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I'd much rather have you learn from my mistake rather than your own, so please "listen up" and at least "consider".

Lose the shoulder holster, and don't ever look back at it. At least not while riding.

Rib cartilage and ribs are amongst the weakest bones in the body. And they surround some of its most Vital Organs.

Strongly suggest inside the pants waistband holster for two reasons. Most secure tool retention if, God Forbid, you go down. And the pelvis is the 2nd strongest bone in your body. Strictly in the comparative speaking sense, the pelvis surround little that can swiftly kil you if injured.

Believe me, you do NOT want an appreciablly-sized hunk of metal laying right against the weakest bones in your bod that "protect" four of most vital organs - lungs, heart and especially, the aorta. Even just nick tha aorta, you'll bleed out within a matter of minutes. Like, usually less than five minutes.

How do I know about about where to carry? Danced with Bambi once. While already leaned over to the right, midway through a broad sweeper curve, 55 MPH, Easter Sunday Morning 3:30 AM, alone, dark unlit country road, out in the middle of nowhere. Bambi came in from left to right - sprang outa nowhere - already airborne - she literally caught me right in the face. Knocked me onto the right grasssy shoulder in a heart-beat.

Didn't go down, initially. The Wing's wig-waggin' like the dog's tail. Wet dewy grass, couldn't brake much. Just trying to steer the Wing back up onto the highway. Almost made it, too. Got the front tire to within a foot or 2 of the pavement edge, was just starting to think I was gonna make it when the front tire plowed ito a little patch of really soft, deep, fine FL sugar-sand that I never even saw. Stopped the bike on a dime. As in, tail-over-head flip, ejected off, ground-slammed.

Big ol' .45 Glock 21 in the inside pocket of the purpose-designed concealment vest. You don't ever, ever wanna know what it feels like to have TEN ribs busted completely in half, busted rib-ends puncturing, deflating and buried inside your lungs. Collarbone busted completely in half, shoulderblade shattered into 4 pieces. After layin' there for quite a while I was "9 months pregnant" from internal bleeding from lacerated liver (rib-ends, again) and ruptured spleen.

55 MPH ain't really that fast. It's "only" 88.2 Feet per second. Left-side slam into the ground at 88.2 feet per second with a huge chunk of metal against your left ribs, the tool will concentrate the force and the blunt force impact WILL transfer cross-torso and snap even your right side ribs in half too. Believe it or not, the strongest bone in your bod is the scapula (shoulder-blade). ER Trauma Surgeon said I've been one for 23 yrs, and I ain't never seen a shouldrblade in 4 pieces before . . . and again, I was "only" doin' 55 MPH - and I ground-slammed on comparatively soft dirt & grass, not the pavement . . .

Some who CCW complain about IWB lack of comfort. That's because they only tried cheap rigs. I've CCW IWB for 33 years The belt makes all the difference in the world. Get a purpose-designed belt, and a quality holster from one of the master holstermakers like Milt Sparks or Gary Brommeland, or similar craftsman, with belt slots matched to belt width, and you could sleep with it. The tool "disappears" and ya wouldn't even know it's there, sight-wise or comfort-wise.

JMHO. YYMMV. Our ribs don't vary that much, though, from one person to the other. They all crack and break and splinter pretty much the same with the same degrees of blunt force trauna. I say it again - you don't ever wanna know. Hope ya never do, too.

Memmers, please excuse my repetitive broken-record skipping re this, but every time I see a bro on 2 wheels mentioning a shoulder hoslster, I just gotta say something. It's always better to learn from someones else's mistakes, instead of your own. Of that, you can be "dang" sure . . .