sgt127,
I assume that you use an IWB holster? I find appendix carry a little faster than 3 o'clock but less comfortable when sitting down or bending. It also conceals better.
Yes. The advantage to IWB appendix, for me, is overwhelming. What I have found:
More natural to draw from waistline and less shoulder movement (my shoulders are a little messed up)
Left hand can lift cover garment more easily. But, I can use the gun hand to go under if need be.
Gun butt doesn’t poke up when you bend over.
Men, in a crowd, will bump up against you. Possibly side to side, passing, jostling. Men “will not” bump into each other groin to groin. It’s like trying to press two positive magnets in to each other.
You can greet and hug by just bending over a little. Other person doesn’t feel gun. Again, in a casual setting, most people don’t body hug. But a hand may go around your waist.
Easy draw seated in car. If someone comes at you in the car, your reaction would be to lean away. Effectively driving your right hand hip holster into the console.
Much easier to make a surreptitious draw (like sitting in a restaurant. No large shoulder raising movement.)
I can draw the gun, upside down with my left hand, and pull the trigger with my pinky, if I had too. Or kind of a cavalry draw. But, at least I can get to it with my left hand.
Now. I’m weird. I will only carry an exposed hammer gun Appendix. Period. I want to be able to but my thumb on that hammer when I holster. If something goes wrong, I feel resistance AND feel the hammer move, I know something is wrong.
I cannot carry a gun, pointed at my femoral artery, that has enough stored energy to fire. No cocked and locked. No striker fired (in my opinion, cocked and unlocked) even a safety is not enough. For me.
Having started with DA revolvers, I can shoot a DA gun well. Rob Leatham will beat me in speed and split times, every time. I get that. But, life’s a compromise.