1982 Pattern Webbing

[OkayShooter]

Say what you want about the webbing but at least it was modular.
ie you could move s**t around to suit you and your dominate hand etc

And you could Carry more than 4 mags... Yes lets issues 10 mags, but our vest only holds 4. Well going to give up one of your storage pouches to fit the other 5. And one on the gun.

I kinda preferred the webbing over the LBV. I had the cadpat and the combat jean jacket one.

 

[purple]

I used to wear my '51 pattern basic pouches when gopher shooting with my .223s; one for the ammo and the other for the empty brass.

 

[Old Albertan]

Just don't swallow any and you'll be o.k.

There was the melamine scare that occured years ago (google it) and I assume to avoid any possible "issues", they withdrew the stuff.

 

[Rebel Rouser]

Just get a MkII Combat Coat the C1A1 LBV. Upper pockets will carry 2 mags(one per side) and inside the waist pocket each side has 2 pockets for mags. So you can carry a total of 6 on you.

 

[Rule 303]

Pffft, 1982 pattern web. You kids should have started out on 1951 pattern.

I'll see your P51 and raise you P37.

 

[Army Issue Surplus Inc]

Just get a MkII Combat Coat the C1A1 LBV. Upper pockets will carry 2 mags(one per side) and inside the waist pocket each side has 2 pockets for mags. So you can carry a total of 6 on you.

That would be your 64 pattern Magazine pouch set. The rest of your kit was secured with the webbing.
But the Mag pouches carried forward into the IECS levels of issue into the Y2K.
To carry 10 mags in Combat 4 in the vest, 1 in the Rifle and up to 6 in the IECS Gore-tex Coat. and 6 more in the Cadpat issue Tunic.
See how generous the Bean counters are?

 

[purple]

It's useful to know that field uniforms and gear are developed in consultation with the infantry people and are basically provided to satisfy the requirements that they establish. Gear is prototyped and then given user trials in the field before being standardized for mfr and issue. Sometimes it can still go very wrong. A case point was the 1964 pattern parka which was supposed to be worn over the combat jacket. It was a terribly flawed concept which was totally unsuitable in the field- no removable liner for drying and worn over the combat jacket which was a sweat trap.

 

[Donald Mackenzie]

I do not know were you people come from. Have any of you carried loaded mags in you breast pocket, then walked or ran, Then you will know the pain of having your nibbles rubbed raw.In your shirt or jacket side pockets, you hips take a real #### kicking. Put your mags in your mess tin carrier, they rattled move about, rds pop out of mag. Then the mess tin carrier falls off your belt because the Velcro did hold the weight of loaded mags ( by the way we were only issued 4 mags for the C1, Look at pictures of people with 64 webbing, and you will see a lot of 37 webbing Pouch's on belts. Plus lots of Duck tape holding every thing together. Chest pockets were for smokes and your compass. Lastly on the Trails for 82 webbing, they had brass not plastic holders. Only went cheap when the manufacturing started. Government never said a word about it,