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Moezilla wrote:

bdickens wrote:Or you can carry in a man purse!

What's wrong with a man purse? Jack Bauer carries one and he can strangle you with a cordless phone! Besides, they're really called 'messenger bags'. lol

I just bought a new messenger bag today.

At least I didn't get a hat to go with it. But I did also buy a pair of shoes :)

running shoes. and this particular bag is to carry my laptop while cycling to work.

I can actually pull it off with the bigger gun but only with my loosest of clothing. The Kahr works with all of my clothes.

And FWIW even a Kahr .45 is bigger than a Kahr 9mm by a significant margin. You want a slim pistol, slim ammo is a big help. Those .45s are pretty chubby.

FWIW I carry IWB and off-body, but mostly IWB. I didn't have to buy bigger clothes and my clothes are not oversized at all; they fit.

However, I did buy a slimmer gun.

You can probably get it to work small-of-the-back with a tuckable holster. With the right tuckable holster you might be able to just barely conceal a gun that big at about 4:00 with a good IWB with plenty of cant (like a Crossbreed).

Otherwise maybe off-body carry is for you.

FWIW, a single-stack .45 does not have to be that expensive. You could flip the XD and get a Kahr CW45 for even money. I am sure there are other choices.