Any battle belt converts out there who have ditched the vest/plate carrier?

[Rory]

I’m too old and fat to run about with a cummerbund or mega hyper plate carrier. I’ve always found belt kit easier.

 @ButcherBill, I was also running an old 58 pattern webbing belt with repro fastmag holders for my main kit. I just augmented with a cheapo vest for ‘impact protection’. Served me well for ages. 
I still have a belt set up and a viper vest for game days, albeit with pouches, just had to get the old expansion Velcro bits added. Although I have seen some padded hip belts, interested to see if anyone is using them, my fear is an overly sweaty lower back/arse

[Skara]

I run a belt setup for longer games, found it doesn't restrict my breathing like a chest rig does when climbing steep hills or hiking many kilometres. Plus it's velcro lined so it locks onto my trousers preventing any shifting. It's based on the Templars Gear PT-4, pouches are a mix of Templars Gear, Helikon and Baribal.

 

 

Here's a picture of me wearing the thing along with a 15l backpack at October's National Finals, 4 rifle mags, two small utility pouches and a larger one at the back, GPS pouch and a dump.

 

 

I'm now considering building a second "speedsoft style" belt, much lighter with just 4x rifle mags and a dump pouch, will probably use a HSGI belt instead of a PT-4.

Edited 19 hours ago by Skara

[Barny]

Not sure if this is what your after but an alternative belt set up below

 

TT_belts two part rigid belts fitted with 5.56 on the black and 7.62 on the MC.

The black one shows 3x rifle mags, 1x pistol, bfg holder, dump pouch, MHA with deadly customs holster and shaw concepts padded thingy.

The Mc one is currently in winter mode so the hpa tank gets moved onto the plate carrier along with 1x rifle mag. 

 

Both belts allow me to run kit off/away from my torso allowing me to keep cool with just a t-shirt on. Work well as i dont tend to run much when in game 

[Wavey_Gravey]

Rifle mag pouches on both sides of the belt is wild, you must have some long ass arms.

[Skara]

46 minutes ago, Wavey_Gravey said:

Rifle mag pouches on both sides of the belt is wild, you must have some long ass arms.

Not really.

I can easily reach the first one on the right without too much trouble and it's generally the first magazine used unless I'm in the middle of a firefight, where I draw the two on the left first.

2nd mag on the right is definitely harder to reach but again, if I have time I don't mind faffing around a little bit to get it.

Having all 4 mags on the left would be more convenient for reloads, but it would totally throw off the weight distribution, especially when I don't need to have a lot of stuff on me.

 

This way I can keep things balanced and, most importantly, at hand.

Except for the GPS, but that thing never comes out of its pouch when shooty shoot is expected and when I need to use it, it's clipped to the right suspender.

For the record, in those flat utility pouches I have a multitool + screwdriver and bits on the right, notepad + map reading stuff (ruler, protractor, map) on the left, plus spare room for my vape + liquid and smaller bits and bobs, while food goes in the slightly larger pouch at the back.

Mirror to the GPS pouch is a flapped double mag pouch for my radio and the wiring to my earpiece is threaded and taped to the left suspender, again I don't need to switch channels during a firefight.

 

(Also didn't realise how grey my hair became 🥺😭)

Edited 15 hours ago by Skara