Anyone use their gunbelt/gear for real?

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Anyone use their gunbelt/gear for real?

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Curious to see if anyone here actually uses their gunbelt in the realm outside of just costuming. Ive REALLY enjoyed the way Ive started using my Indy gear while outdoors. Traditionally I would put my knife and sidearm on my regular belt which could become a pain to remove and gets uncomfortable on horseback. I spend ALOT of time hunting, fishing, and camping in the mountains. I took the ideas from the cowboys and frontiersman of old, and good ole Dr Jones and combined them into one really helpful package. If I need to cross high water I can simply remove my gunbelt and hold it overhead. In camp taking off just the gunbelt saves the annoyance of dealing with belt loops and etc. After a long day just hanging up ONE belt inside the tent with all my stuff is waaaaay easier. I can move the holster around freely if it starts to get heavy in one spot or chafe on a long hike.

My current "Indy belt" setup is as follows:

Right side is a leather flap holster usually containing a 1911 or hi power. Sometimes something else. Left side at about 10 o clock is a set of leather flap double mag pouches and at 8-9 I carry a Bear and Sons Frontier Bowie or other large knife for utility purposes. If I am just camping and not concerned about extra weight my whip goes directly at 9 with the bowie relocated further behind. I am absolutely converted to using a single belt to carry all my stuff as it just makes life up there easier! Not to mention it does look pretty cool.

Anyone else use their stuff like this?

Mag pouches are somewhere in the endless mess that is my truck. :( too cold and snowy to go out there now.

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I use one of my gun belts as an every day belt and sometimes I put my sidearm on it, although not in my Webley holster. ( I have a Glock 19, but hope to get a WG someday)
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Really like that setup, Chris.

I've never really run a flap holster and outer belt for anything but Indy gear, though.

Well, unless you count the occasional M9 in an M12 on a USGI pistol belt. :mrgreen:
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I have in the past, carrying a Smith Model 29 or a Webley in the field. The weight of those revolvers tend to make the flap holster hang where they're placed, but anything lighter (like a Smith .357 model 13) tends to allow the holster to 'wander around' if you get too active. ;)

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knibs7 wrote:I have a Glock 19, but hope to get a WG someday
IndyRiv has one with the correct grip listed in the Bazaar right now ! :)
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When I go vintage camping, or to the gun range with my S-W M-1917 revolver, or Mark VI Webley I always wear the belt and Holster. Have done so for some years now.
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Great example for using Indy Gear outside costuming, underlining that it does s indeed have a very practical use. Thanks a lot for sharing this insight!

I am also a great friend of trying to make use of this kind of equipment in a real world scenario - beyond costuming as a movie character (not saying that there would be anywrong wrong with cosplay, though). Leather jacket and felt hat (although I've developed a somehow personal 'style' differing from Indy's movie costume in nuances (but still clearly influenced by the movie archaeologist) in the meantime) are basic to my excavation and travel outfit without a question. And in particular on excavation the gunbelt becomes very useful. Although I'm not wearing a gun in the field (nor a bullwhip - just for the record ;) ), the belt is a very handy piece of equipment - gun holster's replaced by a trowel holster for the modern-day archaeologist. :)

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Stay tuned folks! Working on a couple cool things with Make It Jones!!!


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