Why All The Bashing Over "Cheap" Holsters?

[Lokidude]

I've heard a lot of good things about the crossbreeds. I know several people with them, and they're just down the road from me. But they don't make one for a Mak.

Anyone know a gun close enough to a Mak that I could substitute holsters?

I use Sig 232 holsters for my PA-63.

[workinwifdakids]

I really like my Fobus roto. True, I only wear it when I go camping, or when I'm cleaning my other guns, or at an IPSC thing, but I like it a lot.

[Denis]

By cheap I refer to the quality, not price point. I've found same great deals at gunshows and clearance tables at shows.

+1. The gunshop had a clearance bucket of holsters on show yesterday. I got two very good leather BHP belt holsters for five euro. I could have had some very fine Safariland ones for ten euro each, but they were for guns I don't own...

[Combat Controller]

Own yet Denis, own yet.

I have over $1200 in holsters in my holster bucket, I use few of them. None of the poorly made nylon ones have ever been worth more than a way to keep your gun on your body in an emergency. The bucket is full of pretty much all leather, hence the price wince. Uncle Mike's is the most egregious offender when it comes to crap quality and hard to use.

As for shoulder rigs, I am in the same boat as Randy, until I got the Galco, I thought the idea lacked a practical application. Of course, I love the only IWB that has worked for me, the Cross Breed.

[Aglifter]

By cheap I refer to the quality, not price point. I've found same great deals at gunshows and clearance tables at shows.

I could have had some very fine Safariland ones for ten euro each, but they were for guns I don't own...

There's a simple solution to that...

[Denis]

There's a simple solution to that...

Own yet Denis, own yet.

I so set myself up for that...

[SeekHer]

What is considered cheap? What price point? Is a $70 leather holster (sans belt) for a SA revolver considered expensive or cheap?

I'm inquiring only for a monetary amount and not construction...I also have a few "top name brands" that the finished product left a lot to be desired and they were returned because of it--lemons do sneak through!

[SoupOrMan]

Illinois, not being a CCW-friendly state, still sells a lot of holsters designed for concealed carry. Funny how that works out.

I did also find out that the IWB holster I picked up for my 649 works even better in the day pack that I use instead of a briefcase for work. It blends in perfectly with the pack and doesn't create any kind of noticeable "I have a handgun!" bulge, either. Sadly, I can't use it in that manner so it's kind of a moot point.

[sam]

Take a two day or longer defensive handgun course, and you'll have a better idea of constitutes a "good" holster. Especially one where you operate under time pressure, and shoot a simulator or two, or incorporates movement.

Fast, cheap, good. Pick any two.

[Weetabix]

Fast, cheap, good. Pick any two.

I tell my clients that. They never laugh.