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That's amazing, I've personally never seen an edge like that. Nice work.

Very sorry for your loss, prayers for you and your family.

I certainly think it is worth having a set or two. If you haven't already, check out ar500armor.com (they always have 15-20% off on Black Friday) In addition to the positives that Dolomite mentioned about steel plates, another big plus to me is they don't really require much upkeep/inspections/ or special handling. When I was in the military we had to have our ceramic plates x-rayed 2-3 times a year to identify any cracks or deficiencies. While I don't think anyone would ever intentionally drop their plates, I do remember it being common to find fractures on the bottoms and corners of the plates from them getting repeatedly set down too hard or tossing around in a kitbag. Nowadays I don't have access to an X-ray nor the $$$ to spend on replacing ceramics, so it's steel plates for me. If you are not wanting to lock yourself into a designated heavy kit you could run a slick plate carrier with a "rack" setup over it to hold your mags, med kit, ect. That way if you don't feel the need for that much protection or need to go overland you could drop (cache) the plate carrier and still have your lightweightish setup to throw on.

Wow......that's a damn fine piece of hardware.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome!

I would keep the FAL.

Sounds like a good fit to me. That's gonna be a cool trip.

Very nice!

For what it's worth, just about every other special ops vehicle down range has the punisher skull rattle canned onto it somewhere, and many of the operators have a patch or some swag on their kit with that symbol as well. Not sure when or why it because synonymous with CK here in the states. Good marketing I suppose.

[quote name="monkeylizard" post="1372338" timestamp="1459963266"]He was on GlockTalk, Arfcom, HK91, etc. AFAIK, he's the original application for the term "mall ninja".   Holy Crap! How am I just now seeing this......pure gold! Thanks for the link.

Google River Rats, it's out near Henry Horton. They rent canoes/kayaks/tubes and drive you to the put in or take out point. It's been VERY mellow every time we've gone. Price varies by how far you go. If you have your own equipment you can park in their field and pay a much smaller fee and they will drive you to a put in site upriver and let you drift back down to vehicle.

You might try McMaster-Carr for your girthy plugs. As Gomer noted above, it might be someone other than ourselves putting our backup plans into use. For example; power goes out while you are a state away and the Mrs. has to figure out how to get the backup power going, and she may have been too busy rolling her eyes during the weekly SHTF drill to know that this breaker over here has to be switched off or on before this one lest the house burn down or a lineman gets fried somewhere. My dad remedied this concern at his house with a handy laminated card posted next to the breaker panel and one next to the generator to go line by line with the breaker/transfer switch directions and the generator start up procedures. He then labeled each applicable breaker, switch, ect with a number corresponding to the instruction lines.

Dang, I just got it from Midway for $160ish. I hope it turns out to be a good machine.

I call bull!

Nice collection sir!

Welcome. You will like Strategic Edge.

Welcome

Do you dabble in Kydex at all Robtattoo? If you already have some of the Kydex working tools it would be fairly easy to make your self a drop/offset for an existing holster or make your own holster with a drop. I could probably send you some pictures to try and replicate if interested. This is actually a common request from guys that wear body armor a lot that don't like their love handles.....I mean extra life experience skin....getting pinched between their plates and their belt level holster.

That's true. Would like to see some pics when you get it done.

I've had one one these 5.11 Apex belts for about 3 years now. Still working great. http://www.amazon.com/5-11-Tactical-40-42-Inch-Gunners-X-large/dp/B00878KYGM/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1459283686&sr=8-12&keywords=5.11+belt

I'm surprised you haven't made your own by now Dolomite :)

Midway has a tumbler on sale with 5lbs of SS pins for $165ish. I think it's the Frankford Arsenal Platinum.

The young lady in the middle picture is my buddy's wife. If you think she's bad@$$ you should see him! It would be the wrong house to mess with fo sho.