Buddy likes vedder so I went ahead and tried one for my g23. Great holster
Sidearm/holsters
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Toecutter
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Been a kenai and guides choice guy for a long time now, but picked up a vedder iwb holster recently and was impressed w the quality.
I highly recommend you take a look at the Cross Breed Holster site.....great products great people...you will see a wide variety and something that might catch your Eye...I have 11 of their holsters currently. All depends on your preferred style of carry!
Is that thumb break your creation? Is it done with an elastic/nylon type of cordage. It looks like it is quite functional.
Yes, its simple 3mm elastic cord with a hand sewn pull tab at the top.
Its very effective retention so far, i left it long for now to adjust tension and will eventually trim it close to the pull tab. Im also working on an idea to sew on a small silnylon cover onto the retention strap over the optic for when its raining. It rains a lot here in hunting season.
The rest of the modifications are easy and simple to set up with any pancake style OWB holster. Very comfortable and fast draw when wearing any hunting pack with a hip belt.
Thank you for the reply. Rain also is a reason for the cross draw rig that I posted. If I have rain gear on it is covered. My rain gear has a double-ended zipper so the rig is still accessible, but... probably not as accessible as your rig. And again not noisy as a kydec holster would be in a black bear ground blind. Craft makes a cross draw holster for a laser sight system, the holster looks the same as the one in the photo that I have posted only it is a little wider at the bottom to accommodate a laser/light sighting system. Since this photo I have upgraded my holster so that it does accommodate the laser light system. I like your dropped holster for tactical drills at the range though. I do not use any optics, yet, but heading in that direction. I am ole school so making change is not easy. But... my son is on my case to get a MOS system on my handgun. Your set up looks very functional, it is a dropped holster design and it is made for a MOS system. Thanks again
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For bear defense Im actually on the fence if an optic is faster. Im new to optics so need to give it more time to practice, but open sights Im already fast with getting on target at close ranges such as a charging bear.
Rain and debris is an issue for open carry with an rmr optic, especially rain. I will be working on a cover that rides on the retention strap before fall.
Virtually all my hunting I have a pack on, plus chest bino pouch, so I needed a way to get the holster off the belt. Not a lot of good commercial drop holsters for hunting, the tactical drop holsters are too huge and stick out way too much for bushwhacking.
Right now my son has a MOS system on his Glock 45 that is all tricked out. I carried, trained, taught and shot Glocks for years. So... for me to try to adapt to a MOS system from iron sights is going to be difficult. I suspect that with enough practice and training it is doable, but... school is still out. After 30+ years transition is tough. What I am finding with my son's Glock 45 is that I find myself looking for the front sight instead of the dot. Once I find the dot, the sight picture comes in quickly. But I have found myself going back to the natural cant and not looking for the dot. I like the laser light system because if we are recovering a bear it usually is after dark or in a near dark environment, and close up and intimate. We have only had one incident where the laser/light system came into play, but we were sure glad that we had them. There was another bear coming in on the bear that we were trying to retrieve. It didn't make sense but...???? Bright lights, green and red lasers in its direction made that bear decide that it was not a good plan to continue on.
meatyrem
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Awesome. You made my mind up for my G40 too.
FireFlyFishing
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Same here. Waist holsters interfere with slung rifles. I run a safari land for my 19 and it works great. I'd wear it into battle if I had to it's that robust.
Hello Ed, I can see that you have already bought your holster. If you are not satisfied with the holster or it is not what you were hoping for, you might want top take a look at the Craft cross draw. I never thought that I would go for one until I tried it. I had a G40 and sold it because it was too long for a OWB holster. I bought the G20 figuring that the shorter slide would be better, that too was still too long. I started looking around and found the cross draw. Also I just put a Lone Wolf Alpha on my Glock 41, it has made a difference in accuracy and no leading with hard cast bullets like the Glock barrel.
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alcesgigas
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Presently I'm undecided as to the future (October?) 10mm. It's between the Tangfoglio and the Dan Wesson Kodiak. Leaning towards the latter I've already made a holster for it right now being filled with my DWX (with light and RD fully protected) trigger buried and hammer blocked. I had a G40, but it was just too big for my hands and I think the Tangfoglio will be too as it's a double stack--the Kodiak is an 8+1 rounder long slide 1911. It must ride at three O'clock because I have a chest binocular & Kestrel rig that's just perfect. The nine will have to work until I make up my mind and with Buffalo Bore hard casts its gotta be good!
