FDIC Show , we made it.

Looks like the team made it to the show,

Stop by the booth tomorrow, or if you couldn't make it there, stop by here for some more pictures.

Press release on the Updated Nomad

As our crack trade show team readies itself for their full on assault at this years FDIC show, portions of the team also burned the midnight oil to craft this ode to the updated Nomad.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/03/prweb5185384.htm

The new graphic also shows the nomad in it's best light, I think.

Stay tuned for updates from the 2011 Fire Department Instructor Conference in Indianapolis, IN
Come by and see us in booth 5750

Breaking News, New Video on the Nomad

Hope you all like this new vid, I know they have been burning the midnight oil at the home office in California to get this done.
I think it came out rather well, let me know your thoughts.
Did it show you everything you wanted to know?

Security, collectors and the modern internet age.

 It would be great if we all had our own superhero to watch our stuff when we are gone, but the cost is exorbitant for them these days

 I have been perusing the internet the past few days, reading lots of forums for guns, knives and flashlight collectors and have noticed some things I wanted to talk about.
It seems like we all (collectors, that is) love to show off our collections online.
Over the last couple days I have viewed some incredible collections of Firearms, High end collectible knives and flashlight collections that could light a airfield (like the MF-1000 can do by itself). They are all on open forums, hooked to a screen name.
That screen name nine times out of ten has a profile connected to it with the hometown of the poster.
Sometimes even the persons real name is also available.

 Now lets say you post up a collection of Vrosapale pistols ( this could be anything, from Hummels to all the different hello kitty dolls) , you are very proud that you have scoured the world to find all models of this unique piece. In the world of VP collectors, you are the king.
A few weeks later you post that you are on your way to the Vrosapale collectors convention half way across the county and you will be off the forums for 5 days. You revel in your Twitter updates about you most recent find at the show, or what a jerk that last guy you dealt with was.
What have you just done?
Have you just told someone that you have valuable items and you will be gone from -to-?
What do you think?

  I know you have a huge safe, but don't you think in two days time someone can't get into it, most of the time using tools from your own shop?
What about the other things showing in the pictures, computer systems, flat screens and all the cool movie collectibles in your "man room"?

This picture is all over the internet, first posted on a "how big is your monitor website

 Do you think bad people don't read Glocktalk, AR15.com or Flashlight forums?
I bring this up because years (way too many) ago I was doing the gun show circuit in FL, 51 weekends a year, driving from one end of the state to another, setting up on on Fri, break down and head home Sunday night.
We had a time when a small group would come to the show on Sunday, tag a dealer that had a nice display then wait around till close down and load out and follow him home.

Sometimes they hit as soon as the dealer got home or to his shop, sometimes waiting till the next day if it was a collector who worked during the week.
One dealer got killed and a few got hurt and they didn't stop until they screwed up and  got caught.

  Now it's 2011, we have Google maps, Google name search, find anyone for 8 dollars and tons of other neat ways to locate an address.
Am I too paranoid? (can you be today?)
I learned to keep every thing collectible or rare at an off-site storage location. That and insurance keeps it away from my self and loved ones
.
It does suck that we can no longer have the "Trophy" rooms of yesteryear.
(even if you never have posted a picture, how about the bug guy, meter reader, the guy who trims your trees.
Do you think they might have looked in the window and passed on how cool your cave was?)

From an AOL article, 

 Some insurance companies are catching on. Legal & General Insurance in New England says Facebook and Twitter users could be hit with higher homeowner's insurance premiums. Why? All that blabbing about activities away from home means they face a higher risk of burglary.

The company thinks burglars are actually "shopping" for victims on social media sites, looking not only for an indication you're not at home, but also photos of your home and valuables. That cute picture of your son hugging the dog? A burglar is looking in the background, eyeing your big-screen TV and new stereo system.

And it's not just adults. Teenagers are even more likely to post personal information, so Legal & General has warned that parents who aren't even online themselves could face higher homeowner's insurance premiums if their children are online.

  Even though I have a overlapping video system with my next door neighbors, a alarm system, Two big dogs and a neighbor on one side who's a Reserve police officer and has a home office where he works that overlooks my house and on the other side is a just retired Navy DEVGRP 20 year man who has nothing better to do than sit on his back porch and shoot guns most of the day (and night, for the past damn week!) I still want to keep the good stuff locked up.

I hate that when I want to review a product for a blog post or get ready to go to a gun match  that I have to lay in another 40 mins to go by and pick up what I need, but I would hate to have a shootout at my house or even worse  to come home and find what I had worked 40 years for ransacked and off at some pawn shop.
My stuff is pretty safe and yes, I have gone overboard, but it gives me piece of mind that I have done all I can, if I get hit now, that's what insurance is for.

 We all love our " babies", and frankly most of us love to show them off. I am worse than 99% of the people in the world for having the collectors bug and wanting to share.

Just remember when you post that Twitter update that your are "at Outback with a two hour wait for a table" you might just be making some bad guys life a little easier.

Related articles

• Burglars scan social network sites (autonetinsurance.co.uk)
• Social networking could cause rise in home insurance prices (money.marksandspencer.com)
• Social networking: Are you advertising your home to burglars? (telegraph.co.uk)

The Nomad keeps on getting talked about.

Here's another Blog post on the Nomad.

http://russellandrew.blogspot.com/2011/03/foxfury-lights.html 

Seems like we can add guerrilla video's to the Nomads list of uses.

Also wanted to add a shot of Foxfury products at the North Atlantic Airsoft Expo in High Point NC.
Lots of Firefighters, LE and active duty military stopped by to check out the lights.

This fully equipped solider graced the entrance to the exhibit hall.
I turned on the scout when we locked him in his case on Friday night.
didn't turn it back off until he was released on Sunday night, that's some good battery life! 

The "other" light is the backsplash of my flash

Antonio and the SWAT Team

Now, this is not what you think,

Foxfury had the opportunity to show off some of the lights at a SWAT training day in So Cal.

He was lucky enough to snap some pic's while the lights were being put through their paces.

If you noticed by the pictures, they really seemed to enjoy using the Nomad.

The great thing about that light is every time we show it, someone comes up with another use for it.

Tomorrow (later today) I will add some more pic's, the download times tonight were killing me.

A new week, another show

 We sure do love us some fire shows,

It's always great to get the feedback and be able to show off our newest lights.

This week , you will find us at

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 2011 Firehouse World in San Diego.

 San Diego Convention Center. Booth #2220.

Nice booth set up

 I think we need Mr Bones from the last show though to visit!

Foxfury Discover helmet light

Command series lights

These are the new Rook and Rookie.
You can see the UV and red lights shining at the bottom




 Show runs thru 3/2/11

please stop by and say hi.