Hi, i'm Thomas from Alien Gear Holsters.
Today i'm going to show you how to use an inside the waistband holster, where you can
wear it on your body, and also some techniques for improving your draw stroke.
I'm wearing an inside the waistband holster right now.
I'm gonna go ahead and pull this whole thing off.
We're gonna remove the weapon and verify that it is safe.
So the first thing is to pull your magazine make sure there is nothing in that.
Open your slide.
Prop it open and put your finger in there to verify that there is no ammunition in the
chamber.
Now even though this is unloaded and I verified it, i'm gonna keep my finger off of the trigger
and point it in a safe direction at all times.
Now i'm demonstrating an inside the waistband holster today.
Sometimes called an IWB.
It's called that because it goes inside the waistband against your body and inside your
pants.
This particular one is a hybrid holster, it has clips spread out far to distribute the
weight, hard plastic outer shell makes it easy to re-holster, and then the neoprene
on the inside keeps the gun off of your body.
Makes it very comfortable.
So the reason why so many people prefer an inside the waistband holster to an outside
the waistband holster is conceal-ability.
With an outside the waistband holster the entire gun and holster is visible outside
the waistband but an inside the waistband holster hides half of the gun below the belt
line inside the pants so that only the grip is visible.
Now when you tuck in your shirt or drape it down around your pants, it's completely hidden.
So it's very easy to drape your shirt around and hide a very large weapon.
But it's still very easy to reach.
You can also tuck it back in by putting a shirt between the clips and the holster.
One thing to consider when carrying inside the waistband is the room your going to need
inside your pants to fit your weapon and the holster.
Now most of the room is going to be for the weapon.
You can see here, the holster itself is not really much wider than the weapon.
So if you can fit this in your pants, your probably going to be okay for an inside the
waistband.
Some people wear their pants really tight, so your going to need to move up a size.
Probably 2 inches in the waist should be fine.
Most people wont find this necessary and they will be okay with the pants they already have.
When you need access to your weapon in an emergency situation, you have to rely on instinct
and muscle memory.
High level thought processes don't work very well in a high stress situation.
So you have to practice over, and over, and over again.
You need to know how to get your clothing out of the way, how to access your gun, and
where it's at.
You need to know by instinct the grip of your gun and how to access it.
Now i'm going to show you the draw stroke.
You need to get both hands back to the area of the weapon get a good handful of that shirt.
Clear it nice and high.
Get your gun out and extend.
Now i'm gonna break this down so you can see it in detail.
I'm gonna take both hands and reach around far to my gun and grab my shirt.
And doesn't matter if it's one hand or 2 hands, whats important here is that I clear the gun.
Now im gonna yank it really high so that it's completely out of the way and then im gonna
take my hand, grab my weapon and pull straight up.
Now let go of your garment with your support hand, meet both hands in the center of your
body and begin aiming here.
Now push your arms completely out into your full firing stance.
Now keep in mind that you can actually fire the weapon from down here.
Just be sure to keep your hand up to keep the attacker off of you and keep the pistol
away from your body.
You want that brass to fly down and away and keep the slide out of your clothing.
It's very important to keep this hand up and keep the attacker off of you, because once
this has made contact the slide will press back.
That's gonna pull the firing pin away from the primer on the round and this pistol will
not fire.
So if you prefer to dress with your shirt untucked, you can still use the 2 handed-method
to access your weapon.
However, now there is an alternative method available to you.
The one handed draw.
You take your first four fingers, lift your shirt up out of the way.
Then lead with your thumb to fall directly down onto the grip.
And if you practice this enough you can become very proficient with it.
It's just as fast or faster than the two-handed draw.
So if you think we missed anything or you have any questions, please leave us a comment
below.