Hi. Does anyone know where to get cheap MTP webbing? Thanks
Webtex, eBay.
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Webtex is a bit naff though. There are plenty of grade 1 osprey pouches available on ebay, sometimes for just a couple of quid each. You also avoid that shiney new look. Slap those on a molle belt and job jobbed.
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Personally I wouldn’t bother with MTP belt-kit, you can get a decent set of DPM webbing on eBay for £30 or so - most of it is so faded you can’t tell the difference between it and MTP - it’s also pretty much indestructible so being second hand isn’t a problem.
Long, long experience says you should concentrate every spare penny you can find on your boots, your bad weather clothing, your sleeping bag and your Bergen - the colour of your belt kit is about your lowest priority.
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Indeed. DPM (or even OG!) webbing holds things every bit as well as MTP webbing (and far better than cheap knockoff MTP webbing).
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Webtex is fine for Cadet stuff.
You aren’t cracking 14 hour insertion yomps. Your doing range work and the occasional token effort night exercise.
It’s very confusing if you start a thread and then change the title and the first post completely!
The answer is yes.
It isn’t very well put together and definitely isn’t as comfortable. Given that you can get issue stuff for the same price or less, why would you get webtex?
Does the job for cadets. But yea Shop around. Fleabay etc. DPM PLCE webbing is the way forward anyway, its indestructable.
Sorry. I’ve changed the title back etc.
It really isn’t.
Cadets still put stuff in it, crawl around etc and Webtex is poorly made and falls apart. Buy used PLCE for the same price (or less).
The fact that used Webtex is rare should tell you something.
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Webtax is utter tat - it’s made of spiders webs and prit-stick. Don’t buy it…
Used DPM belt-kit is both better made and cheaper.
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It really is.
It’s cadets. It’s a token effort night ex. Or a Duty range day: For staff yea maybe invest. But for kids in a youth club it’s fine. But it’s all about shopping about. If stuffs cheaper in ebay, go for it.
Your a youth club. Your not cracking 14 hour insertion yomps and section battle drills through the jungle.
It will do the job.
cough WE are a youth club cough.
Webtex is a good starter, but in my capacity of a youth club leader, I would always advise the cadets to buy the best quality gear they can afford.
You’re right, We’re not commandos. But your average cadet doesn’t give a stuff about cleaning and drying wet and dirty webbing after an exercise. They just want to get on the bus and go home. Their kit gets chucked somewhere and left to go mouldy.
In my experience, issue kit takes that kind of abuse, where as non issue kit doesn’t like it.
Buy cheap, but twice.
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Until you try leopard crawling in it (something cadets really do), and it falls apart two hours in to a three day exercise (something cadets also do).
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You can not rule it out for cadets. Some might not have mummy and daddy’s credit card to buy “Gucci” “operator” “high speed, low drag” “ally” belt kit, plate carriers, UBACs with MOLLE and pouches hanging off every limb and available space.
Shop around. Writing off a cheap cadet manufacturer for cadets is not good for cadets. They can mix and match, they might want something from the webtex range.
Webtex is aimed, marketed and manufactured for cadets.
But webtex is invariably MORE expensive than the real thing, which nowadays can be picked up for about ÂŁ20-30.
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I think you have missed the point.
If you don’t want to use a manufacturer aimed and marketed for cadets great.
Some people might. Because your cadets. Not Tier 1 operators. You can’t write it off just because it’s not some “high speed, low drag” COD style gucci kit. Or you want to look like some regular.
eBay is great. But you might not always get what you want or need. Shop around. Use bargains, use eBay, use other sites. Webtex is good enough for cadets. If they want a bit of extra choice or something specific.
For staff, or regular use? No webtex is gash. It’s airsoft/cadet grade tatt. Staff might want to invest a little more.
cough We’re cadets cough
No offence, but you come across as having a bit of a chip on your shoulder about cadets using surplus kit…?
Why on earth would I advise a cadet to buy a piece of kit that I wouldn’t touch myself?
Most cadets will never need Webbing, but if they choose to buy it, my advice will always be go for issue stuff. It’s passed far more rigourous tests than made-just-for-cadets kit, will last longer, and can be bought for peanuts.
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And when the oik leaves cadets, they can sell issue webbing on and should be able to get a very good part of their money back. Whereas with Webtex, from what I have seen, this may not be the case after a couple of years abuse by a cadet.
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