ammo, I ceased shooting it and have shot nothing but the 100gr Sig stuff, it is not so costly that I cant smuggle a carton of 200 whenever I need.
I have 4 mags for the LCP - two Ruger 7 round extended mags, and two with pinky floorplates. I leave one pinky and one of the extended loaded with HD rounds and use the other two for shooting.
The extended mags fit my hand perfectly - my pinky is not in contact with the mag at all - what I call the pinky floorplate has the gentle hook thing going and it aggravates me because it doesn't completely contact my ring finger. A smooth floorplate would be worthless, you'd be shooting the pistol with the same as a one finger grip.
Initially I shoot the first rounds from 5 yards. Impressed, moved back, impressed, moved back more, impressed. At 25 yards I was keeping them in the 10 inch upper center mass circle of our basic academy qual target - not saying perfect, but very few fliers.
Gripping the LCP was pretty intuitive, as I said with the 7 round extended grip my middle and ring finger are nicely supported and the grip ends 'just right' for my pinky to feel comfortable. I am able to grip it with the strong thumb almost parallel to the barrel and the support thumb parallel to the barrel resting/wedging against the frame rail - the tip of my thumb is pretty much level with the end of the slide. I roll my elbows out and up which roll the hands into the frame of the pistol. The whole thing is pretty much a Rob Vogel type grip with an itty bitty pistol. Works surprisingly well, the heels of my hands are together, and the overlap on the left side of the pistol doesn't interfere with getting on the trigger (I'm left handed).
I'm an old DA revolver shooter who made the transition to DA/SA pistols and then to striker-fired, so the DA trigger doesn't bother me at all. I shoot it okay one handed, but not as well at distance.
This is also not a pistol you are going to bust off .20 splits with, at least I am not.
My has a solid serial number - no dashes. It gets cleaned pretty regularly because I wont carry a dirty firearm. Nothing seems to be getting chewed up. Probably need to be thinking a bout a new recoil spring and maybe getting some spare parts.
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