Serpa Holsters Make The News (AGAIN)

[Jon Payne]

Currently the holster design is being blamed as a contributing factor to this self-inflicted GSW. Personally, I think it's a faulty design and have approached my superiors requesting Serpa holsters be unapproved for duty use at my agency and not be allowed on our agency range.

https://abc13.com/hpd-officer-accidentally-shot-himself-during-training/5731671/

 

[JCC]

Shot himself while drawing? Wow. Interested in what they find on this.

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[Renegade]

How is this happening? I have one of these holsters and do not get it.

Is there finger hitting the trigger or is something getting caught in the trigger guard?

 

[JCC]

I see better now. There is a button to release the pistol and the finger ends up on the trigger.

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[candcallen]

It's a bad design. Training can mitigate this but under stress people still revert to using the tip of the finger to push the button if the first draw attempt fails.

If you use the pad of your finger you're golden as it lays right along the frame upon drawing. Muscle memory.

If you use the tip of your finger it will invariably end up in the trigger guard upon drawing. Muscle memory about where a curled trigger finger goes. Add to that stress of a bad first attempt and your senses/memory doesnt have enough time to put the finger along the slide and bang.

I have seen this hundreds of times from first time users with blue guns. Thank god no bangs but I take the time to explain it to noobs weather they want to hear it or not. It shocks people as to how much pressure hits the trigger in these instances. Striker guns will go off like this.

That's if your not one of the many whose gun is locked in the holster cause a small grain of sand or pebble got under the lever. Then you have a useless thing to hit people with cause the guns not coming out.

If you have used a thumb break holster stick with the level 2 or 3 holsters that have the retention thumb activated. No big changes to your draw stroke.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

From link in OP...

Houston police officer's gun accidentally fires inside baggage claim at Hobby Airport:



https://abc13.com/houston-police-officer-involved-in-gun-scare-at-hobby-airport/4167360/

 

[oldag]

In through the thigh and out through the ankle. Ouch. Hope there is no permanent damage.

Don't use Sherpa.

Nice thing about 1911. External safety.

 

[andre3k]

From link in OP...

Houston police officer's gun accidentally fires inside baggage claim at Hobby Airport:



https://abc13.com/houston-police-officer-involved-in-gun-scare-at-hobby-airport/4167360/

That's from 2018. Officer let one off from AR while working OT at the airport.

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[Jon Payne]

In through the thigh and out through the ankle. Ouch. Hope there is no permanent damage.

Don't use Sherpa.

Nice thing about 1911. External safety.

Look at Tex Grebner’s world famous video. Even Serpa’s and 1911’s don’t mix.


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[Younggun]

Serpa holster involved: THESE HOLSTERS ARE DANGEROUS!

Glock involved: THIS GUN IS PERFECTLY SAFE!


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[candcallen]

Tex was using a thumb drive holster, not serpa.

Regardless of the gun and holster combo neither mixes with "tard".








Knock on wood, throw salt over shoulder, 5 hail Mary's, thus but for the grace of god and all that shit

 

[Frank59]

Officer let one off

LMAO......Could be interpreted many different ways!

 

[Jon Payne]

Tex was using a thumb drive holster, not serpa.

Regardless of the gun and holster combo neither mixes with "tard".








Knock on wood, throw salt over shoulder, 5 hail Mary's, thus but for the grace of god and all that shit

Rewatch the video. He started the day with the 5.11 Thumbdrive. He shot himself while using the Serpa.


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[Jon Payne]

Serpa holster involved: THESE HOLSTERS ARE DANGEROUS!

Glock involved: THIS GUN IS PERFECTLY SAFE!


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I’ve been told there was no such thing as an ND before the Glock Pistol was released on the American market.


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[toddnjoyce]

Let’s see; HPD has progressed from shooting people and their dogs for no real reason at all to shootings themselves and blaming it on the holster.

Maybe HPD needs to rethink arming their LEOs.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

That's from 2018. Officer let one off from AR while working OT at the airport.

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I realize it's from 2018.
I never heard about it.

 

[perfor8]

Personally, I think it's a faulty design and have approached my superiors requesting Serpa holsters be unapproved for duty use at my agency and not be allowed on our agency range.

Hey, something on which we agree... trigger fingers are for triggers, not for something very similar to a trigger PLUS the trigger.

 

[oldag]

Look at Tex Grebner’s world famous video. Even Serpa’s and 1911’s don’t mix.


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I am not a fan of a Serpa holster, but the external safety should not be switched off in the holster or while drawing. I assume you are saying something about the Sherpa design led to the external safety being inadvertently released?

 

[Jon Payne]

I am not a fan of a Serpa holster, but the external safety should not be switched off in the holster or while drawing. I assume you are saying something about the Sherpa design led to the external safety being inadvertently released?

No, I’m not saying that at all. I am saying the Serpa is the most successfully marketed trash holster of all time.


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[oldag]

No, I’m not saying that at all. I am saying the Serpa is the most successfully marketed trash holster of all time.


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I am not arguing about Sherpa or its marketing campaign. Don't own one, don't want to own one.

I am trying to find out how a properly handled 1911 discharged when being drawn from a Sherpa.