Video Transcript
The T.REX Carbine Placard is a versatile piece of equipment that allows you to carry 3 carbine magazines on the front of your plate carrier, or you can even wear it as a micro chest rig. When you purchase one, it's gonna come in a bag just like this.
And included with the product, you are going to have a couple different mounting solutions or three to be precise. You're going to have G-Hook buckles, which I recommend you take off if you don't plan on actually using these with your plate carrier. A set of SwiftClip buckles, which are the most popular option for very quickly adding a placard to your plate carrier. Most plate carriers are now SwiftClip compatible. But we also have molle strips right here so that you can attach this directly to our AC0 and AC1.5 plate carriers that have horizontal molly located here at the top of the loop field.
So if you don't wanna mess with SwiftClip buckles, you don't wanna mess with G-Hooks, you can literally remove all of that, thread this directly onto one of our plate carriers or another plate carrier that has molle spaced horizontal webbing, and then you can attach it in a very slick format on the front of your plate carrier. You'll also see that there are three chest rigs, standard little chest rig loops on the side. So you can add your favorite H-Harness, grab some buckles, mount them on the side, then you can run your back strap, run a H-Harness or an X-Harness, and make this into a little micro chest rig.
You also get a rear cover for the placard, so if you do wanna use it as a chest rig, this is to provide additional comfort and to also protect any sort of attachments and accessories you wanna add to this, such as tourniquet holders, maybe a radio wing, the tourniquet holder, and then you can cover all that up if you are running this as a little micro chest rig. On the front, you'll see that there is molle, we have six rows of molle by three high, so this is a very standard height that will allow the use of lots of multi-tool pistol magazine style pouches, generally somewhat normal general purpose pouches, and there's Velcro on the front so that you can add various flag patches, or if you have something like our Velcro GP pouch, that is designed to be able to go on the front as well.
Included, we have three pull tabs that will already be attached, so for magazine retention, you're just gonna pop those off of the magazine and then retrieve the mag. On the inside of the carbine placard, we have a field of loop Velcro so that you can add a kydex insert, such as the KYWI insert. So you're literally just going to stick that sucker in, let go. The Velcro hook is going to attach to the loop on the backside. And then you can remove the pull tab if necessary.
If you want flap magazine retention, because there is Velcro on the front of the placard itself, you can take something like our regular magazine flaps, which have Velcro on one side, and then the entire flap is on the other side. And you can actually drop these. And then the flap is going to Velcro to the front, allowing you to house your rifle magazine or any other type of magazine that happens to fit that pouch using flap-style retention.
And it's pretty nifty. As far as magazine compatibility, let's run through a few different magazines. Obviously, a 30-round 5.56 PMAG is going to run in these just fine. We do have a little bit of extra space on the sides to make the magazine retention very easy to retrieve the magazine once the pull tab is removed out of the way, so it's not a super tight fit like some placards on the market. Regular aluminum, steel-based style magazines as well for a 5.56 type gun.
And for those of you commie sympathizers who like AKs, a 5.45 magazine will fit, even with its very kind of annoying little nubbins. So there we have a 5.45x39 magazine. I don't necessarily recommend running 7.69x39 magazines with a style of placard like this. They kind of fit, but they start to banana into themselves, and it's just kind of annoying.
Other magazines, such as Steyr Aug or G36, work as well, even though the form factor is a little different than your standard PMAG. And if you want to get a little fun, and you are running a submachine gun, such as an MP5, those absolutely work. And this is where you'll want to use the pull tab to keep it from wobbling around inside of the pouch. Or if you just really want to plus up, you can do two MP5 magazines per cell. It is kind of a tight fit. I don't necessarily recommend it, but you can absolutely run six MP5 mags on the front with the placard and retrieve them fairly easily, like so.
A 20 round magazine does fit pretty low in the pouch. You can absolutely do it. It may be kind of hard to retrieve the magazine. It may have to push from the bottom in order to then be able to grab it. So that is how a 20 rounder is going to look inside of the carbine placard. 40 rounder absolutely works, especially if you are running a pull tab. 7.62 magazines obviously do not work with this placard due to the height, due to the dimensions.
Magazine placards have to be designed very differently. For DMR style magazines, we may have one in the future. But the form factor for that is going to be different because 7.62x51 type magazines are typically much shorter and stubbier, so then we have to play with some of the other dimensions.
So I do have a few recommendations for products that work really well with this type of placard. The first is the Blue Force Gear 10-speed. This is something that you will see a lot of guys using. They make them in singles, doubles, and triples. I really like the triples because I can take this sucker, I can molle it directly to the front of my placard, and now I have elastic cells for plussing out magazines, maybe running a speed reload, a notebook, my kestrel, some other small items that I may want to throw on there. And if I remove the items from the front of the 10-speed, it sits really flat. I still have my three magazines in the back, and it's just extremely convenient. There's other pouches on the market, like this one that I got from Europe, where it's a very slim GP pouch.
I can molle that to the front and just have a place to kind of throw some stuff. If you want to run a phone for ATAC and other map capabilities and things, you can get something like this S&S Precision Phone Mount, which attaches via molle. Run this on the front, and then you can just take your standard smartphone, throw it inside, and it actually works pretty well. And of course, with the molle, you can add any sort of options for pistol magazines, flash bangs, frag grenades, all sorts of different things, whatever you can think of, that fits on six rows of molle by about three high. You could obviously have pouches drop below that, but then that starts to get a little bit annoying. So now let's go ahead and mount this to an AC0 that I have right here.
The AC0 does not have attachments for G-Hook buckles or for the Swift Clip buckles, so I'm going to be removing these and using the four row molle to keep this really slick to this plate carrier. I will say, as a little pro tip, it is easier to thread this through when the armor is removed from the carrier. I'm just going to do it the hard way. And there it is on an AC0.
It sits nice and flush with the carrier, nice and flat. Another nice thing about this particular placard is because there is Velcro on the front, if you're in a bit of a pinch and you're trying to throw the carrier on very fast and you don't have pouches mounted to the front, you can just throw the cummerbund directly onto the placard itself. And that's actually going to pull everything nice and tight to the body and be a little bit more slick, a little bit more low vis. Or you can just attach it directly to the front with no magazines inside of it. And it's going to sit pretty flat.
If you don't want to do that, you can always lift this up, just like you would any placard. Throw the cummerbund on. Drop it down and you're set. This is just one of many ways to set up a 5.56 placard. You all saw that there are multiple mounting solutions. You could set it up as a little chest rig. You can run it on all sorts of plate carriers on the market. And with the molle on the front, you can build out not endless types of configurations, but many reasonable configurations based on what pouches are currently available. If you have any other questions about this particular product and its compatibility with other products on the market, go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.