Tagua pancake holsters?

[Raisin]

Has anyone use the Tagua Premium Deluxe 3-Slot Brown Leather open top belt Pancake holster with their M&P compact 1.0? Are they good holsters?

 

[hardluk1]

You get what you pay for . Son in law tried pancake and it was rough inside and did not hold up well .

 

[Raisin]

Thank you hardluk1. I have a Kramer pancake holster for my shield and love it but never tried a Tagua. I like the pancake type and looking for one for my compact 1.0.

 

[MyDads38]

I have a few Tagua holsters, they are "okay" if bought for the right money. I would suggest a DeSantis, Galco or other better quality holster, if you can afford to save/spend the money. I would even buy "used", if you could find a model that you liked. I really like the DeSantis Speed Scabbard series for my M&P's and Rugers Add: For larger/full size handguns, I like a good quality pancake holster!

 

[oysterer]

I have a Kramer....

that's the top of the food chain...they don't compare to most others.

 

[Pisgah]

Are Tagua's the equal of holsters costing 3, 4, 5 times more? Nope. Are they generally solid, practical, and good buys for the money? Yes, sir.

 

[Justin T]

Instead of Tagua look at Azula. Highly impressed with mine.

 

[BC38]

I only have one Tagua. It is an IWB with a kydex shell on a leather panel with two steel clips. It has been great for concealed carry for my LC9, and it was about half the cost of a similar AlienWare. If it is typical of their products, then I'd say they are a good solid value holster.

 

[seldon14]

Tagua is all over the place. Worked in a shop that stocked tons of them. Some where pretty good, some where not. It was not unusual to get holster in packages that clearly didn't match.

 

[Biggfoot44]

Tagua is a line of leather holsters trying to be price competitive with synthetic , and is best viewed in that light .

Back when I still mostly had hair , most LGS would have in stock a fairly complete line of leather holsters from usually either Bianchi, or Safariland , plus various individual holsters from other makers .

Nowdays just about the only brand of leather carried in a comprehensive variety is Tagua , with various synthetics being seen most frequently .

 

[rednichols]

Has anyone use the Tagua Premium Deluxe 3-Slot Brown Leather open top belt Pancake holster with their M&P compact 1.0? Are they good holsters?

The owner / operator likely believes he knocked off this Galco from 2000:



When instead the Galco is itself a knockoff of this one; which I did on commission from DeSantis in 1990, for the FBI:



Which itself is not a copy (except, yes, it's a pancake) of Roy's original:



Not least because of being an asymmetrical pancake and being a better-engineered design vs. two flat-as-pancake (where the name comes from) leather pieces with bag slots hammered through them after sewing.

Especially when Galco's prior approach to asymmetrical pancakes as *******, looked like this:

 

[kthom]

If you are looking for a good, well made, simple pancake holster, take a look at the Simply Rugged Holster website. Great vendor, great products, in my experience and estimation.

 

[Rammer Jammer]

I only have experience with a buddies Tagua holster but IMO it was garbage. Everything about it seemed cheap from the quality of leather to the stitching.

 

[hardluk1]

If you can swing a well made rig check out Nelson Holsters . Very nice work and does some custom work and they hold there shape Good guy too ..
Owb

 

[Whit]

Not exactly a pancake, but for a very comfortable, well made holster give Tucker Gun Leather a look. I have three of them and am considering a fourth.

 

[Whit]

Not exactly a pancake, but for a very comfortable, well made holster give Tucker Gun Leather a look. I have three of them and am considering a fourth.

 

[oldiegoldie]

there's a couple of hands full of top shelf leather craftsmen out there. i have chosen Wright Leather to build my holsters. reasonably priced and delivery time is acceptable.

 

[OttoLoader]

I have a good Taguas pancake with strap for my Walther PPS m1. It fit well and holds up well. Really the only leather that I liked the fit for the Walther PPS m1.
DeSantis.
My J frame and L frame speed scabbards are good.
Glock 19 and G26 not so. Did not cover the trigger properly.
I now use Galco for my Glocks and 1911s.

 

[Farmer17]

I have one old leather pancake holster for a K frame and I don't know who the maker is but it is easily the most concealable outside the waistband holster I have ever tried. The problem is reholstering the gun, are all Pancake holsters that way where it collapses and makes it hard to reholster?

 

[Raisin]

I have one old leather pancake holster for a K frame and I don't know who the maker is but it is easily the most concealable outside the waistband holster I have ever tried. The problem is reholstering the gun, are all Pancake holsters that way where it collapses and makes it hard to reholster?

My Kramer pancake holster for my Shield has never collapsed in the four years I have had it. They are great holsters but pricey at $127. I was hoping to pay less and still get a good one.

 

[BigBoreShooter]

Instead of Tagua look at Azula. Highly impressed with mine.

^^^^THIS^^^

They're about $45 shipped. I have been very impressed with the quality and finish on both of mine.