Water Bottle Holder and L straps

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Quite possibly your X-straps are too short. There are different lengths.

However you don't need much extra below the belt to get the water bottle on.

Are you quite tall?

I am tall and had to really jack the waistbelt up (slightly above where the BD waist fastening is) to leave enough slack on the X straps to get a water bottle and e-tool on.

If you don't want to do full marching order you could of course cheat and leave shorter tabs on the left side of your webbing to the right.

You do need to to get that wasitbelt really high though, more like a belly belt.

Cheers
Martin

Yeah the belt should really sit at the divider between blouse and trousers and that should be at your belly button.

yes I'm a little above average, 6ft 2/3, thats probably the problem, just ordered to x long ones off eBay for a few coppers do they should do the trick, thanks guys

That is a fair bit above average. For under 35s the average height in England is around 5'10" and over 35s 5'9". I'm an old guy but 6'2". I'm sure the XL straps will be fine although I've managed to make it all work with just the long ones.

Cheers
Martin

Yer, nation wide its a little less but everyone in my village Is pretty tall so I don't feel that much bigger

I had this problem the other day, put my kit on and my belt sat about 4 inches above the belt straps on my KD shorts