A few months ago, I read Larry Mudgett’s .357 sig article and thought, I need a compact predator defense system for off road (motorcycling and UTV’n).
SMALL PREDATOR DEFENSE SYSTEM: p320 .357 sig compact in shoulder holster/under arm holster.
MEDIUM PREDATOR DEFENSE SYSTEM: 10mm
LARGE PREDATOR DEFENSE SYSTEM: Ruger super redhawk 5″ 454 casull with my custom leather holster I made.
Having the goal of never owning another glock (I’ve owned 4-5 of them; I can afford better… to see pros/cons of glocks…not perfection, though I have tried to like them), I looked at my current systems and thought. I have a sig p320 9mm full sized, I wonder how much it would cost to get a x-change conversion kit. It was back ordered and took brownells a while to get it to me, but it finally came.
The xchange kit ($320 with coupon & onsale) is cool, comes with basically a full gun with mag…except you don’t get the SN trigger control group. So new upper and new lower and NIGHT SIGHTS. You do need to keep your take-down pin.
Downside is mags are $40 each for the p320. Other than that, they seem pretty ideal. I love the trigger, looks & feel of the p320.
Where the xchange kit really shines is if you live in a commie state and it takes you months to be able to protect yourself/self-defense and you can add options (size/caliber) with one SN trigger control group (The gun according to the govt).
I thought about making a custom holster, but found this spectre under arm holster and so far, I really like it because of the elastic tether, wide straps and elastic around the critical spots. The hardware looks tough and hard to break too.
I also got 200 rds of 125 gr FMJ underwood ammo (Larry recommended)…and I got a couple of boxes of 147 gr HP hornady for 2 legged predators (first mag is HP and the 2nd mag is FMJ in case threats are behind “soft-cover”).
Didn’t have the holster an hour and I already drilled it to ensure the mag pouch had enough retention for motorcycle off road use (The mag fell out of the spare mag pouch when I was doing the dishes).
Recall, this is the off road motorcycle system…and UTV system, so everything needs to be TIGHT.
I was hoping to get it all together and go shoot it the day I got it, but I got sucked into fixing my sprinklers and working through issues…that I always have after a winter.
Pulling the SN trigger control group out of the p320 was pretty easy.
The slide lock gave me some fits…as the kit came with a different one. But, I finally got it all together and working.
The wide straps, the cool g-hook that tethers to your belt(or belt loop), the elastic/bungie in key areas, make this an awesome holster. They did a great job on it. I’ll update this blog as I get more miles with the holster & p320.
I really don’t want to make these hoslters. I will likely make just the holster part for xdm 10mm and keep the straps etc, so I can swap back and forth…but I think they sell that kit for $80 ish, so might be worth just buying it.
I DO like the kydex snap-in/snap-out w/o a strap.
I’m just wondering, how it’ll do with the motorcycle. My leather galco light never let me down with retention off road.
I think I’ll go for a “hard ride” without one in the chamber and see how it goes.
I might figure out how to add retention….great thing about kydex!
I think it was close to $180 ish delivered for the specter holster.
