Concealment #17 2020

RECOIL Presents: Concealment

For the Modern-Day Gun Enthusiast

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On The Cover
B&T VP9 bt-arms.com MSRP: $3,250 MEAN GENE LEATHER CUSTOM TOILETRY BAG meangeneleather.com MSRP: $150 BÖKER CLASSIC BLACK SHAVING BRUSH bokerusa.com MSRP: $70 BÖKER DAMASCUS EBONY STRAIGHT RAZOR bokerusa.com MSRP: $579 BERTUCCI A-5S BALLISTA bertucci
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Editor’s Letter
I’m sitting in my living room in mid-March during what I hope is the height of the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. I have 10 rolls of toilet paper, food reserves to last more than a week, and a full tank of gas in my truck. I’m social distancing
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Editor-in-Chief/Iain Harrison Editor/Rob Curtis Managing Editor/Laura Peltakian Features Editor/Dave Merrill Senior Editor/Tom Marshall Contributing Editor/Steven Kuo Network Manager/John Schwartze Director, Video Production/Calvin Coulthard Contribu
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Uncovered
1 STUDIES AND OBSERVATIONS GROUP sogknives.com BLADE MATERIAL: S35VN BLADE LENGTH: 2.8 inches OAL: 6.4 inches WEIGHT: 1.2 ounces MSRP: $139 NOTES: At just under a quarter-inch thin and weighing barely more than an ounce, SOG’s Ultra XR is as much a d
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Like A Mullet In 9mm
It’s sometime in the late ’90s on an icy night at 1 a.m. and you just put that embarrassing secondhand Dodge Dynasty you got from your parents into a ditch. You call the one friend in college you know with a 4WD pickup who’ll come rescue your ride in
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Options
CRUCIAL CONCEALMENT crucialconcealment.com FITS: Glock, Ruger, Sig Sauer, Taurus MSRP: $60 NOTES: Crucial Concealment’s Covert OWB checks off an awful lot of boxes. It’s made from 0.08-inch-thick Kydex that’s heat molded with a gentle curve for comfo
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Matt Hembree
Profession Retail sales Current job title Manager, Tactical Edge firearm shop Describe your current working environment Commercial retail How does your work environment affect your EDC? It doesn’t. I handle all different types of weapons, so I was ab
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Matt Kitzmiller
Profession Electrical trainer Current job title Corporate lean trainer Describe your current working environment I train groups of people all over the country. My working environment changes regularly. How does your work environment affect your EDC?
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Michael Lake
Profession Safety professional and firearms instructor Current job title Explosives safety program lead Describe your current working environment Secure federal research facility How does your work environment affect your EDC? It’s the ultimate “non-
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CHAD McBROOM
comprehensivefightingsystems.com Profession Firearms trainer and freelance writer/photographer Current job title Owner, Comprehensive Fighting Systems Describe your current working environment My daily work environment ranges from rural desert to urb
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Michael Storms
Profession Manufacturing and assembly, former EMT, and Navy veteran Current job title Assembler Describe your current working environment My work environment is loud; most of the areas within the plant are dangerous. I carry the “keep your head on a
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Emily Valentine
www.stylemetactical.com Profession IT consultant, lifestyle blogger, and podcast host Current job title IT program manager Describe your current working environment During the day, my current work environment is a typical office setting. I work in a
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Hands On
COOLFIRE TRAINER coolfiretrainer.com MSRP: $461, as shown Dry-fire is good. Dry-fire is boring. So how do we square that circle? There are a couple of ways to get some feedback into your dryfire routine, and by doing so both make it more interesting
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Virginia’s battle
Virginia, where patriot forefathers forever booted a tyrannical British king off soil that would become the United States of America, isn’t the first state to see a bow wave of support for Second Amendment rights, but it certainly has developed one o
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Wet Work
The B&T VP9 is an integrally suppressed, takedown, bolt action pistol, based on a World War II assassination tool. Up until now, the VP9 has been unavailable for purchase in the USA. This combination of the exotic, the diabolical, and the impractical
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B&T APC IN BEST MILLIMETER
If you’re someone under the age of 40, you may have a hard time accepting the concept of 10mm. The entire notion sniffs of antiquated and debunked fudd-pseudoscience ballistic terms like “knockdown power” and “energy dump.” But here we’ll explore if
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Setting It Back
Every so often we encounter setbacks. Missed opportunities come in many forms and setback our plans: catching the flu, pulling a muscle at the gym, having car trouble on the way to work, etc. However, if you have a real bullet setback issue at the ra
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Fn’s 509 compact Mrd
There’s no shortage of options out there when it comes to running a red-dot pistol for concealed carry. FN recently added their well-considered addition to the market with their 509 compact MRD. This pistol offers some a fresh take on red-dot mountin
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Making Your own Onion
Layered security refers to the strategy of combining multiple security components to protect people, property, assets, and more. The military calls this defense in depth. The benefit of a layered approach to security is that it addresses the key elem
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Lego My Pistol
As kids, we built guns out of anything — rulers, Pop Tarts, tree branches, anything resembling a barrel was good enough. There was nothing like finding that perfect tree branch that mimicked a gun better than the rest. Your imagination was the only l
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Training Target selection
Amid all the choices there are in shooting, selecting targets may seem like one of the simpler decisions. If you simply want a target for hobby shooting or for the simple fun of it, almost any target will do. However, if your goal is more serious pra
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MOSSBERG MC2c
Back in MC Hammer-time days, you probably could have hidden an AR pistol in your colorful parachute pants. The hipster skinny jeans — and perhaps the puffy waistlines — of today call for much slimmer carry pistols. But you’d rather not sacrifice hand
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Protecting Yourself with Paper
I never thought I would end up standing in front of a judge asking for a personal protection order against anyone, let alone somebody who proclaimed their love to me and whom I trusted enough at one point to share a home with. No one thinks this will
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Dual Purpose pocket Popper
It’s hard to overstate what a success the LCP has been for Ruger. Launched in 2008, the original LCP became one of the bestselling pistols in the history of ever. BATFE tracks manufacturer sales by caliber, and, in 2011, which was the last year the L
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The Mad Minute
There are many schools of thought when it comes to speed and accuracy in shooting, but one thing we all agree on is that knowing time is running out increases the pucker factor. This is a fun drill to do by yourself or with a range buddy running the
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In The palm of Your Hand
Over the past few years, smaller and more concealable guns have hit the market — even a gun that simulates the size, shape, and appearance of a smartphone. Whether that’s a good idea or not isn’t for this historian to judge … yet. The idea of conceal

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