The great cartridge belt debate - part 2
Golly, it was nearly a month ago now that we first touched upon the thorny issue of cartridge belts (posts passim) but left the other critical issue related to this topic unanswered: in or out?
Take for example this chappie. Its all very well wearing your squibs on the outside if you are as skinny as the proverbial but for those of us stouter bulldogs, it isn’t very practical – because you cant r
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Also, the leather and shells get wet if kept outside the coat. Not a serious problem, but not what one would call an optimal situation.
As you note, the problem is a considerable one, for us fatties (okay, for me specifically): if I keep the belt outside, I look like an armed barrage balloon, and if I keep it inside, I can't button the old Barbour, which means that the cold wet wind gets inside and chills the tumblode.
And don't suggest getting a "bigger" Barbour: they don't MAKE them any bigger, the skinnycentric bastards.
I should sue.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | August 26, 2005 6:46 PM
Cartridge belts of ALL sizes made to measure available from Wrights of Huntly, High St., Inverurie. 01466 792782.
Once made one following an order from a "prominent" local fieldsports figure; he measured 54" around in July. He came to pick it up just before christmas, by which time he'd outgrown it by a further 6"! Still, a new 60+" one was made, dispatched, and the original 54" belt was soon also sold.
Who ate all the Pies?
Ha ha!
Posted by: saddler | September 6, 2005 11:51 AM