Why are people more cautious carrying a chambered bodyguard 2.0?

[Law-dog]

Regardless of the method chosen, if you aren’t “successfully” practicing your draw from said technique, you’re only fooling yourself.

Appendix carry seems fine to some folks until they have to draw under stress from a seated position.

The same goes from pocket carry.

There is no draw from the front pocket while driving or seated, that is why I have another gun in the console. When I was working, of course there was a gun on the hip, or in a shoulder rig, all depending on the assignment and place.

 

[hardluk1]

I wonder if some of these master of pocket carry types could also practice with a snap cap in there pocket handgun and see what there draw and fire times are while eating a meal at home . Have a friend , wife , or who ever press bottom on a shot timer to see how well you really react . There one guy thats carried a snubby for years and says he's very fast but his hand is already on his snubby while standing /walking around . Thats the kind of guy I'm paying closer attention too .

Could be some of the pocket carry types may feel only a tucked in shirt is there thang so pocket carry on I guess . Carhartt makes t-shirts that have a fuller cut around the waist that makes CC;n a full size pistol on your side easy . Cap cap makes many options in well made heavy durt shirts with sqyare tails and polo styles and latin / sland shirts are the old school un tucked shirts . Even appendix carry for the more slender body's can be very fast to draw and fire .

Do not limit how you carry do to lack of practice with other ways . For me a full size pistol is CC'ed at 3:00 and a smaller pistol like my hellcat pro can be AIWP carried . I'm 5-9 and 195lb not slender old man but aiwb does work well .

 

[tarheel13]

I see a lot of people recommend getting the bodyguard 2.0 ts over the nts. Some say the trigger is too light for comfort to carry a round in the chamber with a nts. Or that a ts is safer for pocket carry. I feel like the trigger on my bodyguard 2.0 nts is similar to other strikers, but I don’t know about the pocket carry caution.

I’m planning to pocket carry for the first time using a Alabama kydex pocket holster and a Talon leather wallet holster. Can I trust my bodyguard 2.0 to be just as safe as my Glock 19 when it is properly holstered? Or am I missing something? Thank you.

I also carry the BG 2.0 in an Alabama Holster kydex pocket holster and NTS. The average Glock 19 has a 5.5 lb trigger and my two BG 2.0 pistols both have an approximate 4.5 lb trigger. But many Glock 19s will have less than 5.5 so there is surely some overlap. I don't think there is a real difference there. I think NTS is safer, at least for me, because I treat the holster as an external safety. I do this with all pistols. If the gun is in the holster, the safety is on. When the pistol is drawn from the holster, the safety is off. I don't have to think about it or get confused about what position the safety is in.

I second the idea that you should replace the pistol in the holster *outside* of the pocket. The moment of greatest danger is when you are re-inserting the pistol into the holster and the trigger can catch on something.

 

[pedropcola]

For me, pocket carry is a very niche option. It would never be my first choice just like off body carry isn’t my first choice. When it is called for or makes sense then I like having that option.

Place me firmly in the group that says dropping ANY kind of gun loose into a pocket sans holster is a nutty practice. (no pun)

 

[kbm6893]

I think The 2.0 is more than safe. If your NOT comfortable carrying it, Then DONT. I have 3 different pocket pistols. I have 0 issues carrying any of them Hot. I carry 24/7 365

You sleep with a gun on your hip? You take it in the shower? You ever exercise? You do that with your gun on?

 

[Phenix]

I can answer that question-it’s because the trigger pull is so light. Too light for a pocket gun, in my opinion.
That’s why I ordered mine with the thumb safety. The safety was too hard to flip on and off for practical use when I first got it. But after switching it on and off repeatedly about 2,000 times while watching TV over several nights, it has finally loosened up enough to use while carrying.
If anybody ever comes up with a higher profiled replacement safety lever I will be at the head of the line to get one.

The potential problem is not so much of the non-safety model going off in your pocket when your hand is not on the gun; the issue is when you are pulling it out of or putting it in your pocket. Whether a pocket holster is used or not. The chance of a fold of fabric catching the edge of the trigger and safety paddle and firing the gun when putting it back in your pocket is not insignificant. The trigger finger could catch it while pulling it out of the pocket.
A careful person paying attention will not be at high risk of an AD at the range or shooting at home with a non-safety BG 2.0, but in a stressful situation the risk is higher.
A good pocket holster makes things a little safer as well.