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Bare As Comfortable to wear and at a convenient height, the Bare Asset stays in place. [ B Y S T E V E H E N I G S O N ] High Noon Holsters’ My wife, Jean, finds wearing a belt or a tight waistband extremely uncomfortable. We found that High Noon Holsters’ Bare Asset Inside the Waistband (IWB) rig provides a useful solution to her problem. It clips firmly to the top of her beltless Polartec pants, retains her J-frame Smith & Wesson snubby securely, and allows a quick, smooth, and unimpeded drawstroke. There’s a bonus: it’s available to properly fit almost any gun off-theshelf, as fast as the Post Office can deliver it. High Noon Holsters makes the Bare Asset from what appears to be oil-impregnated, chrome-tanned leather, vat-dyed black and about 1 ⁄16” thick. The pouch’s mouth is reinforced with a second layer of the same leather, which also extends down one side of the rig to anchor the belt clip. Just aft of the J- frame’s trigger guard there is a tensioning device, consisting of a rubber grommet that is compressed by a Chicago screw and a finish washer. This holster isn’t wet-formed to fit the gun because chrome-tanned leather doesn’t work that way. The Bare Asset is a semi-soft holster that, over time, will shape itself only minimally to the pistol it carries. Since its pouch isn’t form-fitted, Jean has to push her pistol into it with some force to seat it properly. Once in, though, the gun stays put very securely. This calls into question the need for a tensioning device. It seems superfluous to us, so we’ve disabled it. The black, spring-steel belt clip is perfect for providing a secure grip on Jean’s waistband. It slips effortlessly into place over the thick fabric, and it stays firmly anchored during every drawstroke, yet this rig is very easy to remove. When I tried it out, I found that it also easily slides on and off belts up to 1 3 ⁄4” wide without making me undo any clothing at all. Although this holster has a 12-degree FBI cant built in, the clip is close enough to the pistol’s center of gravity to allow Jean to set it at whatever angle she chooses, confident that it will stay there. The width of the J-frame’s cylinder spaces the revolver’s butt just far enough from Jean’s body that she can attain a firing grip easily, even though the pistol is tucked neatly into her waist. Jean wears her J-frame snubby directly 22 USCONCEALEDCARRY.COM n CONCEALED CARRY MAGAZINE n JULY 2008
High Noon Holsters’ Bare Asset rig. High Noon Holsters’ extremely effective clip. set IWB Holster behind her right hip joint and the grip is hidden by the vest or jacket that she always wears. The Bare Asset places the handle at a very convenient height and provides lots space for her fingers, so both her firing grip and her drawstroke are quick, smooth, and certain. Some people believe that in a self-defense situation, once a threat has fled or been eliminated, it is unnecessary to be able to smoothly reholster the pistol without looking at the holster. We disagree. We believe that there are many self-defense scenarios in which continuing to scan the area for other threats while reholstering the pistol could be a priority. Because the waistband of Jean’s pants is made of soft fabric and is never tightly cinched, reholstering is a continuing problem. We don’t want her to endanger her left hand by pointing her pistol at it during a reholstering maneuver, yet any rig she uses must be supported by that hand while she returns her gun to its pouch. The well-designed spring clip of the Bare Asset provides Jean a convenient, comfortable, and reasonably safe place to grip the holster while replacing her pistol and firmly shoving it home. The relatively soft leather of the Bare Asset complicates the reholstering issue a little. Even though a second layer of leather reinforces the holster’s mouth, it still collapses somewhat when the pistol is drawn. To put her gun back in, Jean has to wiggle the cylinder and frame into the pouch. Reholstering would be easier if High Noon Holsters had added a thin strip of metal stiffening inside the reinforcement layer to keep the pouch wide open. We suggest that they should do this, even if it raises the price a little. Jean finds the Bare Asset very comfortable to wear all day long. The extra width built into its design spreads the outfit’s weight out a little. One benefit of the somewhat soft leather is that it blunts a gun’s edges and corners, and keeps them from digging in. Her little J-frame revolver stays securely in place, no matter what she does, and she doesn’t need to think about it or check up on it as the day wears on. The pouch keeps the pistol’s butt out of her way, yet always readily accessible. Its excellent retention doesn’t clutch her gun too tightly, so her presentation is always smooth. She says that High Noon Holsters did a very good job when they created this rig. The Bare Asset holster is a stock item, so you don’t have to wait months for it to be custom made. High Noon Holsters has them ready to go in what seems to be about 100 different sizes, each made up to exactly fit one specific carry pistol. Every one of them sells for $24.95, plus $8.00 shipping. n Contact: High Noon Holsters P.O. Box 1923 Tarpon Springs, FL 34688 Phone or Fax: (727) 939–2701 www.highnoonholsters.com Questions@HighNoonHolsters.com [ Steve Henigson is a retired leathersmith and long-time pistol shooter, a student of the late Michael Harries. From the mid-1970s, he competed in IPSC with modest success. When IPSC shooting became unrealistic, his club seceded to form a truly practical, experimental shooting discipline, the Southern California Tactical Combat program (SCTC). He edited and published COMBAT!, the SCTC monthly journal, until 2004 ] JULY 2008 n CONCEALED CARRY MAGAZINE n USCONCEALEDCARRY.COM 23
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