A Mountain Guerrilla Campfire Chat
May 9, 2019 5:22:50 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on May 9, 2019 5:22:50 GMT -5
Couldn't agree more... Work the basics first and move up in the sweet tacticool stuff when the wallet and skills allow. When I was training the SiL back in the day, I gave him my old H-harness system, he still uses it to this day.
All you young pups out there, take note; the reason many of us old timers still use the old harness systems is they are spartan, utilitarian, they handle the hard work AND they last, my old H-Harness with multiple M16 triple Mag Pouches, double canteens, butt-pack, and other assorted pouches is around 40 years old and still kickin! Think many of the new LBV's are gonna make that cut? I don't.
Campfire Chat
May 6, 2019
1) I know I was supposed to do Part Two of the Junk on the Bunk series, but we are unexpectedly (unexpected only to me. I’ve known about this for a couple months, but forgot, until HH6 reminded me of it the other day…)out of town, and I didn’t get a photo taken of the gear I was going to discuss, before we left, so it will have to wait. I will try to get it out later this week, as well as the From the Library article, but, well, it’s spring, which means we are busier than the proverbial one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, so it will probably not happen until next week. I’ve known I was gonna cover a couple of these topics this week, so I am sitting in the hotel room, knocking this one out, while I wait for the kids to fall asleep. I am posting it tomorrow, because it looks like I’m going to be up to my ass in alligators tomorrow, so I know I won’t have time.
2) We are at a social function this weekend, that included a number of preparedness minded folks in the crowd. One of the things that I noticed, a lot, were the number of open-carried guns, in absolute piece-of-shit holsters. I’m not just talking about the abortion that is the Blackhawk SERPA, but the lowest end, gun store table purchased, made in China, single-row stitching, holsters, flopping around loosely on the belt, with four or five different velcro-closed straps barely managing to keep the gun from tumbling out onto the gravel.
One of the things that observant readers will notice, in the Junk on the Bunk series, is the lack of low-end equipment. You’re not going to see Condor, or Voodoo Tactical, or anything else that can be bought at the local big box store sporting goods section.
Why is that? I mean, I’ve read articles/reviews, and seen videos by Youtube Survivalists, heaping praise on Voodoo and Condor as the working, family man’s answer to load-bearing equipment and survival! Guys will tell you they “train hard” with their gear, and they train daily, and it holds up just fine.
You know what I’m reasonably sure I’ve never seen? Anybody with actual combat deployments under their belt, recommending Condor or Voodoo. Gee, I wonder why? Is it because we’re all rich fuckers with gobs of discretionary income, that like to waste it on high-end gear for “tacticool fashion plates?” Or, is it because, having put our lives actually in harm’s way, where having decent equipment that functioned properly, actually made a fucking difference, we realize that cheap gear falls apart under actual real-world, hard use? Hell, quality gear falls apart under actual real-world, hard use!
mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/campfire-chat-3/
All you young pups out there, take note; the reason many of us old timers still use the old harness systems is they are spartan, utilitarian, they handle the hard work AND they last, my old H-Harness with multiple M16 triple Mag Pouches, double canteens, butt-pack, and other assorted pouches is around 40 years old and still kickin! Think many of the new LBV's are gonna make that cut? I don't.
Campfire Chat
May 6, 2019
1) I know I was supposed to do Part Two of the Junk on the Bunk series, but we are unexpectedly (unexpected only to me. I’ve known about this for a couple months, but forgot, until HH6 reminded me of it the other day…)out of town, and I didn’t get a photo taken of the gear I was going to discuss, before we left, so it will have to wait. I will try to get it out later this week, as well as the From the Library article, but, well, it’s spring, which means we are busier than the proverbial one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, so it will probably not happen until next week. I’ve known I was gonna cover a couple of these topics this week, so I am sitting in the hotel room, knocking this one out, while I wait for the kids to fall asleep. I am posting it tomorrow, because it looks like I’m going to be up to my ass in alligators tomorrow, so I know I won’t have time.
2) We are at a social function this weekend, that included a number of preparedness minded folks in the crowd. One of the things that I noticed, a lot, were the number of open-carried guns, in absolute piece-of-shit holsters. I’m not just talking about the abortion that is the Blackhawk SERPA, but the lowest end, gun store table purchased, made in China, single-row stitching, holsters, flopping around loosely on the belt, with four or five different velcro-closed straps barely managing to keep the gun from tumbling out onto the gravel.
One of the things that observant readers will notice, in the Junk on the Bunk series, is the lack of low-end equipment. You’re not going to see Condor, or Voodoo Tactical, or anything else that can be bought at the local big box store sporting goods section.
Why is that? I mean, I’ve read articles/reviews, and seen videos by Youtube Survivalists, heaping praise on Voodoo and Condor as the working, family man’s answer to load-bearing equipment and survival! Guys will tell you they “train hard” with their gear, and they train daily, and it holds up just fine.
You know what I’m reasonably sure I’ve never seen? Anybody with actual combat deployments under their belt, recommending Condor or Voodoo. Gee, I wonder why? Is it because we’re all rich fuckers with gobs of discretionary income, that like to waste it on high-end gear for “tacticool fashion plates?” Or, is it because, having put our lives actually in harm’s way, where having decent equipment that functioned properly, actually made a fucking difference, we realize that cheap gear falls apart under actual real-world, hard use? Hell, quality gear falls apart under actual real-world, hard use!
mountainguerrilla.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/campfire-chat-3/