The Super 300 is a multi-tool with needlenose pliers, regular pliers, 154CM replaceable wire cutters, 154CM replaceable hard-wire cutters, stranded-wire cutters, electrical crimper, wire stripper, 420HC knife, saw, spring-action scissors, awl w/thread loop, ruler (8in, 19cm), can opener, bottle ...
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When everybody talks about the pants from 5.11, I have decided to try something new. European branded (Poland), these pants are designed by European standards. Unlike the American competitors, with American cuts and the specific sizes and the various lengths which makes it difficult to ...
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When you are looking for a small flashlight for the job, that you don’t want to replace every six months, this is a good buy. If you don’t want anything too powerful either, that doesn’t flood the room when you lit in, and want something just to help you check up on things, ...
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Surefire is a brand that everyone knows and respects, especially for its cheap and fairly qualitative products. The G2X was a bit disappointing since the P60 bulb is not a very powerful one (still, it continues to sell…) That being said, the G2 goes everywhere with you and you can ...
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Who is Zero Tolerance? Zero Tolerance is an American knife brand that is part of the Kai Company (along with Kershaw, Shun). Its best seller is a strong foldable knife named ZT300. Its smaller brother is a better, smaller knife, the ZT350. What about the ZT350? Let’s talk first about ...
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Tactical pants used to be part of a hiker’s gear when heading into the backcountry. Some tactical pants were famous for their unique style and name, as the most popular ones (5.11 for instance) were named on the Yosemite Decimal System, more than 25 years ago. From tactical pants for the outdoors ...
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The Participants in the Development of the .338 Lapua Magnum Cartridge It's often cited that the originators of the .338 Lapua Magnum were James J. Bell Jr. and Boots Obermeyer. My study reveals that this is indeed true, but Edward B. Dillon and Jerry Haskins played major roles; and in all ...
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In 1983 (sic), Research Armament Co., in the U.S. began development of a new, long-range sniper cartridge capable of firing a 250-grain, .338-inch diameter bullet at 3000 fps. After preliminary experiments, a .416 Rigby case necked down to a .338-inch was selected. Brass Extrusion Labs Ltd. of ...
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- Part I - The end of the U.S.-Soviet superpower rivalry drastically diminished the prospects of a global nuclear confrontation, but it unleashed pent-up global non-nuclear confrontations as well as pent-up ethnic, religious and territorial disputes that were ...
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Molybdenum was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele of Sweden in 1778. This element has an atomic weight of 95.94 and an atomic number of 42. It is silvery-white in color and represents one of the hardest refractory metals; i.e., resistant metals with a melting point of 2,617? C. It ...
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Jim Carmichael in his 1975 book entitled The modern rifle questions whether modern cartridges followed rifle design or today's rifles came about to meet the demands of modern ballistics. He concluded that during the previous 75 years, few original basic rifle mechanisms and cartridges had been ...
READ MORE +In his excellent book entitled The Ultimate Sniper, Major John L. Plaster discusses the reasons why the .308 Winchester (7.62mm NATO) is probably the most popular of all military and police sniping cartridges. The bullet possesses the power to penetrate many inanimate objects encountered by ...
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