Video Transcript
If you're familiar with our Quad Flap Chest Rig, and the flapped mag pouches in the front that can fit pretty much any type of rifle, carbine, or pistol, SMG type magazine, you might have wondered, hey, are they going to make a placard for this that I can throw on the front of my plate carrier or turn it into a micro chest rig. So enter the Triple Flap Placard.
This is using the exact same format of our quad flap chest rig that I just threw on the floor. It's going to fit all the same magazines for MP5 magazines, MR762/417 magazines, AR-10, AK 7.62x39 mags, 5.45 mags, pretty much everything. There's a couple things that we've done to this product to bring it into the modern era because the inspiration behind this is definitely the Crye AVS front flap placard that they make, but is really only designed for steel magazines and only one magazine. This is taking some of that same design inspiration, but allowing you guys to carry much more stuff. So on the back, if you guys will want to see this, we're including a backer that's going to make it a little bit more comfortable to wear as a chest rig. This is simply a piece of CORDURA with velcro sewn on the back, so it's not just the velcro material and that hard, sort of plasticy sort of backside, but you're actually going to have the comfort of CORDURA.
It's not padded, I know some people out there do the padded, that's not what we're doing here because we don't believe that it's necessary for a rig like this. Once you remove that, you have a nice amount of velcro on the back hook that you can use to attach to the front of a plate carrier, attach other like wings and sack pouches and dump pouches and things like that. That I think is pretty standard now for most placards and chest rigs to come with that. We are doing something kind of unique and different about how this attaches to the front of harnesses and plate carriers. We are including both a G-hook, which is a very minimalist approach to attaching this to plate carriers on the market and some plate carriers are only compatible with something like a G-hook. But we are also including a swift clip male buckle, so you can still clip it into the AC1, other plate carriers out there, or a chest rig harness. So what you're going to do is you're going to take your one wrap, going to pull the one wrap through and then you are going to choose which of the two attachment styles you want to use based on what piece of equipment you are utilizing this placard with.
For this one I'm going to go ahead and do the swift clip buckle because I'm actually going to build this out into a little micro chest rig to show you guys kind of what that looks like. You're going to thread it through. You'll see that there is a lasered slot here at the top, this is just to keep the one wrap secured and the buckle nice and tight to the rig. So you're going to weave that through. And this is where you can also set the height that the swift clip buckle is riding at, and this is important for certain plate carriers. Or maybe you want this to ride a little bit lower or a little bit higher based on the distance of the swift clip chasm, like little hookup area on the plate carrier and the actual loop field on the front of the plate carrier for the actual placard.
We also include on this rig swift clip buckles on the sides and as you'll see they're already attached so if you want to build this into a micro chest rig just right off the rip you can do that. If you're throwing this on the front of a plate carrier I highly recommend taking these off. You will notice that this is sewn very tight, this is done so that the buckle doesn't just come off on its own. But it also means it's kind of frustrating to put on there and that's just kind of that balance of the harder it is to take off, well the harder it is for it to fall off on its own. Another thing that we did to this rig, and I really wish more companies would do this with placards and chest rigs in general, is we added that little loop in the middle. This is particularly important if you want to run wings with this as a chest rig like this one I have over here. When you go to use a back strap on the bottom like most rigs out there, I will disconnect this, you will have this lovely occurrence where it's pulling from the bottom, your H-harness is pulling from the top or your X-harness and then your tourniquet or your radio or whatever you have on the side to store tips and spills forward.
By running the back strap in the middle of the actual item that you are attaching to the velcro on the rig, it keeps it nice and tight to the body like it should be. So we give you guys the options of hey do you want to run it on the bottom, do you want to run it on the middle, and really depending on how you're running it there's benefits to both. I'm running it in the middle on pretty much every rig because I do have a couple little micro chest rigs like this one built, this is ones for precision shooting. I can fit my bolt gun mags in the front or a mono clip on rangefinder thing, I haven't had enough rain, but a little rangefinder in the front I can have my Kestrel, I can have all my whatevers, I have a bag attached to the front and this is just a little bit easier to train with to some extent than a full chest rig or even a full plate carrier. So this is how I have mine set up with a harness and then a back strap just attached that and this is actually one from a different chest rig and I just threw it on there because I didn't have one of ours.
