First time Carrying! Warning: Semi-long and extremely boring read!

[CPT Nervous]

I guess I read it wrong. Oh, well. Open carry anyway.

 

[MikeDVB]

I guess I read it wrong. Oh, well. Open carry anyway.

This is your one weekly mistake, your quota resets on Sunday at 11:59 PM ET.

 

[CPT Nervous]

Yeah. I better watch out.

 

[sig-guy]

Johnny C, if your paranoid, we both are. I'm always looking to see what type of people are around me and who's carrying...

That's just being aware of your surroundings.

 

[sig-guy]

Congrats on your carry permit.

Your feelings are normal for anyone that has a normal functioning brain. It will get easier as time passes and you'll start getting more comfortable carry in/around the general public.

I do have a question... is your GF a Blonde?

 

[mbills2223]

I do have a question... is your GF a Blonde?

How did you know?!?! She sure is.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

What he said.

He said 88GT is brilliant.

I agree.

(I speak MikeDVB).

 

[MikeDVB]

How did you know?!?! She sure is.

[Obviously G-Rated Pictures of individuals 18 years or older.]

 

[Johnny C]

One tip if your starting is to get in the habit to NEVER touch your gun. Its a give away your carrying. What I mean by that is the compulsive "checking". You might press your arm against your gun, or even maybe touch it with your hand. Especially after something else touches your gun, or someone or something brushes up against it. If your carrying in a good holster, you don't have any worries about security (gun falling out). so, Resist all temptation to touch your gun. You can find studies on this in law enforcement. If someone is carrying a gun and is nervous they will usually touch or reference it in some way also people carrying firearms usually do something to reference it like every 60 seconds (could even be making sure your shirt is down over it - i.e. pulling down on the bottom of your shirt).

CRAP! I do that.

Usually its because my shirt is too short, and I am trying to not expose myself.

Most of the time, I just have my right hand partially in my pocket, and this keeps my shirt in place and my piece covered.

I know, "Why not just open carry?"

I am just not there yet, nor is the wifey...plus Showplace is supposedly a gun free zone!

 

[daddymikey1975]

[Obviously G-Rated Pictures of individuals 18 years or older.]

Agreed !

 

[mbills2223]

[Obviously G-Rated Pictures of individuals 18 years or older.]

Agreed !

Well, there go all the good ones.

 

[mbills2223]

She's becoming a pretty good shot, and she has her eye on a raspberry pink () LCP.

 

[MikeDVB]

Fixed it for you...

 

[mbills2223]

Fixed it for you...

EDIT:
Doh, I was posting on my iPhone, and I totally just realized that it was sideways. Thanks for that, I'll go back and edit. I thought the removal of the bit about the good shot and the pink LCP was what you were getting at.

Thanks

 

[ru44mag]

Bah! I'm as pro-OC as anybody (hell, I admit I carry for attention), but I didn't see any of that in the OP's posts. I saw someone who was extremely self conscious about carrying and apprehensive about being called out, whether by sheeple or LE. I also saw someone who humorously employed many of the recurring themes of this forum int his post, poking fun at himself and LE.

This is exactly what I read. Now I was a little scared when others started asking for pics. Thought we might see the Really, Really Really deep cover. I enjoyed the post OP. I find it interesting when someone that CCs tells someone that OCs they should CC, WWIII breaks out. But if someone tells a CCer to OC then they should do it. If a person makes a choice to OC or CC or to not carry at all, isn't that their choice? Why are people always trying to tell others what to do? It is your right to carry however you want and for what ever reason, it is your business. Oh yea... pimple = gun.

 

[daddymikey1975]

She's becoming a pretty good shot, and she has her eye on a raspberry pink () LCP.

Dude, at first, I was like "wtf is she laying down for at the range ??"

Then I realized that YOU were laying down at the range when you took the pic

(How about a pic of the front (face area ??).. well, never mind.. you guys said she was blonde, she IS blond.. enough is enough

 

[mbills2223]

Dude, at first, I was like "wtf is she laying down for at the range ??"

Then I realized that YOU were laying down at the range when you took the pic

(How about a pic of the front (face area ??).. well, never mind.. you guys said she was blonde, she IS blond.. enough is enough

Strangely enough, I don't have any face pictures, just, well...

 

[daddymikey1975]

Strangely enough, I don't have any face pictures, just, well...

PM is cool if you don't want them in the public domain

 

[mbills2223]

PM is cool if you don't want them in the public domain

Let me just direct you to our very special imgur photo album as well as our craigslist ad!

 

[MikeDVB]

Let me just direct you to our very special imgur photo album as well as our craigslist ad!

Wait, I/we didn't know I/we started posting on craigslist?