NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/guns/20091

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Subject: belt rigs
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Date: 23 Jan 93 02:20:02 GMT
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Now here's a question about something I know I've seen a bunch of times,
but now that I think of it I can't remember how it typically looks ....

With a fellow shooter, I was talking about belt rigs (whether for IPSC or duty)
for one's sidearm, and we couldn't quite figure out whether the usual practice
is to have a "normal" belt to hold up one's pants then place a heavier duty
belt OVER the normal one ...  OR, to lace the duty belt through one's pants
loops, and fuss around to get the holsters, utility and doodad holders in place
as you install it.   Seems like two belts is bulky, but I know I've seen where
officers would quickly undue the duty belt with gear in order to pass to a
fellow officer (during climbing or some wierd activity).  And doing neither
(that is, not wearing any belt in pants loops, and just buckling the duty
rig around you quickly) is a direct invitation to heckling as fellows with
a figure like mine find their trowsers down around the knees and a heavy duty
belt snug up under the rolling belly....

What am I missing here?

I'm sure this has some obvious answer I've overlooked ... as does that other
burning trivia question I've never had the courage to ask, which is how to tie
one's boot laces so there aren't big loops hanging out to catch on whatever?
[This is not the simple "well tie 'em and then roll the left overs under the
fatigues" or "tuck 'em into the boot top, dummy" techniques; I'm referring to
a way of lacing them such that it looks like it was done from the inside.]
[Clearly its been too long a first week of classes if I'm so punch drunk as
to worry about this kind of nonsense on a friday night....]

Jim