Just in case none of you have seen this, our friend MM had another collaboration that resulted in the creation of a KitMat from Emdom. Here’s some basic info I gathered from him…
Basically it’s a field cleaning kit pouch with a 23" x 19" roll up cordura mat attached. No more having to deal with old t-shirts and towels. For some out in the desert, a good surface to field strip and clean your weapons. There are lots of cleaning kit pouches out there, and cleaning mats but now with the combination of a kit & a mat, nor one made as well.
It rolls up into the approx size of a GI cleaning kit when empty. There are two zippered pouches, both will fit GI cleaning rods, and some commercial ones. There’s adequate space for spare parts, small bottles, patches - pretty everything you need for a rifle and pistol cleaning kit plus more. There’s a big velcro patch in one corner, and four strips of velcro are supplied, two short, two longer. That patch is for putting small parts on, that might easily get lost. The velcro strips are used to keep the parts secure while you’re messing around with rest of the weapon.
The mat folds over, and rolls up around the pouches, held in place by shock cord. There is no rattle of the contents.The mat is primarily designed to keep your weapon parts out of the dirt, but it can also be used a small shooting mat for your elbows, or to sit on if it’s wet, or even to eat off. you can just throw it in the washing machine if it needs cleaning. The mat and pouches are 1000D coated cordura and the interior of the pouches are 420D.
What an excellent idea. I’m not in the military, but have still spent plenty of time fumbling around trying to clean guns in my lap because it was the smoothest/cleanest place. I can only imagine what it must be like sitting in a sh!tty desert somewhere.
And I also could have used it for what Kisara does as recently as a year ago. I could see it would make a great changing pad, with diapers in one pouch and wipes in another. Maybe a second one for snacks and bottles, and using the mat as a clean place to eat from. Yessir, it’s a universal piece of kit there.
Gents, just a quick note to let everyone know that the KitMats will be shipping out hopefully before the end of next week. They will be en-route to us (here at i-SHOT) in a couple of days.
multicam ones inbound in a 2nd shipment to EMDOM, so check the website to see when they get them (they sell out quick). i-shot isn’t carrying multicam as an option as of yet - catering more to the LE/competition shooting community.
I got my KitMat in today’s mail. I’m sitting here at work playing with it and so far I’m very impressed. It’s another one of those brilliantly simple designs that I’m glad someone is bright enough to come up with!
It will be nice to keep all of my small allen wrenches, screwdrivers, sight tools and stuff in one place, along with a boresnake and some lube and who knows what else I can fit in here.
Another great piece of gear from MM and Emdom. Thanks!
