Belts?

[BluesStringer]

Blues,
By trade, before I retired, I was an Industrial Buyer. My job, and I was damn good at it, was to purchase products and material for the industry at the best price for the best quality, and quickest means possible. Example: I could go to a hardware store and buy a certain brand of tools at the going price, or I could research the same tools and find that I could save 30% buy buying it elsewhere. Same item, same quality, save 30% and get it next day for a small charge that still made it cheaper than buying from the local hardware store. The savings that benefited the company was tracked and recorded in a monthly report. Year end bonuses were base on savings on purchases. I was the top guy in the plant for savings to the company. So, you get an idea that I have some professional knowledge of purchasing. It carries over into my personal life. I don't waste money needlessly. I also am not a person that likes to go out and buy expensive products, just so I can brag about how much money I throw around. Like saying I spent $150(this spells fool, to me) on a belt. What does a belt do? It holds up your pants, and your gun. I see no value in paying $150 for a belt to hold a holster that is suppose to be concealed, as well as the belt holding it. It can be accomplished for under $30. Get my drift?

I get that you haven't a clue what you're talking about

And I get everything about you having different preferences or cost considerations than others in this thread, but the "more money than sense" and "this spells fool" BS is just that - BS. You don't want an expensive belt, don't buy one, but coming in here just to claim your superior knowledge as though your work experience should translate into other folks' personal lives is just plain smug hubris. It's like someone telling you that you have no sense or are a fool for spending $450+ on an SR9 when you could get a Kel-Tec or Bersa in 9mm for under $300 bucks. I mean, they all three shoot a 9mm round, you're gonna carry any one of 'em on a dime-store belt, so what's the diff, fool? Get my drift?

 

[Firefighterchen]

I wear kydex lined riggers belts. Costs me about $50 each. 1.5" - 2"

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[NotTwoShure]

One of my coworkers and I used to work special duty for overtime especially during Christmas for presents. She, single, worked to buy a new car and other things to include very expensive fingernail treatments on occasion. I asked why she would spend so much on such a thing as finger nails, she said, it is was her money why not. So I guess if you have the money to spend on a belt why not? If you have a $100 holster, a $1,200 1911 and you buy a $10 belt why? Or, really who cares ether way? Think?

 

[N R A]

It is not so much hale a cab, hop a bus, or hire a limousine. It is not a choice, like transportation.

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It is much more safety equipment related. A cheap belt failing, and your gun falling off in a fight, or in a subway, not good.
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It is very possibly statute related if you live in a state where it is against the law to print or peak. Those states, you could loose your gun, loose the right to carry, get fines, or jail time. You want to sit in jail, because of a Walmart belt? Not me.

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Billy Joel was right about speakers. But do not skimp on safety equipment.

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I tell people in my classes, if you have two guns, but cannot afford a good belt, sell a gun, and get a good belt. Same advice I give about gun safes.

 

[SR9]

Sorry, I forgot, most of you are from a different generation that I. You are of the "entitled society". People like me have always had to watch their dollars and get the best for what we had.

 

[Firefighterchen]

Sorry, I forgot, most of you are from a different generation that I. You are of the "entitled society". People like me have always had to watch their dollars and get the best for what we had.

What? So now, those of us who earn a good wage, have the money, and want to spend our money on our belts are entitled?

You must be from the "o blame o" generation.

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[mwhals]

Sorry, I forgot, most of you are from a different generation that I. You are of the "entitled society". People like me have always had to watch their dollars and get the best for what we had.

Entitled! I work for everything I own. No one has bought it for me and the government has given me no favors. Just because I have top gear does not mean I am entitled! It just means that I prefer to use my earned money to buy such things. It wasn't entitlement that got me a chemical engineering job. It was me going to school for 4 years to get an education needed to get a good paying job.

 

[NotTwoShure]

Hum. Entitled. In high school flipped burgers, pumped gas, joined USN, entered school, worded, worked copper mines, state service 23 years, raised family, yea, guess I am.

 

[N R A]

Never saw a belt thread boil down to a macoy tatfield row before. Do any of you fellers have moms that wear army boots? Lol

 

[nbk13nw]

Lol. That really sums it up nicely.

 

[N R A]

I did some looking, and if you want a 1.5" belt, that is so stiff, you can use it as a pick up ramp to load 4 wheelers, look at this.

I would be interested, but I need 1.75" belts.

https://www.daltechforce.com/gun-belts/super-stiff-bull-hide-bullbelt®-with-internal-stiffener

 

[Ringo]

Normal Belt for all holsters & all guns. Never a problem.


Life Is Good. :dance3:

MARANATHA! :victory:​

 

[N R A]

Mexican carry works also. Never a problem (till one has one)

 

[Eidolon]

I look at it like this I paid 50 bucks for my 5 stitch Instructor 8 or 10 years ago. I don’t have a single Wal Mart belt that’s lasted me that long. To me that makes the price worth it.

 

[N R A]

I need to stay off forums. lol. I just ordered a Zacks belt. 4 plus weeks lead time.
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I looked at 40 belt videos on the Internet. I came close to ordering a Cobra belt from SOE, but the guy is such an arrogant pig, I cannot imaging increasing his bottom line.

Custom Handcrafted Gun Belts - Zach's Gun Belts

 

[SR9]

My point has been proven by these post.

 

[Duck]

Um, if you think so. Glad you're happy with your choice, but it's not the answer for everyone.

 

[Eidolon]

My point has been proven by these post.

The point on top of your head?

 

[JCliff]

The point on top of your head?

This response generated one of the best coffee-out-the-nose guffaws I've experienced in a good while! Thanks! :biggrin:

 

[N R A]

Teaching CC classes, I try to keep the best equipment for CC on hand so students can look to see what is available. I should tell the manufacturers what I am doing, and they would send me free stuff, but I have always paid my own way in life. Try to anyway. I do not much cotton to an entitlement attitude.