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December  2009

    High Noon Skin Guard CZ P-07
      Right before heading to work one night, the doorbell rang as yet another overworked holiday hammered UPS employee roared off into the night. I got two small boxes, one for my loving wife, and one proudly emblazoned, "High Noon Holsters". Inside was the one of first production rigs from High Noon for the revolutionary and impressive offering from CZ-USA, the P07 Duty polymer pistol. The Skin Guard, a sweat shield equipped holster of man made materials looked very sleek in the plastic, and when I pulled it out, I could tell this material would indeed slide right over skin without abrasions. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the great Duty pistol, as the rough textured grip, while an excellent gripping surface for firing, as intended, is also like heavy grit sandpaper on bare flesh. T shirt with covering garment required. The fit was initially VERY tight, and I left the sidearm in the holster for two nights running to stretch the material. It did. I have to confess being somewhat spoiled by very expensive holsters made by custom craftsmen for specific make and model, and a one-fits-many is something I haven't had in a long time.

This one does fit many, many guns, and the trick is the one thing that I overlooked trying to get the P-07 in - the tensioning screw. See, that big winter trigger guard, (which really isn't that big in person, oddly enough), was pushing towards the limit of the rig, until I loosed the tensioning screw a ways. Once I had that down, the gun began its job of forming the man made materials. The rigs' high back sweat shield is well made and generous in coverage of the back of the slide and hammer area.The belt loops were generous enough to fit both my standard work belt and heavy off duty belt, and the rig stayed quite steady for such a soft leather like appearance. As before, the sidearm resisted going in initially when the holster was mounted, but a little work forming it, and no issues remained. I took some photos in my about-to-go-to work attire of work pants and off duty concealment shirt, in one of my favorite flavors, Natural Geartm camouflage, a good pattern for Arizona deserts.. As you can see, it fit well and rode naturally. When I flopped the loose shirt over it, it disappeared. But, this was when I discovered the nature of the belt mounted cheese grater known as the Duty's grip. This sidearm is made for seriously rugged work, and intended to not have it's user lose his/her grip in the worst conditions, which meant comfort for concealed carry had to be somewhat secondary.