Big 3 East 2018

If you have been following my Friday Night Lights Series, you will have read up on Nocturn Industries. They have established themselves in the commercial night vision market as an up and coming night vision housing manufacturer and have gained the respect of many in the industry.

Bret Hunter is the mad genius behind TacticalRX. He makes some very impressive eye protection. But not all eye protection are equal. His glasses are prescription. Prescription curved glasses typically only have the prescription in a certain spot but in Bret’s glasses the entire lens has the prescription. At Big 3 East he handed out some glasses for some torture testing. I had tested some of his glasses before by having the spall from 5.56×45 going directly into the lens.  This time I shot the glasses point blank with a suppressed .25acp pen gun. I can confirm that TacticalRX has bullet proof glasses

Does your SUV need a lift? Well USA Chemical Supply has the solution for you. USA Chemical Supply is a manufacturer of binary explosive targets. They have been a regular at Big 3 East for a couple years now. In the past Big 3 East would usually have a car and have a mad minute where everyone opens fire on it. The car would have several 1-5 lbs bags of binary explosive strategically placed on and inside it. This year they brought a lot of binary explosive and for the explosive grand finale of Big 3 East, they set up seven large boxes of binary explosive. The first five boxes were just stand alone 50lbs boxes of binary explosive. The last two were 75 lbs boxes one for the camper and one of the SUV carcass. They were smart to not put the binary inside the SUV but in front of it. Watch what 75 lbs of binary explosive can do to an SUV.

Maxim Defense has made their name known for their PDW stock and SB tactical collaboration PDW brace. At last Big 3 East they had some HK416 rifles with their PDW Stock. I did not think much about it at the time but now that Brownells is importing HK416 parts my attention has been tuned to HK416 related items. The Maxim Defense HK416 rifles are sporting some upgrades. Interestingly these upgrades are independent of the Brownells story.

Geissele has been a regular at Big 3 East for a few years now. Last year they had showed off their flat wire spring and GMO seed based lubricant. Geissele did show off their Remington Super 700 trigger at SHOT Show but we got a closer look. Geissele also brought out their B&T APC9 trigger.

Thanks to Shawn and Brian of 2AGuysandGear. I almost missed this at Big 3 East but Shawn mentioned it and showed me a photo. So on the last day I caught up with Spike’s Tactical. They brought out a new caliber to show us. It is called the .416 Spike. It is basically a .308 version of .300 blk. I had actually pondered this a while back and at the time there wasn’t a larger version of a .300blk. Well now there is.

When I saw the list of manufacturers attending Big 3 East Media Event, I did not know who Stern Defense was. I haven’t heard of them. I did a quick Google search and what I saw piqued my interest. They make an AR Glock Mag Adapter. We have seen Torkmag and ATI have their own Glock mag adapter however I have not seen the Torkmag in production and ATI was announced at SHOT Show. I could have sworn Strike Industries had a 3D printed prototype just before SHOT Show but I can’t seem to find it at the moment. Stern Defense is the new kid on the block. They only started making their Glock Mag Adapters four months ago. And not only do they have an adapter for Glock mags, they have come out with a mag adapter for Beretta 92 magazines, Smith & Wesson M&P and now M&P45.