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Common Snags
Concealing a gun in cold weather is easy, but drawing it is surprisingly difficult.
This is way too much of a burden.
Whenever possible, wear clothing layers under your gun and a single garment (your coat) over it.
Keep in mind your outer garment can present holstering issues.
To remedy this, take a little extra time before holstering.
Holstering Complications
Heres where many shooters go wrong.
Take a peek into the holster and, assuming its completely empty, holster your gun.
If youre using an open garment, you dont have to deal with quite as much hassle.
If the slide cant reciprocate, your pistols cycle of operations is disrupted.
Alternatively, when shooting from retention, you could simply flag your thumb.
Indexing your thumb to the same part of your body also promotes consistent orientation for enhanced close-quarter accuracy.
Last but not least on the cold weather calamity list are gloves.
Clearly, the thicker the gloves, the less dexterity you will have.
If not, your gloves will probably feel like mittens when you venture to draw and shoot with them.
Originally appeared inHandguns Magazine.
