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This page is dedicated to listing companies that I like the products of. Consider them MountainGuerrilla-approved.
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1) I have no financial interest in any of these companies, nor do I receive any reimbursement from them, whatsoever.
2) Some, probably most, of these companies have no idea that I've offered a recommendation of their products. Some wouldn't care. Others might get pissy about it. So, I'm not going to post direct links.
3) If I recommend a company, it's probably because I'm recommending a specific product, or a general range of products. I'll try and note what those products are.
4) No one on this page has asked me to advertise for them or spread the word for their business. If you ask me to advertise your business, that's cool, I'll be glad to do so, but only if I can personally account for the quality of your products or services.
Mountain Guerrilla-Approved
PNW Arms. While these guys have developed some really cool new, cutting edge stuff in small-arms munitions, the only product of theirs that I've tested is some match-grade "sniper" 175-grain 7.62x51NATO rounds. These were the heat. I was punching sub-1/2MOA groups with it, at 600+ meters, out of an off-the-shelf barrel on a Winchester Model 70 heavy-barrel bolt gun. Good shit. My only complaint is they don't currently produce 5.56×45, but apparently they are going to be producing them starting this fall. Tell them I sent you.
CorBon Ammunition. I spend a lot of time in the Black Hills country, and have spent a little bit of time in their pro-shop. While they definitely have a focus on LEO, they do produce good ammunition. So, consider it a qualified approval.
High-Speed Gear, Inc. I run their kangaroo-style "Taco" mag pouches on my war belt, and HH6 has them on hers. They are my first recommendation for mag pouches. While I haven't run anything else by them, I've heard nothing but positive feedback from guys in the know.
Harsh Firearms. This is a small, one-man shop in Oklahoma. Dude does some cool Cerakote work, and some gunsmithing. While I'm not in need of Cerakote, since I've used Krylon for so long, I happen to have met the guy and he's a genuinely nice guy. Head is definitely in the right place. Check him out and see if you can send some business his way. I may actually let him do some upper builds for me. The one he built that I got to handle was that well-done. Tell him I sent you.
Costa Ludus. While it might seem odd that I would recommend another trainer, I've met Chris in a social setting, and he's a genuinely, nice, NICE guy. He fawned over TMO, and was more than polite to HH6. A gentleman of the first order. I've also seen the dude run a gun, and he's really as good as he appears to be in the old MagPul videos. Tell him I sent you.
Chinook Medical. Pretty sure these guys don't even know I exist, but I highly recommend them as a source of TC3 medical gear. It's one of my primary go-to sources for those needs.
GuerrillAmerica. Sam Culper's information and instructional articles on Intelligence Collection and Analysis are not only great in my mind, but come highly recommended from a former SF Team Sergeant who also spent some time as an instructor at the Special Forces Operations and Intelligence NCO's Course. If you don't know, and can't figure out, that's a pretty serious recommendation for the quality of instruction.
Ambush Tactical. These guys are located in Garden City, ID, a suburb of Boise. Cool gear and guns, and one of the owners is a former 2d Battalion Ranger (which I try not to hold against him….)
OSOE. Original Special Operations Equipment.
ATS. I run their war belt, although I replaced the inner belt. Only complaint with the outer belt is, the large size….isn't. I've got a 32-inch waist, at 210 pounds, and it doesn't come around in the front far enough. However, it's still a great belt and it's held up for a couple years of being beat to death.
Burris. Not what anyone would expect from me, in the recommendation of an optic, I know. The only Burris optics I have in fact, is the MTAC 1.5-6X on two rifles. One of them survived being ejected from a vehicle during a roll-over accident, and held it's zero even……These are relatively inexpensive (in the $350 range) and are robust as hell. You won't go wrong running this, if you're looking for a magnified optic.
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Could you recommend places to find/order medical equipment? I mean things like IV starter kits, NS or LR, 14 g angiocaths; monitoring equipment, even central lines or I/Os would be useful. Alternatively, places that have screwed you over would also be good data.
I am a doc, and trying to get a head start on setting up my "home clinic".
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+1 on Chinook Medical. They carry IV / IO kits, IV fluids, chest seals, pneumo needles, and other top notch gear. Dixie Medical is a good place to get civilian based gear like pulse oximeters, bp cuffs, etc.
BTW- your gonna get to the need of a tourniquet one day. There are many out there but give the CAT tourniquet a hard look. You will not go wrong with it.
