Pacchelli Gunworks

10/21/2022

Love to see the creativity and ingenuity of home builders.

10/21/2022

*Unbullpups your collection*

10/10/2022

Gun safety is very important people!

10/08/2022

Delta Force operator equipped with two 1911s, from the 1990s.
#1911

10/08/2022

Why are open carriers like this?

10/08/2022

Stay vigilant parents, you never know what's going to pop out of an AlmondJoy
🎃👻🎃🍂🍁🍂

10/05/2022

Printing jigs!

10/05/2022

Excited to receive these awesome patches this week! Available on our website for pre-order and will ship as soon as they hit our door. This is a limited-edition production and once they're gone, they're gone. Glow-in-the-dark stitching on the whites help show off this unique patch!

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09/30/2022

Autumn is here and with it, full size carry holsters.

09/29/2022

At least it's never boring.

09/27/2022

Autumn vibes means breaking out the

09/26/2022

I always felt it was easier to measure parts in metric than in 0.00X inches.

09/26/2022

I have met more furries when dealing with Navy folks than I have with any other branch so I'd say it checks out.

09/25/2022

Comrade Cat is having a nap

09/25/2022

This is crazy to be giving weapons of such neglect to soldiers.

09/25/2022

Pretty much how FOSSCAD works

09/24/2022

Where's the sour cream?

09/24/2022

RIP Ian

09/24/2022

Now that's what I call a stendo

09/20/2022

If it seats, it yeets. But also only shoot reputable ammunition.

Full send or no send

09/18/2022

Nothing to add to this, great advice from this page.

"yOu'LL sHooT yEr pE**Er oFF!" and the many similar fuddlore myths about appendix carry.

First off, what is appendix carry?
Appendix carry initially got its name from carrying just forward of where your appendix would be, which would mean a carry position in front of you and slightly off to the side. It has since expanded to mean any frontal carry position inside the waistband. Appendix carry is now the catch-all term for frontal inside the waistband carry.

Anyway, appendix carry has quickly become the meta for carrying and fully concealing a capable handgun, and a future post will explain why.

But along with the rise of appendix carry has come a litany of fuddlore myths started by the naysayers. The time has come to dispel those myths.

Let's hit these one by one.

"You'll shoot your pe**er off!"

Hypothetically, with the wrong holster position, with a cheap craptastic holster and/or an unsafe gun and/or an unsafe user, yes, that might happen. Any other carry position can also result in you getting shot and losing your life if you are negligent and use unsafe gear. The solution is not to avoid appendix carry, but to get a better handgun that is actually safe and to get a better holster that is actually safe.

Avoid all fabric holsters and soft leather holsters. You need a rigid material like kydex to protect the trigger. This is not something you should compromise on or cheap out on, as a trigger-protecting holster is an absolutely crucial part of making a handgun safe to carry. So maybe skip the Uncle Mikes and opt for a JMCK instead (here's a link to my top recommended appendix carry holster: https://www.jmcustomkydex.com/p/AIWB-WC2-5.html)

Simultaneously, you should be carrying a safe handgun, so maybe skip the Ta**us 24/7. If you don't trust your handgun to be safe, then get a safer handgun, one you can trust, perhaps a DA/SA with a rotating firing pin safety. If you can't trust yourself to be safe, then get training.

Finally, striker fired guns need some special considerations here. If you got a quality safetyless striker fired handgun, it is safe from drops but not from trigger pulls (and if you got a striker fired model with an optional safety, head to this linked post to understand why those models are seldom actually safe: https://bit.ly/TSGStrikerSafe).

It is important to understand that fingers aren't the only thing that can pull triggers. There are plenty of G***k, G2C, P320, and other striker fired owners who had their gun spontaneously discharge, without their finger on the trigger, when they inserted their handgun into their holster. All it takes is a spent casing that fell into the holster, a corner of your shirt that entered the holster, a drawstring that entered the holster, a drawstring cord lock that entered the holster, or even just a fold or crease in the holster in order for something to act upon your trigger and potentially discharge the firearm.
And if you have little children, of the age that you might be holding them when you need to defend your life, keep in mind that their little feet might be at the mouth of your now-empty holster, just itching to pull a trigger and discharge a gun.

Anyway, this concern isn't special to appendix carry: cheap holsters have expensive consequences and careless holstering of your handgun can lead to a discharge.

There are a few ways you can mitigate this:

1) Be careful when inserting your gun into its holster.

2) Visually look into the holster to verify that it is clear when you are inserting the gun into the holster. None of this tacticool range ninja theatrics stuff of speed holstering your gun while your eyes are looking downrange while mean mugging the camera. We don't do that here. If the threat still exists, your gun shouldn't be entering the holster. If the threat is gone, then you have time to safely ensure that your holster is clear of obstructions by using your eyes to look into the holster.

