Syluxguy’s everydaycarry.com pocket dump is “a work in progress.” It’s also mostly black. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Black is discreet. Black is slimming. Black is operator AF. But black is also boring. In fact . . .
black is so done. Why not other colors for guns, mags, holsters, wallets, knives and various carry clobber?
As a red – green color blind human (who identifies as male), I wouldn’t mind carrying a pink gun. And I would love to carry a blue gun. Especially as gun people consider blue guns inert.
What’s up with all this black? Who died? Can we get over it already? Or is it still mourning in America? Anyway, here’s Everyday Carry’s black logo.
Here come the cries of “GOP made it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns”. AGAIN.
No matter how I try, that lie keeps coming up in threads like some sort of undead creature, and they BELIEVE it. Facts mean nothing to them, even the ACLU article about it.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/disability-rights/gun-control-laws-should-be-fair
It isn’t an academic journal. People are just to anal about it. Typos happen and are most often easily deciphered. Don’t worry about it.
I’m fine with typos. Shiz happens. But what the heck with the Waco interstate picture? It’s still bugging me.
Here is JWMs embarassing attempt to evade taking personal moral responsibility for lacking the moral courage to refuse to obey the goverment when it told him to kill nearly defenseless people:
“Everything we did in those faraway lands, good or bad, we did in the name of folks like ehren, rob and comrade more dead soldiers. We did it in their names and under their orders. The American military is under the leadership of the American pols and people.
We did nothing without their approval beforehand. And if they did not approve then they should have had the moral courage to try to stop what they thought was wrong. Refuse to pay your taxes. Renounce your citizenship and move to another country.
Until they have taken actual steps to remedy what they see as wrong they do not have the right to judge others.
My service was over 4 decades ago and I’m still proud of the men I served alongside.”
Other than TTAG I don’t really have any “go-to” review places for guns and gear. I’ll sit through part of a YouTube video and if the guy seems like they know what they’re on about then I’ll watch the whole thing. If not, I’m off faster than a prom dress after a teenage girl has her first full 40oz of Mickey’s.
Some people are better than others. For example SkinnyMedic does a decent job on reviewing medical stuff.
Generally however I find that most reviewers are full of shit on at least some level. They’re either lazy, don’t understand some aspect of what they’re talking about or just don’t understand period.
When I wrote the review for that Exo DayPack I wanted it to be fairly comprehensive since I used the bag quite a bit and actually understood it’s features. As such I did some research on how other people set up their reviews. I didn’t steal their ideas but I wanted to get a feel for format. In doing this I also looked at knife reviews for some knives I have (TOPS BoB and some others).
What I found, overall, was that the “reviews” were not really reviews so much as a bunch of pictures with a few paragraphs about the item. It became blindingly clear that whether you were talking about a pack, tent or knives the vast majority of the “review” websites never actually used the items. They unpacked them, set them up (kinda) for measurements, took some pictures and then wrote a blurb they called a “review”. Tents had never been slept in, packs had never been rucked and knives had never cut a damn thing.
I found this to be exceedingly common. Even basic features of something like a knife were excluded from supposedly “serious” reviews. Some of this was due to a lack of knowledge, such as the parts of a folding or fixed blade knife but mostly the author was just lazy. They didn’t bother to research the difference between say, a G10 handle and a Linen Micarta handle. They didn’t know what that meant and they didn’t, apparently, give a shit.
I have a ton of reviews for gear (packs, stoves, gun cases, pouches, clothing, tents etc) and knives sitting on one of my drives. (All unsubmitted btw). They’re comprehensive and I’ve used ALL of that stuff pretty hard before writing a review of it. When I didn’t know what I was on about I learned about it before typing a sentence on the topic. For example, I did a ton of boil tests with each stove to calculate times and fuel usages. You know, shit you might want to know before you go off into the back country trusting your life to this stuff. Most people just don’t do that.
IME a lot of websites just post bullshit “reviews” for clicks. Most of their site is ads and they really don’t give a fuck about giving you quality information. TTAG doesn’t do that. If JWT reviews a rifle or Jeremy reviews an accessory I know they put it through it’s paces and are not going to give me a bullshit review where they did minimal work, said “Good enough” and sent it off. I apply that same way of thinking to my game reviews and to anything else I might happen to write up.
Now… who wants to read a 14 page (with pictures mind you) review of the Hill People Gear Ute rucksack!?
/end rant
This shite was too eff’n funny Mr. Fagaro.
I want to learn more about this topic. Very interesting. Is thermal the way to go? Weapon mount or ???
Does the app support multiple units?
If, say, I want one in my safe and one in my nightstand, will they both be able to alert to the same device?
Conversely, can I have a unit alert to multiple phones?