Brings back memories. I worked with a little older dried up man in the sixties who had a uniform holster made for an M-15 snub like those pictured here. His butt was so skinny that he couldn't keep a uniform holster for a four incher off the seat in the howl car and it was uncomfortable for him, so he rigged up for the two incher. I remember that his waist was so small that the twelve loop cartridge slide went halfway around his belt to the left side. With that and his handcuff case on the Sam Browne and a couple of keepers, there was precious little empty space around his waist. He'd a sure been in trouble today. LEO's carry more stuff around than I could have carried around on my significantly larger Sam Browne belt!!!
I also worked with another fellow for several years who was a game warden who carried an M-15 with the square butt. His rig was a tooled brown leather outfit that had been worn for many years. He was a survivor of the Bataan Death march and was also very slender. He had a six cartridge slide, a handcuff case, a rear belt keeper that straddled his middle belt loop, with a couple of slender ones on the front either side of his belt buckle. His holster was also custom made in the Bill Jordan style of the day and it fit him just fine. I remember that I would not have wanted him to be shootin' at me with that snub!!! Good memories. Thanks for the pictures and the memories, guys!!
