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For some time now we’ve been DIGGING on a CAROLINA GUY with an EYE FOR INNOVATIVE GEAR AND GADGETS…so, after a quick Q-&-A Session back-channel over on the NCAirsoft.Org website, where he’s often dispensing PRICELESS GEAR ADVICE and selling his expert services and products, too…we’ve got an IN DEPTH interview with MATTAC head-honcho, MATTHEWS himself!
We’re going to put the HOT LINK for Matthews Tactical at the top and bottom of this one: MatTac’s FACEBOOK PAGE: Get over there and LIKE ‘em and be sure to hover and bookmark his updates in your feed, too! : LINK HERE
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Here’s our Questions and Answers session with THE MAN behind MATTAC!
THUMPY: WHO are you? Name, little background on you personally…only as much as you want to have out-in-public.
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MATTHEWS: My name is Andrew Matthews, originally from the South Charlotte, NC area currently at school in Columbia, SC for Mechanical Engineering. Currently empolyed as a military gear salesman here at US Patriot Tactical (Ft. Jackson), and take a real interest in helping warfighters find better solutions to combat gear. Unable to serve in the military myself due to medical reasons, I consider it the least I can do to contribute to soldiers and milsim enthusiasts alike with new gear ideas and my own technical experience.
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THUMPY: How long have you been making/modifying your gear? How long playing?
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MATTHEWS: I’ve been playing airsoft/milsim for about seven years now since I started college at Clemson University in 2005. Unlike a lot of hobbies, it really stuck and I just started hording as much gear as I could get my hands on. The more gear I aquired the more I felt like I could improve what was out there and let’s face it, sometimes it’s more fun to do it yourself.
I have been sewing and customizing old surplus gear for about a year or so now and just recently decided to try my hand at custom Kydex gear. I usually see something I want on the real steel market, that isn’t offered at an airsoft price or isn’t currently available, so I just try to replicate it from pictures. (FAST helmet, MOLLE gear, Vest Components, Custom Pouches, etc.)
I take a lot of inspiration from the SFLCS, AI/EI, and LBT lines of gear but always try to tweak the design to my personal needs. They say “Necessity is the mother of all invention” and I have personally found that to be the case in my military simulation experience.
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THUMPY: What’s your “philosophy” on building a good rig? How do you treat your customers?
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MATTHEWS: My personal philisophy in creating a new piece of gear is to start with something familiar or currently available and modify it to an individual need. I like it to look like a high end piece of equipment available to the SOF community, while serving a specific requirement for milsim such as hiding an HPA regulator, carrying my Polarstar Tank, or making it easier to don and doff my rig in a hurry. I am a huge fan of gear modularity, where all pieces of equipment exist and function individual of the other gear, and try to integrate that concept into most of my gear.
I am a fan of finding cheaper, more readily available solutions to most problems I run into on the field. With the radio pouch I came up with, I wanted a pouch that would fit my Wouxun Dual-Band radio, that allowed me to easily see and manipulate the screen, while still being attached to my MOLLE system.
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As for my customers, I don’t really do the work to turn a profit but a lot of my custom gear is the result of a request for a gear solution that isn’t currently available or may be too expensive. I am always happy to provide my technical experience and I consider it a challenge to try and find a custom solution for an individual whether he be heading downrange to Afghanistan or just upstate to Fulda Gap.
My customers include milsim friends and teammates, local LE/SWAT officers, and even members of the SOF community currently deployed in Afghanistan. Even though most ideas originate from an personal need, I have had the opportunity to contribute to those who serve and ultimately look forward to benefiting the military community.
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THUMPY: What rigs are your favorites? Why?
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MATTHEWS: My favorite rigs are generally the more simple time-tested designs such as the RRV and other chest rigs. I like plate carrier vests that are designed for mobility and ease of movement instead of the larger releasable designs like the CIRAS and RBAV carriers. I like to focus on lighter, smaller, faster by trying to integrate as much as possible into the design while providing modularity where I can for optional add-on requirements. I loved the RRV + Integrated MAP design but I never felt like it fit the way I wanted it to and I didn’t like how it lacked the rigidity of a plate carrier, even with a plate installed.
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Right now I use an LBT 6094 for it’s size and SAPI cut design which maximizes operator mobility. I found that the included MOLLE cummerbund was a great solution for most setups but doesn’t quite satisfy every requirement. For a higher mobility Direct Action kit where less MOLLE real estate is needed, I made a 4″ elastic cummerbund to free up my sides and added extra pouches to my belt.
