Spot the CCW!

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I carry SOB in cool weather with a sweatshirt or jacket. No problem.

Long before I got a CHL I used a fanny pack when I was exercise walking, hiking or biking. It was a small cheap one very unlike the type many use for CC. Always full of crap.
After I got my CHL I still used it for for my Bobcat when out walking etc.
I now have slightly bigger one that will carry my Bersa or PCR.
Even with an extra mag its not over loaded. It's just a cheap Columbia fanny pack you can find at any trail shop. Great place to hang the cell and a H2O bottle when out at the park.

I generally have my keys and glasses in there too. Sometimes a small camera. I always have at least one of and sometimes both my kiddos with me. Whenever I go anywhere with this thing on...regardless of how I am dressed....I like to let people see me go in and out of that bag a lot. I put my keys in, take out the kids glasses or put'em in. Put my cell in or take it out. One pocket is always unzipped or partially so. An especially nice touch is to keave just the corner of a kleenex or two showing. Peps with small kids ALWAYS have kleenez.

I doubt even the CHLers around me give it any thought. But there is aways a gun in the back pocket.

I pretty well convinced if you are wearing exercise cloths and tennis shoes or are fussing around with a couple of kids no matter how you are dressed, a fanny pack just seems to be part of the oufit and and no one gives it a second thought.

Those big leather ones are nice and they also just scream out...I gotta gun.


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Doubt my fanny back quite up to standard of yours Selfdfenz but . it is quite good for size .. and was a cheapo from wally World.

Mine will hold 2 speedloaders in front pocket easily, plus oddments...... and main section holds snubby along with other stuff. It is deep enough such that I can reach in and get a check book, pen, Kleenex, whatever ... and no one sees inside ... so like you say .. get seen using it for routine things and unlikely you'll get ''made''.
 
I took a class from a LEO trainer who said he once gave a class to a group of LEO's and, as part of his introduction, told them he was carrying something like 10 different firearms. The kicker that brought down the house was when he pulled a little NAA revolver from the soft drink cup he'd been drinking from the the previous 30 minutes.:neener:
 
Pretty good question here.............

I've never really made a conscious effort at trying to spot people carrying CCW. Uh, it's not really "appropriate" to be checking out the lumps and bulges in another man's pants. (know what I mean?) Most of the time, I'm admiring those wonderful feminine proportions mostly found beneath a woman's garments!

When I carried my P32 or NAA mini-revolver, I never feel like anyone one earth could spot me by visual scrutiny. However, when I carry my snub in the strong-side pocket, to me, it feels HUGE and OBVIOUS. C. R. Sam, assured me in his own inimitable style, that it's just being too self-conscious and that no one is looking or even cares for the most part.

Makes me feel a whole lot better..........
 
When I carried my P32 or NAA mini-revolver, I never feel like anyone one earth could spot me by visual scrutiny.
I'm just the opposite. If I have my Baby Browning in my pants pocket, it feels like everyone can see what it is. I'm totally comfortable with my Commander under my shirt or sweatshirt. I'm actually more comfortable with that same Commander under a dress shirt in my Confidant shirt holster than I am with that Browning in my pocket. Hmmm, I wonder if its some underlying thing about "little" guns? Any internet shrinks available?? :)
 
Never did confirm if my method in spotting one really works, but I really suspect a CCW nearby when:

- It's oven hot and the guy manages to wear an undershirt and a polo

- whenever I see a very large fanny pack

- the guy keeps on surrepticiously checking his piece

- an unusual bulge at the SOB to 4o'clock position

-and surest way of all, is when the guy blatantly displays his carry piece, and that's the most common in my experience.:D
 
i usually don't pay attention, but when i do look for people ccw'ing i usually don't find any. just sheeple.
 
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