Best Appendix Carry Holster 2026: Top 8 AIWB Picks, Ranked

By Jon Hauptman, with some research and SEO help from AI

Updated for 2026. Comprehensive buyer's guide. Expert tested.

Two of those three claims are false, and by the end of this article you will be able to tell which ones, on any page you read, immediately.

Welcome. You searched "best appendix carry holster." You have fallen into our trap: a five thousand word article with a number in the title and a year in the title, because those two things are what make people click. We know this because everybody in this category knows it, and we are going to spend the next few thousand words showing you exactly how the search engine sausage gets made, and then giving you the thing you were actually looking for. It’s a trap, just like every other result in this search. But here you’ll actually get something useful.

Here is our list.

Our Top Picks

Award	Winner
Best Overall	The holster you already own, positioned correctly
Best Budget	The holster you already own, positioned correctly, with two dollars of foam on it
Best for Concealment	See Best Overall
Best for Comfort	See Best Overall
Best for Big Guys	See Best Overall, but the position is different, and we will show you how to find it
Best for Women	See Best Overall, but the position is different, and we will show you how to find it
Best Light Bearing	See Best Overall, now with a light on it
Best Beltless	Fine, this one is ours, and we will explain why that is a bit embarrassing

That is the whole list. The rest of this article is about why that is the only honest version of it, what the other lists are actually doing, and then how to get your gun to disappear under a t-shirt using equipment you probably own right now.

And look, we get it. You searched for “best appendix carry holster,” because you’re probably going to buy a new holster in the very near future. And you probably hope that this new holster is going to be “the one” which solves all of your concealed carry issues. We want to save you time, money, and disappointment with a boatload of free knowledge, most of which people don’t learn until they’ve been carrying for many years. We understand that this is almost certainly less fun and more work than shopping, but stick with us. If you read this article and follow the links, you’ll be able to solve most of your concealed carry struggles before you even get a tracking number from wherever you were going to buy a new holster.

If you want to skip the media criticism and go straight to the instruction, here is the entire free concealment curriculum. No email required, no upsell, and none of it requires one of our holsters to put into practice. Seriously, it’s not a trick or a sales funnel. The rest of this is for the people who want to know why every other article on this search term looks the same and didn’t actually answer their question.

Part One: How This Article Was Supposed to Be Written

We want to show you how this works, because once you see it you cannot unsee it, and you will never again spend money because a website with a number in the title told you to.

The year in the title is a find and replace

The article ranking above this one says 2026. Last year, the same article said 2025. The year before that, it said 2024. In many cases the body text did not change. Somebody opened the file, changed one number in the headline, changed the "last updated" stamp, and republished. Google reads freshness signals and lists newer stuff higher. Readers see the year and think somebody went back and checked.

Nobody went back and checked. If you’re reading this article in 2027, you’ll know that we did it, too.

"We tested" usually means "we read the product page"

Real holster testing is boring and slow and looks like this: you carry the thing every day for three months, through a summer, through sitting in a car, through a range day where you draw from concealment dozens of times, on the body of the person the holster is supposed to fit. Then you do it again with a different body, because a holster that vanishes on a six foot two athletic frame can be a disaster on a five foot six frame.

Very few of the articles competing for this keyword did that. Read them closely and you will notice the descriptions never contain a specific physical observation. They contain specifications. Material: kydex. Retention: adjustable. Mount: soft loops. Those are transcribed from a product page. A person who actually carried the holster would have described their experience, not just the product.

The pros and cons lists are generated from the spec sheet

You will see a plus sign and a minus sign under each product. Look at what is on the minus side. It is almost always "not for everyone," "limited color options," or "premium price." Those are not weaknesses discovered through actual use. Those are the three safe complaints that won’t upset affiliates.

A real con sounds like this: "the perimeter of the holster has a surprisingly sharp corner and it will poke your thigh crease every time you sit down in a car. I spent a two hour drive shifting in my seat, trying to avoid the discomfort.” That is a real thing that happens, it is specific, and it disqualifies the holster for a whole category of people. Nobody writes it, because writing it requires having done actual testing.

The same eight holsters appear on every list

Not because they are the eight best holsters in the world. Because they are the eight that are easy to link to, well known enough that readers recognize the names, and in many cases running a partner program. The ranking order across different websites is remarkably similar, which is not what you would expect if a dozen independent reviewers had each formed their own opinion.

