We have kept sample carriers available for departments to wear for years. Put one on an officer, on shift, before your department spends an armor budget with us. We cover shipping both ways.
We keep six to eight sample carriers available at any time. The table below lists the armor each one is built around and the size range it adjusts across, so your department can decide whether one of them will work rather than wait on us to say. Ask for it by number, or tell us your armor and sizes and we will point at the closest match.
Once a department has decided it wants our carrier, or is seriously looking and large enough, we build carriers to your own spec and to your officers' sizes for them to wear before you place the order. Terms are arranged with us directly. [ what counts as large enough, owner to confirm ]
Shipping is covered both ways in either case. There is no purchase order and no card involved, and nothing is invoiced for a carrier that is worn and returned.
We answer within one business day, either naming a sample that fits somebody in your department or saying what it would take to build one.
Ground freight on us, usually out the same week. The carrier arrives with your department's identification panels fitted and a prepaid return label in the box.
Two weeks is the usual window, and it is a working evaluation — patrol, vehicle, vest off and on. Ask and we extend it so more than one officer gets time in it.
Call the shop, email, or fill in the sheet that ships with the carrier. What the officer wanted changed is where your own spec starts.
Nothing is invoiced either way. If you order, the sample goes back and your build starts against the spec the evaluation produced.
Departments that need a signed loan agreement for their property records can ask for one and we will send it with the carrier.
A carrier that feels right in the hallway can be wrong by hour six. These are the things officers come back to us about, in the order they usually notice them.
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Anything else, the shop answers the phone: (208) 267-8090. More on paperwork and payment in the questions page.
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We write down which sample went where, who signed for it, the armor it was fitted to, the pouch layout it left with, and its condition on the day. You get the same record by email, so your property officer has it on file too.
The carrier is inspected, cleaned and closed out against the same record, and what the officer wanted changed goes in beside it. That note is why the samples get better every year, and it is where your build spec starts if you order.
Availability changes as samples go out and come back. Samples are cleaned and inspected between departments, and identification panels are swapped for yours. Each carrier adjusts across the range shown. We publish the ranges so you can look down the list, match them against your officers and your armor, and decide yourself whether one of these will tell you what you need to know — then ask for it by number. Armor models, size ranges and loadouts in this table are placeholders until the shop confirms the current samples.
We reply within one business day, either with a sample that fits somebody in your department or with what it would take to build carriers to your spec. If you already know what you want, configure it in the Loadout Designer and mention that you would like to wear one first.
Loadout DesignerExpect an email naming the sample we can send and the ship date, or a call if we need to talk through the armor first.