This goes back to the church security thread. Anyone with experience with a full sized gun concealed carrying? Looking to carry one morning a week, need a holster. Doesn't have to be perfectly comfortable or line/bulge free, just needs to be concealed and accessible with 1 spare mag.

Appreciate any helpful responses.

Full size, I'd go with either inside the pants holster or shoulder holster with a jacket over it. Hard to conceal a full size gun without wearing a jacket or overshirt over it.

I'm planning on a button up shirt over a Tshirt or a sweatshirt over a Tshirt. I'm okay with buying cloths to make this work

Depends on your build. I’ve appendix carried my Glock 20 and it’s just so long it digs into hip and the goods too much to sit comfortably for any amount of time. I prefer my leather kydex hybrid iwb at 3-4 o’clock. Or if clothing allows a good avenger style leather holster. I don’t open carry, just throw a sweatshirt or vest over it.

The Shadow is a little on the heavy side




OK my son runs a Shadow 2 in competition it is heavy , his is heavier than yours he said cokked and locked is the way to run

he said it is heavy but a good holster for it is for strong side https://www.tier1concealed.com/collections/iwb-holsters/products/t1-echo?variant=31311831007303

if you want to run appendix https://www.tier1concealed.com/collections/iwb-holsters/products/axis-elite?variant=17963595235399


yes you can get a big gun appendix you he just ran a G34 MOS from concealment appendix at league this week and if he uses 17 round mags it doesn't even print.

what he said is the shadow 2 has a short chamber be 100% sure it runs your carry ammo well , like minimum 50-100 rounds from your 2 mags before you carry mark those as your carry mags
they often do not like 147gr so 124 or 115

he said you need a very solid belt , possibly a Kore gun belt or Nex gun belt for strong side.

for appendix , Hunter Constantine carry belt this is what he carries the G34 on with 2 spare mags he is using a Carrey Concealment Bounty holster ( He runs this is for concealment competition not EDC)

A my late teens and early 20s I concealed carried a 7" red hawk 44mag in a shoulder holster. It was heavy and awkward but I was young broke and its what I bought for deer and what I had so I packed it. Some carry large guns but not many carry them very long.

I have been eyeballing a shadow 2 like that for 3 years plus but just haven't bit yet. Im sure its got to be very low recoil, nice single action trigger and a joy to shoot.

get the optics ready and keep your options open.

add more ounces with the brass grips and with the optic and it has very little recoil. he comes in at 55.5oz , 59 is the max for the division for an unloaded gun with empty mag

This has been my experience as well. I carried a Ruger P-85 concealed for years. That might not be considered full-size but it's a pretty big, pretty heavy chunk of steel. I carried OWB with either a strong-side or small-of-the-back holster. I preferred the strong-side because the small-of-the-back method made the pistol inaccessible when sitting.

I always wore an untucked button-down shirt when carrying. I even had my wife sew small amounts of lead shot in the seams on the bottom fronts to keep the wind from making my shirts flap and potentially exposing my weapon.

These days I carry AIWB with a pistol of the same caliber but less than half the size and weight of the old Ruger. With the holster I use I can conceal it with a tucked-in T-shirt.

Just shove it in your pants pocket and smile and wink at the ladies when they look at you.

Thank you Pete! Great info, ill run 50 hollow points through each magazine this weekend to confirm function.

Nice firearm

Thank you. My biggest fear is someone walking into church with a rifle. It's a large church with long open distances. I started trying to shoot my regular carry guns at 25+ yards and realized I was seriously limited. This gun is heavy, small but good sights, low recoil and supremely accurate, it's a range toy with a job one morning a week.

My main CCW is a Glock 32 carried in both an inside or outside holster at the 4 o’clock on my strong side. I also have a S&W 36 snub on the inside of my ankle in an elastic holster. I only carry extra ammo for my main pistol.

I see a VERY GOOD opportunity to explain to the wife your need for a new gun. I mean come on man!!! You're protecting the LORD'S HOUSE!!! Who could argue!!

Tell the wife it's necessary. You/re doing the LORD'S work!!

A glock 43 or 43x or a Ruger LCP or a SW bodyguard or shield.

I like full size also but in a church you will not have long shots and you need to be able to access and present with ease. A full size does not give this ability like a compact.

You're welcome!!

Instead of buying clothes to work around the problem, why not buy a better suited gun for the situation?

If it is a church carry situation, buy yourself a nice suit coat, a shoulder holster and your problem is solved…. I run the shadows little brother…. Great pistols imho.

Yep.

I can conceal a Glock 19x in the appendix position, in summer. I know I know, they say that’s not a full size, but let’s be real, it’s pretty much a full size.

And I’m not a very big guy.

But I’ve also got a box full of barely used holsters that didn’t make the cut.




As for making longer shots, get a red dot.

It’s scary what a guy can do at distance with a red dot.

Maybe go to a safer church?

Doesn’t matter what church or how safe you think it is, crazy happens. Just a little over a year ago in a tiny rural town here in Idaho, a flaming trans showed up to disrupt the service. Its only goal was to disrupt but it could just as easily have been a far worse scenario. And no one had any idea why that small church was chosen. The police escorted them off premises and trespassed them. The person had no association with the church or any of the congregation.

My CC is a Glock 48 and before that a Glock 22. I carry outside the waistband in a Blackhawk Serpa. In the cool months I wear a fleece vest or a sweater to conceal. In the warmer months a large, tall Hawaiian shirt. Not hiding the outline just covering up so it’s not noticeable at first glance.