The case for Kydex
I’ve mentioned this before but a reader sent it to me again. But leather holsters can wear out and become dangerous.
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March 4th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
And if you look at the wear patterns on that holster, you’ll notice it had been creasing towards the trigger for quite some time. Also, that’s a crappy holster design. The leather is too thin, it’s floppy and unsupported, and there’s no body-side flap to prevent other crap (like a t-shirt) from slipping into the holster and inside the trigger-guard.
He’d been using it for a year and two weeks. I have a quality, leather IWB holster that I’ve worn nearly every day for the past two years. My holster doesn’t crease, bend or fold. The one I had for my Glock, I used for over five years without a problem. I sold it with the gun.
Crappy design is its own punishment, regardless of whether it’s leather or kydex. Quality leather and quality kydex will serve you well.
March 4th, 2015 at 3:41 pm
“I can’t say I didn’t know the crease had been formed in the holster.”
If you know your equipment is beginning to fail and continue using it anyway, the equipment isn’t the problem.
From the pictures that looks like significantly thinner leather than I’d make a holster out of. None of mine have ever started to fold like that, and if they ever do I’d like to think I’d replace them immediately.
I don’t doubt that Kydex is more durable, but it’s not indestructible and has weaknesses of its own. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t somebody out there who’d had an ND caused by known problem with their Kydex holster that they’d chosen to ignore.
Oh, and from reading the comments at the link, the problem isn’t the holster, the problem is apparently that Glock’s suck.
March 4th, 2015 at 6:46 pm
“Constructive” finger-in-trigger-guard violation. You don’t intend it, but you permit the circumstances that permit it to happen. Thanks for raising the awareness.
March 4th, 2015 at 6:47 pm
That is called a failure to properly holster your weapon resulting in a negligent discharge lesson..
Kydex:Protecting you from your own irresponsible behavior.
March 4th, 2015 at 7:35 pm
Everything wears out. Maintain your equipment properly.
March 4th, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Linoge, I’d agree that everything wears out, but after only a year? Unless he’s doing 100 holster presentations a night, that isn’t wear, its poor design.
Sometimes, of course, you make a less than optimal purchasing decision. Maintaining your equipment will alert you to that fact much less catastrophically than waiting until it causes you to shoot yourself. Or, you can keep shoving that heater in a failing holster.
March 5th, 2015 at 1:02 am
I’m certainly not saying that was a good holster, but if the user had exercised a modicum of that oft-saluted ‘situational awareness’ we’re always talking about, this might not have happened.
Or, as that guy in the classroom reminds us, it might have.
March 5th, 2015 at 2:09 am
Kydex? No thanks, I’ve seen the videos of side grabs of kydex OWB guns, where the holster carries away from the base.
March 5th, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Cheap ass. Inspect and replace worn equipment as others have said. Also, look at where you are placing your firearm. He can’t tell us that he’s so damned tactical that he has to holster blind everytime. He’s holstering up for dinner out on the town, not running an IDPA or Glock course.
He’s a dumbass who now has lead in his ass. But, thanks for the lesson in stupidity because we are all that much smarter for seeing justhow cheap and lazy that guy was.