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No Honor Among Thieves - Brief Article
American Handgunner, Jan, 2000 by Roy Huntington
Okay so it's a new millennium and its all advertised as a new and exciting time in our lives, except I still had to take out the trash the other day and that steel 1911 I sometimes carry hasn't gotten any lighter. So I've been thinking, what's different, exactly anyway? All that musing and cogitating soon caused me to wonder about holster designs and how they might change for the "space age" which made me think about how holsters came about to begin with and I suddenly found myself writing this.
People are always writing things like "Highpoints In The Manufacture Of Garlic Powder" and "Milestones In The Development Of The Yugo." So I thought hey let's do "Landmark Holster Designs." An article on holster highpoints could very well be subtitled, "How Everyone Stole Everyone Else's Ideas And Called "Em Their Own" Except sometimes.
It all goes back to the charcoal era. There were these really big flintlock pistols. We're talking really big mothers that make a 50 A&E look like a kid's play pistol (back when it was okay for a kid to play "guns"). You either stuffed "em in your rakish pirate sash or put them into equally big flapped holsters that rode come fortably on your horse's saddle.
Well, one thing led to nine and suddenly percussion pistols were residing in flapped holsters on military belts. When it was found the west had to be won, some buck skinned cowpoke cut off that flap and the first of the, dare we say, "modern" generation of holsters was born--the Slim Jim.
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