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The china carriers are like the $60 things that come with pouches. You'll think it's great because you paid $60, wear it to a few games, yeah great for price. Then you'll start playing harder and realize your pouches are coming apart, the PC is uncomfortable, and the neon repro multicam pattern glows in the sun.
The high end repro's are $160-$200 and perfectly fine for airsoft. Stitching is pretty good, materials are real, they're comfortable, and up to date on modern designs.
High end repro would be like ur-tactical.com or semapogear, or in rare example; SKD's first spear STT which is purpose made to be an affordable FS plate carrier with all the cool options.
RS carriers range from $160 upwards. Condor USED to be high end china clone, but since the US military apparently now uses them, they are now real steel.
Crye, mayflower, LBT, eagle, HSGI, ferroconcepts, etc
Real steel doesn't ALWAYS mean top end best made shit. Sometimes it's just high end china clone quality at ridiculous prices (*cough* BLACKHAWK *cough*)
All the veterans around here are going to recommend the top end china repro to RS end for 3 major reasons:
-comfort: proper sizing, real material, fewer jagged edges, cable routing
-it's not going to fall apart on you after 3 games, a season, or 5 years...
-resale value
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