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The Spyderco Matriarch 2 conforms to the idea that your EDC blade should be a tool and your defensive blade should be a weapon. Â Looking back in the Matriarch’s family tree we see the original Spyderco Civilian, designed for undercover officers who were in a non-permissive environment for defensive firearms. Â With it’s distinctive reverse-s blade […]
I have always felt carrying a concealed handgun (CCW) to be both a right and a responsibility. The vast majority of citizens I’ve talked to have felt the same way. Â Carrying a lethal weapon for the defense of life is accompanied (to most) by the weight of the knowledge that the carrier may be called […]
With violence prevalent in the motherland and abroad these days, more people are packing around protective plates. Â True, Â the majority of those people are law enforcement officers (LEO’s), active military or are in the contractor world. Â Many more are civilians preparing for an event they hope never to see in their lifetime. Â Regardless of profession […]
Barnes Bullets has been around in one incarnation or another since 1932 when Fred Barnes started selling bullets out of his basement. Â Although the business changed hands a few times before being acquired by Remington Outdoor Company in 2010, the commitment to making the highest quality bullets has never wavered. Â So when given the chance […]
Sergeant Major (RET) John “Shrek” McPhee (better known as the “Sheriff of Baghdad, hence SOB) spent more than 20 years serving our country in the US Army’s Special Operations community. Â Having retired back in 2011, he now spends his days teaching tactical courses. Â The list of available classes is so long it would constitute its […]
Girls and Guns (Featured image courtesy of Stickgunner.com. Â Model Brittaney Scott) How many of us remember the cheesy PG-13 and R-rated gun advertisements from the ’80’s and ’90’s that mostly featured scantily-clad middle-aged women, poor trigger discipline and emotionless faces? Â Even though the shots were captured by what must have been the most disposable cameras […]
MRE’s are the pinnacle of “ready when you are” grub for the door kicker on the move. Â After decades of refinement, we’re finally at a place where the food in the brown bag rivals that of what you’d find in a chow hall (Maybe not an Air Force chow hall, but the rest of ’em […]
While the venerable HK Mp5 has been in service since the ’60’s, it gained true icon status in the 1980’s. Â Between watching real world commandos take down the bad guys of the world on the news and enjoying Arnold and Chuck stack nameless henchmen into piles with the little subgun on the silver screen, the […]
While some guns deserve iron sights: the majority of rifles, shotguns (and even a number of handguns) benefit from the use of optics. Â There is a red dot or scope for every application. Â With every base covered, how do manufacturers keep pushing the market forward? Â Well, usually by making their optics lighter, tougher, more power-efficient […]
If two is one and one is none, then the little things are big and the big things are essential. I’ve said it in more than a few of my articles: America’s next battle rifle will be less of a paradigm shift and more of a collection of all the incremental improvements made over decades […]
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