The five thousand words are for the search engine, not you

Longer pages tend to rank better. That is the whole reason that one of the articles you might have been reading has a section on belt requirements, a section on ride height, a section on light compatibility, and a table of holsters by pistol model. Not because you needed all of it. Because the page needed the word-count.

We are doing the same thing right now. This article is long on purpose. The difference, we hope, is that the words matter to you and not just for the search algorithm. And all of it is actually useful.

The FAQ at the bottom is a keyword trap

Scroll to the bottom of any of these articles and you will find eight questions phrased exactly the way people type them into Google. "What is the best appendix carry holster for the Glock 19." "What does Mexican carry mean." Those are lifted straight from the People Also Ask box. They are there to catch the search, not to answer your question.

We have one of those at the bottom too. We tried to make the answers real. Judge for yourself.

And the byline is two initials

Or a first name with no last name, or a "staff" credit, or nothing at all. In a field where the entire value of a recommendation comes from experience and credibility, the author is anonymous. That’s a red flag.

One piece of advice they all give you, which is completely backwards

Here is the part that should convince you this is not just cynicism. You can check it yourself.

Every article on this search term tells you to buy a stiff gun belt. The stiffer the better. Reinforced, double layer, rigid enough to stand up on its own. It is presented as a well-known given.

For appendix carry, that advice is frequently counterproductive, and in a way that actively works against you.

A very rigid belt resists conforming to your body. Wrapped around a torso that curves, a stiff belt wants to stay a circle, so it arches away from you like a hula hoop. Wherever the belt stands off your body, it pulls the holster away with it. Good concealment is achieved when the gun conforms to the body. The belt should work towards that goal, too.

It gets worse. A wing works by having the belt press against it. A wedge works by having your body press against it. Both of those require the belt to stay in full contact along its length. A belt that arches away is not touching the wing, so the wing does nothing. People buy a claw-equipped holster, mount it on a plank of a belt, find that it does not rotate the grip in, and conclude that claws are overrated.

What you actually want is a belt that is stiff in one direction and flexible in the other. Stiff vertically, so the weight of the gun does not drag the belt down and let everything sag and roll outward. Flexible horizontally, so the belt bends around the shape of your waist and stays in contact the whole way around.

The test is simple. Pick up your gun belt. If it retains its shape like a wagon wheel or hula hoop, it is too rigid for this job. If it can bend side to side without collapsing vertically, that’s what you’re looking for.

We wrote the longer version of this, including what to look for: Best Belts for Concealed Carry. (We don’t even sell gun belts. This is just one of the things we encounter daily as we coach people to improve their concealment).

Check out some of the ranked articles above this one and see how many of them say the same old things about gun belts.

Part Two: Why the Question Cannot Be Answered

Here is the tough part, and the reason we cannot write you an honest ranked list even if we wanted to.

"Best appendix carry holster" is a category error. It is a question about an object. Concealment is not a property of an object. Concealment is a relationship between three things: the gun, your body, and your clothing. Change any one of the three and the answer changes. Whether or not a holster conceals has way more to do with your knowledge and skills than it does with the piece of plastic which holds your gun.

Asking which holster conceals best is like asking which shoe size is best. There is no answer that is true for everybody, and any article that gives you one is either guessing or selling.

Consider two people carrying the identical pistol in the identical holster. One has a flat abdomen and a long torso. The other carries their weight in the belly and has a short torso. The holster that vanishes on the first person will push the grip out into the shirt on the second, because the same holster sitting on a different landscape produces a different result. One of these people will recommend the holster and the other will say it’s terrible and uncomfortable. It’s the same product, in two different contexts.

This is why you have a box full of holsters. Most people who carry seriously for a few years accumulate a frustrating number of holsters, many bought after reading an article like this one, each of which worked a bit better than the last, none of which solved the problem. The box of holsters is not evidence that you kept picking wrong. The box of holsters is evidence that you were answering the question with money instead of with knowledge. You’re not going to luck into finding a holster which works perfectly the instant you put it on, the same way you’re not going to luck into buying a gun which hits the bullseye. YOU hit the bullseye with the fundamentals of pistol shooting. And when you know what those fundamentals are, you know how to pick a gun which allows you to use the fundamentals the best, given your individual hands and grip. It works the same with holsters. Once you know the Basics of Concealment Mechanics, you’ll be able to predict whether or not a given holster will help or hinder you in the steps you need to take to accomplish comfortable concealment.

