Wading staff dilemma

[Mato Kuwapi]

Gerri-

You may be ignoring a simple solution. Just use one of your old leather belts for the holster. Perhaps not elegant, but decidedly pragmatic. After all, it is not written in stone that only one belt can be worn.

That too!! EXCEPT he said it was part of the chest pack. If it's like mine...there's no changing it. Then again...why not use a wading belt (along with the chest pack)?? That's what I do.

I would also think twice about using that as a chest pack. It's really designed to be a lumbar pack. I would use it like a shoulder bag and use the lumbar belt just to keep it in place and out of the way. You could also sew a couple of smaller pieces of nylon webbing, with a quick release clip, onto the waste band of the pack... OR sew the holster on to the pack belt.