Gun Digest's Carrying the Revolver Concealed Carry eShort: Advice & suggestions on the best CCW holsters for your concealed carry revolver. Concealment holsters, clothing, gear & tips for tactical shooters.
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In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham covers holsters and techniques for carrying a revolver for self-defense, plus ammo carriers.
Grant Cunningham
Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.
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Concealed Carry: Carrying The Revolver
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Tuckable holster from Tucker Gunleather has special hanger. Loop at left goes over belt, while a tucked-in shirt slides into gap between hanger and holster.
Revolvers are hard to carry!" That has got to be the most frequent comment I hear from other shooters. It seems logical: the cylinder on a revolver is fat, has a thicker profile than an autoloader of comparable size, thus it must be harder to carry.
As you’ve no doubt heard before, size isn’t everything. Yes, the cylinder does give its carrier something of a lump to hide, but the overall shape of the revolver actually makes it relatively easy to conceal. The revolver has an organic shape that blends well into the natural curves and hollows of the human body, easily camouflaging the gun’s shape.
When inserted into a holster and covered, the revolver takes on a fluid shape. From any direction the revolver curves smoothly outward then back again. The revolver’s rounded grip (assuming that the owner hasn’t installed grips which defeat the natural frame shape) contributes to the overall effect, allowing a cover garment to drape smoothly over the gun.
For contrast, look at a typical autoloading pistol: the entire gun is composed of angles, no matter how rounded the edges themselves are. The butts of their frames are squared off in all directions, making a perfect point that easily gives away its shape under clothing. We’re used to seeing clothing filled with contours, not corners, which makes hiding an auto more difficult regardless of overall volume. No matter how thin the autoloading pistol is, that bottom corner is always there to give the carrier away.
Revolvers also tend to shift less during wear. The autoloader’s grip contains its ammunition supply, which (when carried in a typical muzzle-down orientation) makes the package top-heavy. The weight carried high tends to make the gun want to rotate backwards, and if the wearer’s holster and belt are not of the best quality that backward lean makes the squared-off grip poke out even more.
Since the revolver’s center of gravity is in the loaded cylinder, it wants to stay in one place. Revolvers tend to shift much less than an equivalent auto, which means that once it’s concealed it will probably stay that way. (It also makes for a consistent grip angle, an important consideration when training for self-defense.)
When pressure is applied to top sides of improperly stiffened IWB holster, the gun is effectively locked in, making draw difficult. Problem doesn’t occur with flat-sided autoloaders.
Holsters
Understand that, like the mythical perfect gun or perfect caliber, the perfect holster does not exist. If it did this would be a much shorter chapter.
I’m going to talk mostly in terms of concepts rather than specific products. The conditions and reasons for revolver carry are varied – concealed or defense, field or hunting, and competition all have differing needs and criteria. The holster business is constantly changing,