how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel
today we're going to be talking about my new plate carrier from hrt
all right guys the carrier we're looking at today is the hrt rack plate carrier now if you follow
the channel you've seen that we've done some plate carrier reviews in the past typically in the past
i've done some lower cost options like condor and la police gear and i will put a link to some of
those videos up here at the top of the screen but this rack plate carrier from hrt is going
to be a huge upgrade from those in both quality and modularity so if that sounds like something
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bell and give us a thumbs up we really appreciate that all right guys now this base plate carrier is
going to come in right around 200 bucks and then they have a ton of modular pouches and placards
and things like that that you can outfit this thing with as you can see this plate here has a
little bit of a smaller profile and that's what a lot of companies are going to so you can start out
with a nice slim minimalist carrier and then you can up fit it from there with whatever you want
now where hrt really shines with this carrier is the modularity as you can see right here
they're going to be using a placard system so you have two clips here you just unclip those
and this entire placard comes right off so you can have different placards for different
situations depending on what you're doing that day you can go with the three ar-15 mag carrier
you can go with their maximus which incorporates the three mag pouches but it also has some other
pouches and things where you can put more gear in if that's what you want now of course if you want
to just go with traditional molle attachments you can do that they have a molle placard that you can
put on there and then you can outfit it with any pouches that you already have pouches from other
companies or anything like that and then it's super quick and easy to put this back on all you
have to do is clip these clips back in and then you just drop that placard down and it velcros
on the bottom so it's super quick and easy you don't have to worry about weaving molly in and
out or anything like that they also have a few different options for your cummerbund your base
rack carrier is going to come with this style of strap if you're not planning on running anything
on your sides that may be a good option for you i actually really like this
because it does have these quick attached clips on both sides and that's going to make it really easy
to take your carrier on and off of course they do have your traditional three-band molle cumber bun
they also had this one that i'm using which is the two band it's actually a little bit thinner
takes up less space on your side and it still has the molle so you can attach anything you want to
this but it takes up a little bit less space along with that they do have cummerbunds that have the
quick attach system here so you can quickly just detach that and your cummerbund comes out
if i'm being honest i really wish i had gone with that because of what i'm going to talk about next
the rack plate carrier has a quick attach buckle here on your shoulder the great thing about that
is it makes it really easy to take your carrier off whether it be at the end of the range day and
you're just wanting to take everything off or if you needed to quickly get out of this for whatever
reason so you just hit this clip here and that shoulder strap comes off and especially if you
had the quick attached cummerbund you just undo that and the whole thing comes off without having
to feed it over your head which would be really nice this clip is reversible so you can put it on
whichever side you want i put it on my left side because i am a right-handed shooter and i don't
want that clip getting in the way of the butt of my rifle and of course if that's something you
don't want hrt also makes their h-rack carrier which doesn't have that quick attached shoulder
strap switch around to the back they have a ton of different back panels that you can put onto
this carrier right now i have the hydration carrier which is really nice and we'll get in
and take a closer look at this carrier in just a minute you do have removable shoulder pads up
here on your shoulders to just make that a little bit more comfortable especially if you're carrying
a lot of weight and those are removable if you decide you just don't want those you have a ton
of different molle loops and elastic loops so that you can weave in things like your hydration hose
or your radio cables like i have here and then of course you have your traditional loop velcro
up here with some molle slots in that as well so you can attach more pouches up here if you
want to or you can just go with your velcro identification patches or whatever you want to do
i went with the black but they do offer this in a lot of different colors you can get it in
coyote you can get an od green multi-cam and even black multi-cam when they have that in stock now
let's get in here to the table top and we'll take a closer look at all the features of this carrier
all right guys now let's get in here and take a closer look at this carrier
this is made of a heavy duty 500 denier cordura which is pretty standard for the industry as you
can see it has some really nice heavy duty stitching and velcro the one we have here
is their large carrier it fits the 10 by 12 and large sappy plates they also offer this
in an extra large version that's going to hold your 11 by 14 plates and i'll give you a closer
look at how that placard works you just undo these clips here and then she peels right off the front
these placards are really heavy duty this is their triple m4 mag pouch and a couple things i
really like about this placard it does have the bungee keepers to keep those secured in there
but one other thing i really like about these placards
is that on the inside it has a plastic sleeve that holds those pouches open so you can easily
put your mags back in it also kind of pinches down on that mag to hold it in place you do have your
