Looking for Zombie killing options
Do search for gun clubs and shooting ranges in your State to find out if anyone is holding a Zombie shoot. They usually occur in the September to October months. Having some good tactical clothing that will securely hold your gear. The Eotac Style 201 pants are my favorite because they hold 6- 30rd PMAGS and they are easy to run in. Tactical vests like the Style 101 are not heavy and don’t make you feel like you are wearing a flak jacket. There is a time and a place for different types of tactical vests, but mobility is important. You may want to try getting your magazines loaded up with all of your gear and then try running 100yds with it and see what it feels like and if stuff starts to fly out of your pockets. Mobility is extremely important.
There seems to be a new craze in competition shooting in recent years. I’ve seen more high school boys coming home from class with Zombie survival guides, the recent 28 Days later type movies and the doomsday virus outbreaks. I guess IDPA has lost some traction to the present generation, but I’ve attended a few Zombie survival competitions and they were very good training events. The best thing about it was the amount of tactical gear that I watched fail, and the number of really novice mistakes people made. Out of the 5 stages I attended, there was 1 stage that we saw about 18 firearms go down. About half of those were AK variants and they were mostly magazine related. Some guys never knew how hard it was to do a tactical reload on an AK if there was a round in the chamber and a fully loaded 30rd magazine. People found out what happens after firing off the 1st round and the magazine falls out.
If you have ever taken a course at Thunder Ranch, one of the things you will hear from an instructor is to put a white light on your gun. I think there are valid arguments about how to use lasers and lights on a firearm, but there are mostly liabilities in not having a light available in defensive situations, especially in your own home. Why would anyone not put a light on a firearm in there house? Police are trained to move and turn lights off and on as they move white pretty much voids the argument that it gives the bad guys a place to aim, well, if the guy with the light spots the guy in the dark first, his gun is probable already pointed in the right direction.
We was flipping through a few gun magazines and noticed I was living in a new era of flahslight technology. The age of ever ready flashlights and mag-lite flashlights seems to have passed. Battery technology has also improved, but we still haven’t gotten to wear we need to be to really break into a new era. The major advancement is in light bulb technology. LED bulbs are thousands of times longer lasting and don’t drain batteries like the previous designs. Flashlights are almost all water proof these days and the beam and throw is increadable.
We get asked about comparisons between Streamlight and Surefire flashlights as far as durability, and although Surefire makes some good stuff, there is no difference in durability. Streamlight will repair, replace or refund the purchase price, at our option, of any Streamlight product that does not work or that you manage to break for as long as you own it.