While I have all the guns I need for just about everything I do I was missing a higher power hunting rifle. I needed something for Elk or Nilgai. I considered the 7 mag, 300 WinMag and 300 WSM. With the heavy bullets the 7mag is a great round and I can still shoot lighter […]
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Happy New Years!
The rush is over, but the sales aren’t!
Many of these are pretty much rehashed Christmas sales, some of them are dedicated New Years sales – either way, you save money!
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Lots of awesome ways to start your New Year at PSA’s big year end sale!
Here is just a few of their offerings!
See all their New Years Sales here.
Nothing too great at Amazon right now, but it might be worth looking at if you need some general items!
One solid deal is on a Dremel 4300 Rotary Tool w/ 5 Attachments and 40 Accessories! Just $95 (normally $120)
One of our favorite manufacturers around here. We’ve used and abused just about everything they have to offer.
The End of Year Sale is here! No codes, no coupons, just savings.
$20 off orders $100+, $50 off orders $250+, and $100 off orders $500+!
Sitewide, no restrictions AND BLEMS ARE INCLUDED!
Score a AR-10 M5 Blem Lower Receiver for $90!
Treat your new scope right (you did get a new scope for Christmas, right?) and mount it with an Aero Ultralight!
Want to take the guesswork out of your next build, grab an Aero Builders set!
Builder Kits come with a stripped lower, upper, and handguard plus this awesome custom Cerakote work. Check them out!
End of Year Clearance sale is in full swing! Some decent deals floating around so take a look.
Get a Rise Armament Super Sport Trigger for $85!
Another awesome sale is on Howa 1500 BRN-1 Precision Chassis, short and long action in stock for $305 (normally $450)! These are made by MDT and based off of the MDT LSS chassis, awesome chassis!
See the rest of their deals here.
Solid deals throughout the store from clothes to fishing to firearms! Orders over $50 get FREE 2-Day shipping!
Score a Marlin 1894 Lever-action rifle in .45 Colt for $560 (normally $830)!
Nothing new for New Years, but their Holiday Sale is still going!
Rainier is one of, if not the absolute best places to get high-end AR parts, optics, and other components, as well as top of the line guns.
No New Year sale, but that could change soon! Faxon has released their brand new line of barrels — Integral Muzzle Device Slim Barrels for 5.56 NATo and 9mm!
Their 5.56 NATO barrels come in both Gunner and Pencil profiles!
These are slim muzzle devices that have been integrally machined into the barrel. Normal gas blocks slip right over them!
Keeping it easy this year with a flat 10% off orders of $50+ with code “NEWYEAR”!
Get a Holosun GS510c in FDE Reflex Sight – $269 w/ code “NEWYEAR” (normally $350)! Great optic and at this price is a must buy! Plus, this one is extra cool since it is the FDE version of the HS510c!
See the rest of their stuff here.
Nothing huge to report at EuroOptic, they do have Mauser M18 rifles in stock and at a huge discount though!
If you want a cheap way of getting into 6.5 PRC or .300 Win Mag, a Mauser M18 is a great option! You also get a coupon for 50 off a Minox optic with any Mauser rifle purchase, that’s a HUGE saving if you’re looking for a very high-end scope.
20% SITEWIDE, no codes, no coupons, no rebates, just a flat sale!
Crossbreed is a great source for good, comfy, well-made holsters and one of the longest suggestions in our Best Concealed Carry Holsters article.
Huge sale this New Year with great discounts from BCGs to rifle bags! Highly recommend taking a long look through the sales.
Grab an Inforce APL 400 Lumen FDE Gen 3 Pistol Light for $99 (normally $120)
See the rest of PA’s sales here.
Use code “30OFF” for 30% anything in the Shoot Steel Clearance section!
If you’re looking for standard plates or for awesome speed racks, Shoot Steel has you covered! Start the new year with a new home shooting range? Best plan ever!
End of year clearance sale at Sportsmans Guide right now! These are sale prices ON TOP OF the member discount (if you’re a member)
Couple of awesome deals like the ATI GSG-16 Carbine in .22LR for just $351!
Don’t forget some .22LR to feed it! Magtech 40grain is super cheap at $2.89 a box!
One of our favorite safes in our Best Gun Safes article…SecureIt is having a sale on their Agile52 safes which ship flat and install completely internally.
Get it now and score $100 off!
Super cool and perfect to decorate a desk or shelf with!
We really like our replica GOAT guns…
Check out our full review or just head to their site.
Be sure to check back in frequently as we’ll be updating this list all the way through the New Year! Want to know our favorite guns and gear…check out Editor’s Picks.
