BUG location and logic?

[HOLYROLLER]

Recently purchased 2nd handgun (Bersa CC)...smaller and lighter than my usual carry (XD9SC), and it got me wondering. Where do you carry your BUG and why? Convenience? Tactical advantage? Accessable to strong side or weak side? Are there stats to back up any particular one? Thanks in advance, HR.

 

[VHinch]

My BUG isn't so much a backup as it is my "always" gun. When I'm at work, I am very limited in my carry options, so my Taurus 85UL stays on my left ankle. When I'm not at work and can carry my preferred weapon, a Sig 220, my ankle gun is still in it's rightful place. This is also convenient if I go somewhere that I need to be more discrete in my carry, I can simply take off the Sig, and still have my ankle gun.

 

[jahwarrior]

i carry a cobra ca380 in my left coat pocket; it's my offside. i wear my primary on my right hip.

 

[daehawc]

No stats, but I just started carrying a PF-9 as a backup. I carry my primary at about 2 o'clock and the pf-9 at about 7 o'clock. My thinking was that I can still get at it with either hand but easiest with my off hand. Plus, I've always subscribed to the logic that the quickest reload is a second gun.

 

[jahwarrior]

good logic!

 

[Geronimo45]

Where carried? Left front pants pocket. Convenience - always keep my wallet in the right-front pocket. Since I'm a right-handed guy, it's possible that a BG trying to approach me for dubious ends would try to crowd my right hand to keep me from getting at a gun, possibly ignoring the left. If practiced enough to where I'm pretty good shooting left-handed. And with the Beretta, it only likes my left hand.

 

[10-Ring]

If I carry a BUG, it's usually on my offside because if I get to the point I need to draw it, more than a few things have gone bad & my primary is not in play. Since my primary is on my strong side, having BUG on off side gets me away from the problem & should be able to address threat easier & faster.

 

[wuchak]

Kel-Tec P-3AT went with me everywhere all summer long as primary. Now that winter is here I have been carrying my SP101 more under a jacket or flannel shirt. The P-3AT just looked so sad that I didn't have the heart to leave it behind. Now it rides in the left pocket (weakside) while the SP101 rides on the right hip.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

I have a backpack with a semi-secret compartment. I keep my Taurus MilPro in an IWB holster inside that pocket, while I carry my Walther P99 in and OWB on me. It is not so much of a back-up gun as it is a gun for different situations, as well as a gun I can have with me, but not on me if the need for that arises, like when I bowl. The MilPro is much more concealable, so if I feel I really need to go low profile with it, I take the Walther off, put it in the compartment, and put on the MilPro. It isnt quickly accessible like a true back up gun, but it is nice knowing I do have 2 weapons if some craziness like a mall shooting ever took place.

 

[1911RjB]

where? ankle holster in baggy pants, or pocket holster in coat off handed pocket depends on where i'm going and what i'm dong... ;P

 

[Ala Dan]

KEL-TEC P3AT .380 in the my rear pants pocket, and in an Uncle Mike's #2
holster (too keep the firearm in an upright position) for a tactical advantage.

 

[Just Jim]

Well if one gun doesn't do it for me than I am just out of luck Heck if I need two guns then I am in the wrong neighborhood and I should have brought a rifle

Guess for law enforcement it might be important to carry two guns but for just average people like me one good gun should do it. When I do carry a second gun it is a rifle behind the seat of my truck

jj

 

[spwenger]

Mirror Image

I carry the same gun (S&W 640-1) behind each hip. This allows me to draw and fire with either hand, as appropriate to the circumstances. One of the philosophies I share with Clint Smith is that a handgun is a good tool to fight your way to your long gun. Having one on each side increases the chances of being able to do so.

 

[Katana8869]

If I carry a BUG it's usually my J-frame S&W 640 .357 in a soft Uncle Mikes IWB that has had the belt clip cut off. The whole rig is then slipped in the top of my boot.

I've never had any trouble keeping it in place or drawing it. It ain't fancy but it works.

 

[Rexster]

The only time I have a defined "back-up" is in a police uniform, when my primary duty pistol is the most likely weapon I will deploy if things go bad. But, even the duty pistol can be temporarily relegated if I deploy my shotgun or rifle, and in a foot chase over broken terrain, I may pull my SP101 .357 snubby from its ankle rig, to make running and jumping a bit easier. "Back-up" is a relative term. On my own time, out of uniform, the snubby may be in a belt holster, while an equal or larger weapon is in a pocket or off-body carry. Either weapon may then become the "go-to" gun, depending on whether I see trouble brewing, and perhaps stand or walk with my hand on the pocketed snubby, or discreetly pull the service-sized handgun from its off-body carry, rather than do a conventional and very obvious draw from the hip holster. My normal minimum firearm while in public is an SP101 snubby, I have three of them, and usually carry two handguns on my own time. Whether this continues after I retire remains to be seen; my comfort level may change.

 

[BikerRN]

Off Duty I carry my BUG in my weakside pocket, unless I'm sitting in a car.

If I'm in a car then my BUG gets moved to the ankle until the trip is over. My "Primary" stays on my hip.

Biker

 

[daehawc]

I've got an F150 with the flow through center console. I took one of those cheap universal nylon holsters, some heavy duty velcro and some fabric glue to make sure it held onto the holster. I put a few strips on a small cheap removable panel of the console by my right knee and I can slap a holster or knife right in my truck as a backup when driving. Easy to access and impossible to see when I'm in the drivers seat.

 

[mgregg85]

My choices sound kind of like yours holyroller. My primary gun is an XD45 compact and my backup gun is a bersa thunder 380(I didn't get the CC version because I didn't like the sights). I carry my XD45 IWB at about the 4 o'clock position. When I carry the bersa it rides in a desantis nemesis pocket holster in my left front pocket. Sometimes I don't carry the XD and in that situation I just put the bersa in my right front pocket.