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If you carry a firearm every day, your gear has to work in your real life, not just look good in theory.
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The gun matters, but so does the holster, the belt, spare magazine, your draw position, and your comfort.
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If you can't rack the slide, manage the recoil, or carry it comfortably, it may not be the right fit for you.
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Today we're breaking down Krista Smith and Wesson MP 380 Shield EZ and my Springfield RDP and why consistent carry starts with gear you can actually live with.
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Welcome to Practical Prepping.
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Today is September 21st, 2026.
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This is episode 571, and this is the Prepping Podcast with no bunkers, no zombies, and no alien invasions.
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Just practical prepping, where we teach everyday people how to prepare for life's emergencies, disasters, and crises.
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And we are here to help you get prepared.
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Hi, everybody.
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I'm Krista.
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And I'm Mark.
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And if you'd like the expanded notes for this episode, go to practicalprepping.info forward slash five seven one.
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We want to thank you, Susan, for the contribution you made through Venmo to support practical prepping.
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Now, Susan also asked a question about Krista's belly band.
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So, Susan, we decided to do a segment on what we carry and how we carry it.
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This is our personal everyday carry handgun setups, and we're going to touch on the ReadyFam out later in the show.
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Well, like Mark introduced a few minutes ago, the weapon of choice for me is a Smith and Wesson MP.
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It's a 380 EZ, also known as a shield, easy shield, I believe.
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And the reason I have it is because it gives me more ease to rack it.
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And I'll tell you quickly why that's important.
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Years prior, I possessed a Walther PPK, a fantastic firearm, lovely to look at, beautiful to hold, and very, very efficient.
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But here was my problem with Walther.
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I had trouble racking.
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It's very stiff, and I've got just a touch of arthritis.
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And I needed something that was a lot smoother.
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And Mark did some research and he took me to the gun store and we tried out, you know, a few handguns.
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And when I fell upon that Smith and Wesson Easy Shield and it just racked smooth as silk, I said, This is my gun.
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The grip was right, the racking was right, it felt comfortable all the way around.
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So I said, This is the gun for me.
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And that gun carries an eight-round magazine.
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So you have an eight plus one in the chamber capacity.
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But now there's also now a nine millimeter version of the EZ available, and that became available about a year after we bought Krista's Easy.
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Yes, and it's on my Christmas stocking list, by the way.
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Just saying.
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It could happen.
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It also has that really easy slide operation.
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And the magazines are easy load.
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I do like that also.
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There's also grip safety.
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The pistol requires a proper forward grip feeling to fire it.
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You now have to see it to understand that you've got a grip pressure in order for the gun to fire.
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So that's actually a safety concern.
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It is.
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But if you hold that gun in the proper position, that safety is automatically pushed in.
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So that is disabled.
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I mean, it allows the weapon to fire.
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But what it does do is it allows a blocking mechanism for if little fingers got a hold of it.
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Right.
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And they're not holding it with a proper grip.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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And we're saying right now in here that we are very much advocates of firearm safety.
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We have a safe, it is locked, little fingers can't open the safe, little fingers don't know how to get in the safe.
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We know how to.
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Well, our little fingers don't have opposable thumbs, so they can't reach up there and do it anyway.
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But if we have grandchildren coming to the house, this house gets shook down, and we make sure every weapon is locked up and secure, or either on one of our body.
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There's also an additional ambidextrous thumb safety, and Krista's has that on it.
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That's great if you're left-handed or right-handed.
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Left-handed or right-handed.
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And you can change the magazine release from a right-hand grip to a left-hand grip.
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Right.
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It came with a right-hand grip, which is what you needed anyway, but if you were left-handed, we could switch that over.
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It's a great gun that's a strong fit for some new handgun owners, for shooters with reduced hand strength.
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That's me.
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With older shooters.
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Check.
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And possibly people that are sensitive to recoil.
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Yeah, and training helps you with that because you can always tell a newer shooter from an experienced shooter, because experienced shooters almost never react to the recoil.
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A newer shooter is going to notice that.
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So you've got to train with your firearm and become comfortable with its behavior.
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But what you carry is important and it has to fit you.
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Amen.
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And how you carry it is just as important because if it's not comfortable, you're probably not going to keep carrying it.
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I would agree.
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So let's talk about Krista's holster.
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I actually tried several gun belt style holsters, but I'll be honest with you, and a lot of ladies might be able to understand me a little better.
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I rarely, if ever, wear a belt of any kind.
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Any kind.
