Holsters and rust?

Loyalist Dave said:

Commercial tanning which mimics bark tanning

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Because veg tanning is a form of bark tanning. Chromium tanning is the commercial form that "mimics" the veg tanning.

LD

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I miss your point. Both vege-tanning and chrome tanning are commercially done. Each has a different process in the tanning, and each has different properties. Vege-tan is simply an advanced version of bark tanning, with really not very much being different in the basics and principles of the two processes. "pit tanning" is about, or is the same, as bark tanning, and is still available in some areas of the world. I believe there is a commercial source in Spain. Chrome tanning is most often done to produce soft, garment leathers, which you might say, mimics brain tanned leather, and many of the fur on tanned leathers, but can also be made to mimic vege-tan carving leathers, but only in general appearance. It cannot be easily hand carved or formed very well, but can accept hot stamping, and some amount of hot forming. It most often is not a good choice for holsters, scabbards, or sheaths, in a general sense.

Some folks have said that you should never store your pistol in a holster while others have said that they have done it for a long time with no negative results. Personally, I never store my pistols in their holsters. I have nearly ruined a very expensive knife by leaving it in its leather sheath for an extended period of time. I don't want that to ever happen to one of my pistols so I never store them in their holsters. Some leathers may not cause rust while others do. I don't know about all of that so my best advice is to store your pistols out of the holster. Why take the chance of ruining the finish on one of your pistols? It just doesn't make sense.....at least not to me. :idunno:

I live in a high humidity area. Michigan. The great lake is about 30 miles away, and I have one of the major inland lakes less than 1/4 mile from my front door. My safe is one of those inexpensive Stack-On. So not air, or water tight. I store my modern as well as Cap and Ball pistols and long guns in the safe. I also store those guns who are longer than 90% of the commercial safes in a hidden location. Now with that being said. Handguns that have a specific holster for them are stored in them including those with flaps that are snapped, or buttoned shut. Long guns are stored in socks made of either natural or synthetic material. I have not had an issue with rust in any of them. I have had a cheap holster that has no gun in it have issues that I had to take care of. I only have 2 handguns in modern clamshell cases, and both are fine. Maybe it's because I go thru and check all my handguns regularly, and I don't get locked in on just one gun when I go through a reenacting season. I don't see the brass ones tarnish, they come out just as bright and shiny as when I put them in the safe-sometimes months later. Guess I am just lucky.

if you store them in leather, the brass will develope verdigris. when the spanish american war broke out the Spanish use rolling block rifles.. the cartridges in there bandeliors tuned green. americans thought they were poisoned.

For the past three years we have four sixguns that live in their holsters. None of them has a rust problem.

The guns and holsters are cleaned and lubricated with the same products: either bore butter or our tallow/beeswax mixture.

Some spend their day out and about while others ride in the safe.

That's funny! :rotf:

Back in the late 1870's the U.S. Army figured out that brass cartrages developed a green build up on them in leather cartrage belts, as a result they switched to canvas belts.

Today a brasser was removed from the safe where it was stored in a leather holster and it had some green on it. No rust on the steel though. That's a first for me. That holster was professionally made and in black on both sides. I have others that I've made that are stained on both sides with no green. :idunno:

I use ballistol on my holsters/guns with NO ill effects during storage ,have even used it to soften up a stiff hide during tanning ! Check out the fact sheet .