Carry options revolve around a lot of variables. For instance, the best handgun to carry in the winter time when you’re wearing a jacket and heavy clothes may not be the best option during the summer time when you’re in shorts and a t-shirt.
One thing I would recommend is to consider the wheelgun. With all revolvers having a safety transfer bar it is physically impossible for an accidental discharge. You don’t have to worry about jams or thumb safies. Just point and shoot. In a life or death situation, the simpler the better.
People talk about the extra round capacity of pistols but the fact remains that the vast majority of incidents where someone does actually fire, only a few rounds are actually fired. If it makes you feel safer, you can always carry an extra moon clip worth of rounds.
Devil Dog, way back in the olden days my grandpappy gave me a S&W Revolver in 32Long. 7 1/2 inch barrel. I got very very accurate with it. Of course, I never tried it on an enraged wild boar, or the urban equivalent.
I recently got a Ruger 3101 in 327 Mag. and lemme tell you, this thing is definitely worth considering. No big recoil;, very little muzzle blast, and at 50 feet, you can put 6 in a hole no bigger than a silver dollar. The numbers are impressivel, putting out the same energy as a 9MM .. and you can shoot any .32 in it, Long, S&W, HR 32 MAg, for cheap practice. And it’s very concealable.
OK, it’s not a .50 Desert Eagle, but I’m telling you it’s ....Way cool... and ought to be a good defense weapon. Decent, controllable power.