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What's the best budget plate carrier/armor setup?
HESCO 4401's for the plates. If you are talking absolute budget carrier I'm going to go ahead and say it: Condor. As much as people want to call their stuff airshit, it's actually improved quality wise. If you want something that's not made in China the Slickster is solid option between $$$ and what you get.
This is the way. But I would skip the condor and go slickster for comfort.
If you can find it in stock....
The cheapest one I see on Amazon is called the Gfire and looks a lot like the old Condor. I'm sure it wouldn't hold up in the sandbox for 6 months, but has something like padded shoulders and should hold up fine for larping in the basement...or in case peaceful protests break out in your neighborhood for a couple nights.
But there's a reason why my slickster has Level III lightweight PE plates now instead of ceramics.
The last Condor plate carrier I saw actually had padded shoulders where the slickster doesn't. And that makes a difference with 16lbs of Ceramic Armor. There's a reason why I went with lightweight level III PE plates this time around.
Condor is what i have. Not too bad.
I don't think people around here are as elitist as the old place. The only problem I really have with Condor stuff is that their buckles are their weak point. Rest of the stuff, material/stitchig/etc., is pretty good these days.