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Purplehood wrote:

seamusTX wrote:Abdominal muscles.

Oh, those. I miss them.

If you didn't still have them, you couldn't rise from a seated position.

Get a shovel and discover digging holes as a recreational exercise. It's also good for your arm muscles. You were in the military. Wasn't that part of your training?

- Jim

Back when I worked at a car wash in San Antonio, a gentleman came by in a Hawaiian shirt. We got to talking about guns and he discretely showed me his full-sized .50 Desert Eagle he was carrying in a shoulder harness.

This was pre-CHL for me, and I was impressed. Never would have guessed he was carrying until he showed me.

Other than that, I've spotted a few guys carrying at the Cablela's counter on Saturdays.

seamusTX wrote:

Purplehood wrote:

seamusTX wrote:Abdominal muscles.

Oh, those. I miss them.

If you didn't still have them, you couldn't rise from a seated position.

Get a shovel and discover digging holes as a recreational exercise. It's also good for your arm muscles. You were in the military. Wasn't that part of your training?

- Jim

As a result of my Military experience I can no longer effectively dig a hole. But that is no excuse for my lack of Abs, as that is simply laziness.

Purplehood wrote:But that is no excuse for my lack of Abs, as that is simply laziness.

I'm storing up fat for the winter. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Of the several people I know with CHLs I'm the only one that carries most of the time. Work and Church are the only places I don't carry. I just won't hardly go to places anymore where I can't carry unless there is just no way around it.

As a 72 yo guy at about 140 lbs, I'm a lot more into Situational Awareness; and, carry daily...too old and weak to "fight"...lol.

I'm always looking at people (but try not to stare...) and their movements. (Am retired behavioral psychologist)...

In our part of country, seeing un-tucked shirts, short pants, is a rather rare sight, since probably 95% of people around here are farmers and ranchers. Of course...there are those high school kids, and other 20-something "kids" that are wandering around with 3x oversided clothes and pants hanging down to their knees. I generally figure these real and pseudo gang-bangers are probably carrying "something" illegal...

Jeans, tucked western shirts, and dirty boots are the "attire of the day" around here...lol.

In cooler weather I wear a vest and CC everywhere it's legal. I warm/hot weather I carry open on our place, but "dis-mount" when going into a store (briefly) around here.

All this aside...

I also feel that MOST people (except CHL's) usually look at your face and upper body and/or preoccupied with other stuff and especially those that DON'T carry, are not looking for a CC gun on you. When we have a visitor here, I don't call attention to myself when open carrying and since I only have hearing on my Left ear, it is easy to position myself so that my strong side (R) carry is not that obvious. I have yet to have anyone obviously look at my waist and/or comment on my sidearm...

As for as the BG's are concerned, I think most are doing either "Mexican Carry", pocket carry, or small of back carry...all illegal (for them) anyway. So yes, I do look more at their torso than their face...if I see a suspicious character...

Running Arrow Bill wrote:I'm always looking at people (but try not to stare...) and their movements. (Am retired behavioral psychologist)...

People-watching is my third or fourth favorite hobby. This being a tourist town, I can take a seat in the right place and see everything from male transvestites to women who are dressing like teenagers about 50 years too late. I find it fascinating.

I have never "made" anyone.

- Jim

I still look on occasion. I've seen two whom I suspected were carrying and one whom I was almost certain. One man was wearing a Kimber hat with a very large shirt in HEB, the other looking at gun safes in Academy with a fanny pack. I speculate not because I saw their weapons, but other things they did hinted that they were of the CHL crowd.

As I said, you can figure out the Hawaiian shirts, cargo shorts, 5.11 clothing, etc. But if you do not know for a fact that you could put your finger on the butt or hammer of their handgun, you have not "made" them.

I mentioned some time back that I have had two "huggers" put their hand directly on my hardware and not react or acknowledge it in any way. You can't get much closer than that while keeping your clothes on.

- Jim

I spotted a probable at the grocery store recently. Mid-50’s white male, khaki shorts, white T-shirt, camo vest, camo hat.
Vest? With shorts and a T-shirt? In Texas, in August?
Something black occasionally poking out under the vest at 3:00 lit the bulb. It looked like the end of an OWB holster to me. Visible when he reached with his right hand. Something might also have printed lightly at 9:00. Magazines?
He didn’t behave suspiciously, just seemed to be shopping. I went about my business.
Lesson learned: Consider your torso and cover garment lengths as well as holster height. Check with a mirror, videocamera, in various movements. And dress for the weather.

last sunday i saw a guy with army brown(desert storm) shorts with a od green infidel t-shirt. definitely packing heat!!! oh wait.....that was me! and yes i had my LCP in my left front pocket.

There's a place out near Sugar Land. Every time I go in there, there's a fellow hanging out (I'm assuming a friend or family member of the owner) that parks right out front, and is in the store listening to his hand-held police scanner, always wandering around. To say he prints is an under-statement. I took my wife in there recently, and she was like "oh my". Um, he's a smaller guy, and the .45 on his belt just STANDS OUT. All ok in a gun store, but I'm hoping he doesn't make too many other public stops like that......

Meaning of:

ABS =

A... Armed / Holstered
B... Below
S... Stomach

Just sayin' !

Mac

seamusTX wrote:Probably the Hawaiian shirts are a geographic thing. Meetings of my gun club are a fashion disaster.

- Jim

Remember there are more Jimmy Buffet (Parrod Heads) in Texas than CHL holders.

Vests and fanny packs just scream, " I AM CARRYING". Almost as bad as the Hawaiian shirt.