Designed by Albuquerque’s Michael Martinez, these ambidextrous EMT Shears are spring loaded and incorporate a replaceable strap cutting ripping blade, ribbed utility grip and a lock to keep the shears closed when not in use. The El Santo is 3.484 inches and made from 3Cr13.
www.crkt.com/el-santo-trauma-shears-5007
Designed for use by breachers, the new Emergency Response Tool from Winkler Knives incorporates a Hammer, Glass Breaker, Wrench Set and Pry Bar. It will also fit into the PALS webbing on your vest for carriage. For scale, it’s just over 9″ long.
Many of us are wrapped up in the notion that speed is everything. Speed is a byproduct of working the fundamentals with absolute meaning. With any skill set requiring a tempo, beats per minute, or revolutions per second, we do not get faster by working fast. Any professional performer in any skill set works with meaning and in deep practice mode until the tempo at which he is training is perfected. Then, and only then, will he work / train up to the next level.
Regardless of whether you are playing a cello, drums, doing origami, or perfecting a martial arts move, perfection requires keen intellect, introspection and objective self-critique. Gun fighting is no different. If you are working draw strokes from the holster for example, at a certain speed with a shot timer, and your hit ratio is less than 100 percent, you are probably going too fast. Gradually increase speed once perfection or 100 percent is reached. Push until the wheels come off then back down again to a slower tempo. Additionally, work to a point of diminishing return. When you hit that point, a point that is different for all of us, stop or take a break. No need to encourage a bad habit.
Patrick McNamara
SGM, US Army (Ret)
Patrick McNamara spent twenty-two years in the United States Army in a myriad of special operations units. When he worked in the premier Special Missions Unit, he became an impeccable marksman, shooting with accurate, lethal results and tactical effectiveness. McNamara has trained tactical applications of shooting to people of all levels of marksmanship, from varsity level soldiers, and police officers who work the streets to civilians with little to no time behind the trigger.
His military experience quickly taught him that there is more to tactical marksmanship than merely squeezing the trigger. Utilizing his years of experience, McNamara developed a training methodology that is safe, effective and combat relevant and encourages a continuous thought process. This methodology teaches how to maintain safety at all times and choose targets that force accountability, as well as provides courses covering several categories, including individual, collective, on line and standards.
While serving as his Unit’s Marksmanship NCO, he developed his own marksmanship club with NRA, CMP, and USPSA affiliations. Mac ran monthly IPSC matches and ran semi annual military marksmanship championships to encourage marksmanship fundamentals and competitiveness throughout the Army.He retired from the Army’s premier hostage rescue unit as a Sergeant Major and is the author of T.A.P.S. (Tactical Application of Practical Shooting). He also served as the Principle of TMACS Inc.
Gunfighter Moment is a weekly feature brought to you by Alias Training & Security Services. Each week Alias brings us a different Trainer and in turn they offer some words of wisdom.
The Hobo Roll is a compressible stuff sack that incorporates dividers to allow you to organize your gear into five different compartments. 3.5oz in weight. Made from 30D ripstop nylon, the Hobo Roll weighs 3.5 oz and is 10″ X 15″ in size (20L capacity). Offered in several colors including Pinyon Pine seen here.
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Triple Aught Design built 25 of these cool folder blade carriers. They use the same materials as in their Meridian luggage.
It features a zippered closure and carrying handles.
There are three removable leafs in the Blade Keeper 2000 and each holds six knives in individual translucent compartments.
This is a short run only and hasn’t gone into production yet.
There are several new bits of cutlery from our friends at Bawidamann Blades.
There’s the Dvalinn, a collaboration with RMJ Tactical. Inspired by a deer head and antlers, the name comes from one of the deer that hang out around the Tree of Life, Yggdrasil. It’s a smaller EDC Tomahawk and you can see it definitely has some of the lines from their highly successful Ragnorak. It’s only 15 oz and 10.5″ tall. This scaling down means that the head is about .75″ shorter head than its big brother. With it, he’s also updated the Uber Scabbard. It’s now fully ready for belt, PALS and sling carry.
Next is the Stark, a barebones EDC neck knife. It’s made from CPM CRUWEAR steel with a 2-5/8″ blade and 6″ overall.
Finally, they’ve introduced a folder and the first six are for sale at Blade Show. They are full titanium framelock flippers including titanium handwear from Steve Kelly as well as a GTC Bearing System. The blades are acid etched CTS-HSP steel and the scales are milled with the Bawidamann Valkyrie pattern.
This is always a fun show! Let’s go look at some knives.
American Marauder has created a ‘Disgruntled Veteran of Operation Clean Sweep’ for all the angry enlisted that Ft Bragg seems to turn from warfighters into weedfighters….
The shirt depicts the Airborne Soldier with a weed eater and his fellow troopers jumping in with mop buckets, mops and it has a distressed look so you can pretend like you were there (again)…
www.americanmarauder.com/products/operation-clean-sweep-ft-bragg-shirt