3) Get your cover garment far out of the way.

4) Following point #3, a holster with a rigid sweat guard can help keep garments out of the holster

5) Following point #4, beware of soft floppy sweat guards, which can fold over to cover the mouth of the holster. Sure, this might keep stray debris from getting in there, but it also means the mouth of the holster isn't open when you go to insert your gun, which means you have to push the floppy sweat guard out of the way. If you have to do so, push the sweat guard up with the rear of your slide, not with the muzzle. In this way, you keep your gun pointed outwards, away from your body.

6) Don't angle your gun into your abdomen. Don't use your muzzle to search for the holster mouth. This remains true for other holster positions: Keep your gun pointed away from your body and don't use your muzzle to find the holster.

7) Push your hips outward, suck in your gut, and lean a little backward, which should make it easier to have a clean path the gun can take to enter the holster without pointing inward toward your body.

8 ) Slowly insert the gun into the holster while paying attention. If you feel resistance, stop. If you have the means to use a DA/SA hammer fired gun, do so. If you have a G***k, get a Striker Control Device (henceforth SCD), which is now available through LTT for less than a franklin note. With a DA/SA hammer fired gun, you can keep your thumb on the lowered hammer while holstering the gun. Not only does this let you know if something is starting to pull the trigger, because you'll feel the hammer push back against your thumb, but you can also stop the hammer from being pulled by pushing back against the hammer, because the hammer has mechanical advantage over the trigger. With an SCD-equipped G***k, you simply hold the SCD down while holstering, just as if it were a hammer on a DA/SA gun. Anyway, be slow and careful when inserting your gun into the holster.

"B-but it's pointed at your femoral artery!"

Not necessarily. Some AIWB carry positions with some holsters might point at your femoral artery, but some might not.
And again, the solution is to follow the above steps to ensure that you don't get shot in the first place.

Also, keep in mind that your gun being potentially pointed in an unsafe direction is very much not restricted to only appendix carry.
Hip carry can potentially point at your femoral artery, especially if you muzzle yourself while holstering. At the very least, it is often pointed at your shins and feet.
Shoulder holster carry can easily point at the faces of your loved ones.
Belly band carry can point at your groin or femoral arteries.
Behind hip and SOB carry can also point at your femoral arteries if the gun is at an inward angle.

In this regard, under the misguided fear that any carry position that points at yourself in any way is an unacceptable carry position, then the most safe carry position would be ankle carry, as you are most likely pointed at the ground or maybe a grazing hit on your malleolus (the round bony protrusion on your ankle).

"but you can't bend over!"
Welcome to the OSHA approved and doctor recommended technique of squatting.
And if your gun rides high enough to follow your abdomen rather than your pelvis, then you can indeed bend over.
But for the sake of your back health, you might want to switch to the AIWB plie / squat instead.
That doesn't sound fun for young people, but older individuals will enjoy the pain-free experience that can be squatting. And for my younger readers, your older self will thank you for switching to squatting earlier in life.

"Okay, Sling Guy, what would your recommendation be for the safest way to carry appendix?"
It would be a DA/SA Beretta (px4 or 92 family), in order to benefit from the rotating firing pin safety decocker design, and then a JM Custom Kydex AIWB WingClaw 2.5 holster. Pick either the DCC monoblock clips for a higher ride height or the pull-the-dot loops with the wide hole pattern for a lower ride height.

With that, you would have the safest gun possible and a safe and comfortable holster with advantageous design features.

"But appendix carry doesn't work for us big guys! Gabriel Iglesias has a scale of fatness just to describe how husky we are! We can't carry on our front! We have a spare tire up there!"

Appendix carry is not necessarily unable to be done by big guys. Plenty of big guys carry appendix just fine, it just takes some care when selecting holsters. There are plenty of big guys on YouTube with videos showing how to carry on your front when you are fat.

Of course, another option is to simply reduce how much you eat and to more regularly engage in physical exercise, not only so you can appendix carry more easily, but also because being of a healthy weight is more likely to save your life than your gun is, what with allegedly 20% of Americans dying of preventable heart disease (roughly 700,000 heart disease related deaths in 2020 alone, making it roughly one out of five deaths) but 0.012% of Americans dying from getting shot, and that drops to 0.00304% if you remove self-inflicted causes from that statistic.

In summary, appendix carry can be completely safe. You just have to exercise safe firearm handling habits, have a safe holster, and have a safe gun. And no matter your carry position, negligence on your behalf can prove fatal, so get training. And hit the gym, because I believe in you.

09/18/2022

This is an easy reminder for those who shoot both 5.56 and .300BLK to keep their ammunition containers separate so as not to mix and cause a catestrophic failure.

09/14/2022

Springfield can we get quality control?
Springfield: We have quality control at home.
Springfield Quality Control at home:

Very cook, Springfield