In order to carry more magazines with faster access, I decided to build a MOLLE Quick Release Panel to store four extra 5.56mm mags, a Polarstar regulator, and a suppressor right off the front of my rig.
I also like the rigidity and authenticity of soft armor inserts but, like anyone, didn’t care for the added weight. My solution was a set of cordura laminated dense foam inserts replicating soft armor as well as rigid SAPI plates made from everyday packing fabric and foam board.
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THUMPY: Know you are a PolarStar guy…so, is there enough custom gear to help P* owners build a reliable and comfortable set of gear…or do you have to modify to get it right?
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MATTHEWS: The best thing about military simulation is the ability to adapt real military gear to fit a specific need or hide a non-military piece of equipment. Since no warfighter would be carrying an HPA tank on his back to run his Polarstar weapon, I had to figure out a way to hide the tank and air system in currently available gear or if need be customize a new piece of equipment for that purpose.
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The AI/EI – style MAP Backpack fits the largest tank on the market and is a current component of the real SFLCS kit. The LBT 6094 includes velcro radio cable administrators to run my air hose though. The only thing I had to fabricate specifically for my Polarstar system was the secondary regulator pouch, which houses my FPS regulator so I can see the PSI gauge and adjustment knob without removing it from the MOLLE system. In everything I design or customize, the main focus is ease of use, convenience, and expedience all while being hidden or disguised as military kit.
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THUMPY: Anything else you think folks would find interesting…torture test your gear? Worst Fail/Best WIN from using your -gear….
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MATTHEWS: As with any design process, some of my ideas haven’t worked out so well in the field and ultimately, all gear is a constant evolution integrating new ideas and materials to produce a better solution in the field. I don’t torture test my gear but the stuff I’ve made is still in great condition after three Fulda Gaps, four Lion Claws events, and countless skirmishes. I use only 1000D Eagle Cordura and I am getting better at stitching/bar-tacking everyday. I have actually had personal custom gear hold up better than its Chinese Voodoo Tactical and Condor counterparts, so that is something I am proud of.
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All in all it is a great hobby and continual learning experience. It is personally fulfilling to contribute new designs and ideas to the military and airsoft communities alike. It is always a pleasure to make it easier on those who serve while doing what I love.
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You do great work and folks need to know!
THUMPY….OVER!
Thanks Alan! I am excited to see so much interest in my craft.
Please use any pictures you’d like and let me know if you have any other questions. I hope the info and answers provided are helpful, and once again, thank you for featuring my stuff.
Take care Alan,
Matthews
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MatTac’s FACEBOOK PAGE: Get over there and LIKE ‘em and be sure to hover and bookmark his updates in your feed, too! : LINK HERE
Help those hurt by SANDY with Airsoft- NYC’s Airsoft C.A.R.E.S. and the Red Cross – NOVEMBER 17 & 18
C.A.R.E.S stands for CQB for Aid REcovery from SANDY…November 17-18, 2012 all around the NYC Airsoft Community!
And this effort, put together by NYC Airsoft, Moondog, Angel and the gang is going to be a multi-site event, with FIVE LOCATIONS all working together to help! Best place for the latest info is on the NYC Airsoft forums, or at the link here to their new landing page…
We LOVE the idea of pooling the cash and trying to get MATCHING DONATIONS from businesses….if you know any corporations…inside or outside Airsoft who will help, let the guys know!
AND, Stay tuned to many of your favorite AIRSOFT YOUTUBE CHANNELS, for an upcoming Public Service Announcement campaign to support Airsoft C.A.R.E.S. and the American Red Cross effort to help the thousands devastated by Superstorm SANDY!
DATE: November 17-18, 2012
“(C)QB (A)ID (RE)COVER for (S)ANDY
NYCAirsoft along with CQB fields across the Tri-State are organizing a day of airsoft to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy. These fields will be donating a portion of their field fees to the Red Cross, the Tunnels to Towers Foundation and other local charities. Register and find out more on the forum….
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DONATE ONLINE
If you’d like to support the Airsoft CARES effort but can not attend a game, make a direct donation to the RED CROSS and let us know. Got to: https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002
• Choose “In Honor Of” and fill in “Airsoft CARES”
• Choose the option to SEND an e-card
• Send to: CARES@nycairsoft.com
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Here are the locations participating in the event. Just click on the picture to go directly to the NYC Airsoft Forum topic for that event, or CALL AHEAD before your go, to confirm the details for you and your team!
