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Happ-style guns, any ideas for non-top, non-side holsters? (other than U-bolts)
MacGyver:
So I'm 70% done making the cabinet, and short of using leaf-spring u-bolts, I can seem to find any Happ (Area 51) style gun holsters. I can find lots of holsters for them that bolt into the top of the CPO, or shotgun racks, or even smaller ones that look like they fit only the smaller revolver, but no front mount holsters for Happs.
I need to figure something out soon (within two weeks) that looks nice, and will hold up over time and not let the guns scratch up the vinyl.
I was thinking of cutting holsters in the front (holes), but I'm afraid it will look crappy and breakdown over time. I might consider side holsters, if they looked great.
I'm interested to see what others have been doing.
Any ideas?
tony.silveira:
if your panel is wider than your machine, maybe make the holes in teh back of the panel. check out my machine, in my sig, to see my guns exactly like that
MacGyver:
Sadly no, my panel is inside the cabinet so that won't work.
Here is one I like (sort of,but out of stock anyway):
or the utilitarian method of HotD2:
I think the HotD2 method would scratch up the front of the cab.
This is too much a western style for my tastes:
And the following are all out because they mount on the top:
And this
which I think is used here:
but that won't work (top&front mount).
So I guess I'm looking for something else. I'm leaning towards this, I just wish I could find a molded and finished version of it.
Any thing I missed? Any other ideas? Or a commercial version of the last one?
Thanks again for any help.
lilshawn:
how about a piece of black ABS plasic tube...maybe 2" in diameter?
I built a 2 player Big Buck Hunter World cabinet out of an old Buck hunter II cabinet (black and orange one). I cut 2 oval shaped holes in the front of the cabinet and placed a 3 or 4 inch cardboard mailing tube down to the bottom of the cabinet at about a 45 degree angle that the guns slide into.
no issues yet with that.
other than that the only thing i can suggest would be to maybe have a small hook or loop that you can place the nose of the gun into and then a dowel to go through the trigger guard loop. the weight of the cable should help keep things oriented properly.
bad MS paint to follow...
Le Chuck:
^ +1
I did this on a cab. No pics sorry, it was years ago before I documented anything. I heated up some black plastic tubing and pressed it between two boards until I had a good oval. (I think I found the tube on a large shop vac) Then I cut it off on a 45 in the middle and using a skillet on the stove melted a bezel onto the the ends of each cut piece that I then sanded to shape. Cut ovals in cab (at a downward angle) sanded to fit and inserted the tubes. Gun storage on either side of the coin door. Then I added wire keepers and wired the guns through the tube so I didn't have wires hanging off the front.
Another solution depending on CP depth is to install a keyboard drawer on the front and store the guns in there. Just use a magnetic press catch so you don't have a knob on your cab.