Originally Posted by
pastaslinger
My experience has been that the G26 doesn't carry as well as I'd like AIWB because the weight is high on the belt line (cannot drop the holster very low due to the short grip) and it's still somewhat thick, so you may not have a big advantage compared to IWB. I'm not saying it's a bad AIWB gun, I'm merely trying to say that if you are trying to escape IWB for greener pastures it may not be the biggest difference.
I also am not sure I'd say you NEED an AIWB specific holster for such a small gun given that you don't need grip rotation and probably don't need tuck from something like a wedge- the conclusion ends up being you might as well get at least a compact sized gun to actually feel the advantages of AIWB. When given the choice, I typically carry full sized over subcompact for AIWB which sounds backwards but feels more comfortable in certain ways.