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See on Scoop.it – Thumpy’s 3D House of Airsoft @ Scoop.it
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This should also be useful for MILSIM GAME PROMOTERS/ORGANIZERS, at least as far as the two lower parts of the graph are concerned: we HATE going to an event where each side is named for a unit that is GROSSLY out-of-scale for the number of participants.
200 TOTAL players should have units sized to COMPANY sizes MAX…say, “A Company, 1/22 Infantry versus 3rd Company, 130 Guards Rifle Battalion.” We have often gone to an event where the organizers simply take a historic LARGE SCALE BATTLE…and call either side US ARMY vs. NVA/USSR/IRAQ, where it would be so much more refreshing, and shape tactics better, if you use this graph to set up some REALISTIC scale to the events you put on.
Oh, and try to learn the proper pronounciations for the battles, too. Makes you look like you actually DO care about the veterans who fought the real thing, rather than just a gross proffiteer. Just sayin.’
“A graphic I whipped up showing the approximate scale of selected WW2 ETO warames in relation to typical unit sizes (data for U.S./Commonwealth units).”
See on social.consimworld.com
This could be the break that MilSim and Airsoft players have been waiting for. The first official adoption of 6MM ammunition as a dedicated training device by an official military organization, in Mongolia. And a major order for PolarStar’s revolutionary system in ASIA…the birthplace of Airsoft!
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Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft monitors all news sources for airsoft-related headlines and details, and many of those sources also include real-steel and military media via Thumpy’s new SCOOP.IT channel. It was via a SCOOP that we started to put the pieces together, and were able to confirm with public information sources the who, what and why of P*’s big coup!
It begins with a joint US-Mongolian training exercise, “Khan Quest 2011,” held last July in Mongolia, which involved military members from the US Marine Corps and more than a dozen other international militaries around the globe.
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http://mongolia.usembassy.gov/pr_072911.html
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One of the reasons this came to Thumpy’s attention was that a friend from Thumpy’s “prior life” as a real-mil/ miltary beat reporter, US Marine Corps Lt. General Kenneth Glueck, attended the exercises as the senior US Military representative, and that US Marine connection–along with South Korean and Japanese troops at the event, AND A FORTUNATE ENCOUNTER WITH A MONGOLIAN MILITARY MEDAL, is how Airsoft…and particularly the PolarStar system…will soon be making its way to Mongolia.
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USMC LtGen Kenneth Glueck speaks at "Khan Quest 2011" in Mongolia.
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As reported by DoD Public Affairs sources, several civil-disturbance exercises were part of the overall “Khan Quest” scenario. During one of these ops, a Marine gunnery sergeant in charge of prepping the site suggested that the Mongolian military should try to integrate its non-lethal training systems into the plans for the scenario. But, one problem….Mongolia, being a former Communist regime trapped between the former Soviet republics and China has NO non-lethal training equipment. Its sole experiences with civil control are, how would you say, “real-world experiencial” only! I.E., training in crowd control was simply done by controlling out-of-control riots as-they-happened. Kind of a “on-the-job/riot” education!
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Maj. Myagmaraj Dorj, operations officer with Unit 311, Peace Support Operations Training Center, Mongolian Armed Forces, describes the AK-47 automatic rifle to a multinational audience during the live fire portion of the field training exercise at Exercise Khaan Quest 2011 at Five Hills Training Area near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug. 1. (Cpl. Tyler Main/USMC)
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One of the III MEF Marines said, “Gee, I which we had our airsoft guns we left back in Okinawa. They’d be perfect for this scenario.” And, both Japanese and South Korean advisors also chimed in at that point, with their rich tradition of bringing Airsoft to life, and as major exporters of airsoft guns. All agreed that the Mongolian military should invest in airsoft as an affordable training system for future events, and utilize the same transport system involved in just-in-time delivery of the real-world supplies for the exercise, to ensure that they received a cross-section of airsoft rifles and pistols for test purposes.
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AK-based weapons systems are used by Mongolia, making PolarStar's just released Version 3 Fusion Engine a perfect fit in the real-world scenarios practiced at "Khan Quest"
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LINK : http://www.moveoneinc.com/blog/moveone-news/move-one-delivers-training-material-to-ongoing-us-mongolia-joint-operation/.
