I sold my P3AT and have decided to buy two more P32s. One for me, one for my wife, and the old one for range pracice. IMHO .380 is just a bit too powerful for that package. I think it needs to be beefed up a little more, and perhaps get a little longer barrel for better accuracy. In a small caliber pistol (I call anything below 9x19 in size and power "small") bullet placement is everything. With the P32 I can achieve outstanding accuracy out to 15 yards. With the P3AT, I can't achieve anything better than a .357 snubby. (I ain't that hot with 357 in any size.) And while my P32 has been more reliable than anything that small and violent has a right to be, the P3AT has been finicky, unreliable in small and irritating ways, and has been a literal pain in the head.
While many people say that you can protect yourself from the occasional casing hitting your forehead by wearing a baseball cap, I don't wear them regularly, so i don't where them when I practice. I can take the shells in the head, but when they bounce down inside of my glasses, we are talking a whole different ballpark. Any gun that will regularly place burning hot casings inside of my glasses is not an appropriate self defense weapon for me.
So I'm back to the P32. It's more fun to shoot anyway.
While many people say that you can protect yourself from the occasional casing hitting your forehead by wearing a baseball cap, I don't wear them regularly, so i don't where them when I practice. I can take the shells in the head, but when they bounce down inside of my glasses, we are talking a whole different ballpark. Any gun that will regularly place burning hot casings inside of my glasses is not an appropriate self defense weapon for me.
So I'm back to the P32. It's more fun to shoot anyway.