Citizen
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I'm a mechanic, so I spend a huge part of my day sitting in cars, and driving cars. I carry a CZ75B, and since it's a big gun, my iTac holster digs into my side when I sit down. I was thinking that most likely, crossdraw would fix my problem, since the left side of the car usually has much more room. Has anybody tried this?
I don't ever see anybody carrying crossdraw so I don't know if there's some sort of danger from doing it, or what.
There was fella who was real respected in the gun world back in the day. He was a Border Patrol agent and supervisor from, say, the 1940's through the 1960's.. And, a demonstration speed shooter. His name was Bill Jordan.
In his book, No Second Place Winners, among a lot of other stuff, he recommended against cross-draw. He pointed out, and even used photos, that cross-draw puts your gun butt forward towards an antagonist, making a gun-grab that much easier.
While one might say, "Oh, I'm not a cop so I won't have to worry about that," also consider the situation where an unarmed antagonist escalates a simple argument, and then suddenly decides to pull a gun on you---yours.
I vaguely recall Jordan saying that easy gun-grabs was the reason some police departments made policies against cross-draw.
For anybody interested, I think the book is still available and in print. Maybe available through GunLaws.com or Paladin Press or something like that. Great book. Its not full of self-defense ninja stuff. Just old time common sense stuff that you sometimes wouldn't have thought about. Some very interesting. For example, he recommended for new guys to avoid the habit of resting their hand on the their holster. Said it stretches the holster. When you go to draw, the gun doesn't come out of the holster--holster and gun come upward together. Of course, this was back in the day of revolver holsters that hung down a ways from the belt. Not really applicable with today's OWB holsters that carry the cylinder or chamber at or above the belt line. But, interesting nonetheless, to see what the old timers had learned.
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