That really is the correct way to say that, because the headline is from a Glenn Miller single of 1944. Even the year is perfect for...

I keep track of publicity linked to me, and that led me to this very interesting website that has on display, the appearance of Chic...

"Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, 1940s Texas Ranger, is a legend and he left behind many artefacts including his engraved pistols and holsters. I've collected images of most of them and so present them here; inspired by my revisiting the Sterling holster that is now clearly identifiable as the maker of Gonzaullas' pair that is on exhibit at the Texas Rangers Museum that he helped found. This 'money belt' aka 'the scout belt' was a staple of the Texas Rangers at the tail end of the 1

Independent research tells us when a gunleather company appeared, and then disappeared, in the form that we know about it. This is worth learning for collectors because the makers themselves were 'flexible' about their founding dates because if only once they made a holster then that day often is used as their 'since' date. Think about J.M. Bucheimer, whose 'Since 1884' is before John Maurice Bucheimer was even born; instead it was the founding year for his father's company

Poor old SIG, they've allowed Safariland to throw them under the bus alongside their competitor Glock. Reading this link below you'll at...

My website host reports that in the last 12 months my four sites collectively have received 10,656 viewing sessions from more than 3,000...

If you're old enough you'll recall the Spencer Tracy film "Bad Day at Black Rock" and this post is about Blackrock Leather Conditioner. ...

I've finally made the time to scan through Paris' book, which is written in the first person as an autobiography would be; although...

Below, 'what is a spring': "something that is not inside a Lawman shoulder holster" Cancel culture, anyone? Below, Lawman Leather's...

PDFs represent the tiniest fraction of my holstorical holdings that instead are nearly all JPG images, for ease of visual searches for,...

Those words were first written by a young woman who asked around the Lawman Leather shop, assuming that my missive to her father's...

A former suit salesman and wannabe holster maker from the Seventies (Jerry Ardolino of Lawman Leather in Texas) whose holsters actually...

When Bianchi Holster was sold by 1990 I left the Bianchi family to their well-deserved rest from my innovations and went to uni in my spare time and started up the first company to serve gunleather companies with innovation and strategy services. A la Porsche Design. The inspiration for same came from my research at Pepperdine University in pursuit of my Master's in Business, awarded magna cum laude. I did this for all of the 1990s then shifted focus to working with an Au

At his death Elmer left a lot of guns and gunleather in his estate, including a shoulder holster I made for him at Bianchi in the '70s. Dunno why he would've kept it. Elmer is someone that holstorians take most seriously because of his role in the development of the Berns-Martin 'Speed' holster in 1930, when Elmer and John Berns had a look at Elmer's forward draw holster by E.E. Clark and decided they could do better! Clark disagreed! And the first surviving Speed holster

The Lewis holsters are as well-known as their Clark counterparts, and are less commonly encountered on auction sites if one wants to collect them. And very hard to tell apart from the front side! But, doggone it, we know f-all about who Lewis was or his company. UNTIL NOW. Thanks to a friend of holstory who has shared the only known Lewis Police Equipment catalogue, the owner/operator has been identified as Adolphus E. Lewis born London, England in 1895. He first appears

The two restored posts in PDF form address what a holster is truly FOR, and how creating a new design is less-than-obvious for 'normal' people. All the great gunleather designers were/are straight white males and sexually obsessed (so if that's not you, don't even give it a go: because if a pistol is a penis (Freud) then a holster is a pussy). Before Chic Gaylord the IWB simply didn't look like this. But it sure has ever since: Yet if your designer/maker is not a member of

The markings including those on the snap button indicate this Avenger was made mid-1980s. Charlie Askins' contribution to society was significant but in an obscure way: his articles of the 1950s educated an Englishman named Geoffrey Boothroyd on the intricacies of gun facts; and it was Boothroyd whose letter to another Englishman, Ian Fleming, in the late 1950s that piqued the latter's interest in focusing more on the fictional James Bond's arms and gunleather. All his info

I'm restoring four blog posts about Rogers and Safariland Kydex into a single post. They're not gunleather but they are relevant because Rogers single-handedly destroyed demand for large scale production of gunleather -- beginning with his technology's takeover of businessman Neale Perkins' Safariland product line. Neale is a businessman not a holster enthusiast so he saw no harm in the switch for purist reasons, any more than Remington did by introducing the Nylon 66 rifle

It was I who first worked out from Elmer Keith's writings, that 'Fitzing' a pistol came largely from Fitz's need to keep control of his pistols in his demonstrations: Fitz's self-defense shows included breaking his opponent's trigger finger inside the opponent's own trigger guard! He pulled the gunman's pistol forward against his belly then rolled it to one side to break the finger. Disarmed! But not against Fitz, who had removed his guard . . .. Indeed his Wiki entry did

Based on the dates of the Combat Magnum's development project just after WW2, and Bill Jordan's recollection of his conversation with S&W's execs much later, the project for a K frame with a specially hardened frame had been well underway by the time Bill spoke for the first time to Smith & Wesson executives. But S&W wisely credited him anyway, much as Sam Myres had credited Tom Threepersons for more models than he actually inflluenced: celebrity endorsements make sales. A