T.REX TRAAP Chest Rig

The product itself is great, but the family drama and treatment of Lucas is and has been appalling, and the **** show since is ridiculous. Pay Lucas, bigly, and stop with the ********. And if you can do that and keep making good products then perhaps you’ll carry on. I hope you do.

It shines in a way that we never thought we’d needed nor really wanted. Taking it’s philosophy based off of the veteran, TAPS rig, it appears to solve all of the problems from that original configuration all while still slightly giving you the same headaches the original had just not as magnified. Overall, I believe it’s comfort to be Paramount with its direct competitor as it features a better harness and cinching waist belt, but with the philosophy of one size fits all slightly skinnier folks, such as myself have to spend a bit of time to try and get this correctly sized. Which is not a negative by any means and I appreciate the maximum amount of freedom that is passed out upon you, but when you have so much leftover slack that you could basically replace your current jump rope with it that kind of says something. The buckles are nice and the overall placement of the magazines is very nice as well. I’ll be at it. Almost tries to fill a role of having a maximum over capacity of +4 magazines on the chest while also trying to maintain a low profile. It does a pretty well job at it, but say if you have a skinnier torso, it kind of becomes hard when you have to dig underneath your armpits to try and retrieve magazines, but in a pinch, you should always grab the most free and best access magazine for your use case. The overall design is not bad at all either and the bungee cord or as they call shock cord flaps (if you could call them that) do a very good job at retaining your magazines. The only downside is that the interior wall of the divided magazine shoots, appear to not go all the way to the bottom, which isn’t inherently the worst thing ever but also they appear to not go more than 3/4 of the way down which in theory somehow you possibly could lose a magazine sideways at the bottom of your rig. I’ll be at it is very hard to do so. It still is a possibility on mine. Re-insertion of the magazines is also not the worst thing ever but under stress or speed it is not as good as using a standard Flap. The onward research rig I think does an excellent job with their flap placement and design as well, but that is also trying to be a completely different chest rig system compared to this one. It’s got good spots for the radio and does a pretty OK job of holding everything against you. My only grip is the price and for something this expensive you could either build your own kit using different manufacturers to attach everything together and or purchasing a complete unit from a different manufacturer as well for a bit less than the overall cost of this product. I believe if this was substantially less money, I think it would be a wider and more accepted product, but because of the high cost to entry it makes it a slight problem. Lastly, I want to touch on the admin pouch. I think it’s well designed while placed and very spacious. The water resistant zipper also helps quite well and the fact that you can attach this rig directly to a plate carrier also helps as well, but then again you start running into the compatibility issues of the large overhanging flaps on the sides of the plate carrier, but with some of the adapter straps that they have on this website it basically alleviate that issue and in fact, I think they should’ve included those as as well as the ability to convert your magazine pouches into flaps in the first place maybe not all six but I think for the first four I think that would’ve been a awesome idea and great bundle for the money. Overall I like it, but I don’t love it. Sorry this was long.

Pretty good well thought out right especially for infantry use will say would be nice if it had a dump pouch extender molle ends pretty high on the rig.