Sweat tabs on magazine carriers

[TheTrevor]

If someone doesn't care about the speed of their reloads, and fails to practice reloads from concealment regularly, then I doubt they'd notice the deficiencies of having a full sweatguard behind the mags. This probably describes 90% or more of the folks who CCW.

[John Ralston]

The sweat tab is now gone - and I didn't even use a Sharpie.

Rebel...

[Up1911Fan]

Interestingly enough, when I picked up two new holsters and an AIWB mag pouch from Tony at JMCK this week, he specifically mentioned that he'd eliminated the sweat guard riser on the back of the mag pouch to enable proper index and draw on the mag. If he hadn't done so, I probably would have cut it off myself.

That said, I've also rounded off the port-side square corners on the back of a couple of carry mags for my P30 so they won't jab me in the tummy quite so enthusiastically when carried in the AIWB pouch. There's definitely a comfort-vs-utility tradeoff, especially if your baseplates aren't all nice radiused corners.

Tell us more about the aiwb mag pouch...pics would be great

[TheTrevor]

Tell us more about the aiwb mag pouch...pics would be great

I'll start a separate thread after I've shot some pics.

[Rich]

I think its for comfort! Even when I was skinny the mag holders would dig into me . IWB or OWB.

I never liked the traditional mag holders. The mag digs into me.

I do love the horizontal mag holders . Like from Wilderness.

Also found that I was a tad faster using the wilderness H mag holder.

Now I do like the sweat guard on my IWB holsters . it keeps the top of pistol from digging into me.

[saltydog452]

I like the 'fat tab'.

Some mag base plates are sharp and dig into my worthless hide. Daily carry gyrations for the not-so-young, not-so-fit geriatic crowd are different than straight-up gaming equipment for the up and coming Captain America competitors.

Whatever works for you, or me, might not be the cat's whiskers for the rest of the world.

salty