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We've been married 11 years and I've never seen her wearing a belt.
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And so a gun belt is not going to be appropriate for me.
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Aaron Powell But nothing in my box of holsters really worked for Krista.
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And she tried several, especially inside waistband, but not wearing a belt, that's an issue.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Here's how I decided upon a belly band.
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I actually got recommendations from other lady firearm instructors and friends who were carrying more so than I was at the time.
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And they led me to, you need to try a belly band.
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They are an underclothing adjustable kind of a velcro type of uh product.
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And they're in they have sewn in pockets to carry your firearm and your magazines.
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So I bought a pretty one and it fit me really well.
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And I put my pistol in and I put my magazines in.
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And then I just walked around the house with it and I began to realize that if I leaned forward or leaned to the side or leaned back, that pocket holding the firearm was not secured.
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I mean, it was simply an open pocket.
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And I could feel the pistol moving up and out of spot.
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And I thought, hmm, I think I have found a flaw in this particular belly band design.
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So I contacted another person and said, give me your recommendation on what's the best belly band for a lady like me to carry.
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And she said, you need to look at comfort tack.
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That's not the brand I had before.
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Let me look at comfort tack.
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First thing I noticed was there was a secure snap over the open pocket, which means that the grip of that firearm was going to be securely in place.
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And it didn't matter if I sat down, squatted, whatever my position might be.
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And it's an easy, it was easy enough to snap open, since I'm reaching for it anyway.
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But I wanted it to be sure that it wasn't moving while I was moving.
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And it was under clothing, very comfortable.
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And I put it on, I loaded up and I walked around.
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And seriously, within moments, I could not tell the feel that I was even wearing it.
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And I said, this is my holster.
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Yes, it's under clothing, and yes, you have to lift clothing in order to access it.
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Wearing a shirt makes it a little easier than wearing a dress or a skirt, but be that as it may, I can get to it just about as quickly as I could any other way.
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And I'm definitely not going to carry my firearm in my purse because the first thing a thug is going to do is take my purse away from me.
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And what good is that?
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So I want to carry on me.
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So I highly recommend the comfort tack.
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It comes in a variety of sizes and styles, and I find that that's the one that I like, and that's the one that I wear, and that's the one that I recommend.
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And it's available in a left hand or right hand draw.
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And you can move the ammo pouch.
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So if you wanted to have your ammo on your left side and your gun on your right side, you can do that.
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Yeah, it's got little movable parts.
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Krista happens to carry hers with her gun on her right side and her extra magazine behind that.
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It really doesn't matter.
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What matters is it's comfortable for you and you know where that extra magazine is, and it's in that spot every single time.
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And I do recommend wearing it while you're training when you're going for firearms training.
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Put that belly band on and recommend drawing it, firing it, putting it back, that sort of thing.
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And you can even do dry fire at home and practice getting that out.
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Make sure you have firearms empty and just practice your draw a number of times.
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And we'll put our affiliate link in the episode notes for the Comfort Tack belly band.
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Well, you've listened this far, so obviously you're enjoying this episode.
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I know I am.
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Now, Mark, let's talk about what you carry.
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My weapon is a spring fill RDP, which stands for Rapid Defense Pistol.
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And I did a lot of research on this.
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I have been carrying a Model 17 Glock 9mm.
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Carried that on duty for a number of years.
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It's a heavy pistol.
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And on the church security team, we're required to have a nine millimeter, and that was the only nine millimeter I had at the time.
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So I began to research smaller ones, and the Springfield Hellcat kept coming up.
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And then I found the RDP.
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Now it is in 9mm, but the RDP, and it's not available anymore, sadly.
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Oh.
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I'll tell you why.
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It's this, it has a self-indexing compensator that you can screw on and off of the front of the weapon.
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Okay.
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Now you could screw that off and screw on a suppressor if you want to.
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It has that threaded barrel.
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But that compensator helps reduce the felt recoil.
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And it came with a red dot optic, and that gives you good rapid acquisition of the target.
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Well, they do offer it with the red dot now, but they do not offer it with the compensator.
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You would have to get another barrel longer threaded and change the barrels out to be able to put that compensator on there.
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I'm glad I got it when I did hunted all over the country for it, got it out of Oklahoma, and just really enjoy carrying it, really enjoy shooting it as well.
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Now talk about my carry rig a little bit.
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All right.
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In everything, I'm wearing a 1791 gun leather belt.
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And if you don't have a true gun belt, a belt that's designed to carry the weight of a firearm, you need to get one.
