IWB Holster Review

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Today my “Old Faithful” (warning they have a flash animation with audio on the homepage) Inside the waistband Holster arrived.

I ordered the kit that was already molded and needed to be assembled. With shipping it was $44.71. From order to shipping it took exactly 2 weeks to arrive. This is my second inside the waist band holster, this one for the Walther PPQ. I currently use a Crossbreed holster, for the PX4 and its great. However it was closer to $70 and took just over a month to arrive. I’ve had it for about six months and it has so far served me well. The beauty of the Old Faithful holster is obviously the price, but is it worth the assembly work?

The package arrived with the kydex sheath, leather backer and hardware kit. Everything looked fine.

So assembly of the holster, wasn’t exactly as easy as I hoped for. It took about an hour. Most of the time spent was working with these small leather anchors need to be set. You pound these in with a hammer. I had sort of a tough time getting this done, but managed.

The holster fit is tight and I do like how easily adjustable the tension is vs the Crossbreed.(just four screws) However I don’t like how the leather anchors weren’t already sunk in the leather. It would have make the experience so much better.

Old Faithful

Crossbreed

I’ll try to update once I start wearing it and it breaks in.

Reloading is usually fun

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I shoot often, so naturally I need to reload ammo often. Probably at least 100 rounds per week depending how much I shoot. I’ve been shooting a lot of 9 over the past few weeks so today I needed to do some reloading.

I start to reload some cartridges this morning and noticed a strange vertical pattern of lines down the case from my resizing die. I’ve never seen this happen before.

Then I get not one, but three cases stuck. All nickel plated brass(which physically looks great.) For those who don’t reload- a stuck case is awful, it taken time and pain to remove it from the die.

I finally managed to get them all out. I stopped reloading. I e-mailed Lee Precision(the manufacture of my press and dies) and Peter suggests the dies may be dirty. So I sprayed them out with some Gun Scrubber.

When I actually look inside of them they was a brass ring of just case debris that has built up.

I managed to get it out using some 800 grit sandpaper, pen and some Hoppes 9.

I set the die back up and everything is working perfect again. No more scratches on the case.

Massad Ayoob on Stand Your Ground

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On Monday Mass was a guest for CATO along with two other experts. He gave a good talk on stand your ground, and disparity of force. I would recommend listening to it.
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9141

He closed with a the case I’ve outlined below.

Oct 29 2011
Jay Lewis was out in public seemingly minding his own business. Jay was an ex-police officer an now a federal employee. On the street he was confronted by two men. The two men that attacked Jay on the street were of a different race. One man was shot and wounded, the threat was stopped. The two men fled.

Jay Lewis was black. His two attackers were white.

Jay was arrested and held on over a $225,000 bond. He stayed in jail for 112 days. He was thrown out of his home for being “too dangerous.” All his personal property was thrown out.

After losing everything. Jay was finally acquitted.

Was justice served?