I have a 1911 clone that I carry but to damn big but it works for hunting for me. I would like to see what everyone else likes. I have been looking at Sig compact p250 in .40 or .45, a smith & wesson M&P in same calibers or the Taurus millineum series. I was thinking about a .380 but I am a big guy and that little gun would look funny as hell in my big paws.