LOL, I did that myself just recently. Actually carried around an unloaded gun for about a week 'cause I didn't notice it. In my case, it was after I unloaded the thing so I could take some dry fire practice.I had cleaned and oiled it after I shot it last week, and never reloaded it...... Normally I leave it loaded and just put it on and take it off. Oops!!!
I'm guessing you can't carry a gun showing in TN from the way you said that.Just recently I was carrying "appendix" IWB, went into a gas station and forgot to pull my sweater down over the gun. Again, nobody noticed or said anything, but the gun butt was visible the whole time I was in there.
What's the dumbest mistake you've ever made while carrying concealed?
Many of these seem to be displaying a common trend and a lesson learned by most at some point or another summed up in two words: Cheap. Holster.
I learned just like everyone else has - just buy a good holster from the start. Fortunately I didn't have to learn this in a very public way.
Not my mistake, exactly, but my then 6 year old daughter "made" me one day in front of family and a bunch of other Cabela's shoppers. She was, as usual, being hyperactive, fast, and a bit clumsy. She came flying down a row between some clothes racks and smashed fore-head first into the butt of my 1911! Made a cantaloupe "THUNK" that I swear everyone in the store turned around to figure out "what was THAT?" She burst into tears and fell on the floor holding her head! Left a big white DENT right in the middle of her forehead.
Same thing happened to me except it wasn't my daughter and since I would obviously have no other reason to be waiting by the women's dressing room the very attentive mother accused me of trying to abduct her daughter and called store security and the police. I have ever been more thankful that stores have so many security cameras than that day.
Not with the police but the store security tried to make an issue out of it. Police simply told them that their sign was meaningless unless they physically asked me to leave and I refused. After everything was settled they did ask my wife and I to leave which we were more than glad to do.Holy cow! Did carrying cause any extra time resolving the issue with the police?
Now that's funny.While behind schedule going to a seminar at a local hotel, I hurriedly slipped a S&W649 inside of my belt and went. During an intermission I went up to the podium to talk with the lecturer at which time the gun slid down my pants’ leg onto the floor.
I lucked out twice: once because the floor was carpeted and the gun didn’t make an attention getting sound and second, the drape around the podium reached the floor and I was able to nonchalantly nudge the gun under it with my foot.
When I noticed that no one was looking I bent down to tie the nonexistent shoelace on my loafers and palmed the gun from under the podium into my pocket.
I've come to the conclusion that kydex is fine for IWB, but or OWB or other carry options I want a good leather holster with retention strap