| |  | By Todd Lofgren SkyHigh 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 surveilance or tromping the hills in search of an illicit drug lab or marijuana patch. |
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| | | 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 wheather 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. |
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| The High Noon "Topless" and its thumb-break cousin, the "Sky High" were both constructed of premium cowhide, dyed a very attractive light reddish brown color, which was highlighted by the golden-colored synthetic thread with which it was sewn. These were attractive holsters. High Noon uses a synthetic thread instead of one made of cotton fiber, as the synthetic is impervious to deterioration from the long-term effects of perspiration and moisture and is more resistant to the effects of abrasion.
Both holsters, besides being tightly molded to the Para, were equipped with a screw-driven tensioning device with which one could adjust the holster's retention. All in all, these were functional as well as attractive holsters |
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