New Custom Holster What Next?

[Harold]

Ok new custom leather pancake holster arrived. Is a little tight as I expected. So looking for best suggestions on how to break in holster so not quite as tight. I don't want gun falling out but at same time don't want to dislocate my shoulder trying to pull gun out.

[Warbird]

Ok new custom leather pancake holster arrived. Is a little tight as I expected. So looking for best suggestions on how to break in holster so not quite as tight. I don't want gun falling out but at same time don't want to dislocate my shoulder trying to pull gun out.

You need to wrap the gun in a plastic bag, like a Kroger bag or saran wrap and shove it in the holster. Let it sit for a day. Then work it in and out a bit and it should be much better. Leave it in a couple of extra days if need be. If it is quite tight, double bag it. Take it slow, you can always loosen it up, but you can't tighten it up w/o possibly ruining the holster. Then you practice drawing the thing a few hundred times and you'll be good to go.

I also apply a silicon to the inside of mine that you can get from Brownell's and several other suppliers. It works very well.

Never use anything like Neatsfoot oil which softens leather.

Edited February 26, 2010 by Warbird