Reid Henrichs of Valor Ridge on Crye Precision Plate Carrier Quality
BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 5 days ago
This is a very direct and honest review. Reed doesn’t like the quality and Crye Precision let him down with their customer service. By the way, I trust Reid’s views.
I noted in the comments that Condor got good reviews of their plate carriers. I had also saw a review of the Condor 3-Day Assault Pack some years ago. I thought I’d post it here for those who may be in the market. Let me know if you have either one of these Condor products and what you think of them.
On May 19, 2025 at 12:41 pm, TMF Bert said:
I have had one of the Condor 3 day packs for years. It was the replacement for
an aging large Alice pack I picked up back in the 80’s while in the service. I have had no problems with it. Solid piece of gear I would readily recommend to anyone looking for a good pack. I carry about 35-40 pounds in it depending on needs according to the bathroom scales.
Bert
On May 19, 2025 at 3:46 pm, Big Country Expat said:
OMFG are you dead on about them
Experience Calling Here:
Me and Lil Country went ‘all in’ so to speak on the equipment back in 2004/2005 as contractors.
After all, we wanted to stay alive amiright?
It (Crye) was, according to our SF and SEAL contacts ‘the best of the best of the best’
So, of course we bought into it…………plus we had the $$$ that Crye costs.
More the fool sez I
Bro………..
Within 4 months we sought NEW gear as the CC (CryeCrap) as we’d found it was worthless
The stuff fell apart… stitching sucked… it rotted away… Our plate carriers wore out… plates falling out…it was shit… it fell apart under summer and heat related (i.e. HEAVY sweat related times) I ended up with (and you’re going to laugh your ass off) with a fucking airsoft level plate carrier that I paid what? Like $200 for as opposed to the $600 plus for the utterly worthless CryeCrap we’d bought. That Airsoft ‘crap’ lasted for 4 years, and NEVER let me down… in fact THAT gear is now the WIFE’S gear as she’s NOT supposed to be ‘first line defense/offense’ but have gear I know I cant trust…
The f*cking airsoft ‘grade’ plate carrier outperformed the Crye gear for two f’n years
After that experience, I never want to hear from ANY guntoober or gear reviewer who has not had to use the gear they’re reviewing online EVER. It’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay different when you depend on your gear keeping you alive donchaknow?
And as another thing? My primary backpack?
The same Condor 3 day, and I’ve had it since 2007. I STILL use it
This’s a IRL experience with “CryeCrap”
On May 19, 2025 at 8:03 pm, joe said:
condor makes some good stuff and they have an “elite” line and it’s just as good as any of those top brand names…they have a battle/range belt with a real cobra buckle that was cheap 2 years ago…it’s now almost $100 but still worth it in my opinion…only draw back is velcro is backwards so you can’t use another brand under belt…but overall, they make decent/good stuff…
On May 20, 2025 at 8:48 pm, Ozark Redneck said:
Yeah I saw Reid’s review on his channel a day or so back. So glad I didn’t get suckered into buying any of their ‘Cryecrap’ as Big Country would say. Makes you wonder if they didn’t have ‘planned obsolescence’ so common with companies with a US contract… ‘Starting to wear, no problem, we can ship another couple pallets to you’.