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Posted: 10/9/2008 9:38:26 AM EDT
| What are your thought on web gear for a post SHTF scenario i.e.. vests, sub loads, drop leg holsters or just put an extra magazine in your pants pocket? should we all be prepared to join a civilian militia to fend off street gangs, Chinese and Obama supporters? ;) |
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If you are here, I will make assumptions, so, you should have some form of kit to carry gear during whatever incident occurs. This can be something as simple/non militaristic looking as a photographer's vest, or a bare-bones, low profile chest rig. If you just need to carry a few extra mags and some water, get an old LC-1 ALICE rig, they are cheap, and tough as nails. I have a minimalistic outlook due to be disabled, so I use a SKD/Eagle Universal Rig:  8 AR or 4 FAL Mags, 2 .45 G21 Mags, 2 Smokes (1 white screening, 1 red distress), knife, battle dressing, and a survival kit inside the chest rig body. |
Those ALS Mini's came from a fellow ARfcommer, can't remember his name, just the problems I had getting my product after paying. He actually mailed them US Post Priority Mail, and it sailed right on through...lol |
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I think having a military style magazine fed rifle and not having the ability to cary a few extra magazines for it is pretty silly. What you get should be based on what you perceive a SHTF event as, and your personal fitness level and willingness to train. There is the argument that wearing web gear would "single you out" in a SHTF event. This might seem a logical argument until you think about it for a second? Wouldn't holding a rifle single you out faster than LBE? If the S has HTF so completely that you need to be standing around with a rifle, it's bad enough to be standing around with LBE. If the S has HTF to the point that you need to have you rifle in the backseat of your vehicle then you should have some spare mags with it. And LBE is a good place to store those. Now as to what LBE do you get... again that is up to you. Some general options include 1) a low key vest, either a 511 or something less specialized. PRO: can still be fairly low key, comfortable CON: can be hot and not so low key during certain times of the year, don't carry many mags 2) a classic LBE PRO: cheap as dirt, modular and durable CON: not as comfortable as some of the stuff out now, doesn't work with never stuff very well 3) some kind of modular low profile chest rig PRO: most comfortable, can cary a a good mid range number of mags, with some (MOLLE models) other stuff can be added CON: some are quite expensive, hard to balance 4) Modular vest PROS can carry large loads comfortably, very modular CON: can be very expensive, gets hot as hell in the summer 5) an armored vest or plate carrier PRO: It's armored... DUH CON: heavy and expensive, hot as hell I've written more about it here, with examples and pics www.everycitizenasoldier.org/id12.html |
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