Archive for January, 2012
Knight’s Military Catalog 2012
Sunday, January 29th, 2012Amber Alert – Crye Compact Assault Ghillie
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Crye Precision debuted a great product at SHOT Show; the Compact Assault Ghillie. The thought process is simple, snipers aren’t the only guys who need ghillie style camouflage. Crye came up with their solution which is super lightweight, super compact and super cool. In fact, it is so cool that someone walked off with their sample, right out of the booth. I guess we’ll know who it was when it shows up on eBay, shows up on an attention whore website, or shows up as a “new” product from some chop shop. No matter who it was, do the right thing and send it back. I’m sure it misses home.
BFG Helium Whisper Dump Pouch Deployed
Sunday, January 29th, 2012We mentioned the Helium Whisper technology and new Blue Force Gear dump pouch. Tactical Fanboy has a video of Blue Force Brittney talking about that little spent mag pouch if you want to go check it out.
-DR
Magnum Boots Recaps SHOT Show
Saturday, January 28th, 2012SHOT 2012 Followup: Women’s Tactical Association
Saturday, January 28th, 2012Patrol rifle courses, tactical shooting classes, SWAT and room entries, offensive/defensive driving, ballistic shield work, grappling and defensive tactics…just a few of the things the Women’s Tactical Association has been doing over the last couple of years. Though there are the usual haters and nay-sayers (as always), given the quality and caliber of some of their instructors it’s pretty clear how serious they are. Any doubters are welcome to show up to a training event and see for themselves. One of the WTA staffers, Kim Heath, is an NPRC competitor and a contributor over with our friends at BOLO Reportand the WTA President Karen Bartuch is apparently going to start writing there as well.
WTA member at the LMT Booth at SHOT: they're supposed to be visiting the LMT factory soon.
We bring up the WTA here because they are trying to get the word out to military females. Whether you’re a female K9 Security Forces airman who just PCSed to Andrews from Altus or a seasoned gunnery sergeant out at Pendleton (shout out to Bunch and Byer there), they’d like to get you involved. Initially they were thinking mostly of Security Forces and Military Police females, but as the organization has grown they’ve made a place for women of a number of backgrounds (OSI, CID, engineers, you name it). You may recall Tactical Fanboy ran an article on them previously; three of these tough ladies were at SHOT – Kim and Karen and another veteran officer named Jessica. We had time to catch up with them briefly despite the demands many of the larger companies were making on their time.
WTA member at SWAT Roundup recently.
Karen conducted an impromptu interview with the NRA, which you’ll find below. If you’re interested in joining the WTA (they also have male members, FYI, many of whom you right recognize), check them out on line, on their Facebook page or just e-mail them at womenstactical(at)sbcglobal.net. Oh, and they’ve got a new YouTube Channel as well.
Here’s an interview with Karen at SHOT:
-DR
The Story Behind the Vickers Combat Application Sling
Saturday, January 28th, 2012While this video has been around for awhile, it is still a great story. Larry Vickers recounts how he met Blue Force Gear founder Ashley Burnsed and created the Vickers Combat Application Sling.
For The Ladies – Tacticute
Friday, January 27th, 2012During SHOT Show a lot of folks asked Tactical Mama about the “Tacticute” tab she was sporting on her badge holder.
These are the creation of my friend Dave, proprietor of Mojo Tactical located on Oahu Hawaii. He’s also the mad genius behind zombie cookie monster. I have a feeling the first run is going to go fast.
Mossberg Flex System
Friday, January 27th, 2012Here is a copy of the main marketing material that Mossberg was passing out at SHOT Show for their new Flex system that allows you to rapidly reconfigure 500/590 series scatterguns into a variety of setups. Wonder if any after market companies will build to the Tool-Less Locking System standard.
