There are many different options for carrying your handgun in a concealed manner. Body type, clothing selection, firearm, holster type, and mission all mandate different styles of carry. It ultimately comes down to personal preference, but here are a few hints and guidelines to help you make your decision. If you are new to […]
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My Favorite Inside-the-Waistband Holsters
Written by Greg Ellifritz I get a lot of questions about holsters. It seems that a lot of folks wants to know what holsters I wear and which holsters I consider “best.” Most folks who have been carrying for awhile will gravitate towards the inside-the- waistband (IWB) holster for optimal comfort and concealment. […]
Cross Draw Holsters
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Recently, a couple of readers asked my opinion of cross draw holsters for carrying a small defensive revolver on the belt. The readers noted that this style of carry is comfortable and very easy to access from a seated position in a vehicle. Those are certainly worthy attributes of the cross […]
PHLster Enigma Holster Chassis System
Written by: Greg Ellifritz In 2016, I was teaching a close quarters gunfighting class in Virginia. One of my students showed up wearing a Runcible Works belly band. It performed admirably during the class and I wrote up the details in my post A Couple Gun and Gear Comments. Soon thereafter, Runcible Works […]
Features to Avoid When Buying an IWB Holster
Written by: Greg Ellifritz While perusing the internet looking for new guns and gear to write about, I came across the Fobus inside the waistband (IWB) holster. I have to admit that I’ve never been a Fobus fan. In fact, I think they are some of the worst holsters on the market. […]
A Critical (but often overlooked) Holster Function
Written by: Greg Ellifritz While reading my news feeds in the past few weeks, I’ve seen accounts of a couple preventable accidental shootings. I’d really prefer to see that my readers and students learn to better secure their weapons so that people aren’t injured or killed by unintentional gunfire. Let’s examine these negligent discharges […]
Don’t Dig the Rig- Special Pocket Holster Edition
Written by Greg Ellifritz When the weather is nice, I like to get out of my police car and do some foot patrols as often as possible. Every day (if calls allow) I’ll do at least one foot patrol around a shopping center, park, or school. Last week, a school in my patrol […]
You Need a Better Holster
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’ve seen some stunning examples of irresponsible behavior by gun owners lately. All made the nationals news; which, as a gun carrier, you should try to avoid. All of them involved carrying a gun in a faulty holster or carrying without a holster at all. Let’s look at a […]
One of the Problems with Ankle Holsters
Written by: Greg Ellifritz My cop job kept me really busy on Monday. We had a freak thunderstorm with torrential rains and high winds for several hours. The massive storm blew down trees, knocked live electric wires down across roadways, caused power outages for most of the residents, and flooded roadways. The five other […]
“The Keeper” Appendix Carry Holster
Written by Greg Ellifritz – Editor’s note. I’ve received a whole bunch of questions from students and readers wanting to learn about about appendix carry recently. Everyone wants to know what rig I use to carry my CCW pistol. I wrote this article a couple years ago and am re-printing it today to answer […]
“The Errand”- Spencer Keepers’ New Holster Design
Written by Greg Ellifritz A couple months ago I got a package in the mail from my buddy Spencer Keepers from Keepers Concealment. The package contained a prototype of Spencer’s new holster design “The Errand.” I truly believe that Spencer makes the greatest appendix inside the waistband holsters on the market today. I […]
Studying the Historic Gunfighters
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’ve written a lot recently about the history of firearms instruction. That topic has only existed for about the last 100 years. Formal weapons training most certainly existed earlier, but it was pre-Civil War and reserved for the luxury class. Between the end of the US Civil War […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- March 8, 2024
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. 2-RDS or not 2-RDS… That is the Question Do you need a red dot on your defensive handgun? For more info on the topic, catch Lee Weems’ interview with Shane Gosa. They discuss red dots […]
Skill Degradation Over Time
Since my police retirement, I have been spending a large part of the each winter living in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Last year, between living out of the country without a gun and my cancer surgery, there was a period of approximately two months where I didn’t fire a single round or do […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 23, 2024
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The 7 Most Common Concealed Carry Mistakes I have to admit that I see these fairly frequently. Don’t carry a “craptastic” holster. Use my post on good holsters to make a better selection. […]
Pointing Guns at People
In my 25-year police career, I pointed guns at lots of people. Admittedly, in hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have pointed guns at all of those folks. In my defense, training doctrines, levels of violent crime, and public scrutiny were very different back in the mid-1990s as compared to our modern age. We were […]
Acquiring Guns in a Foreign Country- A Cautionary Tale
I love to travel and tend to visit some crazy third world countries. For the past two decades I’ve spent at least four to eight weeks a year traveling in places where it isn’t safe to drink the tap water. As a retired cop, I can carry a gun almost everywhere in the […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 9, 2024
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Guest Shot: Trendy or Noteworthy? Part II “Too many instructors go off to a school and return to teach what they learned for no other reason than the course was fun and they learned […]
Odd Position Shooting
It’s been more than a decade since two officers were shot in a dramatic gunfight in a trailer park in Enon, Ohio. The gunfight was even more remarkable considering that there was a photographer on scene taking photos as the shots rang out. I still regularly think about that photograph (above) of the […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 2, 2024
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Guest Shot: Trendy or Noteworthy? (Part I) “Remember, fighting is final. If you engage in combat, you run the risk of being hurt or killed. It’s not a video game. There is no way […]