I just received two of the Special Ops Scout vests last week and was surprised at how well designed they are.
These vests were gifts for my brother's children and they are so good that I think I will have to order two
for my brother and myself.
You must understand that I already have a Special Ops Hammer vest in SO digi-camo and
a Broadsword Six vest in ACU, and a close friend has a Special Ops Recon vest that I sold
to him, so I already have some experience with vests.
As far as price goes, I got the Hammer vest a couple of years ago at an end of season sale,
and I got the Broadsword in ACU as the price for that camo was a big savings,
so I am surprised that the Scout vest is so incredibly good and costs only $79,
which is about the same cost as the Recon Vest (except for the ACU sales promotion on
the Recon vest).
The Scout vest is very versatile. It carries a lot of paint. It allows you to carry a CO2 tank upright
so you don't need an anti-siphon tube. You have a choice to carry 100 round pods in front, or the
large pocket can be used to carry other stuff, like a poncho or some nerf rockets or grenades.
I like the id pocket and map pocket.
The adjustment straps on mine have these nifty little pieces of velcro on the ends that keep the
straps from hanging out loose where they might catch on thorns or vines.
Neither of my other two vests have those, and they are just a fine improvement over
the earlier vests.
I also like having one wide strap on the sides to tighten up rather than three narrow
straps on each side like the Hammer and the Broadsword vests.
I especially like the way the velcro on the internal belt attaches the front of the vest to
your torso more firmly. I will want to add that feature to the vests that I already own.
I will have to find a source where I can purchase some wide strips of Velcro.
I am six feet one inch and about 250 pounds and it seems like I am close to the upper range
that this vest can fit, but by adjusting the velcro in the shoulder down
and by adding a belt to the bottom of the vest, you could fit it to a player two or three inches taller than I am.
I might not be able to wear this vest over the top of an M-65 field jacket, there might not be enough
adjustment left in the vest for me to do that, but the other vests that I own are large enough and
have enough range of adjustment to allow that. Those vests are in the extralarge size and are actually
quite loose when I am not wearing a field jacket or carrying a water bladder.
I actually prefer the Scout vest over the Broadsword and Hammer vests that I already own.
I purchased the Scout vests in the new OMNIPAT camouflage which seems to be a digitized version
of Crye Multicam. Because the vest body is mesh, the pattern of my camouflage uniform
will peek thru the mesh and together they should blend in very well almost anywhere.
OMNIPAT and Multicam seem to be prairie grass and desert patterns, but their coloration
is very natural and should blend in other areas a lot better than ACU does.
I have modified a lot of my cotton ACU stuff with dye.
I modified the ACU pattern on my Broadsword vest by careful application of spraypaint,
because the Cordura nylon does not seem to take dye well.
This post has been edited by coywolf: 09 March 2008 - 09:52 PM
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pvt. Leonard L. Church, on Aug 8 2009, 09:00 PM, said:
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