I always seem to notice holster rigs in westerns. I watched a Rifleman episode over the weekend, in which Claude Akins is a professional gunfighter hired to guard a bank. He is wearing a nice two gun rig with what appear to be metal-lined holsters, probably by Arvo Ojala. In the final confrontation, between Lucas McCain and Claude Akins, Akins is shot from the saddle and with one foot stuck in the stirrup, dragged through the dusty street by his horse. As the camera pans to his body being dragged by the horse, the fancy two gun Ojala rig has been replaced by a beat up looking Mexican loop holster and belt.
It reminded me of an episode I once saw of Cheyenne, who over the life of the series, wore at least three different rigs, most of which appeared to be the metal-lined Ojala style. In one episode, in which he wears the Ojala rig, he is involved in a fist fight in the middle of a stream, as he emerges soaking wet from the water, his Ojala rig has morphed into a very plain beat up holster and belt. I was glad that, seeing a water fight coming, he had the good sense to protect that Ojala rig by changing belts and holster.