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You might be the best equipped, most decked-out prepper on the planet, but you definitely don’t want to let on that that is the case. Especially when it comes to valuables, weapons and other critical items, a conspicuous display of security in the form of a big, beefy safe, a lockbox or vault might only incentivize thieves and “honest” snoopers like family members or guests to investigate further.
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Hello Pack. I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. I love Christmas and spend months preparing for it, but come 2 p.m. on Christmas day I have my tree down and the mess cleaned up and am glad it is all over. My Bobby loved the DIY manual pottery kick wheel that I commissioned some tribe members to make him for Christmas – a definite prepper holiday gift. I was not sure if he would want…
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Security overload leads to apathy. How often do you hear a car alarm go off and roll your eyes hoping the owner would disable the blasted thing before the incoming headache comes a knocking? The primary objection I have to such systems is they work too well. Every week I hear an alarm being triggered […]
This is just the start of the post Security Information Overload: From Panic to Apathy & the Remedy. Continue reading and be sure to let us know what you think in the comments!
Security Information Overload: From Panic to Apathy & the Remedy, written by Thomas Xavier, was created exclusively for readers of the survival blog More Than Just Surviving.
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Summer in Australia means a lot of time traveling in a car, often to the extent of completing an abridged audiobook and/or several podcasts. One episode of BBC’s The World This Week caught my ear, not because it is titled “Australia Burning” but for the opinion piece by Martin Bashir (17 minute mark). Bashir discusses mid-life crises, risk aversion and neuroplasticity. I look at the relevance to occupational health and safety.
Bashir spoke about the importance of challenging oneself, especially at “an age of comfort” (my term) an achievement. This may not seem related to OHS, the raison d’être of this blog, but the age of comfort can be defined as an age of safety or risk aversion, or as Bashir says “a mechanism for self-protection”, and this period in our lives may bleed into the way we see the world, the type of OHS advice we may provide our clients and, perhaps, the way that our OHS legislation is constructed.
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Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt and Underwear
In summer 2019 I received the Falke Silk-Wool underwear and t-shirt from the iconic German brand upon request. As I had been previously impressed by the durability of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt, I was really keen to test other base layers made out of Merino wool and silk, which is a much less utilized material for activewear although it has many interesting qualities when worn next to the skin. Luckily, Falke agreed to send both me and my boyfriend items from the brand’s functional sports underwear segment (my boyfriend reviewed the Cool t-shirt here) and we have been using them ever since. Here is what I learned about the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt:
The Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt is made of a luxuriously soft mix of 70% Merino wool and 30% silk. These natural fibers help to maintain the body’s ideal temperature in both warm and cold weather as silk has a cooling effect while Merino wool keeps you comfortably warm. As mentioned in the review of the Falke Silk-Wool underwear, the feel of the blend is quite different than that of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt although the shirts have the same wool to silk ratio (70-30). The Silk-Wool fabric is softer, lighter and more porous. When first wearing the Falke t-shirt I noticed right away how incredibly light it was.
I got curious and weighed it to be 85 g (size L), and then weighed the Klattermusen shirt which turned out to weigh 105 g (size M). As the two shirts are made of approximately the same amount of fabric (±5%), I could infer that the fabric of the Falke shirt has to be quite a lot lighter than Klattermusen’s 140 g/m2 density. Upon inquiry, Falke informed me that the Silk-Wool fabric only weighs an astonishingly meagre 105 grams per square meter! It is thus 25% lighter than the silk and wool blend used for the Klattermusen t-shirt. In comparison, the densities of the fabrics made by the big Merino brands Icebreaker and SmartWool are quite a lot heavier. SmartWool’s lightest blend for t-shirts is 150 g/m2 (87% Merino, 13% nylon) – just like Icebreaker’s most used blend for its Anatomica, Body Fitzone, Siren and Tabi shirts (83% Merino, 17% Nylon/Lycra). If we are talking 100% Merino, Icebreaker’s Everyday line utilizes a fabric with a density of 175 g/m2 while the material of the Formal Friday t-shirt reviewed earlier this year weighs 156 g/m2.
The Falke Silk-Wool is thus an incredibly light natural fabric. But as with the Falke underwear, also the t-shirt suffers from piling – already after very few washes (following the instructions). Piling is when fibers tend to come loose from the fabric surface and form balled particles of fiber. Some people (like my significant other) don’t mind piling, but I can’t stand it. To mitigate the problem, I will thus have to wash the t-shirt extremely gently by hand, and occasionally use my electric pill shaver – with caution as the fabric is so incredibly thin and light. But the feel of the fabric is so luxuriously soft that it seems like a price worth paying. I should mention, though, that the porosity of the material means that the t-shirt is slightly see-through, but not terribly so. It should, however, be even less of a problem if you purchase it in one of the other colors available – near-black anthracite grey or dark blue.
