Blade-Tech’s VALOR Duty Holster
During SHOT ’25, Blade-Tech announced a new purpose-built duty holster – the VALOR. They designed and built it to compete with accepted offerings from several companies making holsters on- and offshore. When I spoke with them back then, I was pleasantly surprised to hear there would be left-hand models and that it would fit more options than just GLOCK and Sig products. So, Blade-Tech has been around for decades. I think I bought my first [...]
Two Days at SHOT Show 2026
While a few attendees might still be stuck in Las Vegas because of Winter Storm Fern, SHOT Show 2026 is done and in the books. Last week’s article HERE looked at things that caught my eye during the Law Enforcement / Military range day. This event was hosted by the [...]
Random Reviews – Books To Targets
From time to time, I have a number of things worth discussing here too short for an entire post. I've combined the following "reviews" to help shed light on useful items and ideas I've discovered. 5.11 Tactical's Inure Runners in ranger green. They're also available in black, kangaroo, and [...]
Satellite Communications
Staying informed and communicating with others is essential, especially during a crisis. In our daily lives, most of us rely heavily on technology and service providers. Think of internet and cell phone service, as well as associated products that bring voice and data to our devices. During any power outage [...]
Emergency Dental First Aid Kit
Suffering a dental injury is always stressful and often very painful. Having it happen during a crisis takes it to a whole other level. Being prepared for these events provides you with options and buys you time until you can get to a dentist. An emergency dental kit consists of [...]
Stay Ready: Why Off-Duty Officers Should Carry a Spare Magazine
The necessity of carrying a spare magazine while off-duty is often debated. Statistically, the likelihood of needing one is quite low. Most gunfights occur at close range, with law enforcement data showing an average distance of 3 yards or less. Typically, around 3.5 rounds are fired in these close-quarters encounters. [...]
Vertx All New Tactigami — Mission Configurable Organization
Vertx®, a subsidiary of the Fechheimer Brothers Company, was founded over a decade ago in response to a federal agency's need for low-profile, functional tactical pants. Leveraging their long history of crafting military uniforms, Vertx developed highly discreet tactical pants and later expanded to low-profile clothing, bags, and packs. Their [...]
Hearing Loss and Ear Protection
If you shoot long enough, and that doesn't need to be very long, there is a likelihood of you being exposed to enough noise that you begin to suffer from hearing loss. What types of hearing loss are there? Damage to the outer and middle ear, known as Conductive; Inner [...]
Dry Practicing Safely
It's good to see that there is a solid consensus on the importance of dry practice. Trainers of all backgrounds are recommending it to their students. There is a lot of discussion about what to practice sans gunfire and how to practice. What does not get touched on is the [...]
Those Are My Bags, Baby
You can’t always carry everything you need in your cargo shorts or pants pockets. I know I would run out of capacity in those pretty quickly. Between a laptop and tablet, power cords, a headset, adapters, a water bottle or two, and other miscellaneous items, I need a decent-sized bag [...]
Product Reviews & GoSafe’s Security Solutions
How does an item – whatever kind of item – end up as an article here? Is there a process? What are we looking at or for? What is being reviewed? For starters, what will I address: a thing, a class or training, or will this be about an [...]