March 28, 2008
By Head Jundi
In this review, I want to talk about the new chin strap that I bought for my RBR Helmet. For those of you who wear a helmet from time to time, you probably appreciate as much comfort as you can get out of that brick you wear on your head. Last summer, I wore that helmet a few times for convoy operations, and the chin strap system that comes with the RBR Helmet is really not that comfortable or easily adjustable. Nor is the padding system in the helmet that great, and I will save that for a different review. With that said, I decided to try and find a better chin strap, so I could upgrade my helmet.
Usually what I do, in order to find new equipment or get new ideas about equipment, is to do my searches on Google, and the pertinent forums that talk about what the guys are using out there. One of my favorite places on the Internet, for gear reviews, is Lightfighter.net . There is quite a crew on that forum, and they really like to get down to business on reviewing equipment and talking shop. I usually just read through all the posts, and try to make my determinations based off the various replies about equipment that is being used and liked. I try to find reviews from guys who are actually in the field, and using that stuff, because invariably, you stumble upon reviews from guys who really don’t know what they are talking about. Hey, it’s the Internet, and you have to learn how to search out the good stuff.
One of the posts on light fighter, under the helmets and body armor section, talked about the latest gizmo’s and doo dads from the 2007 Shot Show. One of those items was a new chin strap system, produced by a new company called Ops Core. Now I have stumbled upon all sorts of chin strap systems out there, but this Ops Core chin strap system really caught my eye. The guys on the forum seemed to like it as well.
So after stumbling upon this new, dang fangled chin strap system, I now had some search ‘ammo’, and started looking for a cheap price and any other reviews. I could not find any, and Ops Core, at the time, was the only ones selling said item, and the Light Fighter crew were the only ones talking about it. So I stuck with the info from Light Fighter, and absorbed it all. And I tell you what, I was sold. Here is the chinstrap I was sold on, and this is what the company had to say about it.