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JM, Was wondering which company's "war belt" you run.
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JM, sorry to miss your last class, hopefully the weather was better…Couple of things kind of surfaced as I was ruminating on your class 30Nov-2Dec.
What kind of parts kit would you carry for your AR, Springs etc. Also, what parts would your carry for a Glock.
What items would you include in your IFAK?
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My regards to HH6, I am healing nicely, albeit with a cool scar. Helps my badass meme.
Also, was able to get Southwest passes for you and your better half for Shot Show. Let me know your disposition.
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Can't find a email address for you on this site. Who sells extractors? (ar 15) I need some spares. Thanks!
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Ever use any SpecOps gear?
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+1 on the PNW arms ammo. I use the shit out of their 300BLK "range" ammo using M80 ball pulled slugs & it's the shit!


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NEWS BLOG (WSAU) Running a travelling soccer team is a big operation. My son's soccer team, Wausau United, is actually many teams – a 16-and-17 year old varsity team – and dozens of other teams for kids of lesser abilities from high school, middle school, and grade school. It's not uncommon for soccer clubs to have hundreds of members.
The parent volunteers who help run these soccer teams do a tremendous amount of work. They may also be handling tremendous amounts of money. Between membership fees, travel budgets, spirit-wear purchases, and concession stand revenue, it's not uncommon to have tens-of-thousands of cash flow. If there's a parent with a financial background, like an accountant or a banker, they're a better choice to be the club's treasurer than another volunteer.
That means only a small group of people handle the money – and those people may or may not be trustworthy. Consider the case of Barbara Olson of Burlington. She was the treasurer of the New Berlin Soccer Club, and was caught stealing from the club's checking account during an audit. More than $12,000 was missing. She confessed to the soccer club president Melanie Gretzon, and was told the group didn't want the bad publicity surrounding a scandal. She'd be expected to resign and leave the group. Olson was surprised that there weren't percussions. There weren't because Gretzon was also helping herself to the group's money. She'd taken more than $70,000 from two soccer groups that she'd overseen, the New Berlin club and the elite league Milwaukee Kickers. Prosecutors say Gretzon used some of the money for spa treatments, professional sports tickets, and her home mortgage. Both are now charged with felony theft.
I've seen theft by volunteers twice – both from my daughters' girl scout troops. In one case, a parent and daughter were moving out of town. They sold Girl Scout cookies, collected the money the weekend before they moved, and then disappeared. Another family in our Girl Scout troop sold large numbers of cookies, kept them (and ate them), and never paid for them. Both of these thefts were over $200; money that would have paid for outings for 6, 7 and 8-year-old girls.
I don't know how the thefts from my troop turned out. Girl Scout policy is that cookie-sale problems get reported to the council – not to police. Their staff decides whether the cases get referred to law enforcement. That they have policies in this area indicates the problem isn't all that rare.
Not all that long ago there was a high school athletic director from our area who was turned down for travel to his group's convention. He was told if he wanted to go on the trip, he'd have to pay for it himself. Instead he was suspected of taking the money from a fundraising account that had been raised through team fundraisers. There were also questions about undocumented gas reimbursements. He was allowed to pay back the money and retire. His case should have been a police matter.
My feelings about these cases have changed. Too many nonprofit groups want to avoid scandal and don't want to see thieves among them punished. That's wrong. A volunteer with sticky fingers is stealing from the kids they're supposed to be helping. They should be prosecuted.
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Two words come up time and time again when people talk about Liam: Energy and Enthusiasm. He has oodles of both!
Liam joined the UDB team in September 2009 as a transitional mentor, working primarily with lads between the ages of 8 and 13 to help them get the most from being at school. He has created a fantastic programme called Boys In The Wood where Year 6 lads learn to overcome conflict situations and develop teamwork skills through making rope ladders, building shelters along with various other outdoor challenges.
Liam is originally from Southampton and, in the summer of 2011, married his UDB colleague - Sophie!
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Wheaton City Council candidate Phil Suess won the 2013 election to the North District seat Tuesday with 884 votes and all precincts reporting.
Suess, who has been on the Council for the past eight years finished ahead of JT del Alcazar with 587 votes, Ted Rodgers with 434 votes and Alberta Adamson with 325 votes.
Suess said Wednesday the results of the election were "very gratifying."
"It's always great when the community acknowledges you've done a good job," he said.
