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if the drop holster is too low, i.e., cowboy style, it tends to shift all over the place. The taper of the thigh is just like an icecream cone and as you move down the taper gets more. Try keeping it as high on the thigh as possible so that the draw just clears the bottom of the vest. In our tactical; medical roles you run hard with packs/holster/etc on both thighs and it doesn't slow me at all. The other reason to keep the holster higher is the angle of draw. I've kneeled over a patient and had to draw, both when I had the holster too low and when it is as high as I can get it and the high position makes it easy, the low position made it nearly impossible to bring the gun to target as quickly or with efficiency of movement.
I think I'm preaching to the QP choir but I have noted alot of personnel wearing the holster way low........
just my 2 cents as a civilian operator.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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