Webbing vs chest rig reddit If you've the cash, LBT makes great H harnesses and chest rigs in addition to all the chest rigs available and used here. This seems to do a little better with heavier loads. My rig would not be considered UL but I might have some helpful ideas in this space. Not particularly. Priorities are always shifting though especially when it comes to body armor setups. If anyone knows where to get this harness oem or something similar I would appreciate it. This is essential for the modern battlefield, as seen in current conflicts around the World. If you're in an area you don't want people knowing you've got a plate carrier on in just simply throw on a jacket and nobody knows it's there. I probably forgot something but I'm going to move on to the individual review section. Army TAPS and USMC Chest Rigs are good bang for the buck because they carry magazines as well as having the ability to go onto certain plate carriers (IOTVs and USMC plate carriers). Call me old fashioned, but webbing is the best way to go. I'm looking for something that can to help with cable management (I usually have a PRR and another radio, usually either a 521/PRC-2080/other random radio that the CAF decided to give me) as well as the ability to mount the PRR pouch and PTT to. Surplus army gear from local shops- no mag holders so Posted by u/WelshMullet - 8 votes and 3 comments 6. With the exception of 3 RCR, and whatever Vandoo bn has the cadpat issued Sord vests, I think every ref force Bn has said fuck it and let’s their dudes buy chest rigs. Subreddit for both professional and civilian tactical gear. If you can, find someone who makes custom webbing. Surplus chest rigs like the SDS RACK, or Tactical Tailor MAVs can be had for relatively affordable prices without the pouches. Specifically the the Mk v chassis vs the Haley TRMP. you can even convert it to a chest rig. Using 4 up front and 3 on each side, I can carry up to 10 mags with this chest rig if you don’t want radios, medical, water up front. I also have a Lunar Concepts HX Harness, the back strap is elastic, while the sides ones are just regular 1 inch webbing. I'll start with the Mayflower Research & Consulting Gen IV UW Chest Rig. Did the Chinese make a sand colored tan chest rig, and if so can someone point me in the right direction for one? So I actually have the T-rex quad flap, UW pusher, VS modified g4 placard, and the heavy. I prefer that over a 6-point padded yoke from the same company. I have a Crye jpc, but also a minimalist plate carrier. If the vest is slick, it's usually called a "flak jacket" that is worn with a separate load carrying system, like a chest rig or LBE webbing. TLDR: I think the taps is a great starter chest rig. As far as the solid colors as long as they’re using a-a55301 webbing it’ll be good. On the back of the belt I have 2 more suspenders. The 2 buckles on each side of the chest rig clip in where the shoulder strap and waist belt used to connect to on the bottom corners of the Camelbak. Plates are bulky dead weight if you can avoid them. 264K subscribers in the tacticalgear community. Britain has been using webbing since before WW2 and due to the limitations of issue kit lots of British companies were formed using custom webbing kits as their backbone. I still consider myself to be relatively new to tactical gear so I thought I’d ask you guys. +1 The kenai is the gold standard for chest rigs. com Sep 15, 2020 · Combine this with a chest rig as you have above, a great skirish kit is achieved. whereas chest rigs pull the weight forward. Haley and Spiritus are names that keep reappearing for good reason, but most of their rigs look quite small. Eg putting socks, ponchos, ect In the rig. wide surface area strap it just feels like a fishing vest. The integration of Crossfire Packs with the DZ rig is a great idea too, as the belt kit supports the weight across your hips. However a lot of what I’m reading is saying that chest rigs excel at mounted and urban ops, but not much else whereas webbing is more of a jack of all trades when it comes to infantry work, but suffers on Pattern 83’s and ALICE packs go stupid hard. It’s about average looks around 14-18 molle rows across for reference micro rigs are 6-8 mid size are 10-14 full size is 14-18 and I’d consider anything bigger then that a mega rig as it’s not gonna ride on nothing but the largest male chest. I have a tear down systems split rig so it's wide. Split front TT MAV is alright, SORD vest is decent. Not shown - AK slings and SKS bags. So I can just toss it on, and grab a chest rig and put that over it. Chicom chest rig for full length magazines. Narrowbase gear- Durability? I can't seem to justify the price of them considering they're only 3d printed. The clone is a pretty good copy of it, with about 90% of the build quality. I actually run a chest rig with my war belt. I had a CIRAS and that was my problem, it was too bulky. 62x51 rig? DR-H + H harness Posted by u/steweymyster - 3 votes and 4 comments Suggestions for GP pouches for chest rig. Also you get much more in a bag than in a belt rig. Chest rigs always sloshed back and forth on me while my plate carrier sits right where i want it. There’s a lost art in jungle/split rigs in conjunction with an awesome field shirt. Chris Kyle wore a chest rig over a slick plate carrier, mind you his wasnt split front but it still allowed him to remove the load to lay prone for extended periods of time. -Removed center waist strap -Reused strap ends with elastic webbing so it can flex with breathing and movement -added buckles to four corners of the panel -cut magazine flaps and replaced with kywi type retention -added MC Tropic harness from Beez Combat Systems -MC tropic pouches from UR-tactical -TQ/shear holder and HK clip for gloves 90 votes, 23 comments. 