loops here on the side so you can attach other things or route in cables or other things like
that of course it also does have molle on the front and nice large hook velcro on the back
you can see here your cummerbund is just going to wrap around and velcro and then it gets sandwiched
between these nice big loop panels on the front of the carrier and whatever placard you happen to be
running another thing that i really like that hrt offers is these little side elastic pouches the
first one here is the hrt tourniquet pouch and you can see that just velcros on so you can put that
in any position you want to you can put it here on the side you can dangle that down from the bottom
underneath your carrier if you want to it's just a quick on and off and it's nice and secure to keep
your tourniquet readily available now over here on the other side is actually the product of a
collaboration between john lovell over at warrior poet society and hrt this is the wps pouch now you
can put pretty much anything you want to in here it will fit an extra ar-15 magazine if you want to
but the difference between this and the tourniquet pouch this one's a little bit wider it also has
this little keeper on the bottom to keep whatever you put in from dropping through as you can see
i'm using it for my radio and that fits nicely in there it keeps it nice and low profile tight
to your body underneath that cumberbund but also readily accessible you do have one row of
molle webbing here above that and of course your loop panel up here at the top that also has some
molle slots in it as well these are really heavy duty clips that they have here for their placards
now i don't know this for sure but i assume that this system would also work with placards from
other companies as well if you already have some placards that you want to use along with this i
think they probably would work like i was telling you before you have here on the side a little
elastic loop which works out great for organizing your radio cables or your hydration hoses or
anything like that and it does have that on both sides all right now flipping over to the back
like i mentioned before i do have the hydration carrier on here on the back let me show you
real quick how that works they have several different attachments and back panels that are
going to fit onto the back of this carrier they just attach with these heavy duty ykk zippers
and then back behind that you do have some snap straps just to help hold that in place
as well as some velcro paneling so this right here is how your carrier is going to come with no back
panel on it it's set up perfect for all their different back panels that they offer they have
several different ones and what's great about hrt is you don't have to get a full back panel they
actually have half panels so you can mix and match and you can put one here on the bottom a different
one here on the top they also have different ones that hold helmets and things like that
now i decided to go with the hydration carrier because i just like the idea of having a hydration
bladder on my carrier but there's a lot of things i like about this back panel as you can see it
has a couple different pouches here this bottom one opens almost all the way up and kind of clam
shells out and i thought this little paracord zipper pull is another really nice touch now
going up here to the top panel this one's just a little bit different it just opens up here just on
the top you can slide some stuff down in there of course it is going to have a nice large pouch here
on the inside that's where you're going to put your hydration bladder it has a lot of other
space that you can put other things in if you want to it sits pretty slim to your carrier it's not
going to stick out too much away from your carrier but if you wanted a little extra storage capacity
it does have a zipper here that goes all the way around to expand the capacity of that pouch
that was a really nice touch there i thought that was a great idea right above here is your
drag handle nice heavy duty drag handle now turn it over to the inside this is another feature that
i haven't seen in a lot of other carriers as you can see here there's kind of a cavity down
the middle it has these thick pontoons on either side the purpose of that is to allow more airflow
down through the middle so this thing doesn't get too hot on you while you're wearing it on the
range you can see it also does have loop velcro along here that you can add even thicker pontoons
on here to get even more airflow if you want that the bottom here is open and it just has this strap
here that holds your plates down in there these are held with some nice heavy duty velcro it's
actually pretty difficult to get out so i don't think you're going to have any issues with your
plates coming out on you or anything like that all right now once you've got that open your plates
just slide right in the plates i'm using right now are the level three tactical scorpion gear plates
i have done a review on these if you want to check that out i'll put a link here at the top of the
screen again here is a closer look that quick attach shoulder clip this is a nice heavy duty
clip i don't see this coming unattached when you don't want it to but you just pinch here and it's
going to come right out so you can have a quick on and off of your carrier if you need to and that's
pretty much it guys this is a really high quality carrier at a price that most guys are going to be
able to afford and you really just can't beat the quick modularity of these placard systems and the
back panel systems that hrt offers all right guys that is it for the hrt rack plate carrier
don't forget guys i am going to have links to all this stuff down in the description below if you
want to check it out for yourself and don't forget if you have any questions make sure you leave that
down in the comment section i really don't think you can go wrong with the hrt rack it's going to
be very high quality and you just can't beat the modularity of all the different systems
that they have here on this carrier this is the hrt rack plate carrier guys don't forget if you
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