trinydex
04-01-16, 13:59
i bought 2 of these, one was a medium and one was a large. the reason i bought two was because the medium was too small. unfortunately the large is sort of too large. on with the review.
38704
this belt is fairly novel simply because it pairs a 1" cobra buckle male end to a 1.5" cobra buckle female end. this makes the belt extremely easy to thread through pants.
the way they attach the 1" buckle is innovative. it's just a piece of 1" webbing that is sewn on the outboard side of the 1.5" webbing of the belt and the 1" webbing is closed off on the body side of the 1.5" webbing by velcro. the female buckle is attached the typical way with adjustable velcro tail.
other features. the belt has nylon inserts, plural because the nylon stiffeners are broken up into 3 sections. not sure why, but that's the way it is. the actual webbing of the belt is the slick, sheen, smooth type. not stiff, probably not abrasion resistant.
the cons. their sizing is awful. i don't know why they decided to size their belts the way they did, but i found myself between two sizes and i am a size 32 pants that wears a gun iwb, which puts me at size 33 waist (i would expect that this is a very common size).
because of the nylon stiffeners inside the webbing, you cannot adjust tighter than the point where the stiffener butts up against the female buckle (this exacerbates the sizing issue). because they don't include a lot of loop velcro on the webbing of the belt to catch the adjustment tail, when you adjust to full tight the tail wags and gets caught on belt loops. this can be remedied by sewing on an extra bit of velcro, but you'll need an industrial machine to sew through the nylon stiffener (or hug the edge of the webbing and not puncture the stiffener). sewing through the stiffener will actually rub the thread also and the thread might become "unsheathed."
my conclusion on this belt is that i wish it were perfect. i wish this staggered buckle system were executed by some other company like osoe that would have done it right. i wish they had made it out of stiff webbing so the stiffeners didn't have to be used. at the same time i wish they hadn't skimped on the velcro that holds the adjustment tail.
i'm not using this belt for anything serious, it's just the belt that throws onto pants quickly and easily and still handles an iwb gun well enough. it's the pants expedient belt. if it were a perfect product, i'd replace all my current osoe belts in a heartbeat.
38704
this belt is fairly novel simply because it pairs a 1" cobra buckle male end to a 1.5" cobra buckle female end. this makes the belt extremely easy to thread through pants.
the way they attach the 1" buckle is innovative. it's just a piece of 1" webbing that is sewn on the outboard side of the 1.5" webbing of the belt and the 1" webbing is closed off on the body side of the 1.5" webbing by velcro. the female buckle is attached the typical way with adjustable velcro tail.
other features. the belt has nylon inserts, plural because the nylon stiffeners are broken up into 3 sections. not sure why, but that's the way it is. the actual webbing of the belt is the slick, sheen, smooth type. not stiff, probably not abrasion resistant.
the cons. their sizing is awful. i don't know why they decided to size their belts the way they did, but i found myself between two sizes and i am a size 32 pants that wears a gun iwb, which puts me at size 33 waist (i would expect that this is a very common size).
because of the nylon stiffeners inside the webbing, you cannot adjust tighter than the point where the stiffener butts up against the female buckle (this exacerbates the sizing issue). because they don't include a lot of loop velcro on the webbing of the belt to catch the adjustment tail, when you adjust to full tight the tail wags and gets caught on belt loops. this can be remedied by sewing on an extra bit of velcro, but you'll need an industrial machine to sew through the nylon stiffener (or hug the edge of the webbing and not puncture the stiffener). sewing through the stiffener will actually rub the thread also and the thread might become "unsheathed."
my conclusion on this belt is that i wish it were perfect. i wish this staggered buckle system were executed by some other company like osoe that would have done it right. i wish they had made it out of stiff webbing so the stiffeners didn't have to be used. at the same time i wish they hadn't skimped on the velcro that holds the adjustment tail.
i'm not using this belt for anything serious, it's just the belt that throws onto pants quickly and easily and still handles an iwb gun well enough. it's the pants expedient belt. if it were a perfect product, i'd replace all my current osoe belts in a heartbeat.