Monday, December 01, 2008

Cool gear!

With my Garand as my emergency zombocalypse rifle in the current, temporary absence of any AR-15's in the house, I had wondered how I would stow any extra ammunition on or about my person.

I mean, sure, slipping a spare clip onto the sling in Sgt. Rock fashion is cool, but that's one extra clip of eight rounds. It's hard to deal with a major outbreak from Lambda Complex or Umbrella Corporation or wherever the heck it is zombies come from with only sixteen rounds of .30-'06, even if that sixteen rounds is sixteen rounds of rocking, anti-Nazi, black-tip armor piercing stuff with a tungsten core in an awesomesauce jacket.

So, how best to carry extra ammo on a MOLLE vest or a bug-out belt when all my existing gear is AR-centric? PDB has discovered a way. Groovy.
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19 comments:

red said...

In Indiana, zombies come from Eli Lilly, the local medical research plant.

That site has some very cool gear, thanks!

7:16 AM, December 01, 2008
Turk Turon said...

Nifty!
And the whole thing slips into an AR-15 magazine pouch.
Double nifty!

Captcha: hedsof

7:30 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

How about a classic cartridge belt?

http://www.sarcoinc.com/new53.html

Open the belt up to full-size, and sling it across one shoulder like a bandolier. Gives one that Sgt. Rock look with a slightly different style.

8:08 AM, December 01, 2008
Tam said...

Well, I'm trying to avoid having to grab more than one thing.

As it is, I have a pistol belt with 6 AR mags, a knife, a canteen, a pistol holster with mag pouch, and NVGs. I need to add a small first aid pouch, and ditch the knife, which would free up enough belt real estate to go to a GI flap holster instead of a Safariland 6004. (I can't think of any quasi-urban zombocalypse scenario that would need a knife bigger than my pocket knife. You don't need a foot of sharpened A2 steel prybar to cut open instant latte mix pouches between waves of shamblers...)

8:32 AM, December 01, 2008
alath said...

Surplus .30-06 can be had preloaded in Garand clips, the clips being loaded in bandoliers. My Danish surplus bandoliers hold 6 clips each, so sling two of these over your shoulder and you have 96 rounds if my math is right.

I know you would have more ammo in an AR-15 load out, but then again, wasn't that one of the main reasons for the AR in the first place? The way I figure, if you get into more Zombies than can be managed with 96 rounds of .30-06, you will be needing reinforcements anyway (and ideally, indirect fire support).

8:54 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

I keep a Bandolier wrapped around the barrel with 6 clips. Enough to get started and a spam can with 4 more bandoliers within arms reach. CMP and get the greek on bandoliers in the can.

8:55 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

On the other hand two or three feet of sharpened tool steel would make a damn fine back up weapon if you got caught flat footed and missed a reload. Also works great if you needed a quiet way to dispatch a Zed without attracting the attention of his buddies............

8:59 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

The cheapo E. German grenade pouches you see at Less Expensive Than Soil.com hold 9 clips each. Not as glamorous, but it works.

Just the same, I'm going to be getting two or three of those nifty thingamajigs, as that means I only need one set of web gear whether I take an AR or an M1 to the party.

gvi

9:01 AM, December 01, 2008
Canthros said...

I dunno about Blackwing1's suggestion. It's not available in black, khaki, or ARPAT. Seems like it would be tres gauche to show up for the zombie apocalypse with a mismatched outfit that was sixty years out of date. What would the ghouls think?

9:03 AM, December 01, 2008
Jay G said...

Interesting that you posted this when you did, Tam.

Loading up to go to the range today (yay!), I'm bringing my new (to me) SKS for a trial run. I decided to load up some stripper clips, and was looking around the G. armory for a handy method to store said clips. Sure, I've got the ancient "leather" belt carrier that's de rigeur for the SKS, but I was feeling more tacticool.

Solution? A 5.56 bandolier. The SKS stripper clips fit two-to-a-pocket, for 140 rounds of intermediate goblin- or zombie dispatchin' goodness...

I'd wager the bandolier would hold one Garand clip per pocket, meaning you'd only get 56 rounds back-up, but it beats carrying 'em loose, right?

9:03 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

Oh, no... Tam, you didn't just do this to me. Here I am, with my brandy-new AR, freshly sighted in YESTERDAY in the cold, freezing, RAIN, patting myself on the back for being prepared... when I read this and discover that all the tacticool kids have magazine carriers.

My wallet hates you!

Heh... word verification is Bumbo.

10:32 AM, December 01, 2008
Crucis said...

I picked up a Korean era cartridge belt some years ago after I acquired my CMP Garand. I've added a GI flap holster for my full-sized Kimber, two .45 mag pouches, first-aid kit and canteen. It holds 8 Garand clips and I've room to add one more pouch.

Works for me.

10:47 AM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

John:

I have no idea where I picked it up, but I've got a repro Garand-pouch-belt in Tacti-Cool Black. True, my OD green sling doesn't match (I could always go with the retro-look leather), but I thought the Z's were color blind? You know, no sunlight and all.

Tam:

With zombie-flesh as squishy as it is, are the black-tipped AP rounds really required? Unless you can get a half-a-dozen to line up for you, of course.

11:56 AM, December 01, 2008
Canthros said...

Blackwing1: I'm just messing around. In the event of zombocalypse, I don't expect to worry too much about whether my ammo belt matches my shoes. :)

Might have found the belt you mentioned, though: http://www.imsplus.com/m1-garand-cartridge-belt.html

12:45 PM, December 01, 2008
Canthros said...

Although, it occurs to me that I might be concerned about other survivors trying to cack me for a gun or ammunition.

1:54 PM, December 01, 2008
NotClauswitz said...

I have an old OD Garand belt from my Grandpa's stuff and a new Sarco type one that's way too clean and shiny-bright. It needs need to be drug through the mud, some cosmoline, and a kelp-bed to get that dingy-stanky army-canvas smell and darken the khaki color.
But the main problem is that it doesn't have a button for the .45 mag-pouch - but that's how they all were.
If you cut-away one of the front clip pouches though you make room for the mag-pouch - that's how the old OD belt is anyhow...

2:47 PM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

Chainsaws don't run out of ammo.

5:20 PM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

Damn, that is totally sweet. Now I wish I had an M1.

8:30 PM, December 01, 2008
Anonymous said...

Necessity is truly the mother of invention. Making M-16 mag pouches suitable for M-1 Garand clips is genius worthy of Wile E. Coyote. Long may S.O.E. prosper.

10:30 PM, December 01, 2008

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