Full Body Armor Kit for $219? RTS Tactical Ultimate Bundle

[Music] hey everybody how's it goin 8c daily shooter and I think most of you understand that there's been this huge rush on firearms and ammunition right now FF ELLs are running out distributors are running out when an FFL gets inventory that inventory is gone in just a matter of minutes but there is another thing that people have been rushing to get lately that is not being talked about as much and that is body armor I've gotten probably more texts emails messages in the past month about body armor than I have in the entire seven years that I've been running this channel people want to know where they can find it where they can find something that works where they can find something that's inexpensive a lot of questions have been coming down the pipeline so I've been sitting on this box now for the past I don't know two and a half months as a matter of fact I forgot to review this I was supposed to review this like two months ago and it's been sitting on my shelf but I decided to pull this out because it's kind of a perfect opportunity to give you guys an option that is really really affordable this is a box that has body armor plate carriers it has gloves it has knee pads all sorts of stuff in it and this entire bundle comes in at 219 bucks 219 dollars so we're gonna go ahead and take a look at what comes with this kit today this is from let's have you got steel plates in there this comes from RTS tacticals you can see right there and this is their ultimate bundled now before I make this video I decided to go to the RTS tactical website and see was available see what was in stock so you guys aren't heading over to the website finding out that everything's sold out you can't get it anyway but while I was there I was surprised to see that they actually created a kit that comes in well under 200 bucks that is actually geared towards the national emergency' towards the pandemic and it's a pretty good bundle it's a basic bundle but still for those people that can't afford much you know comes in between 100 and 200 dollars and I thought that's a pretty good kit for somebody who you know is looking for something on the budget and again this is their ultimate bundle right here as of earlier today it was still going for 219 bucks so they're not price gouging or anything like that either which is cool so let's go ahead and see what we got in our box here and again I want to apologize to RTS tactical for sitting on this thing for the past few months instead of getting up to the review things have been a little bit crazy around here so as we open up the box the first thing that I noticed on top are gonna be these kneepads these are blackhawk kneepads let's go ahead and pop these things open and see exactly what we have in here as far as these pads are concerned it looks like actually we might have knee pads and elbow pads okay yeah that's what we have here so these actually are gonna be your elbow pads so you get a set of two elbow pads I'm gonna open these things up they actually feel pretty soft you know it's got these plastic cups right here these are gonna be for you know protecting your elbow not gonna hit your funny bone and you know be laughing on the ground when you should be fighting back but we have the elbow pads right there pretty soft material on the inside so nice and cushion they feel pretty good pretty flexible we have some elastic here with the velcro on it so you'll be able to throw those on your arms and protect your elbows and then we have another package here with our knee pads these are also going to be Blackhawk knee pads go and open these things up and take a look at these I think they're gonna be sort of similar to the elbow pads let's see if I can get these things out for you here so again we have two knee pads let me go ahead and separate these so they actually look like pretty nice knee pads a few different sets of knee pads some of them are a little bit different than others some have moving parts and so forth this one is basically a solid soft material backing so like a foam backing and then you have the actual plastic shell that's going to protect your knees so if you have to go to your knees you have to put your knees on the ground or you want to you know kick a door open or something like that this gives you the ability to do that without hurting your knees so we have elbow pads we have knee pads the next thing that we have in our bag here is going to be our plate carrier and I haven't even taken a look at this thing I took took a look at what it looked like online and if I haven't shown you guys already what this bundle looks like online I'll roll in a picture so you guys can see it that this thing is still closed up so let's go ahead and open in here and take a look at the carrier alright so it actually looks like a pretty nice carrier so we have a pretty large cumberbund as you can see there are three attachment points for your MOLLE webbing right there as a matter of fact it looks like this one will also accept side panels so you can put side panels if your in here if you want and then you also have a pretty nice section of Mali in the front as well we have some hook and loop right here so you can attach different patches and signe as logos medical you know whatever you want to put on there you can do that and it looks like it might be a pretty comfortable setup I'll go ahead and I'll put the plates on here in just a second so we'll install the plates and I'll try this thing on and let you guys know what I think about it it's got a drag handle that comes around the back and