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EDC dump after a year of refining it — went smaller and more boring

Rangium Community TeamStarter contentFeb 25, 2026

Started carrying a year ago with a full-size and a giant first-aid setup I never trained with. Now it's a compact 9mm in a quality AIWB holster with a proper belt, a spare mag, a small flashlight, a tourniquet I've actually practiced applying, and a phone. The belt was the upgrade that changed everything — a real gun belt made carrying comfortable enough that I stopped leaving it at home. What did your loadout look like a year in versus day one?

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Carrying a light is so slept on. ID before you act, find dropped keys, walk to your car. It earns its place every day, gun or no gun.
Tourniquet you've trained with > fancy gun you haven't. Way more likely to use the TQ on a car wreck than ever draw the pistol. Good loadout.
What holster did you land on? Looking to get into AIWB and the comfort complaints scare me off.
Mine got more boring too. Day one I had a knife, two mags, pepper spray, the works. Now it's gun, mag, light, phone. Whatever I'll actually carry consistently wins.
The belt is the single most underrated piece. People drop $600 on a gun and $9 on the thing holding it up. Glad you figured it out.