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matthew8794
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I bought this used and just noticed the flaw. I was wondering if it is safe to shoot the gun at the range or if I need to send it back to Ruger to be repaired. I have been training for 7 months now, so I am still new to guns and did not know if this was bad or normal.
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matthew8794
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Thank you for responding to me. Have a good night.
Belt Fed
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It won't hurt a thing, shoot it. it's just cosmetic.
The backstrap while shouldn’t have that it’s a wear or oops item and won’t interfere with function. Don’t worry about it.
Now I have to say and I mean this respectfully. Please tell us you are not using that holster for anything but mushroom hunting or it just came with the gun since it was used.
those nylon himsters with that type of retention are horrible and not the best practice. They are slow to use, they collapse so holstering can be a challenge, the thumb break is the worst one and worse then the old revolver holsters
Get a good IWB Kydex you won’t be sorry
Now I have to say and I mean this respectfully. Please tell us you are not using that holster for anything but mushroom hunting or it just came with the gun since it was used.
those nylon himsters with that type of retention are horrible and not the best practice. They are slow to use, they collapse so holstering can be a challenge, the thumb break is the worst one and worse then the old revolver holsters
Get a good IWB Kydex you won’t be sorry
WellArmed
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Nothing wrong with nylon holsters, @matthew8794. If the nylon holster you're using securely holds the gun and covers the trigger, it is doing what a holster is meant to do. If you're like the rest of us, you'll eventually will end up with a big moving box full of holsters anyway, but you're perfectly fine for now.
I own and use nylon, kydex, leather, and hybrid (leather/kydex combo) for many years.
I own and use nylon, kydex, leather, and hybrid (leather/kydex combo) for many years.
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bc22wm
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Two Uncle Mikes Side kick holsters. Both ugly as homemade sin. One for my hunting SBH went through hell for about ten years, then moved on from handgun hunting and one for a 3" J Frame that's my work around the homestead gun. Also a Galco, I think but don't hold me to the name brand, pancake for my duty gun until they took away our long serving M65's and started a secession of S&W bottom feeders.matthew8794, looks to me like the previous owner had a had a 'oh crap' moment. Don't see how that's Rugers responsibility. Let it go and shoot the dog snot out of it.
My post was not nit picking it was experience. Respectfully nylon holsters fail and do not hold up. Take a one or 2 day (a non basic NRA or state mandated BS CCW Class but a legitimate 8 hrs a day) class where you do drawing and reholstering and you will see. They fold up and have been a huge contributor to folks with strikers having AD’s.
The other bad thing is they do not hold their shape causing issues reholstering one handed. And that’s an issue for safety AND you probably won’t have the luxury to take your time to fight with a holster or use 2 hamds post deployment. Sure on the range no problem but you just had a deadly force encounter that is still going to be fluid until the POPO show up.
I say all this as a former FLETC instructor, current state LE instructor and Rangemaster Advance instructor that AI’s for some national folks.
Go to any Rangemaster non instructor or national level class and you will see the same. The reason nobody is running them.
Outside of hunting for mushrooms a nylon holster has proven to fail in countless cases.
Want to dismiss my suggestion fine but if uiu don’t find out for yourself your gun is used as a fire extinguisher and uiu don’t shoot more than a couple boxes leisurely at the range a year.
bc22wm
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HEY, mushroom hunting is very dangerous business. I got no stats to back it up but I'm willing to bet more people have been killed by wild mushrooms than wild bears in the last 100 years.
They thought they were mushrooms!HEY, mushroom hunting is very dangerous business. I got no stats to back it up but I'm willing to bet more people have been killed by wild mushrooms than wild bears in the last 100 years.
It’s a huge sport in Indiana nothing better with scrambled eggs than a yellow moral mushroom in AprilHEY, mushroom hunting is very dangerous business. I got no stats to back it up but I'm willing to bet more people have been killed by wild mushrooms than wild bears in the last 100 years.
WellArmed
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The design of the holster may have contributed to ND's. Not paying attention and doing the fast, no look, trying to be tacicool reholstering thing contributes to ND's. The fact that the holster is made out of nylon instead of leather or kydex does not. Even a leather holster that's flimsy and badly designed may and has cause problems for the latter type of people. I have nylon holsters that I've owned and carried throughout the course of a decade and a half that have held up just fine. I typically use them for mouse and smaller/lighter guns.
You have all the time in the world to reholster a gun. You have time to pay attention. It's not a race. You're holstering your gun in the safety of your home, after a threat is over, or when your firearm has ran dry. Always look and make sure nothing is in the trigger guard. As we have seen seemingly hundreds of times with the P320, Glocks, and other striker-fired pistols, ND's can and routinely happen even with kydex and leather. More often than not, the issue could be avoided if the gun owners was simply paying attention...
Once broken in, there's typically no fighting to deploy a nylon or leather holster.
Because they aren't the best option nor do they lend themselves for competition shooting or classes where you must unholster and reholster ad nauseam. That fact doesn't make them a terrible option for all occasions. When it comes to average EDC'er and needing an inexpensive stopgap that will cover the trigger and hold the gun securely, nylon holsters will work just fine. No, they are perfect for every occasion, but neither are leather and kydex holsters.
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The only nylon type that have been worth anythjng is the higher quality Bianchi. The downside is the thumb strap which we have moved away from 20-25 years ago.
Quality and nylon are really oxymorons you can find quality leather mad production like Galco and Don Hume or custom like Del Fatti, simply Rugged and a few other and many Kydex.
And yes any holster needs replaced periodically as they are disposable items like magazines. As far as speed of reholstering generally speed is what causes issues and yes there isn’t a hurry, Until there is!
Again just sharing my experience and I have carried a firearm ie delt with gear and accessories professionally since 1986 as well as working a large public range seeing hundreds of shooters in classes or on the range so I have seen both agency and private sector stuff go from leather (like the old Jordan BP style revolver holsters with a non thumb type leather thumb strap to the uncle Mikes and Bianchi nylon various Safariland and other duty gear
To the rise of Kydex from old and bad makers
Quality and nylon are really oxymorons you can find quality leather mad production like Galco and Don Hume or custom like Del Fatti, simply Rugged and a few other and many Kydex.
And yes any holster needs replaced periodically as they are disposable items like magazines. As far as speed of reholstering generally speed is what causes issues and yes there isn’t a hurry, Until there is!
Again just sharing my experience and I have carried a firearm ie delt with gear and accessories professionally since 1986 as well as working a large public range seeing hundreds of shooters in classes or on the range so I have seen both agency and private sector stuff go from leather (like the old Jordan BP style revolver holsters with a non thumb type leather thumb strap to the uncle Mikes and Bianchi nylon various Safariland and other duty gear
To the rise of Kydex from old and bad makers