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Snake Doctor wrote:

frankie_the_yankee wrote:One time I put my thumb under my sweater to clear the way to drawing my SP101 revolver if I needed to.

I often wonder if these situations we all prepare ourselves for are the "in the blink of an eye" types or if you can see them coming from a mile away. I feel like it's more the latter as situations often build in intensity, giving you enough time to raise your awareness and go to Orange; Yet, I have never been attacked, mugged, rushed or etc., so I guess the idea of someone getting to me before I could get the drop seems unlikely. (...not that I don't prepare for such events, though)

I saw this one coming.

I was mugged once, many years ago before I had a CHL. FWIW, the whole thing developed slowly enough that if I had been armed I could have easily backed up a step or two and drawn a gun. I don't think that particular BG would have had a clue as to what I was up to.

But I'm under no illusion that things couldn't happen a lot more quickly in a different circumstance.

These days, I am much more aware of what's going on around me, and who is "going on" around me. So in that sense, I think I'm a little farther ahead of the curve than before.

No.

One time I put my thumb under my sweater to clear the way to drawing my SP101 revolver if I needed to. But it turned out that I didn't need to so I didn't.

To this day I'm not sure if the other person involved got an inkling of what I was doing and why, and then quickly changed whatever plan he might have had, or if I just imagined that he did. (It was a snowy winter night and I had opened my coat and slipped my hand partly under my sweater to where I was touching the gun but with the gun still covered.) It seemed like his eyes got real big for a second or so, but I can't be positive. Him and his friend ended up staying in their car.