Mystery Solved – Backpack Finally Hearts Armor

The Mystery Cinch is a 1″ wide strap that secures your pack’s shoulder straps to your body armor, shown here on an Eagle Industries RAV, using existing PALS channels. With the cinch’s ends secured at the front edges of your vest’s armholes, it wraps around your pack straps, keeping them from sliding off your shoulders. It also obviates the need for a sternum strap.

As a bonus, on smaller packs that don’t need a waist belt it creates a ghetto one-point release that lets the wearer shrug his shoulders out of the pack straps once the cinch is split. MR used one of ITW Nexus’ newer buckles called the MQRB, which is a beefy metal buckle that will hold up better than a typical sternum strap.

The anchor points go under the PALS without weaving so you can mount something over it. The cinch will work with all backpacks whose straps are long enough to accommodate it and will cost about $30.