1/21/10

I stopped in at BB&B again last night on the way home. I had decided during the day that I wanted a pocket holster for Kurt Corto. I'd been shopping on line all... what? Who or what is Kurt Corto? Sorry, since the .380 ACP round is also known as the 9mm Short, 9mm Kurtz (“short” in German), and the 9mm Corto (“short” in Italian), I fingered I'd call my new P3AT “Kurt Corto.” I toyed with “Kelly” as a name for it, being a Kel Tec and all, but Kurt Corto is just so much more... obscure, don't you think? Well, there is a Marketing Town Hell today so I'd better go check in on the setup for it. I'll probably be back in a bit. And I'm back. So, like I was saying earlier, I stopped off at BB&B to look at a pocket holster. I know, the little clip thingy was the deciding factor for this gun, or so I claimed! The “Newspeak Truth” of the matter is, now, that the thing was so much cheaper than the other .380 pocket pistols on the market. Yeah, I can sleep at night with that ‘splanation. OK, eventually I'll get to the meat of this story without sidetracks. So, I'm wearing an onion on my belt, as that was the style at the time... no, wait. OK, so I'm trying to ‘splain why the belt clip, awesome though it is, won't really work for me. With the clip on the right side of the gun, as that was the style at the time, it rides funny in the right pocket. In the left pocket, with the slide at the outer edge and the grip pointed inward, it rides fine. The trouble is, to draw the gun Juan must turn the hand backwards, palm out, to grip it. It isn't impossible, but it is unnatural. I never did get an inside the waistband position to feel right. Granted I didn't try very hard either. So, I wanted a pocket holster for my pocket gun. Right, so I'm in Blood Bath & Beyond looking at holsters, finally. I am not happy with the selection hanging on the wall so I go to peruse a catalog. I find a few I think I'll like and eventually get called to the front of the line. We discuss the options and the guy says, “I know that one,” pointing to one in the catalog, “will work with the P3AT.” I send him to the back for one. It is $6.00 so I buy it. I go talk to Patrick at the gun counter and he talks me out of an AK-47 pistol they have on sale for $399.00 this week. It is really cool though, and I'll probably wind up buying one in the future. Oh, who am I kidding? We all know that the “probably” ought to be deleted from that sentence. Anyhoo, I leave and go home. I play with the gun in the holster and find that the back pocket, in these pants at least, is just a hair too short for full concealment. The left front pocket however, is perfect. I realize that since I can't carry at work, I'll “never” have the gun and both Blackberries on at the same time. I can drop the gun in my pocket and wear my personal Blackberry on my hip. This is exactly how I went to dinner with mom last night. Oh, I like this gun more and more the longer I live with it. When I got home, I looked at the holster again and decided that my beloved belt clip is on the wrong side and removed it. I may look for one for the left side of the gun sometime because that clip really and truly is awesome. Kurt Corto could, with a left-side clip, displace my ubiquitous Spiderco knife from the right pocket! I know! It is hard to believe that I could even utter such blasphemy. I've carried a Spiderco in that position for so long that I don't even remember a time when I didn't. OK, you know how I “sometimes” get an idea in my head and just go and do something dumb? Well, in between the last two sentences, I went to e-Bay and bought a left-side clip for Kurt Corto. Yeah, I'm dumb. “What about the new holster?” I hear you saying. IT WAS SIX DOLLARS! I could wipe my ass with it and set it on fire and only be out SIX DOLLARS! I waste that much in gasoline just about every weekend when I go for a hoon. The left-side clip will still work with the holster, it’ll actually be a little better in fact, probably, so it isn't a total abandonment of it. Well, I'm going to grab a bite to eat. I don't know if I'm going to come back and talk to y'all any more this afternoon. We’ll see. Yeah, I'm done with y'all for the day.