By Todd Lofgren
Combat Hanguns Magazine
August 2002 Sky High and Topless Review
Michael, of High Noon Holsters out of Palm Harbor, Florida,
sent me a couple of examples from his excellent line of concealments holsters to try with the Para. Called the "Topless" and the "Sky High" these were an open topped and thumb-break equipped holster of essentially the same
design .One with a thumb-break and one without. I carried both types of holsters during my 25 years of plain clothes work and found that I most often packed my 45 in an open topped model by Bruce Nelson, while occasionally employing one of his thumb-break equipped pouches when I felt the need for more weapons security, like when crawling around in a grape vineyard during a surveillance or tromping the hills in search of an illicit drug lab or marijuana patch.
Based on a pancake-like design with belt slots both front and rear, these holsters wore close to the body and made concealing the short gripped little Para a snap. I packed the Para around in the open-topped "Topless" model for a day and found it exceptionally comfortable and easily concealable under nothing more than a golf shirt. I had trouble
pulling that off in my younger years when packing my full-gripped .45 and don't know whether to attribute this new level of concealability to the excellent design of the High Noon holsters and abbreviated grip of the Para Companion or to the fact that I'm considerably wider in that area today than I was in the '70s. Probably a little of both, I suspect. | 
