Check out my breakdown of Load Carriage over at the Everyday Marksman I wore this belt during Desert Brutality. That doesn’t apply to me 95% of the time, but sometimes it does. If you really can’t afford for your belt to give you away, you may want to look elsewhere. Darn.Ĭan’t really be worn with a tucked in shirt without suggesting to others (who know what to look for) that you’re definitely carrying a gun. We’re also talking about 10 seconds as opposed to 6 or 7 seconds, so it’s not really an issue, but it’s technically a drawback.Īlso, can’t be used as a tourniquet. I’m sure that a standard Cobra-buckled belt is much harder, since you’d have to detach and reattach a belt buckle each time you take off and put on a belt (I don’t have that kind of time), but a normal big-box store’s belt goes on and off easier. It’s not as easy to thread through belt loops as a standard belt. Considering my waistline doesn’t change on a daily basis, I don’t consider this to be much of a downside, especially compared to what I gain in return. This is the one legitimate thing that the belt does worse than a normal belt. It’s not hard to adjust, but it does take more time than the normal notch system on most belts. The tightness is set by the extra material that’s threaded through the male end of the Cobra buckle and held down with Velcro. Blue Alpha fixed this issue by attaching a 1.5″ wide female cobra end to a 1″ piece of fabric that then got sewed onto a 1.5″ nylon strap, thus making a belt & buckle that doesn’t have to be taken apart to be put on. The standard Cobra that fits 1.5″ nylon straps (webbing?) is not itself 1.5″ wide. The size of the buckle is an important feature, and one that needs to be called out specifically. It’s honestly the thing I like the most about this belt. I also really like the fact that when you re-buckle the belt it is exactly where you had it before you took unbuckled it. I also like that the buckle takes much less time than a normal belt buckle to undo and redo. I love that you can adjust the belt to exactly how tight or loose you want it. I’m of the opinion that stiffer belts help strong-side carry more than they help appendix carry, but this belt is by no means a wet noodle. It’s much stiffer than my previous leather belts, but it’s not so stiff that it’s uncomfortable. ![]() ![]() The belt is sewn out of 1.5″ nylon, allowing it to be threaded through standard belt loops. It shipped fast, which is always nice, but that doesn’t really tell me anything about the belt itself. As I said above, I have no real experience with this type of product, so I was a blank slate when it came to opinions out of the box. I didn’t really have much of a first impression.
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