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davidtx wrote:This isn't a problem with Smart Carry. The Smart Carry goes over your shirt tail. It has a nice side-effect of helping my shirt to stay tucked in.

Yeah, but how do you sit with that thing on? Especially in a car seat? All the photos on their website show the gun riding on top of the pelvis, just below the beltline. Looks like any of my guns larger than my LCP (which I can already conceal in standard pants pockets) are going to either puncture my lower belly or something more important. If you have no belly/love handles at all, perhaps that system works. But for a guy like me, I'd be scared to even try it.

Or can it be carried with the gun at a normal 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock position?

RiverRat wrote:Agree with the change of dress for carrying concealed. One more for the M-tac with both a 1911 or XD45 compact, no problem with a tucked dress shirt. I carry full time, unless in the Post Office :) .

This brings up another inconvenience with tucked concealed carry. What if you have to leave gun in the car temporarily during the day? If you run to post office, you have to untuck, remove gun, then go find a private place (restroom) to reholster and retuck. Don't know about y'all, but I can't retuck my shirt around my gun/holster while sitting in the car. Reholster the gun, sure? But not retuck the shirt.

And I often have to do this twice a day (dropping off and picking up my kids at preschool) - can be a real inconvenience/time waster. Often if I know I'm going to have to remove my pistol during the day for some reason, I end up choosing pocket carry or (if possible) going untucked for the day.

I like having the ability to carry tucked, but it's not a cure all for me.

cougartex wrote:

frazzled wrote:A full size pistol is going to be terribly difficult to conceal on a daily basis with IWB. If you can’t wear a jacket and want to physically carry at all times I’d proffer:

1. Get a gun belt that works. Beltman and others have belts that fit the bill but also pass just fine as dress belts.

2. Get an IWB holster. Cross breed and Minotaur make excellent models.

3. I’d recommend getting a smaller pistol for that daily carry. Kahr and Walther both make excellent single column 9mms that are an inch or less thick and weigh 19 ounces or less. There are also several double column sub compacts as well (Glock, Springfield’s XD, Beretta, Taurus, RUger, and Sig off hand) that are also lightweight.

Good gun belt will make a big difference.

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Good belt and a tuckable holster with double struts (Crossbreed or MTAC) will allow you to conceal almost any handgun under a dress shirt. But also know that this is not necessarily the most comfortable method of carry with a full size semi auto, nor will it offer you a very fast draw if you ever need your gun. I too would recommend a smaller pistol for either tucked carry or even smaller for pocket carry. A snubnose revolver would work well in both roles. A Smith & Wesson J-frame Airweight or the new Ruger LCR will disappear in a tuckable holster or in most pocket carry situations. Or if you need the utmost in concealment, a Ruger LCP or Kel Tec or similar palm-sized .380 is almost unnoticable in a pocket holster.

For what's it's worth, I've carried my Glock 23 tucked on occasion (which is smaller than OP's Sig), but it's a heckuva lot easier and more comfortable to carry my Walther PPS tucked than even a mid-size Glock.