The excellent Battle Arms Development BAD-ASS (Battle Arms Development – Ambidextrous Safety Selector) is now available with stainless steel levers. These stainless levers look great, especially on competition guns with stainless barrels.
Check them out on the Battle Arms Development’s website. While you are on the site, be sure to check out the new Battle Arms Development hats!
It is becoming more and more common for EDC or Tactical bags to feature Velcro on the interior so that users can easily customize the organization layout of their bag. Mountain Ridge Gear (MRG) makes one such bag – the Tactical Man Purse Wide Extreme. I have reviewed the original Tactical Man Purse on JTT and it is an excellent bag. Now MRG is making Velcro Backed General Purpose (GP) Pouches to work with this style of bag.
The pouches come in 3 different sizes that should handle everything from cell phones, radios, and GPS units to larger items like first aid kits and water bottles. The pouches are made to Mountain Ridge Gear’s high standards which you have to experience to believe and are available in a variety of colors including Multicam and A-TACS.
Each pouch features a 2″ wide vertical strip of hook side Velcro on the back which is nice. In this case, full coverage Velcro is not needed and this allows the pouch to be more easily removed and repositioned. The narrower Velcro also lets the pouches be squeezed closer to together when you are positioning them. The pouches also feature a small pull tab that makes removing the pouch even easier and can serve as an atachment point for a carabiner to hang the pouch on a pack.
The pouches are currently 25% off for the weekend so be sure to check them out on Mountain Ridge Gear’s website.
Sometimes it is hard to keep your mouth shut when you know something really exciting and that was certainly the case with these two new patent pending light mounts, the Dropwing and the Thorntail, from Haley Strategic Partners (HSP) and Impact Weapons Components (IWC). I have known about them for some time now and was sworn to secrecy by my friends at Impact Weapons Components. I will focus on the Thorntail in this post and will have more details on the Dropwing later.
The Thorntail Light Mount allows you to mount your weapon light on a railed hand guard in a position that is well forward of any other mount on the market. It can be placed far enough forward that the light is actually forward of the front sight base.
The ability to position a weapon light this way solves several problems. It clears space on your rail that you should be using to grip your rifle, it reduces shadowing caused by the front sight base, it places the light more in a more ergonomically correct position, and makes shorter rails more comfortable to use.
Your light positioning often dictates where you grip the rifle with your support hand. If you are stuck using a 7.0 rail (carbine gas system) then the Thorntail will be just what the doctor ordered. This light mount can be mounted far enough forward that you will be able to move your grip forward. A forward grip is one key to controlling recoil and the ability to drive the gun quickly from target to target.
Those of you who are running Ultimak or US Palm rails on your AKs will also appreciate the Thorntail. It is low profile enough to keep your field of view uncluttered on the Ultimak gas tube style rails and long enough to provide a lot of extra gripping surface on the short US Palm rails.
The Thorntail light mount will work with nearly every common light mount including the Surefire M300 and M600 Scout Lights, G2, G2L, and G2X.
There has been a need for this mount for a long time. It is going to solve a lot of problems for a lot of people. Look for a full review of this mount coming soon on Jerking the Trigger.
The Thorntail is available for pre-order on Haley Strategic Partner’s website and will be available on Impact Weapons Components’ website soon (remember to use the code “triggerjerk” at checkout to receive 5% off at IWC).
This Thanksgiving, I am especially thankful for you! Without all you Trigger Jerks out there reading this blog, I wouldn’t be able to do this. Thank you for reading, thank you for supporting the advertisers who support JTT, and thank you for your friendship.
I am also thankful for my advertising partners, many of whom have become friends. It is their support that keeps the light on here at Jerking the Trigger and I am exceedingly thankful for it.
Happy Thanksgiving from Jerking the Trigger!
4Sevens has introduced a limited run of a handful of their most popular models with special high CRI LEDs. CRI stands for Color Rendering Index and high CRI basically means that these lights put out light that is a similar color temperature to sunlight, thus rendering colors in a very lifelike way.
When LEDs first started finding their way into consumer lighting products, many people were put off by the bright blue coloration of the light that the LEDs produced. This blue light could be somewhat hard on the eyes and could make objects appear flat and lifeless.
LEDs began to improve and the light they produced became whiter, but it still lacked the warmer tones that sunlight contains. Many people think LEDs produce white light, but for the most part they are still lacking the warmer tones of the light spectrum. These missing parts of the spectrum are important for rending colors true to life and for cutting through things like smoke, fog, dust, and mist. High CRI LEDs correct these short comings and allow truer color rendering.
4Sevens has brought this high CRI LED technology to their line of edc flashlights. Sadly, none of their tactical lights have received the high CRI treatment. This type of light makes good sense for the military, law enforcement and the armed citizen since it cuts through a variety of environmental conditions more effectively and it makes potential threats appear less flat and more lifelike, thus allowing them to stand out more from their environment. Hopefully we can look forward to more high CRI options from 4Sevens.
You can check out all of the limited edition lights are 4Sevens.com.