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In the subsequent time since “Khan Quest,” all three nations have coordinated via their embassies to provide test Airsoft equipment to the Mongolian army, and one of those systems that most-impressed the test engineers was the PolarStar “fusion” engine. Since it uses compressed air as a power source, and can be dialed up and down in power, it can go from high-rate of fire training system to a real-use riot control device with a few tweaks of the FCU module.
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And, more impressive, the PolarStar system’s use of HPA will also allow the AK’s to be used in cold weather conditions for training or even prison riot control, as the airsoft “MK 4 Strafer” is, from our buddies Sam at XCaliber Tactical and Tim “No Airsoft for Old Men” Ellwood, at events like West Virginia’s Annual Mock Prison Riot.
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But the Mongolian’s real purchase of PolarStar is because of one of a strange coincidence : the highest civilian honor bestowed by Mongolia to a foreign citizen is called the Order of the Polar Star.
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Order of the Polar Star medal
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And, the chance encounter between military professionals, and the naming of a country’s highest honor for the POLAR STAR will soon mean a boost in international trade, stronger military cooperation, and a chance to further Airsoft as a serious training tool around the globe. Expect to hear big things from PolarStar (and the MARINES/Airsofters) who will soon be back in Mongolia for this year’s “Khan Quest 2012″ exercises, armed with P* Airsoft products!
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APRIL FOOLS!
Just got this in over at the SCOOP.IT site’s SUPER-SCOOPER…and thought we needed to add a lot more to the back story, for all of you to enjoy!
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http://blog.predatorbdu.com/2012/03/soldier-of-fortune-mag-now-on-kindle.html
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OK, so for the record, I have not always been a blogger…heck, we didn’t even have “A/Uh” computer at my school…even for the front office folks…until the year AFTER I graduated; when my now-computer-savvy Army Civilian support little brother and his friends started to learn BASIC programming on a TRS-80. Yea, I am THAT old. Not as old as dirt, but old enough to know that “exciting electrons” only happened once-upon-a-time in an analog world, and “blogging” was done with a pencil and paper, or a typewriter you could not plug into a wall socket.
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This was EXACTLY like my first typewriter at the radio station where I learned my trade. I still type with 2 fingers and my thumb on my right hand…so I can throw the carriage!
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But, one thing that fueled my teenage imagination…along with my monthly copy of “DIRT BIKE” magazine…and that was riding my bicycle down to the local bookstore to pick up an ANALOG copy of SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Magazine! Ah yes, the fuel of many-a backyard war with plastic army men and home-made guns….long before there was AIRSOFT or even the “P-WORD” in the USA…SOF and hard-chargin’ editor/publisher Robert K. Brown were “spanning the globe, bringing us the constant variety of war.”
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I gravitated to the Radioman…and it is NOT the WORST ARMYMAN of ALL TIME! (Click PICTURE for LINK)
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It didn’t hurt my desire to gobble up “all things SOF Magazine”, that Brown was a “prior acquaintance” of a good friend of mine who ran our best local hobby shop, fueling another love…building plastic armor and figure models and wargaming…and the stories of a “mercenary” lifestyle were the stuff of pirate legends to seaport boys of the 18th and 19th centuries. In every issue of SOF, you were there, with RKB and “his boys” ADVENTURE JOURNALISTS, on ambush in Rhodesia, re-fighting the fights over Vietnam and “our” POW/MIA’s…and long before the right-wing mainstream “Conservative Movement, ” there was Bob Brown, schooling a lot of willing ears…and some tender, teen ears, too…to the looming threat of communism, cronyism, capitulation, corruption and criminal acts that needed someone to step into their path and ‘call a spade a spade.’
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I am sure reading those pages (and I still have MOST of my original copies in storage) somehow fueled my passion to become a journalist. And, through a round-about way and tons of luck, I became a Radio and TV reporter who tended to gravitate to stories on the military. ’Hard to toot my own horn…and I won’t right now…but apparently I was good enough to make a living doing that for over 20 years. And, in my travels, I’d occasionally meet and interview folks who’d crossed paths with the mythical “RKB;” another great friend and “source” who was, like Brown, a Vietnam vet Green Beret and passionate activist about the POW/MIA issue; others who might have a colorful tale from times gone by, even a state-side leader of the “Contra” effort in Nicaragua…which also was on RKB’s “radar”…but I never met “the man.“
Until January, 2012. Dateline: Las Vegas
Sitting in the working media room at the SHOT Show 2012 with one of the worst colds/viruses of my entire life, imagine THUMPY’s surprise to look up from my lap-top and see ROBERT K. BROWN in the chair RIGHT NEXT TO ME! It’s probably divine intervention…’has to be…at least as far as me not squealing like a high-school cheerleader, but I managed to gather myself in a split-second and said, “How ya’ doin, Colonel?”
