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I've learned the hard way that "battle belts" are great in training but for vehicle use are a pain in the "back."
I set up my battle belt with six mag pouches for my rifles and my pistols (I use the Taco rifle/pistol mags), then I run my med kit on the battle belt, and a GP pouch, my knife, my multitool, etc.
Last edited by OrlandoJones; 06-19-17 at 20:05.
I have two ATS Tactical 7.62 Split-front chest rigs. Good quality, easy to throw on, and light weight.
http://atstacticalgear.com/7-62-spli...chest-harness/
I wanted the ability to prone out without taking it off; not as important when packing a shorty 5.56 but it's nice to have when toting the SR-25.
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I had great success running a Esstac Bush Boar split front in 2010-2011 in the Stan, because I needed to swap out M4 to M110 mission dependant and did not want to have to set up 2 complete rigs. The ability of the system to keep a swappable 5.56 and 7.62 rig was great, back panels swapped easily and held up just as good as other kits I had ran over the years.
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I have a First Spear 7.62 SCAR-H chest rig for sale if you're interested. Shoot me a PM.
Has anyone tried the Haley Strategic heavy rig? I was thinking about getting one for my colt 901 set up.
Understood.
I dual-purpose my gamer belt (Safariland ELS), since I don't have a day job with a task list that includes "close with and destroy" anymore.
I prefer to keep my belt pretty streamlined, even when gaming. I'll swap pistol mags for rifle mags as appropriate, but rarely bump up past 2 rifle mags. 40-50 rounds of high performance .308 usually answers whatever I need it to, and when bopping around in a vehicle I usually bring along a small pack with water, snacks, ancillary task-related stuff, emergency med gear, and a few extra mags. Once I deplete a mag, I'll rotate a fresh one to the gun from the pack, and pop the partial/empty to a dedicated section of the pack.
For stuff that calls for armor, I have 2-3 extra mags on my PC, biased toward the support side, and nothing thick enough to significantly interfere with a bipod prone. I'm not a big fan of torso mounting magazines unless I don't have a more feasible or practical solution (thus the pack). I do like the "placard" approach for mounting pre-set magazine loads onto the PC. Those placards can pull triple duty as a stand-alone chest rig (though I don't utilize the option) by attaching a simple H-Harness to it, attach to or drop into a pack as readily accessible organization, or the obvious.
Maybe next time I'm out chasing hogs (hunting, not the bar-scene type), I'll revisit the chest rig approach.
I just picked up a Spiritus Mk3 chassis and I'm reasonably impressed with it. It's low profile and fully modular so you can set it up with whatever combination of rifle (max four 762), pistol, and administrative type flapped pouches that you need.
@zim, pics?
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