Video Transcript
The Orion Belt is our version of the traditional outer war belt concept, also known as a pistol belt or a combat belt, where you have a outer sleeve that has molle pals webbing on the front for your various pouches and equipment, but also has the ability to take a inner belt through the interior, which you can suspend your holster off of and use for sizing. On the inside, we have this non-slip material that helps keep the belt tightly around your waist, around your body as you're moving around and as you suspend weight off of this. And we also have these two little clash hooks in the front for suspending your gloves or chem lights or tape or whatever else that you have and or your ear pro, whatever it happens to be, just so that it is accessible and they're in the front of your body. So this is the outer belt in its raw default form with nothing attached to it. And just for comparison, here is an Orion that is kitted out.
So we've got two pistol pouches on one side, rifle magazine, a flat pouch for a multi-tool or a flashlight, dump pouch for whatever I might wanna put in there, a tourniquet that's mounted horizontally, and then of course my pistol holster with a Safariland UBL QLS. And this is how most people are setting up and building out their Orion belts. But for this video, I'm gonna be showing you guys how to set up your Orion belt. Because typically you're gonna be purchasing the outer on its own. You're going to need an inner so that you can actually mount things to it and put this around your body. And then a medley of pouches, pistol pouches, rifle, maybe some sort of multi-tool pouch. And in this case on this belt, I'm gonna be adding a simple horizontal GP pouch that I can put a headlamp in, whatever else I want, and I'll be set and good to go. But the first thing we're going to do is we're gonna thread the inner belt through the outer belt itself. So we're gonna start by removing the male end of the COBRA buckle and the tri-glide off of it as well. Now I like to run the loose end of the belt or the male end of the belt through on the side that is going to eventually have my pistol holster. So I'm gonna start on the left side. And again, this is where you wanna make sure you're assembling this in a way where the hook, the little HK clash hooks on the bottom are actually on the bottom in relation to where your holster is going to go.
We'll begin by creating some space in the first row of pals webbing and sticking the belt through. Now the belt should feed through fairly easily, but you might have to help it along. And we do this by pinching to create an air gap, pushing the inner belt through to one slot. And we do this, and if you meet resistance, like I am right here, I'm gonna pinch, create that air gap, and it will feed through. We're just gonna keep pushing it through. Now at any time, if you were mounting a specific kind of equipment, maybe you want the inner belts to be exposed and you wanna hang something off of it instead of hanging something off of the pals webbing, you can always swim through the actual webbing itself and then duck back in and have some of the inner belt exposed to hang equipment off of. And it'll look something like this. But in this case, that's not what I'm trying to do. I only wanna do that where my pistol holster is going to eventually be. So I wanna pull this back through, create that little air gap and keep feeding. If you get the belt halfway in and you just can't really push it through anymore, one thing you can do is take a flathead screwdriver and literally push. Again, we wanna make sure it's threading properly. Now eventually, as you get towards the opposite end, you're gonna have to decide where you want your pistol holster to begin. Because we want some of the webbing to be exposed and in this case, we're actually gonna thread through the UBL on this Safariland holster to actually mount this to the belt. So in this case, I already know I want three rows of molle exposed on the front, just for how this belt fits on me. That's roughly where it's gonna position the holster at the three o'clock and not be in some weird position. So I'm gonna pull through some excess. Then I'm gonna take my holster, I'm going to thread through. and in this case, because I want it to be, I don't want it to move around on the belt side to side. I'm gonna thread back through some pals material right here. Back through into the holster, just like you might do with molle, traditional molle. And then continue the belt, in this case I'm actually gonna pull some webbing through. Back into the webbing itself. So then we're gonna pull the excess through. And typically on this end, what I like to do is kind of have it, it kind of depends on how big or small you are. But I'm gonna have it positioned about here, where the buckle's pretty close to where the outer belt begins, possibly a little more, and this should be good. Now we're gonna take our tri-glide, and we're going to weave this back on. Tight and proper. Run that all the way to the end.
And then we're gonna take our COBRA male buckle, thread this back through, tail end facing up. And then I can run usually just one end through the tri-glide, just to keep it from getting loose. And I can size this pretty easily on the fly. We have a bunch of excess webbing on the inner belt, most likely you're not going to be able to do that. You can always chop it, burn the end, or you can fold it over, electrical tape. You can even feed it back into the belt. You can even do that, maybe bundle it up a little bit and then feed it back in. Just so you have that for if you ever resell this belt, if you gain a little bit of weight, or maybe if you pass this belt off to another person and they need to make an adjustment. So that's with the pistol holster mounted, but now we need to talk about our pistol pouches. So what I would recommend doing is now taking your belt, putting it on, positioning the holster at three o'clock where you would normally want it, maybe a little further back depending on what you like. And then figuring out roughly where you want your pistol pouches to begin. So for me, I don't normally like them. If it's a straight up pouch, I don't want it all the way in the front because that gets kind of, kind of tough with like armor, chest rigs and other equipment. So I'm going to start my pistol pouch here at these slots right here. So I will have two slots exposed. Now I can take the belt off. And now I know where I need to mount my pistol pouch first. We're going to do this by, these are malice clips, the wavy kind. We're going to weave this through the top.
