Renegade Ziggy
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I advise against this position, if your in a struggle and fall the weapon could seriously injure you.
I really like six o clock (crack) holstering
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2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
Tried 'em all many years ago, settled on three:
Small guns, right-hand (strong side) pants or coat pocket. Can, if necessary, shoot through the coat pocket at bad breath distances. (Holsters are not necessary in Colorado.)
Ankle rig, slow but deep concealment for shirt-and-pants affairs. I depart from conventional wisdom by carrying it on my strong side ankle on the inside, butt forward. Just works better for me, even though it's slow. Toyed with the idea of velcro-ing the inside seam of some pants legs for it, but never got around to it.
Crossdraw at 9 or 10 o'clock under a Hawaiian shirt or vest or jacket. Crossdraw has always worked best for me compared to elbow-bending contortions to get to a strong side carry with my long albatross-like arms.
Pluses and minuses, but even when I open carried in the days that I wandered around in the fields and forests, crossdraw was the way I settled on.
Pluses: easier to carry in a car under a seat belt, can fend off a gun grab with off-side arm while grabbing with the strong arm, more difficult for someone to make a gun grab from behind.
Minuses: slightly longer reach to the gun, sweeping horizontally across a target instead of up-and-down with a strong side draw.
I practice crossdraw a lot indoors at 3 yards with Airsoft BB gun clones and Transitional II target hung on the wall with plenty of carpeting behind it. Also in front of a big mirror with the real guns, all ammo in another room, dummy rounds in gun. Dummy rounds in gun. Dummy rounds in gun. I always triple-check that.
Have a shoulder rig for 1911, hate it for some reason. With other carry styles, I easily forget I'm carrying.... sort of like you're rarely conscious that you're wearing shoes. But with the shoulder rig, it seems like every step reminds me that I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me. Can't ever forget it.
When I first got my "hall pass" from the Auth-or-i-tays to carry, I tried carrying small-of-back (SOB), and came to the same conclusion as many others, that a slip or fall could be pretty dangerous to the structural members back there, so I quit it forthwith. I've taken several flat-on-my-back flips in winter.
Last winter, without planning it out in advance, I found I was carrying my J-frame in my right front coat pocket (really fast to get to --in fact you can keep your hand on it without being "threatening") as well as my 1911 at 9 or 10 o'clock.
Came to the sudden realization that in this configuration, my little J-Frame was my primary, and the big 1911 was my back-up gun.
An interesting switcheroo, no?
Terry, 230RN
Small guns, right-hand (strong side) pants or coat pocket. Can, if necessary, shoot through the coat pocket at bad breath distances. (Holsters are not necessary in Colorado.)
Ankle rig, slow but deep concealment for shirt-and-pants affairs. I depart from conventional wisdom by carrying it on my strong side ankle on the inside, butt forward. Just works better for me, even though it's slow. Toyed with the idea of velcro-ing the inside seam of some pants legs for it, but never got around to it.
Crossdraw at 9 or 10 o'clock under a Hawaiian shirt or vest or jacket. Crossdraw has always worked best for me compared to elbow-bending contortions to get to a strong side carry with my long albatross-like arms.
Pluses and minuses, but even when I open carried in the days that I wandered around in the fields and forests, crossdraw was the way I settled on.
Pluses: easier to carry in a car under a seat belt, can fend off a gun grab with off-side arm while grabbing with the strong arm, more difficult for someone to make a gun grab from behind.
Minuses: slightly longer reach to the gun, sweeping horizontally across a target instead of up-and-down with a strong side draw.
I practice crossdraw a lot indoors at 3 yards with Airsoft BB gun clones and Transitional II target hung on the wall with plenty of carpeting behind it. Also in front of a big mirror with the real guns, all ammo in another room, dummy rounds in gun. Dummy rounds in gun. Dummy rounds in gun. I always triple-check that.
Have a shoulder rig for 1911, hate it for some reason. With other carry styles, I easily forget I'm carrying.... sort of like you're rarely conscious that you're wearing shoes. But with the shoulder rig, it seems like every step reminds me that I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me, I have a gun on me. Can't ever forget it.
When I first got my "hall pass" from the Auth-or-i-tays to carry, I tried carrying small-of-back (SOB), and came to the same conclusion as many others, that a slip or fall could be pretty dangerous to the structural members back there, so I quit it forthwith. I've taken several flat-on-my-back flips in winter.
Last winter, without planning it out in advance, I found I was carrying my J-frame in my right front coat pocket (really fast to get to --in fact you can keep your hand on it without being "threatening") as well as my 1911 at 9 or 10 o'clock.
Came to the sudden realization that in this configuration, my little J-Frame was my primary, and the big 1911 was my back-up gun.
An interesting switcheroo, no?
Terry, 230RN
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