Yeah, I wore some Redwings about 10 years ago and they were the American made ones. I should have gotten them resoled, but ended up chunking them because the steel toe was showing pretty bad. I'm pretty rough on shoes and boots! The Georgias with the comfort core is the bee's knees!
GEORGIA boots are great. I've bought the same pair or Wellingtons twice. Once the first pair got too rough looking for casual every day wear I retired them to yard work and bought the exact same thing. They are extremely comfortable and waterproof. Mine aren't steel toe but they make the same ones as I have with the steel toe.
If I remember correctly, I may have a pair of those wedge Thorogoods at my parents' house. Upon closer inspection of your pic, it appears I may have those exact same boots!
The soles on those boots melt faster than most. PU soles are not a good choice for welding. Nitrile is best, but may be too slippery for ironworkers.
My Redwing 411's (all 3 pair that I had) lasted an average of 4-5 months. Those soles were the softest and melted SO fast. These melt also if I step on a hot one but they last longer than the RW boots ever did. It's a happy medium I guess.
Didn't H&K auto-pistols have a bad rep at one point ( i.e. misfires, jamming, etc)? Maybe in the 90s ? I just remember seeing a lot of negatives at some point. Makes me wonder if it was just bias from Glock & Sig lovers. I tried googling, but all I really saw was accolades - top of the heap, infallible, etc....
ArmyTek Wizard v3 headlamp. My 3rd light from this company. Great lights, on discount right now. By far the best anodizing I've ever seen. Build quality is equally, top notch. LED tint quality is up there too. Modes: FF1 - .4 lumens /100 days FF2 - 2.3 lumens / 18days Main 1 - 30 lumens / 48 hours Main 2 - 180 lumens / 9 hours Main 3 - 390 lumens / 3.8 hours Turbo - 1250 lumens ( 1000 OTF) / 1.5 hours. Light running in firefly 1 mode. .4 lumens - claims 100 days run time at that output.
I've never heard of anyone having an issue with any model of H&K pistol. I haven't been lucky to try one of the newer models yet, all my experience was shooting full size USP's in 40 and 45 and a USP compact in 45. They were all reliable as any glock or XD I've shot.
Nice! Is the clip point swedge sharpened? Definitely looks like it can take and dish out some abuse that's for sure!
@Nether are you familiar with the H&K P7M8 & P7M13? It got phased out in the '90s IIRC, but it was because of manufacturing costs from what I've read. Had a couple of friends that had them and they were also very reliable. One of the most uniquely designed pistols I've gotten to mess with other than a Luger.
