Just my tuppence, Mate....

by Catoosa, Monday, December 10, 2012, 15:45 (4312 days ago) @ Art

So far as comfort is concerned, it just depends of what you're accustomed to. I find that I have carried so long that it feels uncomfortable to NOT have a gun on.

Admitted that nowadays deep concealment is usually not as important as it used to be for me and still is for many. I am fortunate to live in a place where firearms are extremely common and nobody bats an eye if a holster peeks out from under a jacket. Ain't sayin it's the thing to do, but it happens a lot.

A crew was putting up a prefab metal building at my place last week, and I noticed that the crew chief had an empty holster on his belt. I asked him what good an empty holster was, and he said his gun was in the truck. Said he was always taught it wasn't polite to go to another man's house carrying a gun unless the owner said it was OK. That's an OLD mountain tradition, and I asked him where he was from.

East Tennessee, of course! I was taught the same thing when I was a kid.