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TheRallyPoint.org Eotac Giveaway

Eotac To Members of TheRallyPoint, In Hopes of helping to promote TRP.org and our Mission Statement,We running a giveaway for the NEW Elite Operator apparel line from Rogue Elite,Eotac Shirts, Eotac Pants Shorts, Eotac Vests and Jackets, 1st Place-$250 of Eotac Apparel, 2nd Place-$175 of Eotac Apparel, 3rd Place-$100 of Eotac Apparel.  Win your choice of any style of tactical pants or tactical apparel.

How to enter? Simple Post on this thread and your name will be added to the list. Also, feel free to check in here and tell us about the places you shoot and ad it to the TRP gun club profiles, Giveaway ends Wed, June 30th at Midnight EST.Winners will be announced July 1st.   Joing TRP and stay up to date on announcements of what we hope will be quarterly giveaways.  Rogue Elite is your source for Elite Operator Tactical clothing.

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Practicing drawing from cover

CCW VestThere are multiple ways of carrying a firearm concealed.   Each of them may be good for a certain environment, but one way may not work for all situations.   Sometimes people get too caught up in one manor of concealment and the reality is that we should probable consider atleast 2 or 3 ways of concealing the same firearm.   When I was at a Defensive Pistol course a few years ago, we were asked to bring a concealment garment to practice drawing our firearm.    The majority of us didn’t show up with pocket pistols for the Class and having something that would work for a full size auto was difficult.

Some jackets will work fine for winter work, but summer concealed carry is a different animal.  Wearing a vest in the summer can make  you stand out, but it can also help you fit in depending on the enviroment.   Just like the debates about which gun is better a Glock or a 1911, you have to be smart about what your carrying and understand how it functions and if it works for you.   A CCW vest like the Elite Operator Tactical Style 102 vest has a generous cut and will hang well over your belt line to conceal a full size auto like a Glock 17, Beretta 92FS or Sig 226.   A lot of the students that took the class with me all used these and they worked well.

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Concealment Garment Vs. Firearm Retention

CCW VestWhen a CCW carrier is carrying a firearm in the winter, we can understand why they may want a firearm in a pocket outside of their body, but I recommend putting some thought into how you wear your clothing and how a firearm can be reached in when wearing heavy clothing.  Jackets that hold firearms will have to come off if you’re in a house or building that gets  hot, so then what do you do with  your gun?  The Eotac Style 102 CCW Vest is cut very long and is great for concealing in warm weather, but not a firearm retention vest.

We have been getting a lot of confused customers that think every piece of clothing is suppose to HOLD a firearm.   Tactical Pants, Tactical Shirts, Tactica Vests and Tactical Jackets aren’t necessarily replacements for a holster.   Although being able to fit a firearm in a pocket is possible with all of the above, trying to stuff a Glock 30 in a vest that is made of basically the same thing as a T-Shirt isn’t a good idea.  We’ve had a few angry emails and phone calls from customers this year that tried to do that and said we were falsely advertising the vest as a CCW Vest and it was not.  Well…….

 

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Tactical Pants cut down

Tactical PantsMost of us that are in the industry are wearing some sort of tactical pants or ccw pants for most of the year.  When it gets into the summer months we have to think about losing some of the accessories and gear or having to sweat it out.   For most of the year, lightweight pants are a good option even if we know we’re going to be sweating it out, it’s good to have pants that can protect you from poison ivy or bug bites.

If have the ability to avoid wearing pants and we can get away with shorts, the fit and design of the Eotac lightweight tactical shorts are superior to anything we’ve worn from any other company.   I know 5.11 tactical pants some good stuff, but lets be honest, they’ve gotten pretty bad in the quality control department and i’ve had issues with their tactical shorts riding up in the crotch.   If this happens when we wear pants its one thing, but when your nuts are hanging of your shorts, it’s not very professional.   Due to demand, the style 301 shorts are made in a 9″ inseams and the 302 are a 7″1/2 inseam.   Ever body is going to prefer one over the other because were all  made differently.

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Summer Tactical Operator Pants

Tactical PantsIf you haven’t heard them called that yet, maybe we should coin the phrase.    Eotac’s Lightweight Operator Grade tactical pants are the pants you should be wearing if you are taking a Carbine class this summer.   I was watching the Magpul Art of the Tactical Carbine and noticed just about every operator we saw on the DVD was pulling mags from a vest, chest rig or belt.   There were several shooting postions we noticed where and Operator was laying on their side and reloading mags.

The Style 201 lightweight operator grade pants are made of 100% cotton ripstop.   Ripstop material came about after WWII in the Pacific War.   These pants are capable of holding  up to 6 loaded 30rd AR magazines in the pants and make accessing mags and reloading on the ground easier that pulling from a chest rig.  Style 201 pants are available in Black, Khaki, OD Green, Navy and now the Digital Camo pattern.   These pants also accept knee pad inserts and use the same pads as the style 202 and 202 pants do.

