Weber Tactical Holsters

I'm Barret Kendrick with Bearco Training. We just finished up the first ever live product review showcase for Personal Defense Network. I hope you had a chance to watch that, but if not here's a video that we did on the Weber tactical holsters and you can see exactly what we covered during that product showcase. What we need to do is have a good secure way to carry our firearm. Now, this is a company that's gonna be relatively new maybe to some of you, because it honestly is a relatively young company.

It's one that I've only become familiar with maybe within the last six months. And it's Weber Tactical. Now Weber has a mindset to come to holsters from outside of the holster community and say, let me look at it this way, which immediately resonates with me. Barrett, you are I think when I look at the whole array, we've had probably 30 different contributors at Personal Defense Network. You're the every guy, right?

You're a family guy, you're active in your community, you're an entrepreneur, you've had real jobs, you go out with the kids, you go out with your wife, you get dressed up. You sometimes you don't wear shoes 'cause you're from Louisiana. You kind of run the whole gamut and you have provided a great deal of very very practical advice and training in Bearco Training and at Personal Defense Network for a lot of different types of people. So I know you have a practical mind to this. Talk to me about your impression.

Or talk to everybody else about your impression of the Weber products. Certainly I've got, and I'm actually wearing one. Rob was wearing one. In fact, I think all of the guys are currently wearing the trifecta from Weber Tactical. And the trifecta is designed to give you an option to where you could carry the same holster inside waistband or outside waistband, on the front of their body, on the side of your body, whatever your preference is.

That's the trifecta portion of that. Now we've seen different holster manufacturers that have tried to also do this design previously. And a lot of times what ends up happening is they don't really do everything extremely well, right? They kind of just do a poor job at each of those inside waistband or outside waistband. I think Weber Tactical really paid attention to how to increase the, really the...

the holster and make it better for just those positions. And so the trifecta holster, we've got it sitting out here like I said, I am carrying it currently outside waistband but it has... it comes with your different options where you have the mod clips that if you want to carry it inside waistband where it has a mod wing that is on there to wear the... and I've got them all apart right now. But with that Mod wing allows us to be able to carry it inside waistband.

And as your belt is applying pressure to it, what it ends up doing is twisting and turning the gun to where it falls closer towards the body. On inside waistband, they've got the discrete carry clips that you're going to have that you're going to be able to come with a discreet carry clip the way that sits on there. It really locks into the belt extremely well. As we're sitting there working with that, it has a single point of holding there. So what that allows really is when you have a single point as you sit there and change and sit down it provides a little bit of freedom.

And for some people are going to find that it's going to be more comfortable when we're working with that single clip as opposed to two separate clips where it really positions that well. So we've got the different options that come with that. On the outside waistband system the way that it accomplishes that it's got another shell that comes on to the outside and it snaps all of this screw in together. And of course we've got the belt loops that drop on there as well. And the belt loops and the way that that sits in the way that I have this sitting on me now with the belt loops and the way that they sit with a wider platform with that shell that's going over the top of it.

What that does is really pulls the gun in closer. And this is where I've seen several other designs that didn't do a very good job of keeping the gun coming close to you. So that really allows for that, that more of that pancake feature. Now, the holster itself is made from a boltaron I believe is what they call that. And very similar in appearance to traditional Kydex holsters.

Now I've been wearing Kydex holsters probably going back 12, 13, 15 years, over the years of that we've definitely seen some evolution that's come through but Kydex itself is always struggled with its the brittleness, where it actually ends up can crack if it ends up flexin' a good bit. So this material is not Kydex. It is designed to be a more durable to where you're going to have less of those types of issues coming into play. The holster is designed. You can see currently I am carrying with a red dot optical on the top of it.

So this holster is red dot ready, and that's true with all of their designs, where they're all cut for that red dot. They're also cut for suppressor sights. Being in that sight channel is going to be deep enough. I've got suppressor height sights on this one now and whether that's inside waistband or outside waistband. And so as we're doing that you'd be able to really move this holster around whether it's, whatever your gun set up is.

Now why would we want to do that? And really this kind of comes down to... it comes down to a couple of different options. I know as an instructor, as a trainer, when I get newer students out on the line, a lot of times who were starting to teach presentation from the holster I'm going to have that holster set up outside waistband to where it really provides an additional safety protocols. Different layers of safety there and where the gun is sitting outside.

It's easy for the coach or the instructor to be able to see what's taking place and is going on there. But it also reduces that risk just a little bit because the gun is not inside that waistband that's pointing at the body parts as it's coming in and out. So we applied that additional layer there but where a lot of people are really going to find a lot of interest in this, it's going to be the different seasons, right? We're doing this right now from hot sunny, Florida. It's probably 80 degrees, but as the different seasons change, especially in different parts of the country, many people for comfort prefer to wear it inside waistband during the summer, when all they're doing is covering it up with a t-shirt or outside waistband during the winter.

