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