Had Surgery, Need Help

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Greetings!

I carry a Walther CCP in appendix position under a vest. I can’t use an appendix holster, because carrying it at a 90 degree angle prints like nothing else. I have a leather holster from Savoy Leather that seems to be my best current option, but it’s designed to hold my gun in the small of my back, so I have to come over the top of my gun to pull it. It’s all wrong, but is just the best option I have right now (I’m still fairly new to all of this.).

Unfortunately, I just had surgery, and my holster inflicts intolerable pain in my incision. Unfortunately, I have yet to find an inside the waistband crossdraw holster, which I think would be my ideal holster. Does anyone have any ideas about what to do?

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I have a JM4 magnetic holster and it doesn’t print at all even wearing it at the 3:00 to 3:30 position and I’m a big guy at 6ft 248lbs. It’s so comfy I forget about even having it on and can wear it with sweat pants, shorts, or my blue jeans.

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N82 tactical makes a smallish iwb holster. My only gripe with it is i wouldn’t use it without a manual safety. Walthers i believe have that.

When i say smallish, the leather they use covers the entire profile of the firearm, might help with any pinching or rubbing from surgeries.

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How do you like the JM4 holster? I’ve talked to a few people at the Range who have asked about it.

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@Dawn I absolutely love it and will never use another holster. I have tried 4 other holsters and this is above all the others the best as I don’t never feel it even though I know I have it on.

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Thank you for the responses. I have options to look into now. Thank you much.

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Practice with your “off hand” many do incase of injury during a conflict and can develop target grouping almost as good as their dominant hand.

Perfect timing to develop that backup skill to near perfect accuracy while not aggravating your surgical wound.

A long while ago, decades, I had bilateral carpal tunnel releases done back to back a few weeks apart.

My right dominant hand was the worst and done first.

The initial dressing seemed and looked like a soccer :soccer: ball.

So, I had no use of it and had to force use my off left hand for everything.

The first time that I was driving with a lighter dressing on my right hand, coming back from my surgeon’s office I was cut off short by a left turning driver.

I reflexively grabbed my steering wheel to veer from a collision and tore a suture in that hand.

The pain was what we call in the medical community “exquisite!”

If I could have throat-punched that jerk through my window shield and his I would have.

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That’s what I did when I had Dupuytren’s surgery on dominant hand pinky finger earlier this year. Will have to do it again because I am scheduled for dominant hand thumb surgery December 3.

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