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#1
04-08-2008, 06:00 PM
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 Holster shirts Have any of you ever used a holster shirt to conceal? How does it affect the weapon's accessibility and speed of draw? Summertime is coming up, and I'm really not willing to change my entire wardrobe to conceal my gun. I own a smartcarry, but the slowness of the draw as well as the difficulty in drawing while sitting down don't really make it a viable choice for all day everyday carry. I was looking at holster shirts and found this one. http://www.copsplus.com/prodnum6061.php Does anyone have experience with these?  |
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#2
04-08-2008, 07:33 PM
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| I have one of the Kramer holster T shirts. It conceals it very well under a button up shirt. (That's the only kind I tried it under). It is tight in order to keep the gun from shifting. I didn't find it very comfortable. I used it a few times and found another option. Part of it I think was getting used to it. My shoulder would hurt. I think I was trying to compensate for the weight of the firearm by holding my shoulder up. It was fairly accessible. If you were wearing a tie you could leave one button of your shirt unbuttoned to provide access. It however, did have a velcro strap to hold it in that had to be undone. Good luck. I just noticed Luke has a review of something similar in his review section
__________________ David The only person available to protect you 24 hours a day is you. Last edited by DrDavidM; 04-08-2008 at 07:41 PM. |
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#3
04-08-2008, 11:10 PM
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| I've worn a Kramer Holster shirt once or twice and it drives me crazy each time. The intentional design is for the bottom of the shirt to hit midway between the nipples and belly button. The comfort is minimal, at best. I recently bought the 5.11 holster shirt and much prefer it over the Kramer for a variety of reasons, comfort being the first. That said, holster shirts, for me, are very limited in use. I much prefer to wear a t-shirt with an untucked camp shirt with my gun in my KyTac BraveHeart IWB rig. The holster shirts are for the times where I need to wear a shirt and tie and no sportcoat. If you get hot easily, the holster shirt, especially the 5.11, may not be for you. At least the Kramer is mesh. What gun are you wanting to hide ? . |
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#4
04-09-2008, 03:23 AM
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| I have the 5.11 shirt too, and wear it occasionally...usually when I have to "dress up". It's OK. Not real quick access, but part of that may be because I shoot lefty. I also have a SmartCarry and feel like I can draw much faster from that than my holster shirt.
__________________ "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." St. Augustine A.D. 354-430 -LP |
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#5
04-09-2008, 09:04 AM
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| Just to clarify, the Kramer shirt is not short like it used to be. It is a full length, tuckable undershirt.
__________________ David The only person available to protect you 24 hours a day is you. |
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#6
04-09-2008, 11:51 AM
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| With the tee shirt one should wear snap or zipper over shirt.Looks like buttons but not. |
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04-09-2008, 06:25 PM
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