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column, Andy will give you free shipping
on your order.
If the Yaqui Slide is not your cup of
tea, Andy also makes a scabbard-style
1911 holster that fully covers the pistol’s
slide. Also, if you are into long guns,
Andy makes a variety of rifle slings and
accessories. His “Ching Sling” is very
popular, and is actually distributed by
Brownells (www.brownells.com). You
can see all of the Andy’s Leather Shop
products at his old website, www.shottist.com,
or his new e-commerce enabled
website, www.andysleather.com.
Adventure Medical Field
Trauma Kit with QuikClot
You live the “prepared” life style,
right? You are ready to defend yourself
and your family if necessary. You prepare
for the worst. But, do you have a
professional quality first aid kit immediately
available to you? If not, you
should be ashamed of yourself. I am
not talking about some freebie first
aid kit or the little plastic box of adhesive
bandages and alcohol swabs you
have had in your car’s glove box for a
decade. I mean a real first aid kit that
will handle first responder needs for a
serious injury—like a gunshot wound.
For these types of high quality kits,
I look to Adventure Medical Kits. AMK
has a diverse line of medical kits to meet
nearly any needs. In my car, I carry the
Field Trauma Kit with QuikClot. This
particular kit is from the “Professional”
line and is recommended for hunting
guides, as well as military and law enforcement
personnel. This kit has your
standard supplies for minor bites, cuts,
and scrapes, but also contains a trauma
pad and dressing, and an application of
QuickClot Sport.
QuikClot is an emergency wound
dressing that promotes rapid natural
clotting and prevents blood loss. The
quick application of QuickClot to a severely
bleeding wound greatly increases
the chances of surviving long enough
to reach professional medical help.
QuikClot should be in every medical kit,
but often is not.
The Field Trauma Kit comes packed
in a small black nylon zippered pouch
that will fit just about anywhere. You
can view a list of the entire contents
of this kit and other kits at www.
adventuremedicalkits.com. The Field
QuikClot is an emergency wound dressing
that promotes rapid natural clotting and
prevents blood loss.
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Trauma Kit is a great compromise
between size and capability, while
remaining affordable. The Field Trauma
Kit retails for $45, and can be had for a
few dollars less with some comparison
shopping. Before you buy another piece
of tactical gear, be sure you have a high
quality medical kit like this one.
ReadyShot
Laser Training System
When I contacted ReadyShot about
testing a system, I received a very surprising
response. The owner, Brent
Backhaus, actually credits some of the
inspiration for this product to an article
I wrote on cost effective practice that
appeared in CCM in May 2008! Well that
made me even more interested in giving
the ReadyShot system a try.
ReadyShot converts your carry gun
into a laser trainer with an interactive
electronic target. This gives you the
ability to conduct “dry fire” training
simulations in your home, with instant
real-time feedback on your sight alignment
and trigger control. Short of live
fire practice, this is as good as it gets for
training.
I ordered the ReadyShot system for
my Glock 19. The “Gun Insert Kit” consists
of a replacement magazine that
contains the system’s electronics and
battery, a short cable, and a laser emitter
diode. The magazine is inserted into
the gun in the usual fashion, and the
cable runs down the barrel to the laser
unit, which is inserted into the muzzle
end of the barrel.
One of the tricks with a Glock,
Springfield XD, or Smith & Wesson M&P,
of course, is designing a system that
permits multiple “dry-fire” shots without
having to rack the slide. These types
of guns generally don’t permit multiple
dry fire shots without at least partially
cycling the pistol’s action. ReadyShot
has solved this problem. In the Glock
model I tested there is a spring in the
replacement magazine that hooks on
the Glock’s ejector tab and provides
spring tension resistance to the trigger.
The trigger doesn’t actually “break,”
but reaches an end point of travel. The
laser “fires” when an electronic sensor
in the magazine senses the proximity
of a small magnet that adheres to the
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