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by Excaliber
Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:59 am
Forum: Never Again!!
Topic: Outed at Church
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Re: Outed at Church

knotquiteawake wrote:Thankfully Saturday nights have been really light recently...

I guess while I was bending over doing one of our venerations (its an eastern orthodox church, its kind of like a 3/4s bowing down) my shirt rode up a bit, then got caught between grip and my back exposing part of the frame and the holster (but not the grip itself I think). One of the deacons who was behind me in line let me know the following day about it.

I was wearing a XL long sleeve shirt (normally I would wear a L), it was a glock 19, and it was in a crossbreed super tuck at about 3:30-4:00.

Its kind of frustrating. I still can't seem to find that magic combination of cant and "time" on my waistline to make the glock 19 disappear (oh, it "disappears" just fine if I'm standing straight up, but life doesn't work like that). Probably 3-4 people might have noticed (there were maybe 6-7 people other than clergy there that night anyways). I will probably go back to carrying my pocket .32 on saturdays/sundays until i figure this out.

When I use the Crossbreed riding low (clips on the top holes to make it ride as low as possible) its pretty uncomfortable to sit down, when I make it ride higher it sticks out like a sore thumb if I even lean forward. The holster doesn't seem to work very well if its at 3:00 because I'm pretty skinny but its the only location I can think of where that might be less of an issue.

so embarrassed by this. Cats out of the bag for me. Thankfully that deacon is a gun friendly guy, he was more laughing at me that reprimanding.
It's more likely that the deacon behind you was the only one who noticed.

People see what they expect to see, and rarely notice nonintrusive detail unless something happens to draw attention directly to it.

You might consider an under the shirt elastic holster that places the gun under your support hand arm. A normal dress shirt will conceal this just fine, regardless of whether you're bending or not.

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