USCCA: 3 Tips for Presentation from Concealment

Alright, we got 3 quick tips for presentation from the appendix position concealed carry. Uh, we know that when we go to the range most of the time you're not gonna be concealed, and even if you are concealed it may be just a throwaway garment is not what you actually wear. So first thing, tip, train and practice with what you actually wear or clothes that are similar to what you actually wear. Now during the year, different environments and work when you're going out with friends, you're going to be dressed differently. I get that.

What's that mean? It means you need to. Practice a lot of different ways and right now I've got this sweater on. It could be a hoodie, it could be a loose t-shirt. It could be a traditional button up that isn't snaps, that isn't gonna just rip open of a jacket that's zipped, and it's all gonna be the same physical techniques.

So number one, practice and train with a dry gun or in the live fire environment after you've gone through the motions and learn them hopefully you've been trained by a certified instructor, maybe one of the great USCCA instructors. You've got the pattern down, then get to your concealment mark garments and. Make sure you vary it. Second tip for appendix carry make sure that you're pushing your hips forward as you're reaching for the gun. I want you to tie those two things together, right, because what's gonna happen, you're gonna likely be startled when you realize you need to shoot, and that means you're gonna naturally lower your center of gravity.

You're closing your hip, right? So if I, if I go ahead and remove the concealment guard for a second, what's happening with the gun? It's being compressed by your belly. It's being pointed back down into your. Pelvic girdle, right?

And if I try to pull this gun out straight up, I'm gonna run into my belly or run into my rib cage. If I twist the gun forward, well then as the gun comes out, it's pointed back at me. Not only do I not want to be pointing the gun at me and have a really bad negligent accident, I also don't want to have to flip the gun around so much to get it pointed at the bad guy. So what am I gonna do? I, I realize I need to shoot as I reach for the gun.

I'm gonna push my hips forward as I reach down to get the gun. Now the gun will come up very. Very smoothly. All right. Tip number 3 is tied into coming up very, very smoothly.

I wanna make sure that I keep the gun close to my body and I'm gonna demonstrate one-handed now because it's sort of that's where we worry more about getting entangled, especially with a loose sweater like this. So the issue is I'm startled, but this hand maybe is injured, right? for whatever I'm pushing my my daughter out of the way. Something's happening with this arm where I'm not able to use it to clear the concealment garment, so I'm gonna use my thumb. I'm gonna come down beneath.

Use the thumb to push this up, but then of course I have to go back down to the gun. Well, this concealment garment isn't being held up out of the way anymore. What's going to keep it out of the way as much as possible is to keep my gun against my body. And what that means is I'm actually, even though you can see with my claw rear sights, I am a little bit hooked right there by pushing this in and keeping it close to my body when I turn the gun towards the threat now even that entangled rear sight, I'm just gonna push through that. It might rip the sweater, but I don't care rip the t-shirt.

Rip the button up. I don't care about that. Even a little bit of entanglement when I push the gun this way and drive straight out is going to be cleared. The danger would be that if I were to push my hips forward and then as I clear the garment one handed or two handed for that matter, if I grab the gun and pull the gun away from my body as I come out, now I'm much more likely to get fully entangled and be in this kind of a situation which is gonna make it hard to get my gun into the shooting position to get to the bad guy, but it's also potentially gonna cause that early discharge. That negligent discharge when the gun isn't in my line of sight because of the timing that I've established with getting the gun in my hand, starting to drive out and getting my finger to the trigger.

So keep the gun close to your body, pull up past the concealment garment, and then even if you find yourself getting entangled, that muzzle going forward will allow you to drive out through. Now everything except pushing that hip forward, these tips obviously are going to be useful and important for carrying anywhere on your belt, whether it's your center line, appendix carry, or even if you're pushing back to the 4 or 5 or even 6 o'clock.