Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. HARD TOOLS PAUL MARKEL ESSENTIAL TOOLS fOR THE JOB. SNAP-ON, SNAP-OFF he days of the leather border holster being the one and only rig you’ll ever need are over. Today we can choose from a vast array of holsters for various missions and modes of dress. I don’t need to spend time introducing you to the SERPA holster from BLACKHAWK!. This polymer design took the police world by storm a few years ago and the folks in Norfolk haven’t looked back. As significant as the holster design was, equally important is the number of mounting options they have for their rigs. You can choose from standard belt loops, paddles, duty belt mounts, drop-leg tactical rigs and MOLLE compatible chest/vest plates. Up until recently you could unscrew the mount from your holster and install it to another, but that meant a lot of screw-driver work. It was easier to just have a duty belt rig and a separate chest or leg rig. Military personnel working around vehicles started moving their pistols up to their armor vests for operations, but wanted a belt model for low-threat, rear area wear. Over the last year or so BLACKHAWK! tasked the brainiacs in their engineering department to come up with a quick connect/disconnect device to pair with the existing SERPA holster system. Damn if they didn’t do it again. T Less is always more and BLACKHAWK! proves it once again with this elegantly simple system. Y ou can now rapidly move your holster from one he QD system has even more uses beyond your gun belt platform to another without ever having to touch a — you can take a female adapter and attach it almost screwdriver. The QD system is made of the same highanywhere. A friend has one mounted to the underside strength polymer as the SERPA holsters and comes in of his bed frame. When he’s on the road his wife puts a the same colors. A male adapter attaches to your holster and loaded pistol into it before she goes to bed — in the morning female adapters mount to whichever SERPA platform you the pistol can go right back into the gun safe. And for CCW need. You can have a female adapter on your duty belt rig and permit holders, not all businesses allow you to carry in their another on your drop-leg platform. Or maybe attach one on business; the female adapter can be screwed into any conyour tactical vest and another on your belt. The combinations venient, secure location of your car — everything should be are limitless — how cool is that? this easy. Before you send in the hate mail, I know you would When I first looked at have your Glock 22 on you 24 hours the QD adapters I thought a day, but we don’t live in a perfect they looked like the lockworld and sometimes we need to ing lugs on the bolt of an make practical compromises. AR. The lugs on the male I also understand from a tactical adapter are mated with aspect your pistol should be carried the lugs of the female on your body in the same place, in adapter. Rotate the holster the same manner. However, mission about ten degrees and the and mode of dress often dictate adapters lock together. otherwise. With the SERPA Quick The locking levers are Disconnect System you maintain 180 degrees away from commonality and consistency by each other and must both using the same holster regardless be depressed to unlock of location. In these financially difdif and remove the holster. ficult times the QD hardware from I’ve been working with BLACKHAWK! gives you more the system for about a options — and options are good. month, and changing from one platform to Looking like a dissected hockey puck, BLACKHAWK!’s For more info: www.blackhawk.com another only takes a few SERPA QD System allows a mind-boggling array of seconds. mounting options. WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2009 SERPA QD System T Outside The Box 26