The holsters on those lists are, genuinely, fine

We want to be clear, because this is the part where we might be expected to trash the competition.

Tulster, Tenicor, Tier 1 Concealed, T.Rex Arms, Vedder, Safariland, Black Arch, Rounded, Bravo Concealment, Werkz, Harry's Holsters. These are competent companies making competent Kydex holsters. Several of them are run by people we know and like. The molding is good, the retention is good, the hardware is good. If one of those holsters is in your collection, you do not have a bad holster.

That is exactly the problem with the list format. A list needs a winner. The truth is that the top of this market is a field of well made products that are more similar than different, and the variable that actually determines whether your gun prints is not on the list at all. The variable is your knowledge.

A listicle cannot say "they are all fine and the answer is a skill." It would have nothing left to rank.

The awkward part: we’re on those lists too

One of the biggest articles ranking for this keyword right now has our Enigma at number six. "Best Beltless AIWB." It even has a little section explaining the beltless use case.

We appreciate the inclusion. It is also a perfect example of everything above. The Enigma exists because we spent years learning that fine-tuning gun position on the body is where most of concealment comes from. And that a pants-belt is a constraint on where the gun can go. It is an answer to a mechanical problem. In the list, it becomes a category slot, a niche pick for the beltless shopper, sitting between Best Light Bearing and Best Value.

The format cannot rank an idea. It can only rank a product. So the product gets highlighted and the idea gets left out.

Part Three: The Thing You Actually Came For

Everything above is, honestly, pretty cheap criticism. You probably already had an inkling that search results aren’t as good as they used to be, and we just went over “why.” Here is the instruction, and it’s going to help more than any new holster purchase.

Concealment is made of three principles. Grip rotation, slide tuck, and body placement paired with fabric drape. Once you can see these three things, you can diagnose any holster on any body, from any brand or maker.

Principle one: grip rotation

The grip is the problem. It is the widest part of the gun, it sits highest, and it sticks out at an angle away from your body. Nearly every printing problem you have ever had was the grip.

Grip rotation means turning the top of the gun inward so the grip lies against your torso instead of pushing out into your shirt. Two things produce it. A wing (also called a claw) mounted at the front of the holster near the trigger guard, which the belt presses against, levering the grip inward. And a wedge, usually a piece of foam at the bottom rear of the holster, which pushes the muzzle away from your body and tips the grip in, the same way a shim under one leg of a wobbly restaurant table changes the angle of the whole tabletop.

The wing works off belt pressure, which is why the belt section above matters so much. The wedge works off your body. They can be used together, and on most bodies they should be.

More info on this, with pictures: How to Stop Printing, and specifically the sections on how holster wings work and how holster wedges work.

Principle two: slide tuck

The top of the slide and the rear sight are the second offender, and they are subtler, because they usually print as a hard edge rather than an obvious lump. The fix is generally the same wedge, but adjusted differently. Moving a wedge half an inch changes which part of the gun rotates and by how much. Further inboard produces more grip rotation. Nearer the belt line pushes things outward instead.

This is the single most common thing people get wrong, and it costs nothing to correct, because it is a matter of peeling the foam off and repositioning it.

Principle three: body placement and fabric drape

This is ninety percent of it, and it is the part no product can do for you.

Your torso is not a flat plane. It has peaks, and it has valleys. There is a position on your body where the gun sits in a valley instead of on a peak, and in that position the same gun in the same holster under the same shirt becomes dramatically harder to see. Finding it is a physical process, not a purchase.

We call it the concealment sweet spot, and it is different for everybody. It moves when your body changes, which means it moves after an injury, after a change in fitness, during and after pregnancy, and as you get older. The people who look like they have a magic holster generally just found their spot years ago and never thought to describe it.

The process for finding yours: Finding Your Concealment Sweet Spot.

The diagnostic: poke and check

Here is a technique you can run right now, in whatever you are wearing. And it’s as easy as it sounds. Literally poke, and then check.

Get dressed as you normally would with the gun on (unloaded and in a safe holster). Find the spot where the gun shows through the shirt. Now poke it. Press the fabric down onto the gun with a finger and feel what is underneath. Is it the grip? The rear sight? The muzzle end pushing the pants out at the bottom?

Most people have never localized their printing. They know "it prints" and they buy a new holster.

Try it yourself: Poke and Check.

The honest comparison table

Since we are contractually obligated by the genre to include a table, here is one that compares the things that actually vary, instead of comparing brands.