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And we'll put the link in the episode notes as well for that.
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But I always am wearing that 1791 gun leather gun belt, and I'm doing that right now.
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I mean, it doubles as a dress belt.
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I've got the black, it's it's a good looking belt.
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But let's talk about how I carry things.
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On my left side, in the 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock position, I have a multi-tool in a case, and right behind that, so I always know it's on the back if I reach for it, is a loaded 11-round mag in a case.
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Yeah.
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So that's my reloads that are in there.
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Gotcha.
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And I carry the 11-round because the case that I have, the 13-round, won't fit in it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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Then I carry the holster at a four o'clock position, regardless of what holster I'm carrying.
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I carry that at a four o'clock.
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On which side?
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On my right.
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On your right side.
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Four o'clock's always right side.
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It's just a little bit behind the right eye.
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Okay.
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Sunday I was carrying the 1791 gun leather belt with a crossbreed super tuck, and that's a tuckable holster.
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Right.
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You like that one a lot.
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What that means is that you can literally have your shirt tucked in and still have your gun under it.
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There's two little clips that come out and go over your belt and holds it very securely, and it's real easy just to snatch your shirt up and access your weapon if you need to.
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Yeah.
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And I really do enjoy that super tuck.
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And it's so comfortable I almost forget that it's there, to be honest.
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And we'll put the link in the show notes to that as well.
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For daily carry, when I'm normally out and about, when I'll either be wearing a vest, and I've even done this under a t-shirt, is I will carry a 1791 gun leather, handmade leather holster.
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And it's an optic ready multi-fit belt holster.
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And mine is a size 2.1.
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I found this in a gun shop, in a local gun shop, when I bought the RDP.
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In fact, when I picked it up, and that's the only holster they had in the building that really fit that.
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I remember I was with you that day, and we took quite a bit of time making sure that that particular holster was going to access that particular gun.
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And it's good and snug, but one thing I found it's multi-fit.
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I have several other weapons that will fit in that same holster.
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Super economic.
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So when you're looking at having a box of holsters for different firearms, you might want to look at these multi-fit holsters.
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They really are pretty neat.
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And this one is extremely comfortable.
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It's outside waistband, which I'm glad to carry.
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And I can keep it covered with a vest or even with a t-shirt.
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And hopefully, if we get some cooler weather coming in here, I'll be able to go to a light jacket before long, but not when it's 95 degrees out there.
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Yeah, not quite yet.
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Not quite yet.
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And all these links will be in the episode notes.
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Earlier this year, we introduced you to a prepping app called ReadyFam.app.
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Many of you got the app and checked it out, as did we.
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The app does so much, and there have been some who have had questions about how it can best be used.
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I can't really answer those questions, so we're going direct to the source.
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Neil Townsend and Adam Baker are the founders of ReadyFam.app, and Adam is here today to help us better understand the app.
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Well, Adam, welcome to the podcast.
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Thank you, Mark.
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I appreciate you having me.
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We appreciate you being here.
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Now you're the developer of an app that we've used and that we made available to our audience, and I know a number of folks got that.
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But tell me how it was that ReadyFam came to be.
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Myself and co-founder Neil both kind of run the gamut with preparedness.
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And Neil was helping people through our church.
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He was helping teach them how to prepare, and he was helping get them track lists of what to get and trying to keep track of what you have.
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And he was doing it with paperwork.
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And this was last year.
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And so you know, Neil was like, okay, this is dumb.
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Today's environment, the people who were really, really hot on it were doing it in Excel.
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Right.
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They were using spreadsheets.
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You know, my heavens, you can database, and now with AI, it makes a ton of sense to have a tool that rather than being a static list, is a living document.
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The tool's great because there is no emergency preparedness management for families.
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Right.
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Is not something that existed.
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My favorite aspect of it is it helps me track when things are expiring.
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I don't know of anybody who's ever trapped that has not lost food because it expired.
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That's just food.
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That's not counting medical equipment, some medical equipment that has a lifespan on it, or anything else that has a lifespan on it.
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We lose money that way.
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Even worse is that stuff might not be there or appropriate to use when we need it because I let it expire three years ago.
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That's how the app came to be.
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He was helping people, and then really early, he asked me if I would do some training on it.
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So I started putting together training videos and then kind of fleshed out what the app was from there.
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I've been through the app and I enjoy it.
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And one of the things that I enjoy about it is it gives you some scenarios to think through.
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Using the equipment and the gear, the food, the various things that you have in the app, you can use those to set up your scenarios.
