Video Transcript
So what we have with this product is three 5.56 cells, in the front that is going to fit any of your standard carbine magazines. And then we have two small accessory pouches on the side that can fit pistol magazines, tourniquets, multi-tools, and things like that. Those typically fold away behind your cummerbund and around your armor and they fit and work super well. You will see that there is loop velcro on the front of the shingle that's where your cummerbund is going to interface with that and pull this nice and tight to the body and then on the back side we have hook velcro which is going to be what actually attaches to the plate carrier. So this is kind of what it looks like. we are going to open the cummerbund up, drop this sucker on and this is also where you can play with what height you want. You can place the shingle a little bit lower so the magazines are easier to grab or you can place it a little bit higher if you have a dump pouch or sack pouch of some sort. You can kind of play with it see what you want. And then the cummerbund is just going to go on top and that's how slim it is when you have nothing inside of the actual shingle itself. So if you are running your plate carrier slick and you just haven't built everything out and then all of a sudden you want to build it out you can and its not super fat large while you are running around without the equipment inside of the shingle itself. This is what the magazines will look like.
And so here we have three rifle magazines on the front, a tourniquet on one side, which is pretty common. I like to do that. And then we have a flashlight over on the left side, easy to get to. I'm probably using that more than anything. The cummerbund is gonna go on top any which way. And you'll see it's just a very slim package for magazines and other accessories. If we wanna mount it lower down, like I said, it's going to look something like this. So now the magazines are gonna be a little bit easier to get to and they're not hanging down so low that it's gonna cause any comfort issues.
As far as compatibility with magazines on the market, your regular PMAGs are gonna have fairly tight retention, but that's some of the reason for this is, as you use elastic over time, it gets looser and the retention gets looser. So we sew these a little bit tighter so that even as you approach like the half-life of the product of the elastic before it really wears out for good, which does take a long time, you still are gonna get good retention with this and keep your equipment on you. PMAGs are some of the tighter magazines though, just the polymer and the friction working with this polyelastic is, it is pretty stiff. If you want the fastest reloads possible, a metal-based magazine such as this one right here is going to give you the slickest reload as there's just a lot less friction on the actual shingle itself.
If you're running a 5x45x39 AK MAGs, because you have money and can afford the ammo because it's very expensive right now, this shingle will accommodate these magazines. It will be tight because of the little notch but you can get the magazine in as far as reloading goes, it is not going to be the fastest reload possible, but you do have a way of carrying these types of magazines if that's something that you need to do. 300 blackout if you're running Lancers, not a problem. The retention on these is actually pretty solid.
If you want to run a 20 rounder, you'll notice that we, this is a shorter sort of product compared to say, like a normal placard that takes up this entire field of loop Velcro. Part of the reason for that was we wanted to be able to still grab 20 round magazines, whether it's a 300 blackout magazine or something like this little PMAG. So you drop a 20 rounder in there. It is going to be kind of hard to get to, but you can still grab it. And if you need to help it along, you can always push from the bottom first. And that gives you a little bit more to then grab from. As far as the side pockets go, they can fit anything up to a Kestrel nicely. A slim multi-tool kind of falls in there. A fat multi-tool. And of course your standard your standard pistol magazines like this Glock with the +2. And you might notice playing around with this without it being on you that the pouches are kinda of loose on the side, once you stretch this out and you have a cummerbund on the top it does tighten a lot of the retention up, so make sure you are actually fitting this to your body before being concerned about some of the retention. As you'll see this is a very straightforward product but if you have any other questions about this or its compatibility with other products on the market go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.