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I'm a big guy 6'-1" 280, so IWB is hard for me, especially when it's warm out. The 238 is just a great pocket gun, and the mags are small enough to carry 1 or more spares with no problem. The round is light, but hit anyone with 3 or more of them at close range and they are going to know they have been kissed.
Up to you... SAO or DAO? I chose the PM9 so I didn't have to worry about a safety in condition 1 with the 938. Just draw, aim, squeeze. But that's up to you... anything can be overcome with practice.
I'm also a big guy and find that full size pistols disappear iwb but pocket guns print in my pocket. That being said I'd go kahr or a jframe
And what stinks is that i can get the Sig at Half off MSRP and not even sure if i want it.
...In today's market, compact and pocket-size guns available for the 9mm and the 380 have essentially the same range of available features and performance capabilities-in fact, identical pocket-size 9mm and 380 pistol versions are increasingly available from the same manufacturer. You can choose among single-action, double-action, or so-called DAO mechanisms, with the same type of sighting setups and safety-operating mechanisms, and choices of steel, aluminum, or molded-polymer frames for either cartridge. Which means the choice is really between the capabilities of the cartridges, not the guns.
The 9mm Wins Hands Down
So for a short-barreled, concealment-size pocket pistol, all features of the guns being equal, which cartridge choice is best for personal defense, 380 or 9mm? Some have argued that in the very short barrels (in the 3.0- to 3.25-inch range) typically found on small pistols, the apparent ballistic advantage of the longer case 9mm is canceled and the two loads' performances are essentially the same. My own actual side-by-side testing doesn't prove that out. In fact, there really isn't very much of a contest at all. The 9mm wins hands down.
The 9mm Luger cartridge (also known as the 9mm Parabellum, 9mm NATO, and 9x19mm) is actually the oldest of today's mainstream semiautomatic pistol rounds (it was introduced in 1902), but because of its comparatively recent surge to popularity in this country, most American shooters think of it as relatively "modern" in comparison to other popular autoloader cartridges like the 45 ACP (1905). The 380 ACP is nothing other than a short 9mm (its German name, in fact, 9mm Kurtz, literally translates as 9mm Short), and like the 22 Short in relation to the 22 Long Rifle, or even the 38 Special in relation to the 357 Magnum, the shorter cartridge has only a portion of the authority of the longer 9mm.
In Europe the 380 Auto/9mm Short has at various times been an official military cartridge, and it is much favored by police agencies in many nations as a primary duty round. In the US it has always been seen as a minor-power backup load. And, compared to the 9mm, that's where it belongs.
SAAMI industry-standard catalog specifications for the two cartridges rate the 380 at approximately 950 fps velocity and 200 foot-pounds (ft-lbs) energy for JHP bullets in the 90- to 100-grain weight range while the 9mm (which is offered in a much wider range of bullet weights and styles) is specced at 1150 fps and 340 ft-lbs energy with a 115-grain JHP bullet and 990 fps and 320 ft-lbs energy with heavier 147-grain JHP subsonic loads. In raw energy terms alone, then, the 9mm has about a 65 percent advantage. (Standard four-inch ballistic test barrels are employed for the SAAMI ratings for both cartridges.)...
Ended up with a free state pm9 with night sights. Surprised with how accurate it is for such a small gun.