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What are some of the other things that the app is really good at?
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Great question.
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It is both a guide and a tracker.
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So the app has broken the preparedness into seven different categories.
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The things like food, water, shelter, health and medical, logistics.
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And the nice thing is so many of us have niches that we enjoy more than others.
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You know, I might really like food or medical or guns or whatever.
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And yet it doesn't make sense for me to have a year's supply of food if I've only got a week's worth of water.
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Right.
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And so there are tiered lists, you know, tier one in food, tier one in water, and it's just very basic stuff.
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And all of the lists starting out are very inexpensive items.
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Most of them you get in a grocery store or at a Walmart.
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And so the list is a guide, but we have an AI version of the app that is really easy to add items into.
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So if I go to Costco and I buy a case of diced tomatoes and I'm gonna put that in my food storage, I can say I just hit the button and say, hey, add 12 cans of diced tomatoes to my basement inventory, they expire on this day.
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And the AI just takes it in databases with all of that.
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So I can't think of a way that it that we could make it easier to track what we're doing.
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So beyond that, it creates recipes from my food items that I have put in the app.
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And like I said, there's training on the app.
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For me, I wanted to create training on the basics for things that people buy but don't necessarily use enough to know how to use.
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I did enjoy going through the trainings on the app.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Nowadays, there are technologies like, for example, tourniquets.
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I'm a huge tourniquet guy, GWAC, Global War on Terror convinced me of that.
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They're cheap enough and they're ubiquitous enough.
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You can buy them.
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You can I have them all over the place.
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I've got them in my shop, in the garage in case I cut myself while I'm woodworking or whatever.
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I've got them in my truck, I've got them all over the place because there's really only very poor substitutes for it.
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And today's tourniquets are really easy to use, but if you've never done it, you've never done it.
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And you may not have even seen it.
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So just simple things that people can do to dramatically increase their survivability.
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The other thing about the app that is really important to know is that it has a survival days tracker.
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The free tier of the app will tell you a range of time that based on the things you put in the app, based on your inventory, you'll survive X number of weeks or whatever.
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If you do the paid tier, and it's I mean, right now you can pay 48 bucks and get it for the whole year, including the AI stuff.
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If you go to the website, readyfam.app, that's where you can sign up for that level of account.
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And then you just download the app from either the Google Play or the Apple store.
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If you do the paid version of the app, it will tell you down to the day how many days you and your household will survive.
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Because the app customizes itself to you and your household situation.
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So in the very beginning, we ask it's about 10 questions.
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What zip code do you live in?
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How many people do you have?
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Are there any infants or elderly that you care for?
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Are there any prescription medications that you ought to put away if you can?
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And based on that, the app will customize itself to you and your geographic situation.
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You know, we certainly in the South, you've got a much higher hurricane propensity as an emergency than I do in the Midwest or in the West.
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The nice thing about the app is it will customize what it recommends you get based on what the highest level of likelihood threats based on your geography as well as your family situation.
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So we put a lot of thought into that, into that, and into what the lists are, what the things are.
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We started with a FEMA list, which is the fixed list, but then we added items from our own experience, items from other resources, and sanity check ourselves.
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And so that's what the app does as far as customizing to each individual user.
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Tell us one more time where our listeners can get the ready fam app.
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You can download the app off of either of the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, and you can sign up for your account through the app if you like.
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But for your listeners, if you go to the readyfam.app website, and it's literally just readyfam.ap, you sign up there, you get the option to get the full highest tier account for 48 bucks a year, and that's about half of what the normal charges if you want to get the AI assisted or it does garner everything for you.
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It just makes it really easy.
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I have spent more than$48 a year in either items that expired or buying multiple copies of things that I didn't realize I had already purchased.
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Anything else you'd like to close out with?
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We appreciate it.
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Appreciate everybody's support and all the all the feedback, and we're working to make the app better all the time.
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So as people come across things and ideas they have to potentially make it better, uh, we'd love to hear it.
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So today we've talked about what we actually carry and how we carry it, and we've heard more about the ReadyFam app, which we would really encourage you to get.
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There's a free version and a paid version, and just go and look at that.
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All the links for everything we've talked about today, except the actual firearms, are in the episode notes.
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And if you enjoy practical prepping and you find value in our podcast, please support our show.
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And as Krista always says, Stuff happens.
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Stay prepared.
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And we'll see you next time.
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If you carry a firearm every day, your gear has to work in your real life, not just look good in theory.