He said in his Patch candidate bio he ran for re-election because he wants to see Wheaton, "continue to evolve as a desirable and affordable residential community in which to raise a family."
"I think we want to maintain Wheaton as a desireable community in which you can raise a family... We've benefitted from others being in this position to create the environment we have and we want to maintain it and enhance it and pass it on," he said.
He said he plans to continue to focus on keeping the city's finances in order, creating an environment that attracts private development and infrastructure, with respect to issues including flooding, water mains and sidewalks.
Suess, 55, is an investment consultant with a BA in economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago. He lives in Wheaton with his wife, Mary Suess and three children, Kathryn 19, Philip 16 and Laura 15.
"We're very fortunate to live in a community like Wheaton and we just want to make sure we continue to do the right things in the right way," he said.
Rodgers wrote in an email Wednesday that going forward, he'll continue to look for ways to strengthen and improve North Wheaton and the city as a whole.
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"Lastly, for Phil (Suess) specifically, I hope he will get to know and take to heart the concerns of the business owners and operators on North Main Street and attempt to create events and foster development of this important area of Wheaton," he said.
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In a region that fully realizes the cost of "lost water," Nevada's Las Vegas Valley Water District is replacing about 56,000 polyethylene (PE) lines at a pace of more than 2,200 per year. In Rio Rancho, N.M., almost one-half of the 3,914 leaks documented from January 2007 to December 2011 occurred in just 2010 and 2011. The city's water service provider, CH2M Hill, estimates that replacing all 14,400 service lines would take two full-time crews about 14 years and cost $40.4 million.
The root of the problem: the unforeseen consequences of integrating older and newer pipeline materials.
Historically, most service lines were copper tube. The material worked well, even in corrosive soils, because the pipe was often connected to cast-iron water mains that acted as large anodes and shielded the more noble copper from corrosion.
However, the use of asbestos cement and plastic water mains has inadvertently eliminated the "sacrificial anode." As a result, it's not unusual for copper service lines in corrosive soils to develop outside-in pinhole leaks in eight to 10 years.
Once viewed as more corrosion-resistant and less costly than copper, polybutylene (PB) and PE service lines are also failing because of contact with chlorine-based disinfectants. Other failure modes include installation problems (bedding and handling), cyclic fatigue, and undetected material flaws.
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Where there's a before shot, there's always an after! We promise you want to see what this table makes a diy transformation into! It could used for creatures with 2 legs or 4 and be tailored to match your decor perfectly. It would make a great project for your own home or for a summer birthday! See the results after the jump...
We ran across this adorable tutorial for a DIY cat bed and thought to ourselves, "That's super awesome... and it would make a great doll bed!" It's a perfect idea to keep in mind, especially with summer garage sales already in full swing! Your $2 table find could be your next diy project! It requires a little paint, some simple sewing and a few scrap pieces of wood. Check out the full details and step by step photos of the process over at Junk Revolution.
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How freakin' cute is that?!
Charming. So creative. Must get a cat ...
What a waste of a good table, my cat sleeps anywhere, at night she sleeps on top of my feet.
super cute! cats never do what you expect them to though.
When the cat shuns it for that blanket you don't want fur on, that would make a great Cabbage Patch Kid bed!
That is a super cute idea!
@Molly h: I agree! Would be such a great toddler/preschool bed and fort.
Brilliant! Too bad, my cat would still want to sleep on my bed.
im totally with 'molly h' and 'farleece' on this one...
i would have killed for a bed that instantly turned into a fort!
and it would have saved lots of clean up time from making them in the living room and prob would have saved my mom a couple of gray hairs also. haha
You could also put a cute canopy on it.
How sweet! I am so tempted to make one for our two pugs. I am just wondering how over chewing up everything the little one is by now...
four-poster bed for kitty! if it won't sleep on it, it's still the cutest furniture in the room.
I would have LOVED that for my dolls, and those American Girls beds cost more than our real (thrifted) beds. Thanks so much! I don't actually have a daughter...yet! But I'm filing this away! Please! More postings on making great accessories for the 18" dolls!
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Grace "Twinkle Toes" Hastings has a big secret...she gets terrible stage fright in front of anyone but her fluffy friend Walter. As Grace works to overcome her fears and makes some super-cool friends at her new school, she discovers that it's OK to go ahead and shine!
