KAC T-1 Mount
November 17th, 2009 | Photo Recon Product Announcement Product Preview | Posted by Stickman
The past ten years have turned most Military and Police units away from iron sights, and into the world of optics. There is no question that shooting scores and real world hit percentages have gone up with the use of red dot and magnified optics. We’ve all used them, and while iron sights are still a solid fundamental to be familiar with, I’ll bet there are very few of us who are interested in going back to them. Battery life, and reliability are the first topics brought up when we think of optics, but how often do we consider the optic mount itself?
Introducing our newest GearScout -Stickman!
November 17th, 2009 | One More Thing | Posted by Rob Curtis
GearScout is pleased to introduce our newest contributor, Stickman! Stick is going to keep you gun guys up to speed with reviews and news.
Stick earned a few stripes during his 8 years in the military, and now splits his time between catching bad guys as an inner city police officer and shooting photos of tactical equipment. With 18+ years on the police force, he’s become a weapons and tactics instructor, an armorer for Glock, Colt, and Remington firearms, and a pretty much the last guy you want interrupting your waffle house holdup.
As far as the screen name, we’re down with that. The guy works in a big city, has made a few bad people go away and has earned the healthy paranoia. We’re willing to indulge because we know the guy, we know some of his friends and he backs it all up with his deep industry knowledge and man-in-the-stack gear reviews.
Welcome Stickman!
Grey Group is going all Crazy Eddie this week
November 17th, 2009 | DealScout Quick Post | Posted by Rob Curtis
Heads up- Grey Group Training is two years old this week and they are celebrating as all retailers do– with a sale. Through November 21st they’re offering 10-50% off their entire range. This isn’t a way for them to dump slow moving gear. They’ve dropped prices on everything as low as they can without pissing off their suppliers or losing money.
Build it and they will run
November 16th, 2009 | Link | Posted by Rob Curtis
It’s Monday morning. You’re busy, we know.
But after lunch, when you’re all(most) caught up, check out this web-app that lets you take gun parts and drag’n drop your dream gat in minutes. Choose a starting point from a bunch of popular rifles and pistols and then accessorize like it’s 2004 and you just got your first Blackwater paycheck. When you’re done, you can save your creation for sharing on your blog or favorite forum.
Stanley’s new flasks are not for the fancy at heart
November 13th, 2009 | Product Announcement Review | Posted by Matthew Cox
I love hip flasks, but they’re usually too fancy for practical use. I’ve owned a handsome little stainless steel flask for years. It’s very slim but too heavy. And I always worry about losing the cap. It’s now in the gadget drawer gathering dust.
I don’t have a flask fetish or anything; I just like my gin — even if I’m on the road. Is that so wrong?
Anyway, Stanley is coming out with three new styles of flasks in its NINETEEN13 line. I recently had the chance to try one of them out. Its flat, leaf green color blends well in any camp, field or ballgame setting. The screw-off cap stays attached to the flask by a black rubber arm that’s sturdier than it looks. It prevents the cap from being dropped in the dirt, and it helps the flask stand up when it’s turned upside down to dry.
It holds 8 ounces of your favorite poison and doesn’t appear to taint the taste. The Beefeater gin I kept in it for four days tasted like I poured it out of the glass bottle. The stainless steel body weighs just 4.75 ounces, that’s about half the weight many traditional flasks. It’s made in China, but most things are these days.
In addition to the green, the new flasks also come in black with a cool scull and dark gray with “UNBREAKABLE” written on it. The green model features the standard, nineteen13 star logo. Stanley’s new flasks will be available sometime this fall at www.stanley-pmi.com for about $20 bucks.
Surefire Saint Unboxed – GearScout Exclusive
November 11th, 2009 | Photo Recon Product Announcement | Posted by Rob Curtis
GearScout received the Surfire Saint last night. We brought it to the studio to give our readers an exclusive first look in a huge SFW flashlight porno shoot.
The unboxing isn’t a meme I quite understand, but we’re not here to judge. So if you’re a flashlight guy, turn the lights down low, get a box of tissues and enjoy the 62 image photo gallery after the jump. We’ll be back with a review and beamshots before you know it.
Who wants a free Arc’teryx Combat Jacket?
November 10th, 2009 | Quick Post | Posted by Rob Curtis
UPDATE: Comments will close at 15:00, EST. We’ll announce the winners at 16:00.
We’re making room in the GearScout warehouse! I’ve got two slightly used size medium, crocodile colored Arc’teryx Combat Jackets to give to two of our readers. We wore them for about a month in Iraq for a review. Just tell us why you want one in the comments and we’ll pick two winners at random on November 20th.
Sneak Peak at Modern Warfare 3
November 10th, 2009 | Off-Duty | Posted by Rob Curtis
With today’s release of Modern Warfare 2, there is already speculation about how to make the next installment of the hit video game even more realistic.
Great Line: “Infinity Ward is also developing a version of the game for the Wii which will come packaged with a 17 pound controller shaped like an M249 machine gun that you must carry at all times but cannot fire without explicit orders.”
SF units getting Land Warrior in 2011
November 9th, 2009 | Product Announcement Programatics | Posted by Rob Curtis
Matt Cox is reporting over at Army Times that Special Forces is getting an updated Land Warrior kit. The Army hasn’t chosen the unit, but plans to equip an SF battalion next fall.
Operators will get an updated version that adds satellite communications to supplement the system’s current digital radio network. With the current system, Long range comms are only possible when units use high-powered, vehicle based repeaters within the CNRS/EPLRS network. This update could pave the way for light units without Stryker Combat Vehicles to use the system.
PentagonLight extinguished by Surefire
November 9th, 2009 | Business News | Posted by Rob Curtis
The site is gone, the phones are disconnected. PentagonLight is no more.
Surefire sued the pants off them in district court back in April 2008. The suit was against Pentagon Scientific Corp’s infringement on Surefire’s lockout tailcap switch patent. Six months later, the court found in their favor. The company bought back some of its inventory from its dealers but never put out a statement about its demise. So, even though it’s old news, there are still people wondering if PentagonLight is really gone. It is.
Instead of re-engineering their product line or negotiating to license Surefire’s tailcap, PentagonLight chose to quietly shut their entire operation down. This is intriguing, since the judgment had no financial component. Surefire didn’t ask for a dime. They just asked that PentagonLight not be permitted to sell the Surefire tailcap.
Why did PentagonLight cut and run? Perhaps it had something to do with the other component of Surefire’s suit that refuted PentagonLight’s “Made in USA” branding. The combined loss of the tailcap and the unwanted attention on the location of their manufacturing revealed flaws in their business model the felt they couldn’t overcome.