"Pocket" clip on a Glock-style action

Would you ever carry with a "pocket" clip and one in the chamber?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 9 11.0%
  • No.

    Votes: 73 89.0%

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I've used one of these to carry my G19 IWB for years. It is so thin you forget it is there. I've spend multiple days carrying that way while hiking and/or riding an ATV and never had the gun shift in the least.
 
Using a clip on a striker fired pistol makes no sense to me. If you carry it with an empty chamber you need to rack the slide. If you carry it with a round chambered to need to remove the slip on trigger guard. Both of these methods require extra manipulation of the firearm. You don't need extra things to do if your in a stressful situation.

If you're deploying your pistol you need it now. Main battery or backup.

The agency I worked for adopted Glocks back in the 90s. They forbade the use of pocket clips for the reasons stated. This was preceded by reports of negligent discharges caused by use of a pocket clip.
 
I carry a S&W 637 with a Hip Clip now and then, but that's a revolver with a pretty stout trigger pull. I wouldn't consider it with a Glock however.
 
Using a clip on a striker fired pistol makes no sense to me. If you carry it with an empty chamber you need to rack the slide. If you carry it with a round chambered to need to remove the slip on trigger guard. Both of these methods require extra manipulation of the firearm. You don't need extra things to do if your in a stressful situation.

If you're deploying your pistol you need it now. Main battery or backup.

The agency I worked for adopted Glocks back in the 90s. They forbade the use of pocket clips for the reasons stated. This was preceded by reports of negligent discharges caused by use of a pocket clip.

The trigger guard is tied to your belt for correct carry. As you draw the gun it is pulled off. Just as you pull a gun out of a holster, you are pulling that trigger guard off.
But from the sounds of it in your case and for some others here they should perhaps carry it with an empty and maybe without the magazine and even better add a chamber flag so you know it is empty.
Me I believe in the KISS principle. My gun is always fully loaded and I carry and act accordingly. For a SD scenario one does not want both hands being required to fire your gun for a lot of reasons. Also under stress it is possible to jam the pistol when racking the slide. Especially true if you are struggling with someone or a dog has gotten one of your arms in its teeth.

Lots of negligent discharges by LEOs from a normal service holster. Hard to ban stupidity and with a mass of people one has to set the standards for the lowest denominator. For many years the US Army taught to always carry with an empty chamber for that very same reason.
 
That’s gonna be a hard “no” from me, dawg. Heck, I’m not willing to carry a Glock or other no-safety semi-auto in any holster!
 
The Israelis carry with an empty chamber, but practice is always in that mode, and they can be pretty quick getting a pistol into action.

I bought a carry clip when I bought an LCP years ago, decided it wasn't for me as I like a loaded chamber and it also didn't feel secure to me.
 
I didn't even like carrying a DAO pistol with a clip. Glock or anything similar would be a hard no for me as well.
 
This is how I would carry any striker fired gun...

1. Always use a real holster that covers the trigger area.

2. Always use kydex...leather can warp and actuate the trigger. It has happened before to someone else. I believe the story was posted on this forum.

3. Always use a full length holster the covers the full length of the gun. I made a mistake of using a G26 length open ended holster on a G19 pistol. I was carrying AIWB. As I sat down, my leg hit the end of the muzzle and pushed my G19 out of the holster. It only moved it by a quarter of an inch. But it sure made me nervous having to push the gun back fully into the holster without anyone noticing. (I did not want to flash my gun..and scare the faint of heart. You know..some think that guns are evil and all that.)

Well..those are my rules...for me. (That's a reason that I am liking my CZ hammer fired pistols more and more.

4. In my younger days.. I actually bought one of those clip "holsters". But after much consideration realized it was a bad idea for Glock pistols.

It somewhere in my holster box and this thread is a good reminder that I need to throw it away.
 
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I think that's intended to be used with a MIC style (trigger guard only) holster, you tie it off to a belt loop or whatever and it pulls the guard free on draw. I do that if I pocket carry, which is infrequent.
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I have about 4 of the trigger guard "holsters" all for my Glocks.

I love,LOVE the DEEP carry that I can do in the hottest weather ,under a 'T' shirt with a G-19 or G23.

BUT = no trigger guard,I would choose a different CCW.

btw ,the carry method is known by us oldtimers as "Mexican carry" and was started with a 1911.

