Frag Out! Magazine
Issue link: https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/861022
In the world of military geeks, the „pig" is most often associated with 7.62 M-60 GPMG that earned its name during the Vietnam War. Nowadays, however, it might be also associated with tactical gear. All of that thanks to the Patrol Incident Gear aka PIG. Oink-oink! I got my PIG Full Dexterity Tactical Alpha Glove about a year ago or something like that. A friend of mine, who was then in United States, wrote me that he was to going to buy two pairs of PIG gloves and would get third pair for free and he asked me whether I was interested. Well, you know what they say: „if the give – take it, if they hit – just run" so I accepted the proposal. It was rather due to pure curiosity, because I almost knew nothing about the company, but the gloves looked decent. From their description, I assumed that they would do their job. The price was disturbing, about $30 plus the „buy two, get three" deal – it did not seem like a high-quality product. But free gifts should not be rejected, so I took them, whatever. [yep, that was a sale of discounted model, the current version is like $43]. The guy came back from the USA and gave me the gloves. I must admit that they made a very good impression at first contact. All of that for the price comparable to the one you'd have to pay for gloves that were very popular in our country – that are not exceptionally durable and they are used by almost everybody. Good gloves with interesting design. After a year of using them, mainly at the shooting range, I may say that the first impression was not misleading. DESIGN PIG Full Dexterity Tactical Alpha are short, the "up to the watch" type gloves, which slightly remind of a patchwork because they are composed of several various materials and fabrics. So, we have 40% Clarino synthetic leather (in four variants), 45% nylon (three types), 10% foam, and 5% rubber. The black, thin synthetic Clarino leather was used for the palm and almost the whole bottom part of fingers and nails (except for the thumb – the nail is covered with a nylon patch). "Almost" because TACTICAL