OMG!

Luckily,  I haven't seen this before on the range. But I'm certain, one day ....

Gear stand

A while ago I saw a photo on the net of a wooden gearstand, easy to make and looked quite cool. Looked like a nice DIY project ;-)

Trying to retrieve the photo I came across the Immenent Threat Solution website which had a article on the stand. http://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/diy/how-to-build-a-tactical-gear-stand/
I based my project on the article and went shopping for some timber and iron.
So what did I need: (length in cm)
One 120 long 9 x 9 post
Two 60 long 2,5 x 9 posts
Four 45 long 3 x 5,5 posts 
20 deckscrews 10 long
20 washers

All the wooden post were standard sizes of 240 cm long and total price was about 40€. Nevertheless you have enough to make two stands. (Sometimes a necessity with all the gear lying arround ;-))

And this is the result:

Belgian infrared patches

Infrared patches! Their everywhere! Being coalition forces in Afghanistan or French troops currently deployed in Mali, you can't miss them on the thousands of photos circling the internet.

Used to ID friendly forces at night through the means of night vision equipment and restrict blue on blue incidents they come in all kind of shapes being square, round with a certain silhouette or text or just depicting the soldiers nationality by its flag.

Finding Belgian IR patches is another thing. They are probably non existing … until I decided to produce some of my own.

Size = 7,5x5cm
They have a retroreflective surface for nighttime reflection under normal and IR light and fitted out with a hard sided velcro backing.

Interested? Just give me shout ;-)

The standard colours

Subdued woodland

Firts batch of "Pirate tees" arrived!

Yesterday the firts test batch of "Pirate tees" arrived and are looking great! Great quality of print and T-shirt. Also check out the "Keep calm and hunt pirates" T-shirt for kids supporting their mom or dad.



This t-shirt, and some other designs, can be ordered on http://contact-front.spreadshirt.be/

Contact-front designed T-shirts!

For a while now I have been having some great ideas on cool T-shirts. Today I finally took the step to design them and put them online for purchasing.
Check out http://contact-front.spreadshirt.be/
More to come ;-)

If you have any suggestions on colours, logos, just give us a shoot.

An then, there was green ..

Thanks to our friend, Mike from Orca Industries, we got hold of the FN awesome patch in OD. In one of our previous posts Mike made some desert version but on the standard Belgian woodland gear it didn't quite fit in. So after the suggestion to make some in OD, here's the result.

 

Thanks Mike!

The awesome power of the AW!

Here is a small clip during a sharpshooter course depicting the power of the Accuracy International L96 AW using the 7.62mm NATO round.

Night time Force Protection

The following video was taken on board the Belgian fregat F930 Leopold1 during a night time force protection exercise off the coast of Libanon during UNIFIL.
We were firing on a night time marker with FN FNC, FN Minimi and .50.

Loads of Pmags!!!

Look what the postman dropped in today.

A box full of Pmags ;-)

This is the result of a group order for some of my colleague small arms trainers. So let the fun begin.

FN patch

A new addition to my patch collection is this "It's f'n awesome" patch. Being a FN user I just couldn't resist. ;-) And to be honest, the patch says it all!!

I've got some spare patches, if you want one just give me a shout ;-)