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View Poll Results: OK Fat Guy, How Do You Conceal Your Gun? | |||
I don't | 7 | 4.02% | |
Belt holster under loose shirt | 46 | 26.44% | |
Tuckable belt holster | 17 | 9.77% | |
Shoulder holster | 10 | 5.75% | |
Inside a pocket | 63 | 36.21% | |
Inside pants | 46 | 26.44% | |
Fanny pack | 10 | 5.75% | |
Other | 18 | 10.34% | |
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January 7, 2011, 12:07 AM | #1 |
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Where Do You Fat Guys Carry
I don't carry very often, but unless I'm wearing a jacket, I haven't found a practical way to conceal. At 6'5" and 350 lbs, lets face it, I'm fat. Trying to hide a gun under a shirt will usually print. Using a fanny pack is hardly concealing.
Something like 2/3 of Americans are overweight. So what do you do (besides diet)? |
January 7, 2011, 12:11 AM | #2 |
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I carry in the pocket.
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January 7, 2011, 12:13 AM | #3 |
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You must have a lot of pockets
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January 7, 2011, 12:29 AM | #4 |
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I Ain't fat, But I carry on my hip around 4-5 o'clock in the winter time with a leather pancake.
In the summertime.. I wear http://www.smartcarry.com/photos.html Works for me.. |
January 7, 2011, 01:31 AM | #5 |
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I am big and ride a wheelchair so I use a bag when I an carrying, concealer OR Openly!
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January 7, 2011, 01:32 AM | #6 |
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At 6'4" and 300lbs give or take, I'm getting rather "fluffy". When I carry my S&W M66, I find that I can conceal it OWB under a XXL T-Shirt in an El Paso #88 "Street Combat" holster. When I want something smaller, I carry a S&W M36 in a Tagua pocket holster. In the winter, I often carry a S&W 629 in a Kramer Horsehide Scabbard under a coat, but I can fairly easily conceal just about any gun I own under my coat.
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January 7, 2011, 01:33 AM | #7 | |
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In Colorado in the winter, you can carry an AR15 concealed. The smartcarry is like a double wide diaper stuffed down your crotch. Yeah I have one (okay, 2). I have truly invested $750 to $1000 on various IWBs, tuckables, MOBs. If you are an off duty LEO, where you and the buds joke about it if you get spotted, stuff your crotch, show a bit of pregnancy on one side or the other with an IWB (tuckable or not), wear a big overwear garment (flannel and hawaiin shirts look great in the boardroom), or wear an OWB and a van halen T-shirt. In Texas, if it peeks out, you are breaking the law. I pocket carry.
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January 7, 2011, 02:02 AM | #8 |
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I used to carry a NAA Mini Revolver in my navel next to my wallet, but I lost a few pounds so that you could see the butt of the revolver poking out of my belly whenever I wore spandex muscle shirts...
So I switched to a back pocket holster for a Seecamp WildmywaistlineamplyillustratesthetacticalrollAlaska ™©2002-2010 |
January 7, 2011, 03:09 AM | #9 | |
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January 7, 2011, 05:02 AM | #11 |
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OWB, at 3:00. Type of gun doesn't matter, open or concealed. It's right there just over my right side pants pocket.
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January 7, 2011, 07:21 AM | #12 |
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Wild you are not right. But I do so love to read your posts every day. They are a lot better than the funnies in the newspaper.
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January 7, 2011, 08:01 AM | #13 |
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Get a stainless snubby and stick it under a man boob.
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January 7, 2011, 08:39 AM | #14 |
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im 5;9'' and 240
kidney or SOB( 1911 or a 3''xd)....very rarely pocket a lcr or a pf9 |
January 7, 2011, 08:42 AM | #15 |
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Not a lot of helpful info on this thread, folks. I think the OP was looking for genuine advice, not fat jokes.
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January 7, 2011, 08:45 AM | #16 |
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back getting real... I carry 95% of the time under a loose shirt OWB in a high ride canted holster at 4:00 - 5:00 ( depending on belt loops of my jeans ) Levis seem to have my favorite belt loop spacing
my biker buddy has been openly conceiling his 380 Taurus in the supplied Bulldog PDA style holster... I'm a budding hobby holster maker, & did up holsters for my shooting friends for Christmas & for this guy I made an improved leather holster that fits his 38 Special double derringer... I'm going to make one of these to fit my 380, because it's much improved ( much smaller, closer to the size of a cell phone or pda, & holds the gun in a natural draw position ) over the Bulldog style that Taurus ships with the TCP, whichis too large IMO, & puts the gun in a layed down position, which is difficult / un-natural to draw from ... this is the holster I made, holds a reload for his derringer... otherwise if in dress clothes, I'll pocket carry a smallish gun in my suit coat jacket pocket, or my NAA mini in my front pants pocket... but over all I don't prefer pocket carry, especially in my pants pockets, as they are nomally full of other stuff, since I normally carry my wallet in one of my front pockets as well ( deters pick pockets... & I wouldn't want to carry a gun in a wallet holster in my back pocket for the same reasons I don't carry my wallet there )
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January 7, 2011, 10:12 AM | #17 |
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Six foot; 310 pounds.
A Ruger LCP in the front pocket, and a lightweight 1911 (usually 9mm) in an IWB holster from either John O'Roark or CrossBreed. Boarhunter |
January 7, 2011, 11:04 AM | #18 | |
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January 7, 2011, 11:55 AM | #19 |
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I don't even want to know what the "other" places are three gave votes for.
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January 7, 2011, 12:15 PM | #20 |
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Fat guy here, I carry a Ruger sp101 in my front pocket. I am kind of handy with leather and a stiching awl so I make my own pocket holsters. I also make a pretty good inside the waistband holster but I never use them. For many years I have been making ones that enable you to tuck in your shirt, now I see that big companies are making the very same design. I have given several of them away here in Indianapolis but I doubt that the big guys have seen one of mine. It goes to show that great minds travel in the same channels.
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January 7, 2011, 12:16 PM | #21 |
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6-2 280lbs IWB Ruger P90 at 3 o'clock, most times I wear a pocket T with a untucked shirt over it, if I'm dressed up a Glock 26 in my front pocket.
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January 7, 2011, 12:22 PM | #22 |
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BH SERPA paddle holster at 8:30 (left-handed) for both my G33 or my New Agent with a baggy shirt.. Pants right front pocket for my DB380, and left jacket pocket or pants leg pocket/pouch for my Kel-tec PF-9...
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January 7, 2011, 12:22 PM | #23 |
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5'9" 250lbs... I carry iwb at 5 o'clock, and pocket carry J frame smith .38... I haven't been carrying since I've moved to texas from tennessee because I haven't learned all the rules... In TN even if it peeks out it's ok because it doesn't have to be conceiled
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January 7, 2011, 12:23 PM | #24 |
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6'2'' 270 I carry where every I want too. Most of the time in the small of my back
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January 7, 2011, 12:42 PM | #25 |
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6'2 380lbs and sometimes I carry a glock 17 in a uncle mike's paddle holster or if I don't feel like wearing a button down shirt glock 26 in my front pocket.
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