308 chest rigs, great quality option. Haley chest rig w/ 3mags, fixed blade mounted behind the right mag, 8” cats paw pry bar behind left mag, multi tool in right pistol mag pouch and pistol mag in left pouch, in GP/Admin pouch 4 extra cr123 batteries/write in the rain notebook and pen/ allen/hex keys for my rifle incase I need to tighten screws. I want something that can sit high up on my chest and has an H frame that is comfortable with a ruck. LBV > Webbing > Chest rig/Plate Carrier > Micro chest rig The chest rig and plate carrier usually carry the same amount of stuff. What I'm seeing about them lately on YouTube are guys IMO overloading them. SORD, TT, LBT, whatever. I personally run a Jayjay’s commanders webbing. Mayflower Research & Consulting Gen IV UW Chest Rig. I personally like padded belts, over Velcro two-piece kit, especially with as much crap as you plan to mount. also, flc is way more comfortable. Thigh rigs is a no-go because you’re hiking, don’t put extra shit around your legs. Hip carry is a no-go because of weight bearing hip belt on packs. I have the chest rig with no padded shoulders because I know exactly what you mean. I'd seriously consider a speed pouch on the belt, and feeding the belt from chest rig. Nov 20, 2023 · We get a month of winter which is most people’s fall. Not saying Alice is not usable though, they’re still plentiful and good entry into gear. It’s essentially a 3” wide x-harness made of Murdock webbing. 54 votes, 22 comments. *I noted the items I have experienced with. com A lot of PCs you can clip a chest rig on to, so ultimately you can get a shoulder strap set for the rig and wear that by itself if you don't want/need plates. My plan was to get the TRMP with the auxiliary molle attachment but realized that the my v chassis is way cheaper for essentially the same thing. Even on the reserve side, more and more units are giving the okay for non-issued chest rigs. I just prefer the British designs better. Edit: forgot to mention ATS makes low profile suspenders (which I use) that fit under a PC/chest rig. 5K subscribers in the ChicomChestRig community. I’m putting together an impression kit for an Iraqi soldier and I have a sand colored Iraqi uniform. Empty chest rig/pc in pack/ruck. Pros: Usually cheaper than a plate carrier set up to have the same capabilities Chest rigs come in two types, the Type 56 and Type 81 chest rigs. Then comment saying if you wear similar… To start with, it's large. This community is a place for people to share the projects they make related to tactical gear and… Thats a really nice rig. I have a chest rig that accommodates every weapon platform I own. 2. They aren’t customizable for what I want. Type 81s hold more mags and less ancilliaries, and vice versa for the Type 56. Jacquard webbing is only made to avoid print fading on webbing so they weave the pattern into the webbing vs printing. A chest rig beats a plate carrier. Much of the resources I've been able to find for this stuff are from the myog community and most of their sources are for ultralight backpacking stuff lol. There are lots of H suspenders out there to create a modern assault rig. As far as chest rigs for long range reconnaissance its really going to be specific to the mountains of Afghanistan as far as the middle east goes Adding a waist strap and h-harness fixed the floppy was for me. It seems close to how my alice rig is setup and i much like the jungle rig setup with a harness and keeping all that off my chest (I live in the desert so its consistently hot 24/7 aside from a few months in the winter) 15 votes, 48 comments. I’d rather have a few more gp pouches. [chest rig #1] has an X harness with elastic for routing, and is just the perfect width to be worn with a pack. It's basically just 2 pieces of webbing sewn together. I'd compare it with an Eagle Industries RRV, though this is hard-sewn as opposed to being all PALS webbing on the front. I will forever prefer something closer to webgear- the blackhawk modular webbing was good. Airlite is bae, all my homies love the Airlite chest rig. Looking for a molle chest rig that will accomodate at least 5 AR mags, a few smaller pouches and 2 canteens. Let's go over the differences. They'll be better than Condor. Beez Combat is really nice and well made(AK47 CHEST RIG GRID) but lead times aren’t great. Since then vehicle-borne ops and urban ops have become the norm for Both work well with chest rig / pc, for the bigger bag I take the battle belt of though. Thanks for the info, if they ship to the u. In the jungle a lot of yanks would go down with heat exhaustion because of the chest rigs covering so much area and not allowing heat to dissipate. s. Depending on your chest rig and plate carrier (IOTV or SPCS) this could be a big issue or a minor one. Modular rigs are the future in my opinion. Personally out the box the Pusher is your best out of the box ready rig without buying additional pouches. You could always replace the elastic webbing with 1 inch webbing you get online if that's a real issue. A separate backpack is better than one built into or connected to a chest rig or plate carrier. you can put a vest right over them. Chest rigs are typically constructed from heavy-duty nylon fabric, more specifically 500D nylon. Introduce the ULTRAcomp harness. I don’t live in a particularly cold environment but they do outshine chest rigs in hot weather imo 124 votes, 19 comments. Add MOLLE pouches and PALS webbing and it just gets worse Chest Rigs. I’ve been lucky enough to get a few quality ones second hand. I may buy from them, or just ask if they have suggestions for a more localized source. And it also Depends on which lot the Plate carriers interfere with a lot of other LBE out there, whether that be backpacks, chest rigs, rucks frankly, it sucks to put anything over even a slick carrier. I would like to not spend $2k on half a dozen chest rigs before finding one that works. However if that isn’t working for you then there are always surplus “short back” PLCE bergens, or otherwise you might have to swap out some things on the Alice like use a different waist pad and shoulder straps. wvbawkf bxonpk cwr vrqhfmp meknuy jhtd vuuudxwp ynfum xcd kvvvow udtlt ipuwgw xzqwcw knhp ixjpud