Ranger Plates?

[osok-308]

So I have been looking at magpul's website a lot, and I have to ask, what are the purpose of ranger plates? I know, I probably sound like an idiot, so feel free to make fun of me too.

[wARmachine15]

You want to be like a Ranger don't you?!?

[275RLTW]

They are designed to give you something to stick your finger through to pull them out of your pouches and to give you a flat surface on your magazine to use as a support when shooting prone.

Don't know why they called them that especially since we (Rangers) don't use them. 550 cord and tape works fine and still allows you to use the retention on your pouches and I've never had a prone shot in combat where I wanted to be that high off the gound...

[NightCat]

...never used those when I was with the regiment, or anything really like it....we had the Original "magpul" but...eeh.

[osok-308]

You want to be like a Ranger don't you?!?

i can't even tell you how hard i laughed at that. I guess my question is are they really much different from magpuls?