The Lanyard Ring: myth or must-have?

[Armored farmer]

Who has a lanyard ring on their handgun?
What gun is it on?
Have you actually used it in some manner?
Pictures?
Following closely behind some trail-gun and large animal gun threads.....does the "outdoorsman gun" need a lanyard?

Do tell!

 

[DMF]

Are you a cavalry soldier, riding a horse in combat?

If you answered "no," you don't need a lanyard.

 

[Armored farmer]

Im not a calvary soldier. But I've logged many a mile on horseback carrying a revolver.

 

[entropy]

If you are Leftenant Bromhead, a lanyard on your .455 Mk1 is apropos. We had 55 of them in my Arms Room, none of the dust off crewmen ever wanted one issued to them. There is a reason that thong is on Western holsters however, and that makes more sense than a lanyard, unless you're a butterfingers.

 

[Anchorite]

Great question, and something I have wondered about myself.
I think, and this is my opinion only, it makes sense if you’re on horseback or a canoe…anywhere where you might be flipped upside down and risk losing your revolver.

If hiking - maybe no.

 

[maxxhavoc]

My USGI 1911 has one. It makes it easier to pull the Mainspring housing?

If I was somewhere I may lose it, I could entertain using the lanyard ring. But I would probably just take a pistol I was less afraid to lose.

 

[Anchorite]

My USGI 1911 has one. It makes it easier to pull the Mainspring housing?

If I was somewhere I may lose it, I could entertain using the lanyard ring. But I would probably just take a pistol I was less afraid to lose.

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Less afraid to lose….ie, Glock

 

[Ohen Cepel]

I like them on some things. But, I am used to "dummy cording" lots of stuff to myself back in my Army days.

If I am going to spend the day bush hogging I don't want to find out I chunked my pistol along the way and it fell under the mower. Or, on something I am carrying in the woods a lot I like it. Bit of insurance. Also, if adjusted right they help with accurate shooting some if you're pushing against the cord a little bit.

No, I don't want one on my CCW going to the grocery store, but they do have their place.

 

[Armored farmer]

it makes sense if you’re on horseback or a canoe

Yes
The canoe or boat was my thought, also.

 

[trackskippy]

The 1911's, SIG's, and Glocks I carried all have/had them and they always got used when canoeing and kayaking.

Went into the river a couple of times while canoeing and was using one, and I was glad I had it on. Gun didn't come out of the holster in those cases, but the way the river has a way of relieving you of things on your person that you don't have dummy corded or secured to you in some fashion, it only makes sense.

I wouldn't hesitate to use one any time I was doing anything that presented the opportunity to lose my gun.

 

[WestKentucky]

I have a couple. On the ones I carry hunting I attach a small length of fluorescent paracord. I lost a pistol in the woods about 15 years ago and I know roughly where I lost it. The fluorescent cord gives me hope that should a repeat situation happen that the cord will make the gun visible. I never found that Keltec p11. I would be much more unhappy to lose a family heirloom or other sentimental gun.

 

[JohnKSa]

The Beretta M9/92FS has a lanyard "loop" on the bottom of the grip.

Picture is from the Beretta Website Link provided. https://www.beretta.com/en-us/product/m9-FA0057

I don't see them as "must-haves" by any means. I think the scenarios where they would be the most useful are probably in the past. Still, I wouldn't remove one if it were already on a pistol.

 

[CraigC]

I had them added to two guns built by David Clements. Used them a few times but never had it done again. I like the idea and could see some utility in them but for me, that situation hasn't presented itself.

 

[Riomouse911]

Just off the top of my head, my M9, Beretta 96, Glock 19X and Helwan have loops. Maybe others do as well, I’m not 100% sure though.

I have never used them. There was one guy I used to work patrol with who had a stretchy-curly type lanyard on his sidearm that looked like an old telephone handset cord. He swore by it and wore it for years, but to me it was just another cord hanging off his belt to get tangled up in the seatbelt or caught on something. (And a hinderance if the gun had to be swapped to the left hand due to an injury to the right hand.)

I like the bit of orange paracord as a visual aid if dropped idea though. I did the same thing with red paracord for my Swiss Army knives.

Stay safe.

 

[AlexanderA]

Any self-respecting military handgun will have provision for a lanyard (at least starting in the 1890's).

 

[drobs]

Using lanyard around your neck on handgun in the woods is a good way to strangle yourself. Best attach the other end of the lanyard to your belt.

My Glock 17 & 19's have landyard holes in their grips.

My Israeli FN Hi Power has the pin for lanyard but not the ring.

When I was in Iraq 2009. The Army had lanyards on the majority of their pistols carried empty on base. Lanyards were either attached to their shoulder holsters or belts.

 

[CajunBass]

I have one on my cane. I hate dropping that thing. I can see one on a handgun but I've never actually used one.

 

[AlexanderA]

Look at a lanyard as insurance against dropping the gun. A drop-safe hammer, then, becomes less important.

 

[AbbysDad]

Great question, and something I have wondered about myself.
I think, and this is my opinion only, it makes sense if you’re on horseback or a canoe…anywhere where you might be flipped upside down and risk losing your revolver.

If hiking - maybe no.

Never fell down a hillside from a trial? (I have) simple solution is carrying it in a holster with a flap; also helps keep rain, trail debris, etc from getting in the holster

 

[jdh]

Are you a cavalry soldier, riding a horse in combat?

If you answered "no," you don't need a lanyard.

4 wheeler

 

[Anchorite]

Never fell down a hillside from a trial? (I have) simple solution is carrying it in a holster with a flap; also helps keep rain, trail debris, etc from getting in the holster

I have, but I also use my HPG kit bag. Problem solved.

 

[25-5]

I have a blue lanyard (RAF) for my Enfield No.2 Mk1. Part of history.

 

[Jimster]

Of course.

 

[.38 Special]

I have them on a few revolvers, pretty much just for looks.

The only one I actually use is built into my 340PD, and barely large enough for the cheap metal clip of the cheap orange curly plastic lanyard: I often carry the gun in my trail running vest, and often fall off of things, or go tumbling down river crossings, or whatever other delightful idiocies I can get involved with. So far the gun has never fallen out of its pocket, but it is a reasonably foreseeable event, so an extra layer of security makes sense.

 

[Anchorite]

I have them on a few revolvers, pretty much just for looks.

The only one I actually use is built into my 340PD, and barely large enough for the cheap metal clip of the cheap orange curly plastic lanyard: I often carry the gun in my trail running vest, and often fall off of things, or go tumbling down river crossings, or whatever other delightful idiocies I can get involved with. So far the gun has never fallen out of its pocket, but it is a reasonably foreseeable event, so an extra layer of security makes sense.

I‘m going to have to go pull my 340PD out of the safe…..I don‘t recall a lanyard ring on it ?