Get a good gun belt, but should you get leather or nylon?
A lot of what goes on in this business is about looks, if your LEO, you know what it’s like to get written up for having the incorrect uniform and depending on your police Chief, you might have a bunch of odd looking finishes. Just go look at tall of the options the average duty gear from Safariland comes in. We’ve pretty much narrowed down leather CCW belts to Desantis, we may dabble a little bit with Galco leather this year but some of the leather gun belts we come across are a little too cowboy looking, that’s fine if that’s what you want, but most of our customers right now are not going to be wearing too much brown, mostly black. There are thin dress belts that you might be able to use for CCW or Off duty, but in my humble opinion a 1.5 inch belt is probable the best support and for nylon it’s been for a very long time the difference between the Wilderness Instructor belt and a very close second, the Cobra Belt.
Elite Survival Systems has another Cobra Rigger’s belt that should be listed shortly, I forgot to bring this in stock until a customer walked in and asked if we had them. The one thing you have to be careful about when picking up any gun belt is to make sure that the pants you are wearing them have belt loops that are compatible. We have had issues with the Tru-Spec 24/7 Series pants not working to sell with the rear belt loop catching the Cobra belt buckle and thus, not a good combination. I’ll have to bring this up with our Tru-Spec rep the next time I see him which is on Tru-Spec and not Elite Survival belts. Recently we had a walk in customer that told us that he had a foot chase where his nylon velcro belt started to come undone and wanted something with a latch, always good and bad points and yet another reason to go to a brick and mortar start and ask questions and try it on.