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Loading Your Kit Bag

The best discussion of what to put in your Kit Bag and where to put it can be found here. However, one point is important enough to make it on this page: Keep the heaviest items closest to your body. This is no different than loading an internal frame pack. It will ride more comfortably this way. For example, the concealed compartment might hold your pistol, or 3 rifle magazines (with the top part unzipped), or a .75L water bladder. Lighter items as you move outwards.

Docking To a Pack
Attach the docking strap to your shoulder strap. The extra slik clips are spares in case of breakage.
Clip the grimlock into the docking strap
The rounded interior of the grimlock will allow the Kit Bag to center properly without twisting
Adjust height to your preference
When docked, you will probably find it most comfortable to loosen the side straps

The series of photos above illustrate how to dock to a host pack. You wear your kit bag underneath the main pack. When you put on your main pack, just dock the kit bag to it. Before taking off your main pack, undock your kit bag. There are slightly different ways of doing it. Evan wears his sternum strap over the kit bag, Scot wears it under. Neither of us ever adjust the top straps on the Kit Bag (unless wearing over a PFD), but the side straps get frequent adjustments based on docked / undocked and various clothing layers.

The extra slick clips are spares in case of breakage. Stow them inside your Kit Bag and forget them until you need them. It is rare, but you can accidentally break them in the process of opening and closing them. Once fully closed, we've never seen one break. With the use of slick clips, you can attach the docking straps to just about any shoulder strap out there. If that doesn't work with your particular pack, you can also get creative with parachute cord loops among other things. The grimlocks on the Kit Bag itself gives you lots of different options.

Setting Up For the Draw

The video below pretty much covers it. Note that you can get a quicker draw by moving to index with your firing hand at the *same time* you are opening with your support hand (unlike in the video). If it had been done that way in the video, you wouldn't have been able to see what is going on.

 

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