My first week carrying...some thoughts
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:47 am
Hello ladies and gentlemen. Thanks in advance for my new firearms related home on the web. My other home has been getting pretty cluttered with an "adult adolescent" environment that I don't care for it much anymore. I have been a lurking member here for a few years here, and just checking sale ads, and learning. I'm ready to jump into the fire!
I received my plastic on May 27th. Now my background was a little weird on this, so let me sum it up. I took the class in '05 and never sent my paperwork in. I never felt the need to, and I just never did it. I retook the class in Nov of '08 a month after my daughter was born, and also due to funds being tight, never sent it in and sort of forgot about it. I found my packet while cleaning out my closet in March, and sent it in. Received my plastic on the 27th, but due to having a lot of family obligations that I didn't feel comfortable concealing at (yet), my first day to carry was May 31st, Memorial Day.
I figured what better way to celebrate my newly reinstated Constitutional right than carrying to the local Memorial Day parade, so we loaded up my daughter, and headed out. I was concealed IWB in a holster I bought from one of the Glocktalk vendors, Mliebs, but it's a nice leather IWB with a slight forward cant. I wussed out with a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and flip flops. I suppose I probably looked like a tourist since I had my wife's camera, snapping pics of her and our daughter. I was extremely self conscious and kept checking my concealment. I was carrying around 4:00 which would outline the butt of my G26 if I bent over too far. When I left the house, I didn't think this would be that much of an issue, but I never realized how much bending over a guy that has a 20 month old child does!
We left there and went on the tried and true Wally Walk for a grocery trip and spent about an hour in that personal hell on earth. By the time I got home, I was becoming used to carrying in public, but I knew that my carrying position had to change. I've done some experimenting since, and I have pretty much settled on 3:00ish. It's still pretty comfortable for me, and I don't mind it too bad. I've been carrying everywhere except for work and sleep (haven't been to any prohibited places) and I like it. My head is always on a swivel, my awareness is up, and I definitely feel the responsibility of carrying.
I carry my G26 with night sights and factory mags in a Mliebs IWB, a Galco Matrix, or...when I went to my inlaws pool yesterday, I carried a paddle clipped to my swim trunks. Left it locked in the glovebox though!
I need to get some sort of pocket gun for work. I work as a supervisor/maint for an industrial plant in the heat/cold, ect so I think tiny in the pocket will have to be the way to go. I really hate the tiny guns, but I hate being unarmed even more. Anyways, I'm sure I'll have more thoughts/questions, but that's it for now!
Bryan
I received my plastic on May 27th. Now my background was a little weird on this, so let me sum it up. I took the class in '05 and never sent my paperwork in. I never felt the need to, and I just never did it. I retook the class in Nov of '08 a month after my daughter was born, and also due to funds being tight, never sent it in and sort of forgot about it. I found my packet while cleaning out my closet in March, and sent it in. Received my plastic on the 27th, but due to having a lot of family obligations that I didn't feel comfortable concealing at (yet), my first day to carry was May 31st, Memorial Day.
I figured what better way to celebrate my newly reinstated Constitutional right than carrying to the local Memorial Day parade, so we loaded up my daughter, and headed out. I was concealed IWB in a holster I bought from one of the Glocktalk vendors, Mliebs, but it's a nice leather IWB with a slight forward cant. I wussed out with a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and flip flops. I suppose I probably looked like a tourist since I had my wife's camera, snapping pics of her and our daughter. I was extremely self conscious and kept checking my concealment. I was carrying around 4:00 which would outline the butt of my G26 if I bent over too far. When I left the house, I didn't think this would be that much of an issue, but I never realized how much bending over a guy that has a 20 month old child does!
We left there and went on the tried and true Wally Walk for a grocery trip and spent about an hour in that personal hell on earth. By the time I got home, I was becoming used to carrying in public, but I knew that my carrying position had to change. I've done some experimenting since, and I have pretty much settled on 3:00ish. It's still pretty comfortable for me, and I don't mind it too bad. I've been carrying everywhere except for work and sleep (haven't been to any prohibited places) and I like it. My head is always on a swivel, my awareness is up, and I definitely feel the responsibility of carrying.
I carry my G26 with night sights and factory mags in a Mliebs IWB, a Galco Matrix, or...when I went to my inlaws pool yesterday, I carried a paddle clipped to my swim trunks. Left it locked in the glovebox though!
I need to get some sort of pocket gun for work. I work as a supervisor/maint for an industrial plant in the heat/cold, ect so I think tiny in the pocket will have to be the way to go. I really hate the tiny guns, but I hate being unarmed even more. Anyways, I'm sure I'll have more thoughts/questions, but that's it for now!
Bryan
Mine is always orientated to the late afternoon.
I'd give it some time before you run out and buy a mouse gun. I think you'll find that, unless you're in a wet T shirt contest, no one pays any attention to the occasional poke or bulge. we all wear so many phones and such that most don't even notice.
