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Last day of 2018 hike in the Sierra's Mountains. Came across several large tracks covered with a trace of snow, nothing conclusive though.

I said paddle. I meant to say pancake! Sorry! A paddle holster doesnt go on a belt. It slides over the belt and pants. A pancake holster is two pieces of leather stitched together to form a pouch for the gun to reside. traditional holsters like a Mexican loop holster and later buscadero holsters used one piece of leather folded and stitched to make the pouch. I have Al Stohlman's holster book which is a fun way to get started making leather holsters. https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Holsters-Al-Stohlman/dp/1892214989/ref=asc_df_1892214989/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312543040920&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15712572883147748076&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033625&hvtargid=pla-561490097465&psc=1

Gig - I wouldn't call that a paddle holster. From wiki: A paddle holster is a holster for a handgun whose method of securing the holster to the wearer utilizes a flat, concave shaped piece of plastic or stiffened leather designed to be worn against the body inside of the pants. That has belt loops. I don't see a paddle. Very nice work, though. Not a 1911. Looks to be a Beretta PX4 compact. (This is a best guess, correct me if I'm wrong.) Short is for concealment and portability, ease getting in and out of a vehicle, etc. MIB

Congratulations OTL. Awesome combination. Gigantor - It's not a 1911 which has a clearly-defined, sweeping beavertail grip safety. Take a look at this 1911 by Dan Wesson and notice the difference between it and the Beretta above. https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7736/27733606664_9e871e78bb_b.jpg A paddle holster is a concave holster, typically made of leather, that the handgun slips into and is worn inside the waistband (IWB) versus outside the waistband (OWB). The paddle's leather material is designed to grip to the inside of the pants so that when a handgun is withdrawn, the paddle doesn't move upward with the gun. OTL's gun above is a striker-fired Beretta Storm Px4 with an ambidextrous safety (one on either side).

^^^^. Very nice!

I just thought I'd add a photo of the .45 I bought and here it is in a holster my wife gave me for Christmas. A nice pairing if I do say so myself. Happy New Year btw!

This is not correct. (I take offense at the characterizations of "blasts away." That shows bias and subject matter ignorance.) I have killed 9 deer with handguns so far .. one shot each. MIB

A body is the only way to convince the scientists who won't bother to take a closer look for themselves, and who completely and willfully ignore the opinions of those who have (including other scientists). The case for sasquatch is already overwhelmingly obvious. It is therefore a failure on their part not to look, not a failure on our part not to produce, but their failure is no different than the failure of laymen: it stems from an inability of the imagination to grasp the concept that such a creature could simply be so elusive. It is a totally unique phenomenon, we have no other basis for comparison, and people just can't accept that another living creature could be that much better than us at something (at least without the use of technology - which is why people seem to have an easier time accepting the possibility of aliens than bigfoot). Sasquatch will be proven just by us telling people it's worth it to look into it.

The last post I mentioned that knowing, or believing you know, that this creature exists creates a burden. The late John Bindernagel was out on a hike when he discovered a very novel set of extremely large human type prints. Such a discovery met Meldrum when he inspected a suspected hoaxers print find, the late Paul Freeman. Meldrum was honest enough to admit that this bumpkin had zero....minus zero to the power of 1000....chance of hoaxing the prints Meldrum observed. Meldrum was overcome with the dynamic morphing of the foot prints, spay and action of toes and metatarsal and heal strike. It was not something an honest Scientist of his elk could deny. Meldrum left that incident convinced of the existence of a previously unknown hominid. Much like Bindernagel, Krantz, John Green, and Rene Dahinden. All these men grasped the reality of this creature because they were eyewitnesses to actual biological prints made by this creature. Some who doubt that such prints exist have allot of explaining to do when it comes to well documented track ways, like the blue mountain track way and others. The fact that John Green documented the track way left by Patty is reason enough to know that some amateur did not hoax anything that day. Yet all the armchair skeptics do not begin to piece the facts into place, because if they somehow do the answer is simply that something real was filmed that left very deep large prints no man in an incredible ahead of its time monkey suit could have ever left....those are the plain facts....

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in our lifetimes. Elon Musk has warned about it. Which means that if and when our species ever bumps into a alien civilization millions of years more advanced than we are? They will probably be robots or AI of some sort. So why would they care about manipulating the crude DNA of a human? Why if real is Sasquatch a Hominid? It walks bipedal. And It has a non opposable big toe. It lacks claws. This is evident with track casts. Therefor these facts presented in the supposed evidence of Bigfoot? Drastically narrows the field down to Hominids.

Yeah, the bolded is what you see from them here, just add bigfoot at the end of it. Yet, the proof comes from the cogency of evidence they are uncertain of. I guess some folks just have to be told by some higher authority that they exist since most aren't that authority and wont be making any authoritative analysis of any evidence.

It’s not a dig, but I can’t help but laugh when you all fall for the same things over and over again. It’s like someone that keeps playing the shell game for a buck then complains they are broke. Maybe it’s because I’m younger than some on here and grew up in the Internet age but what I see happen here is classic trolling yet here they tend to catch the same fish over and over. Spit the hook out for Pete sake!