VANQUEST 5" MOLLE Sticks (4 Pack) (Wolf Gray)

I’ve used various attachment styles for molle; these are by far my favorite. They are quick and easy to install and fit into place. They are durable and robust little clips and hold extremely well. What I love is how easy it is to strip them off should you want to. This design is perfect for a med pack or first aid kit that you want to easily and quickly remove from a large item. They hold on without any concern for falling inadvertently. The value of these are great when you consider they are only a little more expensive than straps, but will last much longer and have a much better function than those straps.

These looked weird. Just by looking at the pictures and videos, I couldn't figure out how they worked. Once they arrived, the "installation video" made complete sense.I purchased a set of Maxpedition TacTies first. They were alright. Later, I realized that the TacTies are too flexible and the "tabs" made inserting and removing pouches very difficult.Next, I bought a set of Blackhawk Speedclips. They felt so retarded, I never finished attaching a single pouch.Last, I bought a set of these Molle Sticks. WAY BETTER than the TacTies AND Speedclips. They slide through the webbing easier than the other 2 products, they are stiff and smooth, so it is easier to weave them back and forth between the webbing. Because they are hard plastic, they add rigidity to the bag/pouch.The Molle Sticks pull out super fast. It probably takes less than 1 second to pull out one of the Sticks.You can also attach 2 Molle pouches together. The concept sounds neat, but with my small collection of pouches, I just ended up with an awkward double pouch without a decent handle on it.

Okay, why did I give these only four stars. One reason and one reason only, they are a little thick to use with some gear. They are super fast to install and super secure [but] the thickness could be an issue depending on the pieces of equipment you are trying to molle together.

I'm a big fan of the Tactical Tailor MALICE clips for items I want to attach and then not remove. Ever. Solutions like the MALICE clips are fantastic if you want to attach something to MOLLE, but a terrible if you later have to unattach that item. If you have to frequently attach and reattach something like a FAK or EDC pack? Forget about it. Enter the MOLLE Sticks. I was skeptical at first after trying a lot of, for me, unsuccessful MOLLE attachment products, but these are fantastic. Very, very easy to quickly secure smaller packs and pouches to bigger bags with the option to quickly remove them later. Takes seconds versus minutes of yanking and stretching. While I'm not 100% convinced I would trust the MOLLE Sticks to attach something I knew was going to go through serious abuse, I'm not convinced I wouldn't either. I haven't had anything I've attached with MOLLE Sticks unintentionally come undone and that is more than I can say for a lot of other products out there.

Though these are pretty expensive for what they (plastic sticks), they meaningfully improve MOLLE functionality when you want an accessory to be able to be taken off and put back on without a massive hassle.

These MOLLE sticks are slick. I got my 4 pack of the Wolf Gray ones today and tried them out on my black battle belt.The wolf grey(roughly 15% grey) is low key and blends well with a black fabric but stands out so that you can see, at a glance, whether you've woven the stick through the right straps.The material that the sticks are made from are smooth and slides into, and out of, the MOLLE straps smoothly and reliably. The push/click to lock down is simple and intuitive. The pull/click to release is straight forward and the tether makes it easy to slide the stick out to perform a quick detach of the selected pack.I was worried that the sticks might be a weak point and snap at some point, but each of these MOLLE sticks has a center ridge which not only provides strength and rigidity, but also helps add some pressure between the mounting surfaces to provide a rigid and secure mounting.For use cases where you want the mount surface between the main pack and the smaller pack or the pack and the vest to remain flexible, these MOLLE sticks may prove to be too stiff. In those use cases, it may be better to use a more traditional nylon webbing strap system. But if you are mounting these on your pack, chest, hip, or leg mount points and want it to be rigid, these would work great.On my battle belt, the tip of the sticks extends beyond the bottom edge of the belt by about 1/2". Not much, but if that ends up digging into my hip/leg, it could be an issue. Will update this review once spent some time with these MOLLE sticks on my battle belt and with some packs/bags.

Really good idea. Super fast attachment of gear; better than any of the alternatives, BUT... out of the package of 4 that I received, two were defective. One snapped off at the top of the bend while I was installing (maybe a defect in the plastic?) and one wasn’t formed correctly and was too loose while clamped closed and would slide right out. The good news, if you can call it such for $20 is that I only needed two for my immediate purposes.

The Molle Sticks are incredible...wish I had these when I was in the military. They work great, durable and are easy to put into place.