Comments on: Secure your Safariland 6004 for Mid-Ride

By: jumpthestack

jumpthestack — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:36:49 +0000

Er, cancel that last comment. After doing a bunch more draws, I still did have issues once in a while with the UBL flopping outwards. Sigh, I guess there’s no escaping the leg strap.

By: jumpthestack

jumpthestack — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:24:28 +0000

I found that the UBL alone works pretty well without flop on the draw if your belt is exactly the right size. i.e. if your UBL is for 2 inch belts, you must have an exactly 2 inch belt. A smaller belt leads to a horrible draw.

Specifically I am using a VTAC 2 inch cobra belt and 2 inch mid ride UBL and I am not having any problems with the draw with the UBL alone. When I tried the UBL on my 1.75 inch belt it was terrible.

By: Chris Webb

Chris Webb — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:02:31 +0000

Thanks Bryan. Funny I was just searching Google for this sort of solution so when ITS came up in the search results I thought “of course!”
I used a mid ride 6004 during a class at ITTS and suffered that clunky draw problem and a lot of holster flop. I like the mid ride holster position so this is the fix I need.
Any reco on where I can buy the leg strap?
Thanks again.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:10:24 +0000

Hey guys, found this site while looking for duty belt options for those of us with more gear and less gut. I’ve got a small waist, so I wanted to drop my firearm or taser onto a thigh rig for that prcious little space on the belt. Running the drop holster on the underbelt is something I had NEVER thought of, and is a pretty interesting idea.

My biggest deal is that I’m using this for normal patrol, which means being in a car. I want to get the holster off the belt and onto a leg rig, but want it to still sit as high as it can on my leg. Quite the problem here. I like the idea of this UBL adapter, but it’s almost as wide a platform as if I were just wearing my holster on the duty belt. I found this on the Safariland site:

http://www.safariland.com/DutyGear/product.aspx?pid=6004-10

Looks like the perfect solution to me, I’m only worried about it providing enough support for a good draw with that vertical leg strap. That vertical leg strap is the real draw though as far as saving space. I don’t know what to do!

By: Andy G

Andy G — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:22:31 +0000

Just switched to this configuration and I must say thanks for posting this and putting this out there for all of us.. I’ve worn a 6004 thigh holster off and on for many years but only kept it for warrant service. I always loved the theory behind the thigh holsters but as we all know when you run they wind up where Mr Murphy wants them to be.

Andy

By: Bryan Black

Bryan Black — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:43:18 +0000

Mikey,

It’s really not a matter of stiffening up the UBL, as it’s made of heavy duty plastic (think kydex like). what happens is that if you don’t draw your weapon exactly vertical, it flips out to the side. This is caused more from the belt and not the UBL itself. I have a fairly stiff belt that I use and still have this problem, hence adding the leg strap mod. I’m pretty confident a stiffer belt wouldn’t solve the issue, but you never know.

Thanks for the comment,
~ Bryan

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:56:43 +0000

Bryan,

Looks like a great mod and I like many others have been running one of my rigs with the raised up and modded drop leg with one of the leg straps removed for several years etc…

I want to try the 1.5″ UBL adaptor that you have there but I want to completely eliminate the leg strap. My question to you and the guys is besides adding the strap has anybody done, tried or modded or found a way to stiffen up the UBL so that there is zero flex under a weapon draw with some stress?

If not I think I’m gonna have to figure out a way to stiffen it up enough to eliminate that flex and I’m open to any ideas anybody has.

Thanks guys,
Mikey

By: Jester

Jester — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:42:00 +0000

I’ve been running the Safariland DFA for a while now, I’ve got no complaints. It only cost about $13.

I also like being able to still use the platform.

http://www.safariland.com/DutyGear/product.aspx?pid=6004-DFA

By: Eric Soderlund

Eric Soderlund — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:44:18 +0000

Nice fix and write up.

By: Bryan Black

Bryan Black — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:57:56 +0000

Casey, while it doesn't pull my belt down, it does dig into my hip a little (front most corner) while seated. It's not a big deal, but 12 hours straight I would probably start getting annoyed with it. I'll be in a PSD class soon moving in and out of vehicles quite a bit, so we'll see how it goes after that.