We’d like to introduce our first Knot of the Week mini-series, climbing knots. We’ll be reviewing some of the most common and useful knots used in climbing and mountaineering for the next few weeks.
Today we start with the Tape Knot. The Tape Knot is a quick and simple knot which only slightly differs from the traditional overhand knot or water knot. A Tape Knot is tied with tubular webbing, which is sometimes referred to as tape. Tubular webbing is used in climbing to make slings, runners and anchors due to its strength, surface area and ability to lie flat.
We’ll be using the Tape Knot in our demonstration to not only show how to tie it, but also how to join opposite ends of webbing together to make a sling, runner or anchor. [Read More…]
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After writing about the Mini Survival Kit a few days ago, I started to rethink mine, and came up with some modifications. I stumbled on the Web site of John McCann’s Company, Survival Resources, which has some great products! McCann is the author of Build the Perfect Survival Kit
which I quoted in the previous article.
For starters, I purchased three of the smallest pencils I’ve ever seen so I could throw one in my kit and use the plastic vial they come in for fishing supplies. I now have all the fishing hooks, leaders, weights and sewing needles in this tube and it organizes them quite nicely. [Read More…]
The Safariland SLS (Self-Locking System) Holster has proven itself in combat and on the streets, but for everyone that run a newer SLS, you may be asking yourself… What is THAT for?
Well, “THAT” is what Safariland calls the hood guard. We here at ITS call it a big turd. Yes, Safariland may claim “The Hood Guard helps protect the SLS from impact and premature release especially in an attempted takeaway.” But to us it’s more of a hinderance than a help.
The hood guard can get caught on all kinds of stuff, including your gear. It can also increase the time it takes to transistion from your primary weapon to your secondary, which isn’t a good thing. [Read More…]
Stenciling is something the Navy hammered into our brains as a way to distinguish our equipment from the next guy. It worked most of the time, even though I lost several pairs of skivies during laundry… go figure.
In the Navy they had a large stencil cutting machine that would punch letters and numbers out of card stock making a perfect stencil. You’d then use Texpen Fabric Markers to color in the stencil on whatever you’d need your name on. There were times that the stencil markers just didn’t cut it (crap out) and you’d resort to a Sharpie. [Read More…]
Before we start delving any further into our “Knot of the Week” series, we wanted to go over some terminology which is commonly found in knot tying. The purpose of this review is to make it easier to understand the words that get thrown around with some visual examples.
Another thing we’d like to quickly mention is a bit of housekeeping on our series. Up until now we’ve just lumped all the knots together as a Knot of the Week in our categories. We’ll now be categorizing them by their appropriate respective categories (Bends, Loops, Hitches, etc…) We’ll still keep the rating system on their properties the same. [Read More…]
We’ve tallied up the entries and chosen a winner for our Blue Force Gear VCAS Giveaway, and the winner is “BootlegGucci.” To make things fair, we assigned each person a number based on what position they appeared in on the comments… for multiple entries you were assigned that many numbers.
We entered all the numbers into random.org to draw a number, there were 40 numbers and #36 was chosen, which belonged to “BootlegGucci.” (Please email us to claim your prize!)
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest and those who signed up for our site, newsletter or RSS feed. We sincerely appreciate all the success we’ve had with the site so far and couldn’t have done it with readers like yourselves. In the little over two weeks we’ve been live we’ve had over 4,000 visitors!
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