Nobody notices

[mr.72]

Appendix carry today, Smartcarry, cargo pants, t-shirt, day 1 carrying.

Went to: a public park with my daughter, Wal Mart, Taco Cabana, The Gun Store, Costco, Harbor Freight, Sportsman's Warehouse, Home Depot, HEB, my parents house for dinner & dad's birthday, then home. I guess this trumps the Wally Walk. Carried the whole day at home, in both cars, and nobody has noticed not even my wife when I got home.

Appendix carry is not comfy in the car. Getting stuck in rush hour around NW Austin was not the most fun. Other than that, it's a snap.

[TexasComputerDude]

I'm so sorry man, have you and your wife considered taking a cruise together? lol sorry lol, jk lol. I couldn't help myself.


I hope if I ever get married my wife knows when I'm packin. she should be able to tell first thing in the mornin, at the walmart, at the department store, and when we get home.

[Excaliber]

Appendix carry today, Smartcarry, cargo pants, t-shirt, day 1 carrying.

Went to: a public park with my daughter, Wal Mart, Taco Cabana, The Gun Store, Costco, Harbor Freight, Sportsman's Warehouse, Home Depot, HEB, my parents house for dinner & dad's birthday, then home. I guess this trumps the Wally Walk. Carried the whole day at home, in both cars, and nobody has noticed not even my wife when I got home.

Appendix carry is not comfy in the car. Getting stuck in rush hour around NW Austin was not the most fun. Other than that, it's a snap.

Try shifting the SmartCarry to somewhere between 11:00 and 1:00. It makes those road trips more bearable and your belt buckle will further hide any suggestion of a bulge.

[MTICop]

Pretty soon you won't notice either, well except when you move a certain way and feel something different. It took me a while when I started carrying but it's natural now. Congrats.

[bryang]

Good job, mr.72,
I am glad that you have found something that will work for you. Just keep playing with it and you will eventually find that special spot, that everyone is talking about, and then you will be home free.

Congratulations... on your, Taco, Gun store, Costco, Harbor Freight, Sportsman's Warehouse, Home Depot, dad's birthday...and...wally walk! phew...I'm tired!

Hang in there, and Good Luck!
-geo

[mr.72]

So when I finally told my wife that I had been carrying (and she hadn't noticed) for three days around the house and on errands with her and the kids, her response was kind of predictable since we were leaving for HEB to grab some groceries.

First of all, I told her I was carrying, and she said (with great shock), "WHERE?!?@" once I pointed it out, she still couldn't identify it. She This was in the car on the way to the grocery store. She didn't even notice it or probably even think of it again during our entire shopping trip.

She said something like "Are you worried you are going to be mugged while you are at HEB?", which is a typical "you're paranoid" answer.

My response was, "no. However, you can never be absolutely sure. The problem is, you never know for sure that you need to be armed until it is too late for you to run home and get your gun." This response got no argument. She then said "man, I can't even carry my pepper spray with me and you are carrying a gun to HEB". To which I replied, "you can carry your pepper spray, but you just won't." At that point she conceded that she needed to work harder on finding a comfortable, convenient way to carry the little pepper spray.

One step at a time. One weekend she's shopping for a .38 and buying pepper spray for herself and my teenage daughter, and the next weekend she's incredulous to the idea that I am carrying a gun and she has left the pepper spray at home.

[Excaliber]

So when I finally told my wife that I had been carrying (and she hadn't noticed) for three days around the house and on errands with her and the kids, her response was kind of predictable since we were leaving for HEB to grab some groceries.

First of all, I told her I was carrying, and she said (with great shock), "WHERE?!?@" once I pointed it out, she still couldn't identify it. She This was in the car on the way to the grocery store. She didn't even notice it or probably even think of it again during our entire shopping trip.

She said something like "Are you worried you are going to be mugged while you are at HEB?", which is a typical "you're paranoid" answer.

My response was, "no. However, you can never be absolutely sure. The problem is, you never know for sure that you need to be armed until it is too late for you to run home and get your gun." This response got no argument. She then said "man, I can't even carry my pepper spray with me and you are carrying a gun to HEB". To which I replied, "you can carry your pepper spray, but you just won't." At that point she conceded that she needed to work harder on finding a comfortable, convenient way to carry the little pepper spray.

One step at a time. One weekend she's shopping for a .38 and buying pepper spray for herself and my teenage daughter, and the next weekend she's incredulous to the idea that I am carrying a gun and she has left the pepper spray at home.

Changing lifelong habits or creating new ones takes some initial work, but after just a little while those new habits simply become part of the routine and don't take much effort at all. You're approaching this thoughtfully and wisely (thinking about what makes sense and being gentle with the wife). I think you'll find that in very short order you'll have a pretty good set of new practices in place that you'll both know will make you safer and much better prepared for that unpredictable bad day.

[mr.72]

Yes I am still trying to figure out a routine that will allow me to carry at times when a full-size gun on my person is not doable. I had seriously hoped that I could find some way that would not require me to either buy another gun that is underpowered and hard to shoot but ultra concealable, but it is looking like that may be the only reasonable solution. It's looking like until I can afford another $400 worth of gun and holster, I won't be carrying on Sundays. And due to my work restrictions, looks like probably not M-F either. Sometimes I work from home Thurs.

So I guess I'll be a Thursday & Saturday CHL. Hard to form routine new habits like this.

[anygunanywhere]

My left of Obama B-I-L that stayed with us during the storm commented to Mrs. Anygun that "Anygun had his gun on when we arrived for the storm". I was OCing in the house, of course, and had my Kimber on. Mrs. Anygun looked at him and told him that if I didn't have one it would not be normal. He said "He doesn't have one on now". I pulled my KT P3AT out and showed it to him and told him to be careful of his deductions since his skill at observations was obviously lacking.

She will get used to it. Stand firm in your convictions.

Anygunanywhere