"Stick Your Gun In A Plastic Bag!!..Yeah, Right!!

[TACC1]

I don't know how many times I've heard that for breaking in
a new holster. Knowing very little about new holsters, I wasn't
sure what the reasoning was on putting the gun in the bag, and stuffing it into the holster. It doesn't matter, because it Works just as
advertised! I put the gun/bag/holster on the counter, and next day I had a perfect fit.
Thanks, folks!! TACC1

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I have done that but only to keep the moisture from the gun, holster was water soaked, insert plastic bagged gun and bone to fit then let dry. On a dry holster it may just increase the dimension of the gun enough to stretch the leather a bit?

 

[m1gunner]

If you can get one of the plastic/rubber dummy guns holster makers use, so much the better.

If that bag breaks, bad things happen (Where have I heard that before?).

When the leather is wet enough to mold to the gun, it is wet enough to leach salts out of the leather. Salt is used in leather making, and you can never get it all out of the finished product, thus the messed up guns that are improperly stored in holsters.

If you can't get a rubber duckie for the plug, wax or grease the gun down first before the bag. And thoroughly clean when done.

 

[oldman45]

I actually keep a Model 36 snubbie in a plastic bag all the time.

In my effort to always have a gun readily accessible, I keep it in the freezer portion of my refrigerator. Of course I keep a packet of sillica in the bag as well and I take it out to shoot a couple times a year.

 

[Cooter Brown]

I knew a named Jim Rockford who kept his model 36 in the jar with his coffee.

 

[TACC1]

I have two firearms which seem to be identical, yet one fit the
new holster, while the other seemed too large. After two days,
nothing had changed, although the "larger" was holstered the whole
time. After 24 hours of the bag experiment, the same firearm fit
perfectly. This was with a dry holster. As was suggested by
Vulcan Bob, the slight difference in dimensions must have done
the trick. I'm learning everyday here, and enjoying it. TACC1

 

[oldfella]

I was told be a famous leather holster maker, now gone, to spray silicon inside the holster - let the silicon dry then insert the gun, it works!

Pete

 

[jkc]

Those were precisely the instructions included with a new holster I purchased recently from a well regarded maker...

 

[TACC1]

Thanks again, I know more now than yesterday. TACC1

 

[chief38]

The purpose of putting a gun inside a plastic bag to loosen up a new holster is two fold.

1) First off, it makes the gun easier (slippery) to fit all the way into a new tight holster.

2) Secondly, the thickness of the plastic bag supposedly stretches the holster just slightly, so you still have an excellent fit, but you don't overstretch the new holster.

This trick is actually printed in the instructions that come with certain new holsters; Kramer Handgun Leather is just one example.

chief38

 

[cmort666]

I make holsters. To mold the holster to a particular type of firearm, I dampen (NOT soak) the holster under warm tap water and insert the handgun, wrapped in Saran Wrap. I then use my fingers and the butt ends of leather working tools to conform to the outline of the gun.

 

[Rule3]

I always thought it had to do with having "safe holstering"