Baller

Honestly just rock the ballistic, I think it’s meant to be…

God decided your head needed extra protection. Don't argue with His plan. Lol

BLessed

This is the kind of thing I feel bad not paying for

This is the type of thing that makes me spend more…

I need a video named, "How to convince your wife to buy night vision instead of using that money for a house down payment".

@@musicman1eanda lol!!! Buy the house and make sure the house needs a bit of work… then pull cash out to pay the “labors” you hire to bring it up to the wife’s expectations. add $3k on that “labor” number, and you are set for decent Gen 3 pvs14’s… I didn’t do this but….

Thank you for paying so that scrubs like me get free content. Not all heroes wear capes

but any background on the "respect the trees" patch, based pine tree gang member?

@@paulizzgg176 mabs patch, go deeper into the hop lore and you will understand. Same with the possum patch, hop lore will explain it

The body temperature of possums are too low to carry rabies. Out of all animals, they also eat the most ticks by far. Great animal, have one that hangs out in my yard pretty often :)

Welcome to the 1980s, prepare for the retro build

My favorite but extremely hard to find,

Love my ballistic!

I picked mine up at Own the Night in Albany NY, These are made up in Vermont which I think is pretty cool,

caimen ur mom

I recently ordered the Galvion Viper A3 High Cut. A very good ballistic helmet for a decent price.

Yeah, measure twice order once. Or make friends with NV stuff.

@@Hoplopfheil on a totally unrelated topic, wanna be friends?

@@James_Bee fed

I found that my Team Wendy still wants to dig into my Asian temples, so I have a couple layers of that thin foam inside of it. You know, the foam you might use to wrap a piece of metal with or something. That stuff is perfect for making ultra-light buttstocks (when you take the rubber pad off, because it adds unnecessary ounces"), or padding a helmet.

@@James_Beeno lmao, literal fedposting. Rather, get a group of trusted friends together to train and to organize into a sort of minuteman group, just between people you personally know and trust, though. More effective, anyways as long as people take it serious.

Same.

But don't you guys learn that kind of stuff in military?

@@jordanwerzinski1574 Figured. Thanks to more and more vets that are stepping into development and adaptivity of gear we are getting new products that serves the purpose and those are becoming available to us civilians. And who ever served i also thank them for their continuous service in this field.

It all depends on your unit and your mos. I was an 88m and old did my job in Korea and never really drove at all in the u.s in garrison or for training. I miss a lot of it

I never even knew of counterweights when I was in I heard all about them from airsofters and tactical gear videos

I was a little sad he dismissed MTEK immediately just because of the MLOK rails. I run their Ballistic helmet and it is stupid light (2.2lb!) and comfortable, and nowadays there are plenty of MLOK accessories available for it from all the major players. The cost is the only real downside, they definitely have a Cadillac price tag, but they have Cadillac performance too.

@@paintballplayer700 problem I have with it is being unable to mount a vampire light like in the video. The unity mark mounting location for me provides comfort, however it blocks part of the mlok that I need to mount a light. I could just get the unity knuckle, but spending more money on helmet accessories is at bottom of my list

@@senorFrog2032 do you know about the Thyrm VariArc? That's how I run my Surefire light on my Flux, it's great. I do run the rear-mounted AMP ear pro with it. They have an MLOK specific version.

Would you think this is good bump if I just wanted it for a Pvs14, I wouldn’t be putting anything else in it no cover no light not even earpro, just the tube..? I’m kinda at a fork here cuz I want something decent but don’t need another TW bump or ops core

​@@thesiths3875 It's pretty good. I like the mount on the mtek being an Actual piece of metal. Just putting a pvs wouldn't be horrible but you'd have to run the straps pretty tight since the carbon is stupid light and you don't want the helmet to shift while moving. The ops core might be a better option since I like their helmet ratchet system

If you’re talking about the g69 mount they make, it’s awesome. Stows the nods much closer to your helmet and you can bring the nods a lot closer to your eyes. 100% worth the switch from an opscore mbs shroud and g24 to the g69 IMO

Yup PGD helmets are def a go if you want a ballistic helmet at half the price of an Ops-Core helmet, and if you can"t get a PGD helmet for whatever reason, get Ballistic Armor Co Gen 2 Combat Helmet, it's the same helmet made by PGD except rebranded.

Just got one of those it's nice

i got arc adapters for the amp arms and it it works on my HHV famously. I know its a little backwards rocking an HHV with amps but eventually planning to upgrade the helmet.

@@PerFecTD0P3B01 Hey thanks for the info. I'm thinking the DEHP/Sordins are a little "plump" in the ear cups to fit well with the HHV high cut as it isn't all that high compared to others. Every head is unique, as are set-ups. Probably an good excuse for my setup to upgrade with something comms ready anyway.

@@williamlane2126 it’s a little weird cause I have to go under the helmet slightly then out and back with the AMP arms. However once they are one they are comfy and don’t feel smooshed or anything. Just takes a little muscle memory to do and it’s nice having the extra rail space. Definitely worth spending the 20-30 bucks on the adapters for the HHV to put AMP arms on.

