12 Concealed Carry Tips You Need To Know

[Applause] foreign [Applause] what's up guys this is Chris here and today we're going to be talking about something pretty important we're going to be going over a few concealed carry tips that just might save your life now I've done a couple of these lists in the past however they're pretty old so I decided to do a larger more all-encompassing video where I talk about a lot of tips that I think will probably help people out a more condensed version so you can just watch this video and you can have kind of a better concept of what you might want to do what you might want to train and things you might want to watch out for in the concealed carry realm now we're talking about pretty much exclusively civilians here we're talking about people who carry concealed and we're talking about the situations that you might run into not necessarily law enforcement or military trust me they have their own training anyway they don't need me some of these might seem like they're regurgitated but a lot of them are new and some of these might seem obvious to some of you but not others before we get into the video I do want to mention my page supporters we try to give you guys the most honest gun content possible if you want to support the channel I'd really appreciate if you go down to the link in the description and sign up for patreon the industry doesn't always love us so we really appreciate your support I also want to mention a local shelter in Ames Iowa it's the yss they could really use your help I also leave the Donate Link in the description of this video so if you guys want to go down to that description and click that donate page and give a few bucks to those kids I'd really appreciate that with that being said let's just jump right into the list because there's a couple of them here and we're going to go over the first one learn to draw with one hand now I know that seems kind of obvious but if you've never actually practiced it it can be a little bit tricky especially considering you might be in different positions when you have to do so why would you want to be able to draw with one hand well there's actually a lot of reasons first thing you could be carrying a child that you obviously don't want to drop the second thing is you could be escorting somebody you could be carrying somebody on your shoulder that was already injured you could have an injured arm and you could also be an entanglement of some type I know a lot of people in the last video I mentioned said that there's a difference between fights and gun fights and to me there's not foreign usually a gunfight is an escalation of a fight that has already taken place and that's just a reality it goes from a standard you know Knuckle Up kind of thing or maybe a robbery straight into a life or death situation and you guys need to know when that level gets higher and once it does if you need to dry your gun for example like maybe he gets a hold of your arm and starts stabbing you with a knife maybe you need to defend the knife first and then you need to go to your gun but he still has your wrist there's a lot of situations you might want that for especially if you do combatives and like Jiu Jitsu with weapons and stuff like that you'll find there's a lot of weird positions where you might only be able to get your gun with one hand you might only be able to grab it upside down with your left hand and you're still going to need to work that gun with your pinky and I just think that's something that could easily be practiced at home with dry fire with no rounds in the gun whatsoever you just make sure the gun's clear and you go to a safe place and you learn to dry your gun a couple of different ways with a couple of different grips and things like that that way you're at least confident that you've done it before the other thing that I would work on is make sure clearing the Garment and grabbing the gun at same time with one hand can be relatively difficult sometimes you get entangled in yourself while doing that so it's good to have some practice number two kind of an extension the first one but learn to fight in general I know that sounds kind of stupid but it's a fact you want to have some great contact moves like a jab or maybe a front kick you want to be able to use a collar tie you want to be able to push somebody off balance in case they're trying to get a hold of your gun you want to have some grappling techniques two on one control stuff like that you want to be able to Grapple a little bit and strike a little bit because life is messy fights are messy robberies are messy anything you might need a firearm for is going to be crazy chaotic dangerous and all around just [ __ ] up awesome so you're going to be able to be better served by having a general knowledge of fighting and general knowledge of fighting whether you take boxing or kickboxing or Muay Thai it'll give you a general idea of distance how quickly people can close distance what they can do at certain distances whether he can kick you in the face or not while you're trying to draw your gun and it just gives you an overall knowledge and experience in an aggressive situation that you can't get otherwise going to Jujitsu practice or wrestling practice is a good way to go full bore full contact learn how that feels and then you can apply your Firearms skills and techniques to that and you have like a better mindset and if you're a high risk person for example like a smaller statured