First folks started to find that Kydex wasn't the devil and started accepting hybrid holster instead of all leather. The was years ago.
A coupla years back, I notice SayUncle, and then others, go from calibers that began with a .4 to 9mm. The idea was more is better than less ammo in a gun fight. And 2 hits with a 9mm is better than 1 hit with a .45. And you might as well, post 2004, when magazine size limitations were in the rear view mirror. If you aren't restricted to 10 or less, might as well go for quantity and it is easier to get quantity with 9mm than .45. Plus, pistols are pistols. If you want a qauntum increase in round effectiveness, switch to a rifle. 9mm is also easier to control, obviously, so shot placement is better for shot #2.
Anyhoo, 1911s in leather IWB holsters give way to M&P 9mm in kydex IWB holsters.
Now, the SayUncle bellweather has notice a new fashion trend. Appendix carry. With it's pluses and minuses. It's faster, but there is a risk to the femoral artery. Maybe this will stick, too.
And this doesn't count 'fashion' trends in history. Like the 'Wonder 9' trend of the 80s that went away and then came back. The .45 trend already mentioned. 6 o'clock IWB for a time, I believe, was a 'thing.' (Thank you Eddie Murphy's 'Axel Foley') The .380 pocket auto was huge for a while. The post Miami shootout that got 10mm popular for a time, and then .40, and from that .357 Sig, and all 4 are fading now. CCW doesn't go very far back beyond that, but I am sure there were other trends for various firearm and firearm accoutrement selection decisions before CCW was a thing. Shoulder holster carry, I guess.
There were reasons, of course, for each trend swing, but not really HUGE ones. It's just 'cuz,' kinda, really. It's all in pursuit of making oneself a more effective shottist, but it's also splitting hairs to the point of being similar to the clothes fashion world. I mean if the trend were to go back to 1911s folks wouldn't really be handicapping themselves. Or even back to revolvers. It just seems sort of fickle.
Not a criticism, just an observation.
But I wonder what the next trend will be?
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Open carried gate loaded single action revolvers are coming back man!
Snub-nose revolvers. Simple to operate, far less chance of jamming. .38 special's nothing to sneeze at with modern ammo.
Simple + Reliable + Effective = Win!
I am not out of fashion just because I carry a .45 ACP 1911 in a leather IWB...
I'm retro.
Mounted lasers and/or lights that are grip activated. I think we'll be seeing those go fully mainstream in CCW guns within a decade.
Years before I even had a blog I was saying that if I just started fresh, I'd buy a Glock 19 and not monkey around with all that other crap.
Years before I started carrying a G23 (and then a G29.)
AIWB was common back in the day. Go look at old USPSA photos. For a certain part of the shooting community, it never left. It's been "discovered" by a certain sector of the intertubes in about the same way that Columbus "discovered" America. ;)
Here's a thing: I have a lot of friends who are gunbloggers. I have a lot of friends who are serious hardcore shooters. There is a lot less overlap between the two groups than you'd think.
I really wish I'd had more time to spend with you at the NRAAM, NJT. :)
Between the shoulderblades or S.O.B. carry. As for between the shoulderblades a friend of mind a swabbie carried a .38 special 2 shot derringer in a small holster between his shoulderblades with a small 3.5" blade push knife and 6 extra .38 rounds. The holster was canvas and elastic and he made it himself. Oh he also had 2 handcuff keys attached as well, 1 standard key and 1 of those funky german cuff keys.
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