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- From: gus@prism.gatech.edu (gus Baird)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: belt rigs
- Message-ID: <81448@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:59:52 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <63646@mimsy.umd.edu> purtilo@cs.umd.edu writes:
- >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?
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- The "keepers". 8inch long leather straps (1/2"wide) with two male snaps
- at one end and two female at the other that go 'round BOTH belts and
- secure them together. Only your ordinary trousers belt goes through
- the loops. Service belt outside loops and trousers belt but kept from
- flopping (or dropping!) by the keepers. If you've lost your keepers
- you tie some twine around both belts in 3 or 4 places - best to have
- one on either side of your holster.
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- gus Baird, College of Computing
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