Chest Rigs and Mags for your Black Rifle

TV-PressPass said:
Buy HSGI Tacos and live a happy comfortable life with easily accessible magazines. ;)
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This.

When I have mags on my body, I'm only playing gun games at the range. Shooting isn't my job, and my life doesn't depend on it.

That said, I've spent 20 years as a carpenter, reaching for tools on my tool belt. After trying a couple of chest rigs, I realized that 2 decades of muscle memory is an asset, and went to a BFG battle belt with Tacos. I currently have rifle/pistol Tacos, so I can have 4 mags on my weak-hand side before I have to perform contortions to my strong-hand side.

That said, if you try real hard, you can get 2 STANAG mags in a rifle/pistol Taco. If I needed a bunch of mags, I'd switch to double rifle Tacos of course.

I got all my gear from Darren at OSTS.
 
Yeah I think I'm going to get 2 double tacos and 2 double pistol. I'm contemplating getting 3 double rifles but in not sure if I need 6 mags. I guess it wouldn't hurt with our Mag cap laws. I'm just wondering if I get 3 doubles if I'll have room for the pistol ones. I got a blue force lmac. What other pouches are you guys running?
 
A dump pouch.

Y'know, for those days when I can't get enough of being in the army and want to play tacticool gun games on leave or weekends. But I don't know what a "hugger" or whatever is so I guess I don't know what I'm talking about.
 
The nice thing about Tacos is they're very flexible in their application - you can use them on a PC, a battle belt, or you can get a Raven moduloader set up (OSTS has them) and use them on your pistol belt for situations that require less of an 'operator' profile. I've been using a 3 pistol Taco set up off my belt for a while now and it's great - you can also carry 2 rifle mags off the pistol belt, very low pro. The other nice thing about Tacos for the pistol is you only buy them once, a pistol Taco will carry any kind of pistol mag - single or double stack, 9, 40, or 45 - doesn't matter, they all work with the existing Taco.
 
I got a rackminus and helium whisper pouch set up recently from OSTS and love it, all in wolf. On the rackminus I run two triple helium whisper pouches, (6mags for the AR) with a maxpedition dump pouch and have a belt set up for pistol (2 uncle mikes kydex double mag holsters) with a kydex holster for my M&P. gives me plenty of mags for a paper slaying good time! Love the rackminus, super comfortable, lightweight, and compact, the pouches are snug, and are difficult to put a mag back into, but very secure once they are in there.
 
How do you guys find the double stack Tacos? Are they super bulky? I am thinking I want between 4-6 rifle mags and 4 pistol mags, so deciding whether to do double stacks rifle and pistol, kangaroo, or single.
 
Matty308 said:
How do you guys find the double stack Tacos? Are they super bulky? I am thinking I want between 4-6 rifle mags and 4 pistol mags, so deciding whether to do double stacks rifle and pistol, kangaroo, or single.
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How you planning on using it? 3-gun? CQB? Operational/Occupational? If it's the last two, you really don't need more than 2-3 pistol mag holders. Pistols are backup weapons; what you use to get back to your rifle. put in another rifle mag pouch or just put nothing in it's place and save on weight.
 
Matty308 said:
How do you guys find the double stack Tacos? Are they super bulky? I am thinking I want between 4-6 rifle mags and 4 pistol mags, so deciding whether to do double stacks rifle and pistol, kangaroo, or single.
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On a belt I've come to prefer the double rifle-pistol TACO rather than a double rifle-rifle TACO, less bulky. On a PC or CR I don't see it as being as much of a issue. I'm currently putting a new kit together and will go with this set-up again.

As it was already mentioned, using the Raven Concealment ModuLoader is a great piece of kit. I have two of their "5 fingers" ModuLoader and you can hang quite a bit off of each and still keep it nice and tight on your belt.
 
I actually usually use single stack tacos on a belt. I do like the combo tacos, one pistol mag/multi-tool and one any-rifle-mag.

Admittedly, I've never used double stack, but thats because I'm trying to keep the belt profile slim. Chest rig could be a very different story.
 
I have 2 XRP2 Tacos on my 5-11 Brokos belt they are not too bulky. I have yet to use them in action but first impression is favourable. Holding 4 AR mags and 2 pistol mags total for the price is economical IMO.
 
I picked up a BFG Ten Speed bandolier and chest rig. Not sure about the elastic pouches they are a pain to get mags into and out off. I haven't played with it much yet but so far I'm not sold on the concept.
 
Armedsask said:
I picked up a BFG Ten Speed bandolier and chest rig. Not sure about the elastic pouches they are a pain to get mags into and out off. I haven't played with it much yet but so far I'm not sold on the concept.
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Which mags are you having trouble getting out of a 10 speed? You need to wear the rig tight if you don't want it to ride up when pulling mags out.
 
I just got my plates and carrier today, it's the Blue Force Gear LMAC. I am 6 feet tall, how low on your stomach do you guys wear your PC's? I will order some Taco's in the next couple days now that I have it and seen how it fits.
 
Matty308 said:
I just got my plates and carrier today, it's the Blue Force Gear LMAC. I am 6 feet tall, how low on your stomach do you guys wear your PC's? I will order some Taco's in the next couple days now that I have it and seen how it fits.
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basically, if you're sitting in your vehicle, and the plate is digging into your gut, its too low.
 
Matty308 said:
I just got my plates and carrier today, it's the Blue Force Gear LMAC. I am 6 feet tall, how low on your stomach do you guys wear your PC's? I will order some Taco's in the next couple days now that I have it and seen how it fits.
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They aren't meant to be worn low as:

- the plates wouldn't offer protection to the vitals they are meant to protect
- it would interfer with your battle belt, be it for pistol draw or taking mags out (or anything else really) - not that you'd want pouches on the same side of your pistol though.

Depending on your upper body type/lenght, the bottom of the PC should be around your belly button, give or take, if the top of your plate covers from your clavicle down.
 
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