Quite liberating OC experience today

[Nitro66DS]

I like to ride bicycles as a form of exercise on nice warm days. In past threads about how to carry on a bike I've talked about how I use a Serpa setup in cross-draw to hold my G26 across my hip but I've always had a t-shirt or jersey pulled over it. I know it had a tendency to ride up and expose a portion of the firearm and I had to believe the bulge that is present when stopped at a light had to be seen by passerbys.

Today, I said "screw that" and let her fly. The whole advantage of this setup is nullified by the cover garment while on a bicycle because its kinda hard to control a bike in a stressful situation while needing both hands to get at one's firearm. Today, I just pulled the jersey down to about where the nylon belt and holster was.

Man, it was a nice afternoon here in Central Oregon. Mid 70s, no clouds, pastures are still green and the winds were light. I rode a loop that took me out and around about half the city. When I got back into town a lady cruised past with the bed of her pickup full of US flags and she waved. On many weekends flags are posted all up and down the main corridors of downtown and this gave me an idea...why not close out my first true civilian open carry experience with a tour through downtown on my bike past 100s of US flags?

It was awesome! "What a country" RIP Tim Russert. :patriot:

[deadday]

NOT what I expected...:whistling: Thought this was going to be a thread about a good, ole fashioned, chemical sinus cleaning :supergrin:






drew

[Nitro66DS]

HAHA, you referring to pepper spray or something?

The only LEO I saw simply waved back to me.

[kelsitone]

Great story. :thumbsup:

You should add this to the More Tales of Open Carrying thread: http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=843733

[RussP]

Great story. :thumbsup:

You should add this to the More Tales of Open Carrying thread: http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=843733
Done!!!

Good story!

[deadday]

HAHA, you referring to pepper spray or something?

The only LEO I saw simply waved back to me.


Yup, that is what I thought when I saw 'OC experience' :supergrin: Good to hear that you had a good, safe OC experience...One of these days Texas will pull its head out of its ass (I hope)....





drew

[Nitro66DS]

Done!!!

Good story!

I thought about that thread but I was being a little selfish :wavey:

I just thought it was pretty cool about the flags and everything and I wanted to give the best shot for others to see my story.

What was liberating was a thought that occured to me during the ride, kinda like when I was going through the hassle of checking firearms in my airline baggage at O'hare. I have a right to have this firearm with me and dammit, I'm going to make the system serve me as I exercise that right.

I'm tired of hiding this thing all the time. 90% of the time concealed is the best option but sometimes it isn't.

[RussP]

I thought about that thread but I was being a little selfish :wavey:

I just thought it was pretty cool about the flags and everything and I wanted to give the best shot for others to see my story.

What was liberating was a thought that occured to me during the ride, kinda like when I was going through the hassle of checking firearms in my airline baggage at O'hare. I have a right to have this firearm with me and dammit, I'm going to make the system serve me as I exercise that right.

I'm tired of hiding this thing all the time. 90% of the time concealed is the best option but sometimes it isn't.
Nothing wrong with posting in the main forum, and nothing selfish about it.

Several posts have been copied from here to the sticky.

:thumbsup:

[RussP]

...What was liberating was a thought that occured to me during the ride, kinda like when I was going through the hassle of checking firearms in my airline baggage at O'hare. I have a right to have this firearm with me and dammit, I'm going to make the system serve me as I exercise that right.

I'm tired of hiding this thing all the time. 90% of the time concealed is the best option but sometimes it isn't.Yep...

[emtp2rn]

On a sad note, across the police scanner yesterday was a call for a man going down one of our major thoroughfares on a motorcycle and the caller reported seeing a gun. The idiot caller decided to follow the person. I wish I knew how it turned out, but I just thought it was crazy.

Wish the dispatcher could have asked, "Was he touching it?" and ended the problem right there.

Guessing it was a cpl rider who happened to expose himself.

Glad you had a good experience.