Comfort is the primary goal
I am beginning to grow tired of carrying IWB anymore. I guess it’s my present work load and the amount of physical work I’ve been doing the last year, but I’m really starting to feel it when it gets to day 6 of the week and I’m carrying IWB. I am growing more comfortable with smaller semi-auto guns and my Ruger LCP is a fun gun to shoot and carry. I had some reservations about carrying a small semi-auto because I’ve shot some NAA 32acp guns and I though the bite was a little much. Any gun is better than no gun, but I really don’t like having guns that I don’t enjoy shooting. I have sent a good bit of lead downrange with the Rohrbaugh R9 guns, but they are more of a novelty backup gun and I’m honestly afraid of breaking the gun or wearing it out too soon.
Pocket carry is the most comfortable for me, but I am having a little bit of trouble with some of my wardrobe and the types of pocket holsters I have. I am noticing an awful lot of lint building up in my gun holsters and I’m tracing it to the sweatshirts that I own. Now that FAll is almost over and Winter is a few weeks away, I’m wearing things that cause lint build up to increase. I prefer to carry guns that are combat proven, but CCW is another thing. If I notice too much build up on my pocket guns I’m going to have to do some serious overhauls in my wardrobe. The thought of having to clean my guns more than once a week is a little impractical and.
Along with some of the other things stated in the previous blog entry is that anything not held down, will come loose. We are aware of that when we mount our optics and tighten things down so they won’t come loose and we also use things like loctite to bond it even more. This is something will really make a difference at the range, the folks that don’t use loctite and put 1000rds through a gun in a weekend may find out the hard way. We’ve talked a little about firearm retention, but the next common thing to think about is magazine retention.