Bucheimer & Bucheimer-Clark Fitment Charts

I hesitate to create this post about Bucheimer fitment charts, because it's going to be lengthy yet the brand is not collectible save for the Dirty Harry holsters by Bucheimer-Clark, early '70s (but first appearing in late '30s Clark catalogues). Clark not listed, too, because Clark used calibers stamped into the holster to reflect frame sizes vs. charts in its uncommon catalogues. And then Clark became Bucheimer-Clark.

1950s (see my post on Bucheimer eras to know which your holster is from). There was no Bucheimer-Clark in this decade.

1953 JMB:

1955 JMB:

1960 JMB:

1961 JMB:

1963. Both J.M.B. and Bucheimer-Clark combined into the one catalogue:

'67, '68 and '69 JMB:

1969 JMB:

1962 Bucheimer-Clark only:

1968 B-C only:

1971 JMB only:

1974 JMB uses same fitment chart as the'71:

1974 JMB:

1976 JMB as a PDF:

1976 bucheimer no sloan (1).pdf

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1979 JMB:

Below only, two of these originated at Stagecoach Leather Goods, which JMB absorbed:

Now for Bucheimer-Clark in CA, it is requires less space when I post a PDF of 1975'S:

1975 m15 delete.pdf

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'77 and '78 B-C:

In 1980, the J.M.B. catalogue; dunno if there was a B-C catalogue that year:

And finally, 1985's JMB: under new ownership that didn't last more than a few years, are both brands now merged into the Frederick location:

Below only, when the Concealer had a forward slit added it became the F.B.I.s latest issue holster; in this case notice that an 'f' letter appearing meant 3" M13 for that agency:

Above the Combat Protector is the rarest of J.M.B. holsters, never sighted as a completed holster.

THE END :-).

The Bucheimer companies were bankrupted within a few years after their sale in '83. We in the industry wondered where they disappeared to without knowing they had been closed.

To read more about it all in my book titled "Holstory -- Gunleather of the Twentieth Century

-- the Second Edition", click on the new link at top of page.