Agilite Tactical: Six Pack Dangler

Hey guys, tonight we're looking at the Agilite Gear. I don't know if I'm saying that right, I got no idea. But that's what I've said for years now. So, Agilite Gear six-pack dangler. They did, oh, I got a fly in the garage, I'm sorry. They did send this to me, so I didn't pay my own money for it, and I don't know what it costs, especially with shipping, I don't know. I've never bought from Agilite, so I have no idea what shipping looks like. I have never had any experience with Agilite Gear. I do not like the way that the K19 is put together. Agilite must not have seen that I state that just about every chance I get, because they did hit me up and send this to me. But, let's get it on the table and look at it. It definitely has some new features that I have not seen on any other dangler before, and those do make a lot of sense. So, I think this is well put together. I don't have any real qualms with it. Let's take a look at it. All right, so this is the Agilite Gear six pack dangler here. It is absolutely a micro dangler genre thing. It is much more squatty in height than a lot of the initial run of the dangler concept. And, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, because I think when danglers came out, there was a very steep learning curve. First, they were usually top access. One of my first ones was top access, and that was a chore to use. Actually, way, way back in 2013, I knew that Sword had their, I think their on-demand pouches that they sell, and they were a dangler pouch that was designed for belt kit. And so, I was getting my rig from Ferro that I had designed and asked him to build me, and I asked for a dangler, and then danglers became a thing. I'm not claiming it, but 2013, I ordered one. So, they're old, right? And they were usually a little bit taller when you got them, and they usually had top access on them. And they were fairly thin, because I think the idea was you wanna keep it kinda close to the body, and that was a good intent. But when you have your plate hanging down on top of it, and mags on top of that, you really have a little bit more bulk that you can work with and still maintain a flat profile. So, these newer micro danglers are very similar in volume than the original giant danglers. It's just more compressed height-wise, and you get usually twice the volume, or twice the thickness out of them, right? So, this one's no different. It has a good bit of volume in it for being as short as it is. And they, like most, have learned you want more of a front zipper on it, so that you can really look down into your dangler, going over your plates and your mags and everything. It can be a struggle to see in there, right? And I've identified that in some other videos of mine, like my approach kit that I had in the Tactical Tailor Dangler. I think that's what it was. It could be a little challenging, so I had to kind of get some muscle memory down from where my tools were, right? So, looking at what goes into this thing, it is, it's a little interesting. It does have some new steps to it. So, this front pocket here, I could really do without. It is so small, I don't know what I would put in there that would be useful, unless I just, I don't know, maybe a multi-tool, right? Like one thing that you're gonna wanna know where it is all the time, no matter what. I don't know if a multi-tool would be that thing, but it makes sense to me, because it fits in here. Maybe a flashlight, maybe a signal kit, like an IR buzzsaw and a folded-up signal panel. I don't know, it's gonna have to be pretty minimal to fit in that pocket successfully. Looking on the inside here, you've got a loop field across the body side, and then facing away, you've got four elastic cells there. And Agilite did put together a pretty sweet moto video of this thing. So, you can fit 40 mils in here. I don't know why that's fighting me. It goes in fine, I'm just being dumb. And you can fit four of those pretty easily, and with them being on the outer face, as you kind of unzip this thing, they'll kind of lean away from you a little bit. You can access them really easily. And you can see, you've still got a good bit of volume in there. So, anything you had mounted on here would be fine. If you had tools and an elastic mount there, they wouldn't really get in the way of your grenades. If you're using grenades first, it's gonna be easy there. If you're using your tools and you've got the grenades in there, it may be a little bit more difficult to get the tools back in. That's not really a foul on anyone. I think it works well. But, it is gonna have to be like a shorty grenade. So, I don't know all the different 40 mics that are out there, but your standard short ones are kind of gonna be what you want to put in there. All right, so I already said, front pocket, really don't care. Inside pocket, I think is well done. Velcro brings some bulk to it, because you've got the Velcro that's in the product and then you've gotta get a backer. And the backer usually needs some sort of reinforcement so that you can put a pouch in there that's not gonna run away on you. So, having some hard sewn options, I'm a fan of. And it's real tough to dial in hard sewn stuff. So, it's kind of a six in one hand, half those in the other. I like the zipper pulls. The main ones here are nice and long, so you're gonna be able to find them without any issue. And it's got the shrink wrap on there, so they have some body to them without being a snag hazard. You're not gonna hook that on anything like you would