How Cold Weather Makes CCW Harder (Not Easier)

[Mike H.]

Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “How Cold Weather Makes CCW Harder (Not Easier)” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/cold-weather-concealed-carry/.

 

[Old_Me]

i wear a hoodie, under my jacket.

i tuck in the hoodie behind the holster.

all i have to do is unzip my jacket, and the gun is available.

 

[3L120]

Keeping your hands in your pockets can make a draw slower…unless your firearm is in a pocket holster. And your firearm should be covered by a jacket only if on a belt. Burying it under more clothing is a bad idea. Wear a jacket you never have to take off. Personally, I use a shoulder rig.

 

[NMEDGE]

The only thing that messes me up during the winter is wearing underwear.

 

[KillerFord1977]

The only thing that messes me up during the winter is wearing underwear.

If you keep with your summer thong you wear, it really wont matter much

 

[The Night Rider]

The only thing that messes me up during the winter is wearing underwear.

I could have gone my whole life without that image in my mind

 

[The Night Rider]

The older I get the more I realize that I am not the center of the world's attention. I notice people that are carrying a handgun because I'm looking for it.

My wife has no interest. She doesn't care and she doesn't look. I've had times when we were in Walmart together and she was sitting on one of those Walmart scooters and somebody open carrying walked right past her with the gun at what would have been eye level for her and she didn't notice. I know she didn't notice because I asked her.

The overwhelming majority of people that you encounter on a given day don't even know you're there, much less would they be scoping you out to see if you're carrying a gun unless it's another gun guy.

I dress the same way here that I did when I was working, minus the security guard uniform shirt of course.

I dress in layers and I keep the warming layers under the gun instead of on top of it.

I still recommend the waffle tops, I buy them second hand from the surplus stores because I'm cheap and they offer them for less than $10 a pair and the colors that they offer them in match the way I dress anyway but civilian companies are now marketing them and they come in other colors then baby poop brown.

So, I wear the Slicks on the bottom under my Wrangler cargos. Depending on the weather I wear the Slicks on top with a Waffle Top over that and a t-shirt over the waffle top. then I wear a flannel over the T and a fleece vest as an outer concealment layer.

If it's really cold I wear a fleece jacket.

I hate gloves. When I worked as a security guard I never wore gloves unless I was actually opening a gate or actually doing something that required gloves.

I'm not in the Army anymore, if my hands get cold I put them in my jacket pocket.

I don't go into town unless I absolutely have to but when I do I notice that a lot of people my age dress like I do.

It don't stand out in the crowd.

I go to the range dressed like that and I practice getting the gun out dressed like that.

 

[Tremor]

Since I always have a gun in my pocket and one in my waist, I move one of them to my jacket pocket for easy access. Recently I bought a cheep shoulder holster to wear while driving to Florida.

 

[OldGrunt]

The older I get the more I realize that I am not the center of the world's attention. I notice people that are carrying a handgun because I'm looking for it.

My wife has no interest. She doesn't care and she doesn't look. I've had times when we were in Walmart together and she was sitting on one of those Walmart scooters and somebody open carrying walked right past her with the gun at what would have been eye level for her and she didn't notice. I know she didn't notice because I asked her.

The overwhelming majority of people that you encounter on a given day don't even know you're there, much less would they be scoping you out to see if you're carrying a gun unless it's another gun guy.

I dress the same way here that I did when I was working, minus the security guard uniform shirt of course.

I dress in layers and I keep the warming layers under the gun instead of on top of it.

I still recommend the waffle tops, I buy them second hand from the surplus stores because I'm cheap and they offer them for less than $10 a pair and the colors that they offer them in match the way I dress anyway but civilian companies are now marketing them and they come in other colors then baby poop brown.

So, I wear the Slicks on the bottom under my Wrangler cargos. Depending on the weather I wear the Slicks on top with a Waffle Top over that and a t-shirt over the waffle top. then I wear a flannel over the T and a fleece vest as an outer concealment layer.

If it's really cold I wear a fleece jacket.

I hate gloves. When I worked as a security guard I never wore gloves unless I was actually opening a gate or actually doing something that required gloves.

I'm not in the Army anymore, if my hands get cold I put them in my jacket pocket.

I don't go into town unless I absolutely have to but when I do I notice that a lot of people my age dress like I do.

It don't stand out in the crowd.

I go to the range dressed like that and I practice getting the gun out dressed like that.

The major city near me has a facebook page that posts mugshots. Once a week they come out with their "Edgar of the week" photo. I see people dressed all kinds of different ways around here, no big deal. But if I see you walking around with a haircut like this, I guarantee that individual is armed and probably wanted. No joke. You can call it profiling all you want, but I already have a preconceived notion of what kind of person you are if you look like this.