Blackhawk SERPA holster, failures and criticisms.

I demonstrate how debris can lead to the critical failure of the holster. Another video showing the failure in real conditions: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid53246191001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAACn...

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Sports

Tags:

• glock
• blackhawk
• cqc
• serpa
• holster

[babyeatsdingos]

Criticisms are based on lack of safe firearm handling and care. If you take care of your equipment i.e. not dropping it in sand, gravel, or a button factory then the equipment will take care of you. That finger shouldn't be in the trigger guard until you are on target and are sure to fire.

The holster is designed to be operated with your forefinger across the SERPA, not bent and pushing into it.

[TheodoreBeza]

@babyeatsdingos Please explain how a police officer or soldier can avoid exposing a duty holster to mud/snow/sand/debris. The idea is asinine. Your only point hers is if you baby the holster properly it is unlikely to jam. Not compelling. As for the finger thing... OK... it is the users fault. Does the holster make it more likely that the user will fail in such a way? Obviously. That is all anyone is saying.

[agsd619]

You are so right my friend and there's a law suit against blackhawk because an officer on duty had the serpa holster and it failed him during a shooting due to small sand debris on the button of the serpa holster ! Now blackhawk is released a statement saying that it's gonna make a fail safe serpa holster that can still be removable by other means (meaning a second emergency button) if the serpa button fails. I love my level 2 serpa so I will keep buying them simply because it's the fastest draw

[TheodoreBeza]

@robgoedeker Well, the schools themselves put out press releases (again, available on google). Why don't you try google instead of pretending my statement is untrue? This is all common knowledge and this is a pretty stupid tail for you to be chasing. The statement "many schools prohibit the SERPA" is completely accurate and you could verify it any time. Also, this topic should already be over as I've listed the schools and you can verify that I am right any time.

[robgoedeker]

@TheodoreBeza When you make the statement that many training schools have banned them, I wondering where you are getting your data to make such a statement. To make a statement like that, I would love to see where you are getting your facts.

[TheodoreBeza]

@TheodoreBeza blow in the first sentence= below. The point is that this has been discussed and resolved here before: SERPAs are prohibited at many places.

[TheodoreBeza]

@robgoedeker More discussion on this can be found in the blow comments. I also didn't say I had a list, as I appealed to common knowledge. Some schools that I immediately recall are Suarez, Tactical Response, Michigan Defensive Firearms Institute, FLETEC (virtually all federal agencies train here), Defoor, etc. There are others. I guess you have to use google if you want a comprehensive list, but the fact remains that many schools prohibit SERPA holsters.

[robgoedeker]

@TheodoreBeza You make the statement saying funny fact that many firearms training schools prohibit the use of the serpa holster. Do you have a list of all the schools that are prohibiting those? Can you send me that list?

[TheodoreBeza]

@robgoedeker

And nobody ever said otherwise.

[robgoedeker]

You can occur a ND using ANY holster.