I'm also looking at a pgd helmet Edit bought one and it's pretty cool

I dont think a counterweight is necessary for something like pvs14's but if youve got something like 7d's then i can understand. I dont have a lot of hours on 14's but i ran the fuck out of 7d's, also did some testing on pvs23's downrange. The 23's were binocular nvd's with thermal and used an external battery pack as a counterbalance, it was marginally more comfortable than the 7d's without counterweights, the night vision also failed in a couple weeks and needless to say, theres a reason it never made it to production.

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Maybe not for short durations but if i had to pull an all nighter with a lid on my head staring through a tube especially on a patrol id want something to balance it out a little. I simply weighed my pvs14 plus wilcox mount and roughly matched that on my team wendy counterweight. Heck even on my Crye night cap i have the counterweight pouch thingy full of batteries just to offset it a lil. However i don’t own a ballistic helmet so i have no experience with those. 🤙

@@protectpersevere2030 i never had the option to add a counterweight, uniformity and all... The only times i wore nods for extended periods of time was when we pulled forcepro and rotated 6 hour guard shifts, i made good use of the .50 to support the weight... our night patrols were relatively short, compared to daylight operations so we really dont wear them for that long, and in the instant you get in a tic or extended firefight you get an adrenaline hit and the last thing on your mind is a sore neck. You do you though, if i had more hours on the 14's i might think differently, just the short time i got to use one was a world of a difference compared to the 7D's.

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Sounds legit dude and tbh i could just be a wuss 😂. Have a good one friend 🤙

@@protectpersevere2030 lol, youre the one adding weight! A wuss wouldnt do that. One thing about the army is that sometimes you just learn to embrace the suck, lol, hard to fall asleep on guard if your neck is sore as shit! Take care man

FYI, I've found the two best options for mounting ear pro to the Exfil LTP are the Unity Mark 2 and, if you're willing to deal with figuring out the adapters, the OpsCore AMP Arms with adapters for the Exfil LTP and for the comtacs (or whatever ear pro you are using). I have also tried headset under the helmet (hated it) and have tried the comtac mounts from team wendy (they were too loose to make a seal for me).

@@BanditBents would those work with either of the Wendy LTP Gen 2 and 3 rails? Because I have the Gen 2 rail system on mine.

You're looking for the QD peltor adapters on TW's website. That works with 3.0 helmets

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@@Hoplopfheil Thanks man, really appreciate it.

The nightcap is a nice thing to have but I find it excruciating to wear even with a counterweight. The one that Crye sells to go with it is a pain in the ass to install but probably the best option.

I love my nightcap but don’t have a helmet either, worn for hours no issue, it takes a while to adjust. I made a counterweight out of wheel weights wrapped in 200mph tape but I never use it because it throws off the “low profile low weight” usefulness of the nightcap. Maybe I just have a thick neck😂

Cool. I think he'll sell that helmet setup for the price of a t-shirt.

DBAL i2

Yup. Agree, slap their counter weight kit on, and in business. Run it slick (no cover) and let my 12 yr old camo paint it with some netting. Sloppy spray paint hands for the win!

Shim it. I put several layers of gaffer tape on the mount to shore up any rattle. Cheap and easy when so much in the nvg game is like owning a boat.

I have a highcut Shellback Tactical helmet which is just a rebranded HighCom. It's a bit on the heavier side and the pads it comes with have problems sticking, but it's a really nice build quality with the built in wilcox mounting plate and the retention strap is really nice. I've outfitted it with everything I basically want and its a solid helmet to build from. Kinda wish I was issued with something of the like when I served.

I second the Shellback tactical rebrand. Not as fancy but it works. Just make sure you get one with rails and a shroud already installed.

from what i've read, those modifications throw the ballistic rating out the window.

@@yuval5628 i cut my PASGT to a high cut, you can shoot the little ears you cut off with a 9mm and it doesn't penetrate also, the helmets are literally cut and drilled at the factory when they are made, but you don't complain about that do you?

@@yuval5628 From a purely physics standpoint, yes, shrinking the available surface area and putting holes anywhere in the material lessens the capability. However, that's true of modern helmets as well; the most protective helmet is one with no holes in it. But, seeing how it'd be hard to get one's head in a ball with no holes, much less mount things like nods to it, we settle for tradeoffs. On a more serious note, honestly it's not changing much. The surrounding material isn't really affected by cuts/drilling, that's just not how aramid composites work. The old logic of any modifications whatsoever remove all ballistic protection is fudd lore. You do lose surface area, but the goal is to make the helmet more usable, so like everything, it's a trade. Also at the end of the day, we're talking really old helmets here. I don't wear body armor for a living, like most people, so having a helmet is purely a training/larpin'/good to have for potential weirdness down the road thing. If I did wear armor for my day job, I'd be dropping cash on the best thing I could buy, not modifying something I got for free, lol

@@renosgarage7451 when it comes to the integrity of the factory sealed kevlar fibers, drilling some holes and cutting long sections off aren't comparable. Not criticizing your choices bud, so no need to get upset. i just think it's important for people to understand they will more than likely be degrading the level of protection they will have from that helmet if they choose to chop it up.

@@yuval5628 the factory fibers aren't even sealed underneath the rubber over molding, and the factory helmets are cut with a band saw, if you had any experience with composites you would know it's impossible to get a perfect piece with no over-molding, every part has to be trimmed after forming