beautiful woman living in a bad neighborhood you might want to know some Jiu Jitsu in case some guy decides to throw you on the ground and get on top of you you might want to be able to make him pay for that with a Commodore or triangle choke you put them in a triangle choke dry your gun there's a lot of ways that you can do things and you may not be able to overpower your opponent but you can outsmart him with different techniques and different tactics you run into a striker you better know a little grappling you run into a Grappler you better know how to stay on your feet and strike a little bit it's good to know a lot of things in a lot of areas and you can use whatever tool in the toolbox you need to use number three carry on your body if you can now I know there's some caveats to that maybe a fanny pack might work but it is in fact strapped to your body you might use a belly band but again on your body and the reason for that is in case somebody gets a hold of you and throws you on the ground you might not be able to get your purse somebody might take your purse somebody might take your backpack you might leave your backpack somewhere by accident and now your gun's gone you got to call the ATF there's a shitload of reasons why you might want to have your gun on your person the main reason is because if you're going to use a gun if you're going to need a gun the chances are it's going to happen quickly you're going to need to get to it quickly the other reason is in case you get it stolen in case you leave it somewhere those are all bad things and most guns used by criminals are guns that were once legal that were stolen by people who weren't paying attention so if you want to arm the bad guys that's a good way to do it number four train with your concealed carry pistol the ammo and the holster and the clothes that you normally wear so you see a lot of guys on Instagram and they're shooting real fast and their appendix carrying a staccato XC do you think those people carry that gun in real life well most of them don't because I meet some of those people if you train all day with a staccato XC and you carry a Sig p365 you might not be as prepared as you think you are also if you train in a pancake kick style appendix holster and you're using that all the time because it draws really fast and then you decide to use your deep conceal three o'clock holster or appendix holster it's not going to draw the same you're not going to be able to get the same grip you're gonna have a smaller grip with a smaller handgun you might end up finding out you're going to get it caught on your on your shirt you might end up finding out that you can't get to your spare magazine so that's not the way you want to carry it there's a lot of things you can find out by training with the actual stuff that you use and it doesn't look as cool and it's not as fun because it's not as much fun to shoot a p365 as it is a staccato XT but it is extremely useful and if you needed to use that gun in a time of need the more time you have on that gun with that system that holster and those clothes the more confident you're going to be and the less you're going to need to think about that and the more you can think about the situational awareness that everybody talks about when you can do things valves in repetitions you don't have to cognitively think about that anymore you can do all the stuff you need to do and then problem solve with your frontal lobe I would also really work on malfunctions clearing that's a very common thing that happens in situations in real life simply because for one reason or another the slide gets impeded or the action of the gun gets impeded in some way and most people never even practice malfunction clearing either buy some shitty ammo you know buy something that says Remington on it or buy or get some dummy rounds and put a dummy round like one every six or seven rounds in your magazine and you'll be able to practice some of those malfunction clearing drills where they become second nature as well in case you get it entangled in a shirt or in for whatever reason your gun stops working you can get it working again another one have your concealed carry system be as comfortable as possible now a lot of people say comfortability is second and I agree I agree with those people functionality should be first but the reality is if it's uncomfortable most people won't have it on them that's just the way it is if you carry a staccato P or if you carry a Glock 34 there's a strong chance that that gun's going to be in the truck half the time whereas opposed to you carry a Sig p365 or maybe a shield Plus at least the [ __ ] thing is going to be on you and which can case it's actually useful it's not really opportune to have to run out to your truck and come back when somebody's shooting at you it's better to have the gun on you than the awesome gun that you don't have and the more comfortable the gun is the more likely you are to carry it and then someday when you get comfortable and Trust carrying a small gun hell it might be a little easier to carry a big gun since you're more experienced six choose the carry position and type of holster that best fits you this is another thing I see on Instagram a lot everybody goes to appendix because that's the cool thing to do everybody goes to three o'clock because that's the cool thing to do six o'clock however you want to carry don't carry six o'clock I shouldn't said that but there's a lot of different ways to carry