{"id":8761,"date":"2025-04-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2025-04-12T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:06:10","slug":"appendix-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/appendix-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX CARRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few years ago at the pistol match held in conjunction with Tom and Lynn Givens\u2019 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, I was midway through the final shoot-off and had beaten all my opponents\u2026until I came up against Spencer Keepers. After the start signal, my pistol was just coming up on target when I heard Spencer fire. The dude smoked me.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been drawing from behind the hip using an open-front vest concealment, while Spencer was carrying at the appendix beneath a closed-front shirt. No question, appendix is faster when you have both hands free, one to clear the gun and the other to access it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer makes holsters, specializing in appendix carry, and no one makes better appendix holsters. You\u2019ll find a link to Spencer\u2019s shop in<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/appendix-carry-vs-hip-carry\/\" target=\"_blank\"> this article about him<\/a> along with a\u00a0\u00a0link to one of my own articles on the pros and cons of this popular but controversial method of carrying a concealed handgun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago at the pistol match held in conjunction with Tom and Lynn Givens\u2019 Rangemaster Tactical Conference, I was midway through the final shoot-off and had beaten all my opponents\u2026until I came up against Spencer Keepers. After the start signal, my pistol was just coming up on target when I heard Spencer fire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}