I mean it seems like a pretty decent setup as a matter of fact I see a lot of double stitching on here which is great the material looks good the padding on the shoulder straps feels pretty comfortable but at the same time not super thick where it's gonna stack things up otherwise it looks like a pretty cool pretty cool kit it's got some decent padding on the inside as well with some mesh for to you know allow it to breathe a little bit better so we have knee pads elbow pads we have the plate carrier itself and then it also comes with a set of I believe it's fingerless gloves so yeah again going with Blackhawk here we have some fingerless gloves as a matter of fact these are pretty nice gloves they do have a little bit of build up knuckle protection on them so it's kind of a soft glove there's no hard shell or anything on it like that so for those people that are you know used to like oakley gloves or something like that these would be more or less along the lines of mechanics glove so that type of a glove so it's actually a soft material it feels like maybe a leather or a pleather or something right here with some foam buildup to protect your knuckles and then there is also some foam build up right on the fingers as well so you do have a little bit of protection with that these are size large so these should fit me we'll try those on as well so I can let you guys know what I think about those and then on the bottom of our box here I know what else we got here RTS tactical patch so a little patch if you want to use that and I think that's pretty much it except for our plates these I've always told people you know steel plates just if you've never worn body armor before if you've never used body armor before steel plates are heavy these are actually ar500 steel plates not ar500 armor because ar500 armor is a brand but a r500 steel is just simply a type of steel they just name their company after that so it looks like we have some level three plates here these are ten by twelves so these are going to be rifle rated okay it doesn't seem like there's too much of a buildup coating there is a small spalling coating on here which you can see it's kind of like almost like that bedliner material right and that's supposed to take the spalling that you'd get from an impact and sort of contain it on the armor itself instead of letting it fly up into your neck and all over your body so that's supposed to contain the spalling but it's a very minimal buildup I think as a matter of fact when you go there and you order things you can order an extra buildup of spalling material on your armor does have a slight curve to it as you can see that's definitely gonna help with comfort I have some flat panels from ar500 armor and these I can tell you right now just a little bit of curve is definitely nice to have so again levels level 3 steel plates it looks like they are probably a quarter of an inch thick something like that and they seem pretty decent so let me go ahead and put this armor in the carrier here and see how everything wears again I'm pretty impressed for 219 bucks to get gloves body armor plate carrier knee pads and elbow pads that's a pretty good deal but let's try it on okay so I went ahead and install the plates put on the plate carrier got everything cinched down got my gloves on here put on the elbow pads the knee pads elbow pads look really goofy so I took them off but this is the kit that you get okay again with the extras now one of the nice things that I found when I was installing the plates here is that they're very easy to install you simply unbutton this bottom panel right here slide in your plate there's a Velcro lip you go ahead and you put the velcro on that holds everything in and then you flip this back underneath a couple buttons some velcro and holds everything in place and it actually holds it in place pretty good I've tried other plate carriers that cost significantly more money than this I mean the plate carrier itself costs almost twice as much as this and it doesn't hold the plates in as nice as this does plates are in there pretty firm both left and right top and bottom I don't feel any wiggle or anything like that there's not jibun not a bunch of extra material that's hanging out near the top right here where this thing's gonna slide around all too much it actually feels really nice it feels very comfortable it feels comfortable on my chest feels good on my back obviously we're just trying this on for the first time so it's more or less a first impression than an actual review I will wear this out get some time with it you know keep it on for several hours at a time and let you guys know what I think about it after that but everything feels pretty good the interesting thing is I have medium hands and I typically wear a medium glove maybe medium to large these are large size gloves and they fit my hand perfect I would say if there are any smaller for my hands then these just wouldn't fit at all so I'm gonna save that the size large on the gloves run just a tad small and that's something that you might want to to keep in mind but still pretty good dexterity I like the fact that there's no fingers on here so still gonna be able to use cellphones I'm still gonna be able to write and do little things that I need to wear you know I need my fingers especially like loading mags and stuff like that sometimes I take my gloves off to load mags but everything feels pretty good one of the nice things about this particular set up right here is that it comes with two different options for your cumberbund so you have your comfort button that goes around the