Bulldog Cases "Vertical Cell Phone Holster with Belt Loop and Clip

The outside is way too big. It looks like I'm walking around with an Ipad attached to my hip. Can't use at all.

As with the last holster I removed the metal belt loops and use the built-in belt loops for a closer, better fit. Works great with the LCP. Provides an easier draw then the previous Bulldog holster. Is slightly bulkier with square edges, this gives it a more noticeable appearance. Though with different electronic devices, I don't think people will think GUN. The belt loops are placed well for comfortable wearing while sitting down, though you may have problems getting to your weapon around a seatbelt (depending on holster placement).

This Bulldog Vertical Cell Phone Holster with Belt Loop and Clip has great potential as a concealed carry holster, provided you're willing (as I was) to make some modifications to its problematic design. On the positive side, it's made out of heavy duty nylon cloth for long use, with flexible plastic liner to hold its form well, and stitched together very well. Best of all is its very convenient magnetic cover flap latch, which allows a very quick flip-up movement to access your pistol! But that's where the advantages end, unfortunately! The first two design flaws, in my opinion, relate to the placement and size of the belt loop and clip, which are located almost halfway down the back of the holster, which creates two problems: 1) regardless of whether the 2" nylon belt loop or the even narrower belt clip is used, the result is that the 6" wide holster tends to swing like a pendulum both when mounted on the hip and when attempting to open the cover flap; and 2) it rides unnecessarily high, requiring more upward elbow bending than would be required by most other holster types, which are positioned lower on the body. Both of these factors make it impossible to accomplish a truly quick draw of the pistol, which I consider a very important CCW feature. So to address that design flaw, I cut off the double-layered factory nylon belt loop/clip retainer material and restitched it in TWO pieces near the TOP of the back of the holster, so virtually the entire width of the holster was supported by the repositioned belt loops. These two repositioning steps made the holster hang much more steadily, and since virtually all the weight of the pistol inside was below the belt, the holster didn't bounce away from my hip anymore when I opened up the (rather strongly magnetic closured) cover flap. (See my first photo.) Next, I wanted to make this holster look like something OTHER than an obvious concealed pistol container (because it really isn't similarly proportioned to most cell phone carriers I've seen)...and when I noticed that I had a pair of binoculars that fit inside an almost identically sized case, I just stitched onto the front holster flap a name patch of a very well-known brand of optical equipment, such as cameras and binoculars! The remaining major design flaw of this holster is the fact that even after lifting the cover flap it seems to take forever to wriggle two fingers onto the pistol grip and pull it out, because the front of the holster pocket simply covers too much of the pistol. Again, this is a critical deficiency for anyone who wants to be able to retrieve a pistol in a suddenly developing self-defense situation! On a positive note, I found that the size holster I purchased (designed to fit the Ruger LC-9 compact pistol) nicely fit not only my virtually identical LC-9S but also my SCCY CPX-1 and my Taurus PT 145 as well! (See additional pics.) But the holster's U-shaped front panel simply didn't dip low enough to allow me to immediately get my two middle fingers on the front of the pistol grips of ANY of these pistols. (It was a 3-to-4-second struggle almost every time I tried to get any of these three pistols out of the holster, as designed.) So as the photos show, I cut away about one-inch of the left side of the front panel as well as about half of the width of the left vertical side of the originally symmetrical U-shaped front panel opening. This opening up of the front holster panel made a major improvement in the speed with which I'm now able to extract any of my pistols from the holster, because as soon as I flip up the cover flap my two middle fingers can immediately reach the front of the pistol grips for a very quick draw time of less than one and a half seconds, typically. In summary, it's a shame that the manufacturer didn't put a little more effort into more efficiently designing this belt-mounted CCW holster, i.e., to reflect the after-market modifications I had to manually make to it. But now that it's been modified to greatly improve its stability and positioning on the hip and to provide easy finger access to the pistol grips, it produces faster draw-times than I can accomplish with my best tear-away zipper fanny pack designs! So if you don't mind a cumbersome, slow-to-draw CCW holster, this is strongly built and has that really cool magnetic flap release feature...so maybe it'd be worth it to you "as is." But I'd strongly suggest that unless you want to wait for the manufacturer to redesign it (to reflect my above refinements), otherwise, if you expect it to function as a smooth, quick-drawing CCW holster, you should be prepared to modify it as I did mine in order to make it a really great all-round CCW holster.

The product is as advertised very happy

It seems to be a good build for a Nylon case. It has issues though.First the case is much larger than the demensions indicated. The product description showsExterior size 6" x 4.75" x 1";Interior size 5.5" x 4" x .95"Yet the actual size isExterior size 6" x 4.95" x 1.55";Interior size 5.65" x 4" x .95"While 0.2 in width might not seem like much it is still way to large. The Half inch in thickness is the big killer and that is not including the clip. It is the back to the folded over lid. Look at the .95 interior to the 1 inch exterior size. Do you really think 3 sides (Back front and lid) can only be .05 inches. Not even close. If you add the clip in it is about 1.75"The size looks very unnatural on your hip. It is so big and bulky it will draw attention. I doubt anyone would believe it is a phone case. They may not know it is a holster but no one is going to believe it is a phone and I carry a Note 4 on my hip. As big as it is it is no where near as big as the Case.I have a Sig P238 and it fits perfectly inside the case. So for the P238 it is a good match.The placement of the belt loop and clip on the back are to low for the weight of most guns. This causes it to lean out away from your body. It would be much better if the clip/llop was much nearer the top which would make it much more stable on your hip. The Sneaky Pete holsters seem to have the clip much higher on the back. That of course could be the difference in a 15$ and 40$ holster (nylon version).I bought it so that I could throw the gun and and extra mag into a athletic bag and for that purpose it is perfect. The P238 sits in it and an extra loaded mag can be placed inside as well under the grip of the gun. In fact you can get 2 extra mags in it in the free space under the grip.For what I am using it for it is perfect. For a holster worn on the waste like a cell phone I would probably look elsewhere. Every 1/4" matters and this sucker is just huge.

ExcelenteTela muy resistente trae para cinto y clipEntrega rapida.El iman de la tapa lo hace cerrar muy bien y abre facil