Did you ever see one of these? I've been wearing one for probably the last 5 or 6 years. I'm in Florida and I almost always wear just elastic waistband shorts and a t-shirt. I can go anywhere and no one can imagine I have a full size pistol on me and a spare mag.
SmartCarry The Invisible Holster
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I should add that you probably can find this style on eBay or even other places and maybe they're good who knows. But I can tell you this one I've had it off and on thousands of times over the years the velcro holds up the materials really tough and it's really quality made in America.
Never tried one of those. I did try a similar holster with a wide elastic band. I was carrying a Ruger Security Six in 357. A big snubby and I had to stretch the elastic until it was uncomfortable to hold it securely and for it to stay in one place. I tried a handful of holsters. The one I found best was an old undercover cop style holster that hung the .357 upside down and butt forward under my let arm. It concealed under a t-shirt, was almost impossible to prevent a draw from, and came out as quickly as a striking snake. Seemed flaky to have the gun hanging upside down with no kind of safety snap but in years of carry while working and running a wrecker I never had the revolver move at all in a holster.
While I am hesitant to hijack this thread, still, have to input my 2 cents:
Autos fired inside a pocket are only strictly reliable for the first round. My ultralight hammerless S&W 38+P only holds 5, but I assume it won’t jam if one round doesn’t do the job (not guilty of ‘brandishing’, for sure).
Also, I recently watched a YouTube interview with an FBI ballistics expert/agent, explaining why they switched back to 9mm. The resulting cost savings were supposedly coincidental (and we know FBI agents are always truthful). He claimed that recoil recovery speed & modern round choices made up for the sacrifice in stopping force compared to the .40 cal. So, they can now shoot a felon with more rounds accurately in the same allotted time it would take to bring him down with the .40. When perps are shot 16-17 times with a 9, they are certainly more likely to die eventually, if that is the objective (?).
The feebs have plenty of money for testing so they are probably right but the gap between the calibers makes me strongly favor the forty. A 9mm shoots a bullet that is .35x" diameter, a forty shoots a full .4x", a 45 a 452" bullet if I remember the numbers correctly, been a long time. All these diameters usually vary slightly between jacketed and pure lead bullets.
Supposedly as LEO's or concealed carry users the goal isn't to kill someone, isn't to not kill them either. The goal is to stop the threat. I favor a big slow bullet to do that. What happens afterwards is supposedly not relevant. I had a .357 under my counter. I told my wife if she ever had to use the gun, shoot until the gun was empty or the threat was on the floor. Short of me but if somebody had to be shot I wanted them dead, not sitting in a courtroom with an arm or leg missing and suing me for nineteen million! In theory the perfect bullet penetrates to the other side of the shooter stopping just shy of coming out or in the ribcage but all the way through the organs. The goal is to dump all of the energy the bullet carries inside the threat.
I had an employee that was a vietnam vet. He had been a door gunner in a helicopter and he was hit several times with the commie version of the 50BMG. Slightly bigger so they could shoot our ammo if any was recovered, we couldn't shoot theirs. Anyway, he had been hit two or three times in the torso with that machine gun. Around six thousand pounds of energy, they shot down helicopters and even fixed wing aircraft with these machine guns sometimes. Doug spent a long time in the hospital but walked out apparently fine. The heavy metal jackets on the armor piercing rounds let them zip right through soft tissue and out the other side without leaving much energy behind. Scars both sides of his spine and near center height of his body. He was very lucky but no arguing with those big scars.
Apologies but I lost the post about not liking top ejection pistols. I don't like them because I have seen some that hit the shooter in the face with the brass every shot and many did that once in awhile. Easy to develop a flinch when you have to worry about hot brass hitting you in the face.
A side note: We shot steel plates indoors, one on one with a timer. The shooters stood about eight feet apart facing the target of course. The brass from the shooter on the left sometimes hit the shooter on the right. Just as a prank I considered tuning my extractor so the brass flew at the head of my opponent when I drew the left lane! Three to four pieces of brass a second would have been a serious distraction.(grin)
