I run a shellback banshee, I was directed towards it by my brother it’s what he runs in the army. It fits me perfectly and it has some quality of life things I wanted. I wanted to run side plates just a personal preference the extra weight sucks but I ruck with it every chance I get. I appreciate your wisdom I like taking advice from lots of different people and your approach on physical fitness I think makes a lot of sense. Strong people are hard to kill. I started watching the SERE series I find it very interesting and informative.

@Barrett619

24 күн бұрын

I still use my banshee from 10 years ago. Still going strong strong

@foxf6

23 күн бұрын

Been running a shellback for years

I’m running a HRT RAC and you’re 💯% correct about wearing your kit more than just a couple minutes on the range. After wearing mine for just eight hours in Florida in August during training I must say SUCKS! I have great respect for the men & women that wear them in the field day in and day out. Love my chest rig 👍👍!

@angelocortesi7112

18 күн бұрын

Go for your rucks with it underneath. It will help exponentially. I'm in FL too

I am a condor guy. Works for me. Medical pack and ammo packs on front. Back has hydration bladder to equal it out and keep me peeing. lol . God bless.

I just received a government overrun plate carrier from Botach, as red as a fire engine. Got it for SAR duty for a mere $60, but it's gonna need a Qore iceplate because it doesn't have any venting material and if it's a hot day, I'll need the cold from the ice plate to keep the fatigue at bay. Lots of molle front & back!

Love my onetigris stuff. And I’m running a Condor gen 2 PC. Gotta budget carefully when you’re lethally poor. Even with that it’s better that the shit I had during Panama and the first GW.

Very nice, Randall! I believe the rig was jumping out of your hand, as a rejection of boo-feng-itus!!😂

Plate carrier is purely situational for me now, 90% of my training now is LBE. I’ve come full circle. Might use it if I know the pigs are attacking my home. If I’m fighting the Minecraft war I’m using sustainment kit.

@fathead8933

24 күн бұрын

I’ve been telling anyone going back to sustainment. Try the British style. Like the whole yoke suspenders but worn under the armor and get the armor as slick as possible. If your yoke is thin enough, it allows for pretty seamless transition. It’s honestly great for me. I can prone out over naturally. It’s tighter for me than an LBE style system. It helps with strap height. I used the belt out of the FLC for my belt lol. Any vehicle work, and well armor and belt with IFAK in a fanny. I also have a load for a more realistic use case. Watching my neighbor’s cattle. A chest rig clipped into an assault pack, so yeah kinda same page. Mett-tc never stops and some people are stuck in 2012. It’s weird revisiting things you’ve dismissed as obsolete or parlor tricks years ago. Passive aiming: 2006:“you’ll break your nods cherry knock that off” 2024: well yeah that kinda makes sense in a way. lol

@MrSwccguy

24 күн бұрын

​@fathead8933 you smoking poles 😂

@Jewifer333x2

23 күн бұрын

I have a couple of different carriers for different situations and a chest rig. I have my sustainment carrier, my lightweight QRF carrier and a low vis slick carrier for essentially low vis vehicle shit (becomes high vis when an incident occurs obviously)

@franciscallahan2529

22 күн бұрын

cant sustain something thats full of holes

@fathead8933

21 күн бұрын

@@franciscallahan2529 not everybody lives in suburbia.

Thanks for the quick rundown on this. I had no idea Enlightened Equipment had a sister company that produced this type of stuff. Another company to consider when I’m in the market to upgrade my current carrier.

I've got a few plate carriers and a few chest rigs all of which carry six 30 round rifle magazines and three pistol magazines along with water, IFAK, comm, etc.

Great video. Realistic options for the field.

Maybe I have my nostalgia glasses on, but I liked the IBA. It is true that my tactical tailor backpack I had wasn't comfortable with the IBA, but it was tolerable with my eagle industries maritime I had on my 2nd deployment. Now I have a Lancer tactical knockoff of the Travis Hailey flat pack, and I like that with the the Army surplus IBA I got. "This is brilliant...but I like this"

Love my DM plate carrier! The modularity is great and so is the price!!

great instruction as always

I got a surplus IOTV with all the inserts and a gorget for $200

Thank you good video very helpful and thank you for your service

I have a ferro slickster, ferro fcpcv5, and spuritus lv119. The fcpc is the most comfortable by far. Especially with the ferro 3a side armor panels and axl equinox cummerbund.

I have the DM edc belt and for the money it is top notch quality

Thanks GP! 🤙🏼🇺🇸

I run a Shellback Tactical Rampage Gen 1.. and I am happy with mine.. The price is really good even for the Gen2

Proudly made in Winona, MN.

