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Old June 6th, 2007, 10:51   #1
Veovius
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Holster Styles? Paintball-related

Hi guys, I signed up to this site to poke around a bit and check it out. I've been trying to get answers to this question on a paintball site, but with it dealing with a firearm replica, I figured this might be a better place to ask.

I've been poking around, researching stuff for a new setup I may be running in a while, involving a RAP4 pistol. After shooting an F/X training pistol at the police station, that new P99 looks pretty sweet I've been researching holsters (for real guns), and I'm wondering what kind of holsters are easy to run with.

I used to have a dropleg holster for my Zeus a while back, and I hated it. Whenever I tried to run with it, it spun around my leg and got tangled. Hopefully not all "tactical" holsters are like that, right? As far as the ones with skidplates go, why don't they just grip your pants and spin? What's exactly holding them to your leg? (hopefully not a deathgrip from the legstraps...)

I was thinking about getting a duty-style belt holster, I'm pretty sure that it would be fine to run with, since cops do it every day But how well would it work for a paintball application?

I was flipping through the Safariland catalog, and they had a few shoulder holsters (both horizontal and vertical). Do they tend to get in the way when running at all? I wonder if they get hit often, since the torso is the largest target. How stable are the shoulder holsters?

Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness style of writing, I'm figuring this out as I'm typing

Thanks in advance for the input!
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