[Frenchy]

Originally Posted by Pinhead

I carry IWB, always up front (just to the right side of my belly-button) (I'm skinny and it's the only way that works (concealed)). I've always used holsters with the metal belt clip and a thumb break.

Just bought a glock 26 and have my eye on the bianchi IWB. It has the metal clip but no thumb break. I'm leery of that. Just how securely will it hold my gun?

Thx in advance.

I would think since you hide in front, that it would be virtually impossible for it to "fall" out, I mean how often do you do a back flip? Most people bend forward and drop out the back or side where as how could it possibly fall out the front when you’re bent over it?

I have a Don Hume holster for my mod. 66 S&W and carried quite often while at the GPGC in my back, I raked, shot, bent over to clean up junk, and never felt it would fall out Although I have it pretty well softened up, there is certainly nothing much holding it in. If I hold the holster upside down, the gun won’t quite fall out, but would not take a big shake to let it fall.
If you have the "proper" holster for your gun, the retention is usually made by molding on to the surface of the gun and the trigger guard. Some models have a retention screw you can tighten to make retention harder; some have a spot you need to push on to release the gun from the holster. But of al the people I have seen carry, I have never seen where a gun would fall out except people who actually had a thumb break and did not realize it was open. Generally, thumb break holsters are made so the gun has no retention or very little once the break is unfastened. I say generally, because I remember a safari land holster that had thumb break and trigger guard hold. That holster was made so you could only pull the gun out with a forward motion eliminating the worry of some one pulling your gun out from behind you. The holster had spring retention in the leather and could only be broken out the front of the holster, not straight up or backwards.

There was a thread for a holster I seem to remember where the holster sat deep inside your pants and came out when you pulled on a glass case or cell phone, I don’t remember the specific thread, but some one here might remember it. Basically, the holster would ride deep inside your pants and a leather strap that came out had a second case that could hold cell phone or glasses… Pull up the cell case and up came the holster with the gun.

If you carry in front and still conceal, I imagine you wear mainly sweaters or shirts not tucked in. You should be able to “feel” if the gun was riding higher then usual. Some how I cant imagine carrying with my holster in front unless I placed it so I had to cross draw, this was once suggested some where I read for people who drive a lot…

Ahh I knew if i looked, I would find it, http://www.pagerpal.com/ Just remember, Holsters are like pants, Just because one pair of pants fit me best, does not mean they will fit you at all. In my 20's I wore low rider jeans with a boot cut, today, I hear high riders straight leg... Go figure, belly shows more on a low rider like Lee jeans... So just because I could carry one way with one holster does not mean othes can, you have to fit your holsters just the way you would fit your jeans, Try it on, see if its comfy for you, dont go by what "others" say fits best.