Being a pretty frugal individual, I usually dont buy all the gun magazines that are on the newsstand. In fact, I usually wait a few weeks until my friends are done with theirs and then they give them to me. I cant recall the last time I actually paid for a copy of Guns & Ammo. Anyway, since I dont read those magazines as often as I probably should I am sometimes left in the dark about new products that might otherwise interest me. The Woolrich not-a-tactical-vest in the previous post is a good example. Buddy of mine dropped off an assortment of gun rags yesterday and here’s some of the new products advertised that I found interesting.
Bushmaster Carbon 15 9MM Pistol – So Bushmaster dropped their AR-10 because they needed to focus on their AR-15 market but they have the manufacturing capacity to waste on their very own Tec-9???
Leupold Zero Point Magnetic Illuminated Boresighter – Yeah, better add one of these to the shopping list.
Taurus PT1911 .45 ACP Pistol – Still waiting to get to handle one of these. Taurus, these days, makes good guns at a good price.
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Gave one of the LMI his Christmas gift today. Since Tactical Tailor was having a big sale, the bunkerbabe thought that the 3-day pack might make a good gift. I think its safe to say that the Tactical Tailor bag is the official bag of the LMI.
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CostCo has some made-in-China handcrank LED flashlights for sale. $20 for two. I try not to buy Chinese made stuff if I can, but if you want a good light to keep in a vehicle and not have to worry about batteries, these things might be for you. I’ve a half dozen of the Baygen flashlights so I took a pass on them but am thinking now that maybe I should pick up a pair to stash away.
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From a comment a few posts back, check out this very well done example of one persons stash o’ goodies:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=123&t=419182
Wow! He has a neat basement. My basement is a dark and scary place! I personally think he’s making a big mistake, living as close as it sounds like he lives to civilization, to keep all of his preps sitting on open shelves like that. If the SHTF to the extent that he’ll need those things, you can bet the rodent population will go into an upswing. I lost a great many of my preps about 10 years ago when new construction about half a mile away caused a wave of rodents to descend on our neighborhood (following the creek, I guess). Before we even realized they were there, they’d eaten or chewed their way through 3 cases of MREs and a bunch of extra camping gear and stored clothes, not to mention all the stuff the rat piss ruined. We had to tear out the drywall upstairs to get rid of them.
I’m also critical of how visible his stuff is if anyone happens to get into his basement (a furnace repair person or plumber, perhaps?). If anyone thinks people like that don’t notice, they’re fools. I used to be a pest control tech. There was a time I could have told you exactly where a dozen survivalists lived, where they kept their preps, and what they had stored. I could have told you who was in the Klan and pegged at least one militia member. I could also have given an inventory of firearms in many of the houses I visited (interestingly, some of the customers wouldn’t let the male pest control techs into these rooms, but they always sent me in there…thinking females won’t recognize your guns and survival preps is a serious miscalculation!). Sorry, I digress, but I do think it’s foolish to keep your preps visible.
it is damn hard
to find anything not made in china, either in whole product or parts of the same. even stuff made in the US of A can contain china made parts.
as for rats, good to toss about bags of rat killer munchies. sometimes it is just the cold weather that drives them to invade a warm basement.
in any case, Happy New Year, folks!
Re: it is damn hard
Rat killer munchies, like traps, are highly overrated. Rats are too large to usually be killed by one visit to the munchies, but it will make them sick. Rats will thereafter avoid the food that made them sick. Might keep them from moving in if they didn’t find anything else to munch on, though. We didn’t use poison because we had dogs and cats (and it was before the kind that didn’t poison dogs and cats). Our neighbors across the street did try it after a rat chewed up a bunch of expensive climbing ropes and chewed a hole in a backpack (apparently in the space of only two nights). Their rats completely ignored the poison! The best defense is to make sure they can’t get in and can’t get to your stuff. (And yeah, we’re always especially vigilante around Sept. and Oct., when they tend to look for new homes.)
re: guns…
I have handled the Taurus 1911 at SHOT last year – and it was clunky at best…. at BEST. The trigger guard is massive, and the controls were stiff and hesitant on one gun, mushy on the other. The barrel link was too long, and it wouldn’t go gently into battery, but if you dropped the slide on an empty chamber, as the sales preppy did, it locked up tight in back! Yikes! Their “newly released” Cowboy revolver was worse.
BM seemed committed to the .308 last year at SHOT, so I was bummed to hear their cop-out. I would love to talk with their engineering guys that I met last year about it. The carbon-line should mature and become a good product for them IMHO.
Do you have a link to that Tactical Tailor sale? I want to see if that price is still good. Thanks.
Uhmm…http://www.tacticaltailor.com
Predictable, eh?
My reservation is that, if it were me, I’d store as much of that stuff in watertight containers in case of a flooded basement.
Re: it is damn hard
Speaking of having cats, don’t forget just how useful they can be in dealing with rats as well. When I’s a kid, we had a real bad rat problem; the adoption of four cats did wonders to remedy it:)
Re: it is damn hard
try coating the bags with either peanut butter or leftover beef fat.
old freezers fitted with hasp and padlock (kids) make fine rodent free stoarage containers. same with old refrigerators.
or adopt the rats and give them away as “rat dogs”.
Thanks much. I picked up a tan 3 day pack on the last day of the sale. Yeah, I guess the URL was predictable, but it seems like whenever I try the obvious possible address, it never works.