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did you use rivets to re-attach it, or T-nuts and washers + screws, or Chicago screws, or what?

Just curious. I might do the same.

BTW I really like this Crossbreed.

Well I carried the Sigma most of the day yesterday in the Crossbreed and it worked ok. Again my wife didn't notice, but of course she wasn't looking for it. I had the rearward clip up against the back-center belt loop so this is easily 5:00 or more position, which made it a bit of a reach to grip the gun but nothing that a little practice wouldn't fix. I think it conceals "just ok" this way but it is way more comfortable than the SmartCarry!

5:00-5:20 is pretty much SOB... One thing though, I tried that. The grip hangs on my guitar strap. But it's close to being doable! I prefer appendix with the SC though.

Thanks for checkin' it out for me :) I will give it a shot and see how it works. I have to get a more suitable belt before I am going to out and about with a gun on that way.

BTW I just returned from Wal Mart. t-shirt, cargo pants, AIWB with the smartcarry, no problema. Works great. :) Now I have to run to a couple more stores. Sorry I didn't follow the "Wally Walk" rules because I just have no interest in being in that store that long. I just needed a roll of duct tape.

Hey, it's not that I wear tight fitting clothes. It's that I don't wear overly loose fitting clothes.

There is a difference.

The emo guys wearing girl jeans, that's tight-fitting clothes.

But I realize my clothes would be considered "tight fitting" by most of the CCW crowd.

DoubleJ wrote:know whadda mean?

Yep :)

I think if I dressed and adjusted my posture like this guy it would work much better

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Thanks Wildscar, I think more forward cant would help, and shirts with a longer tail will help. Shirts with more rigid fabric compared to these thin Old Navy T-shirts will also help.

Unfortunately my holster is not adjustable for cant. I am not a huge fan of the clips anyway, so I might order some clips from Comp-Tac with multiple holes, drill out the rivets holding this holster's clips on and then use Chicago screws to affix the clips so that I can adjust the ride height and cant. About an inch more ride height and a few degrees more cant would probably go very far towards fixing the grip sticking out issue, but I am not sure how the change to the angle of the muzzle will be affected. Just have to try it and see.

And FWIW I did carry around the house for a long time. I just got this new (used) holster last Friday, but I carried with my other two holsters around the house and determined that one holster was never going to work right and the other (Smartcarry) will work only part of the time. The Crossbreed is in the chain of trying to find one that will work.

BTW DoubleJ that vid you saw of me is with one of the loosest shirts I own. :) No prob concealing under THAT one. It's the other two dozen in my closet that are going to be the problem areas.

WildBill wrote:

mr.72 wrote:I'm sure you've all gone through the same frustrations. I am just sharing :)

Not me. IMO, it's not a wardrobe problem. Your closet of clothes is similar to mine, and I have no problem finding outfits for carrying concealed. It sounds like you are having some other anxiety about carrying.

Really?

It's an anxiety problem when the ENTIRE GRIP of the gun is exposed because the shirt tail hangs up over it?

You guys never cease to amaze me.

So I got my CHL yesterday.

Seems like many of you who, like me, waited 100+ days, were really eager to get the plastic in the pocket and the gun on the hip and go out to Wal Mart.

I got home from work (on my bike), took a shower and then put on jeans and a loose-ish t-shirt, figuring, hey maybe we go somewhere and I can carry!

But no. We did run a couple of errands, but there was no point in trying to carry. With just a T-shirt and my old Crossbreed, the grip of my SW9VE was going to stick out like mad and I'd have to be constantly bird-dogging the back of my shirt to make sure it didn't hang up on the grip of the gun. As we were about to leave the house, I kind of halfway thought about dumping the belt and putting on the Smartcarry but it would be just another concealment problem only on the opposite side of my body than the problem brought about with the Crossbreed.

So, my wife and I went to Blockbuster and HEB unarmed, like we have been doing for the past 16 years.

Again this morning I get up and since it's Tuesday, I am driving to work. I consider, maybe I can pick totally different clothes and get it to work. Cargo pants instead of jeans. A big loose t-shirt instead of one of the "normal" fitting ones I usually wear. You know one of those T-shirts I never want to wear because it feels like I have put on a tent. But then, reality strikes. No guns at work.

Tomorrow, I leave the house on my bicycle. We've beat that problem to death.

As I surveyed my closet last night in effort to see if anything would work for concealment, it became painfully clear that all but maybe one of my T-shirts won't work, most of my button-down shirts won't work (they are just too snug or the tail is too short). Once 95-degree highs are over with this year then I might be able to get appendix carry with the Smartcarry to work with some of these clothes if I am really picky, but since my weekend job involves a guitar right on top of the appendix carry position and my day job precludes carrying, it seems highly unlikely. Kind of like cell phone plans of the 90s, looks like I may be on the "nights and weekends plan".

So when am I going to carry?

Maybe when I get a pocket gun? Maybe only with off-body carry? I got a new messenger bag the other day. I guess I need to get a holster in it pronto.

I am planning to buy a Kahr CW9 as soon as I have the funds on hand (should be any day now!), which would certainly make this concealing job easier but maybe still highly difficult. The grip length is the problem with concealing in my case, at least for strong-side carry, and the Kahr is a little shorter in grip than my Smith. For appendix carry, it's the thickness of the SW9VE that is the problem so a CW9 would work great for that.

At least with a CW9 there's always the option of a grip chop to knock it down to PM9 height. Heck, a grip-chopped CW9 will fit in an angle rig!

I'm sure you've all gone through the same frustrations. I am just sharing :)