A Simple Test Luger Holster Question

[Ron Wood]

As the Luger was being considered for cavalry use, the holster was designed to be worn on the right side, butt forward, cavalry style for left-handed cross draw. There are some "right-handed" holsters in existence that were either intended to be worn by lefties on the left side butt forward for right handed cross draw or were for conventional right handed use. Not many of these right-handed holsters have turned up and I do not know if they were original issue or not, and I have no idea what the proportion of left- to right-handed holsters produced may be. I do not know why some holsters do not have initials on the front flap, but that would be one point of alarm to start checking to see if anything else was out of the ordinary. I do not know how many test holsters are still in existance, I would WAG a couple of dozen. Possibly why this topic has not been discussed at length is that there are no records. No one knows for sure whether right-handed holsters were produced at the same time as left-handed holsters and it is impossible to know how many of either type still survive. They are scarce by any measure.