Suit up for Every Day Carry

So you’ve finally got your license or you’ve decided that your trusty blaster isn’t doing much to protect you locked up in the safe. Either way you find yourself making the wise decision to carry the most effective self defence tool available to you, hopefully on an EDC (Every Day Carry) basis. Unfortunately most of [...]

The Get Home Bag

While we discuss constantly the subjects of guns, ammo and gear for their various lawful uses, other subjects are also important even if a bit more mundane. I include in these the subject of ‘survival gear’. Obviously, this term covers an extremely wide variety of things depending on just what it is you wish to [...]

Revision Eyewear Test

A biker once told me “you buy a five dollar helmet for a five dollar head”. Meaning that the quality of your safety gear should be commensurate with the value of what it’s protecting. Proper eyewear when shooting is not negotiable. Ricochets happen, guns let go and if you haven’t ever been on the receiving [...]

Selecting Handgun Ammunition for Self Defence

Originally Posted on 19th August 2008. Whether you carry a pistol on a daily basis or whether you just keep one in the safe you need to load it with something, and a bullet is not just a bullet. If you are picking a load for self defence purposes, hunting or sport you want it [...]

The Dashprod SAR M14 Rifle

Originally Posted on 8th August 2008 Note from the author As most of you know by now I am the owner of a company called SWATG, specializing in the supply of tactical equipment and training, unfortunately I am one of those people who always skip through the technical parts in articles as I am much [...]

Can Cell Phones Kill?

By Tony Walker. As one of the few people left in the civilized (?) world who doesn’t own a cell phone, I read the newspaper reports about the possibility that cell phones cause brain cancer with equanimity. However, there is a real threat to life and limb that’s caused by cell phone users. We’ve all [...]

What to look for in a Self Defence Pistol

Introduction More and more people consider buying a pistol to carry for self defence or changing what they have already. South Africa’s licensing laws make this a particularly difficult decision because if you make the wrong one it isn’t easy to fix. The question is: what to buy? Some people will recommend the handguns they [...]

Frontline Holsters By SWATG

Full disclosure I would just like to publically state that SWATG are the agents for Front Line holsters and accessories, we have direct financial gains in the selling of Front Line products, and this article/ review could be seen as biased by some, so be it. We would also like to state that we are [...]

Elzetta Design Tactical Weapon Light mount and Weapon Light.

Elzetta Design Tactical Weapon Light mount and Weapon Light. Elzetta Design is known for innovative design and manufacture of tactical flash light mounts for standard AR15 front sight and Picatinny Rail and Weaver Rail mountable flash light mounts and has most recently entered into the tactical flash light arena. THE ZFH1500 TACTICAL FLASHLIGHT HOLDER Elzetta’s successful [...]

Gear Up for Home Defence

With the rise in violent, armed home invasions over the past couple of years, the idea of having something handy that will contain all the necessary items one might need to ‘repel boarders’ in the middle of the night has become more and more mainstream. Citizens who take their personal security seriously have come to [...]

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