with just big paracord loops coming off of there, but you'll be able to find it nice and easily. On the sides, you've got these two chunks of PALS or MOLLE webbing. I don't know that I would ever use that for anything more than a carabiner for some gloves or something like that, or hang some chem lights off of. But it's there. If you're feeling squirrely and want to mount a pouch to it, it might work out all right. On the backside, we'll get to this little flap in just a minute. You've got your hanger here. I do think the hanger could have been a good bit longer. Some plate bags are more forgiving than others. I don't know how this interfaces with a K-19. I've never had my hands on one. So, hopefully it interfaces with that well, because it's their own product. But I definitely know I've run across plate carriers where this would not be enough flap. It's wide enough to engage with a lot of stuff, but it's not really tall enough, depending on how forgiving your plate carrier is. But it is hooked towards you and looped away from you so that you know what fits your plate bag configuration. I've got these side release buckles just hanging on this little piece of three quarter inch webbing here. It would lock up better on this lower one, but then it would be kind of fanny pack in the middle of the pouch, which isn't quite as ideal. So, I put it up here and we'll see how easy it is to come off. It may come off easier than I wish. The strap, I believe, is an added purchase. It's fairly priced, but it is not included. So, then kind of the real novel aspect of this is this flap that hangs under the pouch. And I do like this idea. So, this is their attempt at underslinging a tourniquet. And the way that it does that is it uses this flap. So, their sales pitch is it doesn't matter what's in the pouch. The tension on the tourniquet will always be the same. And I think there is some truth to that. If you have an elastic sleeve on your plackard or your dangler, and the dangler's empty, there is less tension on that elastic sleeve than there is when it's full. You could, to an extent, say the same thing for shotcord, but I really don't like shotcord anyways. So, I'm not there on that. So, you've got this elastic here with a slot for your tourniquet. And then you've got a couple additional slots so you can put chemlights or airways or Sharpies or whatever you want there. You also have this additional slightly larger slot here. It's not quite as big as the tourniquet slot, but it does have some nice width to it. And then, so once you've got that configured, then you just tighten it up to a point that makes sense. And the tension that's on this little hammock, if you will, really doesn't matter because all the tension is coming from where the elastic is sewn on the hammock. So, you can increase tension for sure by really tightening it up against the bottom of the plackard. But you're not counting on that to retain your tourniquet. What else I like about this is it lends itself well to not just carrying tourniquets. So, you could absolutely put a pretty hearty chunk of Nano in here and you could run a second one or you could have your igniters in here. You could have your Nano there and your igniters there. And if you're feeling real squirrely, you could even tuck the caps into this little sleeve and this little sleeve. So, they would be fairly well protected from just life in general. Maybe a little hokey having caps not ballistically protected, but plenty of dudes do it and I think it's a viable option if that's something that you're comfortable doing. And then you just close that up there and there you go. And that'll close up whether you've got the plackard or the fanny pack just as well, right? If you really wanted to, you could probably even put a little paracord loop on here so that as you have this thing mounted to your vest, you know, you've got it hanging there. If you needed to get to this stuff quickly, you could have a little loop because this might be kind of tricky to find or you could just make this a little bit more bulky. And then you just pull that and now all your stuff is readily accessible there. And I don't think it's intentionally gonna engage like this but you could even tuck it up on the front like that so it's all right there. I do think that this is a pretty unique concept and I would like to have seen it actually, it works fine as is, but I would really like to see it a little bit more full width to really protect that tourniquet. There's those studies that the Marines did on their tourniquets in Afghanistan and they only lasted so long because they were swimming through mud and whatnot. But if you could cover the whole face or just have enough hanging out to draw it, that would be kind of neat in my opinion. And it lends itself even better to some of those other items I talked about, like the Nano, not so much the caps, but your igniters would have a little bit more of a home there, your Sharpie, your chem light, your flashlight, whatever you decided to mount in here. You could almost use it like a small tool roll. And if it was a little bit wider, it would retain those better. Like you could even do some crimpers in here if it was full width, which would be pretty slick. Cause nothing scares me more than the sharp end of crimpers floating around randomly in my kit. So there it is. That's the Agilite six pack dangler. Pretty well done. And I think it's a fairly affordably priced, but I did, I regret it. I forgot to check the price before I made this. So thanks guys. Appreciate your time.