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    Quote Originally Posted by Sam View Post
    I'm a short, almost middle age guy now
    Almost?

    I have carried AIWB with a J-frame for over 15 years. My preferred setup is the Barami Hip-Grip with Grip Adapter and Hogue Handall. Not everyone who tries it likes the angle it holds at but it works for me.
    It's only an "arm's length" gun if you're incompetent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HeadHunter View Post
    Almost?
    I'll never catch you, rest assured.

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    Todd, I can't carry the government model there because when I sit the bushing catches my nuts and I am not a happy camper. And with doublestacks, by the time I have it at 1 o'clock the butt is too far to the right to be anywhere near the curve of my abdomen. I'm very thin and have a 31" waist.

    Admittedly I haven't tried a good holster yet. I've had three Alessi appendix holsters on order since, IIRC, December 2005.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToddG View Post
    Ya mean ... this guy?


    Who's that guy? Isn't that VA_Dinger?

    I should have known someone would have preserved that moment... Don't I even get any credit for running most of that class appendix, from concealment?

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    Quote Originally Posted by yrac View Post
    Who's that guy? Isn't that VA_Dinger?

    I should have known someone would have preserved that moment... Don't I even get any credit for running most of that class appendix, from concealment?
    I think I was at that class. Dinger couldn't make it at the last minute. I remember someone carrying appendix, back before it was cool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToddG View Post

    Dude, you are exactly right. If you are worried your pistol might spontaneously discharge, definitely do not carry A-IWB. Ernest and I were at lunch a couple weeks ago and we both made that exact comment ... if our M&Ps just "let go" for some crazy reason, we'd probably bleed out before help could arrive. I wonder what the headline would have been ...
    TLG:

    It would have read "Firearms Instructor Dead from Lack of Planning".

    BP

    Thread Hijack/not directed at Todd:
    I firmly believe that if anyone carries a gun on a daily basis, and do not have a blowout kit/first aid kit handy that includes a trauma dressing, chest seal, tourniquet and clotting agent (Traumadex, Quickclot, or similar) you are wrong. It should be in each car and in the home. Likewise, if a shooter has not learned how to use these things, but spend countless thousands on ammo, gear and training, their priorities are out of order.

    Just sayin'...the life you save could be your own, or that of a loved one you were carrying to protect in the first place.
    End Hijack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yrac View Post
    I should have known someone would have preserved that moment... Don't I even get any credit for running most of that class appendix, from concealment?
    My recollection -- poor as it may be for something that happened more than two years ago -- is that you were wowing everyone with your draw during the class. The twenty or so shots I happened to capture of that one draw doesn't tell the true story. Ah, the power of photojournalism!

    Quote Originally Posted by believeraz View Post
    TLG:
    It would have read "Firearms Instructor Dead from Lack of Planning".
    Much better than what I was thinking. "Two Men Die in Genital Suicide Pact"

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    Quote Originally Posted by ToddG View Post
    My recollection -- poor as it may be for something that happened more than two years ago -- is that you were wowing everyone with your draw during the class. The twenty or so shots I happened to capture of that one draw doesn't tell the true story. Ah, the power of photojournalism!



    Much better than what I was thinking. "Two Men Die in Genital Suicide Pact"
    That is classic.


    On topic. How does the Looper work for you at a desk? I spend way too many hours a day slightly leaning forward typing and reading from a screen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan_Bell View Post
    On topic. How does the Looper work for you at a desk? I spend way too many hours a day slightly leaning forward typing and reading from a screen.
    I don't notice it any more than other times. I drive in a pretty upright position, too, and it hasn't bothered me on long drives.

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    AIWB

    AIWB definitely doesn't print as much as 4:00, so AIWB allows a wider range of garments to be worn.

    Carrying two pistols (J frame @ AIWB, 1911 or G19 @ 4:00), I have to dress to conceal the bigger pistol.





    [QUOTE=ToddG;204701]
    When you say "more concealed" do you mean with the same clothing or with clothing more appropriate to 4:00 carry (i.e., open front)? My wardrobe is much less noticeably "ccw-ish" with A-IWB. But if I wear something too tight, with my build (6', 210#, 38" waist) it definitely prints. Of course, if I tried carrying at 4:00 with that same shirt as my only concealment garment, it would print even more. And a big object on the hip looks more like a gun than a bump at the appendix.

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