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Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
I leave the last button undone! ![tiphat :tiphat:](./images/smilies/tiphat.gif)
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
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However it's not a fast draw issue for me. The situation dictates what, and how, I wear my clothes. So far the only times I've had to put my hand on my weapon I had a couple of seconds warning to get under my cover garment. In 15 years I've actually drawn only once, and I did not have to fully present.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
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Unbuttoned, using the cover of a frumpy, absent-minded professor. Or with the unbuttoned gap covered with a tie.
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To be clear, I am reaching in to my weak side, and would be drawing back out through the unbuttoned gap. Revolver is in belly band in a cross draw position (about 9:00).
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
I do buttoned and unbuttoned. Just depends how I want to wear my shirt that day.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
I do unbuttoned because that's how I've worn those shirts even before I carried. It also gives me an option for OWB. Buttoning it would make the OWB holster print like none other.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
I'm looking for shirts to wear untucked that aren't too long. Most of my button up shirts are designed to be ticked and they are very long.
Untuckit shirts are too expensive.
Untuckit shirts are too expensive.
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https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM ... UEDgmiVLb5
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
If you cannot defeat the cover garment with the hand that will unholster the handgun, then you are doing it wrong. Your support hand will be occupied.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
I button them including bottom one. But whichever you choose, the important thing to remember is to PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE and keep PRACTICING. If you do not build the muscle memory in a tense situation, you may very well get it caught in the shirt at the worse possible time.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
J.R.@A&M wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:45 amhttps://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM ... UEDgmiVLb5
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
Just about 3:30 is where I carry all the time. Open Carry. Shirt is always buttoned and tucked. Momma is 88 but still uses the word "slouchy" on occasion.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
As the years go by, and retiring, I am finding myself becoming more "slouchy".
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That said, I carry OWB at 3:30 and, if not wearing a jacket, I usually wear a buttoned and untucked shirt.
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Re: Shirt Front Buttoned or Unbuttoned when Carrying at 3:30 - 4:00?
Whoops... sorry. Let me figure out how to post that dang picture.Pawpaw wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:42 pmJ.R.@A&M wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:45 amhttps://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM ... UEDgmiVLb5
“Always liked me a sidearm with some heft.” Boss Spearman in Open Range.