An inspirational and very-wide ranging conversation of some-animation took place over the next half hour, in which we swapped stories about:
-being in Saudi Arabia for “DESERT STORM” at the same time, in mostly the same places (short of Kuwait City, for a little local-TV reporter hangin’ with Camp Lejeune’s finest, that didn’t happen…while “Lion-of-Arabia Brown” was ‘flipping the bird’ to the enforced media pools and flat-hatting across the desert wasteland into enemy-occupied Kuwait with Arab troops…what a story!!)
- to talking about some of those guys I knew that Brown recalled from earlier exploits…
-to talking AIRSOFT and MilSim, which the Colonel was well-versed in and supportive of as a Real-Steel training and tactics tool…(SWEET!)…
-to meeting his very nice”lady friend,” and showing off the technological wonder that is a MacBook equipped one-man-SHOT Show covering machine…
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“So, what kind of gear is THIS?” Apparently RKB’s “lady” gave his MacBook away…he kept breaking it! Steve Job’s finest apparently met its match in a hard-typing journo-’merc and conservative SHOOTER!
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After our “photo op,” I got an offer to contact RKB after the SHOT Show for a possible real shot at doing a story or two for SOF..still workin’ on that, so no details yet, but STAY TUNED…and, got his contact info on an NRA Board of Director’s Business Card (‘gonna be bronzed some day, to go in the THUMPY Museum of Military History) and we shook hands and parted company.
SO, it came as a shock a couple of weeks later, as we built the SCOOP.IT Channels, that SOF High Tech news started to fly in over the transom here at the 3-D House of Scoopage…
First, we got a FB scoop from 2011 Heroes of Thumpy @ SHOT Show 2011, “Jager” and Brandy from OPSGEAR.COM, that they were long-time associates and getting RKB’s online sites into a higher-state of tech awareness…
http://www.scoop.it/t/thumpy-s-3d-house-of-airsoft-scoop-it/p/1054261678/opsgear-on-soldier-of-fortune-magazine
https://www.facebook.com/OPSGEAR/posts/282470131807293
Now comes word that Soldier of Fortune will be DOWNLOADABLE on NOOK and KINDLE, Visible on their own SOF website and FB pages, AND…in all likelihood, spreading the death-defying and dealing stories of RKB’s memoires…now being written, we are told…onto that most-leftwing of tech devices…the iPAD!
As they say on TV….”STAY TUNED.” We’ll be hearing a lot more from Soldier of Fortune Magazine and the intrepid and gracious (he’ll hate me for that one; I’ve probably just blown the ‘gig!) Robert K. Brown!
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SOF’s Website link HERE: http://www.sofmag.com/
“SOLDIER OF FORTUNE focuses on news and adventure based on firsthand reports from all over the world. Our commitment to presenting the facts in their entirety sets us apart from mainstream news sources. Our editorial policy is pro-military, pro-strong U.S. defense, pro-police, and pro-veteran. We strongly support the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. By opposing tyranny of all kinds, we support the basic freedom of mankind.”
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Amazon.com Kindle Link HERE : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006BDWP58
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NOOK Link RIGHT HERE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/soldier-of-fortune%2c-inc
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And, ‘hell…”LIKE” RKB and the SOF gang on FACEBOOK, RIGHT HERE….https://www.facebook.com/SOFMAG
IT IS OFFICIAL!
Thumpy will be going to SHOT Show 2012 in LAS VEGAS, Baby, and our 2nd trip covering Airsoft, Tactical Gear and Guns, and the MilSim business world with the 3D HOUSE OF AIRSOFT will be Bad to the Bone!
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Final confirmations were not received until Tuesday from the NSSA for our Media Pass, and as Thumpy is one to let his WORK speak for him, we intentionally held off on the news until we were certain we had a bang-up, world-class INNOVATIVE program to bring to you from this year’s SHOT Show.
AND, We do!
