Survival and Emergency Preparedness

Anyone use to carry their pistol in a fanny pack? Anyone still carry one?

I use to carry a Gelco Escort Waistpack that I bought 25 years ago for $18. It's been discontinued and when you can find one they're often over $100. And it's held up really well over the years. I've had to dye it a couple of times when it started showing wear but otherwise it's really been a good bag. Having used it in years but thought that maybe I'd start again here and there. Be a good way to carry a larger sized pistol if/when I wanted.




Anyone else have or use one?

No one else use, or have used a fanny pack? Still got mine above and I'd use it again. Very handy.

Nope. I do have a tactical man-bag though...

Bob wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 8:48 am Nope. I do have a tactical man-bag though...

The one you have for the SBR bag?

I have one. You can find them at Walmart and outfit them with a soft holster or Glock holster.

I carry my LC9 in a Case Logic Diskman waist pack with I ride my bike or walk the local walking trails sometimes (but not in the winter).

When I used to carry in a fanny pack, fanny packs were more commonly seen (we're talking early Nineties), and I would go out of my way to wear colors (red, pink, turquoise) that did not look "tough," because I didn't want anyone to think "Gun!" As Mac66 has done, I'd also look for prominent non-gun logos on the outside (I have red and Smurf blue Eddie Bauer fanny packs still, but I don't think I've worn them once in the past 20 years), but you can also accomplish this sort of distraction with a sewn-on label as I've put on this Wilderness pack (that I sometimes wear hiking - and not with a camera or binoculars on board).



These days (fanny packs are no longer ubiquitous as they were in the early Nineties) when I see fanny packs (as I did yesterday on a mountain biker), they're usually tactical (this one was in some FDE color and MOLLEd up) and in no way make me think anything but GUN! If I'm thinking it, then so are any police officers or criminals who are on the ball (I say this as a former prosecutor and longtime criminal defense lawyer) - which means that the only people a tactical fanny pack is concealing the gun from are the oblivious Condition White people who make up most of the population. If that's what you want, go for it; if you want to conceal from the really dangerous criminals, you might consider "Sheeping-up" the pack you use. Whatever works for you, though.

Fanny packs went the way of the horse/buggy...
If need be, I carry in a single shoulder type

David wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:26 am Anyone use to carry their pistol in a fanny pack? Anyone still carry one?

I use to carry a Gelco Escort Waistpack that I bought 25 years ago for $18. It's been discontinued and when you can find one they're often over $100. And it's held up really well over the years. I've had to dye it a couple of times when it started showing wear but otherwise it's really been a good bag. Having used it in years but thought that maybe I'd start again here and there. Be a good way to carry a larger sized pistol if/when I wanted.




Anyone else have or use one?

I've been using this again with my G45. Very convenient since my injury.