And while you might be tempted to just run this all the way through and then back on and clip it into the malice clip, that is not how you attach molle pouches to a belt or to any molle for that matter. You need to do the full weave to get structure and stability of the pouch so that it doesn't move around too much. So now we're going to take our malice clips and we're going to weave them through the middle, molle on the pouch, whatever pouch you're using. And if you need a flathead screwdriver, that can help. Just kind of guide it. Same with this one. Weave it through. And then, you guessed it, we're going to swim back through. The small slit on the bottom of the Orion. Once that's pulled through all the way, you're just going to drop them into the little lock, ensuring that it has locked in place. I like to just kind of force it over. It makes it lock into place there. And now we have our pistol pouch mounted, and I can go to the range right now. I can start shooting handgun. How you mount a traditional malice clip to the Orion belt, but there's lots of other molle options on the market as far as the webbing that might either be sewn to the pouch directly or maybe an aftermarket type attachment. This is a fairly common sort of molle solution that is attached and sewn directly to pouches. This is our new SIP pouch, which has a strip of molle webbing sewn into it. If you prefer using a malice clip, you can always chop this off, thread it behind, and then run a malice clip through if you just prefer that sort of attachment style. But here's how we're going to attach this to the Orion. So first off, this pouch is longer than some of these other ones.
It's for use on chest rigs and plate carriers, because this is a pistol belt. I don't necessarily have to mount this flush with the belt itself that would drop this pouch down. I can actually skip the top molle segment if I want to center this pouch more in line with the belt itself. So I'm going to go ahead and dive this through like so, and then begin it on the Orion in the top molle slot. And once again, just like with molle, I have to swim through. Dive back in to the webbing on the Orion. And then on a lot of these pouches, you will pop out the bottom, and then you're going to swim it back into the pouch. There's still a molle slot on the bottom, so we're going to take this, and we're going to dive it back in. There's other kinds of molle webbing on the market. This is a little GP pouch that has molle that actually buttons to itself. But it's also kind of shorter molle, so it should actually work fairly well on the Orion belt. And I'm just going to run this center, or just butt it up against all these pouches. It should be here in the small of my back. So this is a four row, so I'm going to utilize four rows of molle. So we're going to begin on the side with the epistle pouch. And then once again, we want to dive through the center of the pouch as best as the pouch will allow. Sometimes the spacing could be a little off. And then we're going to take that molle webbing, and we're going to dive it back through the Orion. And there is a button on the bottom here. I'm going to button that the best that I can. And there we go. I've got my GP pouch attached to the belt. Nice and tight as you'll see. I've got my multi-tool, flashlight pouch, my malice clips here, and my pistol. I still have some room here for something else, but just because you have molle doesn't mean you need to put pouches on it. Another thing you can do is if you have a pair of gloves, maybe you have electrical tape. I always have electrical tape on me for covering up optics to shoot occluded for training purposes, but also to put little small little points on targets. So I have something to visualize. I like to keep tape with me. I can either attach it directly to this HK clasp, which is super convenient, or if I don't want it dangling that low, I can take this little ITW GrimLoc and I can actually position this through the molle right here. Also this is a little higher up and then this hook is available for pair of gloves.
So that's how to set up an Orion belt. Obviously there's lots of different configurations you can do with this. You can have two 5.56 pouches, you can do 7.62 mags, you can do a sniper belt where you just have mags here on the sides, and then some other equipment on the back that you might need. You can do all kinds of different things, or maybe you just want a belt you can throw on really easily that's just got a pistol and a couple mags. That's all you want and you don't need everything else on the belt. But the purpose for this was a way to create a pistol belt, a war belt, whatever you're trying to do, and make something that is intuitive, that is easy to put on, and when it is tightly worn against the body, the non-slip material allows it to stay in place better than a few other options that are on the market. It's also super comfortable, so if you are training for days on end or maybe even for a full day, having something larger like this with more support, especially if you have more equipment, can be just much more comfortable than other belts or other types of belts on the market. If you have any other questions about the Orion belt, how to set one up, and its compatibility with other products on the market, go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.