|
|
 |
08-30-2011, 04:17 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SW Washingtom
Posts: 155
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times in 1 Post
|
|
New gun leather stinks
And is oily. I have only had it about an hour and my hands are slippery, nose burnes a little, and the head hurts.
Sooooo any ideas on how to un-stink, and un oil it.
The next thing is that the holster slides along the belt when I take it off and on while the 686 is in it. Any thoughts on how to keep this from happening? I have a few thoughts going on, and a few more once I get some fresh air.
|
08-30-2011, 05:48 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Western NC
Posts: 3,701
Likes: 2,980
Liked 6,573 Times in 1,828 Posts
|
|
What brand of holster?
All of mine smelled gooooooood right from the start.
|
08-30-2011, 06:11 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 1,354
Likes: 917
Liked 1,431 Times in 448 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bullet Bob
What brand of holster?
All of mine smelled gooooooood right from the start.
|
Sounds like it might be one of those factory seconds from Mobil Oil.
Last edited by NCTexan; 08-30-2011 at 10:04 PM.
|
08-30-2011, 06:20 PM
|
 |
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Craig, Montana
Posts: 3,093
Likes: 363
Liked 2,346 Times in 893 Posts
|
|
Just got some sweet smelling leather from El Paso Saddlery.
A 1942 shoulder rig for a 6" N and a Tom Threepersons for my 3" M-66 field gun.
Smells fine to me.
FN in MT
|
08-30-2011, 06:20 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,344
Likes: 1,963
Liked 928 Times in 522 Posts
|
|
See if the seller will take it back.
|
08-30-2011, 06:24 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: MURFREESBORO TN.
Posts: 5,384
Likes: 90
Liked 402 Times in 177 Posts
|
|
 I really like the smell of leather. Yes I am wacky.  Don
__________________
"Don't worry be happy"
|
08-30-2011, 06:27 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Due south of Orlando
Posts: 7,202
Likes: 597
Liked 3,451 Times in 1,412 Posts
|
|
If you bought an El-Cheapo brand a lot of that is made in Mexico and Africa and they use urine for tanning. Is that the smell you're smelling?
__________________
Dick
|
08-30-2011, 07:54 PM
|
|
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: utah
Posts: 13,059
Likes: 2,547
Liked 7,201 Times in 3,064 Posts
|
|
I know this will sound crazy and is slightly off thread, but---- When I was about 8 years old I got in a scrap where I was getting the worst of it for awhile. I remember smelling leather. For many years after that when I was in a dangerous situation, I would smell leather! I would even smell it sometimes before I realised the situation to be dangerous and it would alert me, honest!
|
08-30-2011, 08:01 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: West Central IL
Posts: 22,791
Likes: 18,498
Liked 22,388 Times in 8,267 Posts
|
|
Something's not right with your holster. I have lots of both commercial and custom holsters, and none were offensive. I actually like the smell of new leather productl.
__________________
H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244
|
08-30-2011, 08:01 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: 61N149W
Posts: 2,916
Likes: 1,426
Liked 1,104 Times in 550 Posts
|
|
Switch to PLAIN coffee Feral!! PLAIN coffee!! LOL Hey lazy, can you send the leather to your Mother in-law for her gun??? 
__________________
Go big or stay home
|
08-30-2011, 08:58 PM
|
|
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: utah
Posts: 13,059
Likes: 2,547
Liked 7,201 Times in 3,064 Posts
|
|
Lazy, did that leather come from this country? You know years ago they tanned leather with brains and urine. Maybe they overdone it and the salty urine might rust your gun! That also might acount for your nose burning etc if you have been checking it out too closely!
|
08-30-2011, 09:03 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 633
Likes: 242
Liked 649 Times in 184 Posts
|
|
Just received a package from Wasilla, Alaska
Tonight the scent of fine leather is in the air and I could not be happier!!The Guide's Choice holster courtesy of Dave Johnston of Diamond D Custom Leather fit to a Freedom Arms Model 83
|
08-30-2011, 09:20 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SW Washingtom
Posts: 155
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times in 1 Post
|
|
Just got home a few min ago. It is the oil used on the leather, I wiped it down with a towel for awhile and its not as slick. The holster is just an off the shelf Triple-K holster and cartridge belt, has the same slippery oil smell as the Bianchi holster I was feeling up.
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
