Preview: Full Forge Gear Shooter’s Cut Armor Plates

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posted on January 26, 2025
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Full Forge Gear Shooter’s Cut Armor Plates

A maker of durable backpacks, range bags and gun cases—Full Forge Gear recently leveraged its knowledge of heavy-duty materials to leap into the personal-armor market with the introduction of the Shelter plate carrier and two different lightweight plate options compatible with it.

Both offered in a shooter’s cut, which provides a greater coverage area than swimmer’s cut plates but grants the arms less range of motion, the Extreme Lite plates are Level IIIA (rated to stop handgun bullets up to .44 Mag.) by the National Institute of Justice, while the Feather Weight plates meet NIJ’s Level IV standard and are thus capable of countering even many high-velocity rifle cartridges. Incredibly light for their respective ratings, Extreme Lite plates weigh only 1 lb., 5 ozs., each and the Feather Weights run 6 lbs., 11 ozs., apiece.

MSRPs are as follows: Shelter, $180; Extreme Lite (Level IIIA), $136; Feather Weight (Level IV), $216. For more information, visit fullforgegear.com.

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