Category: Gear Review

A junior soldier’s first Al Mar purchase becomes the entry point into how Al Mar’s Special Forces ties, friendship with Nick Rowe, and SERE-driven design priorities shaped some of the most respected knives in the tactical world.

The SIG Sauer M7 is not simply a new rifle, it is a full-stack fighting package where the optic does the math, the suppressor manages the signature, and the shooter gets more time to concentrate on putting lead on target.

When the excuses finally run out, FightCamp is there to replace them with rounds, numbers, and the quiet satisfaction of work that actually counts.

These are badass boats. Combat boats. Even the “luxury” ones are built to go straight from a marina slip into a maritime raid. The catch is this: they are designed to kill drama. They turn chaos into routine and make your worst day on the water feel like a normal Tuesday. When things go wrong, they stay afloat, stay controllable, and keep the crew moving. That is not marketing. That is the point.

Most “loophole” gun gadgets blur lines and invite backlash. The Kali Key is different: it mechanically converts an AR into a manually operated straight-pull rifle, shifting it out of the semi-auto category without permanent changes.

The M7 and M250 were not selected to look good on a briefing slide; they were built to make sure the rifleman and the gunner are hitting the enemy with the same kind of authority when the fight turns ugly and the squad has to carry the weight together.

The Legends M1A1 .177 turns your backyard into a full-auto grin factory, marrying Thompson swagger with blowback bite and thirty-round bursts that make soda cans disappear in a hurry.

If you’re still scrambling for a gift, stop wasting time and buy an Elftmann drop-in trigger, because even though it’s a small part, it’s a big American-made upgrade that makes an AR run faster and cleaner without turning it into a fragile race gun, and they’ll stand behind that gift for life.

The M7 started life as the heavy new kid in the squad, but once soldiers had their say and engineers listened, it grew into a rifle worth carrying.

The Steambow M10 Tactical Crossbow is what happens when you bolt AR-style attitude onto a compact, magazine-fed crossbow that turns every trigger pull into a fast, grinning payoff.

From handmade boots that ooze testosterone to cruise ships where heroes sail free, SOFREP’s 2025 Holiday Gear List is your no-BS playbook for spoiling the hard-to-shop-for man in your life without resorting to another lame novelty T-shirt.

Standing in B&T’s sunlit Thun factory, watching skilled technicians hand-assemble and test-fire precision weapons while founder Karl Brügger animatedly explained every design choice over lunch, I left convinced that Swiss obsession with engineering had produced some of the finest, most dependable small arms in the world.