Shellback Tactical has reduced the price on their Ranger Scalable Plate Carrier to $229.99 to $239.99 depending on the color. This is a great carrier that is well supported with accessories that allow you to scale up the level of protection. There is also a soft armor set available for it.
You’ll also want to check out their Labor Day Sale. Shellback Tactical always has great holiday sales and this one is no exception. They are offering $20 off purchases of $140 or more.
HSGI’s TACO magazine pouches are already pretty good. I use them on my MOLLE belt so I can switch easily between AKs and ARs without much fuss. These improvements are subtle but welcomed.
From HSGI…
SWANSBORO, NC – 26AUG2014 – High Speed Gear is pleased to announce of an improvement to our TACO® line of pouches. All TACO® pouches that utilize an injected molded bracket will have the following improvements implemented.
- Each bracket is now 1/8th inch longer creating higher feed ramps for easier indexing and reinsertion of magazines.
- Increased the size of and beveled the eye hole for easier tension adjustment.
- Adjusted the proportion of all edges and corners
The bracket is one of the most crucial and unique parts of our TACO® pouches. It keeps the pouch open when empty and allows the user to index magazines for easy reinsertion. By improving the bracket, it will allow for improved performance. Implementation was made across the board and the polymer material utilized retains the same strength as previous versions.
Whiskey Two-Four is now offering their laser cut Hypalon chest rigs in a variety of sizes. These fully MOLLE compatible rigs are light weight and durable thanks to their Hypalon construction. They also feature male top buckles at the correct spacing to allow mounting on compatible plate carriers. Each chest rig comes with a simple “X” style harness.
Check out all the available rigs at Whiskey Two-Four.
Slangvel is part gear maker and part historian. He makes hats and other gear in several interesting and obscure patterns plucked from the pages of history. He also tends to work in modern, historical, and unique camo patterns.
He has limited numbers of his M43 cap available in UCP-Delta! UCP-Delta was basically an attempt to improve the UCP pattern by adding brown. Soldier Systems had good coverage on the pattern if you want to know more.
UCP-Delta fabric is very scarce and Slangvel only has a few of these. They may even be gone already. Check out Slangvel’s Facebook page to get in touch.
The Mystery Ranch NICE Day Pack Lid is a pretty solid piece of gear. It adds 900 cu-in of additional capacity to your pack and makes a decent little stand-alone pack for when you don’t need your main pack. However, that functionality comes at the cost of weight. It weighs 1 pound, 3.2 ounces on its own. That is a lot of weight for something that spends most of its time as a lid.
Mystery Ranch just introduced the 9 ounce Alpine Lid to address that weight issue. The Alpine Lid has 700 cu-in of capacity split between 2 chambers (the Day Pack Lid has 900 cu-in). It can be carried as a stand-alone satchel style pack instead of the Day Pack Lid’s backpack style carry. Basically, the Alpine Lid provides similar functionality for considerably less weight.
Check out the Alpine Lid at Mystery Ranch.
