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Spartan Blades – New Designs

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Spartan Blades showed us a couple of new designs at SHOT Show. From top to bottom:

-Spartan Harsey Hunter – This one has been around awhile. Built in cooperation with renowned knife designer “Bill” Harsey, it’s intended to pull double duty as a fighting or hunting knife.

-Spartan Harsey Model 2 – Another knife built in cooperation with “Bill” Harsey.

-Phrike – A smaller knife, it should hit the market this Spring.

www.spartanbladesusa.com

S&S Precision Shiv

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Here’s a photo of the S&S Precision Shiv we previewed at SHOT Show. Still no date on price or release date.

www.sandsprecision.com

Jones Tactical Belts on Tactical Fanboy

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Tactical Fanboy wrote an article on Jones Tactical‘s belts. Their two-tone belts feature AustriAlpin buckles and have set the standard for customized gun belts.

www.tacticalfanboy.com

Maxpedition Luggage Lock

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Sometimes the simplest things catch our eye and the Tactical Luggage Lock from Maxpedition we spied at this year’s SHOT Show is no exception.

Available in Black, Khaki and Foliage Green, it is a 3-Dial combination TSA lock. This means it is good to go for air travel in the US and UK.

www.maxpedition.com

Magnum Boots Recaps SHOT Show

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Magnum Boots had one hell of a SHOT Show. Check out their online recap…

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SHOT 2012 Followup: Women’s Tactical Association

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Patrol 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

SHOT 2012 Followup: S&W Teams with Magpul on new rifle

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Smith & Wesson has a new M&P15 MOE rifle  This one is the M&P15 MOE Mid-Length MAGPUL SPEC Series with Magpul furniture and S&W/Magpul co-branded lower receiver (a forged lower based on the original Magpul billet lower). The MOE Mid- comes with the DVD set Art of the Tactical Carbine I and II along with the appropriate Magpul goodies.

 

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Weird Rail Accessories

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Tactical Fanboy caught this interesting Mil Std 1913 rail accessory courtesy of Spartan Imports.