Galco Holsters Overpriced?
By Holster Guy ~ December 22nd, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized.
While I really like the Galco line of holsters, I have to wonder sometimes about their pricing. They offer one of the most diverse series of IWB holsters, but some of their prices make my wallet cringe. Galco is a production line based holster maker that utilizes an assembly line approach of building holsters. As far production holster makers (like Don Hume, G&G, Blackhawk, etc.), Galco is the oldest and most well known. Unfortunately, they are also the most expensive. Now I understand that Galco uses horsehide for a number of their IWB models, but even horsehide isn't going to drive the price up $15 to $20 above a comparable model from another maker.
In no way am I knocking the quality of thier product (I own several myself), but I happen to be of the opinion that they are somewhat overpriced compared to the market. I really like a number of their models, especially the deep cover IWB versions, but I can't bring myself to pay the retail prices. If I had to narrow it down to a single favorite, I'd have to go with the newer Skyops model. For deep cover carry of a small to medium handgun, it really can't be beat (IMHO). The only problem I have with that model is that fact that it's only available in a 1.25 inch belt configuration.
One day, I hope that they might consider making their stuff just a little more affordable.