Pouches & Holsters

Not the best photo! Camera's on the fritz again!

This item is a modified MkIII holster requested as a cos-play piece by a customer. He requested an additional magazine flap pouch on the exterior of his holster and the movement of the grab strap to a more leading position.

This is interesting not for the grab strap placement but for the pouch. We've looked at doing these ever since we deployed the MkII back in March. At least one of our competitors offers a similar facility but its not been asked of us until recently.

This is a flap - and we've all seen what our team think of flaps in combat. For our variant, we'd seek to add our traditional elastic loop and golf toggle rather than a standard flap The issue of course is that the combat efficacy of a holster magazine holder. For one, I wouldn't seek to place these on our production holsters but the option is in the spirit of our development. We will seek to mock up a prototype for mainstream production in the next few weeks and then when the new website goes live there will be the option to have an additional magazine pouch, a dart plate for the MkII holster or additional MOLLE webbing for affixing various options.

Elsewhere, this is the first item that has our new polyester twill binding for additional strength and a better look and feel over our traditional black bias binding. We'll continue to roll this out across all our products, it's a much better looking solution to edging pieces. The pouch itself is a gusseted and uses top stitching to keep its shape. Again, a first for us. In all, we had to try a few new things to make this work. It's all part of how custom work helps us push the envelope.

Our kit can be bought at www.blastersmiths.co.uk - for now, ones with pouches can be ordered custom at customs@blastersmiths.co.uk until our new website goes live.