For me, everything has a holster. even pocket guns with manual safeties.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
For me, the J frame can just be dropped into the pocket. Everything else gets a holster.

This for me.
Autos get a pocket holster (LCP), j-frames (649) are either AIWB with a holster or just dropped in a coat pocket sans holster.

Holster for everything i carry

Just stick it in there and lumber about.
Nailed it!

No holster with a model 49 in pants pocket. I do use a galco pocket holster in my jacket inside pocket though.



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I pocket carry my LCP.
The super heavy trigger is not likely to "just go off accidentally", but the holster helps keep the gun upright in your pocket.

I really didn't know how to answer because I almost always carry my J-Frame in a Low Alessi IWB holster. However, if I am wearing a jacket, if I am not carrying anything heavier, I just toss the 642 in my jacket pocket.

I carry my J frame (right now a632UC) in an uncle mikes #4. I would not be concerned about using no holster with a j frame, but I find that one big advantage is that using even a soft unit like an uncle mikes #4 keeps the revolver properly oriented in the pocket.

I'm on the fence here...

Seriously though, this is the only pistol/only method I use for Pocket Carry, and only in a jacket pocket, as my P365s are either a factory P365-X variant, or a P365 with the P365XL Grip Module, a configuration I was using before SIG even launched the P365-X.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
Well, I just now realized that autocorrect screwed up my subject line, and now I can't change it without resetting the poll results. Sorry guys, Picket Carry it is.

I'm enjoying the responses and gear suggestions, keep them coming!

Well this guy approves...

I don't pocket carry very often, but when it's happened it always is done with a holster. However the couple of times that I've been tempted to carry my concealed hammer LCR, I felt that it would be safe to carry that without a holster...as long as I remember to keep everything else out of that pocket. Which ultimately is why I use a pocket holster because I know me and my absent-minded pocket-use habits ("Which pocket did I put my car keys in again? Oops.").

I agree with TheFrontRange, my 340M&P when pocket carried also rides in a JW O'Rourke pocket holster (we probably ran into each other at those shows in Birmingham). For the rare times I carry my Seecamp that's either in another holster from John or the Del Fatti I have for it.

Normally I’m a holster carrier but I’d have no issue pocket carrying a revolver or a DA/SA auto sans holster but anything else gets one.

I didn't have a lot of extra $ when I came home from my fun times in Vietnam in November of '68. Well, I did, but used the $ to buy a new car, a motor cycle and some civilian clothes.

From the time I turned 21 in December and became a member of the local PD till maybe February or March I carried the K frame 38 I bought for both on and off duty, just stuck it in my belt under a T in what they called "Mexican" carry (don't know why, never saw a Mexican carrying a gun that way, but...).

Then long about February or March, 1969, I bought my first J Frame and carried it, or one like it, in my right front pocket sans holster for many, many years. By the 70s pocket holsters became widely known, but the ones I saw were the softies they still sell-couldn't see any value in them, so no holster.

Now I carry semi-autos, but still have Ruger LCRs and though I have softies (I stick them to the inside of the door to the safe and keep my LCRs in 'em, I rarely carry the LCRs at all.

I do have one of the new S&W Bodyguard 380s and I have a Kydex pocket holster that I often carry it in, though IWB or AIWB is my favorite way to carry.

Bob

I guess it could be argued that a pocket is the holster if you don't carry any other object in there but I still feel WAY more comfortable/safe with the trigger covered in a pocket holster even with my current carry which is a Kahr CM9 that has a nice smooth but long and rather stiff trigger pull.