If you want to be able to shoot it often, I would say 9mm. .380 is like gold now days, hard to find and you are gonna pay an arm and a leg
Forgive my naiveness but will 9mm bullets work for .380 brass? My dad is teaching me to reload so I'm still learning.Another great reason to get into reloading. .380 is one of the easiest and cheapest rounds to load. It's been a while since I've done a batch, but I used to be able to do a box of 50 for less than $5. If you are not reloading, .380 can be a tough caliber to shoot due to sporadic ammo shortages.
Lovemachine, your opinion is that anyone who decides to carry a .380 is lazy.
Profound.
Forgive my naiveness but will 9mm bullets work for .380 brass? My dad is teaching me to reload so I'm still learning.
I highly recommend the sig p938...it's a great gun...I carry mine daily and it's very nice to carry even with the mag extension. And there are quite a few models out there to choose from to suit your taste.
There all kinds of 9mm pistols now that come in sizes that 20 years ago would have been .380 by default. Unless you want a pistol for real deeeep concealment (keltec, ruger LCP etc) I'd chose 9mm unless you find the recoil a problem in a small pistol.
One thing to consider about really small pistols is that they can be hard to handle/shoot because of their size. Sometimes less is just less. The bottom line is that the balance between concealability and everything else is something you have to experiment with yourself and decide what works for you
I think 380 will kill/stop sometime just as easily as any other carry caliber with good shot placement...people that say 380 sucks have never been shot with one. There's no doubt 9mm and up carry more of a punch, but 380 is sufficient with little recoil and would be my choice for concealment, but not home defense.