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<blockquote data-quote="Northerngos" data-source="post: 2144350" data-attributes="member: 115414"><p>For me, a chest rig is ideal. A belt or shoulder strap holster means you need to transfer the gun to a different holster every time you take your pack off (the meat eater crew found themselves caught flat footed in a grizzly charge for this exact reason). I am 5'8 and hanging a holster under a bino harness is way too much vertical space. I also find that putting a holster in front of the bino harness is too front heavy. I hunt with a Bowen classic arms nimrod in 475 linebaugh, or a Bowen redhawk-anaconda conversion so either are decently heavy guns, but my binoculars aren't light either (swaro 10x50s). Depending on what weapon vs binos I'd want the heavier item against your chest. In my case this also keeps the kydex holster from rattling on branches etc and doesn't impede silent bino, wind checker, or rangefinder use. I couldn't find a holster that fit my needs, didn't want leather as it holds moisture so rough made a kydex holster and used the fittings from one of my Clark fork leather setups. (Very nice chest rigs but again leather, and hard to have made in abnormal gun configs). I coupled it with a kuiu bino harness. The little leather tabs bind the holster to the fittings on the bino harness to keep everything together. Takes a couple of seconds to uncouple if I want the gun under a coat or if I'm taking the binos off. I found it worked well, was quiet, had good retention, and drained well. Something similar would be good with a 1911 and I'm sure you can find something ready made that would couple with the back of a bino holster. Something to consider also with chest rigs is to make sure the straps/holster doesn't come up behind the grip at all. If they do it can make a one movement weapon pull difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northerngos, post: 2144350, member: 115414"] For me, a chest rig is ideal. A belt or shoulder strap holster means you need to transfer the gun to a different holster every time you take your pack off (the meat eater crew found themselves caught flat footed in a grizzly charge for this exact reason). I am 5’8 and hanging a holster under a bino harness is way too much vertical space. I also find that putting a holster in front of the bino harness is too front heavy. I hunt with a Bowen classic arms nimrod in 475 linebaugh, or a Bowen redhawk-anaconda conversion so either are decently heavy guns, but my binoculars aren’t light either (swaro 10x50s). Depending on what weapon vs binos I’d want the heavier item against your chest. In my case this also keeps the kydex holster from rattling on branches etc and doesn’t impede silent bino, wind checker, or rangefinder use. I couldn’t find a holster that fit my needs, didn’t want leather as it holds moisture so rough made a kydex holster and used the fittings from one of my Clark fork leather setups. (Very nice chest rigs but again leather, and hard to have made in abnormal gun configs). I coupled it with a kuiu bino harness. The little leather tabs bind the holster to the fittings on the bino harness to keep everything together. Takes a couple of seconds to uncouple if I want the gun under a coat or if I’m taking the binos off. I found it worked well, was quiet, had good retention, and drained well. Something similar would be good with a 1911 and I’m sure you can find something ready made that would couple with the back of a bino holster. Something to consider also with chest rigs is to make sure the straps/holster doesn‘t come up behind the grip at all. If they do it can make a one movement weapon pull difficult. [/QUOTE]
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