I used one of these years ago during a deployment to the Philippines during the fledgling days of JSOTF-P. The Side Zip Holster is a great, low profile, lightweight holster.
The Side Zip Holster is easy on/easy off and protects your trigger guard. However, regarding holsters, the term ‘secure’ can be relative depending on application and expectation. If you place your pistol in this holster and spend your time walking, sitting, and other regular activities you will be very pleased. But, if you do cheetah flips and swim and jump with this holster I’d fully expect to have your gat take a tumble. There’s no secondary retention on this holster at all.
Available for a wide variety of pistols from www.thewilderness.com.
Used one of these downrange for two deployments. Yes, the retention is limited at best but some shock cord can easily fix that. It is an excellent holster.
I like and have used SOE’s holster like this. theirs is very sturdy and comes with an elastic loop for retention.
doesn’t the greyghost / tactical tailor holster have way more retention and cost half the price?
FYI, the HTC rig is not approved, as per last discussed a week ago. Just letting the reader know, its not approved. It would be nice if manufacturers exercised greater discretion, especially regarding protective equipment in non-permissive environments. Not blaming SSD at all here. Other manufacturers have tried this marketing ploy and been clipped from future sales (blacklisted) because of it. -thx.