FC Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 I’ve started pondering open carry, but unsure if I’ll do it. Information online is often not up to date, so I’m prioritizing state sites. I’ve never seen open carry done in SC, but appears legal. Georgia and Texas appear legal to non-residents open carrying. I’ve seen open carry in Georgia often enough. I find conceal carrying uncomfortable, at best, except for mini revolvers and small .380s. I’m thinking about it more since a wife was shot at a gas station near here, and gun crime in our county is regularly in my news feeds. Unfortunately, it’s largely (but not exclusively) committed by younger black men. Then I read in the last couple of days about a guy delivering wood in Ft. Worth. Strung out, naked black dude beat him yo death with a piece of his firewood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 20 Report Share Posted January 20 I think open carry is really not for me. For one thing, you have to watch people trying to take it from you, versus them not knowing if you have anything or where it is. There are some good concealed holsters. I have gone from my "sneaky Hess" pocket carry SIG to carrying a full size 1911 at the 4 o'clock position, inside the waste band, with an extra mag in my front pocket. It is surprisingly comfortable. The holster is a Galco KA212B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 21 Author Report Share Posted January 21 I’ve never liked extra junk on my person, even jewelry. Maybe I could live with my “Bible case” PPK/s holster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Have you considered pocket carry? Like my Sneaky Hess? However you go, I think concealed is really much safer for you than open. There are a lot of cases of people having their open carry guns stolen while standing in line at a fast food restaurant, for example. The thug grabs your gun and is gone that fast. Another option is to outside the waist band carry at 3 or 4 o'clock and wear a larger shirt over it. Or do the so-called appendix carry with it inside the waist band at 2 o'clock. There or at 11 o'clock in a cross draw fashion (some people call this appendix also, but there ain't no appendix there. I call it "sigmoid carry.") With both those, even a good sized T shirt will cover it. Lots of ways to go. I feel that in today's society, it has become quite important to be armed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 22 Author Report Share Posted January 22 The .380 Taurus works in my pocket, and the little North American .22 mag revolver. I'd just had a crazy thought of carrying my 1911 in the GI leather holster and web belt. Right now my right arm can't do squat. So much for the .380 inside my bomber jacket pocket. Wife keeps neglecting to put the little revolver in her purse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 I'm right handed, but I pocket carry my SIG in my left front pocket. I can draw and shoot fine with my left hand. Just takes practice. How's that shoulder doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted January 23 Author Report Share Posted January 23 I’m not sure. The rotator cuff is so complex. Pain is okay. Supposedly I’m to wear a sling day and night, but that just doesn’t work for me. I go easy on it though, and avoid upward movements. I’m trying to better understand the op report, and what I can realistically do without damaging the repair. bicep tendon was torn and retracted. Got an allograft. Bursa was removed. I read in one place that it will regenerate. Superior capsular reconstruction. “Massive tear of the rotator cuff.” Subscapularis partially torn. Ended up with / allografts. The distal 3 cm of clavicle was resected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 23 Report Share Posted January 23 That sounds like one hell of a whack. I would certainly try to do what the surgeon said about the sling. If that doesn't heal right, there's virtually no re-do's. Well, they always try re-do's, but you don't want to go there. So, left handed draws. Perfect time for a Sneaky Hess type holster. You can buy a pocket holster, but I like my home-brew better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted January 26 Report Share Posted January 26 Why lose surprise? I am not an open carry man. karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 I'm okay with open carry while engaged in an activity where you might normally expect to see a handgun, hiking, hunting, camping, fishing. I don't care to see people in Walmart or the grocery store overtly carrying. That said I don't mind seeing the bottom of someone's holster sticking below their jacket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 I was walking out of a Walmart one day and a guy, probably in his 60's, was walking in. He was wearing a T shirt and printing big time. He must have had a model 29 in a vertical shoulder holster under that shirt. I felt like asking him if he was expecting a bear attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted February 2 Report Share Posted February 2 For a time in the mid 2000's, there was a group here that used meet at various restaurants to practice their 2A rights to open carry, mostly they scared old ladies. They eventually formed a militia and bragged how they were going to take over when the SHTF. Ultimately, they were infiltrated by an FBI informant and the leaders were sent to prison for conspiring to kill judges and other government officials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaeffer_Cox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted February 2 Report Share Posted February 2 Ken that is one reason I dont join groups karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted February 3 Author Report Share Posted February 3 The gubmint is good at the infiltration thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken98k Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 6 hours ago, karlunity said: Ken that is one reason I dont join groups karl It was pretty plain to see that those guys were heading for trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Yeah, we had about the same thing happen here. I've mentioned it before, but briefly, about 8 guys formed a "militia." They would get a table at the local gun shows and hand out fliers. I felt like asking them if they knew who the fed in their group was, but left it alone. Their "HQ" or "clubhouse" as I called it was about a half mile down the main road from me. I would hear automatic weapons occasionally, which I estimated to be 9mm, about 500RPM, 30-ish round string going off on the 4th of July and New Year's. Their leader was a machinist. Turns out he was making Sten guns and Browning 1917's, but I never heard one of those. The leader would tell them "when the feds come down that driveway, I'll machine gun them down..." So, the fed plant snitched them off. The feds came down the driveway. His hands went in the air and he went to prison. That was about 15 years ago, not sure if he's out yet. But this was a group of 6 or 8 guys in bumfuq, and the feds put a guy on the inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted February 5 Author Report Share Posted February 5 The Redcoats could’ve learned a thing or two from the Feds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 They had learned from Cromwell thus the Constitution we the people seldom bother to enforce. karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Which is why I refer to this era as "The Post-Constitution Era." Some people say they want a Constitutional Convention. What good would it do? What are they going to pass, amendments that say "Follow the Constitution?" If they don't follow what's there now, more won't help. All 3 branches of the government just do whatever they want. I remember when a new major change in medical law was put in place. There were no rules, just some vague wording. Doctors were saying "What is it we're supposed to do to follow this?" The feds actually said that they didn't know, but they were just going to arrest some doctors and work out the rules in court and make case law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted February 5 Author Report Share Posted February 5 My brother never responds when I tell him he doesn’t believe in freedom of speech or press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 As Tarr's observation, they are brainwashed and unfixable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted February 5 Author Report Share Posted February 5 But he’s upset that I called him a socialist. When I pointed out the Forbes videos of Blackburn and Hawley grilling Zuckerberg, and asked where his people were, he accused Hawley of grandstanding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 WE are free till we die...simple karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 The only guy in public life I think gives a damn is Trump..why? His life would be far simpler if he just took his money and partied Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 Yeah, I see Trump as truly trying to do what's best for our country. We haven't had a president like that since Reagan. Yeah, Trump is unpolished, but he has never lied to us. Look at everything he says and it is the truth as it is known at that time. I just hope this time he learned from his mistakes from the last time and gets rid of all the D's in government on day 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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