Look What I Found!

[Steven Mace]

Thanks to Bowhunt we now have a CCW forum. Enjoy everyone!

Steve Mace

[DeputyVaughn]

Cool, a place to discuss hip bruises and such.

I'll start. Anybody ever have an injury caused by their CCW. I narrowly averted one. I often carry S.O.B. when I'm off duty. A couple weeks back I took my kids ice skating. You guessed it, I busted my rear end in a fall. If my gun had been there I would have sustained a more serious injury than I did. When I fell backward I missed landing on my cheeks and landed on my tail bone. I had my gun on my hip (IWB). It was the first thing I checked. I was glad it stayed in place and didn't go sliding across the ice, but I was extra glad I didn't have it S.O.B.

Anybody else???

Scott

[SFC_E7]

First off Thank You for this site!

As far as CCW alert to injuries, I tore my shirt one time reholstering my firearm at the range. What made matters worse is now I have tatters of a rag that will not stay tucked in, with my handy dandy KA-Bar I fix the shirt and all was well, except for where the holster was riding against me instad of my shirt.

Thanks Again
Don

[dd698]

Sometimes I carry a heavy piece like a 9mm Star in a belt type holster. Because I live in a cold climate I wear sweatshirts much of the time and they do a good job of concealing the gun. I also wear suspenders. When it is time to relieve your self ,undressing is a major project and Ill sometimes use the larger handicapper stall and put my gear on the baby changing station if the stall is equipped with one. Neil

[SLAMFIRE51]

dd698 Sometimes I carry a heavy piece like a 9mm Star in a belt type holster. Because I live in a cold climate I wear sweatshirts much of the time and they do a good job of concealing the gun. I also wear suspenders. When it is time to relieve your self ,undressing is a major project and Ill sometimes use the larger handicapper stall and put my gear on the baby changing station if the stall is equipped with one. Neil

That may be good for some, but there is one situation such as you mentioned about the baby changing table comes to mind.

At the store I used to work, Brinks security would bring in money and take deposits to the bank. Well. seems one of the guys working for Brink's had to do his do and took his pistol out of his holster and set it on one of those baby changing tables in the stall. After he finished he left, but left his gun laying on the changing table.
As fate would have it, a customer when into the stall and discovered the pistol left behind. He brought it out holding the pistol with his finger inside the trigger guard.

To make a long story a little shorter, the guard was fired. And luckily, no one was hurt.

MEMORY CAN BE A GOOD THING. :D

[SFC_E7]

That makes no sence to me or at least common sense, how does one who carries a firearm concealed and especially one who uses one for his line of work walk off and forget his firearm. To begin with all the baby changing stations are in a common portion of the Head and if he/she were sitting on the royal throne behind locked doors that person was already in the wrong for not having his firearm under control. I have been carrying for about 40 years now and I cannot leave the house without my firearm of I feel like I leaving not completely dressed, and if I have to use the Head I use it without removing my firearm from my hip, I also have the Utility Belt as well and I understand that this configuration the U/B needs to be removed, but this can be hung on the inside of the stall. If I were running that organzation this individual would of been on his first strike to be removed from the organization. There is no need to leave any firearm you carry to be left unattended to include Federal Bulidings. If one is knowing that they will be going into Federal Building or other establishment that will not allow firearms then you need a lock box in your mode of transportation in an unseen place. Then put the Club on your steering wheel to discourage any would be CJ's form wanting to take you auto for a spin, but leaving a firearm in a public place unattended should never happen.

This my opinion

Don

[dd698]

SFC E7 :I agree in principal and the only time I use the changing table is when it is indeed incorporated in the stall. Wal Mart and Shop Ko stores in this area have this arrangement. Leaving a firearm unattended is not responsible behavior and could cause one to lose their permit. The thought of possible liability for such an act is by itself is frightening enough. Neill

[mizlplick]

When I first started CCW I noticed a pair of my underwear had a brown stain on them......OK no wise cracks. I failed to look and just whrew them away.

Again, I saw another pair with a brown stain, I looked and it was up high by the elastic band. I went through all my clothes and behold, quite a few of my undershirts and shorts had stains......AH! but when laid out togather, the reason became apparent.

It was where my Kimber Ultra Carry resided. Rust specs from metal traces or parking came out when washed.


BTW: I dont use holsters. I use a Hogue wrap around grip with an under grip clip and carry strong side. We dont wear heavy clothes here in AZ. so things are hard to conceal. I carry hydro shoks. 1 in the tube/hammer down. I trained to thumb cock during draw. I am pretty smooth at it and it leaves me with the correct grip, finger out, hammer cocked, safety off.

I like this forum! MPX

[SFC_E7]

Where do live in Arizona?

I'm in the Chandler area

[mizlplick]

Alma School Rd. & Germann (Willis Rd. between Alma & Az. Ave.)

We must get togather sometime. I own and shoot almost anything.

Dean

[Mike U.]

One should NEVER carry a firearm in the S.O.B. mode. This can very easily end your days of using your feet as a viable mode of transportation. It is extremely easy to get a serious, life changing spinal cord injury if you fall on that S.O.B. carried gun and it crunches a couple of your vertabrae. Falls of this kind happen all too quickly AND unexpectedly. As an example, I was walking to the pharmacy in a dept. store and as I was rounding the corner I stepped in some spilled milk from a baby bottle. In a microsecond I was seeing my feet and the ceiling as they appeared in my field of vision as they slid out from under me. I fell HARD on the small of my back. How I came out with only a bruise is beyond me, but, I have no doubt that the outcome would have been significantly worse had I been carrying something metallic between me and the floor.
Saying 'it'll never happen to me' is sticking your head in the sand.
Something like that can and does happen all the time. Risking becoming a paraplegic for a S.O.B. carry is so not worth the risk.

[neilwest]

:D

[azreloader]

Man, AZ guys all over these boards. South Tempe here!

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Good thing AK cases rust. I carry my Kimber on the strong side slghtly to the rear & wear loose outer shirts.