My friends at TacStrike have been offering one of the coolest services around to shooters. They will consign your shooting and tactical gear! The service has been going so well, that they are splitting it off of the TacStrike site and giving it its own site.
Here is how it works. You package up all of your unwanted gear and send it to Shooters Consignment. They take high quality pictures of it and list it on their site. This gives you very broad exposure and takes all of the headaches of dealing with buyers out of your hands. When your gear sells, they pay you. It’s easy.
So if you are tired of low ball offers, stupid questions, off-the-wall trade offers, pushy buyers, people who don’t keep their word, and every other of gear selling annoyance, check out ShootersConsignment.com. Their site will be live soon. You can watch their Facebook Page for the latest information on the site.
White Sound Defense (WSD) is quickly becoming the Glock spring specialist. Many recoil spring products on the market for Glock handguns are made with the competition market it in mind but WSD is building products with more serious users in mind. They recently introduced two new products that exhibit the typical attention to detail that I have come to expect from them.
The Recoil Spring for 3rd Generation Glock pistols from WSD comes in just one spring weight that is identical to the factory spring weight found in the G17/G22 and others. This ensures reliable operation across a broad range of ammunition. The spring is made from music wire and plated for corrosion resistance. This spring is made to handle less than optimal conditions and hard use.
WSD also introduced a Steel Guide Rod for 3rd Generation Glock Pistols which has some really unique features for the self-defense/law enforcement/military user. As someone who has used non-captured guide rods in Glocks before, I really appreciate the transverse hole that lets you use your armorer’s tool to “screw” the spring onto the guide rod (see the video). I really prefer non-captured guide rods if I am going to use an aftermarket guide rod since they are far simpler than their captured counterparts.
The guide rod is also slightly extended so that it sticks out the front of the slide to act as a stand-off. This features reduces the likelihood that the slide will be pushed out of battery if the muzzle is pressed into something when you shoot. I have never seen a Glock guide rod with this feature and I really like the simplicity of it. Other companies have made stand-offs for Glocks before but they are overly stylized, overly bulky, and preclude the use of most holsters, lights, and suppressors. The WSD guide rod is purposefully designed not to interfere with those items.
In this first video, you can see the tool-less installation method of the recoil spring and guide rod. You also get a good look at how far the guide rod protrudes from the muzzle:
In this second video, you can see how incredibly easy it is to install the guide rod with an armorer’s tool or allen key:
As usual with White Sound Defense, there is a lot more thought that went into these items than I have mentioned here. Be sure to check them out on the WSD website.
What if you could put 240 rounds of 5.56 down range with only 3 reloads? That sounds pretty good doesn’t it? That is what Surefire’s 60 round High Capacity Magazines for the AR-15 and ATS Tactical’s new ATS Triple Surefire 60Rd Mag Shingle let you do.
The new 60 round Surefire High Capacity magazines for the AR-15 are making a serious splash. Several high profile trainers are coming forward and saying that the mags run very well in their classes. While these mags will fit in most double AR magazine pouches, their additional length and different shape can benefit from a dedicated pouch.
The new pouch from ATS has a shingle format. There are three pouches side by side that allow you to carry 3 60 round Surefire magazines. The magazines are retained with bungee pull tabs and have elastic straps around the mid section of the magazines. It needs 6 columns of MOLLE webbing to mount which is perfect for the front of most plate carriers or chest rigs.
This isn’t the first pouch for these magazines that I have seen but it is the first shingle style pouch that I have seen. It is nice to see gear makers supporting a new magazine that has a lot of potential. Check out the Triple Surefire 60Rd Mag Shingle on the ATS website.
Impact Weapons Components continues to pump out one exciting product after another. Their latest is the RADIAL Millennium Scout Light MOUNT-N-SLOT.
The RADIAL Millennium Scout Light MOUNT-N-SLOT is made to mount a Surefire Millennium Series light (and others). It is designed to allow the light to be mounted in such a way that the tail cap falls easily under your support hand thumb and the bezel of the light sits well forward to reduce shadowing by the barrel and front sight.
As with other products from the MOUNT-N-SLOT line, the RADIAL Millennium Scout Light MOUNT-N-SLOT does away with the need for rails. It can be mounted directly to the tube on hand guards like the Troy TRX Extreme and Samson Evolution. It can even be mounted between the rails of some railed hand guards.
Have you ever wanted to place a MOLLE pouch horizontally but the webbing would only allow the pouch to mounted vertically? This problem is common enough that several gear makers have panels that can convert vertical MOLLE webbing to horizontal or vice versa. Granite Gear has a different solution.
Most solutions for mounting pouches horizontally require a panel that is attached to the bag, chest rig, plate carrier, etc. and then the pouch is attached to the panel. This approach works but it can add quite a bit of weight and you are limited by the size of the panel.
Granite Gear’s MOLLE Converters are far simpler. They make tabs that can be threaded into the MOLLE which turns the space between the rows into columns for horizontal mounting. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. The picture should make it clear just how simple of a solution this is. It is far lighter than any panel type solution and it is completely scalable to any size pouch – just install as many converters as you need for your specific pouch.
