Advice AGAINST Cross-Draw Holsters

A good friend, customer, and fellow Veteran took exception to the fact that I don't like or recommend a cross-draw holster when he asked me to procure one for him...ergo the following is an excerpt from my email response to him...

Not to belabor the point, but I strongly disagree and in fact warn my students and friends NOT to wear cross-draw.
FHP used to wear cross-draw but no longer does...some bad things happened.

In the time of Davy Crockett, by the time the Mexicans or Indians or who ever you had a disagreement with got close to you, you already had your pistola out and were probably blasting away. In a gunfight, the person with the cross draw holster, has to swing his gun in a 90 degree arc while the bandito with the side holster merely has to clear leather.

Today where we can no longer freely shoot first and make excuses later, the cross draw presents a temptation to someone who has confronted us at close quarters, and it is harder to prevent them from grabbing your gun than it is with a conventional holster.

In a panic situation, depending on whether you have a single-action or a double-action handgun, there is the chance that you may have an accidental discharge while swinging the gun to its on-target position.

For these reasons, the cross-draw holster is outdated. Needless to say some of the few remaining old and senile cowboys who are stuck in their 19th century ways would still adhere to the old methods, but time and progress waits for no man. So get with the program you old fart, stop your persnickety contrariness, keep up with the times and always, ALWAYS REMEMBER THE ALAMO!

"...Davey, Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier....do dah!"

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