PRC-148 Radio, First Impressions and Initial Setup, and Follow on Setup on Chest Rig

[RobertTheTexan]

This concludes the comms updates to my chest rig. I will do a reply to this post and continue on with my chest rig setup for those of you interested...

Wrapping up the chest rig. Rather than put links to the chest rig setup inside the comments, I'll put them all at the end of this post.

Plate Carrier:
Beez Combat Systems NIJ II Carrier in khaki
Soft Armor: Second Chance Monarch
Rifle Plates: SKD Tactical Ceramic, shooters cut, single curve



Chest Rig - Tactical Tailor 2 Piece MAV with TT Extended X Harness, and TT Center Adapter

Basic Load = 9 x 30rd 5.56 mags (maximum load out = 11 x 30rd 5.56 mags)





Starting far right side (as worn)

SO Tech Viper Flat A1 IFAK pouch I've tried a few different IFAK pouches or blow out pouches. This is hand down my favorite when you want a full IFAK size pouch. Pull that strap you see, and the IFAK kit comes out. It's secure, believe me, but also pretty easy to deploy.


Inside I have the necessities for trauma:

• Ace bandage,
• 2" gauze,
• plastic tape,
• moleskin,
• trauma shears (from Madison Supply or Elite Supply, another favorite),
• blood clotting agents, both gauze and powder),
• Nasopharyngeal Airway,
• nitrile gloves,
• acetaphetamin (no ibuprofen or naloxone which have blood thinning characteristics),
• Halo Seals (Note: I don't normally have chest seals in my IFAKS, as I keep mole skin in sheets large enough to suffice, in this case they were given to me, so I'm using them.) Spare TQ, that would get moved to outside of chest rig once one is used.
• Vaseline gauze
• Antibiotic ointment

Continuing to the right...

- TT 2 mag shingle - I have KYWY inserts in my double and single mag shingles, rather than using the bungee cord, which I take off and repurpose to secure my TQ, light sticks, scissors etc on various rigs. I will also tell you the double mag shingle, makes a great pistol holster for my G19, when not used for ammo. (which would be a rare circumstance)
- TT Multipurpose Pouch - Probably the best pouch on my chest rig. You won't believe how much you can store in this pouch. I have maps, included coated in acetate, notepad, markers, pencil, lighter, camo tape, camo sticks, small multi-tool, water purification tabs, light stick and that's not even filling it up. I do not build a chest rig, without the multipurpose pouch, with the exception of a low viz chest rig I have..
- Gerber Strong Arm fixed blade - It's a good fixed blade, thick, excellent purchase on the grip in wet weather or gloved hand, it's a very solid grip. Steel takes a good edge and keeps it.

Front left side (Left to right from ammo pouch with CAT TQ attached) to the PRC-148 radio pouch



- TT Universal Mag Pouch - These pouches are probably my favorite ammo pouch. Yes I know the world loves the HGSI and other brand tacos, but I can do a lot more with this Universal pouch than I can with a taco. Taco's have their place, just not on this particular chest rig. It can hold 1-3 x 5.56 mags, 2 x 7.62x51 (AR-10/SR-25) mags, on my SPR rig, I use it to hold a TT medical insert. It can be used to holster my G19, and basically as a small GP pouch if needed.
- TT Center Adapter; TT Single mag shingle; TT Compass pouch attached (Compass in front) - The center adapter connects via clips to each side of the MAV and is velcro backed. It gives me a somewhat quick release for the 2 piece since I don't have to use the ITW buckles, I pull the velcro apart and can lay prone without laying on my chest rig, the biggest benefit to the 2 piece MAV and why I got the 2 piece for this application. It has PALS webbing so I can connect the single mag shingle to it and the compass pouch to the mag shingle.
Inside my compass pouch, I have a Silva Ranger compass. I also have Cammenga with my SPR rigs, this is the standard military lensatic with tritium, we all used, Silva makes an excellent compass
Shown is my Garmin Foretrex, worn on my wrist when kitted up, stored in my GP pouch
- next to single mag shingle, another TT universal pouch with 2 x 5.56 mags and CAT TQ attached via paracord bands. (testing this setup with my TQ and seeing if I can deploy it as easily as if secured with parabands.)
- Next to universal pouch, is my PRC-148 radio pouch, already discussed.

