Well, without going into a lot of detail, let me just say that a new holster almost caused my G19 to fall right into the nastiness below! Luckily, it rimmed-out like a lot of my 5 foot par putts.
It came to rest right on the edge!!
The thing is, when it fell out of the holster due to lack of enough retention, I knew not to go and try and catch it! My natural reaction is to reflex grab for it like I have my phone when it's kept in the wrong pocket in a restroom. But thanks to this forum, I let it go and prayed for its safe landing. It was inches from dropping into the that wretched waste. My thoughts after were first gratefulness that it didn't fall in, but then after I started thinking about what I would have done.
I for sure wouldn't have tried to get it out!!
The $500 it cost me to purchase a new one isn't worth that! But then after deciding that "well it's gone," I wouldn't have been able to just leave either. It would have been a messy (pun intended) situation. I would have let a nearby LEO know what had happened, so that when/if it was found later, there wouldn't be any mystery as to why a gun was disposed of in an outhouse. Then, I imagine, I may have had to pay for whatever would need to be done to retrieve it. Then maybe gotten it back???
I'm not sure there's enough Hoppe's #9 on the planet to have made it 'clean' enough for me to keep it after that.
And finally, the worst case may have been that somebody got wind (pun intended again) of the story that a CHL'r carelessly lost his gun at a CHILDREN'S festival, and started some uproar about whether I should have been able to have it there in the first place.
Well, thankfully everything after the 3rd paragraph is just conjecture. Test those new holsters! Ensure you've put enough retention to keep it in place when/if it's inverted! Don't assume that it's solidly in place just because it's a nice holster. That was my idiotic mistake, that would have made today very crappy. (yep, intended again)
