Outer Belt: HSGI Suregrip padded belt. http://www.highspeedgearinc.com/proddetail.php?prod=HSG-SGPB&cat=18
Inner Belt: Cobra belt I also bought from HSGI
AR Mag pouches: HSGI Tacos... should be enough info on the net that there isn't much to say about these.
Pistol mag pouch is a Blue Force Gear double mag pouch I wove onto the outside of a couple tacos: http://www.blueforcegear.com/ten-speed-double-pistol-mag-pouch/
Sling: VTAC wide/padded sling http://www.vikingtactics.com/slings_wide.html
War belt did it's job well but it's bulky, and overkill for someone who isn't carrying a **** load of stuff on it. As you can see, I didn't have a FAK on it in that class, but even if you add a FAK and a dump pouch, I still wouldn't be using most of the real estate. It is bulky and the flopping was mildly annoying when going prone or sprinting but it wasn't too big of a deal. It's great to just be able to go "ok done" click-clack the cobra belt and drop your gear.
Taco pouches... they did the job and I never lost a mag, and doing tac reloads were easy enough to re-insert into a pouch.
BFG pistol mag pouch - despite these being stretchy type pouches that close after mag retrieval I could actually reinsert a mag with one hand, but not very quickly. I wouldn't recommend it other than if you had 'nothin else' to put your pistol mags in. I got some double rifle/pistol tacos to replace it, and while bulky, it'd work.
Sling: I didn't have it mounted well, and transitions to weak side sucked because I wasn't using the sling as good as I should have. I'd since learned to drop the midlength MOE and get a longer handguard so I could put the front mount further out, and have my hand inside/behind the front mount. It helped me be able to use my support-side elbow better with the sling. In this class, I was mainly using the sling for retention anyways, and only moderate added stability. Instructor did not see slings as being useful for anything beyond retention anyways *yawn* so, whatever. I've since switched to using the Ares Husky Momentum sling and love it. It has less dangly straps to worry about cinching up, the adjustments are easier, faster, and there's only one thing to grab for moving it in OR out. Whereas with the VTAC, you grab the pull string to let it out, and a loose-end to tighten it up. With the Ares you grab the same thing for either direction, and it still stays tight when not pulling the loop. And it has no extra danglies to worry about cinching up.
Obesity: Seriously if you think you're ever going to be prepared for a fight but you're as obese as I was in those pics, then you're fooling yourself. What's more likely? Being attacked by someone in the middle of the night or gout, heart disease, liver cancer, diabetes, etc if you're as fat as that? There's nothing ****ing tactical about being a fatty. I got a ways to go, but I'm getting there.
Beard: I didn't beat the pants off everyone else's times in the final performance evaluation because I was storing energy in my fat rolls. The beard added at least 3 hits' worth of points, and probably shaved at least 5 seconds off my times. The mohawk didn't hurt, but since I didn't have it 'up' I don't think it was operating on full power.
Now I'll let anyone else make comments/questions/lessons based on good/bad (likely the latter) things shown in my photos.
Yea, I switched to Aimpoint Micros, then to EOTech after finding the eotech goes with my astigmatism better. I mainly used the Sparc in that class because I wanted to know if it was good/bad as reviews were mixed, and I had some available to me on loan. Figured 'why not'.
epic man.