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Martin Klimas' High Speed Photography
We have a friend who could give a rodent's proverbial hind quarters about art, floral arrangements or decor enhancing touches. Well, that was until I showed him these high speed photos of beautiful floral arrangements exploding, beautifully caught at the moment of impact by high speed photographer, Martin Klimas. There's something to be said about art that can convince a flower hating fella into someone pointing out which vases he likes best (in exploded state, of course). A bunch more of these wondrous photos below...
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These are wonderful! And .... I'm "wondering" why I love them so. Violent...yet beautiful...thought provoking, (like how exactly...I don't see an object hitting them)...so creative...love them!
it seems so wasteful, to me anyway
it hurts me to look at them and i dont need pain.
Picking another comment, waste can beautiful. It depends of the prespective and to me it is quite brilliant:)
I wonder if there's a possibilitie to buy a framw with one of those images.
I don't know why but these seem very 80's to me. The look and feel of them. Not a fan.
Interesting but too violent for me to display in my home
Something I have never seen before!
I like the exploding warriors better. Those even my husband would love!
I love these! They are so interesting and unexpected. I too would be interested to know if prints are available for purchase.
Great post!
I'm ashamed to say this, but these images remind me of KoRn's video for "Freak on a Leash."
I would be forever grateful if anyone knows where to purchase prints outside of a gallery.
Interesting - but neither beautiful nor inspiring.
If you like these prints, you may also like a show on the Discovery Channel called, "Time Warp". It's all about High Speed photography.
Does anyone know what the orange dried-flower looking things in this photo (from above) are called? I really like them...
Does anyone know what these dried-flower-looking orange things from one">http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/la/110508klimas_07.jpg">one of the photos above are called?
Chinese Lantern flower. The campus near me has a number of these trees, and now that it's fall, the flowers fade from orange to tan while they remain on the very shapely, 45' tall, 50' wide tree.
These are amazing, They are not really what I am looking for in art for my house but very fascinating and they exude so much energy!
I find it interesting that people find this wasteful. I mean one vase exploded and was turned into art. Imagine low many vases are thrown out in the trash every day and don't become art. Maybe this print can act of a reminder of waste
I misspoke: The flowers pictured do come from an annual/semi-anual shrub called Chinese Lantern flower.
However, the trees with the lantern-shaped flowers are Golden-Rain Tree, aka Chinese Flame Tree instead. Still, beautiful.
Its not waste if it was used for making worthwhile art.
oh wow... I love these. Something about the tranquility of the flower juxtaposed with the explosions. Love the contrast and the flow and surprise. nice. Wouldn't mind a print of one of these.
I make particle-based cg effects (like splashes and explosions) for a living so I guess its no surprise I like these.
I do not find beauty in the destruction of the fragile and living.
Try not to faint Gideon. I know looking at vases from the dollar store getting broken must be very upsetting for someone so sensitive and delicate. As for the flowers . . . they've been cut so they ain't livin' anymore.
I would like to see more variation to this. All photos are essentially the same.
I think these are gorgeous. To all of the people commenting on destroying the delicate and living and so on, if you've never bought a bouquet of cut flowers, never picked a wildflower, or cut your lawn then go ahead and by all means voice your dismay. If you have done these things, the term hypocrite comes to mind and it seems odd to get so up in arms about something.
Cut flowers and what are most likely dollar store or thrifted vases? This artwork lasts longer than a bunch of cut flowers, and beautifies vases that may have otherwise been knocked off of a sally ann shelf or thrown out once they don't sell.
These images are wonderful and interesting in my opinion, I love the juxtaposition between the gorgeous, simplistic and elegant flowers, and the extreme sharp angles and 'edginess' of the exploding vases. They're quite eye-catching and thought provoking to me.
I would also like to know how to purchase prints of these without going through a gallery, as I'd love to have two.
As for how, I had at first thought perhaps someone was shooting the vases, but now I think that it is more likely that there were small firecrackers in the vases or something - would have to be positioned just so, so that they don't fix out in the water, but so far I can't think of anything else. If the vases were shot, there would be more movement from one side to the other in terms of debris but these explosions all seem to originate within the vase somehow, as a center point.
AT, some help with sources for this work would be much appreciated! Thanks :)
If you live in Boston, you can come see a reproduction of one of his photos at the Museum of Science, in an exhibit about using technology to enhance your senses. I work at the museum and helped design the exhibit.
Here is an image of it in the exhibit: