Gun Digest's Concealed Carry Ankle Holsters eShort by Massad Ayoob

Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3419-4
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

If you’re going to carry in an ankle holster, practice drawing and shooting that way! Here a line of Georgia State Troopers qualify with their backup mini-Glocks, all drawn from G&G ankle rigs.

Clothing and Gun Considerations

Some of the fashion contraindications to ankle rigs are obvious. They won’t work with shorts. They won’t work with a lady’s Capri or Toreador style pants. Some other contraindications are less obvious, though.

The “barrel” of the lower pant leg needs to be relatively wide, both to conceal the ankle holster and to make it readily available when you need to draw. The straight-cut leg of the pants that come with the classic American men’s “sack suit” work fine with ankle holsters, as a couple of generations of lawyers and executives who wear that “uniform” can attest. So do the pants of most Class A police uniforms.

Fatigue or “combat” uniforms may or may not work. BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) pants tend to be cut with very loose legs and cuffs. Good so far. However, if the pant legs are going to be tucked and bloused into high-top combat-style boots, there will be no place for an ankle rig. If you’re going to untuck the cuffs with pants like these, that’s fine. You can even wear them with boots. Gould & Goodrich is one company that offers a “boot holster” that works like an ankle rig, but is designed to go around large-circumference combat boots, and even has grommets for the boot lacings to go through. If the pant legs are wide enough, these can work great with boots. Some concealed carry practitioners have gone to the extent of sewing additional lengths of elastic and Velcro onto regular ankle holsters so they can go around a boot.

However, if you’re going to do this with BDU pants, remove the string ties at the cuff! Designed to keep the pant legs in place when bloused into high top boots, the string ties serve no purpose at all when the boots are inside the pant leg. However, those loose “strings” can get caught inside the trigger guard as you are putting the pistol into the ankle rig! Your hand is likely to reflexively keep pushing…and it is now pushing the trigger against the obstacle. This can lead to shooting yourself in the ankle or foot by accident! If you’re going to carry this way, remove the string ties from the cuffs of the pants! You’re doing it for the same reason we remove the string closures from warm-up jackets and windbreakers and sweatshirts when we carry guns at belt level: they can get into the trigger guard and lead to an accidental discharge.

Going to casual wear, if you’re wearing an ankle holster you want your jeans or cords to have, minimum, “boot cut” cuffs. The bell-bottoms of the ’70s (now back in style in some quarters and known as “flares”) are even better. This gives lots of room so the pants cuff can be brought up more quickly and smoothly,

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