What I Carry and Why: Dean Weingarten’s GLOCK 17 and S&W 337

By Dean Weingarten

[ED: In response to reader requests, this is part of a series of posts by TTAG writers revealing their choice of carry guns.]

Most of my carry is with a beat up GLOCK 17 and/or the no longer manufactured S&W 337. It has a 3.2 inch barrel on the Scandium frame with the titanium cylinder. Loaded, the GLOCK weighs a smidgen under two pounds (31.8 ounces); the 337, just under one (15.4 ounces), according to my digital scale. The ballistics of 9mm+P delivers a 115 grain .355 inch projectile at about 1350 fps; the .38+P, a 125 grain .357 inch projectile at about 950 fps . . .

The revolver has HI VIZ adjustible sights and Crimson Trace Lasergrips. The GLOCK has TRUGLO TFO combination light gathering and tritium sights.

There are two answers implicit in the question, “Why?”

Quite a while ago, a well-known gun writer described the optimum every day carry (EDC) handgun. Paraphrased, he said it had the capacity of Maxim machine gun, the knockdown power of a .45-70, the recoil of a .22 short Olympic pistol, the size and weight of a lipstick case, the ergonomics of a Colt Woodsman, the accuracy of a sniper rifle and is absolutely …Read the Rest

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