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The gun matters, but so does the holster, the belt, spare magazine, your draw position, and your comfort.
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If you can't rack the slide, manage the recoil, or carry it comfortably, it may not be the right fit for you.
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Today we're breaking down Krista Smith and Wesson MP 380 Shield EZ and my Springfield RDP and why consistent carry starts with gear you can actually live with.
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Welcome to Practical Prepping.
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Today is September 21st, 2026.
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This is episode 571, and this is the Prepping Podcast with no bunkers, no zombies, and no alien invasions.
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Just practical prepping, where we teach everyday people how to prepare for life's emergencies, disasters, and crises.
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And we are here to help you get prepared.
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Hi, everybody.
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I'm Krista.
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And I'm Mark.
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And if you'd like the expanded notes for this episode, go to practicalprepping.info forward slash five seven one.
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We want to thank you, Susan, for the contribution you made through Venmo to support practical prepping.
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Now, Susan also asked a question about Krista's belly band.
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So, Susan, we decided to do a segment on what we carry and how we carry it.
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This is our personal everyday carry handgun setups, and we're going to touch on the ReadyFam out later in the show.
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Well, like Mark introduced a few minutes ago, the weapon of choice for me is a Smith and Wesson MP.
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It's a 380 EZ, also known as a shield, easy shield, I believe.
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And the reason I have it is because it gives me more ease to rack it.
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And I'll tell you quickly why that's important.
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Years prior, I possessed a Walther PPK, a fantastic firearm, lovely to look at, beautiful to hold, and very, very efficient.
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But here was my problem with Walther.
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I had trouble racking.
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It's very stiff, and I've got just a touch of arthritis.
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And I needed something that was a lot smoother.
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And Mark did some research and he took me to the gun store and we tried out, you know, a few handguns.
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And when I fell upon that Smith and Wesson Easy Shield and it just racked smooth as silk, I said, This is my gun.
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The grip was right, the racking was right, it felt comfortable all the way around.
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So I said, This is the gun for me.
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And that gun carries an eight-round magazine.
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So you have an eight plus one in the chamber capacity.
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But now there's also now a nine millimeter version of the EZ available, and that became available about a year after we bought Krista's Easy.
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Yes, and it's on my Christmas stocking list, by the way.
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Just saying.
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It could happen.
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It also has that really easy slide operation.
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And the magazines are easy load.
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I do like that also.
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There's also grip safety.
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The pistol requires a proper forward grip feeling to fire it.
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You now have to see it to understand that you've got a grip pressure in order for the gun to fire.
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So that's actually a safety concern.
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It is.
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But if you hold that gun in the proper position, that safety is automatically pushed in.
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So that is disabled.
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I mean, it allows the weapon to fire.
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But what it does do is it allows a blocking mechanism for if little fingers got a hold of it.
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Right.
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And they're not holding it with a proper grip.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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And we're saying right now in here that we are very much advocates of firearm safety.
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We have a safe, it is locked, little fingers can't open the safe, little fingers don't know how to get in the safe.
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We know how to.
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Well, our little fingers don't have opposable thumbs, so they can't reach up there and do it anyway.
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But if we have grandchildren coming to the house, this house gets shook down, and we make sure every weapon is locked up and secure, or either on one of our body.
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There's also an additional ambidextrous thumb safety, and Krista's has that on it.
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That's great if you're left-handed or right-handed.
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Left-handed or right-handed.
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And you can change the magazine release from a right-hand grip to a left-hand grip.
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Right.
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It came with a right-hand grip, which is what you needed anyway, but if you were left-handed, we could switch that over.
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It's a great gun that's a strong fit for some new handgun owners, for shooters with reduced hand strength.
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That's me.
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With older shooters.
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Check.
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And possibly people that are sensitive to recoil.
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Yeah, and training helps you with that because you can always tell a newer shooter from an experienced shooter, because experienced shooters almost never react to the recoil.
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A newer shooter is going to notice that.
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So you've got to train with your firearm and become comfortable with its behavior.
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But what you carry is important and it has to fit you.
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Amen.
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And how you carry it is just as important because if it's not comfortable, you're probably not going to keep carrying it.
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I would agree.
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So let's talk about Krista's holster.
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I actually tried several gun belt style holsters, but I'll be honest with you, and a lot of ladies might be able to understand me a little better.
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I rarely, if ever, wear a belt of any kind.
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Any kind.
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We've been married 11 years and I've never seen her wearing a belt.
