Rough Cut Back Holsters

I've been asked on 4 separate occasions in the last week about these so I thought I'd make the response pretty clear and unified. The question is always the same: can I get an RC holster that will sit atop my shoulder blades so I can draw it like this? The person in question then mimes drawing from their back over their shoulders and blatting me in the face with an imaginary or, rarely, real Rough Cut.

It's simple: there's a reason we've not got them on the market yet - it's not possible to offer both effective drawing and re-holstering in that configuration.

Let me explain: not being able to see where you're placing your blaster when holstering is a pain in the plums. You can get to our staff's level of proficiency with the MkII and MkIII and not need to look where you're placing your blaster but when starting out you really need to be able to see what you're doing. It takes time to ingrain things into muscle memory and not being able to see what you're doing really hampers that.

So what about work rounds? Well, there are several I'm not a fan of any of them. We looked at magnets. Steve, our crash test dummy got concussion when the RC we were testing decided it didn't want to stick to his back any more. Why? The funky profile of the Rough Cut isn't flat and so it will suffer from the variations in different. OK, so you could cover the case of your RC in steel or something but that's not terribly practical. Even then, a stock Rough Cut without darts weighs 460g - that's a lot of magnets.

Velcro? Yeah, it sort of works but it's a pain finding quantities of it that will stick to the blaster without problems. Industrial strength stuff works to an extent but if you miss the plate by a little bit on your back it will fall off and give you concussion. The other problem is that Velcro comes in two parts: hook and loop. Yes, the loop part is all nice and fluffy but leaving that hook part exposed will mean it'll get gummed up something rotten leaving you with either a dud panel on your expensive rig or your shiny blaster covered in gunky Velcro.

Drawing the blaster isn't a problem - we've got half a dozen ways of doing that. However, returning it to a pouch without problems is next to impossible without the help of an obliging friend. We're happy to modify an existing shotgun holster for you but you won't be able to return the blaster under combat conditions without an obliging friend. Oh and it'll cost you £30 including VAT and will only be MOLLE mountable. On the bright side, it'll be nice and padded with all that tasty, delicious closed cell foam protecting you and your blaster. :)