Best holster for concealed carry?

Originally Posted by Supper

Bah, the only way to figure out what holster is going to work is to try lots of em.

Go to a good gunshop that will let you try out different holsters with dummy guns in them to see which holster will conceal best.

If you have a narrow/vertical body shape (if that makes since) IWB will work best in my opinion. If you are a larger person with a gut (like myself) then OWB will work because your clothes normally hang more with more free space.

When trying on the holster, put a gun in it and try doing normal every day things and see if you print. If you print when looking straight down on the gun but not when looking in the mirror, well, its up to you if you want it.

The point of CCW is that not a soul knows you have it on you until you are ready to use it, and if that happens someone is going to die.

edit:

after all of that, my suggestions are as follows:

Bladetech
Safariland
Galco
custom leather holster from somewhere local.

Originally Posted by 1revnrex

+1 Bladetech
+1 Safariland
-5 Galco

Not a big fan of Galco shit.

Originally Posted by Supper

Galco was thrown in there for an "economy" option. They can be found anywhere and are usually pretty cheap. But, they have cheap quality too. The price makes it easy to try lots of options, the durability makes it so you don't worry about hacking it up to try new shit if you need to.

Originally Posted by 1revnrex

What do you think about Uncle Mikes? I have a Charter Arms .38 SPL Detective Snub and a UM soft holster that fucking sucks but I have one for a 1911 that I use for my CZ and it works great.