A very personal, side question, if I might:
If you do actually concealed carry, where do you carry?
The Well-Armed Woman site says about half of us carry some place on the waist, and that is fine, but then, where on the waist?
Knowing the purse carry is not only slow to access, but also easy to take, I have been carrying IWB at 6:00 o'clock. However yesterday, I was going through some advanced training with my CCW instructor, who after watching me said, "As long as it took you to present the weapon from 6:00 o'clock, from the standard 21 feet, I could have slowly walked over to you, beat the snot out of you, and raped you before you got that weapon out." Yes, I had practiced, and yes, it was smooth, but it was not fast.
So I thought what about 3:00 o'clock? Even with my whimpy hips, they still stick out farther than anything else below my shoulders, and so even IWB the gun prints really badly.
So, what about appendix carry? To date, all of the arteries that get muzzled most of the time have kept me from doing that.
So, I moved everything to 4:00 - 4:30, OWB. MUCH faster than any of the IWB. As long as I stand straight there is very little printing. But with "slinkier" softer fabric tops (which are virtually all of my tops), bending over still prints. And by "bending over" I don't mean 90 degrees at the waist. (Going all the way to tthe ground, I do try to be lady-like and always act like I have a skirt on.) But even leaning over the counter prints pretty well.
So I would love the voice of experience from this community.
Thank you for your insights!!
Katie