In terms of sustainability, the Merino wool used is mulesing-free, while the silk is more sustainably produced than conventional silk as Falke reports that “it is made out of silk cocoons that were already used for other purposes. Normally, the cocoons are thrown away after the first working process, but we are using the silk rests to spin new yarn”. Falke produces most of its garments in Germany, and the rest on other production sites in Europe so also the labor force has proper working conditions.
As I was almost 7 months pregnant when I received the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt, I asked for size L – which also fits me after having given birth. It is only slightly larger than the size M of the Klattermusen Eir t-shirt, so I would say that Falke’s sizing might be a bit on the narrow side. On the other hand, it is relatively long in the torso which is part of the explanation why it fitted me so well late in the pregnancy. Falke also offers other base layer tops in the Silk-Wool line; a long-sleeved Henley shirt and a camisole with elegant double shoulder straps. I was very happy with the t-shirt, though, as I often got inexplicably hot from the waist up towards the end of my pregnancy. The temperature-regulating properties of the fabric were thus nothing short of lifesaving since my shoulders and the baby bump was kept warm while my curiously boiling chest, arms and décolleté could cool down a bit.
I actually ended up basically living in the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt and the long-sleeved Isobaa base layer in the last months of the pregnancy because they were among the very few cool and comfortable tops to fit me without making me feel like a Beluga whale. Thus, the anti-microbial properties of both shirts were greatly appreciated as I would wear them day in and day out. The odor-reducing performance was especially put to the test in the Dolomites when I wore the Falke Silk-Wool t-shirt on consecutive hikes where it got soaked with sweat. Other functional details of the t-shirt are the smooth flatlock seams, raglan sleeves and the printed logos. The washing instructions are printed on a small white tag as well as in multiple languages on longer black tags which should be cut off with a scissor. Otherwise, the latter may chafe your skin.
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt Front
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt laid out flat
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt: Fabric
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt: Off-set shoulder seams
Falke Silk T-shirt: Logo at the hip
Falke Silk T-shirt: Wool washing instructions
Falke Silk-Wool T-shirt and Underwear
The washing instructions tell you to wash the Falke shirt on an extra gentle wool cycle at the cold setting (30 C⁰ or less), but to mitigate the issue of piling I would definitely recommend washing it gently by hand in cool water. Piling will also be increased heavily by tumble-drying, which the instructions thus warn against. Drying should, however, not be a problem as the Silk-Wool fabric is so thin and delicate, but it will of course take longer to dry after handwashing than machine-washing since you shouldn’t wring the garment forcefully of water. Whether washing by hand or machine, you should use a wool detergent, and steer clear of bleach and fabric softeners which may interfere with the naturally anti-microbial properties of the Silk-Wool fabric.
Piling aside, I really love the Falke t-shirt. Not only is it functional due to the soft, antimicrobial and temperature-regulating fabric, but it is also cut so elegantly that I don’t hesitate to wear it for everyday life in addition to hiking and other outdoor activities. Due to the hassle of handwashing it, I will wear it a bit less frequently the next months, while my baby still regurgitates in all directions, but I will for sure throw it on for every hike due to its exceptional performance.
If you have any questions about this product, drop me a line in the comments below.
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Photos posted to the People Of The Deid facebook page show the extent of the damage to the US Embassy in Iraq. According to FoxNews photos reveal scenes of destruction inside the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s capital one day after Iran-backed militiamen stormed the previously heavily fortified compound in protest of recent airstrikes. The […]
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The OSINT Resource Classification System (ORCS https://orcs.osint.ninja) has a huge goal: to provide a common categorization/classification system for OSINT resources.
My hope is that our OSINT and ThreatIntel community can come together and agree on some sort of organization system for OSINT resources so that when you visit one site like http://osintframework.com and look for something, other sites like https://technisette.com will have the same categorizations.
The benefits are huge for users and for site/resource owners:
I cannot do this alone. In fact, I’m just trying to start the conversation. People that have these start.me sites and PDF resource lists need to want this too or it will not be implemented.
We have a private channel in the Rocket Chat https://osint.team server for discussions if you are interested.
(Orc image from https://pixabay.com/en/orc-face-mug-horns-no-background-3187977/)
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