Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Cool then. Let's proceed!
My cobbler did a masterful job of sewing a holster and mag holder onto it.
I don't like the idea of having a single container to contain your valuables and your primary means to defend yourself in a single place.
I'm with maxxhavoc there,
Except I don't leave "valuables" in it. Just "possibles."
The first summer after I got my CCW I couldn't figure out where to carry, so I packed a .380 in my belly pack/"murse."
As my technique developed (ankle holsters, SOB carry, etc.) over time, and as I acquired handguns (PF-9, then a J-frame) more suited to pure pocket carry, I stopped carrying it in the "murse" and use it really just as a miniature backpack, which I bring to and leave in the car.
As someone mentioned, I don't have to inventory everything ("spectacles, testicles, cigars, wallet*") when I leave, I just grab it by the strap and off I go.
Terry
Even if you are "wedded" to your handbag it is a pretty sub-optimal place to carry a firearm. Even if you can draw from it quickly -- and the test runs of that claim would have to be pretty realistic for me to accept as a general truth -- it is still quite susceptible to the sorts of loss, theft, and misplacement that befall everyone's hand-carried gear from time to time. A good concealment holster is almost impossible to set down, forget, walk away from, or have snatched or pilfered when you're out in public.
The differences in what might be thought of as capabilities between the guns folks choose to carry holstered and those they choose to carry in bags aren't so extreme as to necessitate the choice, either.
I carry a "to-die-for" little manly handbag every day, but don't carry my gun in it. While I can do so, and would do so under some specific circumstance, I'm sure, "off-body" carry tends to hover somewhere between a best-of-a-bad-lot compromise option if your situation completely precludes holster wear, and a too-easy excuse not to exert the effort to use a more secure, defensible, and rapid-deploying belt carry option.
But did Indiana Jones ever carry a gun in his satchel? I distinctly see a holster on his belt that would appear to match the gun in his hand.
That pic is a bit too large BTW
In all sincerity, how so? Between my current murse and my first one which finally bit the dust at age 11, I never came close to misplacing it, losing it or having it stolen.
One of the reasons I originally got one is because I was prone to misplacing my keys, wallet and other things around the house. Now I have ONE thing to concern myself with.
When I am outside of my house it stays either: with me, in a lock box in the trunk of my car or rear seat or my truck, or locked in my desk in my office at work. Pretty simple. In my case the proof is in the pudding. Almost 16 years without a problem whatsoever.
Wallet, keys, small swiss army knife and a Glock36....that's it.
Some of you guys get much more stuff and you're going to
need some kind of pack animal to lug it around.
Dave
I don't like the idea of having a single container to contain your valuables and your primary means to defend yourself in a single place.
Just like for a woman, a would be thug's first objective will be to steal your purse. It's where the valuable stuff is. Once he has it, you have no choice but to be a victim. If you carry on-body, if your purse is taken, you have the means to defend yourself against further threats.
It seems that the original question about what others might carry in a bag or elsewhere has become a search for justification for carrying the object in the first place.
Not especially gun related.