Concealed carry pants and backup weapons
I still run into friends that laugh at the whole concealed carry market and say that the pants and shirts all look tactical and not very concealed carry. There are arguments all over the internet about not wearing camoflauge while carrying a gun or wearing anything that makes you look like you’re packing. Well, I’ve spotted plenty of off duty cops that were wearing t-shirts and jeans, but the shaved heads and the polite manners basically gave away the fact they were LEOs, so how do you hide that?
Here’s the realty, keep your eyes open, situational awareness is more important that what type of clothing you are wearing. I agree that looking like a SWAT team member with tactical pants might make you a primary target if you are in the middle of a bank robbery, but if you spotted the bank robber first and left the building or confronted him before he confronted you, who cares what you are wearing. In this day and age, with so many pocket guns ect. many regular clothing designs are not comfortable to use if you are carrying mace or firearms and accessories. The Eotac style 205 pants have side zipper pockets that can hold firearms or mace and are very good for backup weapons. The Kimber Guardian angel works very well in these pockets and although there are other similiar looking pants out there, these look more like men’s jeans and feel like them wear other tactical pants or concealed carry looking pants are a purplish blue and not very manly looking.
I’ve been wearing Eotac tactical pants and shorts for almost 2 yrs now. I’ve seen only one real production change since I’ve been wearing them and that pretty much proves that Eotac got it right with their line of tactical pants. Some of the early production pants were a little tight in the thighs but I never noticed this problem since I’m not a body building (the only people that noticed). I really like the fit compared to the 5.11 tactical pants I use to wear primarily because they don’t ride up in the seat. I think that is the most common complaint I get from customers when they call and ask about various tactical pants that we sell.
Rifle scopes and spotting scopes each have their intended purposes. A good rifle scope and act as a spotting scope in some situations, but not everyone wants to have a 50mm objective lense on their rifles. Sometimes when I’m going to be shooting an AR15 that is setup with iron sights, I use to bring one of my rifles that had a 3-9×40 scope and just use that for spotting. The more I’ve progressed as a shooter, the more I realized that it would be nice to be able to just setup a spotting scope on my target and after pulling the trigger on my AR, I could just roll over and see the holes on paper since the spotting optic was already sighted on it.
Utility knifes can be tactical, but my idea of a tactical knife is something with a good sharp edge that can be used defensively, can pry things open and also be used to cut a seat belt without sawing it. Folding knifes are in their own category and I know some people frown on them, but you gotta use what you have and know in your mind what it is capable of withstanding and what it can be used for.
Anyone that works for a fire company will tell you the stories about having to cut people out of cars. This is literally what occurs when really bad car accidents occur. Not only do you have to pull people out of twisted metal, but you may have to cut them out of their seat belt of they were fortunate enough to be wearing one. Storing fix a flat in your car is very practical and useful for you and if you know someone who is in a bad situation that can use it. There are times when I have done more good samaratin deed and handed someone a can of fix a flat and told them to just get on their way, but what about if you get in a car wreck, can you get yourself free of your own seat belt? They make quick and easy to detach slings for rifles for such incidences, but seat belts can restrain you in situations where you need to get out.
The Mini 14 was hands down the gun that was hit the hardest by the AWB in the 1990’s. Ruger is now making 20rd and 30rd magazines available to the public and those magazines were going for close to $100 at one point in the later 1990s’. There is nothing wrong with having magazines for firearms that are not the best, sometimes it’s better to rotate through cheap magazines and practice malfunction drills or just toss them when they were out. You don’t want to use your carry mags all the time because if you are shooting through hundreds of rounds of ammo using the same mags that you use for your daily carry, you may find out at the wrong time that the springs need to be replaced. I picked up a good supply of Mil-Spec 1911 7rd magazines that I rotate through my guns and save the Wilsons Combat Magazines for the serious shooting. When the mil-spec mags start jamming too much, I just toss them.
And the answer is no, we do not, so why do people expect us to be able to shoulder the same size rifles or grip the same size handguns comfortable? Even if you’re a guy, you’re not all built the same, and luckily the military has caught on to this. If I had a nickel for every WWII vet I know that made a comment on how big the Garand was and how many of them had trouble shooting one, I’d be rich. The M1 Garand is a very accurate and powerful rifle, but not everyone could hand them. If you field a rifle of the same caliber today, and allowed people to adjust the stock for their comfort, recoil issues go away.
Why Laser Sights? Immediate Decisive AdvantageThe answer is short-and-sweet: Lasergrips provide you with instant and overwhelming advantages you wouldn’t otherwise have. Laser sights simply help you shoot better, with greater speed and accuracy, which translates into increased confidence—even in tense and threatening scenarios, when hours and hours of vigilant training can disappear in a haze of panic and confusion.
I’ve been wearing Eotac tactical pants for almost 2yrs now. We got a hold of some of the early production that were slightly different in fit from what is being produced now. There were originally a few complaints coming from customers that were almost always weight lifters or body buildings. Some of the pants were getting a little tight around the thighs so Eotac quickly changed the production. Now that the pants have gone through several productions, we’ve gotten great response from our customers on the design of the pants. Many of our customers are not happy about the 5.11 tactical pants that they have been wearing for years and wanted something new, a few of them were Woolrich Elite Series customers the wanted to try something new.
I’ve often noticed that some of the most experienced shooters I know that you would imagine could probable carry a Argentine FAL concealed actually all carry very small and lightweight firearms. The J-Frame seems to be the number one, but I have been noticing that there are a few very reliable autos being made by Ruger and Kahr. I understand the need for training, but there have been drawbacks to many of the snub nose revolvers I have fired. Number one, they tend to have terrible triggers and the sights are so small they are hard to use. I’ve put plenty of lead downrange, but I have done tests with 5 shot revolvers and the difference between double action trigger pulls and single can be significant. If you’ve only got 5 rounds, you have to make every round count.