Kore Essentials Trakline Belt

Malum Prohibitum said:

Why? Serious question.

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Well, in relation to belts with 1-inch incremental adjustments and when packing heavy metal, sometimes to achieve the tightness needed to get the belt to stay up would also cause the belt to be uncomfortably tight across the front edges of the pelvic bone. And loosening by an inch would result in the belt not being able to stay up during the course of a day while also carrying the weight.
With the Track belt, adjusting the belt a couple of clicks looser is just enough to relieve the pressure across the pelvis while still resulting in enough belt tightness so the belt doesn't eventually work it's way down on me. It makes a noticeable and comfortable difference, even more than I'd foreseen.
I actually have leather gun belts that I used to wear. When they are laid out flat, they are no longer straight. They actually curve along their length in an imprecise "S" shape. I think that's because the one-inch adjustment interval caused me to cinch the belt tight enough so that the belts were unduly stretched to get them tight enough so that they would stay up while loaded.
The gun belt version of the Track belt hasn't yet done this after two months of daily usage. And I think that it never will because the much smaller increments of adjustment allow me to get it tight enough without having to over-tighten as I'd done with belts with one-inch adjustment increments.
If it's hard to visualize the issues caused by getting a belt tight enough to carry the load, imagine if belts were made to adjust in two-inch or four-inch increments. To get such a belt tight enough to carry a load it would be almost a miracle that such a belt could be tightened enough so that it wouldn't be very terribly and horribly uncomfortable to wear. The larger the adjustment interval, the more the belt must be "cinched" to be short enough in circumference to carry the load.