Elite Alpha Trooper Catch Upgrade Kit

The above image illustrates how little the Elite Alpha Trooper's catch plate changed between design iterations. A small bulkhead of plastic was added to the plate in order to accommodate the new plunger system but that was it. The remainder of the bracing plastic and the wing slots for the plunger flanges remain to provide a catch plate that flexes and fails under enhanced load.

Our inproved 3D printed catch plate provides a much neater solution by being designed exclusively for the Elite Alpha Trooper. It possesses a much deeper ledge for bracing the plunger assembly against and a thicker holding bulkhead for the plunger. It's much stronger and less pliable than the original. There's no need for upgraded catch plate springs, just a simple improved catch.

Our new catch can be had with a spring for £8 (inc VAT at 20%) from our website.

MkII 'Miranda' Pattern Magazine Holders

We've been working to refine our budget range magazine holders over the last few months. The current shock cord design is proving a little problematic in the price bracket it's in. To that end, we needed to find something that would fill the 'economy' price bracket magazine that we know the HvZ and student populations crave.

Meet our MkII 'Miranda' Pattern Magazine Holders. They represent something of a paradigm shift compared to our previous iterations and there are number of reasons for that. And yes, they are named for Miranda in Serenity.

First and foremost, you'll notice they're flapped. Too often have I lost darts at Green Cloaks events where I've been crawling through ferns and underbrush so these pouches solve that particular problem. Of course, I'm not a huge fan of flaps for ease of access. To that end, we added a small tab of Velcro to the inside of the pouch and made them deep enough to carry their required number of magazines. The flap can then be tucked behind the magazines in order to provide ready access without needing to fight through a pouch.

With a couple of these on your MOLLE vest or belt, you can have one in a 'ready' state while the others are in reserve. These pouches are designed to be both magazine holder and dump pouch in one. You cycle the magazines from front to back, removing from the front and replacing the spent magazines in the back. The weight of the magazine creates a handy aperture that's easy to re-insert a magazine into.

MOLLE Mounted Versions:

Our MOLLE mounted version still relies on our MOLLE Attachment Bar system (MAB) but the webbing has been reconfigured to accept MALICE clips, too.

Belt Mounted Versions:

The belt mounted versions are reverting to our universal belt loop system with the addition of a snap fastener at the bottom to really secure the hold. This feature was added after this weekend at Green Cloaks Event 3: Into the Rad where I had multiple failures of my Firestrike belt mounted holster that argued with my vest rig. In the end, adding a pop snap solved the problem.

UPDATE:  We've replaced the belt system with a new strap system. Installation instructions on that can be found here.


These versions will be available in our full range of colours rather than just black and camouflage. Black double and triple pouches will be £8 and £10 respectively with an extra £1 for colours. Camouflages with matched fittings and straps will be available, too.

The future of our shock cord retention pouches:
The shock cord retention pouches that we currently supply do have a future. However, we would like to do a better job on them and so they will be bumped up to our 'premium' bracket where they will have sewn, reinforced PALS legs that thread into MOLLE and the like. The price will rise to match and it's too early to say how much that might be.

UPDATE: Nope, the old shock cord pouches don't have a future. We're only supplying Mirandas from here on out. We can't commission the old versions even if we wanted to because the fabric we used literally no longer exists. It was made by 1 mill in the world (up in Lancashire, UK) who no longer supply it. We can't make the old design in any other fabric so we're only supplying these now.


The MkII 'Miranda' pouches go on sale on our website from Friday 10th July 2015.