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Naturally as a holster-maker I get asked this alot.
I do not advertise an SOB/MOB on my web-site but I have made them upon request. I will not make one in calvary draw/palm out that allows you to point the pistol at your own lower torso while drawing. Yes, I know there are proper draw techniques to avoid this, but even so...
I personally find this mode of carry a bit slower on the draw than strong-side hip or appendix, but it does work for some people. A customer of mine who is a bodyguard for some high profile people swears by it. He finds it conceals better under a suit than anything else. And many females, who strong-side hip carry does not work for due to shorter torso and flaring hips, find this is the way to carry. A female realtor who is a customer carries her SW 3913 this way.
All this said, I offer this challenge, and I've posted it before with no response:
Find me a documented case of someone being injured by falling on an SOB-carried pistol, and I will match each case you find with 5 cases of people being injured by guns without manual safties that could have been prevent if the gun had one.
Am I knocking Glocks and Sigs? No, I carried a Glock for 14 years on duty with no problems and carry a Sig on duty every night now. And Yes, it's usually a training issuewhen these guns unintentionally go boom.
But it's a situational awareness issue if someone falls or is pushed onto their holstered gun; also a training issue.
Yes, the possibilty exists of falling and being injured carrying SOB; but
I know lots of documented cases of guns going boom (like the one floating around last years of the officer whose jacket cord got caught in the triggerguard of his Glock when he holstered and went boom when he took his jacket off!) but I have yet to see an actually documented case of an SOB injury.
So, how many of you have just knocked SOB carry (with no documented cases I can find, just the possibility) but are carrying a gun with no manual safety (with documented cases every year)?
Does this mean we should not carry guns without manual safties? Hell, no! I will continue and so will everyone else. It means we should be careful with any piece of equipment we choose to carry.
I'm off my soap-box now.
Comments?, gripes?, complaints?...
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