Does anyone do this? What I mean is taking a standard OWB plastic holster meant for the right side and wearing it left and canted as if cross draw. Well, it would be cross draw. This for both a Glock 19 and a 1911 style pistol.
A little background. I am 5-10, 160, less than 30 inch waist so I cannot carry either of these IWB. I do appendix carry warm season either a Ruger LCR or a S&W .380 BG. The problem I am having with the OWB is that I cannot lift the pistol high enough to clear the holster and now complicated by four weeks out rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder and my long swimmer arms. My thought is to move my right side holster to the left, cant it forward (they can be adjusted to cant fore or aft). And then I can reach across with my injured (and stiff) arm and pull the pistol. Will having the grip forward mak my pistols harder to conceal? What else am I missing here.
Actually, right now, I cannot even lift the pistols with my right arm, but hopefully in a few weeks I will be able to. But even before the surgery I had difficulty lifting the pistols from these type OWB paddle holsters because they sit so high. Of course they sit high so as not to have the pistol reveal itself below the garment line.
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A little background. I am 5-10, 160, less than 30 inch waist so I cannot carry either of these IWB. I do appendix carry warm season either a Ruger LCR or a S&W .380 BG. The problem I am having with the OWB is that I cannot lift the pistol high enough to clear the holster and now complicated by four weeks out rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder and my long swimmer arms. My thought is to move my right side holster to the left, cant it forward (they can be adjusted to cant fore or aft). And then I can reach across with my injured (and stiff) arm and pull the pistol. Will having the grip forward mak my pistols harder to conceal? What else am I missing here.
Actually, right now, I cannot even lift the pistols with my right arm, but hopefully in a few weeks I will be able to. But even before the surgery I had difficulty lifting the pistols from these type OWB paddle holsters because they sit so high. Of course they sit high so as not to have the pistol reveal itself below the garment line.
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