Zombie Squad

UHMWPE, last I checked (2018?), is sensitive to heat..... .....I feel like I've seen combined ceramic/UHMWPE, and that sounds like a good combo to me, but I think they are expensive. my research matches your own. UHMWPE is just longer chains of molecules than milk jugs from my understanding, and th...

just heard from a buddy in another state; he said he managed to get some of the botach plates in a restock today, got 2 of the last 3 plates in stock 45 minutes after the restock email went out. So while everything is OOS right now if you are fast you can still probably get some.

my income has gone up considerably since the last stimulus check (feels weird to say) and I'm having trouble thinking of more cracks to fill in my preps. I hurried and scurried at the start of Covid and bolstered my food supplies and most little things I'd been putting off; since I haven't really us...

car haulers and other large cargo trailers have always been appealing to me for building out; but I had "vacation house/emergency BOL" in mind more than primary dwelling, so my math would be quite a bit different. Since they are a nice perfect quadrilateral most of the time insulating with foam shee...

I've spent a good amount of time researching cheap armor and the various low-budet options; I'm willing to take a lot of risks in regard to armor that most people seem to find a bit scary but here is my take: -Old as dirt police surplus soft vests still stop bullets. I used to be able to get them fo...

I think propane is the wisest fuel to standardize on for cooking, heating and water. I can't imagine getting a custom trailer built could beat a used one, but I haven't compared prices. Quotes are in order, but I just know what people in the US tend to like to earn for their labor vs. what people te...

Been talking with some friends and relatives back in Oregon; I couldn't say whether some of the fires were intentionally set or not, but the feeling on the ground is that they are and that the local LEO response has been lacking. Supposedly 8 fires were set in my home county last night, and rumor is...

one for M193 and one for M855 I'm curious about this, what is the thought process for using one over the other in any given situation? Personally my favorite for GI aluminum magazines is the 200rd SAW pouch; fits 12 magazines in an incredibly small footprint, only carries 8-10 pmags but they are ve...

The ambi safety I'm kinda on the fence about. I'm right-handed and so is my wife, but we do have southpaw friends and it is nice to be able to see the status of the safety easily no matter which side is up when it's on the shooting bench. Unfortunately, in the fire position it rubs on my trigger fi...

But looters and rioters don't attack private homes. They don't attack community centers. In Minneapolis, there was a small independent bookstore that was untouched. All the blocks around it were basically looted or even leveled, burned down. And that store just remained untouched through weeks of r...

I saw an explicit claim today that the AR belonged to a friend (that was named) and no state line crossing occurred. If I can find an official version of this claim I'll try to post a link.

The story has been updated - From NPR : Illinois Teen Arrested After 3 Shot, 2 Fatally, In Kenosha, Wis., Overnight If the third person shot is the one I'm thinking it is, dude might end up losing his right arm due to the damage sustained when he tried to attack the kid while he was down. The damag...

*WITHOUT* discussing the politics of the upcoming election, is anyone else making preparations based around violence anticipated in the days after the election or perhaps the day after results are certified? Normally I'd say "not much," but i'm in a unique position this year. For the first time in ...

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Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:20 pm

Anyone use the Android Team Awareness Kit (CivTak) or OsmAnd?

I downloaded OsmAnd, haven't used it much but it does seem fairly useful.

Police scanner apps can be useful; you can listen in to places outside the range of radio scanners.

While overall crime is down, I'm hearing reporting that homicides in particular are up. Is anyone else hearing the same? Could the protests alone account for the difference (for instance in my nearest metro area the 40% increase only amounts to 12 cases in the absolute sense) or is this indicative o...

Welp, except for an NFAC member having a negligent discharge that wounded three of her fellow "Not F*cking Around Coalition" militia members, things apparently weren't too terrible in Louisville. From what little reporting I saw it looked like everything went darn smoothly; police and EMS respondin...

If "de-funding" kicks off in earnest or otherwise things kick off to a higher level, I expect our world to look a little different. The article below is informative: https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/special-report-drug-cartel-narco-110728469.html Fascinating. I continue to find Mexico educational, an...

"weaponized cars" are an interesting phenomena I have not quite gathered my thoughts on. After Nice France, and Toronto Canada, it seemed the genie was out of the bottle, in sort of a "why hasn't anyone thought of this before?" sort of way. I have retreated a bit from the news, but in general that t...

The few airguns I have seen in person where very finicky, and hardly ever got two shots off in a row. while I hear tails of reliable airguns that will hunt mid-sized game, they remain hypothetical to me. Most of the bow technology these days goes into compound bows; these require modern arrows to my...

Local news sources are now reporting that security forces have retaken control of rebel held areas. In a show of force they are closing businesses (including those who filed lawsuits against CHOP) by not allowing anyone into the “secured area” local news teams that were on scene during the 3rd wave...

Would that not be discussing illegal activity? I don't intend to fall into that trap. If we couldn't discuss illegal activity we couldn't discuss home invasions, muggings, or most kinds of civil unrest. What the rule says is 1.) No discussion of illegal activities as a viable option. Talking about ...

For putting pouches in front of your hip bones or for balancing your belt?

How wide do you guys that use this stuff set the mag pouches apart? I have the harness attached to those so I don't know how wide I want to go. do you mean how close to the buttpack do you place the mag pouches? The old school rule I think was nothing in front of your hipbones; or at a minimum noth...

My memory of dragon skin was that it never really made it past some marketing videos and early field testing; I think the ballistic protection was fine but the individual scales would delaminate and not stay in place. Hot environments are not kind to glue, wet environments usually aren't either.