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New Items And Restocks This Spring
We just got back from our latest purchasing trip, and we’ve seen some unusual timelines and picked up some very interesting products for you. Our FFL and import license continues to pay off as this time we have our first really large haul of truly unusual firearms as well as the usual military clothing and gear, and we have some very interesting prospects in the pipeline for this fall. So, without further ado, here are our new products for the spring, along with some notable restocks:
“Am-Cap” Chest Rigs
Some military procurement organizations go for careful design of complex, high-quality gear. Some go much more for volume and low cost — and some of the ones that do come up with something that transcends its quality and inspires a whole world of imitators, such as the various Chicom chest rigs. And sometimes, a very different national military will bring it right back to its very cheap roots.
These appear to be a chest rig based on the Chi-Com Type 56 Chest Rig with some modernization and some influence from the SADF Type 83. There are three large flapped pockets that fit a pair of AR-15 magazines each and close with velcro, a pair of smaller general-purpose pockets, a small elastic pocket that appears to be meant to hold an SOF-TT torniquet, and a small field of two columns of laser molle. The straps are a simple X-harness made of webbing and seem much higher quality than the rest of the rig. They are all plain webbing, no padding, but they are joined so they don’t separate, and the back strap has elastic. Material is a miserable but surprisingly durable ranger green non-woven synthetic, with some Cordura reinforcement on pouches and strap buckle mounts. To our surprise, they are also NIR compliant. There is also a small velcro loop field on the pockets.
Markings are pretty sparse, but you have “USA”, a small USA flag, and either “United States Army” or “[State] Milita Supply Office” or “[State] Militia Quartermaster”, with many of the states you know of and some that you don’t. Many of these have names written in them. Based on this it looks like these were meant either as stopgap — or emergency — load bearing gear for a beleaguered Army, or as inexpensive basic turnout gear for an American militia, possibly one where it was expected that people who actually cared would buy their own gear.
We have a lot of these, some in rough condition ($5), some seemingly unissued ($30), most moderately used ($15). Expect these to be inexpensive and plentiful for years to come.
US Navy Space Operations Group Pistols And Parts Kits
These come from a timeline where the US Navy began research on space small arms starting in the late 1980s in order to equip a team of military astronauts (probably Navy SEALs) with small arms suitable for vacuum use. It appears that in this timeline, a very large number of a wide variety of prototypes were tested and eventually surplussed. We have both parts kits and complete pistols (Must ship to FFL). Parts kits are guaranteed to include all parts needed to make a fireable pistol other than the frame/receiver, though they may be missing some elements like sights, grips, magazines, and magazine catch parts, and may include a torch-cut receiver. Most have been fired at least 1000 times. Complete pistols are guaranteed to be fireable but may not be complete or working properly. Details on what you get are luck of the draw.
Space 1911s: A total of 123 1911-platform space guns are available. Most are fairly crude, modified from issue M1911A1s, many have trigger guards sawn away. Most have some form of PTFE coating. Most have TiN coating on the slide rails and some internal parts and electroless nickel on other parts. No two of these are alike. Most have a large lanyard loop welded on. All are complete guns. $600.
Space P226s: These appear to be custom made, and are much more uniform. A total of 400 P226-platform space guns are available, of which 126 are complete guns. These have a big trigger guard for gloved fingers and extended controls with several different shapes. There are a variety of different coatings present, but the majority have TiN on the slide rails, firing pin, and sear. Many have “white graphite” boron nitride resin coating. Many have electroless nickel or nickel boron in weird places. Most have long-expired tritium sights. Most of these have a peculiar large peep sight. All come with a tube of “Apeizon Weapon Grease” which appears to be a synthetic grease with boron nitride that will not evaporate in vacuum. Our source claimed that these were not flown in space ever, but some of them have signs of space weathering — possibly from testing in a vacuum chamber. $750 complete gun / $400 complete gun in poor condition or with crude modifications (very limited quantity) / $250 parts kit.
Space Berettas: These are also custom made, but are much more diverse. A total of 253 Beretta 92-platform space guns are available, of which 182 are complete guns. Most have a hinged trigger guard for gloved fingers and a wide variety of modified, extended controls. No two seem to have the same coatings. A slim majority are based on an unfamiliar design that’s somewhere between the M9 original and M9A3 that was the standard issue handgun in our timeline, but the rest span a wide range of commercial and military M9 and Beretta 92 designs. Some may have threaded barrels, long barrels, extended grips, compact frames, etc. Some have frame mounted safeties. All come with a tube of “Apiezon Weapon Grease”, some come with a cleaning kit typically containing nearly empty squeeze bottle of a teflon and perfluorocarbon lubricant labelled “Lubricant, Small Arms, Exterior, Vacuum Use”. $560 complete gun / $200 parts kit.
ALICE Plate Carriers
Somewhen there is a US Army out there that never developed the PALS webbing system, or at least hadn’t adopted it by the time that modern-style plate carrier type body armor became common, but did adopt the SAPI plate standard. Apparently, at some time they surplussed a large lot of body armor carriers, possibly when they actually did move on from ALICE. And so, we have the “modernized ALICE” plate carrier.
We lucked out on getting a huge load of these — and we also have a small number of unissued ones. All of these are ‘M03 Woodland”, which is somewhere between M81 Woodland and Multicam in overall appearance, and has a temperate-woodlands color set, as well as being NIR compliant.