What you see in the mirror	What is causing it	What to change
Grip pushing out the shirt	Gun rotated away from the torso	Add or increase a wing; add a wedge at the muzzle
Slide poking the shirt	Grip rotation or slide positioned on a body peak	Shift the gun slightly more strong side or more into the valley. Or tweak wedge position.
Bulge low, near the belt	Muzzle end levering outward, or the holster rides too low	Wedge height and position, then ride height
The whole rig stands off your body	Belt too rigid to conform, bridging away and taking the gun with it	Try the least “tactical” belt in your closet which fits the clips or loops of your holster
Prints only when you sit	Body squishes and the belt shifts	Position, not hardware. Find the sweet spot
Prints only in one shirt	Fabric drape, not the holster	Fabric structure or material, or accept that shirt is not a carry shirt
Everything is fine but it hurts	Pressure concentrated on a small area	Wedge as filler, spread the load

Every row of that table is free to act on. Six of the seven require no purchase at all.

Part Four: How to Make a Cheap Holster Work

This is the section where an article on this keyword tells you to buy something. Instead:

Grab one of your old holsters and put it to work.

We are serious, and we have receipts. Before PHLster sold a single holster, I (Jon) was making YouTube videos about learning to make kydex holsters, mistakes and all. That eventually became a comprehensive two part video on how to make kydex holsters, which has millions of views and was the launchpad for a large number of the holster companies you will find on those ranked lists. Those videos taught a meaningful slice of this industry how to do this. It would be strange for us to now pretend the only path to concealment runs through our checkout page.

Here is what a cheap, well molded kydex holster is missing compared to an expensive one, in practice: usually a wing, usually a wedge, and sometimes better clips. All three are addressable.

Add a wedge. This is the single highest value modification in concealed carry and it can be done with adhesive backed foam. Position matters more than material, which is why the free instruction on placement is worth more than the part.

Add or improve a wing. Some budget holsters have a mounting point for one. If it doesn’t, the shapes and angles of the wedge can do a lot of that work, too.

Fix the ride height and cant. Most clips have more than one mounting hole. Most people have never moved theirs.

Get the belt right before you get a new holster. Stiffer isn’t always better. A belt that holds the weight without sagging and still bends around you. This is frequently a larger improvement than a new holster, and it makes the wing on the holster you already own start working. The point is to get the gun to conform to your body. If your belt doesn’t conform to your body already, the gun won’t either.

Video instruction for all of it lives in the free video library, including the wedge placement master class, where to place a holster wedge, the DIY appendix carry comfort solutions video, and the poke and check walkthrough. None of it is paywalled or subscription based, ever.

If you do all of that and your cheapest holster now conceals better than your most expensive one did, then you have learned the actual lesson of this article, which is that the knowledge was the valuable part all along.

Part Five: Ten Bodies, Which Is the List That Would Have Actually Helped You

Yes, this is a list. It is a list of bodies instead of a list of products, and that is the entire difference between this article and the one above it in the results.

Two key ideas you’ll need for this section:

Peaks and valleys. Stand in front of a mirror in a fitted shirt and look at your torso in profile and from the front. You have high points and low points. A gun placed on a high point adds its own thickness to a place that already sticks out, and the shirt tents over it. The same gun placed in a low point fills a hollow, and the shirt drapes across it. Your goal is to find your valley.

Concealment percentage. Measure the gun from bottom of the grip to the top of the slide (or optic) and compare it to the distance across your own hips. When the gun takes up more than about forty percent of that distance, concealment gets meaningfully harder, because there is not enough real estate for the gun to hide in. This is why the same holster is easy on a broad frame and hard on a narrow one, and it is why the honest answer for a petite carrier is often a smaller gun rather than a better holster. Detailed measurement guide here: Concealment Percentage.

Below are ten real bodies we encounter all the time as we teach, with where the gun tends to want to sit on each. Clock positions are described as if you are looking down at your own waistband, with 12 o'clock at your navel. We have deliberately left out which holster each person used, because that is the least useful part. Full illustrated versions of all ten, including photographs: Concealment Sweet Spot Guide.

Female frames

Petite frame. Very thin, with peaks that are not pronounced. There is not much of a valley to work with, so concealment comes from position and from keeping the gun small. The pistol lands between 11 and 1 o'clock, with the rear sight one to two inches above the navel. Concealment percentage even with subcompact pistols tends to run at about 45 to 50, which is high, and it is why gun size matters more here than anywhere else on this list.

