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your hip and back again. I just run with<br />
it in the driving position and it works<br />
great. It holds the mouth of the holster<br />
up a bit higher than the holster I was using<br />
before too.<br />
Do you have a big box o’ holsters?<br />
I really don’t. By taking the classes<br />
very early on I kind of avoided that.<br />
My first carry holster was actually<br />
made by Dale Fricke. My first two holsters<br />
were custom made by him, just<br />
for me. After that, I ended up looking<br />
around a little bit and I found that FIST<br />
driving holster. The other holsters were<br />
good, but I looked around because if I<br />
never try new things I’ll never know if<br />
there might be something better out<br />
there. The FIST was leather and I prefer<br />
leather over Kydex, it’s just more comfortable.<br />
I found it smoother to draw<br />
from, and it’s less clicky. Also sometimes<br />
I felt like my Kydex one was going to<br />
break on me. Since I’m sitting down and<br />
bending around a lot, moving around<br />
to a lot of different angles in the chair, I<br />
just felt like it was on the brink of snapping<br />
sometimes. Major paranoia there.<br />
So I just like the leather holster better.<br />
What specific adaptations have you<br />
needed to make in order to shoot well?<br />
I do a one-handed reload off my<br />
wheelchair. It’s just your basic onehanded<br />
reload like they teach in a lot of<br />
classes. You know, where you just stick<br />
the empty gun back in the holster, pop<br />
the old mag out, put the new mag in,<br />
and then draw the gun again and rack<br />
the slide. Instead of running the slide<br />
off a belt or a holster, I found a spot on<br />
the wheelchair I could press the slide,<br />
and just run the slide against that. It<br />
works pretty well.<br />
and someone else might have a good<br />
solution for something else. So get a<br />
lot of different perspectives. Everybody<br />
problem solves just a little bit different.<br />
With the different perspectives I was<br />
able to problem solve most of the things<br />
that I ran into.<br />
Do you have any recommendations for<br />
all of our readers?<br />
Yes. If you have the time and money<br />
to do it, get as much training as possible.<br />
I know not everyone has the money<br />
or the time, but if you can you really<br />
should. A lot of people don’t want to give<br />
up the time but they need to give up at<br />
least some time for training. Shooting is<br />
a skill that diminishes if you don’t do it<br />
for a while. Even just going to the range<br />
at least once a month will at least keep<br />
your skill where it’s at. n<br />
[ Each issue of CCM contains an article<br />
that profiles an everyday individual<br />
who carries a concealed weapon. <strong>This</strong><br />
article is an inspiration to our readers by<br />
helping them to realize that they are not<br />
alone in their lifestyle decision to always<br />
be armed. ]<br />
What do you recommend to other physically<br />
challenged people who are concerned<br />
about self-defense? What advice<br />
do you have for other people who have<br />
physical difficulties and want to figure<br />
out how to safely run the gun?<br />
I would say take as many classes as<br />
you can and learn from as many different<br />
instructors as possible. You want to<br />
get as many different inputs as possible<br />
because what one may come up with<br />
might work really well for one thing,<br />
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