I’ve been carrying a Streamlight Wedge for the past couple of years as my primary EDC light. It’s a great light. It’s flat, and it has a pocket clip so it carries much like a folding knife in your pocket. It puts out a very usable 300 lumens of light for routine use and … Read more
If you’re protecting your home and family from threats that are in your house — and it’s dark — how will you illuminate the intruders to ensure you can make the right shot on the right target? You gotta have a light for that bump in the night, right? In the video below, Clint Smith … Read more
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire — where there’s gunfire, there will be spent casings. Okay, so not in all cases, but the vast majority of firearms leave you with an empty cartridge casing after the shot has been fired. And far too many of those casings (and especially shotshell wads) remain on the ground to … Read more
Woot! is a kind of odd duck in online merchandising. They take overstocks, closeouts, and other items and sell them online. Nothing new there. But their Unique Selling Proposition is that they sell said items, one item per day, until they run out. In other words, if you don’t buy today, it won’t be for sale tomorrow. And it’s first-come, first serve. When they run out, they’re out. Allegedly . . .
If you’ve read any of several of my earlier posts on tactical flashlights, you’ll already know I’m a fan. I carry one on a daily basis, and I’ve found it to be more useful than any other piece of gear I carry. Part illumination tool, part self defense weapon and part strategic tool to level the playing field—a flashlight is one useful thing to have on hand. The difference in a tactical light and your garden variety flashlight largely come down to durability, lumens (brightness) and portability.
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