 Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher with Citadel Defense, and today I'm going to talk about backup guns. I've been experimenting with the system on and off for the past year and a half, give or take, and decided that I thought it'd be the appropriate time after it's had some time to simmer to share it with you. Typically when people talk about backup guns, they talk about something like this, they talk about a little revolver. They'll put maybe a clip on here or have a small holster, or in this case I have a soft sided nylon holster that I carry this in my pocket with. You have something like this that again you can ride in a pocket or maybe a clip holster or something like that or an ankle, but a smaller less capable gun is typically the answer for most people for a backup gun, which makes sense. It's called a backup gun. It's not your primary gun, it's something that is a backup, like that tiny spare tire that you have in your car that's only good for 50 miles. That's typically how we think of backup guns, right? If everything else goes down, if I lose my primary or if it goes down, at least I have this other thing that's a backup gun that can fulfill that role and hopefully get me out of here alive, which makes sense, especially in a civilian context. I've never heard of a civilian case of someone going to a backup gun and I've only heard maybe one, two cases of a police officer having to go to a backup gun. I know one for sure. I say two because maybe that's just one of the lines I forgot, but the point is it's super rare, right, to actually have to go to a backup gun. So most of us again carry something small, something light, something that's comfortable, something that's going to fit in there. Well, the system that I've been experimenting with, I picked this up when I was at a class and I saw an instructor doing this and I thought, oh, I didn't even know it was an option and it was big and it was bold, so I liked it and I've been trying it out since. So I call it, and this is just me, I call it pirate carry. And I call it pirate carry because you remember those old pictures of, or maybe not pictures, but paintings, whatever, of pirates and then have like six or eight pistols lined up because back then they were just single shot pistols, right? So what you do is you have six or eight pistols loaded on your person and then you just shoot and drop and shoot and drop, right? So you wouldn't have to spend all this time reloading because it was way too cumbersome to do. So kind of like that, this is what I call pirate carry. So I carry my primary, right, which is a Glock 19 up front here, appendix, right, that's the gun I carry. And then for my backup gun, I'll carry a Glock 17 with a TLR one. And that's just because that's the light I have on that pistol, that's how it rolls. And so that rolls back here in kind of the four o'clock position. So at the end of the day, I end up having two full-size fully capable guns, hence pirate carry, right? Now this is my backup gun. Now, again, is it a backup gun in the sense that I'm worried that my primary is going to go down? No. For me, I primarily carry two guns in the event that I would need to arm someone else, right? If I was somewhere with my wife and we were out with our kids and I needed to give her a gun and get her out of the situation or if I need to stash someone somewhere, I primarily carry a second gun to arm someone else. So with that in mind, that person may or may not be as proficient in shooting as I am. And I want to give them the most capable tool that's going to be the most helpful to them in that moment. And a snub-nosed revolver just isn't. To be honest, I'm not that good at shooting with a snub-nosed revolver. I don't practice with it nearly enough. So to hand someone that, which is a weapon that's just much harder to use effectively, short sight, radius, short barrel, all that stuff, my thought was, if I can carry two full-size pistols, why not? So that's the system I've been experimenting with. It can be a little uncomfortable. It's pretty conceivable. You can judge for yourself. But I'm able to give it most of the time. When I'm driving, it's probably the most uncomfortable just because carrying anything four o'clock when you're driving is uncomfortable. But this is the system that I've been experimenting with on and off to see if that kind of fits for me. And by and large, I like it. And I think that's probably where I will land when I decide to carry a backup gun. So give it a try, see if it works for you. I realize not all of us can carry two pistols on us. But I would say you can probably carry more pistol than you think you can. Meaning everybody's always concerned about, am I printing? And is it showing? And, you know, it's uncomfortable. And most of that's in your head. For most of us, we can carry a full-size pistol concealed and it's not really a problem. And I would even argue I'm carrying two full-size pistols concealed and it's really not a problem. So checking out, trying out, let me know what you think of it. I thought it was a big bold idea when I first realized it and I didn't even know it was an option to carry two full-size guns. I'm going to try that. So I, like I said, have been experimenting about a year and a half on and off. Really like it so far. And I think I'll continue to do it on and off when I decide to carry a backup on that day. Until then, do brave deeds and endure.