What's the dumbest mistake you've ever made while carrying concealed?

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While walking my newborn last week a dog came out of a house and rushed us. It happened to be one of the only times I had left with my 642. I got between the dog and the stroller and we went toe to toe in a staring contest. It finally backed down when the owner came rushing out after it. In the heat of the moment I had ran my hand back to where my gun should have been and felt nothing. I even forgot my EDC knife at home.

Just like car and motorcycle accidents, the minute you lose your edge because "it's just a short walk around the block or a short ride to the store" you're boned.

Never again.
 
While walking my newborn last week a dog came out of a house and rushed us. It happened to be one of the only times I had left with my 642. I got between the dog and the stroller and we went toe to toe in a staring contest. It finally backed down when the owner came rushing out after it. In the heat of the moment I had ran my hand back to where my gun should have been and felt nothing. I even forgot my EDC knife at home.

Just like car and motorcycle accidents, the minute you lose your edge because "it's just a short walk around the block or a short ride to the store" you're boned.

Never again.
Yep. Can't go out with your kid unarmed. That is the only criteria that mandates I go armed....when I am with my kid.
Luckily most dogs are easily deterred. I run into as many dogs as the postman does. The big dogs are easily put off with a shout......it's the little dogs that are more likely to bite.
My big mistake is that I don't carry while working (I am an appliance repairman). I will figure that out someday but in the meantime I strap up whenever I leave the house with my toddler.
 
Yep. Can't go out with your kid unarmed. That is the only criteria that mandates I go armed....when I am with my kid.
Luckily most dogs are easily deterred. I run into as many dogs as the postman does. The big dogs are easily put off with a shout......it's the little dogs that are more likely to bite.
My big mistake is that I don't carry while working (I am an appliance repairman). I will figure that out someday but in the meantime I strap up whenever I leave the house with my toddler.
This is another reason I placed my pistol inside the fanny pack to be easily removed that day instead of just removing the pistol from my holster. My Mom drives me where I need to go since I don't have a vehicle to drive myself, normally I do not disobey my parents even at my age, but in this case I do. What she doesn't know will not hurt her. She told us she doesn't want us carrying while the baby is in the car which is the whole reason I carry in the first place is to protect them not so much me. What she doesn't know is Dad is armed almost every time they go somewhere, he usually has at least his pocket pistol on him at all times his is out. It is not like the child doesn't know about shooting even at her young age, 20 months, she will stand at the door and watch us target practice. She will point at whoever it is, laugh, do her little excited dance, and say in my case "Joey go boom boom" she just changes the name of whomever is shooting.
 
For me, it's the sudden awareness that the S&W 642 I was certain I put in my pocket before leaving home, is still at home.

Happens more frequently as the Alzheimer's sets in a little deeper... :uhoh:
 
^ mine works the other way, I'm so used to my LCP being in the pocket that I sometimes take it places I shouldn't(because of the law) and have to consciously think about where I'm going.
 
In the early 90's when you could wear a fanny pack without much scrutiny, I took mine off while fueling and put it on the back bumper while I bent over to check my tire for a nail as my the pump was running. Stood up, and totally forgot about the fanny pack and drove off down the road.

I realized what I had done roughly ten minutes later and went back to find it to no avail. After an hour of searching the roadway between the gas station and where I was when I realized what happened, I called work to file a "lost property" report. Work asked me if the gun was in a black fanny pack and I said it was, and they told me to go to the precinct and meet the unit who had it in his trunk.

When I got to the precinct, they had field stripped the entire gun, including every round from the magazine, and taped everything on the white board in the turnout room along with everything else in the fanny pack and a giant "way to go" scrawled across the board. It cost me buying the entire squad breakfast for that mistake.

Luckily, a nurse on her way home stopped at a red light, happened to look down and saw it in the street. She took it home and showed her husband, who then advised her to call and have it picked up. I learned a lot from that moment, and consider myself a lucky man that an honest citizen did the right thing when they found it.
 
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Once upon a time, my daughter's school sponsored a roller-skating party at the local roller rink ... I was packing a Star PD in an IWB strong-side.

Yes, I fell a few times ... on that side. Owwwieee ... Lesson learned here.
 
I holstered the wrong gun,,,

I have a fine S&W Model 36 in .38 Special,,,
For a long time that was my primary carry piece.

I also have a S&W Model 34 in .22 LR,,,
Except for the sights they are identical guns.

After an afternoon at the range, I put the wrong gun back in my holster,,,
I walked around for 2 days with an unloaded 22 before I noticed it.

Aarond

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A couple weeks ago at the gas pump, I accidently pulled out my Bianchi speed strip loaded with Speer Gold Dots for my S&W 642. I was searching for my keys, which I also keep in my pocket along with the speed strip. I might need to adjust that method! Luckily no one saw and if they did they probably wouldn't know what it was anyway.
 
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