Friday, August 23, 2013

A Back Up Gun (BUG) - For the Semper Paratus Crowd

Galco Ankle Glove Holster
--(Ammoland.com)- “I will never buy an ankle holster,” I said to myself. “How impractical is that? You can’t access your back-up all that quickly.
You have to bend down or forward to reach it. It might not even fit my pants.
Do people actually use them in real life, or is that all in the movies?”
Most of us reading this open carry our firearms on a regular basis. But do we carry a back-up gun (BUG)? There is a saying, “one is none, two is one,” meaning one should always carry a back-up in case something happens to your primary weapon. Do you carry a BUG? If you do, you have another choice to make. You’ve already taken great care in choosing your primary sidearm and holster, but what about your back-up?

32 comments:

  1. Even some police officers carry back-up guns.

    ReplyDelete
  2. What's paranoid here? More than that, what do you think is new here?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You and I now communicate on a higher plane. I didn't say "paranoid," but you knew that's exactly what I meant.

      Delete
    2. Well, you did say "paranoid" two minutes later (see below).

      Delete
    3. ... And then when Jim called someone who carries two guns "paranoid" you answered, "exactly".

      Man, usually I have to mine other threads for gotchas, but you're making it so easy this morning that I could skip my morning Starbucks. Wait, was that the idea?

      Delete
  3. I know cops that carry three guns on them, some four. And a backup gun is just that, a backup to your main weapon(s). If your going to need a backup then your already in a fight and likely kneeling down for cover anyway and access to it is right there. Plain clothes cops, under cover and detectives use this method on a regular basis. A police man friend of mine showed me how to carry ten pistols on me concealed, and I did. That was quite an experience, it was very heavy but easily possible. That was a demonstration of different methods of carry. The ankle holster is just one of the more common methods.

    You know, movies sometimes take there ideas from real cops doing their jobs.

    This method of carry has been around for many, many decades, nowhere nothing new.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. "You know, movies sometimes take there ideas from real cops doing their jobs."

      And then wannabe tough guys take the idea from the movies. They do it because it makes them feel cool. They justify it with all the insecure paranoid nonsense that caused them to get the first gun.

      Delete
    2. "Wannabe tough guys" may get their ideas from the movies.

      Most of the rest of us who you call "wannabe tough guys" actually talk with cops, soldiers, and the like so that we know what works. We also think through what we realistically might or might not need and make our own decisions. Some folks carry two guns all the time. Some evaluate that they should only carry one. For example, I usually carry one, but if I'm hiking in bear country, I add a gun that I wouldn't normally carry due to risk of overpenetration if I used it in self defense against a human attacker--Bears have tough hides and thick bones. Some people work in the same bad neighborhoods that Jim describes cops working in. Some find it easier to concealed carry an extra gun than to carry spare ammo in case their primary (say, a 5 shot revolver) isn't enough to stop a large, doped up attacker.

      To each his own.

      Delete
    3. You've got a great imagination. I think you should carry three guns.

      Delete
    4. Let's see, I said that I carry a suitable gun when hiking in areas where there are lots of bears which have been known to hunt, and I gave two examples of reasons why others might choose to carry another gun, both of which touched on ideas others had brought up.

      Yes, I'm SOOOO paranoid and letting my imagination run away with me.

      Delete
  4. Really! That guys in suits carry at all, if they are from wall street it's cocaine.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Kevin, what's wrong. Have you forgotten English syntax so much that you can't even make a sentence that's readable?

      Delete
  5. I wonder if Dog Gone carries a BUG...

    Moonshine

    ReplyDelete
  6. Most of the police I know carry more than one, and the police I know working in troubled urban areas carry more than two. I don't see the need for any ordinary citizen to carry more than one. Oh sure they have that right, I just don't see the need unless they are expecting trouble, or are paranoid.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Jim, no matter what Mikeb says, my vote is that you're not one of us. When you call people whose side you should be on paranoid or say that they're expecting trouble, implying that this is a bad thing, you're just playing into the gun control freaks' wishes.

      I carry a reload for the gun I'm carrying. Sometimes, I do have a backup, although not often. But there's nothing paranoid about recognizing that a gun might jam or that a five-shot .38 might not be enough.

      Delete
    2. Jim is more representative of gun owners than you are, Greg. That's why your side cannot win.

      Delete
    3. Jim is probably your sockpuppet, but it's cute how you say that we cannot win. We've been winning a lot.

      Delete
    4. Mike,

      You say that because he agrees with you, but you really don't know the gun owning community.

      Regarding both Greg's doubts about Jim and Mike's statement that Jim is more representative, when I took my Concealed Carry class, I had two classmates who had similar outlooks to Jim. One was an older lady. The other was a Medical Student who had lived on my floor freshman year of Undergrad. The other 7 or 8 students were more in line with the rest of us (though with their own variations just as Greg, TS, Texas, Moonshine, Kurt, Orlin, etc., and I have our differences).

      Delete
    5. T., did you realize you're talking about a percentage of a sub-set. Most gun owners don't take the concealed carry class.

      As I said many times, you guys represent the lunatic fringe - far from the average gun owner.

      Delete
    6. Well, a week or so ago you were arguing that we were so evenly distributed through society that there HAD to be at least half a dozen carriers at the Giffords shooting and you refused any logic based on the idea of subsets not being representative.

      However, since I value logic, Yes. I do know I'm talking about a subset, but it's a subset that Jim claims to belong to--not just a gun owner but a person with a carry permit.

      Delete
    7. Mikeb, you're the low end of the bell-shaped curve calling the high end a lunatic fringe.

      Delete
  7. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/skip-starbucks-saturday_n_3800127.html

    ReplyDelete
  8. Geezus, you gunsucks are pathetic moronic losers. Paranoid, afraid of bunnies and bugs. Pitiful loser pieces of crap.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Kevin,

      Why, that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!

      Delete
    2. A fine movie, that one, Tennessean.

      Delete
    3. I soiled my IWB holster, I was so scared!

      Delete
  9. I'm a sock puppet. I'm a liar. Why? Because as a permit holding gun carrier I don't agree with some of the idiot ideas you and TN have about when and where to carry a gun? Maybe I have more respect for a deadly weapon. Maybe I think all carries should have more respect for a deadly weapon. Maybe I'm tired of all these idiot gun carriers causing unnecessary deaths due to their stupidity and lack of proper handling of a deadly weapon. Like the woman in that WallMart photo; the gun was almost falling off of her pants. Maybe I'm not so easy to let these gun carriers off when they act so stupidly and people end up dead, or injured. So just because I disagree with some of your unsafe ideas about when and where to carry, I'm a sock puppet and liar. Great reasoning, NOT!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. When you parrot Mikeb's ideas, it's hard to tell the difference. But what's this about "all these idiot gun carriers"? Care to put some numbers to that?

      Delete
    2. As several people pointed out, that gun was in an IWB holster. Some of them hold the gun up that high, and still hold it securely. But I'm sure that you were able to tell that that was not the case in that small, grainy photo.

      Delete
    3. Greg, anyone who parrots my ideas will respond with a solid 50%. That's how many of you guys are unfit, approximately.

      What say you, Jim?

      Delete
    4. I asked for evidence, not guesses.

      Delete