Review of 5 11 Active Shooter bag.

[Browning]

A little while back I asked for some suggestions for a 'Night Stand Bag'.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=380733

Here's what I ended up with.

5 11 Active Shooter Bag

http://www.gtdist.com/ProductDetail.aspx?PartNumber=511-56026-019

Towards the end of the Night Stand Gun Bag Thread I was asked to give product review once I'd had a chance to beome familiar with it by Robert Hairless. Since then I've had a chance to use it a bit and I've managed to form some impressions. So I thought I'd go ahead and make what I learned about the positives and negatives of this bag public.

Positive impressions of the 5 11 'Active Shooter' bag

1. It's low in price ($36.99) and as a result affordable to just about everyone.
2. It's made of pretty good materials (1000 d nylon body fabric) and it seems like it would be hard to tear it up unless you were trying to do so.
3. The mag pouches are placed correctly on the outside of the bag and easy to reach.
4. When hung on the left side of the body for a right handed shooter to operate an AR15 (keeping your right hand on the grip and using your left hand exclusively to grab open the pouch, grab the mag and operate most of the controls on the AR) it's exactly where you need it to be.
5. The shoulder strap is sturdy, it's readily adjustable to either lengthen or shorten the strap as needed, there's a quick detach clip on it so that you can take it off without pulling it off over your head and there's also a shoulder (M60 style rifle sling) pad so that the strap doesn't chaffe the skin on the side of your lower neck or your shoulder.

Negative impressions of the 5 11 'Active Shooter' bag.

1. The main zipper pocket doesn't have a divider and as a result items in there slide around alot.
2. Trying to put an empty mag back into one of the pouches while using only one hand is just about impossible since there isn't any kind of plastic inserts to keep the mouth of the pouch open so that it doesn't collapse.
3. When walking fast or running the bag tends to either slap your side or to sway back and forth. Some attachment for the back of the bag to your belt orbody is needed, I've managed to jerry rig a G.I. mag pouch clip to the back so that it hooks onto my belt (there's a small piece of nylon webbing in the center region of the back of the bag that this can be attached to).
4. The two pouches on the side of the bag are of decent sized and pretty well placed, but it would be a little nicer to have some Molle straps on either side to be able to attach different sized pouches as the user saw fit for various purposes instead of being stuck with fixed pouches that may or may not work for what you're trying to put in there.
5. There isn't a metal clip (that's on some of the new Molle vests, on the strap of the Maxpedition Versipack or that's on the old LC-1 web gear 'Y' or 'H' style straps) on the shoulder strap where you could hook on a cell phone case, a compass, trauma pad, knife or whatever.

All in all I'm still happy that I bought it as it's a pretty good bag for the money, but if you like changing things around to suit your tastes then this isn't the bag for you and you should get something a little more modular.

 

[Browning]

Some pictures of the bag with its siblings.

I'll try to get some pictures up and some feedback up on it from the next time I go to the deer lease when I'm able to move around and use it instead of being married to one part of the firing line at the range.

It worked pretty well at the range, but that was just standing, kneeling and then sitting at the bench. However it might be a little different story when moving around (walking fast or running) and trying to fish mags or other items out of there.