Richard,
Re your comment below:
> Well, Joy, I have read the entire chapter at
this
> point but let me
> ask you: why strap weapons to one's thighs if
not
> for concealment?
> It makes no sense to me. Do you think a pistol
can
> be drawn more
> quickly from the thigh than from the hip (or
the
> shoulder, for that
> matter)? If not for concealment, why the
thigh?
> What makes that
> superior to the shoulder or the hip?
Especially
> when one considers
> that the thigh automatically imposes a
friction
> problem not there
> when using the hip or shoulder option? Come on!
As
> a gun collector
> (and nut) I have numerous hip and shoulder
holsters.
> This makes no
> sense.
Haven't you ever seen a western where somebody where their
gun strapped low to there thigh? On THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF
WYATT EARP, for example, Hugh O'Brian would wear a two-gun
rig, his right-hand gun, a Buntline Special, strapped low on
his thigh because of the extra-long barrel, and his left-hand
gun, a regular Colt Peacemaker, strapped a bit higher. Maybe
no real-life western gunfighter ever really wore a two-gun
rig like that, but it looked neat.
The ostensible (perhaps not the actual) reason was that's
where the hand naturally fell.
JIM DOHERTY
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