Can you pack your iron CHEAPLY?

[SIR WILLIAM]

OK. Here is the mission.  Buy a belt, cartridge loops or not for BP shooters. Buy two holsters for two main match revolvers.  Buy a shotgun belt also.  Your budget is small.  $150.00.  Can you do it?  How?  HAVE FUN!

[Tidewater Kid]

The easy answer is Cabela's. They have several items to fit the bill. I would think you could stay under $150. You have to do a little work after you get your stuff, fitting and drying out the oil, but I"m happy with mine. I'm sure you could buy some used items as well.

Tidewater Kid

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Find a local maker, I did. first rig, belt $45-first holster $35-second holster $40, shot shell slide $25, total $145. Still use it when I shoot the .45's. Has held up well for the last seven seasons......Buck

[Stoney Pete]

Got a pard in Maine KID Couteau.  He make great leather at reasonable prices.  I'm sure he could hook a pard up right nicely for the affore mention price limit.

[Micheal Fortune]

2 hunter double loop Mexican holsters  $40 each, modified them my self

Buit my own rig, check the link for details, match rig on bottom half of the page.

http://home.bresnan.net/~michealfortune/leather.htm

[Doc Shapiro]

Buy Used.

Doc

[Micheal Fortune]

Doc,  Ain't no buying used for me, got to raise my own special "long backed" cattle to get a belt that will circumnavigate me

[Pukin Dog]

I got a belt ($65 from a gun show), 2 holsters (1 from cabelas $20, another from a gun show $35) and a shotshell slide (from a CAS meet vendor $10) for a total of $130 so you should be able to get under $150 I would think.  Is the stuff I have ready to make me a contender at EOT?  Heck no, but its good enough for the first couple of years.

[Book Miser]

Buy from Tandy Leather, and assemble, with a minimum of ornamentation:

Gun belt: 3 inch leather strap, buckle and keeper. (Or buy in kit form. The kit is pre-punched for bullet loops.)
Holsters: 1/2 belly leather strip will make two. You'll need a couple of sewing tools, but can make your own pattern from your guns.
Shotgun belt: ditto the gun belt, from scratch. Use 4 to 6 ounce hide, fasten the loops with rivets.

Dye or stain, then finish with waterproof goop.

About three hours' work, no more than $60 cash outlay.

[Terry]

I had slim jims made, border tooled, tow plugs and all for $30.50 each.  Same place made my '79 Cavalry holsters, same price.  '74 military belt with US buckle, also the same price.....so belt with two holsters under a hundred with shipping......David Carrico in Kansas.  He alos does lined belts with loops very reasonably.  I believe he is the one that supplied most of the leather for the "Missing"....I know he did the horse furniture for the cavalry unit.