View Poll Results: Strong or Support Side for Pocket BUG?

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Thread: Pocket BUG: Strong or Support Side

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Cid View Post
    I typically do what you do. If it’s my BUG it’s support side since there is a full size pistol on my strong side. On the rare occasion a pocket gun is my only gun it’s in the strong side pocket. That’s usually just at home lounging around.
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    It's not just a BUG to me, it might be my primary under certain conditions, so it's strong side. That way I can have my hand on a gun for a quick and hopefully unexpected draw.
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    For many years my normal court attire was two S&W 642s. One in each front pocket with Kramer pocket holsters. There is something to be said for mirror carry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oukaapie View Post
    I always liked the idea of back up on the left but the P&S Snubbies vid made me rethink where it went. The scenario where having a hand in the pocket during or pre contact seems more likely than the weak hand ninja draw. If shits bad enough that you need to access a second weapon, it’s probably bad enough to use the weapon hand you shoot bestest and fastest with....unless your intent is to leverage it for contact shots for FUT extrication.
    I like having a weak side gun in case my right hand/arm is out of commission. It doesn't seem unlikely in an encounter where I am legally justified in using lethal force.
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  5. #15
    My first pocket holster was for my support side. I don’t use it much as I rarely carry 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baldanders View Post
    I like having a weak side gun in case my right hand/arm is out of commission. It doesn't seem unlikely in an encounter where I am legally justified in using lethal force.
    There is merit in that argument. My personal perspective has been to go blade for my support side. I can access it significantly faster and from weird angles. I’ve drilled it a ton both solo and with opponents standing up and on the ground.

    Of course that does not help at standoff distance, and the blade is less effective against a pit bull munching the dominant arm.

  7. #17
    I don't think there is a right answer to this question. If you carry it support side obviously should do a lot of practice drawing and firing the gun with your support side hand.

    For me I carry strongside in a pocket holster. Depending upon the circumstances, it may be the first gun that I draw or I may have my hand on the grip with the gun ready to draw or partially drawn.

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    I carry my LCP in my strong side front pocket. It’s not really a backup to me though. I carry a S&W M&P9 2.0 Compact 4” AIWB right now. The LCP is more of an “always” gun, so when I get home and take the M&P off I still have something. I don’t want to have to switch it back and forth. On duty my backup is a S&W Shield with TLR-6 in a Remora holster. I carry that support-side.

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    I carry in strong side for one big reason:

    If you're going for a pocket gun, you should probably be doing a surreptitious draw.

    Let's face it: These guns guns suck for getting out of the pocket in any "reactionary" scenarios...

    Under a scenario where I can afford the time to get the gun into play, I want it to be with my strong hand so I can deliver some accurate hits (with a hard to shoot gun) using the sights or a solid index. (How many practice enough to develop an index with the weak hand?)

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    Well, Neither Choice, For Me, Unless A Blade Counts

    When I pocket carry, the pocketed gun is probably “primary.” I would rather not pocket-carry, outside the house, unless perhaps to let the dog out, and at such times, it is “primary.”

    If I plan to walk through the Alley Of The Shadow Of Death, I might temporarily adopt pocket carry, with hand-on-grip-in-pocket, which means the pocketed gun is primary.

    If I am carrying “primary” on the belt, anywhere from appendix to 0300, I cannot readily access things inside the right front pocket. There are times that I may have a small firearm entrapped, in this way, but it is more for safe storage than “carry.”

    I almost always wear a very stout folding blade in my left front pocket. I would need a very special reason to carry anything else in that pocket. A blade can be a weapon, and that includes being primary-at-a-moment-in-time.

    As has already been noted by other members’ posts, getting into a pocket is not something easily accomplished during a FUT.

    I have carried a secondary gun in right cargo pockets, but notably, not all cargo trousers do a good job of supporting a weapon carried in this manner.

    I have a love-hate relationship with pocket carry.

    I pocket-carried a GP100 two days ago, as “primary,” at my father’s funeral, after noticing that my 3” GP100, which the previous owner had had carry-beveled, fit nicely into my dress trousers’ quite amazingly deep front pocket. No holster! The bottom of the grip was visible, but I covered that with my jacket. (The jacket was tapered at the waist, making it difficult to wear any substantial weapon at belt level.)

    I like my late friend Anthony’s essay on the “Roving Gun” concept, which was posted, years ago, on another forum. The second/smaller weapon is carried in different places, in different environments. This smaller weapon is not considered a “back-up” weapon, as there are times it will be the more-accessible weapon. One reaches for the more-appropriate weapon, depending upon the totality of the circumstances.

    The only time I thought of any weapon as clearly a “back-up” weapon was when I wore a Snub-Gun in an ankle rig, which was normally when I was wearing a police uniform.
    Last edited by Rex G; 09-29-2019 at 02:54 PM.
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