ELi5: In a wild west movie or game, when a gunslinger puts their revolver into their holster it often makes a “click”. (for example in Red Dead Redemption 2). Would this happen in real life, and if so, what is it caused by?

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ELi5: In a wild west movie or game, when a gunslinger puts their revolver into their holster it often makes a “click”. (for example in Red Dead Redemption 2). Would this happen in real life, and if so, what is it caused by?

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You can actually try it yourself, lay a piece of metal like a knife or something like that on a piece of leather, and check if it makes a noise. You will see there is no clicking noise involved.
On any type of gun, there are no lose parts that could make any type of noise as they are not some show item like in movies. People also wouldn’t add any metal to the inside of a leather holster as there is no reason for it besides scratching the gun in the long run.

So long answer short, when you see weapons used in movies, in many cases this isn’t the realistic use of it.