Pear shaped frame. A peak at 12 o'clock, with clear valleys at 10 to 11 o'clock and again at 1 to 2 o'clock. This is a body with real valleys available, and the answer is to use them. Carry moves off the centerline into the valley, around 10 o'clock for a left handed carrier, rear sight two to three inches above the navel.

Apple shaped frame. A peak at 12 o'clock and around the equator of the abdomen, with valleys at 10 to 11 and 1 to 2 o'clock. Same principle as the pear, mirrored to the other side: carry at about 2 o'clock for a right handed carrier, rear sight about two inches above the navel. Avoid the 12 o’clock position, because the centerline is often the peak on this body type.

Hourglass frame. Not much in the way of pronounced peaks or valleys, which sounds easy but is not, because there is not as much valley to hide in. Fabric choice becomes key here. Carrying higher on the waist, around 12 to 1 o'clock, puts the gun where the shirt is already draping away from the chest, and the drape does the concealing that the body shape cannot.

Petite hourglass frame. A narrow frame with small peaks and valleys that do not offer much natural concealment space. Carry at 12 to 1 o'clock with the rear sight at roughly navel height. This frame and the petite frame are the two where we would tell someone honestly that a smaller pistol will do more than any holster will.

Male frames

Tall with a large frame. Peaks at 2:30, 12 o'clock and 10:30, with valleys in between. Plenty of body to work with and plenty of gun capacity, which is why this frame conceals a full size pistol that a smaller frame could not. Carry at about 1 o'clock, rear sight above the navel and above the stomach equator.

Tall and slender. A very slight peak at 12 o'clock with valleys on either side. Carry at 12:30 to 1 o'clock, rear sight in line with the navel. A long torso means the muzzle end has somewhere to go, so wedge leverage works well on this frame.

Shorter with a Y shaped build. Broad at the shoulders, narrowing to the waist, with a peak at 12 o'clock tapering down to the hip bones. Position the beavertail in line with the navel. The narrowing waist is the constraint: there is less horizontal room than the shoulders suggest, and a shorter holster usually behaves better than a long one, at the cost of some leverage. That tradeoff is the keel principle. And fortunately, clothing often drapes really well on broad-shouldered guys, which is a concealment advantage.

Average height. A very slight peak at 12 o'clock with small gradual valleys either side. Carry at 12:30. The useful trick on this frame is that the small peak at 12 o'clock can be used the way a wedge is used, pressing against the slide side of the gun and helping tip the grip in.

Average height and lean. No obvious peaks or valleys to take advantage of, which is the hardest starting position on this list despite being the one people assume is easiest. Carry at 12:30 biased toward the strong side, grip above the waistband but below the navel. With no body geometry to exploit, this frame relies most heavily on wedge and wing setup and on fabric drape.

If you carry weight in front

The advice you have been given is almost certainly "carry at four o'clock" or "get a bigger shirt," and both are kind of correct. But they don’t really address the root cause problems which bigger guys experience with concealed carry. Abdominal weight is not evenly distributed, and it does not sit still. It changes shape when you sit, and the shape it changes into is the thing you have to work with, not against. There is generally a position and a gun angle that works. It is often lower than people expect and further toward one of the valleys either side of the centerline, and it usually requires more wedge than a lean carrier needs.

This is a solvable problem and it deserves better than a listicle entry: Appendix Carry for Big Guys.

If the whole thing hurts

Pain is usually a pressure distribution problem, not a toughness problem, and people who tell you to just get used to it are giving you advice that ends with the gun in a safe at home. Wedges work as filler as well as fulcrum, which means they can spread pressure across an area instead of concentrating it on a single point. Comfortable Concealed Carry.

Before any of the above

Safety is more important than concealment, and it is the one place where the gear genuinely does have a right answer: full trigger guard coverage, rigid material, and nothing that can get inside the trigger guard during holstering. Safe Holsters and Safe Habits. Fortunately, safe holsters are the best starting points for concealment, since floppy fabric or elastic holsters also won’t support concealment features like wings and wedges.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best appendix carry holster in 2026?

There is not one. The best appendix carry holster is the one positioned correctly on your specific body, with grip rotation and slide tuck addressed. Most people already own a holster capable of concealing well and have never been shown how to set it up.

What is the best position for appendix carry?

