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I got the actual plastic today. No problems with a trip to OfficeMax and dinner out with my wife. Time for another trip to the range.

-davidtx

CHL approved today.
My wife just brought the mail in and my Smart Carry arrived.
I need to go buy a Mega Millions ticket now.

-davidtx

koolaid,

Thanks for the pics. It looks like your shirt doesn't fall much below your belt - does you weapon show when you bend over?

-david

longtooth wrote:One of the helps I try to give new to carry folks to consider a dress change.
Many start into CC saying,
This is the way I dress so how do I hide a gun.
We call this gunning around your dress.

Consider a change in maybe style or type & begin to think,
Dress around my gun.

If you ever need that thing you will want it BIG, accesable, & reliable.
You will not care at all about cool & comfortable or how you think you look to others.
Respectfully offered for consideration.
LT

Good advice. I have been giving this a lot of thought and am willing to change my manner and style of dress. My biggest constraint is in needing to wear shirts tucked in. I'm 6'2" and wear pants with a 31" inseam. If I wear regular length shirts, I spend all day tucking them in or if worn out, then pulling them down so you don't have to look at my belly button. I try to buy XLT's and many of these are VERY long, so if I wear them out, you'll be wondering why that ugly guy is wearing a dress.

Hmm - now that you mention it, I have been considering buying a bunch of shirts and having my company name/logo embroidered on them. Maybe I can find some that will work for me when worn tucked-out.

You should see my issues with fitting in cars...

-davidtx

longtooth wrote:Congrats on the plastic. Which Shooter Sack did you choose.???

Based on reading a lot of other sites, I ordered a Smart Carry. I'm very long waisted, so going with a shirt untucked makes me look pretty ridiculous. I wear shorts and flip-flops, sandals or boat shoes most of the time when its warm. I also wanted to be able to carry when I'm walking or running in the neighborhood. Having said all that, after reading this forum, I'm tempted to try something else - especially if my plastic shows up next week.

Does anybody know a good place to try on holsters in the Austin/San Antonio area?

-davidtx

DPS received my application on 12.16.2009
I sent an e-mail for PIN late night 1.6.2010 and received PIN 1.7.2010. Check status and was "processing".
I just checked a few minutes ago and its "Application Completed - license issued or certificate active".

In class, they said it was running 120 days. Based on recent reports here, I was getting a little more optimistic, but with all the holidays I really didn't expect it this fast.

Now I need to find out the status of the holster I ordered...

I don't have the plastic yet, but this is still very sobering.

-davidtx