a gun you can pocket carry you can carry in a fanny pack you could carry in a shoulder holster if you need to but the reality is as long as it's comfortable enough for you to carry all day it's concealable enough to where you're not worried about like bending over it Menards or anything like that and if it's comfortable if it's concealable and you're confident with the gun then just stick with it because it's better to have the thing that you're comfortable with that works well for you and your body type than it is to find out that maybe this super fast way that you concealed carry just isn't comfortable enough for you in the car or whatever it may be number seven if you can be able to run and that's just a thing that people get pissed about when you say that they're like well you know we shouldn't have to run you should be able to stay in your ground and you should every state should have stand your ground you shouldn't have to be legally obligated to run but you should be able to run if you are physically able you are not disabled if you are not elderly you should be able to run there are situations that you cannot handle in their situations that you shouldn't handle their situations you should just leave from and it's not worth it their situations that you can't handle and you need to run and in which cases not only should you be able to run but you should know how to break contact from a fight from a grappling experience you should be able to put somebody on their ass if you have to you should be able to jab somebody or front kick somebody off you enough to create space to either get your gun or shoot if you have to and as soon as they break contact with you run that's just a reality that doesn't get taught a lot but there's a lot of situations where it's better just not to be there like a girl being attacked by a guy that's 300 pounds and looks like Brock Lesnar for example maybe not a good idea to try an arm bar looks cool but the reality is is that it's a low percentage thing and if it's super low percentage and you have nothing to gain and everything to lose just boot scooting we got out of there number eight know the distances you can shoot and hit on a fist size Target every time so if you're looking at the human being's vitals if you're looking at the head you're looking at basically you're looking at a line of defeat you you want to hit this spot here you want to hit this spot here or you want to hit this spot here and in which case a fist size group is usually good enough and as long as you can put a couple rounds into a fist size group at known distances then you know how far you can or can't engage somebody successfully if you're just winging rounds through Walmart at some guy you're more likely to hit somebody and hurt them than you are help somebody out so you're going to want to know the distances you can engage what your gun and what you are capable of as a unit number nine avoid putting aftermarket parts on your firearm that will change reliability now some aftermarket parts won't and some will and I'll give you some examples you can put any type of sites you want on your handgun and most likely it's not going to change anything however if you change the weight of the recoil spring there's a pretty good shot you just [ __ ] yourself things that can make your gun faster often have a tendency to make your gun less reliable so even putting an optic on certain guns or putting a light on certain guns can change the reciprocating mass and it can change the way that the gun and the harmonics and everything work and sometimes just putting a weapon light on a gun can cause malfunctions with certain ammo types so if you are going to change anything I always say vet that with at least 500 or a thousand rounds especially if it's something like a ported barrel especially if it's something like a recoil spring or upper parts or trigger Springs or anything like that you change the trigger if you change anything in the upper and if you change the recoil spring or magazine Springs or adding magazine base plates all can cause failures if you change something on the gun that it comes out of the factory make sure to vet it number 10 if it's possible practice in some awkward positions you don't know where you're going to be what you're going to be doing or what the hell is going to be going on when this moment of need May rise and it may never rise and hopefully it doesn't because that's what we're counting on right but if it does we want to be prepared kind of like modern day Boy Scouts and in situations like that you're not going to want to have shot the first time from rollover Pro you're not going to want to have shot the first time through a little Keyhole or whatever you need to do and if you can and if it's applicable to you maybe get a v-tac barricade maybe shoot from kneeling once in a while if you can maybe shoot from prone once in a while most people don't shoot handguns from prone but if somebody's shooting at you I bet the first thing you do is hit the ground keep that in mind if most people never shoot behind cover but if you're being shot at that's a pretty good place to be so I would practice shooting around corners without over silhouetting yourself I would practice shooting around corners kneeling and in prone I would practice rollover prone I would practice both knees both hands whatever you need to do I even shoot from the hip a lot a because it looks cool and B because you never know when somebody's hitting you with