Category: Gear

The award-winning LifeStraw personal water filter can travel with you anywhere. Weighing just two ounces and measuring only nine inches long, LifeStraw is ideal for hiking, backpacking, camping, travel, and emergency preparedness. The straw-style filter design lets you turn up to 264 gallons of contaminated water into safe drinking water, filtering out protozoa and bacteria. […]

I like to cover a lot of guns that aren’t seen in grocery-store magazines, and for a couple of reasons.  First, common guns bore me.  If I can go to three gun shops and see the same firearm at the same price, or covered in more than one magazine it simply doesn’t excite me.  I’ve handled […]

The comparison between .223 and 5.56 isn’t a new one, so there is a lot of discussion to weed through to learn about the two. Ultimately, because they originated from the same cartridge, they are very similar, but that does not mean that they are necessarily interchangeable. This article discusses three key differences between .223 […]

This week, we will outline what I refer to as the “medical bucket,” for use in any bug-in scenarios, along with a folding medical bag known as the M3 Medic’s Bag. If you have seen any movie or television show set during the Vietnam War, then you have most likely seen the M3 Medic’s bag. […]

For those that have followed my writing on the Loadout Room know that I have reviewed a-lot of knives. Of those knives I have a few that are my more expensive and more valuable ones. More valuable doesn’t necessarily translate into the price point of these blades. For me what makes a knife valuable, more […]

Former Army Ranger and YouTube star of MBest11x Mat Best, shares his tips, tricks, and other awesome things. In this episode, Mat Best walks you through the pros and cons of hip carry. This article courtesy of The Loadout Room and Rated Red YouTube Channel. Featured image courtesy of Rated Red.

A more recent Steyr Aug Review can be found here.  When I think of the word bullpup, I think of the Steyr AUG. It has been seen in games, movies, and in militaries all around the globe. It is arguably the most successful bullpup design on the planet. Originally I was not sure how well […]

In a recently released document from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Sig Saier Romeo 4 red dot optic has been approved for use on agents’ duty rifles. Now this may not come as a big deal to many outsiders but consider for a moment that the FBI along with nearly every other law […]

Although long range shooting is becoming wildly popular, the costs associated with this sport still remain a major impass for newcomers to the sport…until now. Ruger, a company with a long standing commitment to manufacturing traditional firearms, has rocked the corporate boat with their latest bolt action rifle. The (RPR) Ruger Precision Rifle looks unlike […]

Physical fitness and selection are one in the same. I wrote before about the mental component, maybe the most important. It’s still nothing without a base. The base is physical fitness. Let me demystify selection. Because it’s similar to joining a sports team. Except this team is both all-encompassing and niche at the same time. […]

We all know that a person needs a knife on them at all times. In the past, options rested with either a fixed blade in a belt sheath, a folding knife in a belt pouch or pocket, or—in the rare instance that it was more convenient—a boot knife. In recent years, the popularity of neck […]

  This Coyote Works video shows how to bury a rifle for a bug out survival cache. I like the idea of having a selection of food and supply caches buried along the route to my bug out location. If you have ever thought about burying a gun, you should check this out. This article […]