need some leather goods Ident......

[Bushman5]

dont know where else to post this.......

a friend gave me these......they are high quality leather goods of some sort.......please check the pictures and see if you can help ID them for me,,,,,

 

[Bushman5]

 

[Mossyhorn]

It looks like a dump pouch for 38/357 rounds.

 

[stitchawl]

They are very common ammunition pouches, although a bit outdated. Bucheimer makes a lot of police issue equipment for handguns and ammo. The ones with the double ends are used by loading from the top, then removing all six at one time from the bottom by unsnapping the bottom. The one with the longer back strap is used by turning the container upside down and dropping the rounds into the hand. The longer strap goes under the waistbelt so the holder doesn't drop on the floor when you dump the ammo.

These days, most police using revolvers prefer speedloaders over loose shells, and those departments using autos need magazine holders rather than shell carriers.

Stitchawl

 

[jayinhk]

Wow, I've never seen a pouch with snap closures on both ends. Cool idea, but if your pouch got snagged on something, you'd have loose rounds all over the floor.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

Wow, I've never seen a pouch with snap closures on both ends. Cool idea, but if your pouch got snagged on something, you'd have loose rounds all over the floor.

I agree. If I were designing one of these (and they actually look kinda fun to make), I would put a snap as well as a stud style closure (like you see on a lot of military holsters instead of an actual snap) on the bottom of the holder. That way when you had to get to your ammo, you would simply unsnap and tug upwards to free the flap. Shouldn't take much more time, and would certainly keep you from dropping your already slow reload on the floor

Might have to make one of these for my .38 in brown leather. I don't carry the gun often, but a new set of pants and matching reload would probably help with that. Speedloaders are nice, if chunky. 5 in the gun and five on the hip won't take up too much space. Plus, if I can't take care of the situation with 10 jhp, then I really am in deep doo doo anyway.

Well, found my sunday project

 

[Bushman5]

thanks everyone! Stitchawl that was great info.

 

[stitchawl]

thanks everyone! Stitchawl that was great info.

No problem. I used to work with some sheriff's department folk back in the late 70's, and they were into 'strip loaders' which solved the problem of dropped rounds while still allowing the use of these same pouches. Slower than the round speed loaders but a flatter profile.

Stitchawl