Open Carry?

[HarleyLowRiderST]

As for most of the gun free states in the US the populous of those states still CCs over open carry. It's for good reason too. Open carry you have anywhere from a 1/2-1 second faster draw, so why aren't people in West Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, etc. open carrying?

I think Open Carry vs CC would just be personal preference “if” it were legal. Same for type of firearm we all choose for carrying. As someone who carries at 3-3:30, open carry would allow me to be 1 second plus faster. As we all know, one second is big in a close encounter. If others want to stare, so be it. I would also rather carry a full size if I was to open carrying. I find it difficult to CC with anything larger than my G19, and even that I carry OWB in the winter only with a jacket over.

It would be interesting to poll those in Open Carry states to see why they choose open vs CC. Simply assuming we don’t see more open carry, is not fair if we don’t know how many CC in the same area that we saw the open carry. Almost a raise of hands in a restaurant or store “hey how many CC vs the 3 guys that are open carry”

 

[irongunner]

Anyone else get the urge to pull the 6 o'clock open carry? Is that the same "Call to the Void" urge when at a cliff?

I just wanna see what would happen... you try first.

 

[dvoncock]

I’ve open carried backpacking/fishing (in places where it’s legal). Honestly, OWB is way more comfortable than IWB. But seems like a terrible idea in densely populated and crowded places for all the reasons above.