Posted: 7/9/2012 10:04:29 PM EDT
| I've always used leather or nylon holster but I've been considering trying a kydex holster but I'm concerned they will mar the finish. I had a fellow officer several years ago using some kind of plastic retention holster and it marred his gun something terrible, will kydex do that? |
| Any holster will mar the finish, but Kydex does it a bit quicker. The higher quality Kydex or other thermoplastic holsters will do this to a lesser extent. Bladetech is one of my favorites. The difference is in the dummy guns they mould with. An undersized or even exact size dummy gun will cause great wear on the finish. A proper dummy gun will take points of friction into account and be a bit oversized. |
I actually carry their Pocket BUG everyday.
I got my hands on a custom made leather holster from a cop in Seattle for my light green finished 1911 back in... 08 or 09. As of now, my 1911 has brown leather satins on the finish where the gun meets the holster, I think it adds a bit of character to the gun 
As was said, if your gun is pretty, your not training enough. I prefer my guns clean on the inside. I don't give a rusty fuck what they look like on the outside as long as they function when I need them to. 
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I don't believe that. If you take enough care you can use the hell out of your gun and still keep it pretty. I guess it just depends on your attitude towards your gun to begin with. If you don't care what it looks like as long as it works then keeping it nice doesn't enter into the equation. If you do care then you take those extra steps along the way to keep your gun looking good.
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back when I was carrying a gun doing the security thing for a living the finish was damn near worn off the slide of my pistol from constant practice (drawing & dry fire mostly not that security uses their gun much, I just wanted to be prepared if the need every arose )
I used a bianchi vanguard that was lined; finish still wore off, not that the xd's had a very durable finish back then. |
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I don't believe that. If you take enough care you can use the hell out of your gun and still keep it pretty. I guess it just depends on your attitude towards your gun to begin with. If you don't care what it looks like as long as it works then keeping it nice doesn't enter into the equation. If you do care then you take those extra steps along the way to keep your gun looking good. Sorry but your absolutely wrong. No way possible you've put in enough one handed malfunction clearance drills or reloads etc and your gun looks new / pretty. I'm not saying this to be smart or hateful it's just a fact. |
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I don't believe that. If you take enough care you can use the hell out of your gun and still keep it pretty. I guess it just depends on your attitude towards your gun to begin with. If you don't care what it looks like as long as it works then keeping it nice doesn't enter into the equation. If you do care then you take those extra steps along the way to keep your gun looking good. If you wanna keep it pretty and nice looking, toss it in the safe and never use it except to maybe degrease/grease once a year. The only reason my M16A4-gery is nice and clean on the outside is because I don't have the $$ to take it out to the range either in or outdoor. A related story (outside the scope of this discussion) my rifle when I was in Iraq, no matter how much I tried to keep her clean on the outside, she still went back to the armory when we got home with a faded finish (none at all in some spots) and iraqi sand all over it and even in it in some areas. Ya thats a different situation but the point is, no matter what, if you use it, over time it will fade. Hell if it gets to bad just send it in to get refinished 
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