What do women carry?

[hammAR]

I'm most noticeable, just ask HammAR. I have a handlebar mustache over my goatee...

You are noticeable only because of the gorgeous woman standing beside you..........
did you have a mustache

Oh and 1911s never seem to go out of style

I already tried that, gave her a choice of four, didn't fly..............

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[meltedeyes]

Thursday is good me and my girlfriend, since we were planning on that day anyway....

I have bootstrap facial hair and will most likely be wearing a Guinness hat.

[meltedeyes]

I already tried that, gave her a choice of four, didn't fly..............

But did any of them match her outfit at the time? You need to make sure that she is wearing an outfit that black, chrome, or steel compliments. If she's in a red cocktail dress I would recommend a brushed steel with mother of pearl grips. If she's dressed as a ninja, I'd recommend a flat black instead the the polished chrome. It's all about accessorizing with the purse and shoes, man.

[ree]

Thanks for the input Ron! I'm going to have her look this over and get her opinion too. Purse carry scares both of us, not just because she's forgotten her purse a few times at different locations.

Of course, if she's not too space-brain, purse carry might just cure her of the losing-her-purse problem once and for all.

[llb]

What do women carry...

I carry a S&W 637 38 spl. I've used the Mika's pocket holster quite a bit, but many of my clothes don't have pockets large enough, so the gun ends up in my purse, which makes me a little uncomfortable. I just purchased a Kramer IWB holster that has sheepskin on one side for padding. Seems fairly comfortable so far.

I have an XD 9mm that I like quite a bit, but I don't carry it. I'm looking for a small semi-auto as another carry gun.

There's a book "Women Learning to Shoot" by Diane Nicholl and Vicki Farnam that has some good information. Discusses stances, grip, recoil.

LLB

[Fubar]

I then posed it to the class as a problem, and had her stand up and ask folks where they thought she might be able to carry without changing her style of dress too much. (She enjoyed it; very cute, and didn't mind other folks noticing that.) A fair number of jaws dropped when she drew the 642 from what looked like far too tight jeans.)

I hope you took pictures you can share here with the group. Purely for research purposes, of course.

[prushin]

If you're looking for 9mm's for smaller hands I have 2 you might want to borrow. I have a Kahr CW-9:

and a S&W 3913 :

PM me if you're interested and we'll work out a way to get them to you before you shoot.

[joelr]

I then posed it to the class as a problem, and had her stand up and ask folks where they thought she might be able to carry without changing her style of dress too much. (She enjoyed it; very cute, and didn't mind other folks noticing that.) A fair number of jaws dropped when she drew the 642 from what looked like far too tight jeans.)

I hope you took pictures you can share here with the group. Purely for research purposes, of course.

Sadly, no. It wasn't the only time I've regretted that lapse; there was the exotic dancer (who was, unlike most, actually jaw-droppingly pretty) who took the class, and my guess is that neither she nor her husband would have minded -- and I could have asked them both, since he was taking the class with her. (He owns the place, and her father -- the head bouncer -- had taken TCCarry and insisted that the two of them take their classes with me. Very nice folks, all three of them.)

[princewally]

....my guess is that neither she nor her husband would have minded -- and I could have asked them both, since he was taking the class with her. (He owns the place, and her father -- the head bouncer ....

That just strikes me as...odd.

[tt3]

If you're looking for 9mm's for smaller hands I have 2 you might want to borrow. I have a Kahr CW-9:

and a S&W 3913

PM me if you're interested and we'll work out a way to get them to you before you shoot.

What are the sizes relative to each other? We've looked at the pm9 a couple of times, we just have to get her to shoot one. I'm hoping Bill's won't be too busy tomorrow evening...

LLB, thanks for the input! I'll keep an eye out for that book.

[prushin]

The Kahr is a smaller gun in every dimension. Thinner grip, shorter distance to trigger, lighter...The S&W has a sweet DA trigger, an alloy frame (the added weight makes it easier to control, IMHO), and an external safety (it matters to some people). So like every other gun available, it's a personal preference. My wife prefers to shoot the S&W over the Kahr (she's 5'2 &1/4" and still buys her shoes in the boys dept. so you can imagine what her hand size might be)

Side by side:

[joelr]

....my guess is that neither she nor her husband would have minded -- and I could have asked them both, since he was taking the class with her. (He owns the place, and her father -- the head bouncer ....

That just strikes me as...odd.

Yup. It did strike me that way, too, but after interacting with the folks over a fair number of hours I came to the conclusion, yet again, that there's all sorts of decent ways to live that aren't my cup of tea. I think that those of us -- and I'm including me -- who don't know a lot of strippers socially probably get our cues about what strippers are really like from popular culture, and those cues can be wrong* . . .

. . . as any gun owner should know, come to think of it. (Applies to a lot of things -- cops really aren't all Joe Friday, the Adam-12 guys, or even Sipowicz; doctors aren't Kildare, or the ER folks, or whatever...)

No question: some strippers are stereotypical, just as some cops and doctors are.

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* My friend -- and NYTimes bestselling author -- Ray Feist was dating a stripper after his marriage broke up. By his account, which I believe, she was more than vaguely intellectually gifted and remarkably nice -- putting herself through pre-med at a very expensive school, and found that she could do that a lot more easily through a few hours of stripping each week than piling up debt, and that it also had the benefit of cutting down on her workout time, as her act was fairly aerobic.

[GregM]

Part of the problem is going to be the adjustment period -- for almost everybody, the first few weeks of carrying are fairly stressful, as the sensation is that you're a great big gun with a person strapped to it.

How very true ...

[Pezhead]

Wear it around the house. You'll get used to it before you go out.

[ree]

Wear it around the house. You'll get used to it before you go out.

And wear it around the house without telling the others. You may find that unless you hug every 5 minutes, it can take a while to get made and that will boost confidence.