We use holsters. In fact, I use my old 1980's IPSC holster with my 1911. For my revolvers, I have a really nice Milt Spark's crossdraw holster built up for N-frames.

A popular holster is the Galco Dual Position Phoenix. The guys take it to this little, local leather-smith/shoemaker and he cuts off the thumb release, contours the leather and refinishes it and then uses his stitching machine to restitch the leather so it looks like it came that way from the factory.

They tell me that this guy is going to start producing holsters for us. We'll see how that turns out. If you can picture IPSC before the race-guns and red-dot sights came into being, you're pretty much bang-on to what the Mexican IPSC is like.

The popular class here is the Standard Revolver Division as that's where we can actually make Major Caliber (using Heavy Duty loads) and the Heavy Duty, Outdoorsman, and homemade versions of either of those two revolvers rule the roost. Fun stuff. Sorry to take us off topic, though.