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doubleh writes:

I remove my gun from my back/hip/rear pocket when sitting down. I'm not worried in the least about damaging the gun, just that it hurts my rear end.
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I agree. When sitting crooked on a mere wallet can cause back pain over time, I'm certainly not going to sit on a handgun. Neither my wallet nor my gun rides back there.
 
MedWheeler said:
doubleh writes:



I agree. When sitting crooked on a mere wallet can cause back pain over time, I'm certainly not going to sit on a handgun. Neither my wallet nor my gun rides back there.
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That's why you put the LCP in one back pocket, and your wallet in the other. It even's things out and keeps your spine straight! ;)
 
^^ Probably not a bad idea.

I don't know if it's being left-handed, but I seem to have an issue with magazine releases being actuated the few times I've put either my P32 or my TCP back there on my left side. Haven't tried it on my right.

But, I do often carry the P32 as a BUG, and it rides in a front pocket. Maybe I'll try it in the right rear and see if that doesn't help with the mag-release problem.
 
bassjam said:
That's why you put the LCP in one back pocket, and your wallet in the other. It even's things out and keeps your spine straight! ;)
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I can do that with my billfold (yes, I know it's also called a wallet) and my iphone and it keeps my spine straight. I still remove both before sitting down because they make my butt hurt. :)
 
chicharrones said:
I've often worried that sitting on a plastic framed pocket gun would actually kink the magazine. Glad to know I'm wrong about that. :)
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I wouldn't rule it out. Happened for the steel chassis of iPhone 6's...

I used to carry a 38 derringer in a pocket holster made to print like a wallet, years and years ago. However, I haven't carried back pocket for years and years since. I've never found what I consider to be a sufficient technique to draw from the back pocket which also securely held AND concealed the pistol, so I don't and won't carry in my back pocket. I often carry IWB 6o'clock, but I don't use any carry method in which I can't effectively execute a 4 count drawstroke - the first step of which is simultaneously clearing the garment with the off hand and acquiring a shooting grip with the gun hand... I've never found a way to have that happen with my pistol in my backpocket...
 
Just to elaborate...

in my regular jeans, a hammerless J frame in a DeSantis pocket holster will fit in my back pocket so that the butt of the revolver is just barely out of sight. An untucked t-shirt is helpful, but not really necessary. It's fast to draw, too. A bonus is that drawing it normally also involves dropping the leash of my very large and protective dog. :)
 
kemikos said:
Oh, I like that. You willing to share more details about your setup?
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This is a S&W .38 Safety Hammerless in .38 S&W. The barrel is shortened to 1.5", new front sight, custom ergonomic grip. Gun is refinished in 'antique gray.' The sights, tiny as they are, are surprisingly effective- largely because they are so close together they are in the same visual sight plane. The double-action trigger is somewhat heavy but extremely smooth. Overall the gun is noticeably smaller than a J-frame. The gun is all-steel and weighs 17.4 ounces (empty.) The holster is 8 oz. top-grain leather, smooth-side in so that the rough 'flesh' side with anchor it in the pocket.

Typically I carry a speed-strip with five rounds in my right-front pocket. The load I am using is a .361" 150gr. LSWC at about 550fps. Nobody's idea of a hot load, but penetration tests seem to indicate it will do the job. This target was shot rapid-fire at 7 yards and is pretty typical of my results with this gun-
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Yes, a modern polymer-frame .380 would be a more rational choice for this application, but I like this gun- and I am pretty confident in what I can do with it.
 
My departed Great Uncle carried a Colt Police Positive, 4 inch, in a rear pocket holster. He retired from the NYPD, a Captain, in the early 1950s. When he left the house with gun in pocket he wore a suit. It mattered not how hot in Phoenix, that was the way he was. He never said if anyone tried to take it from him. Somehow, I doubt that would have worked out for the perp.
 
Back in the 1990s through about 2004 my wife cleaned houses and office buildings. I was lucky enough to be allowed to go clean the offices at night with her. I also got all the hard jobs, toilets, floors and all the outside windows and glass doors. All 3 offices were in bad parts of town.

So I carried a Taurus model 85 in my back pocket. It must have been 6 months before my wife spotted it in my pocket. And that was just because I was bent over vacuuming the stairs. I didn’t sit down and removed it when driving to next office. It actually a very comfortable way to carry a small gun.
 
I’ve known a couple of older gentlemen the carried 38’s in their back pockets. I don’t know If it matters but they also wore baggy pants. I always assumed that it was popular back in the day.

Me, I don’t even carry a wallet on my back pocket. Metal hips.
 
Michael Tinker Pearce said:
This is a S&W .38 Safety Hammerless in .38 S&W. The barrel is shortened to 1.5", new front sight, custom ergonomic grip. Gun is refinished in 'antique gray.' The sights, tiny as they are, are surprisingly effective- largely because they are so close together they are in the same visual sight plane. The double-action trigger is somewhat heavy but extremely smooth. Overall the gun is noticeably smaller than a J-frame. The gun is all-steel and weighs 17.4 ounces (empty.) The holster is 8 oz. top-grain leather, smooth-side in so that the rough 'flesh' side with anchor it in the pocket.

Typically I carry a speed-strip with five rounds in my right-front pocket. The load I am using is a .361" 150gr. LSWC at about 550fps. Nobody's idea of a hot load, but penetration tests seem to indicate it will do the job. This target was shot rapid-fire at 7 yards and is pretty typical of my results with this gun-
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Yes, a modern polymer-frame .380 would be a more rational choice for this application, but I like this gun- and I am pretty confident in what I can do with it.
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Personally, I love it when someone comes up with a retro and/or iconoclastic solution that suits them.

Congratulations on such a fine and interesting piece... :thumbup:

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Jack B. said:
Just easier to steal. If you could see then I guess you could grab it. He'd never see you coming. Never heard of anyone carrying in their back pocket.
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Was a popular carry method many years ago. There was a holster that was made to wear in the hip pocket. The back of the holster was a stiff slab of leather shaped like the pocket. The pouch was of lighter weight leather, sewn to the backing to the shape of the gun. There was a tab with a button hole to attach to the pocket button to secure the holster. the gun was carried butt to the rear/center of the back.

This prompted the following story:

A reporter was dispatched to cover a political meeting in rural Tennessee. When he got there it appeared the meeting had been brief and broke up after a short while. He asked a bystander why the meeting broke up so soon.

"Feller made a motion that was out of order," explained the bystander.

"What kind of motion?" asked the reporter.

"Towards his hip pocket," was the reply.

Yep, in the old days, the wallet was carried in the breast pocket, the pistol in one hip pocket, the flask in the other. Southern politics.


Bob Wright
 
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