need help with holster

[nhmoose]

I would try sealing the inside with a thin coat of paraffin wax.

 

[don hepler]

OK so let me clear this up for those who seem think I'm leaving the pistols holstered full time I'm not, I simply like to carry them as back ups for the hunting season or for wild hog hunting. The problem is the pistol starts to rust in just a couple of days and that just doesn't float for me.

Okay, I appreciate the explanation. I had a Uberti Walker pistol, that would rust if you looked at it. After a shooting session, I would clean the pistol, then just leave it disassembled for a few days. I never had that problem with my ROA, or Patriot. I can understand that you should be able to have it in a holster for a couple days, without rusting.

 

[BrownBear]

My dad carried a SAA 45 Colt as his duty weapon back in the 1950's, and it lived in its holster for a good 30 years after that. Hung on the mulie antlers on the wall collecting dust, cleaning every year or two when he thought about it. Never a speck of rust in that dry desert climate. Moved to wet country, and it would rust in a week in the same holster.... Without going outdoors.

 

[Brian Heap]

When I bought my revolvers from Cabelas, I got holsters from them, and have never had a lick of rust on mine. They stay in the leather all the time to. But then, what do I know, haven't asked the wife.

 

[Grumpa]

It takes moisture to form rust. :grin:

 

[Alden]

Or acid in the leather. Or an area between the metal and the ambient air covered by something, like leather, where the slight temperature differential is a place the microscopic water from the atmosphere condenses all day long, back and forth...