It's 6.25 inches long, 5.25 inches high and barely an inch thick.
Posted on 04/28/2017 11:56:39 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
I have a weird clothing style.
When I'm not wearing my work uniform, I wear black slacks and a long, button down short sleeve shirt with breast pockets. I have a few pairs of the exact same kind so I can rotate them out through the week.
I like the simplicity, and don't really care if people think that I never change my clothes.
Being a concealed carrying fella, I always seem to have a problem with my gun making my pants droop down as I'm walking, and I always have to keep pulling them back up. My white crew-neck long T-shirts always comes untucked, too.
My EDC is a Kahr CW45 in a leather Mitch Rosen Express Line holster. My original gun belt was a Crossbreed Classic, but it's sagging pretty badly now and isn't in use. So, I've gone to the DeSantis, and recently bought the Kore Essentials ratcheting X-1 gun belt -which I really like, but wouldn't mind it if it was just a little bit thicker.
So, since I've tried different gun belts, I'm convinced it's the slacks I'm wearing that's causing the sagging.
When I'm at work, I wear a lot of items on my waist, and my uniform pants don't sag at all.
Do any gun-carrying FReepers have any suggestions as to what kind of black slacks work best for concealed carry? Preferably not too expensive, and not cargo pants. I've been told that wearing cargo pants just screams, "GUN."
Now, I will type the shopping issue I had today in the body of this post.
Bernardelli used to make a tiny .25 auto. You would hardly know it was there. Also a Baby Browning .25 auto.
Before all the usual suspects start laughing, I carried a 1911 for many years. After that a Browning Hi-Power. Both n a shoulder holster. If either of them were too uncomfortable, I would certainly rather have a .25 than nothing.
Lesson learned: If you’re carrying legally, never tell anyone you’re carrying legally. There’s always going to be that pearl-clutching liberal who will cause trouble.
If you had carried it in Condition 3 (full may, no round chambered) you would have met their policy, and the gun would weigh about the same.
“The weapon was never going to leave the holster.”
Does not matter. You were still going to be handling the weapon.
Even with an unloaded gun, you can still get a good feeling for the pants.
The if they don’t work out you can always return them.
She asked if I had my gun on me, and I said I did. ...
Reminds me when my wife asked me if I had my gun with me as we walked back to the car after shopping.
I said, “Yes. Why, is there someone you would like me to kill?” ;)
If the weather was not just extremely hot, I used to sometimes wear a Domke photographers vest. It was reasonably cool and had a lot of net for cooling.
Maybe a dozen pockets and yes some people would suspect I was carrying. So what?
I’ve seen enough morons at gun counters to sympathize with the cashier/store policy. Places that sell guns...well, you end up with people pointing guns everywhere to ‘try them out’. I don’t blame them for wanting them all to be unloaded.
My local Cabelas even has a basket full of ‘rubber ducky’ AR-15’s for people to ‘aim’ around, to keep people occupied.
You could tell them it’s an infusion pump. You don’t have to tell them the infusion is lead and not insulin, and for a bad guy and not for you...
Odd on their part. Probably an uninformed employee.
5.11 pants. Accept no substitute
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Why I like Cabelas - ladies stuff for CWP’s there as well.
Exactly what I did.
Switched to a Taurus pt738 for summer front pocket carry.
If you are wearing a good gun belt, and it sounds like you definitely are, and your pants still sag, it isn’t the belt and it isn’t the pants. Either you don’t have the belt tight enough or you’re not wearing your belt on the correct part of your body.
With a good gun belt, you should be able to wear just the belt and holster while being otherwise nekkid, and the belt should stay on your hip. If your belt slides down, it’s too loose and you need to crank in another notch.
Also, you may be wearing your pants too high. The belt should be riding just above your hip bone. When cinched properly, the circumference of the belt is less than the circumference of your body at it’s widest point on your hipbones, and it is impossible for the belt to get past your hips.
If you wear your pants high, they will sag down to your hipbones no matter what pants you’re wearing. If you wear your pants low, either on your hips or just below, then your pants are going to sag no matter how tightly you cinch your belt.
The only other possibility is that you have no hips, and you’re one of those Slim Jim body types.
If you don’t want to change where your pants ride, or you have the build of a matchstick, then the only solution is what YardDog said; suspenders.
I’m with you! If you work at a gun shop or a pawn shop, you better come in with the gun visible and unloaded. If you pull your gatt in a pawn shop, you will catch lead. I’m sure the store personnel don’t want people handling a loaded gun in their store. You don’t need your weapon loaded to try on pants.
“Why I like Cabelas - ladies stuff for CWP’s there as well.”
Cabela’s has the same policy. If you are going to handle your weapon UNLOAD it first!
Currently struggling with this myself. Had to by pants (Carhart) a couple inches bigger in the waist and I’m not used to untucked outer shirts. Have to pretty much change my style of dress.
Does Sportsmans have a sign on their store? They can’t do that if they don’t, I won’t shop there anymore I they do. (the I-25 store?)
They have never asked me to unload my weapon when I mentioned I had one carrying concealed; the only time they want you to unload it is if you’re bringing it in for either a price value or trade. OTT, not a problem. You go to a counter and they inspect it then zip tie it and then THEY carry it up to where ever you want to take it.
“Does Sportsmans have a sign on their store? They can’t do that if they don’t, I won’t shop there anymore I they do. (the I-25 store?)”
Dude was going to be handling his gun. Name a gun store that allows you to handle a loaded weapon in their store ...
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