Equipment and Accessories

Choosing the Best Hemostatic Gauze

May 7, 2021 By Tim Keller & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

What’s the best hemostatic gauze? Well, the short answer is, “It depends.” Yeah, I know, kind of a cop-out answer. But it’s the truth. Let me explain what “hemostatic gauze” is and why you should care about it. To do this, we’ll need to go back in history a bit, and explain some basic emergency…

Testing ESS Eye Pro

October 15, 2019 By Matthew Mallory & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

I was introduced to ESS products in 2015 at the NYTOA (New York Tactical Officers Association) show held at the Turning Stone in Oneida, New York. I was shown a pair of their eye-pro glasses that had been tested with a direct shotgun blast of #4 shot at 10 meters. I was amazed that the glasses did their job and convinced me they were worth every cent to anyone who donned them.

Designated Training Tourniquets

March 7, 2016 By Caleb Causey & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

During our Medic 1 course, while learning how to apply a tourniquet, a few students found out the importance of designating a tourniquet for training purposes only.

Minimalist Medical Equipment for Everyday Carry

June 22, 2015 By Ian Strimbeck & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories, Personal Defense Equipment.

When it comes to having pieces of gear on their person, more people have tools to take a life than to sustain it.

Personal-Protection Products and the Big Picture

April 15, 2015 By Claude Werner & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

The process of personal protection usually involves several steps. Sometimes products, while clever at solving one part of the equation, don’t fit into the Big Picture very well.

NRA 2015 Annual Meeting Coverage

April 13, 2015 By Editor & filed under All Articles, Defensive Issues, Equipment and Accessories, News and Events, Self Defense Firearms.

The Personal Defense Network team was at the 2015 NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, April 10-12. Several of our PDN contributors stopped to chat with exhibitors — who also happen to be some of PDN’s good friends and sponsors — on the NRA Show floor to discuss products and accessories on the personal defense…

Alternate Concealed Carry Clothing Options Revisited

February 24, 2015 By Andy Loeffler & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

Members of and regular visitors to the Personal Defense Network tend to be folks who take their personal protection seriously.

Transition and Vulnerability

December 1, 2014 By Chris Fry & filed under All Articles, Defensive Training, Equipment and Accessories.

Transition: tran•si•tion; tranˈziSHən,-ˈsiSHən/ The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. “Students in transition from one program to another.” Synonyms: change, passage, move, transformation, conversion, metamorphosis, alteration, handover, changeover. Structures, vehicles, armed, unarmed, standing or grounded: transitions are points of vulnerability. These include: Transitions between locations Transitions in and…

“Location, location, location …”

November 25, 2014 By Caleb Causey & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

A short time ago, I was walking through the French Quarter in New Orleans on a trip to visit friends. The cobblestone streets were busy that day with taxis zooming back and forth, locals going about their daily routines, and tourists roaming in and out of some of the most spectacular bars and restaurants on…

“Location, location, location …”

November 21, 2014 By Caleb Causey & filed under All Articles, Equipment and Accessories.

Know your location, and you won’t waste time in an emergency trying to figure out where you are.