5.11 Tactical Men's Active Work Pants, Superior Fit, Double Reinforced, 100% Cotton, Style 74251

OK for a new pair of pants. Looks like top notch quality, as expected. Minor complaint is that for some reason 5-11 garments come with an advisory note to close all zippers, button all buttons and turn the garment inside out before washing. Bad advice. Almost all my previous 5-11 garments ended up with lost buttons because of that. The most important advice is to wash in cold water, leave all buttons unbuttoned, zipper open and do not turn inside out. And TUMBLE DRY. My older 5-11 pants are not wearable because they're now two sizes too small. They shrunk due to hot wash/regular dry cycle in the clothes dryer.

I have come to expect good quality from the 5.11 brand. These pants live up to that quality level. There are couple of things that I am finding the more I wear them... the material is very good quality however; it collects a ton of lint, fur, hair, little fuzzy things. By the end of shift my pants are covered in it. I have started bringing a lint roller with me. If a patient has pets... forget about it. My comment is around presenting a professional image requiring you to de-lint yourself between calls. The second note is the cargo pockets don't have loops on them, which if you are a whacker you carry trauma shears or stethoscope in them... a nit but point of consideration. In closing, I feel 5.11 is a great source of supply for quality EMT pants, these pants due to the material may not be their best pair for you.

These are NOT "the original"- features are missing or reduced.The headline should read, "Like the original ...but a little less."What is happening at 5.11? I've been wearing these pants for about 5 years now, and just ordered a pair in the grey.The color is good and construction is typically 5.11 rugged. But as my headline said, they took away the small right-hand pocket and made the cell pocket smaller! That little knife and flashlight pocket that used to be right below the right normal pocket is gone. Why?Also the Velcro-closing cell pocket is so much smaller that my Samsung G7 has to be shoved in and struggled out because that pocket has been reduced about 1/3 inch in width and maybe more in depth. The Velcro flap has to be stretched hard and the phone pushed down in order to get it to fasten over the phone. It fits fine in my pre-2019 tactical pants. What the hell is happening here?This is absolutely ridiculous. Why mess with something that was essential and keep the stupid stuff nobody cares about, like the useless "tool strap" over the right-rear pocket or the just-as-useless "D" ring nobody uses?I never thought that my old Tac pants would someday be "from the good old days" but if this pair is typical the good old days lie behind us, which is a real shame.Wake up 5.11!

There really isn't anything I don't like about these pants except, that they don't make this design in a different material that doesn't wrinkle! It's a great material for durability and everything else, but it wrinkles terribly and I hate ironing! They can look pretty bad if you don't iron them frequently. I love all the pockets! It saves me from having to carry a murse (man purse) everywhere I go. I work as a research and development engineering technician, and I can easily carry on me most of what I will need in a day, tool wise, that will allow me to complete a job without needing to lug a tool bag around. These pants are comfortable, rugged, and I never have to fear splitting my pants out like I used to happen too frequently with regular old carpenter jeans. The pockets are deep and reinforced to handle clipping on a knife, tape measure, multi-tools, etc., without wearing out the openings at the corner edges of the pocket or the bottom of the pocket. 511 Tactical carries numerous kinds of pants, but this is the only design I like, but for some reason they won't make this pant design with a different material, I don't understand that!? I love some of the other pant materials they have that don't wrinkle and are just as tough, but none of the other designs they have fit me very well and their pocket layout isn't as good as this design. I'm confused! Somebody from 511 tactical, please tell me why you will not make this pant design with your more premium, Teflon coated, rip-stop, or other nicer wrinkle free materials other than the heavy wrinkly cotton? I need these pants to look good as I am constantly between working the shop floor, touring VIP's through development and production areas, or standing in front of VIP's making presentations and dealing with management. The pants need to serve multiple purposes and these really only cover the rugged aspect well. Please let me know when you have these pants available in a different material!!! I'll buy a dozen of them in every color possible!!!

While not as versatile as a full ninja suit, these pants are perfect for when I need to do some 'tactical" action: Tactical dog walking, tactical lawn mowing, tactical Sunday drives, tactical SEAL raids against high-value targets. Nothing's too tactical for these action pants.If you live a life of action like me, these pants are for you.

I wear 32@32 in 99% of different brand name pants, these pants were "extremely" baggy and the length was long but the waist was good. I to wash them in HOT water then the dryer on HOT cycle for 2hrs. They came out a lot smaller which it needed, almost perfect.In hot humid summer weather the pants don't slide well on the legs, for work I get in and out of a full size van and the pants stick to my legs. The strap that goes across the right rear pocket gets in the way of getting into the pocket.The pants iron easily and the stretch waist is ok, my personal preference is not to have one.I won't be buying these again.A couple weeks durability is good no signs of wear.

I have several pairs of the Covert Cargo Pants but when trying to buy some more could not get them anywhere. I decided by my previous purchases of 511 cargo pants to go for the Tactical pants,mostly because they are 100% cotton like the Old Covert Cargo Pants I’ve owned,all the other 511 range of cargo style pants don’t seem to be a 100% cotton and that is a must for me. The Tactical pants are very similar to the Old Covert pants apart from the pocket arrangements,I prefer the Covert Cargo Pants on the pocket arrangements. The Tactical pants are very comfortable just like the Covert pants and the fit is excellent just like the Covert Cargo Pants,I am a 36W x 32L and they fit just right. It’s a shame if 511 have discontinued the Old Covert Cargo Pants but as long as they keep making the 100% cotton Tactical pants they will do me as a replacement as I wear them all the time.

I work in retail security on nights and therefore do a bit of shelf-packing when there are no demanding customers in the shop so I end up kneeling for a fair amount of the time. I bought two pairs of these around 18 months ago (first one, then I was so impressed, I bought a second pair) and wear them five nights a week at work so in effect, it is like continuous, 40 hours/week wear for 9 months. They are the best wearing trousers I have ever had in this job.They are extremely well built and the rather understated D-ring is on mine, welded so it will never open so I keep my Smart Pass and SIA badges on that. The diagonally-opening pockets are very good for quick access and I keep my handcuffs in one of them - quick access no visibility - if you see my handcuffs, it is because you are going to be wearing them.The small, long pocket on the left is ideal for pens (two normal, one fne marker for writing on CCTV photographs and a UV pen, along with a UV torch that goes in there as well) and the larger pockets below them are off to one side so I keep my pocket notebook in one of those.The belt holes will take wider belts (50mm) which takes the Peter Jones Klick Fast dock without mofing around on which I have my two-way radio.In short, they are well built, last ages, provide you with the pockets you need and are worth every penny. After all that time, I about to order some more.

As above, I describe these as my annual trousers, I buy one pair every year or so and wear them constantly for everything. They wash nicely and last longer than jeans or other so called 'work' trousers. Loads of pockets so I can carry phone, keys etc.

Like these have been ordering and wearing them for years. A pity they do not do a 33inch Waist 34 to big and 32 just a wee bit tight. Overall happy with them

Really great product and service from the supplier, I’ve since ordered 3 pairs in different colours, I need trousers that I can work in but are still smart enough to be around my principals family and visitors.