Huey posted this… this guy wins.
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A shout out to Big O Holsters
Owen McPhillips has sent us a Holster. I’ve been waiting to get my ATI Commander back from Cerakoting before I took some photos and did a review. Well, Joe’s only going to do my gun when we get a pause in the orders. So part of me never wants to see it again! (But I totally do) Contact him for pricing and lead times. I’ve packed my Commander in this rig and it carried great. Just the right positioning and angle. It’s a solid holster. Now, Owen wouldn’t want me to say this, but I’m going to.
His daughter is suffering from cancer and the medical bills have piled up. He doesn’t want charity, but he would love to make you a holster.
Check out the holster:
Stung by Bore Stinger
This is an important a follow up to a previous post about “Bore Stinger”. For those who don’t know. Bore Stinger is a product made by some outfit called WASP Sports. It’s a Lubricant/Metal Conditioner made from tree sap and root oil.
I’m not happy with Wegner.
Some time ago, I purchased a Swiss Army Wegner wrist watch. Silver bracelet, blue face, “Military” model. Looks good. You’ve seen it in many Ogre Videos. And then The Nightcrawler Effect hit me. And the watch ejected off my wrist like a Jet Fighter Pilot struck by a Sidewinder.
So I sent the watch back to Wegner to get the bracelet fixed and the crystal (which had been scratched) replaced. After 3 months the watch came back. With a bracelet that was so small I could only get 4 fingers of my hand through. WTF? And the scratched crystal was still there. So I send it back. This time it came back with bracelet that fit perfectly. And its still scratched. I’ll leave it like that.
However, I no longer want it. I’ve replaced it with a Nixon. “The Scout”. So… I’ll put that Swiss Army Wegner Watch up for Trade. Make an interesting offer.
CRKT, I don’t like them.
CRKT makes a lot of good looking blades… and they are popular with a lot of my friends and other Gun Owners who are into knives. However there is something about CRKT that is a bit off.
For one thing, it’s their locks… or LAWKS as they say. Gimmicky locking mechanisms don’t make a for a good blade. A good blade is all about the blade. And CRKT has some great looking ones, but the company takes shortcuts. Steel quality, heat treatments… I don’t know what it is with these guys but every blade I’ve had from CRKT has gone dull faster than knife made from silly putty. You take any CRKT knife and it can be made twice as good if they had got rid of the silly gimmicks and concentrated on making really good blades. Like Buck. It used to be that I’d not own a Buck. Now I’ve purchased a couple and they are great knives. Why? They have great blades. A knife is a sharp edge of metal… the cutting edge is the most important. Everything else is just to make that edge usable. Now I know others will say that they had great luck with their CRKT knives. And that’s fine. But I use my knives hard. I’m not saying you don’t, just that my other knives hold their edges a lot better.
Beware the Serpa
I used to be a fan of the Serpa holster. However, the more and more I used them the more problems I had. I don’t recommend them to anyone and suggest just about anything else over the Serpa. A brown paper sack is preferable in my opinion.
Problems I’ve personally seen:
1. Failure to depress lock mechanism completely, which results in the pistol not releasing during a quick draw.
2. The gun being jerked out of the hand somehow, resulting in a draw stroke that ends with the gun being tossed away from the shooter.
3. The lock failing and ending up with the gun being stuck in the holster.
Slipstream is just pretty good?
Sorry guys, I gotta vent my spleen here.
I talked to this guy the other day, and it’s been bothering me. I take Slipstream pretty seriously… and this guy said, “Oh yeah, I tried Slipstream. It’s pretty good. It’s made by a little father and son company in South Jordan.”
“No. It’s not. It’s made by Crusader Weaponry in Murray.”
“Well, I tried it and it’s not as slick NAME WITHHELD.”
Sealed Mindset and Crusader Weaponry
Retired Navy Seal, Larry Yatch, is one of the most impressive men I’ve ever met. Great guy. He has started a very impressive training school called Sealed Mindset. We talked at SHOT Show together with Joe Chetwood about building a rifle for a friend of his. Evidently the gun was a success. We now build their guns built to their specs.
Guys, these are probably the most hard core AR-15’s we’ve ever built. No, strike that – they are the most hard core AR-15’s we’ve ever built. And these guns are exclusive to Sealed Mindset. We can’t sell them to you. If you want one, contact Sealed Mindset, and order one. While you are there, sign up for a training class to go with it.
For more photos of these awesome guns, check them out here.
How to buy a new gun and not get killed by the wife
Some interesting Snake Oil
Now you guys all know that I take Lubrication very seriously and Gundoc and I have studied more on Lubricants than anyone short of a PHD should. We’ve talked to Chemists and Nano Scientists and have studied oils down the Molecular level, and how they act and react with different materials and uses in different applications. That’s what we do… that’s why Slipstream is so bloody good.
Well, this sales rep guy comes in and shows us some stuff from a company called Wasp Sports. It’s called Bore Stinger. It’s a CLP type oil made from Tree Sap and Root Oils, according to the rep. He was kind enough to leave us a couple bottles. Everything I know of tree sap pretty much has nothing to do with Lubrication of small moving metal parts. According the the Sales Guy they take the tree sap and stuff and shock it for 3 days at 30,000 volts or something to “Change the Molecular Structure.” Yeah, that’s what happens to Organic Compounds when they encounter heat… Some people call it cooking. Which is why Crusader doesn’t use organics.
Do you know what happens to tree sap when it gets old? It gets hard and we call it Amber… the only thing Amber is good for is preserving Dino DNA and looking yellow. These are not things you want in your gun, do you?
The Rep made all kinds of claims… A lot of talk about Conditioning, which I still consider something for you Hair, not your Firearm. 10 Micron Penetration into metal. So evidently your metal is like dried pinewood and this stuff soaks in. Yeah, metal doesn’t quite do that, but okay… I’ll listen some more. Then I heard the biggest claim. This stuff will give you a 700FPS increase in Velocity in a 7mm Rem Mag if you treat your bore with it. Really? 700, huh? Not buying that for a second. Well, after the sales rep left, I had to hit their web site. WaspSports.
Their (talking about Native Americans here) secret “recipe” for seasoning weapons was coveted by friends and enemies alike, and the Eastern Natives became known as “Master Metal Seasoners”.
You know, my brother and I have both studied Western History in College… Including Native American Studies. My bro even has his Degree in it. We’ve never heard of that before. Ever.
Well, me being who I am, I had to try it out. 3 guns. I took down 3 different firearms and tried this stuff out. You know, it’s decent stuff for wiping down a gun. Probably because of the Wax Compounds that are most likely what’s in the stuff. But at an oil… I literally felt no difference in these guns – which were bone dry to start with. One gun, a Walther PPK/S, even kinda felt “Not as good” as before and had more of that Zipper sound after using Bore Stinger.
For about the same price as Slipstream… you can either get Bore Stinger… or you can get the best Lubricant known to Science that is absolutely proven in hostile field conditions and in very kenetic environments.