Gen X Global Lightweight Tactical Vest Paintball Harness - CAMO

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Product Features

• 4 Front tube pockets
• 1 Tank in back
• Adjustable straps
• Horizontal zipper pocket on front
• Breathable mesh

Product Description

Description 4 Front tube pockets. 1 Tank Pouch in back. Adjustable straps. Horizontal zipper pocket on front. Breathable mesh. Lightweight.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• ASIN: B001BS97M2
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,230 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Vest!!!, October 24, 2009

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M. Selva (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gen X Global Lightweight Tactical Vest Paintball Harness - CAMO (Misc.)

This item is great buy for many reasons!

Lightweight - This vest is light weight and cool! You need to be able to move and the mesh material makes that easy and it also breathes. It can get really hot when running around getting shot at, so this vest helps from over heating yourself!

Efficient - There are TONS of compartments! It holds 6 pods with a great pod-release eject system, 6 co2 tanks (for airsofting/paint handguns), two zipper pockets, a tank holder in the back (good it you have a remote coil - recommended) and lastly, it even has a pouch on the back for a cell phone!

Durable - When it comes to getting down in the dirt and jumping over obstacles, this has been a pretty tough vest. It show no sign of wear n' tear!

And lastly....

PRICE - This vest is just as good as the other vests you'll see for $50 bucks. In this economy, I need to save as much money as possible! This is a good way to do it!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OKay for $20, February 19, 2010

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Q. "solrac1970" (Seekonk, MA USA) - See all my reviews

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I've been playing paintball for quite a long time (25+ years) and I've seen all sorts of products. This vest isn't too bad for the price. I wanted a lightweight vest with a remote tank holder for relatively short games and this fits the bill. The other remote harnesses that I have are more for longer scenario games and these days when I'm not playing with a stock class pistol I hardly shoot more than 400 rounds...all day.

Again, I probably wouldn't choose this vest for scenario games. For one thing it doesn't have a hydration bladder or holder for such. For another even though they say it holds 140 round pods, it feels more comfortable holding 100 round pods. They way it's sewn it's tight on the diameter of the pods and there's no elastic in that dimension...it wont hold slightly bigger Dye lock lids (my personal favorite) very well for example; you have to force them in.

The bottle holder isn't anything that great to speak of. There's only one strap holding the tank horizontally and no straps at all to hold it in. most decent remote pouches have two straps horizontally and two straps holding the tank in. I can imagine the tan bouncing out while running...although it wouldn't take a genius to figure out how to strap the tank in using that odd strap that runs down the back.

The "radio" strap that runs down the back...on mine it was a bit long. There is an adjustment but even adjusted all the way it's still loose. If you decide to use the radio pouch it's going to be bouncing around a lot. Perhaps it was simply a slight production error.

The radio pouch itself is small, although I'm sure it will fit the smaller ones. My radio is a Motorola Talkabout 7100, a bit on the big side for that class radio but not outrageous either. It won't fit my radio at all, not even close.

There's a removable (velcro) 12 gram holder inside the right hand front pouch, and three spaces on the right shoulder for 12 grams (they would slip out while running I'm sure) or 10 round tubes. I really don't see the point at all. If you're going to be carrying a backup pistol five 12 grams and three cigar tubes just don't add up logically if you've ever played with pistols. You would probably be better off just shoving some tubes into the side pocket of your BDU's.

There's a double zippered and velcro'd pocket behind the tank pouch. I'm not sure why it's there. Since the vest is so thin I'll probably use it to insert padding for my back. It's a little too small for a dump pouch and awkward to get to while wearing.

There's no height adjustment but it seems to fit my 6 foot frame just fine. I'm not the skinniest guy in the world at 39 and width wise the adjustment tabs are good enough for extra jumbo fellows.

The fit and finish isn't great. There's a lot of loose thread ends and some bunching in the stitching...someone at the factory doesn't know how to adjust the bobbin. It's good enough but just barely so.

One of the reviewers complained that the pods came open while belly crawling. This is not a vest for belly crawling. The pods are on the front, in front of your belly. Duh. If you want to belly crawl, which I often do by the way, get something where all the pods are on your back, and nothing in on your front...and you would probably be better off with the tank on gun to boot. I personally bought this vest to use with my obnoxiously large e-gripped A5. When I'm in the mood to be sneaky I use a much nicer and smaller gun and simpler rig.

Bottom line; this vest is just OKay. I've seen vests for twice the price that are MUCH more than twice as good as this. Knowing what I know now I'd probably spring for a better vest, but it's too cheep to return. It'll probably get used a couple of times, get borrowed, and then given away.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't wash it too much..., June 7, 2010

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Great Destroyer (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

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I was disappointed that after less than 10 washes with detergent and some oil/grease removal liquid the velcro on this vest became extremely weak. The jacket is practical and cheap, but you get what you pay for. Next vest I'm getting will have pods facing upwards for a fairly logical reason. If you buy this, expect to replace the velcro within 6 months if you go at least every other week to paintball--and then you can keep it for at least another 6 months. Cheers.