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Originally Posted by Ivan the Butcher
If it is a mold/mildew issue, you need to kill it. Last resort is wipe down with Clorox. My go to is use old bath towel scraps and blot a bunch with white vinegar, let dry and sniff. Probably repeat 3 or 4 time. It may smell like a pickle for a couple months. After mold is dead and smell gone, then condition the holster.
Ivan
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Not a good idea. Clorox is a fairly strong acid and vinegar is a moderately strong acid. Both could cause damage to your leather but will certainly attack the metal parts and especially your gun if you don’t get all the acid neutralized.
I had a case for a rather expensive camera that had molded before I got it. I put it in the sun but no improvement and eventually took a small bowl of white vinegar and set it in the case and closed it up for about a week. I then took the bowl out and placed it in the sun again. A couple of treatments like that removed all traces of the mold odor.