Author Topic: Holster care between shoots?? (Read 500 times)

Cheyenne Ranger · « **on:** April 15, 2004, 08:14:35 AM »

Any ideas on proper care of holsters? Know some keep their 6-guns in them but I figure that's asking for rust. Some but round spray paint caps in to keep them open and some don't do anything.

Thoughts?....

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Snake River Cowboy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2004, 11:58:21 AM »

The cheap Cabella holsters get tennis balls.

xnmr53 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2004, 12:28:17 PM »

I think that it depends to a large part on where you live. Here in Nevada, I don't worry about rust. However, I do worry about high temperatures and direct sunlight. When I lived in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, my biggest fear (after politicians) was RUST.

Prof. Fuller Bullspit · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2004, 01:01:21 PM »

Guns go in the safe, holsters stay on belts and get stashed in a bin to wait until the next match. I wipe them down with rag with a VERY light smear of leather preserver very infrequently. This is done mostly to clean them. I don't want them to get soft.

williamlayton · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2004, 01:41:28 AM »

You an I live in tha same climate, which is near abouts as close to underwater as ya can get, an as PBS said tha humidity is tha main culpret.
I seen sum of your skills with wood, an thay is good, why doncha whittle ya out some blanks an stuff em in tha scabbards in between shootins and keep em in the a/c.
Blessings

Big Hext Finnigan · « **Reply #5 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:01:32 AM »

Howdy pard,

I've used tennis balls and coke bottles. I think I like using the gun, the best. I don't have any rust worries.
Right now, I'm thinking about putting a ziploc bag around my pistola and then sticking that back in the holster. Or, I'm gonna have to make a whole new drawer area to keep my leather... I'm still searching for a way I'm liking to store my leather.
(the tennis balls are cheap and easy)

Adios,

williamlayton · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2004, 03:11:36 AM »

Hext

That stuff you call humidity up in Drippin Springs is a lot lower than our stuff on tha gulf coast. I did tha bag thing ONCE on a piece down here an it was a near disaster.
Tha tennis balls a good thing fer tha leather but I still doan think it is a good thing to put tha leather where it can't breath, down here.
You boys with tha six shooter don't have the need to keep a form of tha pistole like us other folks, so I guess I shoulda kept that in mind when I said sumthin.
Blessings

Big John Wyatt · « **Reply #7 on:** April 16, 2004, 02:08:38 PM »

I stick them in a canvas bag as soon as I'm done shootin' and I leave them there till the next shoot.