Well, birthday season approaches and some gifts have started to magically appear in the hands of my mailman (who is actually a very bitter woman..I call her my femailman…not to her face, of course.)
Anyway…….
These two gems arrived today:
These little goodies are a happy alternative to bulky speedloaders. I’ve touched on the subject a time or two (here & here) explaining what I like or dislike about them. Here’s a nice article about them as well. I was quite jazzed about someone finally making these in a size other than .38/.357. While a good quality speedloader (Safariland, HKS) is my first choice for revolver reloads, the speed strips are compact, non-mechanical, relatively cheap, not bulky, and still speed up the reloading process considerably. I’ll be taking these out to the range later this week to try out. If you’re interested in some for yourself, Amazon carries ‘em. ( Tuff Quickstrip Black 6 Round – Pack of 2 (.44/.45/.460 Caliber)
Next goodie was a tiny little 8gb USB drive.( Kingston DataTraveler 108 8 GB Flash Drive DT108/8GBZ ) I usually keep a little USB drive on my keychain since I like to keep certain files handy. For example, I’m always on the lookout for bargains on guns so I keep a scanned FFL and a copy of PS1508 in .pdf with me so I can ship handguns back to myself without paying the exorbitant UPS and FedEx charges. And, of course, it’s a handy way to carry around files to share with my fellow LMI. (Nothing inflammatory or incriminating or needing to be encrypoted…mostly .pdfs of gun manuals, ebooks, that sorta thing.) Anyway, this little drive takes up virtually no space but packs enough memory to handle even a fair amount of video. Handy thing…
My most sincere thanks to the sender of such fine bits of swag. Mighty generous! I love birthdays…especially my own.
Expect a review of the Tuff QuickStrips at some point in a week or so. Gotta go load up some .44 Spl. ammo for the ‘ol S&W M24 and head to the range to give ‘em a workout.
I carry scans of my important paperwork and such, and I encrypt it using a free program called Truecrypt. I simply used the software to set up an encrypted vault on the USB drive, and then put the stuff that needs encrypting in the vault.
There is also a provision for putting a hidden encrypted vault in the vault. That way, you can put some slightly sensitive stuff in the first vault, and then if a person forces you to reveal the password, they see those files, and have no idea of the hidden vault’s existence.
http://www.thetacticalwire.com/ reported this morning that Jerry Ahern passed away Tuesday, July 24 (apparently from cancer). I enjoyed reading The Survivalist series when I was a kid and it left an impression upon me, too.
Wow..hey, thanks for the heads up. I’ll pass it along to the usual crowd. I was kinda enjoying his articles in The Blue Press.
Did I miss the post where you described the tool next to the USB drive? Please elaborate…
Swiss Key