Thursday: A list of the amazing lineup of Airsoft, Real-Gun and Gear we’ve been invited to see, from all the INNOVATORS on the SHOT Show floor…PLUS, a ton of Airsoft and MilSim Celebrities will be on hand, at special events and taking in all VEGAS has to offer!
Friday: A look back at LAST year’s SHOT Show..for you guys who don’t know what its all about…lots of videos from 2011 in VEGAS!
Weekend Coverage: The Trip Out West and setting up shop for the week
And then MONDAY-FRIDAY and BEYOND….the Inside SCOOP on everything you guys want to see, touch, smell and LOVE from the SHOT Show, as only THUMPY can tell the story!
Via Scoop.it – Thumpy’s 3D House of Airsoft @ Scoop.it
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FOLLOWUP to the earlier SCOOP.It postings from Soldier Systems’s reposting from Raven Concealment Systems…and if you scroll down, you’ll see an additional Comment post from 215 Gear in Tidewater Virginia…which set off a firestorm with Airsofters, Real-mil and LE players and those who train with airsoft as well as use it for recreation and sport. You’ll also see a posting there with a familiar face….
Via soldiersystems.net
EXCLUSIVE: KWA is “teasing” the long-awaited KRISS Vector, information to-be-released on 17 January, 2012…just TWO Weeks from now at the SHOT Show 2012 in Las Vegas….with this shot from the sidebar of their FACEBOOK PAGE….
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SEE MORE BY “LIKING” KWA Performance Industries FACEBOOK PAGE RIGHT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/kwaperformance
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SEE THUMPY’S COMPLETE KRISS COVERAGE, from the original announcement RIGHT HERE at the 3-D House of Airsoft, through this year’s SHOT Show 2012: LINK HERE
WE HAD A ROCKIN’ 2011 at the 3-D House of Airsoft!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 44,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
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This is incredibly good news for every airsofter! One of the most INNOVATIVE and informative web-locales in the history of the game has a reboot on the way in January 2012…Mechbox.com is where most budding ‘airsmiths and gun gurus…Thumpy included…went to first learn how to ‘wrench and screw-gun our way inside and outside of most of the popular airsoft versions.
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After a LONG LONG absence, the MECHBOX team has been acquired by AirsoftFix.com…and will be producing new content to go along with all the version-by-version assembly and disassembly love you already have come to respect! Here’s a teaser of what’s on the way next month!
LINK TO AIRSOFTFIX.COM
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Check out ALL of the Mechbox goodness at their WEBSITE HERE, “LIKE” their FACEBOOK page (LINK) , and at their NEW and soon-to-be-growing YouTube Channel, RIGHT HERE
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Official news release from Kyle and the gang, too!
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Airsoft Repair Info Site Mechbox.com to be Re-launched in January 2012
www.mechbox.com - December 16, 2011 - One of the most popular Airsoft repair tutorial sites, Mechbox.com, is being re-launched with all-new content in January 2012. The new site will still feature video tutorials explaining how to dis-assemble and repair specific Airsoft gun models, as well as several new video programs, including gear guides, complete repair courses, and tech challenges.
All of the previously-released Mechbox.com videos are viewable on the Mechbox.com YouTube channel, located at http://www.youtube.com/user/Mechbox6mm.
For more information on the upcoming new content, readers may visit www.mechbox.com.
In 2011, Mechbox.com was acquired by US-based Airsoft retailer AirsoftFix, LLC. As a subsidiary of AirsoftFix, Mechbox.com will have unprecedented access to a variety of Airsoft guns, parts, and accessories to create new video content with. Although directly affiliated with a retailer, Mechbox.com will remain an unbiased source for Airsoft repair information and product reviews.
LINK TO STORY SITE: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/December/The-Good-and-Bad-of-Warfare-Video-Games-/
OK, Here’s one that even the THUMP-Man would have never seen coming in a million years! ”Tele-Evangelist”/Big Mouth extraordinaire Pat Robertson is not only a real-steel shotgunner…enjoying the thrill of “clay pigeon” shooting with his grandkid….
he apparently “green-lighted” the following story that actually portrays airsoft in a pretty positive light, along with a couple of our Eastie-Besties…the cats at Ballahack Airsoft in Tidewater Virginia, and the guys who run the “Extreme SEAL Experience.”
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Both of Ballahack and Don Shipley’s SEAL buddies are located conveniently close to Robertson’s CBN world headquarters…so that’s a given that this was a cheap way for them to “do good” in the local community for a cheep drive down Highway 17 South from Virginia Beach.
