Duty drop

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

- Robert E. Lee -

A little while ago I decided I wanted needed a new holster to replace a thigh-rig holster I'd been using for a particular handgun. It's not that the thigh-rig was wrong for the firearm, just wrong for what I'd be using the firearm for moving forward. I decided upon a Kydex holster by an American company called Bladetech. Kydex is a thermoplastic acrylic-polyvinyl chloride material that molds nicely into different shapes (through thermo-molding) and has a multitude of uses including firearm holsters. It's be perfect for in-field operations and all weather conditions.

The top image is a picture of the Bladetech Classic OWB I ended up purchasing and it's mounted to my gun belt with my CZ P09 9mm semi-auto in the holster.

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I purchased the Bladetech Classic OWB (outside the waistband) with the Tek-Lok attachment, waited a few weeks (it's a long way from America to Australia), and when it arrived got it mounted up as above, adjusted and tested. It was awesome...albeit with a small issue that made it less awesome.

Essentially, being located right on my belt made it awkward to draw the handgun and awkward means slow; nope, that was not going to fucken work for me. It was a little too high meaning an awkward left-side-lean to get it drawn quickly - I like to keep my body straight when I draw, no leaning because it takes time to get back into a good shooting posture. No worries though, I just needed the duty drop & offset attachment. All good, back to the Bladetech website.

Three or four weeks later, usurpingly Australia hadn't gotten any closer to America in the intervening weeks, and my adaptor arrived...that was today.

See above for an image of the adaptor packaged up, nothing too unusual I guess, just typically utilitarian packaging.

Above is a side-by-side comparison of the exact same holster with the duty drop & offset adaptor fitted; you'll note how much lower it's mounted in the lower shot with the duty drop & offset fitted as opposed to the image above it with the standard Classic OWB mounted directly to the belt.

I set to work getting it sorted out after work today and once I'd pulled the Tek-Lok attachment off the holster and got the duty drop and offset adaptor mounted and the entire thing mounted on my belt I spent some time drawing from it (drawing the handgun) and was really happy with where it sits, lower than just the holster itself upon the belt.

The top two images above show the holster without the duty drop & offset adaptor and the bottom two shot it with. It might seem like only a small difference but it makes a huge difference in the time it takes to draw and acquire the target and squeeze off some rounds; it means the body doesn't have to "bend" around the handgun to draw.

I'm pretty happy with the quality and fit and the improvement I've gained in the time it takes to draw the handgun is awesome;l I'm pretty sure it'll be good workable system moving forward and now...well, I have a though-rig holster system without a handgun and you know what that means...yep, I need a new handgun.