Video Transcript
So the T.REX ARMS MIP is a very straightforward rifle magazine pouch. Now the MIP stands for medium item pouch. So it's not just for rifle magazines. Anything that you can cram into here, a smoke grenade, flash bangs, multiple submachine gun magazines, anything you can get in here, you're good to go. But basically what we have is a removable flap, two strips of molle that are sewn to the pouch, and we do this for a philosophical reason. We want this pouch to be able to be used right out of the box and not have to rely on other companies producing different kinds of plastic molle clips and things like that. You don't have to use this if you want to upgrade and get a plastic malice clip from another vendor. You can obviously do that, but we want something that people can just use out of the box all the time, regardless of what's going on with supply chains.
One of the things that separates this pouch apart from some of the other rifle magazine pouches on the market is the flap is removable. And the flap isn't just removable, but this pouch can be adjusted in height. So there's a generous amount of loop on the inside. There's a generous amount of hook. So depending on how tall or short your rifle magazine is, you can really tailor it around this specific pouch. The other cool thing is if you don't want to flap at all, well, that's okay. You can pull the flap out.
We have two loops here on the one on the back or on the front to be compatible with any sort of pull tab on the market. So if you go out and get a pull tab kit like this one that we offer, you can rig that up and then have a pull tab magazine pouch. Or if you already have Kydex inserts from another company, such as Esstac, in this case the mid height is what I would recommend. You could simply squeeze this together. Release, put the Velcro in here. And now you have a Kydex inserted nylon pouch that will take your standard carbine magazines.
Now as far as magazine compatibility goes, I have all sorts of magazines here. I'm going to show you guys kind of how they fit. But first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the flap. We're going to set it at a more normal height. So with a 20 round PMAG, here's roughly how it is going to sit in the pouch. I would then adjust my flap to the bottom so the flap isn't hanging down all the way and I'd be good to go. 30 round PMAG. Steel magazine, obviously not a problem either. Good to go.
And this pouch is sized in such a way that when it comes to larger magazines, more communist magazines like the 7.62x39, you won't be having a problem either. At which point on this bag, because it's a banana mag, I'm going to adjust my flap to be a little taller. Oh my goodness, these mags suck. And AK 7.62x39 magazines are going to need a taller flap. That is unfortunate, but that is pretty consistent with how communists make products. When it comes to 5.45x39 though, you'll be good to go. You won't have to get a longer flap or anything. You'll be set. Now one thing we did not design this pouch for is 7.62x51 magazines. So this is the MIP pouch and we will be releasing a lip pouch in the future, a large item pouch. It's just going to be a little bit wider to accommodate your regular SR25 style, M110 style magazines and other larger items as well.
However, with this pouch, you can fit slick sided 308 magazines into the pouch. It's a tight fit. It's not something you're going to tack reload into. It's something where if you were building out a kit and you were like, "Hey, I just need to run these. I'm not going to be taxable reloading into them." You could get by, you could do that. You can even remove the flap and the retention is still very solid and you're not going to need the flap at all. You could run bungees. Retrieving the magazine from the pouch is not going to be easy, but yes, they technically fit in a pinch. Whether it is a M110 magazine, Scar 17, PMAG. It's going to be a little bit harder to move. But yes, it does technically fit.
And last but not least, because I'm sure you guys will ask, AICS magazines. And that is all the way to the bottom how it's going to fit. But again, this pouch was not specifically designed for DMR magazines in mind. It was built around a size that is going to accommodate your standard stay mag carbine magazines and that is what it is for. When it comes time to add a pull tab to this pouch, if that is something you would like, I'm going to show you guys how that works. Through the middle and through the front. We're going to take the S&S Percision pull tab and we're just going to run the shock cord through each end. Run one end of the shock cord through the back. And then, depending on how tight or how loose you want this, depending on the height of magazine you're going to have, you're simply going to tie a knot with both ends.
