My buddy and I were doing some dry fire practice drills thursday night, the serpa holster worked like a charm all night until suddenly I went to draw my Beretta 92 and I literally could not get the gun out of the holster. I removed the holster from my belt and really put some muscle into it, still nothing (+1 for Blackhawks retention system) I ended up having to complete unscrew the tension screw next to the release lever to rip the gun loose. I called Blackhawk Friday morning and they are going to replace my holster.
Diagnoses: Apparently there is a small leaf spring located under the release lever that your finger hits to unlock the trigger lock. Customer service told me that very rarely this spring will come loose to cause the malfunction I had.
Nothing against Blackhawk, but this in my book is a MAJOR malfunction and I probably won't be purchasing another Serpa holster; to be honest this scared the crap out of me. Blackhawk's customer service saved them for my future purchasing from the company. I bought the holster over a year ago at the 1500 at first they were hesitant because I didn't purchase from them directly but it wasn't hard to convince them otherwise.
THANK GOD I wasn't going for the gun in a life or death situation
Diagnoses: Apparently there is a small leaf spring located under the release lever that your finger hits to unlock the trigger lock. Customer service told me that very rarely this spring will come loose to cause the malfunction I had.
Nothing against Blackhawk, but this in my book is a MAJOR malfunction and I probably won't be purchasing another Serpa holster; to be honest this scared the crap out of me. Blackhawk's customer service saved them for my future purchasing from the company. I bought the holster over a year ago at the 1500 at first they were hesitant because I didn't purchase from them directly but it wasn't hard to convince them otherwise.
THANK GOD I wasn't going for the gun in a life or death situation
