May 2012
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April 2012
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Vel-Tye Soft Armor Carrier
Here’s another piece of kit that Vel-Tye made for me recently:  a low profile soft armor carrier. [[MORE]]The ubiquitous Eagle Maritime CIRAS vest was part of my standard gear issue, which includes the soft armor inserts as well as plates. I find the LBT 6094 plate carrier to be a far superior vest. It is less bulky and provides a more streamlined setup. The 6094 does provide spaces for...
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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1660 Pelican MOLLE Lid Organizer
The awesome people over at Vel-Tye here in Virginia Beach made me a custom lid organizer for my 1660 Pelican case to take advantage of extra MOLLE pouches and to give me a modular system for organizing smaller items in my load-out box. If you are interested in one of these, contact Vel-Tye. They kept the drawings and measurements in my file in case anyone else ended up ordering one.
Apr 22nd
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March 2012
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February 2012
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Silent Zipper Pulls
It started with GORUCK bags, then I recently noticed that Arc’teryx has been using them on their LEAF line. Getting rid of the noisy and annoying metallic zipper pulls is the way to go. GORUCK uses core-less 550 cord with dual wall heat shrink tubing with an adhesive liner. The core-less 550 cord provides a meaty zipper pull and allows for a slimmer knot. On small items and clothing single...
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January 2012
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Site Redesign
I’ve just finished updating the design of my site. Most of it consisted of refining the existing theme. The biggest change is in the overall layout of the posts. Many blogs (previously this one too) are very narrow. It is more natural to read a narrower column of text rather than an article spread across a 27” monitor. With many of today’s devices featuring wide screens, a lot...
Jan 24th
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Masonry CSS →
A CSS replacement for Masonry JQuery!
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December 2011
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WatchWatch
Sweet Christmas card.
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Arc'teryx Arro 22
Last October I finally got my hands on an Arc’teryx Arro 22. I had searched for months trying to find one. I have never seen one in a store and one dealer thought the pack had been discontinued. Online retailers were always sold out. I finally found one from a dealer on eBay. The Arro is my go to daypack and I have literally used it every day for the past year. Design The Arro is marketed...
Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Sep 26th
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