Blue Force GearLow-Rise Single Belt Mag Pouch - Multicam Camo - Ten-Speed Elastic Front Belt Pouch MOLLE Panel - Military-Grade

I love the design of Blue Force Gear. This mag holder is extremely light and goes completely flat when empty--it's like it isn't even there anymore. It holds a 30 round mag beautifully tight with the superior elastic material from which it is made. It can be a bit of an effort to get the magazine into it but I don't see that as a disadvantage because you want it to be rock solid tight in there. and retrieving the magazine, especially with a ranger plate on it, is no problem. Highly recommend.

I was quite impressed with both the strength and the lightweight nature of the Ten-Speed products. Feeling that they simply needed a firm platform, I placed them on my old Spartan II armor carrier. These two pouch sets replaced a Condor Kangaroo triple mag pouch.Testing proceeded slowly after that. Armor is hot and heavy, not something you want to be wearing when the temperature is in the 90s. I know, you’re saying “But that’s the same armor you wore in 120 degree heat in Basrah, Iraq.”You can see a decent amount of wear on the mag pouch after low-crawling and dragging my armored belly across a gravel and asphalt parking lot.Yeah, and I absolutely despised it. I also sat on my laurels, mostly in an air-conditioned trailer while in Iraq. But, I did need to test the Helium Whisper backing, and wasn’t about to wait until autumn to do so. So, on a scorching July day, I downed a liter and a half of water, donned the armor and walked out into the blazing heat. In order to destroy the Triple M4 mag pouch, I low-crawled across an asphalt parking lot. I fully expected the friction and grinding to tear the elastic to shreds.While it did indeed tear at the pouch material, you can see that the pouches remain relatively intact. Most elastic products have “worms” that run horizontally through the inner workings of the fabric. The BFG elastic is military grade and the “worms” are reinforced inside the elastic for added durability. They run horizontally so that the elastic only stretches in one direction.As a side note, the friction and drag that this test put on the MOLLE backing of the Ten-Speed Pouch was considerable, but it held up and didn’t budge a bit.Helium Whisper – Incredibly LightOne of the secrets of Blue Force Gear MOLLE pouches is their Helium Whisper technology. Helium Whisper is simplicity; a single piece of laminate, cut to be both the backing of the pouch and the MOLLE attachment. Instead of multiple parts, requiring factory assembly and leading to greater weight (as with traditional MOLLE), Helium Whisper simply has the attachment straps fold over and weave through a couple of strips of material which are sewn to the backing, and then attaches via hook-and-loop covered tabs. This leads to an incredibly lightweight system.