Deep South Texas Hot Carry

by Charles, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 10:53 (4091 days ago) @ Fowler
edited by Charles, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 11:22

I live in tropical South Texas on the border and my standard dress is cargo shorts, sandals and a pull over shirt. There will be less than two weeks a year when I can't dress like that comfortably. From May through October, it is beastly hot, beastly hot.

I carry a Glock 19 or 17 every time I leave the house. I use a belt slide holster on a stiff 1 1/2 belt. I just put on a light weight tropical button up shirt over what else I am wearing. I leave it unbuttoned like a very light jacket.

Nobody has spotted the pistol and nobody looks at me funny for my dress. The extra light weight shirt doesn't seem to make me hotter. Doing it this way, means I can carry whatever I want.

I live in the land of the Mexican Drug Thugs (Cartels) and I want a real gun on my side. If something happens, it will be because I am in the wrong place at the wrong time and it will be very nasty...very nasty. They are not that smart, all drugged up and don't care about collateral damage. They will most often kill everybody in sight to be certain they get who they want and leave no witnesses. They may get this old gringo, but that will be after a hell of a gun fight, with lots of their blood in the ground.

I also keep a Ruger Elsie Pea in my weak side front pocket, in case somebody grabs my strong hand. I can shoot them loose, or try to at least. Quite often I have a good stout Irish Blackthorn cane with me to boot. Getting hit upside the head with that is like getting hit with a length of re-bar. Several time with nuisance people (panhandlers) I have brought it up to "port arms" and given them a hard look right in the eyes. There is no need to say anything and they will decide to go elsewhere.