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View Poll Results: Appendix Carry
I will never try it 85 28.91%
I want to try it 16 5.44%
I tried it but didn’t like it 81 27.55%
I carry AIWB regularly 112 38.10%
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Old 09-04-2018, 12:21 PM
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I've been carrying AIWB for over 30 years. Usually very safely. I guess my carry method is a large part of the reason I prefer my carry guns to have long trigger pulls and or safeties.

Glock like triggers without external safeties do require extra care. Holstering AIWB should not be a multi-tasking item. Stop what you're doing and give it full attention.

As mentioned by another poster, I think it's often prudent to remove the holster from the pants, holster the gun and then return the holster to it's carry position. Granted, that's a PITA but it's a sacrifice you need to make. For me it depends on the gun and holster. I'm particularly cautious with lighter short stroke triggers, especially with floppier, less stiff holsters.

That's one reason I don't get the guys that want the Shield V2 over the V1. Give me the V1 trigger with an external safety. I can engage the safety, holster, check everything and then release the safety.

Sometimes I carry an officers model 1911 AIWB. I do have a stiffer holster with hammer shield. So, good thicker non-floppy holster with hammer shield and a gun with both a grip safety and thumb safety. I'm good to go. You do give up some comfort and concealability with the thicker, stiffer holster. But not much.

I also carry a snubbie revolver AIWB. Use a decent holster, no multi-tasking while holstering, holster before stowing if appropriate, thumb on hammer while holstering. Again, no multi-tasking are jaw jacking while holstering. Pay attention!

I do recall a story told my by one of my former co-workers (I considered a mentor) recently deceased, a former SLPD officer. He related that during one of his more wild west undercover days, in which he was carrying his service revolver AIWB (no holster), looking down after some recent police related activity and discovering the hammer back on his gun. That one scared him. It would me too.

I'm willing to bet that in this age of proliferation of CCW and frequent AIWB carry, the majority of the carrying public don't give holstering the care and undivided attention it deserves or really that any holstering deserves.

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Can you still appendix carry if you've had your appendix removed?

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I could never get used to it. It’s not comfortable for my build. Plus I carried on duty for many years at 3 o’clock and that’s just more familiar to me. I don’t doubt that AWIB is faster though!


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I don't believe it's faster in any way that matters
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Some people acknowledge and are comfortable with the additional risk of AIWB, and that is fine. It may be a very small risk, and you may consider it small enough to be comfortable with it, but trying to explain how AIWB carry doesn't create ANY additional risk seems a little like whistling past the graveyard to me.
I AIWB about 50% of the time and I completely agree with the above.

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Let me ask you this. If someone invented a holster that strapped to your chest and was extremely comfortable, easy to access, and easy to conceal, BUT using it meant that the gun was pointed up under your chin, would you be arguing in favor of it?
Absurd example? Yes. However, it is a valid analysis/comparison for anybody who denies the increased risk. Note that the increased risk is not an increased risk of an AD/ND; but, an increased or higher risk of a much higher negative outcome in the event of an AD/ND. I think that is the point that is meant when people assert the higher risk.
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Can you still appendix carry if you've had your appendix removed?

No, you can’t. Also, you can’t appendix carry if you are left handed.
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I don't believe it's faster in any way that matters
When drawing faster matters, such as in saving your life and getting an accurate shot on target a half second faster, it really matters.

Reaching farther for the gun and having to bring it farther to get it in shooting position is slower, perhaps by a fraction of a second, but that matters.

Uncovering a concealed gun in appendix position is also easier and faster to get to the draw.
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I've carried long barreled revolvers that way quite often.


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