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UW Gear Bandoleer

By on February 11, 2012 in EDC, Guns, Survival, Tactical Gear

UW Gear has a ton of new products coming out so stay tuned for all the details. In this post, we’ll check out the new UW Gear Bandoleer.

Chest rigs are an efficient means of bearing the weight of rifle magazines for extended time periods but they aren’t necessarily best when it comes to reactionary situations since they you likely won’t have time to don the rig. UW Gear designed their bandoleer to fill the role of reactionary support gear. This isn’t a tool that is made to go looking for trouble. This is a tool for when trouble finds you.

The UW Gear Bandoleer allows you to have 3 rifle reloads at your finger tips in the blink of an eye. The user simply throws the shoulder strap over their shoulder and the UW Gear Bandoleer is ready to go. If there is enough time, the user can also secure the waist strap. Even with the waist strap secured, the bandoleer is designed to allow access to items mounted on both sides of your belt. The pouches feature the same excellent flap design as the Minuteman MKII chest rigs.

The combination of easy donning, easy access, and secure retention make this a great compliment to a truck gun. It can also be kept next to your home defense carbine so it is ready for use.

The UW Gear Bandoleer is available for the AK and for the AR. You will also want to check out the UW Gear Facebook page and their forum where you can interact directly with the owners and read more about the philosophy behind their products.

Valentine’s Day Sale at BFG – The Cure for Broken, Bleeding, and Stolen Hearts

By on February 11, 2012 in Survival, Tactical Gear

Forget the little cards with cartoon characters and sappy puns. Forget the chalky hearts with cutesy sayings on them. Forget over priced roses or boxes of calorie rich chocolate. Blue Force Gear (BFG) knows what you really want for Valentine’s Day – killer savings on the Trauma Kit NOW! with supplies. What better way to show your undying love than a trauma kit that might actually keep you from dying?

The Trauma Kit NOW! (TKN!) pouch is designed to give you easy, instant, and well organized access to your trauma supplies. The user simply lifts the flap and pulls up which allows the entire contents to be removed from the pouch on one organized tray. It takes far less time to deploy the trauma supplies than it takes to read a description of how it works. These kits have literally saved lives.

BFG is going head first into their awesome Helium Whisper line and they need to move out their previous style of pouches which includes the excellent TKN!. The TKN! normally sells for $115 with the trauma supplies included but BFG is discounting them to just $70 when you use the code “VDAYTKN5”.

Check out the Trauma Kit NOW! on the BlueForceGear.com to get your own while they are on sale and see a full list of contents.

ITS EDC Trauma Kit

By on February 10, 2012 in EDC, Survival

Carrying a trauma kit daily is a good idea, especially if you carry a firearm. Most people don’t carry one because they tend to be too bulky but that just isn’t the case with a new kit on the market. If you can carry a wallet, you can carry an EDC Trauma Kit from ITS Tactical.

ITS Tactical designed the EDC Trauma Kit to be extremely compact but still effective for treatment of extremity hemorrhaging. Admittedly, this isn’t a comprehensive kit (see ITS Tactical’s ETA Trauma Kit for a more complete kit) but it is designed for the specific mission of EDC (every day carry) and it contains a handful of proven items to accomplish that mission.

The kit contains QuikClot Combat Gauze LE, a SWAT-T Tourniquet which also serves as a pressure bandage, a pair of OD nitrile gloves, and a nylon pouch. All of the items are vacuum packed to keep them compact and the nylon pouch is provided to protect the packaging from being punctured. QuikClot Combat Gauze is a proven life saver and I have been very impressed with the SWAT-T Tourniquets that I have been testing.

You can find out more information about the EDC Trauma Kit on ITSTactical.com.

One Hand Tourniquet Application

By on February 6, 2012 in Survival, Tactics and Training

You train to ingrain the fundamentals of shooting into your mind and body. It would be prudent to do the same thing with your first aid gear. You do not want to be figuring out how to apply a tourniquet (TQ) with one hand for the first time after you have a wounded arm.

This video from Tactical Medical Solutions, makers of the excellent SOF Tactical Tourniquet, explains how to avoid the pitfalls of unrealistic training for one handed TQ application. It also outlines a handful of ways to complete the application of a TQ using just one hand.

Check out the TacMedSolutions blog for tons of great first aid information.

New Compass Line from Brunton

By on February 4, 2012 in Survival, Tactical Gear

Brunton has overhauled their entire line of compasses for 2012. The new line includes some familiar faces and several entirely new designs.

The one thing that the entire new line has in common is Brunton’s OSS Alignment System. Previously, this OSS Alignment System was only available on a few select Brunton compasses. Most traditional compasses make you line up the tip of the needle in the “doghouse,” but Brunton OSS compasses feature circle in circle alignment. The compasses have a circular north reference instead of the tip of a needle. The north reference is then aligned in another circle by the user in order to orient the compass. Brunton claims that the system is easier to use and more accurate. I still tend to prefer traditional compass needles but the idea is very intriguing.

The new line includes an overhaul of the 8099, now called the 70M, and an overhaul of the 8096, now called the 40B. Additionally, it includes several other new designs. The completely new 50M and 60M feature a very compact sighting mirror that allows for a very long baseplate and sighting capability in a compact package. The design looks very interesting.

You can see the entire OSS line of of compasses on the Brunton website.

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