Specific to guns, my age is now showing. I was called a Fudd because I said Appendix carry was not the best choice for new shooters. No claim it’s inherently more ND likley, only that the consequences of the ND are not the same as putting a rnd through a glute. All the high speed cool kids making tickock vids love to demonstrate how fast they can draw via appendix, with their pistol with light, RDS, and tape on the grip. And what is with the tape? That’s the hot thing now. I see it every where. Never felt I needed tape to grip ye pistol. Finally, I was told that “even IDPA allows appendix carry and draw” which floored me. I had to go look it up, and the kid was right. Wow, RDS was not allowed when I shot IDPA, much less drawing from appendix! I was at a match when someone put a rnd through her glute. I didn’t see it, only heard it as it was in the next stage to me, but I did see the aftermath and the medics.
I’m officially felt old in the gun world. Not a pro/anti appendix carry comment, but it there’s clearly a generational difference in the way appendix carry is viewed in the shooting world. I will carry that way at times, it’s not my preferred method and I spent a lot of time dry fire before I felt comfortable with it, and that was as an intermediate shooter who had been to courses, IDPA, countless range trips, etc, etc.
Hell, I was even an adjunct trainer for Smith & Wesson Training Academy for a minute and developed 2 courses for them.
You know, sometimes it’s better to walk away, have a seat and a cold beverage. You can set back and watch and wait until one of them shoots their balls off.
AIWB is fast. Even my old ass is like WOW, I got that up quickly. But it’s too hot here in AZ. My gun gets dripping wet.
I agree Will. New shooters need to get experience before carrying that way. It’s not inherently dangerous, but it is unforgiving for negligent gun handling.
I carried a G27 AIWB the entirety of the time we lived in AZ, it works for many people. I wouldn’t call Will a fudd for poo-pooing it but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it to get bent out of shape about either.
Good advice. Carrying is such a personal thing. I tend to not comment beyond my own choices.
Now and then someone will mention they don’t/won’t carry a gun with a loaded chamber. Of course folks respond as you’d expect. I figure if someone believes they’re a danger to themselves and others while carrying a loaded gun then perhaps they are. In any event, I haven’t the slightest interest in convincing them otherwise.
I qualify for old guy but not FUDD which I consider in a totally different context than what the OP described.
The kids don’t even know what a FUDD is hence don’t use the term correctly. It’s now anyone they don’t agree with, similar to modern use of fascist, Nazi, etc, but gun focused. We can only hope our adversary does not carry one in the chamber.
I mean, it’s not like your opinion was bad. Nothing particularly wrong with AIWB but I wouldn’t recommend it for new/inexperienced shooters either. Lots of important real estate in the impact area of a potential ND including both femoral arteries. It simply does have a higher danger factor.
The kids, being told that’s how all the ninja-Devgru types do it, and being indestructible, don’t accept that fact, and of course are convinced they are LAV incarnate with a gun cuz of many years playing vid games and watching YT vids.
Law-abiding youth of America becoming firearms owners and carrying is a good thing. Resistance to advice from oldsters is a time-honored tradition. Same for growing old and then criticizing youth.
I do love AIWB carry for my spare “clip”. I have a carrier that clocks 45 degrees and puts the base plate at 1 o’clock. I run that every weekend at the range which works great if I carry a spare mag because it’s exactly as practiced every week.
A person exhibiting opposition to the 2nd Amendment is what defines a Fudd, not preference for, or lack of, a holster style.
Fudds may only approve of firearms for hunting ducks, shooting paper targets, shooting private sector criminals, or some combination there of.
There are party line fudds also.
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
I have been carrying AIWB for since 2000, Glocks 19 & 17, now Walter PDP compact w holosun 507 for the most part; original RDS on Glocks was a docter back in 2011. Never had an issue, it just worked for me. Your mileage may vary
