Jim PHL
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I was just admiring huntershooter's thread in the Handguns: Auto's forum and admiring his engraved 1911 and beautiful new holster. Rather than hi-jack his thread I thought I'd start a new one here. The holster in his thread is completely cut-away from the gun's trigger guard. I happen to have an older OWB holster that I received some years ago when it came packed along with a used revolver I bought. Nowhere near as fancy as huntershooter's (or a lot of others I've seen for that matter) but also has the trigger guard of the gun completely exposed. Can someone explain the reasoning behind this feature? Against this feature I guess there is the obvious safety issue; a completely exposed trigger guard obviously completely exposes the trigger, but also just the general protection of the gun; covering the trigger guard offers the gun that much more protection from the elements. I guess the BBQ rig in that thread might be made to emulate a speed-draw rig if that has something to do with it but I would still think it always would make more sense to have the trigger guard covered. You don't need to access the trigger until the muzzle clears leather anyway and the covered trigger guard would clear the top of the holster before the muzzle does. (And that holster of mine that is cut this way is certainly no high-speed rig, it's just a general duty holster someone would likely carry a revolver around their farm in or hiking trails or woods.)