Carry without a holster

I don't think I would carry a semi automatic pistol without a holster..maybe I would if it was a quick dash outside or something..but I think a revolver with no hammer..like the smith and wesson bodyguard I probably would carry in my pocket...:)
 
One word: Plaxico. Ask him how carrying without a holster tucked in his pants worked out for him !

I can only assume this is a troll post hunting to get a rise out of people...
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Plaxico was carrying a Glock, climbing stairs and wearing sweat pants (IIRC) at the time of his memorable incident. There is also plenty of evidence that Plaxico is an idiot.

The OP is seated in his car, with a gun with an external safety. There is no evidence that he is an idiot.

Apples and oranges.
 
Mexican carry while sitting in the car? Yuck. That's what they made your console or the underside of your thigh for.

The dangers of mexican carry or any carry method where the trigger is not covered are greatly exaggerated. As long as a gun has a good, positive saftey it's pretty much as safe as anything. Holsters add security and comfort and that's about it. But they are 2 big plus' IMO.

LK
 
The primary way I carry my pistols is simply in my front pants pocket. And I carry like that until the seasons change & I start wearing a coat. Then it's in the front pocket of the coat. Sometimes with a holster in the pants pocket but most times w/ no holster. My primary carry pistols are the Springfield XD-45, Glock 21SF & Glock 23. My pants do need a belt when I carry this way and as long as I have a shirt that is long enough to reach to the pocket, it can't be seen.

I have NEVER carried any handgun in my waist band & I can't see me ever trying it. The gun is either in a deep pocket or in an inside the pants holster.

One major rule for those who like to carry in the pocket is to take great care to keep your weapon clean, including daily rub downs to keep the lint off.

I imagine those of us who carry primarily in the pocket are in the minority. But I've carried this way for 30+ years now, and have practiced from the pocket at the range for the same length of time. It's so natural now that it's really second nature. When I do carry one w/ an inside the pants holster, it's something that I'm more aware of.

We qaulified from a belt holster w/ our primary duty weapon. With our off duty weapons, how you carry it is how it was presented at the range during qualifications. I'd say roughly 30% of us were pocket carriers.
 
I do it fairly frequently. With a 1911 @ about 4:00 position. Full size never had a problem. Smaller pistols tend to work themselves upward, would only carry one from the house to the truck, e.g..

OTOH, I have an IWB holster that carries one in about the same position with a lot more security, which is most of the time.

I think it's like anything else that depends on a skill: Practice and practice safety and you'll not likely have a problem.

That being said, if I have to mexican carry a 1911 for very long at a time, I'll carry it condition 2.

Best,

Will
 
Ever notice how sometimes real life doesn't work out exactly like you planned?

Or how your gunfights don't go down the way you rehearsed them at the range?

Maybe you guys are less clumsy than I am, but as a guy who has gone down on a motorcycle, been knocked down a flight of stairs, and fallen off an elevated surface or two, I don't assume that if I ever need a firearm I'll be standing in my Weaver or Isoceles stance with my arms raised just so.

For me the chief benefit of a holster is retension - the fact that it holds the pistol/revolver in one exact place and keeps it there whether I'm stationary or falling down, etc.

Every time I've landed hard, I've lost things that were in my hands, pockets (including a folding knife clipped in my pocket during the motorcycle crash that I never did find afterwards) or carried about my person, and I"m pretty sure that if I had a pistol shoved in my waistband and went down during some altercation, that would be skittering off across the parking lot too.

I used to train cops for a living, and even though the gunfights I've experienced were training gunfights, its amazing how many times weird things happened and guys tripped or fell while moving to or from cover, across obstacles, etc. You fall down often enough and you learn that things don't always work out like you planned. Sometimes when you go down your firearm slides somewhere and you either can't find it or can't get there and you learn that having a 2nd firearm is not a bad idea.

It's probably just me, but I carry handguns in holsters that keep them where I want them, regardless of what else happens to me prior to the draw. I've spent too much time picking up crap that went all over after I hit the deck.

Your mileage may vary.
 
Just to clarify, I don't believe the OP is saying that carrying without a holster is the optimum....and neither am I.

However, it can be done, safely, if you choose an appropriate firearm and have a reasonable degree of attention and common sense.
 
I used to carry a beretta 21a in a pocket sometimes. Did it when concealing a full size gun wasn't practical. I don't think I'd do it today. I'm old and cautious now.

An old girlfriend used to carry a glock 19 loose in her purse with one in the pipe. One day she blew a hole in the bag while looking for her keys. No one hurt. She went to Israeli style after that.
 
Any one here ever hear of Murphy's Law?

For the mathematicians amongst us, we know how to run a probability and statistics permeation about pocket carry without a holster..... for the correct answer, see the first sentence.
 
An old girlfriend used to carry a glock 19 loose in her purse with one in the pipe.
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This is where a little common sense comes in.

Carry any of them in something that has other objects in there with it, and youre just asking for trouble. Carry it alone, without anything else, and things are likely to be totally different.

No matter what, Murphy is always around, even when you use a holster, and holsters arent a guarantee the gun wont go off with use.
 
I have pocket carried for 13 years, most of which was with out a holster

What I do is put my wallet in my front pocket then put y J-frame between my leg and the wallet. It makes the wallet print (makes it look fat) but you cant see the revolver and it keeps the grips facing up. It works well in Slacks and in baggier Blue Jeans.

I do now have a Pocket Holster fro it, but to be honest I don't like it that well.
 
"That being said, if I have to mexican carry a 1911 for very long at a time, I'll carry it condition 2.


Technically, safer in condition 1. If in condition 2 it falls on it's hammer...bang bang."

1911s are safe with the hammer in condition 2. The firing pin is inertial.
 
unloaded" Glocks, just thrust into my waistband or pockets, I have yet to find the trigger dropped,
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Murphy don't work like that. He wont drop the trigger on an empty chamber, he'll wait until you put a live round in it.
 
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