A little of both. It doesn't shoot like a small gun but carries like one. I think that it's a mental thing for me to think that my back hurts because I've carried a full size gun all day with the P220. Then I'll carry the CCO and won't have a back issue because I carried a small gun for the day.Does the CCO carry "smaller" than it is? Does it shoot bigger than it carries?
Some guns are like that.