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What You Need to Know About Carrying a Gun in Your Pocket

By Tom McHale|2024-11-09T10:41:06-05:00November 9th, 2024|

Carrying a compact pistol or revolver in your pocket can be an effective (and convenient) solution year-round to carrying a concealed firearm. As with most all things related to guns, there are some hard and fast rules to make sure you’re doing it safely. Here are some tips to get your pocket carry solution in order along with some proven pocket holster recommendations.

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Carry Options: Day-by-Day Concealed Carry Choices

By Tom McHale|2024-03-28T14:34:21-04:00March 28th, 2024|

I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. I’m talking about the carry guns that actually get daily “out-and-about” concealed carry use. Around here, we spend a lot of time talking about (and testing) a wide variety of guns and gear, so excepting the days spent doing formal evaluations of new carry guns and holster rigs, I thought it might be helpful to share the guns that have more recently occupied the lion’s share of my more discretionary carry time.

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Holster Tips: Things You Learn From The Box O’ Holsters

By Tom McHale|2024-02-16T10:18:16-05:00February 19th, 2024|

Burning through hundreds over the years has exposed more than a few learnings through brute-force trial and error. Here are a couple...

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6 Lessons Learned About Appendix Carry

By Tom McHale|2023-12-08T10:18:35-05:00December 8th, 2023|

Ohttps://americanhandgunner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Appendix-Carry-Lessons-1-e1701980388229.jpgne day, I woke up with a fleeting glimpse of common sense and decided to try appendix carry before continuing to pass judgment. What a novel concept! After some thought, I figured I ought to give it a long-term try. If it was going to be anything like the transition from not carrying a gun to carrying concealed daily, I figured I was in for plenty of trial and error — a short “try and judge” strategy wasn’t going to cut it.

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A Quick Look at the Bravo Concealment LINKed Holster

By Tom McHale|2023-04-14T11:28:32-04:00April 14th, 2023|

Here’s a mea culpa moment: I always feel I “should” carry at least one spare magazine for capacity and failure resistance. Do I follow through? Not nearly often enough.

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American Handgunner Carry Options DeSantis OWB Season Leather – American Handgunner

By Tom McHale|2023-02-21T12:11:18-05:00February 21st, 2023|

Winter is here, so for me, it’s outside-the-waistband (OWB) carry season — at least some of the time. While I generally make more use of Kydex for IWB carry here in the humidity capital of the world (leather can get sticky on the draw when moist, and yes, I hate that word), the cooler months offer an opportunity to easily conceal a full-size pistol with classic OWB leather.

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Vantage Point: A look at new guns and gear…

By Tom McHale|2021-10-06T08:56:43-04:00May 3rd, 2021|

My favorite pocket/ankle pistol has an upgrade. The new XD-S OSP from Springfield Armory is now optics ready. The test model shown here came with a Crimson Trace CTS-1500 mini red dot sight pre-installed and ready to go. In fact, when I took it to the range to zero the optic, I found it was already dead on. And I do mean precisely. At 15 yards it was shooting right through the red dot superimposed on the target. Stay tuned for more on this. We’ve got a full review in the next issue and you’ll see a video look at this spiffy little pistol at AmericanHandgunner.com by now.

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