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Getting the edge in the apparel market

Tactical PantsElite Operator Tactical has made high quality tactical pants in cotton canvas and lightweight 100% cotton ripstop.   They have a concealed carry or discreet line of apparel that is also expanding in 2010, but the tactical market door just got kicked open from someone other that 5.11 Tactical.    Sign up for our Rogue Elite.net email mailing list for promtions and feel free to give us your feedback on one of the most anticipated items this year.

Eotac just launched there new tactical pants specifically designed for women.   We have been waiting for almost a year for these to hit the market, and after several delays, they are finally arriving.   The Style 702 Womens pants are now available in Khaki and OD Green.  These tactical pants are designed specifically for women and something very original.

 

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Military Jacket for the modern CCW carrier

Tactical JacketWe we get into discussions with people that are looking for clothing that doesn’t make them look like they are carrying a gun, we listen to what the customer has to say and then we give them some options.   We realize that dressing all tactical and clipping a folding knife onto a front pocket is usually a giveaway, but there is more to think about other than “what if they think I look like I carry a gun”.    Well, how many times have you seen an Obama hippy pot smoking hippy with a camoflauge jacket on or cutoff camo pants?   Does he look like he’s easy prey for a robber?
If you are working the narcotics department and you don’t want to look like a cop or that you just walked out of boot camp, we understand, but being situationally aware is far more importantant than worrying about what other people think of you.     The Eotac Style 502 Field Jacket is a modernized CCW tactical jacket that has that vintage look, especially if you go for that lizard patter camo.   The pockets are designed for carrying modern flashlights, phones, knives ect and won’t be as clumsy to use compared to military surplus jackets.   Check out the Style 103 Field vest also that is basically the same desing, but without sleeves.    One thing you have to remember about this jacket though is it is a jacket and not a coat, it is also not a firearms retention device and not meant to carry a large gun in the pockets.   We do get customers that order these and seem to think that because it is a CCW style jacket that it means you can put a gun in it.   We’d recommend worrying about a different holster design than trying to conceal a firearm in this.

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Our best firearm instructor shirt

Tactical ShirtsThe real reason we love this shirt so much is how often we get out in cool mornings and by late morning we’re dying of heat and sometimes we just want to tear our shirt off.   The back of the shirt is vented so even though this is not super lightweight material it can breath pretty well and the zipper can add a more professional look while zipped down when you want to cool off.  This is hands down our #1 seller to firearms instructors for the look and applications.

One of our favorite tactical shirts right now is the Eotac 401 zip up short sleeve shirt.   The reason we like this shirt so much is simple, instead of having a full button up shirt, this shirt has a pull down zipper that makes it very useful for people that are putting in long hours on training courses.   Granted, the shirt was designed for multiple applications, and it does have a very concealed carry appeal to it because you could technically wear a shoulder holster under this shirt and access your firearm via a quick zip down of the shirt.

 

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Tactical Pants Blowout

Woolrich Elite PantsThe 4904 Cargo pants were originally designed for operators that migth be in the seated position and find it easier to pull a wallet or accessory from an ankle pocket rather than reach into hand pockets.  Try sitting in a car and pull your keys out of your pocket, then try them from your ankle if you had a pocket down there.   We have mostly 4904 OD Green pants at a blowout deal for $25.00 a pair, we do have a few Khaki and Black pants left but not many.

Woolrich Elite pants are one of the highest quality pants on the market.    They don’t shrink like some of the 5.11 pants do and you can feel the difference in the weight even though 5.11 pants usually say they are the same weight.    We have an over stock of the Woolrich Elite Pants which are the same pocket desings as the Style 4429 pants are except they have a lower ankle pocket  on each leg.

 

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Tactical Pants for Women

Eotac ClothingEotac is about to launch their first run on their 702 Lightweight tactical pants for women.   For women that work in the security forces or for law enforcement, this will be something to get your hands on.   Many women working in this line of work usually are forced to find men’s tactical clothing that fits them well enough to get through the day.    We’ve heard from a lot of women that wore other tactical women’s pants and the complaints are still coming in.

Elite Operator Tactical or mostly known as Eotac, are an aggressive new tactical apparel company that are backed by the Corporation Cerebus that owns Remington, DPMS, Bushmaster and even Marlin Firearms.   There’s a pretty good chance that Eotac will be the primary competitor to 5.11 Tactical in the coming years.   We are expecting the Style 702 Women’s Operator Grade Lightweight Tactical Pants to be coming in in late March or early April 2010.   These pants went through extensive testing and designing and considering the Men’s line of Eotac clothing, we’re expecting great things from Eotac that are meant for Women in the coming years.

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