I noticed a moment in the following video that made it all the more disturbing. Look at the spilled magazines starting about the 1:25 mark.
The pouches I own have Velcro lids. I’d probably have to fall down a pyramid to lose mags like that. Does anyone know how that happened to this officer?
Huh, that’s unusual for sure. Most officers I see or know have fully covered mag pouches. Even if you were running something like an Esstac, you’d take have to fall off a cliff to drop them. I see two mags. Did she drop the active mag and have a reload in hand?
I watched that clip about 20 times and couldn’t tell you. I can’t seem to see the bottom of the magwell. She was shot in the pelvis, so I’m also wondering if the pouches weren’t damaged by a bullet.
Maybe she opened the pouches in preparation to reload and fell down allowing them to come out? But it’s also odd that two fell out. You’d think one would fall?
Here’s one of my old duty carry mag pouches. Has double retention screws. I was plain clothes, most uniformed officers had snaped leather straps on top. Also, some officers carried their magazines sideways instead of upwards, which would make it easier to hit the snaps and them fall out. One more scenario is if she had a pull over vest with the magazines in the vest, I found those not to be as secure. Just my 0.02.
@1:29 she still has her magazine in the gun. You have to enlarge the video and go real slow on the speed
About 1:30
Thanks for the input! I carry two spare mags, and dropping them while still full is a kind of nightmare. I would like to avoid it. It does seem that it is tough to balance retention and ease of reloading, where one attribute is decreased as the other increases.
Look on the Safariland web page. I still carry the Safariland open top with adjustable tension screw (w/ blue locktite) snap on the belt model in the back. Don’t know if they still make this model because it’s real leather LOL
I’ll check it out. I currently carry a homebrew pouch in my pocket until I find something I’m comfortable with for my belt.
