Priced close to 357 and interestingly felt recoil closer to that, too.It seems the LCR in 9mm is harder to find than .38 and pricier when you do find it.
Priced close to 357 and interestingly felt recoil closer to that, too.It seems the LCR in 9mm is harder to find than .38 and pricier when you do find it.
I too have the LCP II. Have not had any issues with it but have only fired maybe 100 rounds through it. I like it for a CCW but am concerned by what I read. In retrospect the Beretta Pico would have been a better choice.I have the Beretta Pico and it holds 6 + 1. Really small, Really slim and surprisingly soft shooting.
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I too have the LCP II. Have not had any issues with it but have only fired maybe 100 rounds through it. I like it for a CCW but am concerned by what I read. In retrospect the Beretta Pico would have been a better choice.
“In retrospect the Beretta Pico would have been a better choice.”I too have the LCP II. Have not had any issues with it but have only fired maybe 100 rounds through it. I like it for a CCW but am concerned by what I read. In retrospect the Beretta Pico would have been a better choice.
I looked at one of these and ALMOST got one. I gave the slight nod to the Ruger because the LCP II is a tad smaller. I never seem to hear anything bad about the S&W Bodyguard (well - other than some folks just don't like mouse guns, but that's a different topic).I far prefer my S&W M&P Bodyguard 380 )pauses to catch my breath) and actually it's what I'm carrying today.
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Some folks think the issue is the LCP II is just small and snappy and depending on your hands, it's easy to engage the safety when you shoot it. Either way, seems to me a stronger mag release spring is a good idea.Most LCP troubles have been with the Max. LCP II’s can have weak magazine release springs which can be easily replaced with a stronger aftermarket spring that isn’t expensive to acquire and is easily installed.
Other then that, my LCP II has been reliable for a decade with somewhere between 700-900ish rounds thru it.
I was wondering the same thing and am going to try a stronger recoil spring in mine, along with a stronger mag release.I do suspect, based on all of the reports of people having the same problems with it that I had (hopefully in the past sense...) that there's some inherent difficulty with feeding and ejecting - perhaps, as you said, related to the weak recoil spring.
This makes a lot of sense now that I think about it. A stronger recoil spring makes the small slide harder to rack. This could be a problem for a segment of their target customers. So it' possible that they deliberately undersized the spring trying to find the good middle point between easier loading and reliable feeding, and in some individual pistols this shifted too far away from feeding / ejecting.
When I bought the Bodyguard the LCP II didn't yet exist. And the LCP (I also owned one of them) was quite frankly the worst pistol I've even owned in any caliber from any manufacturer.I looked at one of these and ALMOST got one. I gave the slight nod to the Ruger because the LCP II is a tad smaller. I never seem to hear anything bad about the S&W Bodyguard (well - other than some folks just don't like mouse guns, but that's a different topic).
My LCP is my least-fired handgun. Still, it has had 500+ rounds with no issues.
LCP IWhich LCP do you have?
I had a pair of the original LCP’s for the wife and I years ago. They were faithful little pistol’s. I ended up selling them both in order to upgrade the wife to the new LCP II when it first came out and also got her first 9mm in the Glock 43. Thinking about it in hindsight, I should have kept those original LCP’s.LCP I
The LCP was bought for my wife. I can barely shoot it because the grip is so small. I added Pearce extensions so I could get two fingers on it. I will occasionally carry it in a leather wallet holster, but generally my Kahr CM-9 is the smallest gun I carry.I had a pair of the original LCP’s for the wife and I years ago. They were faithful little pistol’s. I ended up selling them both in order to upgrade the wife to the new LCP II when it first came out and also got her first 9mm in the Glock 43. Thinking about it in hindsight, I should have kept those original LCP’s.
I was to quick in getting the disease of wanting the next latest and greatest thing.
The LCP was bought for my wife. I can barely shoot it because the grip is so small. I added Pearce extensions so I could get two fingers on it. I will occasionally carry it in a leather wallet holster, but generally my Kahr CM-9 is the smallest gun I carry.
Another fan? I love that little gun. Quite a handful.I knew @nortac was going to hit the like button the minute he saw ‘Kahr’.
Another fan? I love that little gun. Quite a handful.
I looked at the LCP II and honestly it didn’t make much sense to me, it’s a slightly better range gun, but also slightly worse carry gun. Same round, same mag capacity, slightly larger. My absolutely most favorite thing about LCP is just how extremely pocketable it is, while being still relatively easy to shoot. For me at least. So making it larger in exchange for better sights and better trigger is not the trade-off I would personally be willing to make, but then I don’t find either the sights or the trigger especially bad (considering its purpose).I had a pair of the original LCP’s for the wife and I years ago. They were faithful little pistol’s. I ended up selling them both in order to upgrade the wife to the new LCP II when it first came out and also got her first 9mm in the Glock 43. Thinking about it in hindsight, I should have kept those original LCP’s.
I was to quick in getting the disease of wanting the next latest and greatest thing.
My Kahr PM 9 has been reliable after the initial break in period, during which there were occasional failures to feed, but that worked itself out in due course .Reviews on their reliability is mixed, but if ya get a good one, it does seem like it would be the perfect compact personal defense pistol.