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Posted: 6/17/2013 4:43:30 AM EDT
| Any one have one and can provide 1st hand experience? I'm thinking of putting together a truck rig and saw these. I know they are discontinued, but if they are made out of typical Maxpedition material with typical Maxpedition quality, then I'll keep an eye out on the used market. Oh, if you have one for sale in Kahaki, let me know, it will compliment my other Max gear nicely, I think. |
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I've not had one in hand, but I have a lot of Maxpedition gear and I have a TT MAV. Not to knock TT, but the Max stuff feels a whole lot sturdier.
Midway USA has them. |
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Did they ever fix the issue with the inner MOLLE row being too narrow? I remember there being an issue with that. Now that you mention it, I recall an issue, but not a solution. Didn't someone here help Maxpedition with the design? They were going to fix the narrow row in a second version, but ultimately just discontinued it entirely. |
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Yes, I designed the Mini Chest rig TO SPEC,
which included 2 "in-spec" PALS (1.5" wide) channels on either side of the SEWN-IN magazine pockets the pre-production version I received to get my blessing in 2008 was sewn to my design spec That said, the rig was designed to provide a low-cost alternative to existing market offerings that afforded the ability to carry a civilian proportionate number of mags out of the box, and expand accordingly. Unfortunately the out of spec sewing of this rig was cause to terminate the relationship I had with Maxpedition. |
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no experience but it looks like a HSGI AO chest rig or TT Mini Mav No brad This MCR is different from either one of those options - namely that those are modular platforms that require additional cost to bring up to magazine carriage, while the Mini has 3 M4 mag pouches built in |
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Yes, I designed the Mini Chest rig TO SPEC, which included 2 "in-spec" PALS (1.5" wide) channels on either side of the SEWN-IN magazine pockets the pre-production version I received to get my blessing in 2008 was sewn to my design spec That said, the rig was designed to provide a low-cost alternative to existing market offerings that afforded the ability to carry a civilian proportionate number of mags out of the box, and expand accordingly. Unfortunately the out of spec sewing of this rig was cause to terminate the relationship I had with Maxpedition. That's kind of what I recalled. My original post should have read: Didn't someone here help Maxpedition with the design only to have them fuck it up?
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no experience but it looks like a HSGI AO chest rig or TT Mini Mav No brad This MCR is different from either one of those options - namely that those are modular platforms that require additional cost to bring up to magazine carriage, while the Mini has 3 M4 mag pouches built in I must be blind. I've got no hands on experience with the maxpedition rig and I must have just glanced at the photos. I totally didn't catch that right off the bat. So what was the street price of these when they were available? Saw the midway link. So $53 vs $80ish for a TT Mini Mav and triple shingle. Were they unpopular or why were they discontinued? Was it strictly b/c they were produced weird? |
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no experience but it looks like a HSGI AO chest rig or TT Mini Mav No brad This MCR is different from either one of those options - namely that those are modular platforms that require additional cost to bring up to magazine carriage, while the Mini has 3 M4 mag pouches built in I must be blind. I've got no hands on experience with the maxpedition rig and I must have just glanced at the photos. I totally didn't catch that right off the bat. So what was the street price of these when they were available? Less than 60.00 when they hit the streets the original target was even less than that, but there was an apparent uptick in material costs that translated to an increase in final cost. The goal was to offer a capability to that client base that was not well endowed in the $$$ department. once you start adding accessories, the costs jump considerably to the point that when you look at the "Haterade" CRs, the cost easily doubled, and sometimes the accessory pouches did not mesh with enduser needs, thus stripping these out and leaving the Mini as a simple configurable baseline. |
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The inboard PALS channels were cut into by the outboard walls of the outside magpouches... thus instead of having a 1.5" wide channel, users were left with 7/8" to 1" wide inboard PALS channel which was next to useless for most of the buying public - I terminated the relationship because I did not want to be associated with design construed as out of spec where one of my tenets is exact adherence to specified dimensional requirements Maxpedition in their business decided to discontinue the EGL collaborative line vice fix the problem in a new run. |
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I have one and it is great for when you just want a couple of mags. It is very well made though I just use it for range and back up mags for HD.
Unfortunatly I have one of the out of spec ones that Maxpedtion tried to tell me was in spec when clearly it was not. They said the smaller PALS were ment to hold a pen or somthing similar. 
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