1791 Gunleather Ultra Custom Holster
One of the best parts of owning a handgun is customizing it to fit your needs. From changing sights to swapping stock controls for extended or ambidextrous components, the options to personalize a gun are endless. However, finding a holster to accommodate a newly customized gun can be a real challenge.
Crossbreed Reckoning Holster
Hybrid holsters are comfortable and stable thanks to the large back panel between your handgun and body. With a basic design of a Kydex shell fastened to a leather backer, you don’t have the option [...]
New 1911 Fits for Galco Switchback Holster
Previously only available for revolvers and compact/full-size semi-autos, the Galco Switchback holster is now available for 4-5” 1911 pistols, with and without red dot sights. An outside-the-waistband belt holster designed for strongside or crossdraw carry, [...]
AlienGear’s ShapeShift Customizable Holster [VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/8S_AXDFaOc0 The ShapeShift Modular Holster System seamlessly switches holster configurations without any tools. You could say AlienGear’s holster designs are out of this world clever.
Low Light Principles
"Old" does not mean invalid. While tactics, techniques, procedures, and equipment (TTPEs) will change, principles will generally remain. Ken Good and Dave Maynard spent significant time working on low light / white light issues [...]
Night AWLS – HRT Tactical’s Weapon Mounted Light
Suppose you have a shoulder-fired weapon – shotgun or rifle – as part of your work tools or home defense inventory. In that case, you need to have a way to locate, identify, and evaluate [...]
Keeping Your Lights and Dots Clean
Weapon-mounted lights and pistol optics both get dirty. Within a range session or three, it is not difficult for a layer of burnt-on crap to begin solidifying on the downrange lens. That crud causes two [...]
Keeping the Dot on your Pistol
Last month I wrote about how you can attach an optic to your pistol. Using OEM or after-market plates from Glock, S&W, Shadow Systems, Unity Tactical, and others; direct milling from after-market sources like L&M [...]
ARMOR FOR YOUR EYES | Ballistic Eye Protection
Quality eye protection is essential for every shooter. It's imperative for your safety. Debris and shrapnel that may result from the discharge of a firearm can cause severe and permanent eye damage. Eye injuries are [...]
Bolt Carrier Solves AR Magazine Loading Issue
American COP's Brent Wheat takes a look at Speed Tac's new Bolt Carrier for the AR platform. It allows the shooter to insert a fully loaded magazine with the bolt closed and a round in [...]
THE GET OUTTA DODGE TRUCK | Loaded for Survival
The phrase “Get Outta Dodge” (G.O.D.) originated in Dodge City, Kansas, during the wild days of the 1870s. The Santa Fe Trail gave way to buffalo hunters, then to cattle drives, all of which led [...]
All Things 1911
I know, I know … more 1911 stuff? You bet. The design doesn’t die because it works, and Browning’s genius allows incremental improvements, each one building on the success of the previous ones. This combination [...]
Keeping Your Lights and Dots Clean
Weapon-mounted lights and pistol optics both get dirty. Within a range session or three, it is not difficult for a layer of burnt-on crap to begin solidifying on the downrange lens. That crud causes two [...]
Aimpoint Duty RDS
The Aimpoint Duty RDS (Red Dot Sight) is the red dot sight solution the world has been waiting for. It offers Aimpoint quality at a more accessible price point. This compact, high-grade reflex optic was [...]
Options for Mounting Your Red Dot Sight
If you've missed it, pistol-mounted optics (PMO), also known as red dots, are "here," they are staying; they are not going away. So, how do you put one – or more – on your pistol(s)? [...]
OUT OF THE DARK | A Guide to Night Sights
A five-year study of “California Peace Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty,” published by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) in November 2001 found that most officer-involved shootings [...]