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Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Review: 5.11 Tactical Tac Tec Plate Carrier Fifty Shades of FDE The 5.11 Tactical Tac Tec Plate Carrier has been available for a few years now. If you’re playing Ghost Recon Wildlands, you’ll notice that it’s the PC the game characters are wearing. So I thought I’d take one for […]
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Pistol Optics: The Trouble with the Dot Dave Merrill A red dot sight (RDS) on a handgun is increasingly common to behold. Though the idea isn’t new, the advent of smaller and more durable optics has helped it steamroll along to the point that they’re no longer considered an exotic […]
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Monday Night Knife Fights: The Comprehensive Fighting Systems ARK Tom Marshall The Karambit is an oft-misunderstood tool in the world of edged weapons. It can be easy to write them off as the pocket ornaments of mall ninjas and wanna-be-real-ninjas. But Comprehensive Fighting Systems and Pinkerton Knives have teamed up […]
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Review: The Kraken Roll Brian Montgomery Part of life on the road – and just life in general now – is owning, and charging, eleventy-five different “devices,” most of which do the exact same thing, just at different dimensions. But they all need juice and their respective cords, bricks and […]
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Down’n’Dirty: Forward Controls All Angles Augmented Bolt Catch ABC/R-AA Military Morons The ABC/R-AA (Augmented Bolt Catch/Release – All Angles) is a variant of the ABC/R [note: previously reviewed here, Mad Duo] with dimples on the control surfaces instead of horizontal serrations. Everything else is the same. The horizontal serrations on the […]
Appendix Carry: Is It For You? Matt Jacques There are always differing opinions on everything. Best truck, best chocolate, direct impingement or piston, even the old reliable 9MM vs .45. The debate that seems to be getting the most attention over the last couple of years is “appendix or strong side carry?” This is just like the decades-old […]
Courtesy of Breach Bang Clear Review: RMJ Tactical Little Bird Craig Metzger RMJ Tactical has been in the tomahawk and knife business for over 27 years. The tools that RMJ releases are well known in special operations circles, law enforcement and fire departments. Besides being popular in those groups, individuals into bushcraft and self reliance […]
(Article courtesy of Breach Bang Clear) Stop the Burning with Penicilli–We Mean, Armageddon Gear Dave Merrill Lying may not actually set your pants on a fire, but a hot suppressor will. I recall a training session back around 2007 or 2008, when TAD Gear was the most coveted and extravagant of all “tactical” clothing, and […]
(Article originally published on Breach Bang Clear) Review: Gerber Downrange Tomahawk RJ Radachy After a week on a creek in the middle of the White Mountains of Arizona with Fred Osuna at Greenside Training, I was tasked with finding a couple of vehicle-based mounting solutions for a Gerber Downrange Tomahawk. I’m up for the task, […]
(Article courtesy of Breach Bang Clear) Review: US Palm Cargo Cuff Alexander Crown Lately I’ve been wearing pants that don’t lend well to my usual daily carry items. Of course I still want to have those items with me, so naturally I started to look for a solution. Along the same lines, sometimes I don’t […]
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