for about the last five years i have been carrying the same handgun and that's kind of
why i've never really done a lot of different edc update videos and a lot of my friends on youtube
on their various different channels will dive into how their edc changes over the years
heck even sometimes season to season but what i've kind of created here is a system for carrying
my handgun that really doesn't have to change much with the seasons time of year or what i'm
wearing i mean i do adapt to various different situations but either way it's very consistent
so what i'm going to do is run you through what handgun i carry how it's modified and
then kind of the whys behind it so as you can tell from the table here i carry a glock 19.
and besides the sights actually the sights on this one are steel glock sights so they're factory
but besides the cerakote there's nothing else done to this gun i've been carrying a stock
glock 19 for four or five years and this pistol to me just fits really well i am running an in-force
apl this is one of the originals from way back and it's just worked really well for me it's not
a huge output light i like how the paddles are laid out i'd say there's probably some
other lights on the market that definitely kick this thing's butt as far as lumens maybe even
rigidity or durability over time but this light hasn't failed me there's no cracking or anything
takes a cr123 battery works out really well for me so why am i shooting a stock glock well the
reason why is at the very beginning i noticed a lot of my friends getting into shooting and
they just decked out their handguns trying to shoot better shoot faster shoot more accurately
and i noticed that no matter how you modified your pistol if you have bad fundamentals you are just
gonna not shoot good it's just what it is so i decided early on that i wasn't going to heavily
modify a pistol i wanted to get to a point where i felt that i was above average kind of moving into
the realm of being a professional shooter not saying a professional competitive shooter not
saying you know the best of the best but above average with the skill set so i knew i had a good
foundation before i invested in something like a red dot before i got stippling a trigger or
any of the other stuff and while i've got a lot of time shooting those kinds of things and they
definitely help if you have a good foundation i fell in love with the glock 19 and i really
haven't had any reason to change it so that's why it's bone stock definitely not bashing people that
decide to deck out their handgun but for me the most important thing was having a really good
foundation the 19 to me is the perfect size i know some folks a double stack of this size is going to
be a little bit big in their opinion and depending on your body type and how you're
built and the kind of clothes you wear yeah this might be a pretty large pistol
but it's a little bit smaller than a glock 17 a little bit bigger than a glock 26. to me i can
get my whole hand on the gun i don't have any pinky or any fingers hanging off the bottom so
it's just the perfect fit i've got a lot of area there to get meat of my hand into to get a good
grip you know the controls of the light are right there so hitting the paddle with either finger
very easy manipulating the slide all of the manual arms for this thing is very easy because it's a
larger pistol and some folks get trapped on the idea that you have to have such a tiny pistol
to conceal it well and ultimately it just comes down to your body type and how you want to carry
it and then carrying with a good holster so for me this just disappears on my body we're
obviously in winter weather right now so i'm wearing hoodies and jackets and things like that
so concealing this is very easy how i end up carrying this particular gun is with my t-rex arm
sidecar holster and this is a phenomenal holster it's worked really well for me i've also run some
holsters from tier one concealed and a couple other companies but i always have come back to
the side car it is rigid and for some folks they're not going to like this particular holster
but it is light bearing cut for an optic and i get to have my spare magazine
just like that in the holster and i'll actually put this on for you guys
so my morning routine just consists of me getting up put my pants on and then that
holster just rides right like that so again with a hoodie on you have no idea that i have a glock 19
very accessible appendix is kind of one of those things that some people love some people hate
people that have never done it are kind of like why would you want to do that you're pointing
guns at things you don't want to shoot we can dive into that in another video but appendix carry is
a very viable option if you want to have a larger gun not print as much as say a four o'clock carry
and have a spare magazine on hand now there's times that i don't really want to have an appendix
rig say i'm sitting a lot or you know i'm dressed up maybe my clothes that i'm wearing don't really
work out well with an appendix rig so what i end up doing is running one of
the t-rex arms raptor holsters this is also an appendix mostly an appendix rig i'll say
but it can also if you pull the claw you can put it at four o'clock and you can put it at a couple
different locations if you want and so same exact thing light bearing for my enforce apl i also use
this with my glock 22 but yeah i just slide it in just like that so now you'll notice that i
wouldn't have a spare magazine in this situation but i would in this configuration i use my neomag
which just clips onto a factory glock magazine and then you slide that clip in any pocket back
pocket front pocket doesn't matter if you like pat mcnamara you'll carry in your back pocket
most people put it in their front pocket and then you have a spare magazine on hand so doing reloads
with a neomag is very intuitive definitely a little slower for me personally versus an
appendix rig but if i need to move around a lot but i still want to have an appendix carry holster
this particular holster gives me a little bit more movement the gun can
kind of move to where it needs to go and i have a little bit more comfort again i still prefer
the sidecar holster but i do run that occasionally as well and then the last thing i wanted to show
you guys a little bit about is when i'm on the range training with an outside the waistband setup
what am i doing and now typically i'm going to train from iwb
the reason for that is i feel like that's the most likely scenario for me as a citizen
if i need to use my gun to defend myself however i think it's also important for citizens to have
gear and accessories that would lend themselves more to a combatives training or at least building
fundamentals with owb gear that in the event that there's civil unrest or a situation that calls for
it we have the equipment and the gear to be able to help out where we can i did a whole video on
this i'm going to put a card at the top where i talk about this belt set up from blue alpha gear
but real quickly i'll just talk about the holster this is a t-rex arms ragnarok
and i have this on a qls fork and receiver from safariland so i have a couple different holsters
sometimes we shoot our zev pistols suppressed and i'll use one of the t-rex arm suppressor
ready holsters for our zev pistols where i'll also shoot with my glock 22 without a light so
sometimes i'll slap that in there that's a safari safariland this is a safariland mid ride ubl
so that all just clips in like that and then i do have the thigh strap that keeps everything
kind of snug on my body as far as magazines i just use the t-rex arms little mag caddy
there and these are just an off-brand magazine carrier that i had over the years i've collected
i also use mars carriers for my pistol mags as well but i keep my loadout very simple
and i actually do keep this particular setup with me in my truck as well as a plate carrier medical
stuff again very unlikely that i'll need it as a citizen but it's one of those things
that i like to train with it i like to get out and use it so above all else i think the glock 19 is a
great compromise for me it's worked out well for me over the last couple years it's a phenomenal
pistol i barely ever need to clean this thing in fact it is crusty right now but it still runs
runs reliable i did the cerakote job myself because you know looking good is half the battle
but it's phenomenal pistol and if you're into handguns just getting into them i know some
people don't like glocks because they're boxy but if you hold one it feels good get out and shoot
it you may love it maybe you'll hate it plenty of other pistols out on the market but hopefully
this helped you guys out hopefully it gives you some ideas on how to carry your pistol and i know
most you probably aren't really that interested in how i carry a gun but if you are that's how i do
it so guys thank you for tuning in to this video and if it helps you out leave us a comment below
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with different ways that you have found maybe different holster configurations or different
pistols that you've shot let's get in the comments and discuss this stuff because our goal here is
to help new shooters arm them with information so that they can be better prepared to protect
themselves their families and their communities we appreciate you guys we'll see in the next one
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