Some detail on the TT Center Adapter...
Pic of how the Center adapter secures the 2 pc. MAV together



The center adapter secures to each side of the MAV



Moving past center of MAV, to front right:




- TT universal mag pouch with 2 x 5.56 mags (Told you these were one of my favorites)
- TT PRC-148 radio pouch

Left side (as I wear it)
- TT General Purpose (GP) Medium pouch, chemlights and Madison Supply trauma shears in PALS webbing
- TT Universal mag pouch

Inside my GP:

• Oakley tactical gloves
• Restraints
• Rite in Rain Leaders Book (the 5x7)
• chemlights
• IR strobe
• 550 cord
• protein bars
• whatever else is mission essential

Outside chest rig:
Zip tie restraints
Ranger beads

Gun Belt (Basic Load = 5 x G17 mags)
Glock 19 Gen IV (Cerakoted Colt Coyote Brown and black)
TRL-1 weapon light
Glock 17 mags
Active Handgun Trainer's belt w/ Cobra Buckles (AustriAlpin)
SafariLand 6378USN ALS Low Sig G19 holster w/ TRL-1 - Easily the best holster I have ever used.
TR_Holsters dual mag holders (with tensioner screws) (eBay)



unholstered



Battle Rifle - custom build, painted by me (that's probably obvious lol)
10.3" SBR (From the bottom up)

- Vickers sling Krypton Highlander w/ burnsed socket for conversion from 2 pt sling to single pt sling
- LMT SOPMOD butt stock
- VLTOR A5 buffer system, with H2 buffer
- Fortis RE QD end plate
- Hogue hand grip w/ cargo management (fancy name for in-grip storage)
- CMC curved 3.5lb trigger (made in Texas naturally)
- DSG Arms LPK-Enhanced (-) enhanced bolt release (Not compatible with ambil bold release kits)
- Troy Ambi- Bolt Catch/Release
- Battle Arms Development ambi selector switch 45/60
- Aero Precision Lower
- Aero Precision Upper
- Redi-Mag
- Raptor CH
- LMT FA BCG (The only BCG I run)
- Precision Reflex Fixed Sights (Originally had LMT fixed sights, replaced those with these. Liked these so much, swapped out my Daniel Defense fixed sights with Precision Reflex. The visual connection between the rear aperture and front sight is slick and as natural as I've seen)
- EOTech EXPS 3-2 (Yes I still have my EOTech, and I will keep on using EOTech, it's what I've been training with and what I'm good with.)
- LaRue 10" free floating rail (Yes I'm aware they haven't changed anything in 10 years, but if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.)
- GG&G shorty (Replaced with BCM shorty that just arrived in the mail)
- BA 10.3 barrel, Hanson profile
- BA pinned gas block
- BA melonited gas tube
- TRL-1 light (Looking to swap this out - maybe with TRL-1HL, or PowerTac, still undecided
- BattleComp comp

I don't have an AAC Brake on this weapon as I don't think I'll suppress it. I built this weapon as a CQ rifle and extended the barrel 6" defeats the purpose in my mind.





Also after replacing the LMT sights with the Precision Reflex I failed to mount my TRL-1 on the top of my rail where I like it. I decided to wait as I was waiting on some rail ladders from LaRue Tactical. All that arrived today, so I swapped out most of the LaRue index clips for the ladders and moved my light.



I will come back and Edit To Add all the links for the chest rig. It's 0452 and I'm poppin' smoke.

I hope this was a helpful post. Let me know if you have questions or comments.

Last thing. I said docsherm helped me with my chest rig, but he's helped me in just about every aspect. Helped me organize my IFAK and I generally don't build an AR without consulting with him a few times at least. So I really wouldn't have much to show without his help. Never want to claim to do something alone when I haven't.