"Suspenders of the Apocalypse" - a holster and gear carrier combo
Channel: Jim March Simpson
Date: 2011-09-29

This setup was built just before I spent a week in Florida on a court case, where my AZ permit was good but open carry is banned - therefore I wanted to go to a deeper cover setup.  This rig is as high up as a "belt holster" can get and it has to be suspended off the shoulder to work at all.  But it does work very well - it's matched to an improved version of my gear carrier on the other side.  It's all homebrew leatherwork.

The holster is an oddity because it's "flat on the inside" - two layers of leather stitched together at the edges, and I also have a "cutout" where the cylinder goes.  This "tombstone cutout" helps with retension.  You can also barely see a small stack of leather at the inside point where the tubular sight body goes - by pushing the sight body out, it tilts the grip in closer to the body.

I'm convinced this is about as deep-cover a rig as you can get with a gun this size - similar to a Colt SAA, 4.68" barrel (Ruger New Vaquero in 357Mag).