Ok Guys and Girls, it’s time for our collective tactical voice to be heard.
Chuck Taylor All-Stars are arguably one of the most popular shoes to ever be produced, and have been unofficially adopted by the tactical community and military for a long time.
There are thousands of color schemes Converse has produced over the years, but none that are truly tactical!
Yes, there are black canvas on black sole Chucks, which are awesome, but none in true tactical colors.
The Tactical Chucks pictured here (The bag says Vintage 1946) were seen at the 2010 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, and if we didn’t grab a photo of them, would have slipped into oblivion.
We contacted Converse and eventually got routed to their eStore email address, who needed visual confirmation to give us any information about the elusive Tactical Chucks. Luckily we had a photo…
Just to provide a full disclosure, we’ve attached the email correspondence from Converse so you can see just why we’ve created a petition to get these Tactical Chucks made! [Read More…]
Before we announce the winner, we’d all like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our contest and all the great feedback that was left.
You all have made our coverage of the 2010 SHOT Show worth every minute of our time, and there’s no way we won’t be brining you even more coverage next year!
The winner of our SHOT Show Schwag is… Crew Member “Shift.” Shift was Crew Member #107 of 176 entries, and as always we used random.org to choose the winner.
A big congratulations to Shift, and thanks again to everyone who participated!
Shift, please contact us if you haven’t received an email yet.
While at the 2010 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, we had the opportunity to chat with the President of Adventure Lights, Tim Ford.
For those of you who don’t know about Adventure Lights, they make palm-sized multifunction LED Lights that are used for flashlights, markers and visual distress beacons.
An issue with Adventure Lights has always been having to secure their VIP Signal Lights with a means other than the pocket clip on the back side of the body. Typically this is done with Rigger’s Rubber Bands or 550 Paracord.
We addressed this issue with Tim at the SHOT Show, and he showed us how the new lights are being manufactured to mitigate this issue. [Read More…]
Hopefully everyone has had a great start to the New Year!
While it’s unbeleivable that nearly a month has past us by, we’d like to throw out ideas for some last minute New Years Resolutions.
We’ve compiled a few of our own, and a few based on an email we received from Neil Strauss’ (author of Emergency) mailing list. He’s got some great insight, and we always enjoy reading what he sends out.
So, if you’ve yet to make your resolutions, or have forgotten them already, give these a read… [Read More…]
We’re excited about our newest Reader Appreciation Contest giveaway, because it offers those that weren’t able to attend SHOT Show a chance to get some of the great schwag that was there.
We’ve also included an exclusive 2010 SHOT Show Gerber knife signed (etched) by the legendary Pete Gerber.
Gerber had signings at the SHOT Show where these knives could be purchased for a $10 donation to a charity. This particular knife’s donation went to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Here’s the awesomeness included in the giveaway! [Read More…]
Our Knot of the Week series picks up today with the Knute Hitch.
The Knute Hitch is a simple knot that can be used to attach a lanyard to a tool, or dummy cord any gear with a lanyard hole.
We’ll show the Knute Hitch tied in the lanyard hole of an SOG SEAL Pup Knife, but again, anything with a lanyard hole can be used.
It’s suggested that the lanyard hole be twice the diameter of the cord used, but as you’ll see in the video and photos, if you can squeeze the bight through, then that’s all you’ll need. [Read More…]
We’d like to wrap up our coverage of the 2010 SHOT Show with a review of what we feel to be the most innovative products we came across.
First, if you were following along with our SHOT Show Twitter updates then you’ll already know about our next reader appreciation contest we’ll be launching shortly.
We’ll be giving away a knife autographed (etched) by Pete Gerber of Gerber Knives and some other show schwag. Details on the contest will be posted this week.
Without further delay, here are our picks in no particular order… [Read More…]
Yesterday (Day 3) we managed to complete our walk-through of the Law Enforcement/Military area of SHOT Show, it took us three days! Of course we stopped and talked with tons of vendors, but this place is massive!
The highlight of today was Crye Precision’s Jumpable Plate Carrier (JPC) that weighs just under 1lb. and features a revolutionary new AirLite Cummerbund attachmet. Basically it’s free-floating MOLLE. Unfortunately, we don’t have a photo to share as Caleb asked us to please not post it on the internet just yet.
We’ve been tweeting updates throughout the day that feature more photos and will continue to do so all week, so if you aren’t following us on Twitter click here!
These are some of the items that we felt were the best of what we saw today:
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Another awesome day here at the SHOT Show! The huge news for today is our connection with A-TACS and EOTAC. We’d like to say thank you to Steve Hanks and Philip Duke of A-TACS, and to Fernando Coelho of EOTAC.
Fernando has provided us with some A-TACS camo for our upcoming Camo Comparison, and we’re excited to include it in our testing!
We’ve been tweeting updates throughout the day that feature more photos and will continue to do so all week, so if you aren’t following us on Twitter click here!
These are some of the items that we felt were the best of what we saw today: [Read More…]
We met with so many awesome companies today and made some great connections for our readers.
We’ve been tweeting updates throughout the day that feature more photos and will continue to do so all week, so if you aren’t following us on Twitter click here!
These are some of the items that we felt were the best of what we saw today: [Read More…]
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