So if I'm wearing something like this flannel shirt that's going over the top of it. Well now I may be able to, whether it's a jacket or just a lightweight pull-over, as I'm sitting there carrying that it's going to be able to conceal the firearm because it is keeping it close into the body. So I've got this one currently, it's actually really positioned high, so you can change the ride height of that that's even going to help with that even more. Currently I've got it sitting high, but if I'm going out and it's winter time, now all of a sudden I don't have to deal with the uncomfortableness of having the gun inside waistband if I'm constantly having to wear something that would cover up the gun anyway. And it also, when you get into working from presentation from the holster, since it's not on the inside of the waistband with all the different layers that would be covering it up, that's one less additional layer, making it a little bit easier to be able to get a hold of that firearm .

With the other options that we have available with this company, with Weber Tactical, they don't just make the personal defense holsters. I'll take your jacket, sir. Thank you. I appreciate that. So they don't just have the personal defense holsters, but they also are into the competition market as well.

And that's the pretty blue and black holster that we're seeing there. It is. And it's like really super sturdy. It's incredibly well-made, does have their little logo sticker on it. And this as I understand is a new product line for Weber Tact and what they have done at Weber Tactical is decide that they're going to really try to service the gamer market.

And what's interesting is when I saw this holster and if you're like me and you don't really do a lot with like the three gun situation. I saw this hood and immediately thought, well gee that looks really tactical-ish, right? But this is actually designed... then we put a gun in it, and I think maybe it was with this gun okay. I'll let you put that in there and show it's clear.

Good. When we put the gun in it, it was very high over the back of the gun. And so I called up Adam Weber 'cause he's very.. And I'm like, is this, do we have the right gut? How is this...

Obviously this is for the optics. And when you're thinking about a gamer gun you're thinking about three guns, the optics can be larger. It can be a lot easier to carry it out here off your body. There's a aluminum drop also, if you don't want this so high it can drop down and get a little bit easier to get to when you're in that gaming mode, running around. But that's what this hood is for, the hood is there for extra retention to make sure that it is retaining the gun.

And I'm sure during some competitions you would just take that off or get that out of the way. But it's specifically designed to allow you to clear the optic that's going to be on all the gamer guns. So again, a very versatile design, very sturdy very well-made is what I've found that I'm wearing the appendix carry. And I'm wearing it with a full-size Glock 48. And I'm going to have Deryck come in.

Deryck's wearing it. Are you using a 48 also. 48. So Deryck's also got a 48. What he's got though is he has, I've worn this.

If you've noticed this maybe throughout this broadcast this first half hour, you've said, well, gee Rob's printing an awful lot. I wanted to wear this holster this way so you could see the difference. And if you want to go ahead and take that out and show them what we're looking at, This is a great clip. It is a great clip. That's really why I wanted him to have to do it because see how well- That'd be great on a motorcycle.

They are, there they go. What wouldn't be great on a motorcycle right now? It's about 75 degrees, bike week is getting ready. We saw a lot of Harleys being trailered and BMWs being ridden yesterday coming down 75. That's mean to the Harley guys, but sorry.

That's unfortunate. Talk to us about that because that's the difference, right? That's how you carry the full-size grip at my build. Well, now Deryck's build too, if you've been watching PDN, you know he's dropped a lot of weight and yet you could still conceal it underneath of something like a t-shirt. Talk to me about that.

Yeah. That mod wing, these have been around for a while but like they've evolved and become better and more intuitive. But this one, you can actually change the depth and height. You have the long one or the short one? I actually used the long one.

I like maximum. He's got the short one there, whoever's got the closeup camera. So what it allows is is when I put it in and I tighten down, that sits behind the belt and it just sort of pulls that grip back into my body. Right. So I'm going to do is I'm just gonna...

Well, you're left-handed, that's okay. That's set up for a lefty, right? I'm going to take this off. I'm just gonna put that right there. And I'm gonna take this one and put it on there kind of left-handedy, and you guys who have been watching this, and if not, you can go back and kind of replay the tape.

These are great clips. Absolutely. There's that. And now what you're going to see is with that little wedge behind my crossbreed heavy duty leather belt now it's a completely different experience, right? So now that is much harder to see because that full-size grip isn't poking out.

Those of you who've seen my Glock 43 L the idea that I carry a 43 grip with a long 48 slide. That's why, because I can't conceal it without that kind of a wedge. So Weber Tactical has taken care of that as well. And remember, in case that's not clear both of these holsters are the same holster, right? That's the trifecta.

Cool. So that is the Weber tactical. Obviously they have magazine carriers. They also have the, and these can be set up I guess for inside the waistband as well but it's probably not their purpose. Their purpose is for the tactical market.

What else? Anything else on Weber tactical before we go check on Kevin's gun? Obviously that's the package and how it comes packaged but you do just get all the pieces in there all the screws that come with that gives you the ability to be able to set it up exactly how you want it for your firearm based on the seasons, or based on your training with that. So it does give you the ability to be modular, to completely change that they're customized for you.