This is the Ranger Green Placard, I've got all the Velcro off to the side, I'm not going to take these off right now, I'm just going to leave them. So this is a little bit more versatile and I think practical for most citizens and just kind of individuals out there than having dedicated mag solutions for very specific magazines, especially if you're someone who's trying to have a DMR, a 5.56 rifle of some sort, possibly a little tiny 9mm SMG sub gun type thing and then you have to constantly swap around placards. I've done it, it's super annoying but something like this, it doesn't matter what I'm using or if it's a battlefield pickup, I'm good to go. As a little refresher, here's a few things that can go in there. This is what a 20 round PMAG is going to look like. Sits pretty low in the pouch, I don't necessarily recommend running that but you can if you 7.62x39 AK mag, there's not a lot of Velcro adherence on the front because AK mags are so horrible, they are 7.62x39 mags. But as you'll see there's enough here that I'm pretty confident this isn't going to go flying, I'm 5.45x39, this ammo is really expensive now, which is funny.
Good to go, pretty much like a standard AR PMAG. Technically you can double these up like I have right here, the flap is not really going to engage again due to the curvature of the AK magazine. Honestly with how tight these are you can probably just not even run it with the flap and you'd probably be good to go. G3 magazine, it's got lots of sharp edges and ribs and weird stuff. Good AR-10, standard PMAG, good to go, flaps a little bit, you know it'll be a little long but you don't necessarily have to, actually it's not too bad.
That's basically what it's going to look like, got a little extra at the bottom, easy to rip and grab. Standard AR magazine is going to look like this, I can always add another. So if you really want to run 6 mags on the front this is really one of the only options on the market besides, maybe you've got something with a molle cummerbund, you have a standard kangaroo pouch and then there's molle on top of that and then you do something like a blue force 10 speed so you can double up if you absolutely need to. But you can obviously do the same thing with our placard.
And then last but not least, the HK417 magazine, the bane of every pouches existence. This is the worst magazine design kit around as far as a rifle, normal magazine. I'm not talking long action, precision gun, anti-materiel rifles. But as far as rifles, DMRs, stuff like that, this is the worst magazine. It's why companies make dedicated pouches for these. But we are trying to accommodate this pouch, this magazine because if we can accommodate this magazine it's going to take pretty much everything. Now it is a tight fit, it's not something you're going to tack mag into this pouch, you're going to have three of them and then as you reload they're going to the ground or in your pouch in the front. But as you will see it fits in the front just fine. So I can run my M110A1 with three magazines in the front, I can flip my cummerbund, run two more on the sides and I'd be good to go. When I'm done using this on the front of my plate carrier, I can always just unclip it. Take one of our H-harnesses and a back strap. Clip it into the H-harness. And then our back strap comes with some extra buckles, which in this case it's more for if you adapt this back strap to another chest rig that maybe didn't come with buckles. But hey, I've got some spares now.
And then we want to cover up all that nasty Velcro on the back using the included panel from before. And now I've got a little micro chest rig, which used to be all the rage and I think still is to some extent, depending on who you ask. There are some benefits to something like this over a larger chest rig. I can fold this up and throw it into a bag if this is like my little sniper-y chest rig thing. Much easier than a large chest rig.
So this is a nice placard because it actually is a fairly useful micro chest rig because I can put anything in the pouches. I'm not restricted to 5.56 magazines. I'm not restricted to a submachine gun magazine. I can have my iPhone, a range finder. I could have some other spotting instrument, my Kestrel. I don't even have to just run magazines in here. I can throw whatever I want into this placard that is now a little micro chest rig. If you have any other questions about this product and its compatibility with other products on the market, go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.