DIY Tactical

Camo Paint Your Rifle – Step-by-step.

gruvmann — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:02:53 +0000

Modern camo is no longer a simple pattern of three colors; it’s a hi-tech, multilayered process, a combination of detailed lines and vague, shadowy color blends. Many hunting (commercial) camo patterns look like a photo of a forest scene: realistic trees and leaves, blurred backgrounds to add depth, and of course the company logo every [...]

Example of A Positive Experience with a Custom Gear Maker.

DIY Tactical — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:09:27 +0000

I’ve been a fan of the USNERDOC channel on YouTube for a couple years now. In that time Dr. David Pruett an Emergency Medicine Physician by trade started a small business called AMP3 assembling and distributing first aid kits targeting the tactical, preparedness and outdoor communities. Aside from coming [...]

A Day at the NRA Annual Meeting

nah408 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:00:09 +0000

As the social media specialist for a tactical gear retailer, I spend my days reading, writing and learning about operator clothing, footwear and gear. So I was stoked when the NRA announced it was hosting its annual meeting in my hometown of St. Louis. That meant this girl got to scope out awesome [...]

Guest Blogger Opportunity!

DIY Tactical — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:53:43 +0000

Back in March, we polled the forum to see if members would be interested in writing articles for the blog. In our experience a blog such as this is pretty boring when it’s written from a single point of view. Fortunately the response was pretty positive so we’ve gone ahead and [...]

Basic Combat Shirt

KuroYamaneko — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:00:17 +0000

I had a friend ask me to make him a “TRU” style shirt. So I figured I’d do a how-to on it, since I haven’t found one anywhere. First, you need to decide whether you want to make the sleeves from scratch, or butcher a combat shirt for them. For this how-to, I’m using old [...]

Making your own color-matched snaps and grommets

Dave Watson — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:35:39 +0000

Being a habitual DIY’er (I even built my own SHOP, for cripe’s sake!), and not wanting to pay 18 metric buttloads of dollars for a couple thousand snaps in the 4 primary colors (OD, Coyote Brown, Foliage Green and Black), I spent a lot of time trying to determine how I could make my own, [...]

The DIY Tactical Store is Open – Sort of…

DIY Tactical — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:40:43 +0000

Ok we’ve finally gotten the store configured and open so we can move forward with the clearance sale. You will see most things are listed at close to 50% off or more bringing much of what is listed close to cost and in some cases below cost.

Basically I need my basement back (read my [...]

Natick shows off new IFAK design.

DIY Tactical — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:00:12 +0000

While not breaking news since there was a Natick press release and Soldier Systems talked about it a few weeks ago.

However the video showing off the latest Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) developed by Rich Landry at Natick is just out.

Highlight: Stormdrane’s Blog

DIY Tactical — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:07:01 +0000

If you are into DIY paracord projects you’re probably already familiar with Stormdrane’s blog. But for those of you that aren’t, you really should check it out. This site is quite possibly the most comprehensive resource on the topic. David has literally hundreds of tutorials and how to’s on all sorts of knots and weaving [...]

New products from National Molding Duraflex

DIY Tactical — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:41:25 +0000

We recently came across two announcements of new products from National Molding and figured it worthwhile to let you know about them.

The first is the Mission Clip a device intended to be used to secure chest rigs to armor. Undoubtedly people will come up with other uses as well.

This unique combination of a [...]