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And so a gun belt is not going to be appropriate for me.
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Aaron Powell But nothing in my box of holsters really worked for Krista.
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And she tried several, especially inside waistband, but not wearing a belt, that's an issue.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Here's how I decided upon a belly band.
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I actually got recommendations from other lady firearm instructors and friends who were carrying more so than I was at the time.
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And they led me to, you need to try a belly band.
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They are an underclothing adjustable kind of a velcro type of uh product.
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And they're in they have sewn in pockets to carry your firearm and your magazines.
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So I bought a pretty one and it fit me really well.
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And I put my pistol in and I put my magazines in.
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And then I just walked around the house with it and I began to realize that if I leaned forward or leaned to the side or leaned back, that pocket holding the firearm was not secured.
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I mean, it was simply an open pocket.
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And I could feel the pistol moving up and out of spot.
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And I thought, hmm, I think I have found a flaw in this particular belly band design.
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So I contacted another person and said, give me your recommendation on what's the best belly band for a lady like me to carry.
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And she said, you need to look at comfort tack.
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That's not the brand I had before.
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Let me look at comfort tack.
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First thing I noticed was there was a secure snap over the open pocket, which means that the grip of that firearm was going to be securely in place.
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And it didn't matter if I sat down, squatted, whatever my position might be.
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And it's an easy, it was easy enough to snap open, since I'm reaching for it anyway.
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But I wanted it to be sure that it wasn't moving while I was moving.
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And it was under clothing, very comfortable.
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And I put it on, I loaded up and I walked around.
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And seriously, within moments, I could not tell the feel that I was even wearing it.
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And I said, this is my holster.
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Yes, it's under clothing, and yes, you have to lift clothing in order to access it.
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Wearing a shirt makes it a little easier than wearing a dress or a skirt, but be that as it may, I can get to it just about as quickly as I could any other way.
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And I'm definitely not going to carry my firearm in my purse because the first thing a thug is going to do is take my purse away from me.
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And what good is that?
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So I want to carry on me.
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So I highly recommend the comfort tack.
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It comes in a variety of sizes and styles, and I find that that's the one that I like, and that's the one that I wear, and that's the one that I recommend.
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And it's available in a left hand or right hand draw.
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And you can move the ammo pouch.
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So if you wanted to have your ammo on your left side and your gun on your right side, you can do that.
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Yeah, it's got little movable parts.
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Krista happens to carry hers with her gun on her right side and her extra magazine behind that.
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It really doesn't matter.
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What matters is it's comfortable for you and you know where that extra magazine is, and it's in that spot every single time.
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And I do recommend wearing it while you're training when you're going for firearms training.
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Put that belly band on and recommend drawing it, firing it, putting it back, that sort of thing.
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And you can even do dry fire at home and practice getting that out.
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Make sure you have firearms empty and just practice your draw a number of times.
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And we'll put our affiliate link in the episode notes for the Comfort Tack belly band.
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Well, you've listened this far, so obviously you're enjoying this episode.
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I know I am.
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Do you know someone, even if it's just one person who would enjoy this episode or who needs to hear this, would you share it with them right now?
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I'm assuming you're listening on your phone.
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Most of you do, but wherever you are, there's a share button.
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Would you click that and share this episode right now?
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It would be a huge favor to us and we would greatly appreciate it.
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Now, Mark, let's talk about what you carry.
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My weapon is a spring fill RDP, which stands for Rapid Defense Pistol.
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And I did a lot of research on this.
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I have been carrying a Model 17 Glock 9mm.
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Carried that on duty for a number of years.
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It's a heavy pistol.
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And on the church security team, we're required to have a nine millimeter, and that was the only nine millimeter I had at the time.
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So I began to research smaller ones, and the Springfield Hellcat kept coming up.
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And then I found the RDP.
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Now it is in 9mm, but the RDP, and it's not available anymore, sadly.
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Oh.
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I'll tell you why.
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It's this, it has a self-indexing compensator that you can screw on and off of the front of the weapon.
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Okay.
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Now you could screw that off and screw on a suppressor if you want to.
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It has that threaded barrel.
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But that compensator helps reduce the felt recoil.
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And it came with a red dot optic, and that gives you good rapid acquisition of the target.
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Well, they do offer it with the red dot now, but they do not offer it with the compensator.
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You would have to get another barrel longer threaded and change the barrels out to be able to put that compensator on there.
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I'm glad I got it when I did hunted all over the country for it, got it out of Oklahoma, and just really enjoy carrying it, really enjoy shooting it as well.
