I’ve just returned from the Midlands Airsoft Fair, which if you haven’t been is an Airsoft heaven of private sellers and retailers where you can pick up pretty much everything you need for a game day or completing your loadout. One of the retailers present was Lonestar Tactical, best known for their superb face masks, and for whom I’m a brand ambassador, so I was always going to call in anyway for a catch up.
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I have a few of the masks, and don’t use anything else in game now. I’ve already covered that in a previous blog, but if you don’t already run one I highly recommend them, and that’s why I’m on board with Lonestar.
But the other half of the store was much more appealing. Although I’d seen the ads, obviously, I hadn’t delved in detail into their new project properly – Lonestar Pro. There’s a lot of cheap and cheerful at the fair but there are, mixed in between the novelties, some serious kit manufacturers offering up some top end gear.
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Lonestar Pro is exactly that – professional level kit, being developed with German police forces for more demanding environments than your local skirmish site, and this is reflected in the quality and design – and they’re snapping it up in the thousands – these are designs based on real world testing and use. A far cry from Steve in the safe zone who thinks fanny packs are brilliant because he can stash biscuits in them. Although I bang on in most blogs about not needing to spend thousands on kit trying to be a better player, there are times when you want something better and more reliable than Amazon molle backpacks, for example. It’s important not to have the most expensive kit, but certainly the right kit rather than endlessly buying more cheap stuff that fails anyway. And this is where Lonestar Pro fits in.
It’s early days, but I was able to spend a long time talking to owner Eddie about the first products released and how development is going. And it’s very interesting. I didn’t even glance across at the face masks on the other half of the stall.
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The most striking thing walking in was the rather cool logo emblazoned on the t-shirts and I managed to bag a lovely green one. There are of course branded caps and patches as you’d expect from any tactical company these days. On display were three bags which are the first products out. The smallest item is a waist pack, seen on the mannequin here which holds a velcro holster and pistol in the back plus mags and accessories in the front, and a fold down smartphone holder on the front of the bag, it’d be ideal for everyday carry.
The backpack on the mannequin you can see here on the table is a larger ambidextrous shoulder bag that can be quickly swung round to access a pistol in the rear, or ammo in the main compartment again. It’ll take a full sized laptop in a padded compartment, or a hydration bladder, or ballistic plates in case you need them. There’s a handy fleece lined zipped pocket on the top to protect your sunglasses, I was told as I dropped my Wiley Sabers onto the concrete floor from the neck of my t-shirt. Useful. And there are two zipped front pockets lined with thick fur to keep your hands warm. This is probably the piece I’m most interested in at the moment and might pick one up for my daily travel. Not for firearms of course, but to keep my life organised and my sunglasses less damaged.
The final item here, the larger bag on the display above, is a rather brilliantly thought-out helmet case.
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Now, I don’t run a helmet because it’d ruin my hair, but I know a lot of guys that do and some of them are scarily expensive. What Lonestar have is a padded safe space for your various NVG’s, strobes, helmet lights etc and of course the helmet itself, which is securely held in place. My kit bag looks like the aftermath of a destruction derby, with loose bb’s, tinned foods, various gun parts both internal and external, camping kit and dead batteries sloshing around; it’s a nightmare finding stuff on game day and en route, everything gets battered. An organiser like this is a great idea and though I wouldn’t use it myself, it’s a very well designed storage solution. Half of Instagram seems to have very expensive NVG’s now so I’m sure it’ll appeal to a lot of players/models.
If you’re into your urban ops, either professionally or as an airsoft player, the predominantly black and grey colourways look great and I’m looking forward to seeing what else is released in the future, although I might have a very interesting review coming up for Airsofters and I’m sure you’ll want one, but that’ll be revealed later.
This isn’t a paid review or anything, this kit is genuinely very good and worth following if you don’t already. If you do see Lonestar attending any events that you’re headed to, do call in and have a look at it.