I usually carry my j frame snubby at 4 oclock owb, i have tried ankle holsters but not to my liking. Im thinking of a boot holster, any of you guys have any success with this carry? Any recommendations? Thanks

I don't use an ankle holster or a boot holster because I can't reach that far down without a chair. If I were to reach that far without the chair I might not get back up. Just imagine the news story of where and how I got shot. It would be embarrassing.

I HATE ankle holsters! I have one, but I only use it if I have to dress in soft clothes with tucked in shirttail and no jacket. That limits me to only one little J-frame. No thank you!

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The only guys I knew that carried in a boot were some undercover Army MPs at Ft. Bragg, NC, who were issued 2-inch Colts.

They used an inside the waistband holster with a clip and clipped it inside their left boot (they were right-handed).

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I never owned a ankle holster,and never seen a boot holster.

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The right ankle holster can be a boot holster. I carried a Colt Agent in a cordura ankle holster with another strap that fit right below the knee. The holster fit nicely inside the top of my left uniform Wellington with the grip resting just above the lip. From a sitting position in a car it was easier to get to than my duty gun, especially after they made us start wearing seat belts.

I don't know that I ever tried it with low shoes, mainly because the only low shoes I owned were running shoes.

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A pocket holster can be slipped in the top of a western boot with reasonable comfort, NOT an EDC arrangement.

I have been using a boot holster for the past year and a half. I used it with a 3" SP101, but found it a little heavy. Then I switched to a snub nosed airweight and really like it.

Boot Holster by Ryman Holsters

i think an ankle holster is a great idea,
kneeling position is very stable for accurate shot placement, if at some distance
also, if at point blank distances, you could "cry and cower down", kneeling is a very vulnerable position and they would never suspect a shot placement from the ground, through their gut, to the heart. deadly.
that said, I only ankle carry my reloads and IWB my guns..

Not much! Very few boot tops will stand up to the weight of a holstered gun attached to them! And very few ankle holsters will allow attachment if the straps have to encompass the boot top at any level. Plus my legs have always been large enough in relationship to my pant's legs that a gun and holster any further north than my ankle can be seen obviously holding out my pant's leg like some sort of cast or bandage!

On the other hand, I always liked to carry a knife for whatever use it might have, and there wasn't really room on my Sam Browne belt in the right place for a knife pouch. And the knife pouch would not have been authorized in those days either! So I fashioned a knife holster from a single thickness of softer leather cut so as to be long enough to hold the knife completely out of sight with a tab that was long enough to allow mounting of a big dot snap on the ankle side of the pouch. I stitched the "holster flat to the inside of my left boot top allowing just enough room inside to snugly hold my Buck folding lock back, which was a popular knife in those days. To access the knife, I didn't have to raise my pant's leg much to be able to open the snap after which the knife would slide downward by gravity into my hand. It was out of sight and out of mind but reasonably accessible, although not especially quickly.

I liked this method of carrying that knife while on duty very well, well enough to have transferred that type of carry holster to several pairs of boots afterward. I never had any issue with loss using this method over several years, and the length of my pants legs kept it covered completely even if I crossed my left leg up on my knee. A shorter boot top would not have allowed this, and my boot tops withstood the additional weight of the knife without issue. Running never caused an unintentional dumping of the knife.

I personally don't have much use at all for ankle holsters, and one that fits high enough to allow the holster to sit down in the top of a boot (if the boot top is big enough to allow such) results in having to raise your pant's leg clear to your knee area, which again is not easy to do and certainly not very fast to access! Top of the boot top is where the largest part of your calf is and there just isn't much extra room for anything else to fit there! Just my thoughts here based on my experiences in the long ago past!

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