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LaRue Tactical.

I blame my great and good friend Other Brian for this. It all started last week when he pointed out that day’s shirt.woot to me. I figured, “Hey, as long as I’m ordering that shirt, I might as well order some of the other shirts I’ve been putting off, too.” Not that there’s anything wrong with my ThoseShirts shirts; when, over the course of a single day, three complete strangers walk up to you and tell you “I love your shirt“, you know you’re doing something right. But I did need to put some variety into my wardrobe.

Anyway, one of the shirts I ordered was the snazzy LaRue Tactical t-shirt, along with one of the Tactical Beverage Entry Tools. I will confess that I did think the $9.99 for Priority Mail shipping was slightly steep, but, on the other hand, Brownells charged me even more to ship some DVDs, so I could live with that.

So what happened?

1. I placed the order on Thursday. It arrived on Friday. Granted, LaRue is in Leander, and I’m in Austin, but I would have figured it would take a day or two to get the package together and shipped out.
2. In addition to the shirt and tool, the good folks at LaRue threw in, for free:
   * a snazzy LaRue Tactical hat.
   * a bottle of LaRue barbecue spice rub.
   * and a couple of LaRue Tactical bumper stickers.

How cool is that? They don’t know me from a hole in the ground, and (as far as I know) they have no idea that I have a blog. Maybe this is something they do for every first time order. I don’t know.

What I do know is this; I have a stripped AR lower in the gun cabinet, waiting for me to decide what I want to do with it. (I haven’t decided between doing some sort of heavy barrel National Match type rifle, or an M4 clone.) I’d pretty much decided that I didn’t want to try to assemble an upper from parts (at least, not this time around) so once I get the lower the way I want it, I’m planning to go looking for an upper that meets my needs.

The first place I’m going to go when I go upper shopping is LaRue Tactical.

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