{"id":8812,"date":"2025-05-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:44:36","slug":"good-advice-on-off-body-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/good-advice-on-off-body-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD ADVICE ON OFF-BODY CARRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you have studied the tactics of armed self-defense at all, you are familiar with the pioneering work of my good friend John Farnam. If you have studied it deeply, you are aware that John\u2019s wife, Vicki Farnam, is an expert in her own right who specializes in training females.  Vicki has come up with a fascinating protocol for teaching off-body carry for women, whose wardrobes and life-styles are less compatible with concealed handgun carry than those of their brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vicki found that women more than men were more likely for that reason to carry off-body \u2013 in purses, briefcases, etc \u2013 than holstered on their physical person. Rather than denigrate them for it, she decided to teach them how to do it effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us consider the purse, fanny pack, etc. sub-optimal because they\u2019re not terribly fast, and because a criminal may begin the assault by snatching at that purse or whatever. Pointing out that bad guys can snatch guns from holsters too, Vicki came up with the solution of \u201coff-body\u201d carry attached to the torso with a strap to make it on-body carry, and a series of patterned movements that maximize drawing speed and efficiency from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martha Hoelschen shooting from an off-body carry option, at Tac Con<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I strongly recommend her new book \u201cFlexCCarry Solutions: a Positive Guide for Off-Body Carry.<\/a>\u201d I watched her friend and contemporary, the highly-skilled Martha Hoelschen, shoot a very credible score in the shooting match at this year\u2019s RangeMaster Tactical Conference in Dallas using an across-the-chest-strapped purse holster that Vicki recommends.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not a fan of off-body carry, but I am <\/em>a fan of good people  carrying a handgun wherever it is legal and practical to do so.  I understand the constraints of women\u2019s fashion. (And this can work for men too, of course.)  All Vicki\u2019s many recommended carry products include a dedicated holster inside the given container, carried with nothing else in that compartment to get in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read her book<\/a>, and better yet, see about taking one of her hands-on classes<\/a> offered around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a firearms instructor who spits on off-body carry and says in essence, \u201cIf you don\u2019t carry what I carry the way I carry it, to Hell with you,\u201d you have no soul and don\u2019t belong teaching good people how to protect themselves from evil people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have studied the tactics of armed self-defense at all, you are familiar with the pioneering work of my good friend John Farnam. If you have studied it deeply, you are aware that John\u2019s wife, Vicki Farnam, is an expert in her own right who specializes in training females.  Vicki has come up with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8812","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\/8812","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=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}