Jamming a pistol into a cheaply-made tangle of elastic and nylon webbing while it's pointed at your brachial artery? What could possibly go wrong?
Call me a big ol' scaredy cat, but I think I'll pass on that one. Plus it doesn't even look comfortable. (Further, unless you're built like CGI Hulk, any pistol small enough to be velcroed to your biceps is small enough to be carried in thirty-eleven other places that aren't dumb...)
Pshaw. They got nothin' on my new holster. It's elastic like that one, but it goes around my neck, and fits two P3ATs, pointing back, one on either side of the windpipe. I call it the turtleneck carry. Never you mind that you sweep your own face on the cross draw.
ReplyDeleteOh hell no. I am not a fan of sweeping almost all major organs and arteries every time I lift my arm. And I thought AIWB was scary.
ReplyDeleteBut.. But.. how will you know you're a bonafide operator unless your backup gun (drop-leg thigh holster for your primary HK natch) is pointing at your important bits?
ReplyDeleteHeh. At first I thought you were talking about the one that hooks to your bra. I took one look at that particular rig and walked away. 1) Not built well enough to conceal there, 2) the whole draw problem, 3)that's where I perspire first and I have no desire to spend each evening wiping corrosive salts off my carry piece, thank you.
ReplyDeleteSome people watch far too many movies.
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I can see this being thought up by a cleaning supply company. Since, where I work, anyways, I sweat, and carrying like that would dump about a liter of salt water straight down a muzzle.
ReplyDeleteIt's bad enough...well, just sweating on a heater pointed somewhere else.
But, but, it holds a Jennings so well!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm waiting for the Inner Thigh Holster that holds the Hi-Point Muzzle UP. It'd be perfect to use when one goes CCW with their Kilt on. No one would even think of looking at you then!
Wow. And if a goblin is watching, bringing the piece to bear on a useful target would be ever so innocuous and nonchalant.
ReplyDeleteBesides. Cheerleaders couldn't get away with the plaid shirt, the only thing that makes it work at all.
I suppose we could send the Taliban a couple dozen cartons, just as a hopeful gesture. . .
Besides all of the dangers involved in carrying like that, how is one supposed to draw with that little inch of grip that they've left you to grasp? Particularly when it's damp?
ReplyDeleteSince you are so high speed low drag you carry two of them. The numbed fingers actually make it easier to jam your fingers in there and garb the pistol, and the double cross draw just makes it look like several things could be going on. You could be hugging yourself, you could be doing the macarena, or you could be an old school rapper doing your pose.
ReplyDeleteThat will really confuse them when you start drawing them and kick them in the forehead with your boot spike.
I wear this daily under my long sleeve dress shirt and jacket. I just have to get undressed to get to the .25 under my armpit. Somehow pocket carry makes more sense.
ReplyDeleteIt's not for using, it's for selling!
ReplyDeleteHaven't we been over this dozens of times? The economy depends on people with more money than sense.
gvi
Obviously, it's because there weren't enough fatal injuries from crotch-carry/Thunderwear & clones/gangsta-carry. Yeah, they may have blown holes into the Short Arm of the Free World (or removed it entirely), but the misoperator was still around, and possibly still recommending that type of carry.
ReplyDeleteJust hit me. If you DID pull the Trigger while trying to Draw, is there enough Material there to give you an Instant Tourniquet?
ReplyDeleteSuperstar! Boom!
ReplyDeleteI have it on good authority that the best place is taped between the shoulder blades to ensure a safe draw when lulling the bad guy by your submissive surrender posture.
I prefer the 4 revolvers on the saddle carry, per Bedford Forrest.
ReplyDeleteIf was good enough for BF, its good enough for me. And he warn't even from New York.
Can I get a trucker cap holster?
ReplyDeleteHoly bugeyed batcrap!! Who thinks of this garbage?
ReplyDeleteAnd then who buys such dipped in crap junk??
I believe it was Rob Liefeld who popularised the upper-arm/leg strapping in the mid-to-late'80s.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it only seems to work well in a comic-book universe, and usually with significantly deformed physiques. (See: Rob Liefeld art)
Hey, it doubles as a tourniquet, since you will probably be needing one for using it.
ReplyDelete@ GuardDuck,
ReplyDelete". . . the best place is taped between the shoulder blades"
I know! I saw that scene of Bruce Willis in (the otherwise epic exposition of safe and proper gun handling) Die Hard (the first one)!
. . unless "good authority" means some reference stronger than a specific scene in a "blow it all to heck" Hollywood shoot-em-up special effects stunt showcase.
@ Ygolonac,
During the 2010 Census, I had occasion to drop in on a neighbor (that I hadn't met before), recovering from an incident. I didn't understand the whole story, but he was recovering from a discharge from his pistol, at a time when he was agitated about black helicopters (in rural Oklahoma), and that somehow his groin area received the bulk of the injury. Thankfully the form didn't require getting any of that information straight. I haven't run into that neighbor since, either.
Awesome! Does it come in digital camo?
ReplyDeleteFleshtone digital, I mean?
I think the best part of the page was where they say if anyone sees it they will think you just "forgot to take off a blood pressure cuff or something."
ReplyDeleteBecause that happens ALL THE TIME
Leather? check.revolver? check. open carry in Ky? Yup. I need a nylon torniqet 'cause? Ray
ReplyDeleteYe gods... THAT is just plain scary... I'll pass!
ReplyDeleteWoodman, if that group develops a hat holster, it'll be a cowboy hat with the gun tucked into the crown muzzle down. But only because they can't find a way to point it straight into the temple.
ReplyDeleteWhat, no one considered hammer-down, or condition 3 carry in this rig?
ReplyDeleteI have a velcro pouch that mimics this, size-wise. I've tried this location with my .25acp mod950, and it does cause a bit of numbness in the arm. Probably the pressure of the gun, not the strapping effect. An actual holster might not cause it, though.
I was thinking that a long-sleeve shirt rolled up to just above the elbow would work well for concealment.
As some have commented, that traditional thumbbreak, around the upper backstrap for non-hammer types, just doesn't work well for bitty guns. Some other restraint system needs to be found.
Promising idea, poor execution. And should be oriented to external hammer types, as condition 3 is stupid.
And here I've been calling that artery "radial".
ReplyDeleteThe radial is farther down.
Learn something everyday.