Can a Fanny Pack Be "Tactical"? (Vertx SOCP Review) 

Almost perfect for motorcycle. Most riding gear is horrible for concealed carry so this is a good options.

My wife and I both carry this pretty often. We wear it as a sling bag on the front vs as a fanny pack. She primarily carries it when she's doing the grocery shopping by herself with our toddler. We DO have the Premier Body Armor insert in the back just as a little bit of protection for center mass, and I do actually like the rigidity it adds. We rarely use it for off-body carry, so that portion typically has our medical stuff, and the other pocket will have regular essentials like wallet, chapstick, keys, feminine stuff, oc spray, etc. Those little side wing pockets vary depending on what we have going on, but it's usually like a handcuff key on one side and a small bottle of hand sanitizer on the other. But again that changes on which one of us is carrying it and what we're doing. That knife pocket area on the back is where I usually have handcuffs and reflective VisiBlue police beanie for identification purposes. For the phone pocket up front, it just barely fits my Google Pixel 8 with a hard case, so usually don't use it for that. That's usually where I have my backup battery bank for our phones. The only time I use the phone portion for my phone is for Facebook marketplace lol. We've been getting rid of a bunch of stuff on there, so when I meet up with a random person in public to sell something I have my phone in there with the flap tucked in recording our entire interaction. It's not necessarily common in my area, but definitely not unheard of for those meetups to turn into a robbery attempt. Overall we love the bag! Ours definitely didn't come with the holster retention piece though 😢 lol. Really enjoy your channel man!

THAT PHONE PART that is so cool, I have never thought of how a sling could do that.

Love to see a direct comparison to the SOE gear FUPA.

I attached a Blue Force Gear admin panel (it has built in elastic mag pockets) inside of a Mystery Ranch Hip Monkey bag to better organize my edc. Also works well as a ersatz chest rig.

I usually carry appendix, but I use this bag everyday by putting my carry gun in the bag if I’m going to the gym, if I’m home and not having to carry inside the waistband, or as a IFAK that I bring everywhere. I’m able to carry medical, admin, extra mag, and a velcro backed kydex holster. It also acts as a bedside “kit” since I’ll have all the mentioned items at a moments notice. Not sure if the first patch had some lemons, but my first SOCP had tearing in the corner within a couple months of using. Luckily, Vertx replaced it and I’ve been using it daily for the past year and half. Good product overall

Use this pack in nearly the exact same way. Do have the SOCP Dagger. It is a nice little pack, but a tight fit with a Glock 19. Nice review of a like you said a niche pack/loadout.

I wear one of these for gym carry, been wearing it for like 9 months now at the very least, and I'm learning new stuff about this I didn't even know. The armor plating, the pouch in the back, the pouch for sliding in the armor plate, the little pockets on the side But otherwise I do a lot of what you've mentioned, such as removing that mesh liner in the gun pouch. For my gun I had a spare kydex holster so I just removed the belt clip and stuck some hook velcro onto it. For the phone pouch I've found it to be the most useless feature for me. I can't easily unlock my phone since my phone still uses fingerprint unlock. Also the material is kind of frictiony-adhesivy, if that makes sense. My phone doesn't slide right in I have to kind of manipulate it into the pouch. I just opt to carry it in my pocket instead.

I'd like one but I make the one I have work, it was ridiculously expensive at a store 25 years ago and marked donw to $20 clearance. After I seen the soe one I added another strap to it and customized it some. Only been using it about a year now lol.

You mentioned not being able to carry in athletics: That’s where gear like the PHLster enigma or Hunter Constantine IWB Belt comes into play. DO NOT USE BELLY BANDS!!! Things like BravoBelts are absolutely NO GO’s!!!

We need an updated edc video soon !

Bluetooth shutter button would work for snapping pics

only thing I dont like is the front phone flip down, if theyd just give another thin profile pouch area thatd have been better imo. why I went with a diff fanny

Let's goooo ❤

Awesome review, can you do a review on the European Medics Lazarus Medic Pack?

This will sound weird, but the reason you may not pick out the LEO/Military/Medic despite looking, is you're looking for obvious things, not the non obvious things based on your background.

I have one in all black.

You can record anywhere in public without anyones consent at all. 99 percent of the time you’re going to be in public if you need it anyway. Besides that…the average guy isn’t going to need to use this unless shit has hit the fan and if that’s the case breaking a privacy law would be the least of our worries.

Are you selling any more of the knives?

What brand holster was he using?

New intro sequence?

How would fill this for ccw and medical?

What product is this? The “Bap Strap?”

"Can a fannypack be tactical?", I guess, but not tacticool.😎