The position where the gun sits in one of your body's valleys rather than on one of its peaks. That location is individual, and it moves as your body changes. And the process for finding your own is here. It takes about ten minutes in front of a mirror.

Do I need a claw or a wedge for appendix carry?

Most people benefit from both, because they solve different halves of the problem. The wing uses belt pressure to rotate the grip inward. The wedge uses your body to tip the muzzle out and the grip and slide in. If you are only going to do one thing, add a wedge and learn where to put it and how to shape it.

Do I need a stiff gun belt for appendix carry?

Probably not as stiff as you have been told. A belt that is too rigid bridges away from your body and carries the gun away with it, and it doesn’t make enough contact with your wing, which is the thing the wing needs in order to work. Look for a belt that resists sagging under weight but still bends side to side around your waist.

What is the best appendix carry holster for the Glock 19?

Same answer as above, which is unsatisfying, so here is the useful version: the Glock 19 is a relatively long slide with a relatively long grip, which means grip rotation matters more for you than it does for someone carrying a micro compact, and you have enough holster length below the belt to get real leverage from a wedge. Those two things will do more for you than a brand name.

What is the best gun for appendix carry?

The one you will actually carry and can actually shoot. Run the concealment percentage check first: if the gun spans more than about forty percent of your hip width, you are making concealment harder on yourself before the holster is even involved. (Not impossible, just more focused work). Note also that shorter guns are not automatically easier to conceal, because a short holster has less leverage to work with, which is the keel principle. Many people conceal a compact better than a subcompact once position is sorted.

Can I carry appendix without a belt?

Yes. Beltless systems exist, including ours, and the reason they work is not magic. Removing the belt removes a constraint on where the gun can sit, which lets you put it in the position your body actually wants. You can also get most of the way there with a belt, by finding your sweet spot within the range a belt allows.

Is appendix carry the best way to conceal carry?

For a lot of people, yes, because the front of the body has valleys that the side and back do not, and because it is faster and more defensible to access. It is not universal. Strong side carry is a legitimate answer for some bodies and some lifestyles, and we wrote about that too rather than pretending otherwise: Strong-Side Carry.

What does Mexican carry mean?

Carrying a gun in the waistband with no holster. Do not do it. The trigger is exposed, and the gun is not retained. This question appears on every list in this category because it gets searched for some reason, not because it is a good idea.

What holsters do Navy SEALs use?

This question also appears on every list in this category. Whatever the answer is, it has nothing to do with concealing a pistol under a t-shirt while you live a normal life in your every-day context, which is the problem you are actually trying to solve.

Why is this article telling me not to buy anything?

Because our educational resources have always been free, none of them require one of our holsters, and we would rather you learn to conceal with whatever you own than buy a fifth holster that does not fix the problem. If after putting these lessons to use, you determine that we make something you need, we’ll be here. If not, that’s fine too. We just want to see everyone succeed with concealed carry and not leave their gun at home out of frustration.

The Actual Ranking

Fine, here it is:

1. Knowing where the gun goes on your body. Free. Biggest bang for your buck (or no bucks, in this case).
2. Knowing how to diagnose what is printing. Free. Takes ten minutes to learn.
3. A wedge, placed correctly. Two dollars of foam and free instruction.
4. A belt that conforms to you. Stiff enough vertically that the gun does not drag it down, flexible enough horizontally that it stays in contact all the way around. Not the stiffest belt you can find.
5. A wing, if your holster takes one. Meaningful for grip rotation, and depends on the kind of belt mentioned above to function.
6. Clothing that drapes. Free, you already own some of it.
7. A well molded holster with full trigger guard coverage. Necessary, and widely available at every price point.
8. Which brand is printed on that holster. Last. Genuinely last.

Notice that the thing every other article in this search ranks is the thing that finishes eighth. If your holster protects the trigger, remains securely in place on your body, and has a rigid mouth for safe reholstering, you can use it to practice these skills.

Start at number one. The whole curriculum is here, it costs nothing, and you do not have to own anything we make to use it. And if you’ve made it this far in the article, you’ll notice that we didn’t push or shill any products. And we won’t now, either. Please just bookmark this page and come back later to learn more, at your own pace and on your own time. And join us in the PHLster Concealment Workshop on Facebook where we help people just like you conceal better every day.

We have been giving this material away since before we sold a holster. That’s not a marketing thing. It is just where the company came from. If you want the longer version of why, we wrote that down too.