Custom Gear Report

A couple years ago I had the opportunity to spend some time with Paul Scheiter of Hedgehog Leatherworks. Aside from being a great guy, Paul is what I consider a true craftsman. Hedgehog makes high end leather knife sheaths. The attention to detail is amazing and these things are built like a tank. Paul also has a unique, patent pending “rapid release strap” which is designed to move the retention strap out of the way when it’s released. This prevents the knife from getting caught up when extracting it from it’s sheath.

Currently they make sheaths for several types of knife including hte Ka-Bar which is a popular blade among all military personnel these days, not just the USMC anymore.

Head over to their site and check ‘em out.

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Dave from Fight and Flight Tactical launched his new e-commerce site a couple months ago during our hiatus. F&F has a pretty cool niche market they specialize in tactical gear for aviators. However that is not all they do they make conventional gear as well. Drop by their site and check them out.

You can also follow them on their Facebook page

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Our friends at Mayflower Research & Consulting LLC have had their website online for a while now however we’ve neglected to mention them here in the blog, which is quite rude considering they link back to us on their links page.

We have had a chance to look at several pieces of Mayflower gear at a couple trade shows and it is top notch stuff. I like that they focus on lightweight and simplistic design. They are also using some unique Fire Resistant materials. We’ll do our best to keep you updated with what’s going on at Mayflower.

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Was made aware of this company today by it’s owner. They make a “saddle” you can attach to the stock of your firearm and have it customized to carry a variety of items like extra ammo, cleaning supplies and they even have a PALS compatible version.

you can check them out here: http://www.gunsaddles.com/

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Just noticed that Olongapo Outfitters, a company who’s products we have reviewed here, now has a website.

Check them out at http://olongapooutfitters.com/

Here’s a little question for the readers. Who is your favorite gear company manufacturer. (example Eagle, Tactical Tailor, Blackhawk, SO Tech, ESSTAC, OSOE.)

Big, medium or small it doesn’t matter. Which manufacturer do you turn to first when looking for a piece of tactical equipment. Post a comment and let us know.

Go Gear Tactical is a small and growing custom gear company based out of Washington state and owned and operated by Paul Green. Looking at Paul’s gear it is obvious he has a unique design style.

Paul has been sewing gear for 4 years and dove in professionally last year. He draws his unique design experience from years working as a metal and composites fabricator as well as hot rod builder. This background can be seen in his sewing by looking at the attention to detail, very clean stitch lines and curves.

While Paul enjoys making custom pieces and he builds everything from mag pouches to armor carriers, I would say his signature item is his padded “Boss” belt.

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Down Range Gear has just brought their new website online. Down Range Gear is owned by Chris Conner an Infantry Marine with over 11 years of service and 2 tours in Iraq along with time spent as a contract instructor, for Marine Transition Teams. Experience that give Chris first hand experience and the knowledge to know what’s needed in the field.

After 4 years of sewing gear on a part time basis Chris launched his company with a focus on bringing field gear solutions for the Grunt.

Taking a quick look at the new site you can see that Chris’ initial focus is on accessories for an often neglected piece of equipment, the helmet. He’s come up with a pretty unique goggle cover a ingenious yet simple retention system for helmet mounted Night Observation Devices as well as a strap keeper.

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