HELMETS........You got one.....or several....???

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Sourdough

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I have many helmets, including Kevlar USMC helmet. Seems I have been most of my life searching to fill "TWO" different Needs. Perfect Holster and perfect Helmet.

All helmets SUCK (one way or some other way). I generally attempt to be clear as to the "specific" application when shopping. The more specific the better. Example: I was specifically clear I did not need a helmet for gunfights. While practicing "night navigation" even while moving slowly, all parts of my head and neck would suffer slight damage. But at night, I did not need to hear sounds, or at least that was of low importance. Vision and protecting eyes from injury are important at night. General protection of head from damage caused by falling was important.

The problem with helmets is you can't have everything you desire. Prioritizing what you damn sure don't need or want is actually more important that the features desired. Strangely I found "full-face" Snowmachine helmets worked very good for "Night Navigation".

I finally surrendered to being a total failure at traveling in wilderness at night, while on foot. As Inspector Dirty "Harry" Callahan said, "A man has got to know his limitations".
 
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For personal protection, I have a NATO combat elite with level IIIA protection (will stop up to a 44mag pistol but not a lot of rifle rounds). Attached is a Seer Riot Control faceshield #MFF-1.

For riding, climbing & recreation protection, I have probably 20 other helmets.

 
Just give me an old fashioned M-1 steel pot.
You can bathe and shave in it, dig an expedient foxhole, use it as a parking brake for your Jeep, sit on it, use it as an improvised weapon, the uses besides protection are many.
 
I do not have a helment, or bino nods. I think it would be fun, but not for the cost. I also don't anticipate taking shrapnel to the head or any other body part, during the battle of my subdivision. Though the HOA members meetings can get rough, the real risk is being stabbed in the back by the crazy chihuahua lady.

If I seriously need a helment, there will probably be slightly used gear available for free.
 
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If I seriously need a helment, there will probably be slightly used gear available for free.
You can just make your own. ;)
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