There's lots of ways you could do this. This is the way that I have found to be the fastest, the easiest to modify when I need to, and it generally gets out of the way pretty well. You can cut the excess off if I need to. And that is what it's going to look like. Because of the dimensions of this pouch, if you're not utilizing the flap or a caudex insert, once that bungee is pulled out of the way, that mag is going to be nice and fast. And that is very nifty. I don't really know what that is. And that is very nifty. There was one more mag that I did not show that this pouch is compatible with, and that is, or type of mag, I should say, and that is sub-machine gun magazines. In this case I have two MP5 magazines. They actually fit into this pouch quite nicely. It's a nice tight fit. And in this case, having the adjustable flap is big.
And I'm good to go. So if you want to build out a sub-machine gun loadout, this is definitely a pretty cool pouch to do that with. And you only have one mag in the pouch because you just reloaded one. A wreath flap, and you're good to go. Well, let's actually mount one of these pouches to the front of our traps rig. So I'm going to utilize this pouch with a pull tab as my speed reload. It's just going to be a little bit more accessible than the other mags that are tucked behind. So we're going to undo the pull tab. We're still going to utilize these because when you're attaching these molle bands, these molle strips, I should say, on top of a nylon piece of equipment like this, it usually works quite well. When you start mounting these to a belt, that's where some of these flimsy or moly pieces of webbing don't work quite as well, and that's where I actually use a malice clip instead. So I tuck these behind the pouch. I then thread my malice clip on, which is what I did on this belt, just so it's a little bit more stable and not relying on that much molle webbing on only one loop of moly on this particular belt because belts are very slim in width.
But when you have a chest rig like this where I can get full moly engagement with the strap, this ability is just fine. So we're going to mount it here on the front to be fast. So we're going to do our first row of molle, pull it all the way through, back onto itself as you do with molle. So known as PALS. I will say it is harder to do this with mags in the chest rig, but that's okay. It's a lot harder. Pull it back through onto the next section all the way through. Dive back into the molle on the pouch. Oh, come on. Things I do for this camera angle. Now one row of molle left. Once you've pulled this through all the way, what you're going to do is you're going to tuck the molle back into the pouch. You don't wanna just hang it out down here.
So there's a single slot on the bottom. You're gonna tuck it way up in there. And there you have it. Pouch is now mounted and it is ready to take a magazine as a speed reload solution to the front of my chest rig. Or I could put other things inside. I can pull the pull tab off. I can throw the flat back on there. If I wanted, I could throw a second turn there. In this application, I would not do that. I would not want a pouch that's that firm on the front of my chest rig. If I remove this pouch, I could still go prone. I can still lie nice and flat. And I'm not being restricted by a piece of plastic inside of this pouch. So that is one way that you can utilize a pouch like this, which is pretty cool.
Now this pouch is not necessarily, some people will see this and think like, when would you apply it by this versus a Kydex pouch or versus an Esstac or something like that. This pouch is doing some things that a lot of other pouches don't do, but this pouch also doesn't do certain things that other pouches do, such as speed. If I'm running a magazine pouch that I want for absolute speed, it's going to be a MARS carrier on a belt. But I'm not mounting MARS carriers to the front of a chest rig or on a plate carrier. I want a nylon pouch like this. I like having a pouch that could be a little bit more modular or a little more versatile, I should say, not so much modular, where I can swap between pull tabs, flaps, depending on what equipment I'm running in there. Because obviously if I'm running a pouch like this for other items that aren't magazines, a pull tab is not going to work. I'm going to need a flap to actually turn that mag pouch into an actual pouch.
So, look at the different features that this pouch offers, see if it fits into the kit that you're building, versus just buying this because it's a mag pouch and you can put a mag in it. Really see if this is a product that is going to serve you and what you're trying to do. And we hope that is going to be able to do that for you. If you have any other questions about our MIP pouch or about other products out there and the compatibility that it has with our products and others, go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.