Designed to help organize range cards, notebooks, and other range accessories—the Utility Organizer by Magpul is one of the various DAKA line of products offered for everyday life, or in the field. The Utility Organizer also ensures moisture protection and a means to ensure essential items are readily available.

Exterior

The Utility Organizer has a zippered-notebook style design, with an exterior made from polymer-infused textiles that are RF-welded on each seam. Moreover, the zipper is a YKK® AquaGuard® zipper with a paracord pulltab on the shuttle. The result is a water-proof shell that resists moisture penetration.

The exterior also includes a carabiner pass-through tab and Magpul’s dot-grid for custom identification.

Both sides of the exterior also include a semi-rigid polymer board inserted between the polymer-infused textile and interior to prevent puncture and give the overall organizer structure.

Interior

The interior or the Utility Organizer includes multiple envelope pockets on one side and a 1” band of elastic nylon (segmented into multiple slots for accessories).

The opposite side is a zipper-secured pocket for securing other loose items.

The Utility Organizer is available in a variety of colors to include Black (featured), Flat Dark Earth (featured), Red, and Emergency Orange. The Utility Organizer is also available in a standard size and a larger note-book size.

Product Evaluation Scores:

• Cost – Good (4/5): The list price for the Utility Organizer is between $29.95 and $44.95, with the difference being the size of the organizer purchased (the larger being the higher cost). Regardless, much of the cost reflects the polymer-infused textile and the manufacturing cost to produce it. The closest comparator to the Utility Organizer would be the Skyweight Pouch ($32.00) from 5.11, Clear Top Bag ($35.00) from Haley Strategic, or the Pocket Organizer ($27.95) from Right in Rain. However, all these alternatives are neither the same size, not as water-resistant, nor have all the features that the Utility Organizer offers. Thus for their price and what is offered, the Utility Organizer has a good price point amid the current market.
• Comfort – Good (4/5): From a comfort aspect, the polymer-infused exterior to the Utility Organizer was very soft and pliable, offering no hard edges or corners. The exterior surface of the material also held a tactile feel that ensured no slippage out of the hand. The YKK zippers moved easily, although did bind up a little over the corners (something that is common). The extended paracord pull tabs aided in manipulating the zipper shuttle over the turns. There was enough thickness to the exterior shell to offer a soft cover to the organizer that protected both the contents, and prevented them from protruding.
• Durability – Average (3/5): Durability of the Utility Organizer really was about the abrasion resistance of the exterior’s polymer-infused textiles to resist contact with hard surfaces, edges, and corners that may be experienced in the field and on the range. Continual use on and off range, at work, and in range bags showed no puncture, marring, or staining of the exterior material. Moreover, the interior pocket edges were dominantly single-line stitching, but it also had some double-line stitching for many high-stress areas and zippers. The interior is likely to have the least wear, but continuing that double-line stitching throughout the interior would have added to the product’s overall durability.
• Functionality – Good (4/5): Functionally, the use of the Utility Organizer varied depending on the size used. The standard size was more versatile for range tools (i.e. torque wrench), cleaning supplies (cleaning rods, brushes, Q-tips), and other items carried in a case or bag that would be ideal for supporting performance at the range of in the field. The exception there would be for stiff wire cleaning brushes used to clean rifle barrels, as the bristles pushed through the interior pocket fabric (but not through to the exterior fabric thanks to the semi-rigid polymer board inside the sides). The larger Utility Organizer was more for notebooks or to be used as a document binder to support keeping your notes, maps, or other documents protected. It should be noted for the consumer that although the RF sealed edges are water-resistant, the overall organizers are not water-proof (thus should not be submerged fully) and air/moisture did still pass through the zipper line. Care should be exercised when placing the organizer out in rain or other elements.
• Weight – Good (4/5): The weight of the Takeout varied from 6.6 ounces (empty) for the standard, and 16.5 ounces (empty) for the larger version. Th weight of each represents most of the materials used in creating the polymer-infused textile, the polymer boards, and nylon needed to create the internal pockets/dividers. Overall, neither was unwieldy nor unbalanced, and it was more about the weight of items placed inside that would influence the overall feel of the weight. In contrast, the Skyweight Pouch (3.52 ounces) from 5.11, Clear Top Bag (4.16 ounces) from Haley Strategic, or the Pocket Organizer (2.4 ounces) from Right in Rain—however none of them have the same internal organization and pockets that the Takeout offers. In far contrast, the standard 30-caliber ammo can weighed in at 3.9 pounds (or 62.4 ounces). Thus for the minimal differences in weight, the Takeout still offers a good added function for being just a few ounces more.

Overall Rating – Above Average (19/25)

Product Link: https://magpul.com/daka-utility-organizer.html

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