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      <image:title>Blog - Black Friday And Holiday Deals for Gun Guys/Gals - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The book I created for logging your practice sessions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The El Loco (pictured here) and Little Loco will make great deep concealment knives.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is the model they sent me. Slim frame fits nicely in the pocket and turbo mode is 3000 lumens!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My alternate EDC fanny pack of choice.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Building a budget AR-15 setup? This isn’t a bad option for sights.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Need repeated trigger presses in your dry fire routine? The DryFireMag is your answer.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Bear Creek Arsenal Grizzly 102 is an affordable optics-ready pistol that takes glock magazines.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A nice variety of POM pepper spray products.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The City Special is a solid choice if you’re looking for a holster for your Smith &amp; Wesson J-Frame or Ruger LCR. Their Enigma is fantastic for deep concealment or carrying without a belt.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Barrel Blok is a great tool to show that your firearm is unloaded and cleared. Fantastic for dry fire practice sessions. And it’s available in multiple calibers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Modifying the Taurus 856 UltraLite</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Hamre Forge stocks with Hamre Hook, installed on the Taurus 856 UltraLite. Note the fully exposed backstrap.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The new sight picture, post modification. Also note the contours of the Hamre Forge grips.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Modifying the Taurus 856 UltraLite</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Bright Sights kit has everything you need, minus the brush.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Modifying the Taurus 856 UltraLite</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Taurus 856 UltraLite, as it comes. (Yes, I own a purple gun. I also own a pink one. So what?)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Removing the factory stocks is as simple as driving out a roll pin with a hammer and punch and then pulling or sliding them off the bottom of the gun.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A Magpul rail section on the left and the proprietary Sig Sauer rail section on the right. Notice how much thinner it is.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Gear Check #1 - AR-15 Iron Sights</image:title>
      <image:caption>Notice how high the front sight sits above the handguard</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A new proprietary sight rail, the Magpul front sight, and the tools for mounting/adjusting it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Gear Check #1 - AR-15 Iron Sights</image:title>
      <image:caption>Notice how much lower the front sight sits now, as compared to the first image.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From the CoolFire website, an example of the system in a Beretta handgun. Note the laser module at the end of the barrel and the red-painted chamber, indicating it is an inert training barrel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The LaserAmmo replica gun is the only one of these I do not personally own. I have played with it at trade shows, and it seems to be a viable system. Like the SIRT, it fits into holsters for the same make and model.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Get Started With Dry Fire - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Barrel Blok, trimmed to size, in my Glock 19. The red thing at the back of the slide is the Glock E-Trainer which allows the trigger to move freely instead of having to reset it each time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Zeta6 SafeSnap in my Ruger LCR.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Get Started With Dry Fire - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A great resource to get your started with dry fire. Add it to your library today.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Get Started With Dry Fire - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The SIRT pistol is one of my favorites for dry practice. This one mimics a Gen 5 Glock 19 and fits in the same holsters. You can even mount an optic to it. Although it costs almost as much as an actual Glock 19, you can save 10% with discount code affordable-armory10 at checkout.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Master Instructor Chuck Haggard demonstrates a concept in front of students at the Tactical Anatomy Summit in Nashville, Tennessee</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Dry Fire Journal is a specially designed notebook for logging your practice sessions (and it can also be used for recording your live fire sessions).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I have owned and used the Peltor Sport Tactical 500 electronic over-the-ear muffs for many years. They are worth every penny.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>These Pro Ears Stealth 28 HTs are my current go-to ear protection. They are very comfortable, the controls are simple, and they fit in your pocket.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Walkers Foam Ear Plugs in bulk</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An inexpensive set of Walker’s Over-the-Ear muffs</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Preparing for the final fold.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The other side of the flattened ETQ Wide tourniquet.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here is what it looks like after the last fold.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This step is tricky. Use a middle or ring finger inside the loop to hold tension while the thumb and index finger pull the tag end for proper sizing.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to Stage the Snakestaff Systems ETQ Wide</image:title>
      <image:caption>Finished product again, shown here pinched between the fingers to demonstrate how inserting it into a pocket will inevitably compress it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The finished product, ready to go in a pocket.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to Stage the Snakestaff Systems ETQ Wide</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pinching the first fold to hold it all together while we finish things up.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - How to Stage the Snakestaff Systems ETQ Wide</image:title>
      <image:caption>The ETQ Wide in its messy, tangled up velcro state after opening it up.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Loop on one side, tag end on the other, with the windlass in the middle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The flattened out ETQ Wide, almost ready to be staged.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fanny packs (or cross-body bags, in this case) are all the rage these days. But do you NEED one for EDC?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sadly, the KaBar TDI training knife is no longer made. But here are some links to the knives we used: ProForce Folding Lock Blade Sport Trainer Knife Kershaw Emerson Wave Folding Trainer Knife Spyderco Delica Red Trainer Knife</image:caption>
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