CAUTION: Unload your pistol before practicing your draw.
ALWAYS make sure your pistol is seated properly in your wallet holster before putting it in your pocket.
NEVER carry anything else in your pocket with your pistol and wallet holster.
Also NEVER holster your pistol while your holster is in your pocket!
All of my wallet holsters are made from genuine Hermann Oak cowhide.
It is glued and then lock-stitched using heavy 36 pound nylon thread.
I use a profession quality commercial grade Cobra 4 leather sewing machine.
They are vat-dyed with a black Fiebing’s Professional Oil Dye.
The back anti-print panel leather (8-9 oz.) is a little more than 1/8th inch thick.
The molded pistol pocket leather (5-6 oz.) is about 3/32 inch thick.
My basic holster for the Ruger LCP is 5-1/4 inches tall and just 4-3/16 inches wide.
With a Ruger LCP in the holster it is 1.1 inches thick at its thickest area.
Due to its construction it is a very light weight holster at 2 ounces.
All my wallet holsters are designed specifically to be carried in the hip pocket although a good amount of positive feedback indicates that there are those carrying them in their front pockets. In most pockets it should keep the pistol in position so that it will be where you expect it to be when there’s a need to draw your weapon.
Pants should be chosen that have a deep enough hip pocket so that the top of the weapon is not revealed. The edges of the wallet holster have been molded in a bowed shape to mimic the shape of a wallet.
A new wallet holster will have a tight fit at first but will soon loosen up with use. See Breaking in a Holster. This wallet holster is not meant to hold the pistol tight like other holsters that support much larger and heavier pistols that are commonly worn outside the pocket on the belt or elsewhere. Its function is to keep a small light weight pistol in your pocket in position to draw. Experience had shown me that a tight fitting molded pocket holster is difficult to draw without the holster coming out of the pocket with the pistol. A snug but slightly loose fit is better. To holster the pistol, the holster should not be in the pocket. The pistol should be safely inserted into the holster without exposing the hand to the bottom of the holster where the barrel is located, and only after that put in the pocket. VIDEO The combination of the wallet holster and your hip pocket will retain the pistol in its desired position.
This wallet holster is thinner than most wallet holsters currently available. Due to being constructed of only two layers of leather instead of two layers combined with a snap-on or sewn-on back anti-print panel as some pocket holsters are constructed, it is a little more than an eighth of an inch thinner overall. The thin lightweight holster combined with the bowed edges make for a comfortable fit in your hip pocket. The wallet holster will soon mold itself more to your pistol and your rear-end. Before long it is easy to forget that it is there in your hip pocket. I currently wear Levi 505 regular fit jeans that has a hip pocket just right for my wallet holster. Other jeans may work.
CAUTION: Unload your pistol before practicing your draw.
ALWAYS make sure your pistol is seated properly in your wallet holster before putting it in your pocket.
NEVER carry anything else in your pocket with your pistol and wallet holster.
Also NEVER holster your pistol while your holster is in your pocket!