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Now talk about my carry rig a little bit.
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All right.
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In everything, I'm wearing a 1791 gun leather belt.
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And if you don't have a true gun belt, a belt that's designed to carry the weight of a firearm, you need to get one.
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And we'll put the link in the episode notes as well for that.
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But I always am wearing that 1791 gun leather gun belt, and I'm doing that right now.
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I mean, it doubles as a dress belt.
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I've got the black, it's it's a good looking belt.
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But let's talk about how I carry things.
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On my left side, in the 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock position, I have a multi-tool in a case, and right behind that, so I always know it's on the back if I reach for it, is a loaded 11-round mag in a case.
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Yeah.
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So that's my reloads that are in there.
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Gotcha.
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And I carry the 11-round because the case that I have, the 13-round, won't fit in it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Okay.
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Then I carry the holster at a four o'clock position, regardless of what holster I'm carrying.
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I carry that at a four o'clock.
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On which side?
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On my right.
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On your right side.
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Four o'clock's always right side.
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It's just a little bit behind the right eye.
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Okay.
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Sunday I was carrying the 1791 gun leather belt with a crossbreed super tuck, and that's a tuckable holster.
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Right.
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You like that one a lot.
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What that means is that you can literally have your shirt tucked in and still have your gun under it.
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There's two little clips that come out and go over your belt and holds it very securely, and it's real easy just to snatch your shirt up and access your weapon if you need to.
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Yeah.
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And I really do enjoy that super tuck.
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And it's so comfortable I almost forget that it's there, to be honest.
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And we'll put the link in the show notes to that as well.
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For daily carry, when I'm normally out and about, when I'll either be wearing a vest, and I've even done this under a t-shirt, is I will carry a 1791 gun leather, handmade leather holster.
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And it's an optic ready multi-fit belt holster.
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And mine is a size 2.1.
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I found this in a gun shop, in a local gun shop, when I bought the RDP.
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In fact, when I picked it up, and that's the only holster they had in the building that really fit that.
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I remember I was with you that day, and we took quite a bit of time making sure that that particular holster was going to access that particular gun.
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And it's good and snug, but one thing I found it's multi-fit.
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I have several other weapons that will fit in that same holster.
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Super economic.
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So when you're looking at having a box of holsters for different firearms, you might want to look at these multi-fit holsters.
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They really are pretty neat.
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And this one is extremely comfortable.
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It's outside waistband, which I'm glad to carry.
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And I can keep it covered with a vest or even with a t-shirt.
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And hopefully, if we get some cooler weather coming in here, I'll be able to go to a light jacket before long, but not when it's 95 degrees out there.
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Yeah, not quite yet.
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Not quite yet.
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And all these links will be in the episode notes.
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Earlier this year, we introduced you to a prepping app called ReadyFam.app.
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Many of you got the app and checked it out, as did we.
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The app does so much, and there have been some who have had questions about how it can best be used.
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I can't really answer those questions, so we're going direct to the source.
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Neil Townsend and Adam Baker are the founders of ReadyFam.app, and Adam is here today to help us better understand the app.
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Well, Adam, welcome to the podcast.
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Thank you, Mark.
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I appreciate you having me.
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We appreciate you being here.
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Now you're the developer of an app that we've used and that we made available to our audience, and I know a number of folks got that.
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But tell me how it was that ReadyFam came to be.
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Myself and co-founder Neil both kind of run the gamut with preparedness.
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And Neil was helping people through our church.
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He was helping teach them how to prepare, and he was helping get them track lists of what to get and trying to keep track of what you have.
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And he was doing it with paperwork.
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And this was last year.
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And so you know, Neil was like, okay, this is dumb.
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Today's environment, the people who were really, really hot on it were doing it in Excel.
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Right.
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They were using spreadsheets.
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You know, my heavens, you can database, and now with AI, it makes a ton of sense to have a tool that rather than being a static list, is a living document.
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The tool's great because there is no emergency preparedness management for families.
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Right.
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Is not something that existed.
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My favorite aspect of it is it helps me track when things are expiring.
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I don't know of anybody who's ever trapped that has not lost food because it expired.
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That's just food.
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That's not counting medical equipment, some medical equipment that has a lifespan on it, or anything else that has a lifespan on it.
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We lose money that way.
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Even worse is that stuff might not be there or appropriate to use when we need it because I let it expire three years ago.
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That's how the app came to be.
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He was helping people, and then really early, he asked me if I would do some training on it.