a baseball bat and you're going to have to draw your gun and actually do something with it now something else that we don't talk about is car use have you ever had to draw your gun inside a car because that's a high percentage thing that you may have to do someday so it might behoove you to practice in a chair if you can maybe just bring a folding chair out to the range someday sit in a chair and draw a couple times and pop a couple rounds off and see how it feels number 11 try a competition any competition doesn't really matter as long as it has people there to make you nervous and a timer to make you extra nervous that is a good thing you want to have people that bring up that level of pressure now it's never going to be able to replicate something like a shooting or a combat scenario or even a bar fight but it will give you a lot more stress than you're accustomed to especially maybe adding a little cardio and a little movement involved which most competitions do if you go to a local USPSA match the sport that I generally shoot you will experience stress you will experience targets that are far away that are harder to shoot than you imagine and you'll have to do them all on the Move while being timed while competing against all the other people that are most likely better than you if this is the first time you're there so you get to experience failure which is awesome because if you don't experience failure you're never going to get better and you also get to experience pressure which is very important because if you stress inoculate the pressure you can handle just about anything now IDPA three gun anything that gets you up and moving and gets your heart rate moving is a good idea number 12 get out and have some fun that is understated we make all these serious like regulations and you have to keep a log book and you have to do all this stuff but the reality is you can learn almost everything you need to know for self-defense just simply by having fun that's the whole point like your hips do your power right and if I have your boxing sparring is a good time going to Jujitsu is a good time shooting on the Range is a good time just let go flow and let yourself have some fun plink around get used to your gun try a few different guns because you never know if you're going to be shooting with your gun or somebody else's on top of that malfunction clearing drills happen just by the nature of buying cheap ammo so go out there and buy some cheap ammo for Target ammo and go out and plink around and have some fun hell if you want to get serious about clearing malfunctions just buy a Taurus you can use that for your range gun you'd be clearing malfunctions before you know it next thing you know you'll be just tapping racking your Glock and you won't even care that's the other thing about competition is it helps you fight through problems you know if you're on a stage in competition you have a malfunction well you don't just stop there and say oh I guess I just quit nope you got to clear it as fast you can and get rounds On Target and that's what you'd have to do in real life Gray that was terrible there's no quit in real life and it's good to replicate that in your practice also having fun eases things and it allows you to learn things through repetition that you can't learn any other way there's no other way to get good at something it's just the 10 000 hour thing is the Ten Thousand hour thing the more you do a thing the better it's going to be I hope you liked a couple of these tips obviously that doesn't cover everything but I think it helps cover a lot of things maybe some people don't talk about some people do we didn't get too much into the gear on this one like belts and holsters and things like that if you want me to be more specific about that I can do a video on that as well I do have several I did bring my carry guns well the three common carry guns I carry lately so I wanted to show a couple well the three small ones anyway I actually have like 10 guns my carry rotation but I'm a gun reviewer after all you don't need 10 guns Sig p365 in a Phalanx holster this is a really good setup I know people ask me about that and then the other gun that I've been carrying the most lately is going to be the The Shield plus and the failings concealment holster as well failings doesn't pay me that doesn't they don't send me any free holsters or anything like that I buy these just because I like them they fit me really well they fit the right ride on my belt so I can get my whole hand around the grip of the gun which I like a lot and it pins it against my belly so you don't see it very much so they're comfortable and they're useful I like both of these guns and they work for me but if they don't work for you find something that does usually my holsters are color coded because I have a big tote full of holsters inside and I want to know which gun goes to what so I often use weird bright colors to kind of distinguish what holster it is now I know I could use a Sharpie and right on there but it just kind of an excuse to have a bunch of fun holsters that being said if you like this video please like And subscribe if you have tips put them in the comment section below there's a lot of smart people in my comment section at least so by all means if you have some Smart Tips go down there and put them down there and we 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Length: 18min 58sec (1138 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 11 2023