Types of Leather Gun Belts: Cowboy Action Shooting

Video Transcript

"Hi. Wolf Wind-Walker and William Watty here for Expert Village. One thing about cowboy action shooting is there's a lot of individuality. You can be any kind of cowboy you want and that includes your leatherwork, your guns and the way you dress. Let's talk about leather for a little bit. There is two typical kinds of leather. One is called a double-strong side, which you see on William Watty here. He has a pistol on each side. Mine is a cross-draw style which I have to reach across my body to pick my first pistol. This is a little more difficult because again we get into muzzle direction and safety. The other thing we're both wearing is shotgun belts, alright. You always load shotgun from the body, so mine are right here and his are right there. Now, just a note here, William Watty does his own leatherwork. So he made his rig himself, turn around there William. So you can be as individual as you want, nice knife, nice turquoise here, spots, there's his Single Action Shooting Society badge, right here, okay, and he has bullet loops on the sides, and then over to his shotgun shells. Mine, I ordered from a leathermaker and he made it custom to my specifications. All my pistols are sized with that holster so that pistol goes right into that holster, that holster is made to fit for the pistols. His are cut down a lot more than mine because he shoots a style called "gunfighter", which he is pulling both pistols at the same time and shooting, and we'll talk a little bit more about that later."