Chest Rig For 45 Auto

[Josh Ashman]

Here is a chest holster for a 45 Combat Commander. Let me know what you think, thanks!

Josh

[dragonspit]

like the look, but having never made one or wore one, I am curious is to how it looks in use. I like the way the hardware looks to.

[Josh Ashman]

Thank you! It has JWP buckles and some really nice flat rings I picked up from Weaver. I've attached a picture of my son in law wearing a similar rig I made for him. It's an open cary rig and the idea is to keep the gun out of your way.

Best regards,

Josh

[Haystacker]

Josh,

What a great looking rig. Looks perfect for riding.

[St8LineGunsmith]

Nice looking rig

could you make a sketch of the layout for the points of attachment of the straps to the holster I would love to make something like this for my C&B remington

[gunter]

nice holster, would love to have the pattern, wanna share?

cheers

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks for the nice comments! No internet at home and I forgot to grab the pattern this morning so although I'm fine to share it, I can't today. I can tell you that my pattern is super simple and I'll attach a few more pictures, that might be enough for anyone who wants try this or use it as a starting point. The actual holster part is a simple "envelope" type, Lobo gave a great description of how to do this here; http://leatherworker...showtopic=43098

Once you have the holster part figured out add rings or D's or whatever you like for the straps, these pictures hopefully show what I did;

Here's another similar holster I made for a Ruger Blackhawk that has less fancy hardware and a simpler rigging system;

Between all of these I think you can see the back piece and general construction I used. I have conway buckles on the straps going arond the left side and over the shoulder and a regular buckle on the strap going arouns the right side so you can get it on and off easily. These are the first two of these I've made so there is plenty of room for improvement.

Best regards,

Josh

[Treed]

Great looking holsters, I have made the M7 military type chest holsters. The chest holster is the only way to fly for long periods of wearing large frame hand gun outdoors. Great job

[Josh Ashman]

Thanks Bobby, the chest holsters you make were one of the things I looked at when I was making a plan to build these. Hope things are going well for you and yours.

Semper Fi,

Josh

[St8LineGunsmith]

I like the holster for the ruger that would be similar to the design I would be looking at making for my 1858 Remington army model

I would like to also try to incorporate a spare cylinder pouch, a bullet pouch, a cap pouch and a flask pouch on it some way.