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What is Kydex?

  Kydex historyKydex was developed in 1965 by the Rohm and Haas Company. Kydex is a thermoplastic whose construction gives the plastic rigidity while also allowing it to be molded into various shapes.Kydex is a relatively hard material that is lightweight, durable, and easily formed when heated. It can be vacuum-formed to create a perfect fit.Vacuum forming kydex can produce a thinner profile than injection-molded plastics. Holsters made from Kydex tend to be more durable, strong, and provide overall better retention than its injection-molded holsters.Kydex’s introduction to firearmsKydex is a material that has been around since the 1960s, where it was used in aircrafts. Since then, It has been used in a multitude of industries and products. Those range from automobile...

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A Few Tips for Using Our Custom Gun Holsters

Without a doubt, one of our most popular product is our Forge Your Own Custom Holster. What’s not to love? Custom gun holsters ensure that you’re getting what you want out of a holster. Need an optic cut? How about a claw? Want to choose the perfect color? At Fierce Defender, we allow you to do just that. Having the ability to tailor a holster to suit your unique needs means that you end up with the perfect fit for your daily life. Only you know what you need to get out of a holster and the best holsters are the ones that work best for you. Each and every product that comes out of our shop is designed to...

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3 Principles That Drive Our Company

Here at Fierce Defender, we aim to make the best kydex gun holsters available today. We offer a number of different products and whether you’re here because you’ve been a customer in the past, you found us because of a Google search, or you saw one of our posts on Instagram, the fact remains that we’re glad you’re here regardless of how you came across us. If you’re a firearm enthusiast, chances are you’ll find something to like around these parts. You might be new to our neck of the woods, and if that’s the case, we thought it would we’d take the opportunity to introduce ourselves. We believe that we’re making one of the absolute best products on the...

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Custom Gun Holsters With Insanely Fast Shipping?

You’ve spent countless hours in front of a computer doing research, reading everything you can possibly find on the subject. You find yourself daydreaming at work, pondering the possibilities in your head over and over again. You visited your local shops and talked to the sales associates to get their opinions. When time allows, you head over to YouTube and look for some video reviews to help you make your decision. We’re talking, of course, about purchasing a firearm. For many people, the decision to purchase their first firearm is a huge one and they want to (pardon the pun) arm themselves with as much knowledge as possible. For others, a new product came onto the market and after doing...

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Does It Make Sense to Keep a Weapon in Your Car?

Chances are that you have an opinion on whether or not a firearm should be kept inside of a vehicle. There are a number of reasons both in favor of and against doing this and it’s a subject that we’d like to take a look at a little more in depth in today’s blog. As makers of kydex gun holsters, we have been wondering which way people lean on this topic, so we thought we would do a bit more to educate ourselves and then share what we find with our readers. As you can probably imagine, a quick search on the topic leads to a number of different online message boards with people posting compelling reasons both for and...

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