Ah, the wonderful magic of the internet.
Hawgleg is absolutely right. PAY ATTENTION!! If you're using a new holster, make sure you PAY ATTENTION to how it is fit and secured until you get used to it.
When I open carry nowadays, I use my Bianchi #5, and when I conceal, I use my SmartCarry, though I need to drop some winter weight to get back to reasonable comfort in size 36 pants. I've been using the Bianchi more often in the meantime.
The good news is that we finished our adoption exactly one year ago last Thursday, and our new son is a delight and an utter joy, and New Hampshire is the best state in the nation in which to complete an international adoption.
From last week:
Needless to say, we're very flattered when people tell us we look like him.
As for recent tales of open carry, I was in Target the other day getting ready for the camping trip next week, and Jordan was just flipping out about some frog or some such that he couldn't "after pay for it, after take home, open up, okay?" (He's very, very, verrry cute when he asks like that.) Busy day, not enough sleep, general three-year-old frustration, whatever.
A young fellow, maybe 10, with his mom, approached me from the side in th middle of all Jordan's ruckus and asked me if I was a police officer, but didn't stick around long enough for me to answer after getting Jordan to stop screaming.
My Massachusetts Liberal mother-in-law asked earlier this evening if I was expecting a riot, in my shirt and tie and Bianchi-holstered Glock 30, as Caren and I were leaving for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance annual dinner, and I said that if I was expecting a riot, I wouldn't go there.
She considers "self defense" to be synonymous with "911" - I'll have to find some time to do the "count to 300" thought experiment with her.