sides if you want to wear these side plates you know put side plates in here you can go ahead and do that and wear the full size cumberbund now try and keep in mind that if it's hot outside you have a full size cumberbund it does hold a lot of that heat in and so it can become a little bit cumbersome now it's very easy to take these things off all you have to do and this is gonna be loud so give me just second here but all you have to do is simply lift up on this front panel right here there's a couple little flaps as they give you you can go ahead and pull and as we pull that up sorry the microphone cords kind of hanging out here as we pull that up you can see that we have these two velcro panels simply pull those off like this and then you can go ahead and take off your armor one of the nice things is that this actually comes with a secondary retention system if you want to use it this retention system allows you to simply just use this little strap which you can pull tight to keep the body armor on and you can remove the cumberbund altogether so if you want a lighter kind of easier to wear setup you just simply use the straps that are provided with the kit itself and just take the cumberbund off I'm not one for a massive cumberbund I just you know unless I know I need side panels I'm just gonna run front and back side panels can add to the weight and they can get pretty heavy you're already talking about steel body armor both front and back and that could be heavy on its own so I do like the fact that they give you the option to use the cover or to use just the side straps right here I'll probably just use the side straps myself I don't even think I have any side panels right now that would go in this kit but all in all I gotta say it's a pretty nice kit a lots of Molly lots of hook-and-loop you know drag handle feels pretty comfortable on the shoulders feels I can get I can get a pretty good extension keeps it away from your neck I mean it's not sitting there riding up on my neck which is another thing that I hate it is close to your neck it's not super far from your neck or angled out to where you know it's not gonna ride on your neck a little bit you can definitely going to want to wear a shirt that's going to give you a little bit of protection here and there are shirts that you can buy that actually have like it's almost like a half turtleneck kind of goes up the side right here and it's meant to protect you from body armor and it has wicking material that's in the center that also keep some of that sweat away and then fire resistant material as well but for a kit like this I mean 219 bucks I'm really impressed and I can't wait to take this out and actually do a full review on it maybe we'll shoot the Steel's see how you know holds up but this is level 3 so it's gonna hold up to your standard rifle calibers you know your 308 and 5 5 6 7 6 - 3 9s and all of the pistol calibers so basically it'll stop anything pistol and all your standard rifle caliber rounds you know it's really not bad you can keep this thing next to your bed throw it on real quick if you need to if you hear a threat that's in the house or something like that just gives you a quick and easy way to be able to protect your vital organs that's pretty much what these are designed to do so you want to make sure that you understand how to wear them you want to keep the body armor panel that's inside not the carrier don't worry about how high or low the carrier is but where's that body armor sitting on you you know it should be right around your red around your collarbone area it's supposed to protect your lungs your heart your spine and things like that your vital organs not supposed to protect your stomach it's not supposed to protect your liver and kidney unless you have on your side panels that's what's gonna you know help protect those things but again you want to make sure that you have this thing at the proper height and you know where the body armor panels are located inside but it's a pretty good deal gloves are pretty nice not too bad got a little bit of knuckle protection on them so that's pretty good again our elbow pads knee pads if you guys need those they got them as well not a bad deal so head over to RTS tactical check out the different bundles that they offer see what's in your price point if you guys are looking for body armor that's kind of the next thing that seems to be going because again the amount of interest that I'm getting in body armor lately has just been out of control and that is what reminded me that I had this sitting on my shelf for so long I went oh crap grabbed it and said I wonder how much you know they're charging for this right now with prices going up the way that they are and that's when I found out that this was two hundred and nineteen bucks that was just this morning and so I decided to make a quick video on it but I hope that guys hope that helps you guys out this is a different option if you guys are you know in the market for body armor I would say that it's worth checking out again I haven't reviewed it but first and initial impressions are pretty good so I want to thank you all very much for watching please like subscribe and have a great day [Music]

Channel: The Daily Shooter

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Keywords: rts tactical, rts, body armor, kit, ultimate bundle, full kit, blackhawk, gloves, elbow pads, knee pads, pads, ar500 armor, ar500, steel, plates, review, first impressions, unboxing, new, best, budget, gear

Id: nCE6R9aeT0k

Length: 14min 21sec (861 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 24 2020