Blue Force Gear is throwing in a free t-shirt with every order of $100 or more this weekend (through 12:01 PM EST on Monday 7/14/14). All you have to do is buy $100 worth of cool stuff and enter your size preferences in the comment section at checkout. Keep in mind that these shirts run a bit small.
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If you are like me, you are incapable of ever throwing away an Altoids Tin. When I look at them I see their potential as survival kit containers, survival candles, first aid kits, organizers, and anything else I can dream up. Green Mountain Sheaths, makers of very fine quality leather goods, is offering a classy way to keep your Altoids Tin close at hand with their Altoids Tin Pouch.
Green Mountain Sheaths makes the pouches from burly 6-7 ounce leather with hand tooled border detail. The tin is secured via a flap with a snap to keep everything bundled tightly. The rear of the Altoids Tin Pouch features a belt loop.
You can get in touch with Green Mountain Sheath on their Facebook page.
The new Elzetta Blog has been putting out some excellent content. The latest post throws back the curtain on what some flashlight makers do in order to offer best in class output and how it might compromise the performance of the light.
The adoption of FL1 standards has largely taken away some of the old tricks that flashlight makers used to play in order to inflate their lumen ratings but less reputable makers still have a few ways to try and dupe us. Given that all LED emitters work within a specification of X amount of power in equals X amount of lumens out, you should be suspicious of makers who are claiming that their LEDs boast greater output than competitors who use the same emitter. They are either being deceitful or they are pushing the LED beyond safe levels of current which can greatly compromise its reliability and longevity.
You can read more about the Lumen Wars at Elzetta Blog.
There is an entire cottage industry set up around customizing production knives and no knives are more popular to customize than Emerson Knives. True custom Emerson Knives are in extremely high demand and cost a significant amount of money so many fans of Mr. Emerson’s work resort to customizing a production version of one of his knives to suit their tastes. This process usually involves a significant investment in cash and time while you wait for the work to be completed which is why it is so cool to see a maker offering off-the-shelf custom modified Emerson knives.
Will Moon is an accomplished knife maker in his own right. He makes very distinctive folders that tend to be elegant, understated, and built like Swiss time pieces if Swiss time pieces could be used to cut through a car door. He has turned his attention to a limited number of Emerson Super Commanders and created what he calls the Emerson Super Commander Moon Ultra-Mod.
The Emerson Super Commander Moon Ultra-Mod may start out as a production knife but nearly every aspect of it is hand tuned. The typical asymmetrical grind that Emerson is known for is tweaked to provide improved geometry and edge retention. The blade is hand rubbed to a satin finish. The titanium locking liner is carbide plated to increase it’s lifespan and the nylon washers have been replaced with phosphor bronze to smooth the action. The scales have been replaced with high-viz orange, hand contoured, bead blasted G-10. The thumb disk has also been replaced with a custom high-viz orange G-10 part that is contoured to make deploying the blade even easier.
This knife is gorgeous to look at and functionally improved. Check out the Emerson Super Commander Moon Ultra-Mod.
Echo Nine Three’s AK3P flash suppressors are long enough to bring a 14″ AK barrel up to a legal 16″ length (16.2″ to be exact) when permanently mounted. They recently showed off this capability in a picture that is sure to leave drool trailing from your lower lip.
If you are thinking of having the this treatment done to your AK, now would be a great time to do it because all E93 Flash Suppressors are on sale at 40% off through the 14th!
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