We’ve been selling both for several years and the one thing we know in this business, is we can’t stock enough belts to accommodate everyone.   Some want leather belts, or the leather “looking” belts, some need nylon and others are particular about what kind of buckle or rescue type attachment.  I’ll have to say that I’ve been wearing The Wilderness belts for almost 16yrs and am presently on my 3rd belt.  The first one wore out the velcro after about 4yrs and at the time, I didn’t know you could send it back to The Wilderness for like $10 or $12 and get it fixed.   Later I gained a little weight and had to go up one size.  The 1.5″ 5 stitch is pretty much the belt that people refer to as The Wilderness Instructor belt.

One of the main reasons we stuck with this belt so far, and by far our #1 selling nylon belt is we don’t get complaints about durability of them.  There’s been a lot of complaints about the 5.11 version of this belt not holding it’s color and the buckle not holding the paint and chipping easily.    The Wilderness Instructor Belts also will easily work in Tru-Spec, Blackhawk, 5.11, Proper and many other tactical pants styles.   We have had some issues with the Cobra Belts being difficult to get through some of these pants.   I also have a  Wilderness  1.75″ 5 Stitch instructor belt that seems to support duty gear a little better like, Pepper Spray, Baton, Flashlight ect.  The there is a Youtube video that The Wilderness has for getting the proper sizing so please watch that so you can get it right if you are ordering online, many people don’t and this is a high return item due to customer laziness.