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So, I have often wondered why many (most of my) holsters are designed with a space exposed at the rear of the trigger guard rather than fully covering that area; is this to prevent something which may be caught around the trigger from fully depressing the trigger when holstered? I've never understood why holster makers don't just go all the way and completely cover the trigger area. It is likely something really obvious that I'm a bit too dense to see. Oh well, any thoughts on this, I'm curious as to what you all think.

I believe the intention is to allow one's finger to be at the trigger at the point of draw, ready to slide inside the guard. This is not for everyone and the debate of utility and safety could go on forever.

Doing a quick check of several of my numerous holsters shows surferdaddy's observation to be valid. Of the half dozen I checked 4 of 6 were made this way. Only my UBG for my M&P and my N82 fully covered the trigger guard. All fully covered the trigger and that's what is most important to me. The fact that most I checked out were IWB may have some relevance.

I did a quick search of several major holster makers about 90% of the OWB holsters have fully covered trigger guards and, IWB are about 50-50.

As long as the bang switch is protected fully I am not going to worry about the lack of cover of 1/8-1/4" of trigger guard.

I'm not even going to approach the idea it's for finger registration.

Any holster makers wish to offer your $0.02 worth?

Allows for a full firing grip

AndyC wrote:

surferdaddy wrote:So, I have often wondered why many (most of my) holsters are designed with a space exposed at the rear of the trigger guard rather than fully covering that area

Holstermakers have to balance
1. covering the trigger while
2. leaving enough space for the strong hand to get a proper grip like below:

This

Also, I don't think that there is any valid safety reason that the guard needs to be fully covered.

WildBill wrote:

AndyC wrote:

surferdaddy wrote:So, I have often wondered why many (most of my) holsters are designed with a space exposed at the rear of the trigger guard rather than fully covering that area

Holstermakers have to balance
1. covering the trigger while
2. leaving enough space for the strong hand to get a proper grip like below:

This

Also, I don't think that there is any valid safety reason that the guard needs to be fully covered.

I can't think of any advantage as long as the entire trigger is covered.

At first I thought he was asking about something like this holster.

Dori wrote:

WildBill wrote:

AndyC wrote:

surferdaddy wrote:So, I have often wondered why many (most of my) holsters are designed with a space exposed at the rear of the trigger guard rather than fully covering that area

Holstermakers have to balance
1. covering the trigger while
2. leaving enough space for the strong hand to get a proper grip like below:

This

Also, I don't think that there is any valid safety reason that the guard needs to be fully covered.

I can't think of any advantage as long as the entire trigger is covered.

At first I thought he was asking about something like this holster.

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Yowsers!

Pretty sure that access to a good grip is the obvious thing I was overlooking.