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Okay, I've tried some of the best (Milt Sparks), but have never found an IWB that was actually tuckable with a dress shirt that didn't look like I was trying to conceal a brick or had no idea how to blouse a shirt. At 6'1", 185-200 (depending upon how out of shape I am, but really pretty slim), I just can't make a tuckable work.
Am I doing something completely wrong? Does it really require specially tailored shirts? Or, is it just a myth and simply wear a jacket to CCW?
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Yeah, that's the only answer I've found to date as well. Seeing if someone else has this figured out better than I have.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Only way I can do it is with my shirttail out. I bought one of the Galco King Tuck models for my Glock 32, andIf I tuck my shirt in, it just looks like I'm trying to conceal a brick.
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Am I doing something completely wrong? Does it really require specially tailored shirts? Or, is it just a myth and simply wear a jacket to CCW?
No, you're not doing anything wrong; a tuckable IWB is a misnomer & is physically impossible in the true sense of being tuckable. The best that can be done is to blouse the shirt over it & that's not really tucked. MM
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For carrying a real gun, I think it's a myth. For tucked shirts, I go pocket carry or cover garment.
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4ager, you already know this but I am going to throw this out there anyway. Its hard to beat a pocket carry pistol for concealment and ease of gun transfer no matter how you dress. Try a Glock 43 in a DeSantis Nemesis if you haven't already. A +1 magazine and an extra magazine will cover a lot of bases.
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I consider a Glock 43 to be a real gun, albeit on the minimal side, and I carry it in a pocket in a DeSantis Super Fly when proper decorum suggests the appropriateness of a tucked shirt and no cover garment. I don't +1 the magazine for the gun, but I do on the spares.
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Whole lot of dress shirts out there nowadays are designed to be worn untucked. If dressed properly with a proper fitting shirt, one does not look 'sloppy' at all.
Think the only people I see tucking are old dudes and golfers (business attire aside)...
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Whole lot of dress shirts out there nowadays are designed to be worn untucked. If dressed properly with a proper fitting shirt, one does not look 'sloppy' at all.
Think the only people I see tucking are old dudes and golfers (business attire aside)... There are times, a lot of them, where tucked in the way to go for business.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Chriss never has "the answer".
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Glock 43 with clipdraw. Not perfect, but not bad either. For the record, I won't carry THIS gun THIS way with a round chambered. But I've not found anything else with this much power this concealable. It is a little slower to get into action, but a lot faster than going back to the car to get the gun I didn't carry.
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While I'm not a real fan of wearing tucked, I've never had the slightest problem with it when I did. And I have found a dress shirt that blouses subtly over the belt line works perfectly...for me.
Dress shirts tend to be tightly tailored or pretty big in the body. Look at people in an office and that's what you'll typically see...too snug around the body or too loose...and you see this on 99% of the guys. So if you just go on the loose side, you'll fit right in and no one will ever know.
But...I still think tucked sucks. It's one tool in the chest for when you need it.
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If it helps any, I had to downsize to .380 (sig 238) in a small-maker 'executive iwb' hoslter having just one j-clip, to be convinced my iwb was un-noticeable. This was in an office setting where get up-down umpteen times in a day, sitting on stools and reaching here and there, which tends to challenge keeping a shirt tucked as well as not printing. Anything larger than my little P238 I was conscious of printing. Some claim to make a full-sized pistol disappear and maybe they're right, but IMO physics is physics - a smaller pistol hides easier. And yeah a .380 of 6 round cap is a compromise, but at bad breath distances, Cor-Bon DPX's, I'd take it over nothing anytime.
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Am I doing something completely wrong? Does it really require specially tailored shirts? Or, is it just a myth and simply wear a jacket to CCW?
No, you're not doing anything wrong; a tuckable IWB is a misnomer & is physically impossible in the true sense of being tuckable. The best that can be done is to blouse the shirt over it & that's not really tucked. MM Oh, you can tuck it. And it won't look like a brick. It will look like you have your shirt tucked around a gun - at least, to anyone who's really paying attention. IME, very few people are paying attention. But I pretty much gave up on it too.
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It sounds like the answer is essentially "no". Fair enough; good enough. Small pistol for pocket carry when I have to go tucked and a jacket isn't appropriate; otherwise, an IWB/OWB with a garment (untucked) over it, be that a jacket or a shirt. Same MO as I've been doing for years, just wanting to make sure that I wasn't missing something obvious.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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the only tuckable I got to work without looking like a muffin top over a brick was an NAA Guardian....
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I've carried a Shield in a kydex tuckable holster made by Cooks: https://www.cooksholsters.com/tuckable-iwb-holster/It works ok, but I have a smaller waist and a thicker chest/back so it helps hide it a bit, especially since the shirt is looser around my waist. The thin profile of the shield along with the thin kydex helps. I much prefer OWB with cover but sometimes I can't get what I prefer.
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