Lesson Learned on Grenade Bags

[Marcus]

So as some of you know...I roll with ALOT of grenades to events. I wear grenade bags. Since I received my bags from Steve Fischer, I've worn them into combat twice. I've had a hell of a time trying to keep the grenades from falling out while crawling, jumping..etc.

I had shortened the strap that goes over my shoulders signifcantly once, but apparently it is just not enough. I looked at some photos and saw the problem...my bags are still way to low.

Here is an example of bags in wear...scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll notice how high up they rest:

www.landships.freeservers.com/german_earlywar_uniforms.htm

Now look at how low mine rest:


For anyone who wears these...take particular notice of how high up the bags should rest, else you will be losing grenades out in NML!

[Kruger]

Yep, going to have to make some modifications on mine. I ended up carrying them for most of the time!

[grenadierwerner]

Can the breadbag be used as a substitute for a grenade bag in an assault, or should I make use of something else, like a period pillow case, etc?

[kingkaiser]

Aug 19, 2013 17:21:29 GMT -8 grenadierwerner said:

Can the breadbag be used as a substitute for a grenade bag in an assault, or should I make use of something else, like a period pillow case, etc?

Bread bags aren't large enough to hold too many stick grenades. However, I suppose that a bread bag could be used to carry a fair amount of egg grenades.

Many of the original stick grenade bags were field made from burlap sandbags. If you can get the right kind of burlap sandbags, you can easily, and cheaply, make a nice set of stick grenade bags.

[oskar2ndchev]

Or get yourself some lightweight canvas (available at Joanne's) in white or light grey. I''ve seen pictures of both.

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