Things certainly come and go in phases in the firearms community. For example, back about five or six years ago when I went through a revolver phase, nobody cared about them. I always use a small revolver as my deep concealment option, but at that time I was shooting and writing about revolvers a lot. Lately, all the cool kids are spending some time with wheel guns. And so it goes. Recently, the all-but-abandoned ankle holster is a topic of interest again far beyond the select group of people who have continued to use it on a daily basis for many years.
The primary reason that ankle carry went out of favor is due to tuckable solutions for wearing guns under tucked-in shirts. Things like the Phlster Enigma make it possible to carry a gun on your waistline while dressed formally. Years ago, I used ankle carry quite often to accommodate formal dress. For the past few years, I simply use a tuckable solution on the rare occasion that I need to dress formally. Still, ankle carry has come back to the attention of the concealed carry community. I suspect this is due to the post 2020 uptick in mob violence and the like, and many concealed carriers may opt to carry a second gun on-person due to the heightened threat profile.
I don’t like ankle carry as a means of carrying an only gun; a tuckable solution, or a pocket carried gun, are better for this. However, for carrying a second, backup gun, I think ankle carry is ideal. It proves ideal primarily because the waistband and pockets are usually already accounted for among gun carriers, and adding a second gun to the body is more feasible if you put it on the ankle. There are some other things that make it great for backup gun carry as well, but real-estate is probably the main reason it gets the job.
While many people have talked about ankle carry again lately, few resources address how to make it work. That is what I seek to do here. Below are four brief videos that will help explain how to put the ankle holster on, how to draw from a standing position, how to draw from seated, and how to access from the ground:
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