Eff the algorithm. Keep saving lives.

I run a crye SPC fir my larping. Git some AXL structural shoulder pads amd it holds a good anount of gear. Beats the IBA i was issued for the GWOT

I have a one Tigris chest rig. Thing is freakin great.

Good stuff, slick vest for armor is the way to go for the exigent things. Not a fan of the tubes/ clips, definitely nix those and it's good to go. Velcro attached beer koozie when? 🤣

Slickster here, but with a DM cummerbund. I wear the DM mech belt on duty Best belt I've ever seen. Their pouches are solid too. Check out the battle steel srt plates at 4.5 lbs apiece. Mr gng did a review and they are gtg.

Ayyyy..! Miller Lite! 👍

My concept for me is my plate carrier is my fighting load everything I need to fight in a fighter fight like ammo water and stuff is in my plate carrier everything else is in the ruck

Have: love it.

RTS kits seem to be very well made and priced.

I'd like to know why you'd run a plate carrier vs a chest rig, from your perspective and experience.

I feel like my Marine Friend and his Brother who was Army called your inability to put the plate on the table a "Field Adjustment". Please confirm this is true! I also have a OneTigris Chest Rig, and found a OneTigris Plate Carrier that has "similar" characteristics to your PC, but its full elastic; sadly no opportunity to add Molle stuff on the sides, but quite comfortable on runs.

I've got a pc with steel plates, BUT I'm going through physical therapy right now with sciatica from my left hip to my left foot with neuropathy in my whole left side and both feet, coupled with me being in my 60's. I don't know if I'll ever be able to support that much weight on my body, let alone an LBE and pack. So I'm screwed unless a miracle happens.

I see you carried a couple carbonation filled tactical explosive devices or B.E.E.R.S (Battlefield Enhanced Explosive Release Shell) on your carrier.....They appear to be the newest "Lite" model for reduced carry weight

Where can we get that patch????

Good shit let me know if you shoot those plates after throwing them I’ve always been curious whether dropping ceramics is a myth or not

@GruntProof

24 күн бұрын

A hard drop or too many drops will crack the ceramic

@Alpharanchmilitia

23 күн бұрын

Copy

You can buy spare tubes. I carry an extra set instead of extra mags. You only need two right?!

Love my MEPC

Anyone know where I can order online a POG rain jacket to go over my plate carrier like our boy Grunt Proof showed us? Surplus or new. Thanks in advance if anyone can hook it up

I went with Spartan Armor with the 3+ plates. Good or bad it's what I've got.

@mikelang6764

24 күн бұрын

Same here, Spartan Hydra PC with 3+ steel plates. Maybe not high speed, but then again, I'm too old to be high speed, so it works.....thanks

Mississippi 💪

Why are u against side armour?

No plates?

If you only could afford one, do you think a Minuteman should prioritize night vision or thermal?

@Dero_milsurp

23 күн бұрын

…..do you want to see at night or no?

@ozarkman291

23 күн бұрын

@@Dero_milsurp I would like to see threats and respond to them

@fathead8933

22 күн бұрын

@@ozarkman291 night vision. Thermal is for finding and fixing the target. Basically this can be done with one guy in the group. Everyone needs NV for the last F at night. If you understand the jargon. If you do not have night vision, you do not get out of your hole at night.

Does anyone know where I can find that mississippi morale patch Randall wears?

@GruntProof

23 күн бұрын

gadsdenandculpeper.com

@stabilis83

23 күн бұрын

@@GruntProof thanks!

I like cheap USA made.

G hooks are much better than buckles on your placard.

I was thinkin of putting a beer carrier on it… just joking brothers!!.. 👍

I personally run a crye JPC 2.0 and unlike these youtube tactical guys I can easily hold 10 magazines and it's still slick

Digging that old state flag patch

Definitely need to review the agilite k zero.

lbt-6094 is still king. high quality, very modular, a lot of features

@fathead8933

22 күн бұрын

@@sullathehutt7720 he fact that they make just slight enough changes with their LBT line to actually be affordable is pretty awesome also. I’ve had the LBX 6094 and it’s on its second owner (my buddy) and it’s literally not much different than it was the day I bought it new. Bomb proof. I’m running a Warrior Assault Systems covert right now. They’re a British company that’s using all our materials. Basically a British slickster.

I'm a TAG'aholic...all US made.

I thought side plates and groin pads were shih until I fought in Ukraine. You'll want them and quick