Red Nichols, Holstorian2 days ago6 minPost 94: Forum censorship. It's a thingI do empathize with those folks who operate forums. On the other hand, let's look at their realities vs. us humble enthusiasts. Includi...
Red Nichols, Holstorian4 days ago3 minPost 93: Jackass (not the Movie)Rick Gallagher founded a company he called Jackass, in Chicago IL 1972. That's the official date according to the State but like all gun...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 112 minPost 92: The wife of James Bond is dead.We grieve at news of the belated death of James Bond's first, and only, wife; the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo who was played in the film v...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 106 minPost 91: Making the grade?"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!", demands the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film and presumably in the 1911 book, too. No, ...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 103 minPost 90: Gunsmoke!I didn't have a television as a child, with the family getting a set only on the occasion of JFK's assassination in 1963. Perhaps this k...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 93 minPost 89: S'not a ThreepersonsA post on a forum causes me to make mention, that the Threepersons for the revolver and the Threepersons for the automatics are not only ...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 71 minPost 88: Chic Gaylord was also an artist and a writer.And he had high visibility during JB's formative years, with Chic's ability to garner press for himself even if he had to write the story...
Red Nichols, HolstorianSep 71 minPost 87: Would you know it if you saw it?Or, "Rarely seen Bianchi holsters". The original 'Lawman' holster had no strap: Nor did the original Donihoo: The original Number 4 was n...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 222 minPost 86: Thinking outside the box, er, holsterI'm aware of only one maker who used the unusual construction of W.H. Clay (a note: the men of that era used their initials; his wife wo...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 202 minPost 85: T. RybkaThad Rybka and I have not ever met but we have a mutual friend in Roy Huntington, editor of American Handgunner. At least I think we mig...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 201 minPost 84: In a year or soIt seems to me, that in a year or so there will be good cause to produce Holstory II (c) 2021. The research that began in 2016 did not en...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 172 minPost 83: Nichols InnovationThe first, and only, independent design consultancy to gunleather makers, was my Nichols Innovation company 1990 to 2000. While research...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 143 minPost 81: Safariland Was Once a Holster CompanyGod knows what those things are they make now. Plastic buckets maybe. Safariland's history of gunleather is roughly divided into two par...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 144 minPost 80: Touched by an Angell (expanded a second time)This particular holster is at once well-known, and obscure. If one is a real gunleather aficionado one has seen at least the images. An...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 124 minPost 79: Mythbuster -- Tom Threepersons' Treasury BadgeEarly on in my research about Tom Threepersons, I contacted The Autry Museum about his revolver that had been in JB's collection when the...
Red Nichols, HolstorianAug 113 minPost 78: A fresh start -- Tex ShoemakerHaving gotten over my fit of pique about USA politics (it is said that people get the leadership they deserve, see the end of this post) ...
Red Nichols, HolstorianJul 262 minPost 77: Civil War II (was 'How are You?')My friend John Witty asked me today, "how are things Down Under"? I said, "compared to this where you are? Great!" And sent this pic w...
Red Nichols, HolstorianJul 155 minPost 76: You say it's HOW old?!Working out when an item of gunleather was made, especially a holster, would seem a daunting task suited only the hyper-experts and museu...
Red Nichols, HolstorianJul 131 minPost 75: The results are in!A friend used 'my' method (I didn't invent it) for restoring a pair of tired old holsters. One of them is the Hoyt shown as the 'before'...
Red Nichols, HolstorianJul 114 minPost 74: Thompson, Bucheimer, Clark, Bucheimer-Clark, Clark, Clark . . .I've deleted a bunch of blog posts that were (1) not getting the typical number of views and (2) contained no info that w/b missed by ent...