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So I started putting together training videos and then kind of fleshed out what the app was from there.
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I've been through the app and I enjoy it.
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And one of the things that I enjoy about it is it gives you some scenarios to think through.
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Using the equipment and the gear, the food, the various things that you have in the app, you can use those to set up your scenarios.
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What are some of the other things that the app is really good at?
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Great question.
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It is both a guide and a tracker.
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So the app has broken the preparedness into seven different categories.
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The things like food, water, shelter, health and medical, logistics.
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And the nice thing is so many of us have niches that we enjoy more than others.
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You know, I might really like food or medical or guns or whatever.
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And yet it doesn't make sense for me to have a year's supply of food if I've only got a week's worth of water.
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Right.
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And so there are tiered lists, you know, tier one in food, tier one in water, and it's just very basic stuff.
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And all of the lists starting out are very inexpensive items.
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Most of them you get in a grocery store or at a Walmart.
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And so the list is a guide, but we have an AI version of the app that is really easy to add items into.
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So if I go to Costco and I buy a case of diced tomatoes and I'm gonna put that in my food storage, I can say I just hit the button and say, hey, add 12 cans of diced tomatoes to my basement inventory, they expire on this day.
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And the AI just takes it in databases with all of that.
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So I can't think of a way that it that we could make it easier to track what we're doing.
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So beyond that, it creates recipes from my food items that I have put in the app.
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And like I said, there's training on the app.
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For me, I wanted to create training on the basics for things that people buy but don't necessarily use enough to know how to use.
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I did enjoy going through the trainings on the app.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Nowadays, there are technologies like, for example, tourniquets.
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I'm a huge tourniquet guy, GWAC, Global War on Terror convinced me of that.
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They're cheap enough and they're ubiquitous enough.
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You can buy them.
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You can I have them all over the place.
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I've got them in my shop, in the garage in case I cut myself while I'm woodworking or whatever.
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I've got them in my truck, I've got them all over the place because there's really only very poor substitutes for it.
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And today's tourniquets are really easy to use, but if you've never done it, you've never done it.
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And you may not have even seen it.
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So just simple things that people can do to dramatically increase their survivability.
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The other thing about the app that is really important to know is that it has a survival days tracker.
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The free tier of the app will tell you a range of time that based on the things you put in the app, based on your inventory, you'll survive X number of weeks or whatever.
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If you do the paid tier, and it's I mean, right now you can pay 48 bucks and get it for the whole year, including the AI stuff.
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If you go to the website, readyfam.app, that's where you can sign up for that level of account.
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And then you just download the app from either the Google Play or the Apple store.
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If you do the paid version of the app, it will tell you down to the day how many days you and your household will survive.
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Because the app customizes itself to you and your household situation.
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So in the very beginning, we ask it's about 10 questions.
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What zip code do you live in?
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How many people do you have?
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Are there any infants or elderly that you care for?
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Are there any prescription medications that you ought to put away if you can?
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And based on that, the app will customize itself to you and your geographic situation.
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You know, we certainly in the South, you've got a much higher hurricane propensity as an emergency than I do in the Midwest or in the West.
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The nice thing about the app is it will customize what it recommends you get based on what the highest level of likelihood threats based on your geography as well as your family situation.
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So we put a lot of thought into that, into that, and into what the lists are, what the things are.
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We started with a FEMA list, which is the fixed list, but then we added items from our own experience, items from other resources, and sanity check ourselves.
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And so that's what the app does as far as customizing to each individual user.
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Tell us one more time where our listeners can get the ready fam app.
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You can download the app off of either of the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, and you can sign up for your account through the app if you like.
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But for your listeners, if you go to the readyfam.app website, and it's literally just readyfam.ap, you sign up there, you get the option to get the full highest tier account for 48 bucks a year, and that's about half of what the normal charges if you want to get the AI assisted or it does garner everything for you.
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It just makes it really easy.
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I have spent more than$48 a year in either items that expired or buying multiple copies of things that I didn't realize I had already purchased.
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Anything else you'd like to close out with?
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We appreciate it.
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Appreciate everybody's support and all the all the feedback, and we're working to make the app better all the time.
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So as people come across things and ideas they have to potentially make it better, uh, we'd love to hear it.
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So today we've talked about what we actually carry and how we carry it, and we've heard more about the ReadyFam app, which we would really encourage you to get.
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There's a free version and a paid version, and just go and look at that.
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All the links for everything we've talked about today, except the actual firearms, are in the episode notes.
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