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My issue holster was a Don Hume Border Patrol style for uniform and a Roy Baker pancake for off duty.Nope. The OP frame size was the basis for the Python, so a Python holster would work. Of course, you could do like I did and get a dedicated OP holster from Bell Charter Oaks.
Both of these holsters are history, though I'm sure they can be found used. I actually picked up a Roy Baker pancake for a 4" N frame somewhere, I need to go for a hike just so I can wear it.
El Paso Saddlery makes both a Border Patrol pattern and a Tom Threepersons which are great for a duty belt. For concealed their C-Force is an IWB with reinforced opening which permits one-hand reholstering. A favorite of Fed Special agents which enables you to conceal a 4" N-frame or full sized M1911!
I hate to break this to you but the days of Fed Special Agents carrying N frames or 1911s have been over for some time.
If it makes you feel better, there’s still Feds carrying Glocks in El Paso Saddlery leather and I know one Agent rocking his Glock 19 in a full floral carved rig from Kirkpatrick leather.
re: border patrol holsters,
I know you mean the Jordan style “suicide strap” style but the last three issued USBP leather duty holsters were a mix of Don Hume and Aker thumb breaks for revolvers, Beretta 96D and HK’s respectively.
Don Hume still offers this holster cut for the Colt Lawman / Trooper / Python which would fit an OP.
https://www.donhume.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=760
High ride version too:
https://www.donhume.com/index.php?ma...&products_id=1
Last edited by HCM; 10-18-2022 at 08:40 PM.
Well, shoot.Nope. The OP frame size was the basis for the Python, so a Python holster would work. Of course, you could do like I did and get a dedicated OP holster from Bell Charter Oaks.I went to the Bell Charter Oaks website and found that they're closed now; apparently, the shop didn't make it through Covid. I'm going to have to dig out that holster and the 4" OP and carry it once in a while now.
My 3” 64-3.
I’m guessing the “TPD” means it was a cop gun at one time.
Likely - or it was marked as evidence in a shooting. At one time various police procedures for guns taken as evidence involved scratching the officers initials or badge number and sometimes a case number into the gun for chain of custody / evidence purposes.My 3” 64-3.
I’m guessing the “TPD” means it was a cop gun at one time.
Transit PD shield 187 NYC Transit Police.
Hmm, never thought of that.
It’s DAO and appears to have come from the factory that way. So it has that in common with the NY1 guns.
The “ACV” SN prefix suggests it pre-dates the NY1s by a couple of years. But my SCSW 3rd edition doesn’t list that prefix, which may or may not mean anything, as a lot of SN prefixes from that era are not documented.
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