You know you're very comfortable carrying when...

[chasfm11]

.... you stand in front of a church congregation of more than 400, playing a musical instrument in just a dress shirt and slacks. When you can concentrate on reading your music under the lights and the gaze of so many with a pistol and a spare mag, you know the concealed really is concealed.

[Oldgringo]

I wear my SA 1911 Lightweight Compact in an inexpensive Don Hume OWB holster.

Frankly my dear, I'm not concerned if the muzzle might peek out beneath the shirt or jacket. It doesn't look any different than the gazillion cell phones, belt knives/tools that we all see all day and night long on our fellow bipeds. It's not a big deal because nobody cares and nobody notices.

Er,...uh, YMMV.

[Charles L. Cotton]

. . . you're standing in the security line at the airport and absentmindedly rest your hand on your gun!

Chas.

[MotherBear]

I've taken naps wearing mine. I really forget it's there.

My 5-year-old and 3-year-old sons go around with squirt guns stuck in their waistbands and/or pockets trying to be like Mommy. Clearly they need to save up their allowance for a good Crossbreed. ;)

lol though i like Whitehat

I'm not picky, as long as they learn that a holster isn't optional before they start using real guns. ;)

They're getting pop guns for Christmas... likely to drive me crazy, but they'll love 'em. I figure I'll have to make them slings to carry them with. The 5yo likes to set up a Nerf shooting range with his Daddy (a few Rudy's cups on the couch) and he religiously follows the four rules when they're shooting at their "range." I got a real kick out of it once when my husband cleared the Nerf gun and set it on the ground pointing downrange then asked my son to go reset the targets. He started to take a step downrange, then stopped in his tracks and said, "Well, I WOULD, but I don't think it would be a good idea to walk in front of a gun," with a meaningful look at the Nerf gun and at my husband. Makes me feel good to know he's already thinking about safety before he gets out on a real range.

[Divided Attention]

I LOVE the safety mindset of your youngster! Way to gom Mom and Dad!

You now your comfortable carrying when you present in front of about 70 people on Shooting Sports safety and you are in jeans and a tucked shirt. 9mm M&P compact at my side, and after the 2 hour presentation a friend came up and said "I can't believe you aren't carrying." I just smiled and thanked CompTac and AG Gun leather for their fine products!

[rbwhatever1]

. . . you're standing in the security line at the airport and absentmindedly rest your hand on your gun!

Chas.

That's a classic. I can imagine the elevated heart rate as one looks about for an escape route.

[MotherBear]

... when your 4-year-old Sunday school class gets some time on a bouncy house and you decide to kick off your shoes and join them.

[brhalltx]

...you're standing in line at the court house to go through security and realize you have something you were supposed to leave in the car. And have to run up multiple flights of stairs back to your car. In Houston. In the summer.

[Oldgringo]

. . . you're standing in the security line at the airport and absentmindedly rest your hand on your gun!

Chas.

Right!

I got back in the truck the other day after mailing a package and told Mrs. Oldgringo that I'd just broken all sorts of laws. I just forgot.

[03Lightningrocks]

... when you walk into a professional sporting event and realize you are carrying as the guy with the wand waves you through and picks the 10 year old boy who is next in line.

[jmra]

... when you walk into a professional sporting event and realize you are carrying as the guy with the wand waves you through and picks the 10 year old boy who is next in line.

That's the point at which I would become very uncomfortable.

[longtooth]

You bake Christmas cookies and forget you are carrying.


Your turn!

When you cook supper because you are rained indoors all day & sweet wife is still at her day job.

[goose]

When you are more diligent about arming than you are about checking for 30.06. I am not proud of it but I do occasionally stand inside an establishment and cringe when I realize that I never even thought to check the door on the way in. With my favorite holsters and my favorite shorts/pants/belts, I often forget that I'm carrying.

It is annoying when the clothes don't fit just right and it is constantly a reminder of the extra weight/tighter fit.

[Deltaboy]

When you get to the door of Post Office and have to turn around real fast.

[TEXASGIANT]

End of the day, feet up on the corner of the desk, keyboard in lap, glass of wine at hand, checking posts on TexasCHLforum.com.
9 Y.O. grand daughter comes over to hug me good night. But she has the forethought to pat me down so she doesn't get a tooth knocked out. I often wear a N.A.A. Black Widow .22MAG around my neck.
Optional scenario: She, 9 Y.O. Grand daughter charges me as I enter the door at the end of day. She screeches to a halt arms length from me and asks "You packin?" "Loose the iron!" then move in for the hug.
(I can't imagine where she gets it from.)