These are an interesting piece of gear — they have fairly straightforward front and back plate bags that accept SAPI cut plates, and a cummerbund with mesh padding for breathability and pockets that accept a standard side plate plus a larger soft armor backer. The placard has four two-AR-mag pockets and attaches with a pair of G-hooks and side release buckles. ALICE webbing is sewn at the top front, bottom front, all along the cummerbund, and on the back, which also has loops to attach a flat backpack (details unknown) or a buttpack. The cummerbund is attached at the front with ALICE buckles and at the back with LBV-style lacing.
Note that these are a modernized, light-weight design that will probably be unfamiliar to those who are used to classic ALICE gear — there’s significant use of composite laminate, laser cutting, and an unusual form of lightweight, stiffened webbing, and the ALICE clips are replaced with a composite clip resembling stiffened MALICE strips — in many respects, this resembles a modern plate carrier by a high-speed vendor — but with ALICE attachment system.
“Woodland Fairy Rig” And Pouches.
We’ve usually referred to our cross-time suppliers as “The Faeries”. It’s usually not that literal. With this stock-up we are adding to our offering a variety of surplus “woodland fairy” tactical gear of impressive lightweightness and unconventional aesthetics — sort of a Legolas-meets-LRRP kind of thing.
What all of this has in common is that it has an unusual curved-organic design style, it’s impressively comfortable, and it seems to be made using a strange, mostly-natural-materials version of the best of modern high-speed gear, with things like resin, lacquer, leather, silk, and natural fibers taking the place of adhesive, epoxy, vinyl, ripstop, cordura, and tegris. (There definitely is some artificial plastic in these.) The vast majority of all of this is in an unfamiliar green-forest camouflage that resembles a less-digital version of Finnish M05. There is one additional distinct feature, which is that most pouches are flap-covered, and all flaps are leaf-shaped, with stitching forming the rib and veins in the leaves. It’s kind of pretty — some of this may make sense as street gear. It is also all NIR compliant. Pouches are attached via a not-quite-PALS pattern of laser-cut basket-woven fabric– it should work with PALS attachments as long as they’re not oversized (think one-wrap or WTF straps, not Natick webbing or MALICE clips).
This stuff seems to be handcut and handstitched, and is not exactly uniform — while a standard is clearly being followed, no two pieces are identical. Most are marked with runes our supplier has deciphered as “Pattern IV 1251” and then a description of the piece.
All of this is available in good quantities and lightly used.
We have:
“Woodland Fairy Pistol Belt” — Fairly narrow, lightweight padded belt with large triangular / leaf-shaped sewn-on pistol pouch (stiffened and velcro-lined), spare magazine loop (will accommodate most 9mm double stack mags) and smaller general purpose leave-shaped pouch. Has flat zippered pockets behind each pouch. Will fit most compact handguns — add a Kydex trigger guard cover — and most smartphones. Three sizes. No molle, though the inside is loop velcro so it will accept one-wrap attachments of pouches. $110. These are going fast.
“Woodland Fairy Battle Belt” — This would be a bog-standard (and quite excellent) contoured padded belt, if it wasn’t so comfortable and so downright weird in other ways. Needs an interior belt. Available in five sizes. Very breathable and probably will work well for women or others who have trouble with typical battle belts. Weird woven not-PALS needs some getting used to but is very study. $175.
“Woodland Fairy Belt Buckle” — Mechanically similar to an AustriAlpin Cobra buckle, but leaf-shaped. Made of nonreflective green anodized titanium, engraved legend translates as “8.89 kN”. Will fit 1.75 inch webbing. $45.
“Woodland Fairy Lumbar Pack” – Seems to be meant to attach to the battle belt, and comes with a suspender harness with a twisting vine aesthetic. About 18L capacity, and a bit flatter and higher-sitting than a typical buttpack. Has leaf-shaped main flap and side pocket flaps. Has laser-cut scrim on the upper sides. $185.
“Woodland Fairy Chest Rig” — Not anything like a traditional chest rig (though it has a pair of webbing loops that could attach swift clips for a placard), this is something like an integrated pair of cross body PALS bandoliers. Straps have a twisting vine aesthetic and some laser-cut scrim at several points. Will take some getting used to, and does not seem to be meant to be loaded real heavy. Two sizes, though the smaller one is frankly tiny. $110.
“Woodland Fairy Admin Pouch” — Slanted leaf-shaped admin or multipurpose pouch, seems to be meant to go on the left slant of the Woodland Fairy Chest Rig. Main pocket is approx 7.5 in x 4 in. Will accommodate most smartphones, a small notebook, pens and pencils, and will hold a pistol mag or a multitool in the side pocket. Has an internal elastic Faraday-shielded pocket. $40, we have an awful lot of these.
“Woodland Fairy Mag Pouch” — Leaf-shaped, flapped magazine pouch. Will accommodate a single 10 round .308 magazine or 20 round 5.56 magazine, or a 30 round 5.56 magazine if you reposition the hook fastener. Very lightweight. Has a composite resin-fabric insert that makes it easy to re-index magazines, and additionally prevents it from catching on stripper clips. $25. Weird basket-weave not-PALS makes this possible to mount vertically. horizontally, or at a 30 or 45 degree angle.
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