I’m what’s known as a lazy carrier. I have guns from micro-compacts to full-size duty guns in a range of calibers, along with belts and holsters to carry them, IWB or OWB. So what do I carry almost every single day? I slip a Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 into my pocket before walking out the door.
I’ll usually also slip an extra magazine in another pocket. I carry it because it’s light. It’s easy. And when it’s loaded with good quality personal defense ammo, it’s effective.
I’ve carried it in a few different pocket holsters in the two years that I’ve had the gun, but I’ve never been really happy with it until now.
The other holsters I’d had were fine, but they were made of fabric (one was leather), and most had sticky material on the outside to ensure the holster stays put on the draw. That’s fine, but being made of fabric, they tended to be thick. Most people won’t pay attention to that bulge in your pocket, but they made for a thicker package than I wanted.
Then I got my hands on Mission First Tactical’s pocket holster.
It’s made of a thin, Kydex-like thermoplastic. It’s that thinness that I really like as it minimizes the pocket print. The design is also unusual in that has zero retention.
You might think that’s a bad thing (I did at first) but it’s just the opposite. It’s perfect in a pocket holster as you want to minimize any drag on the draw. The natural friction from the gun and holster being toted in your pocket is usually enough to ensure the holster says put when you pull the gun.
However, I have a couple of pairs of pants with looser, more shallow pockets. Even with zero retention on the pistol, the holster tends to want to follow when I draw. That’s where MFT’s CURV hook comes in.
The CURV Thermoplastic Composite fabric hook, as MFT bills it, reliably snags the edge of your pocket and makes sure the holster stays in your pocket. MFT calls it a fabric hook, but it’s rigid…it feels as stiff as Kydex and it does its job well.
MFT says the design of the holster along with the gun mimic the profile of a cell phone in your pocket. I guess that’s true, but what I like most about their pocket holster is how thin and light weight it is. It costs $34.99 and it’s become my everyday carry pocket workhorse.
I don’t carry a pocket pistol, only very occasional a 9mm pocket revolver, so I don’t know until I research it whether this item is made for them. Also, unlike Mr. Zimmerman, I would not say I am a “lazy carrier.” 99% of the time I have an all-steel, 40+ ounce 1911 in a leather IWB strapped to my belt. I’m certainly not bragging, just saying that if a nearly 71-year-old man can handle that, I suspect the youngsters out there obsessed with tiny plastic pistols can too–I’m certainly no Hulk Hogan. But I do understand that things are what they are in 2026, and that small and light is flavor of the day. To that end, Mr. Zimmerman has found what looks like a very fine holster for the current needs of many…
Do they make it for anything other than the S&W? Like, say, an FN Reflex?
This pocket holster, like all pocket holsters that I have seen thus far, falls WAY short of “perfect” for one simple reason: this pocket holster fails to maintain the same thickness throughout its entire profile. Why does that matter? Because it will still look like a handgun in your pocket when your pants tighten up a bit around your thighs.
In order for a pocket holster to be close to “perfect”, the manufacturer has to thicken the holster for its entire profile under the barrel–all the way to and including the rivets and hook feature (on this particular handgun). Then, and only then, will the pocket holster look like a wallet rather than a handgun in your pocket when your pants tighten a bit around your thighs.
I agree “In order for a pocket holster to be close to “perfect”, the manufacturer has to thicken the holster for its entire profile under the barrel–all the way to and including the rivets and hook feature (on this particular handgun). Then, and only then, will the pocket holster look like a wallet rather than a handgun in your pocket when your pants tighten a bit around your thighs.”
My personal shape seems to make IWB and other belt mounted options un-workable, so pocket is the way I go. The DeSantis “superfly” is thick, but because of the cover flap looks like a book in my pocket, even when I sit.
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My question is there is not a cou out for an optic.
when (front) pocket carry is appropriate, the 938 goes into a recluse.
horsehide.
no print.