I was really hoping the lettering would come through on this, but I only had the phone with me so you’ll just have to take my word for it…
That’s a Serpa “I just f’ing shot myself” holster for a Taurus Judge. 🙂
I’d have bet money there was no such thing. Yet this is available for immediate sale at the drug store (which is the only place you can buy ammo and gun stuff) in the little town nearest where I live.
They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
"If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."
- Aaron Zelman
"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force."
- Barbie
"Never underestimate the ability of shit to find a fan."
- F. Paul Wilson
"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." The sophistry of villains - Bah!
- Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star
“Truth is, I’m not specifically interested in an armed society. What I want is a free society.”
- George Potter
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- D. H. Lawrence
Aristippus passed Diogenes as he was washing lentils.
He said, “If you could but learn to flatter the king, you would not have to live on lentils.”
Diogenes said, “And if you could learn to live on lentils, you would not have to flatter the king.”
Sandy Hook was a Gun Free Zone. So was the Westroads Mall. And the Aurora Theater. And Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Should I go on? They were all Gun Free Zones.Â
– Reality
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- Ayn Rand
If ever a man should ask you
For your business or your name
Tell him to go and fuck himself
Tell his friends to do the same.
For a man who'd trade his liberty
For a safe and dreamless sleep
Doesn't deserve the both of them
And neither shall he keep.
- Frank Turner
Don't be afraid to try something big, just because you're an amateur. The Ark was built by amateurs. The Titanic was built by professionals.
- Anon
"Nothing scares a police officer more than the threat of being treated the way that they treat people every day."
- Anon
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."
- Gen. James Mattis
"Lust for power is the most flagrant of all the passions."
- Tacitus
"The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free."
- F.A. "Baldy" Harper
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
- William James
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor Frankl
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
- Milton Friedman
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
- William Faulkner
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
- Ernest Hemingway
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
- Ronald Reagan
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- James A. Baldwin
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war."
- Anon
“I tried to live in such a way that, when dying, I would rather feel happy than scared.”
– Witold Pilecki
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
- Sallust
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
- Lazarus Long
Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”
-Frederick Douglass
ESSE QUAM VIDERI –
To be, rather than to seem
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
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Do what thy manhood bid thee do; from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self made laws
– Sir Richard Burton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
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― Father Alfred d’Souza
I bought some of those holsters when they first appeared. All the gun “Experts” were touting them as the greatest item since the invention of gunpowder. (Says a lot about the so called experts)
After a major failure to draw and getting my finger pinched removing the $#@!*&%$ from my belt I threw them in my box of stuff no longer useful but I’m keeping it anyway.
Finally I found a use for the contraptions. Hook them on my safe door and store guns in them. Works to reduce the clutter and I only store guns I rarely use, so removing them quickly is not a concern.
I’ve got one somebody sent me for my 1911. Agreed that a steady diet of quick draws would make me nervous because that’s just not where your index finger ought to be, I still wear it sometimes socially because it’s my nicest-looking holster.
Which sounds kind of weird, now that it’s all typed out like that…
So it is your dress holster?
Your drug store is very civilized.
If you’re more worried about a gun bouncing out of the holster on a Jeep trail than you are doing a hundred consecutive practice reps of drawing at speed and re-holstering, they make a certain amount of sense.
Yeah, I agree. Though I’m not sure the mechanism is an improvement over a top snap for positive retention, it definitely retains the pistol. Gotta tell you, though – one of my first times wearing that SERPA out in the boonies made me swear off doing so, and it was for a reason I’ve never seen anybody else complain about. A twig – just a random little juniper twig – fell down inside the holster while I was wearing it, and somehow managed to finagle itself right into the channel for that button. I tried to push the button and draw the pistol, fortunately not in a situation where I really needed to – and couldn’t! I could not get that button to depress. Thought for a minute I might need to wreck the holster to recover my pistol, but I was able to dislodge the obstruction by taking the whole thing off my belt and shaking it sharply upside-down. That was interesting.
But what really caught my eye is that Blackhawk makes one for a Taurus Judge – which probably isn’t the silliest pistol commercially available, but which I enjoy mocking anyway. I really didn’t know Taurus had sold so many.
Funny thing about those Judges, though; you never -around here, anyway – see any used ones for sale…
I saw the (disastrous) video,and I understand the neg feedback about the holster,but…here’s my story.
I have a number of pistols,and holsters.I have been shooting for 40 years,and I practice-both dry firing and live firing,including reps from the holster.My carry gun is a SIG 227.The first holster that I bought for it fit it properly,and was comfortable,but I’m a little disabled,and I walk with a cane.I would be easy-pickins for a bad guy (or two) to run up behind me and take my gun or knock me down.I worried about pistol retention ,not when I’m running which I can’t do,but any time.
I carry in a SERPA because it requires you to know what you’re doing to draw it and that gives me a little peace of mind.
I practice my draw,and I have very good trigger finger discipline and I have never pulled the trigger accidentally while drawing from holster.
If I’m ever in a quick draw self defense situation,all my planning may be for shit-I’ll let you know.
Also,when Tex had his famous ND,he had been practicing with one pistol,and then changed to practice with a completely different pistol,which may have had something to do with his fingers being in the wrong place.I’m not a celebrity,and I don’t quick draw with different pistols all day long.
I just finished reading the comments about this holster. I got to say that any decent holster is better that the “shove your gun into the waste band and shoot your self in the nuts” carry. But as with everything it takes practice to use correctly. As for the guy that shot himself even the “professionals” make mistakes. The only difference is that the pros don’t past their screw ups on the web.
That comment by Joel about not being able to draw because of a jammed holster, that is disturbing. One cure for that is a holster with a flap but then you add time to how long it takes to get into action. Always trade offs…
I’m still boggled that the Taurus Judge exists.
Before they started selling them, if you’d shown me a picture and a description, I’d have been absolutely convinced that you were joking. A five-shot .410 shotgun revolver that weighs almost four pounds unloaded is the answer to a question no one asked. Or if someone did ask, he should have sobered up and thought about it further the next morning.