Thumbing through the latest xyHt magazine, I came across this picture:
If you carry your Glock that way, make sure there's not a round in the chamber!
It depends on which pistol (or revolver) that I am packing at the time. But it's always a quality holster. Living here in Wyoming (open/concealed carry is legal without a permit), I have yet to carry anything but a money clip when leaving the house. In the field, it was/is a Glock 20 in a mil-spec holster (with cover flap to keep the crap out).
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MathTeacher he is packing a revolver. The rule of thumb from the cowboy days was let the hammer rest on an empty chamber.
The Glock does have a safety and the M1911A1 that I carried in Vietnam on my second tour (1967) has 3 safety's on it and I always?ÿ
had one in the chamber and cocked & locked; plus I carried 150 rounds.
JOHN NOLTON
????ÿ I've never carried while at work except in USFS bear country where it was mandated.?ÿ Your gear is not worth your life & retreat is the best option.?ÿ OTOH, I was raised in Idaho and own a variety of firearms (with plenty of ammo) and have always considered them hunting tools and recreational gun range toys. Unfortunately I now live in a State where carry, concealed or open, or quick access in a vehicle is a serious felony.?ÿ Am I up in arms about it??ÿ Nope, but home protection is still permitted so I keep my loaded .357 4" Colt handy but hard to find for an intruder.?ÿ I've shot about 4,000 rounds through it since I bought it in the seventies in training exercises (I'm a reloader) and it mostly wasn't slow fire target practice.?ÿ I have a left handed concealable shoulder holster for it which I'm quite familiar with concerning a quick draw and shot placement.?ÿ So if street bedlam comes down I'm confident.
My rifles, shotgun, various WW2 9mm pistols are all in storage and i haven't fired or even seen them for years.?ÿ Too much risk they'll be burglarized (I actually had a 30.06 deer rifle stolen which was hidden under my bed in '71) if kept at home.?ÿ The mania concerning "I pack concealed everytime I leave my house" bewilders me; where in the USA is the risk so high that packing heat protects you when going to the grocery store?
Woops, I forgot my AMC .380 Auto pocket pistol with ankle & belly holster. I could never shoot it well, it was unreliable & the holsters were cumbersome.?ÿ Had a range coach tell me to carry it in my pocket (!).?ÿ Also a foldable Armalite AR-7 .22 which I carry regularly in the trunk (legal) when camping on BLM/USFS lands for plinking & rabbit hunting, etc.; been declared OK by BLM, Border Patrol & USFS, but not allowed by State & National Parks unless you were transiting the Park and not stopping overnight.?ÿ Same with crossing certain State lines.
So I'm a gun nut I guess but not too concerned the Feds will come after me and confiscate them given that they're all unregistered, like millions of owners who owned guns prior to the eighties.
I'm not a fan of handguns, but I do favor revolvers. The guy in the picture is probably safe, but I'd worry about a DIY peckerectomy if I carried one like that.
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That picture was taken in Venezuela c.1996. I suspect that the need to have armed guards around valuable equipment while there has only gotten greater since then.
The guy on the right has heat that's too big to pack, so he's literally carrying it.
@mike-marks I don't carry and don't own any handguns.?ÿ All I have are Hunting rifles and shotguns.?ÿ Unlike you I don't understand arming for homeprotection but I understand an armed citizenry.
Lucky for me I don't live where I need to carry, that's why I don't own any guns.?ÿ
If, I were to own a gun and needed to carry one, it wouldn't be in my belt, it would be in a holster.?ÿ
If I'm in grizzly country with some co-workers I would carry a light weight pistol, that way when the bear is charging I could accurately shoot the co-worker in the leg and run off.
?ÿIt would look like that if I actually happened to own any guns and carried them in the field.?ÿ
The other guy's in good shape, might take a couple of shots.?ÿ
Only time I ever openly carried was in bear country as well, and the firearm was the backup to the (far more effective) bear spray. I found that a ballistic nylon chest holster was best for remote Alaska work, since I was so often carrying a large pack with hip belt, which precluded a hip holster.
Drop-legs are both too cowboy and too annoying to walk around with, at least for a small guy like me. Rifles are practically worthless when you are carrying things around and picking up and putting it down all day long. Dedicated shotgun guard would have been nice but I worked for neither the gubmint nor the big oil companies...
I may or may not have carried concealed when working in the not-so-nice areas of large metros in the past...
