How many rounds?

[Chas]

18 rounds here, 1 loaded pistol and 2 reloads. Sometimes with a BUG with 5 more rds.

 

[cowboydoc]

If I'm carrying my Beretta, 18+1. I rarely carry a spare mag on my person, but there is at least 1 loaded mag in the glove box and/or center console of each vehicle, 1 in my laptop case, 1 or 2 in my duffel bag, and 2 spares in the quick access safe by the bed. I have mags all over the place.

If I'm carrying the 642, I always have at least one speed strip with me, and usually a speed loader in a jacket pocket. So 10 or 15 rounds total on me. I also have extra speed loaders stashed in all the above locations.

 

[vvvvvvv]

Absolute minimum of 24 rounds of .45ACP... 10+1 in the gun and a 13rd spare.

 

[pcolaboy]

XDM9, 19 +1 on me, 2 spare mags in the console, or glove box depending on which vech., I'm driving. (58 Possible)

 

[Soulman]

3-18rd mags for my Beretta M9 (one loaded in the pistol and two in a belt holster, or at very least, one spare mage in the pocket if I've got to be tucked in)

 

[redmax51]

16...

Me too.................Steve

 

[chazroh]

Depends on the gun. Sometimes it is 5 and sometimes it's 13

 

[T-Baggin98]

29-.40 cal. I carry 15 and a spare 14 round mag in my vehicle

 

[gerhard1]

Usually about 30.

 

[ldp4570]

I really just want to know what you think you are going to run into. The anything can happen reason is a cop out. To come to the amount of ammo that some people say they are carrying you must have some idea what you think you are going to run into. Some seem more like they are going offensive instead of defensive.

I personally work at a job that requires me to carry. I have the one magazine and that is it. I personally can not see a situation in which I will need more than one magazine to escape and evade.

I'm sure that at your job where your required to carry, you also have a radio to call for backup. Out in the real world for the rest of us(I used to be an LEO) there is no calling for backup. If you feel fine carrying a gun with no extra ammo i.e. spare magazine, speedloader, or speed strip, well I'm happy for ya, an hope "Murphy" doesn't showup. I believe in the rule of "One is none, and two is One". I might suggest you do some reading by the likes of Jim Cirillo, Jeff Cooper, Skeeter Skelton, and others who have been there. You might change your opinion of how much is enough.