And yes I did that carry with no other safetys other than the whole mess that come on the 1911.
 
I have about 4 of the trigger guard "holsters" all for my Glocks.

I love,LOVE the DEEP carry that I can do in the hottest weather ,under a 'T' shirt with a G-19 or G23.

BUT = no trigger guard,I would choose a different CCW.

btw ,the carry method is known by us oldtimers as "Mexican carry" and was started with a 1911.

And yes I did that carry with no other safetys other than the whole mess that come on the 1911.

I would not even consider trigger guard holsters. Although rare.. a jolt to the muzzle end can dislodge the pistol from the holster.

But that's just me. (And only referring to carrying striker fired guns with no external safeties. )
 
The trigger guard is tied to your belt for correct carry. As you draw the gun it is pulled off. Just as you pull a gun out of a holster, you are pulling that trigger guard off.
But from the sounds of it in your case and for some others here they should perhaps carry it with an empty and maybe without the magazine and even better add a chamber flag so you know it is empty.
Me I believe in the KISS principle. My gun is always fully loaded and I carry and act accordingly. For a SD scenario one does not want both hands being required to fire your gun for a lot of reasons. Also under stress it is possible to jam the pistol when racking the slide. Especially true if you are struggling with someone or a dog has gotten one of your arms in its teeth.

Lots of negligent discharges by LEOs from a normal service holster. Hard to ban stupidity and with a mass of people one has to set the standards for the lowest denominator. For many years the US Army taught to always carry with an empty chamber for that very same reason.

I follow the KISS principle too. I keep a round chambered and if I want to carry IWB I use a holster. Nothing extra put on the gun. Not relying on a trigger guard device to break away as I draw. I know my holster is staying where it is.

You have a very condescending attitude telling me and others to carry the gun empty with a chamber flag. Does that make you feel more qualified to respond to the OP ? There is really no need to get insulting especially when you have no basis to do so.

There are lots of negligent discharges by others who are not LEOs.

If what you do works for you and is safe go ahead.

I'm also familiar what the protocol was in the Army having more than a few years of active duty, National Guard, and Reserve service.
 
There are plenty of well designed minimalist holsters out there that I would use before I would even consider carrying with a pocket clip/trigger guard holster. To my mind there's just too many things that could go wrong with that set-up.
 
2. Always use kydex...leather can warp and actuate the trigger. It has happened before to someone else. I believe the story was posted on this forum.
I don’t want to start a what holster material is better argument but come on, leather has been used forever and is fantastic. I think I remember one story from many years ago where supposedly a leather pocket holster got deformed and may have caused a discharge, but it was highly debated and could have been crap quality to begin with. If I remember right final conclusion was guy got his finger on the trigger. A good quality leather would never bend/fold that much and pull the trigger. Even so one freak accident doesn’t mean stop using leather. I bought my first Kydex IWB holster a few weeks ago and hated it. With clip it was wider and bulkier than my leather and Remora iwb’s with zero flex. Very uncomfortable. Also the edges of the opening completely raked across my G19 front serrations when drawing. Sent it back a day after receiving it.
 
Kydex Ravens or Crossbreed type holsters only for me. Or any of the various copies.

How many times can you wash leather? My pants, belt, and holster get tossed in the washer machine still together all of the time. Ok, my leather belts stay pretty clean and don't end up in the washing machine like my scuba webbing belt can.

But my leather holsters were sweaty, stinky, nasty things. Never going back to that.
 
I have never ever felt the need to wash my leather holster or belt.

Machine wash no. I do rub some saddle soap on my hybrid holsters once a year. Closest it ever gets to "washing." My belts are either nylon or synthetic leather, so they don't get washed at all.
 
... Crossbreed type holsters only for me. Or any of the various copies.

How many times can you wash leather?

But my leather holsters were sweaty, stinky, nasty things. Never going back to that.
What's that big body side panel on your Crossbreed made of?;)
 
The Israelis carry with an empty chamber, but practice is always in that mode, and they can be pretty quick getting a pistol into action.
This is, at best, outdated information. It may never have been universally true. Israeli police, and IDF people who carry a pistol as a primary defensive weapon today carry like everyone else, chambered in a good holster.
 
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