Prime Brass Debuts at SHOT Present 2026

SHOT Present has by no means lacked new merchandise. What it has usually lacked is filtration. 1000’s of cubicles current incremental updates, beauty revisions, and advertising language that sounds spectacular on a placard however reveals little about efficiency as soon as gear leaves the conference corridor. For 2026, Recoil Group launched a mechanism meant to handle that drawback immediately.

The inaugural “Prime Brass” award tasked the Senior Editors of RECOIL, RECOIL OFFGRID, Concealment, and Gun Digest with figuring out merchandise that demonstrated real-world utility, novelty, innovation, and typically a mix of these attributes. Every editor walked the present ground independently and chosen gear primarily based on sensible relevance, sturdiness, and problem-solving functionality. OFFGRID Senior Editor, Patrick Diedrich, was assigned three awards targeted particularly on preparedness and subject use.

Outside Tech Award

Darkish Vitality – Poseidon XL

Key highlights:

• 27,000 mAh lithium-ion capability
• 100W XT60 photo voltaic charging functionality
• 4 fast-charging ports
• Largest airplane-safe carry-on battery capability
• Powers Starlink Mini for roughly 2–3 hours
• URL: Darkish Vitality

Transportable energy has quietly grow to be vital infrastructure for contemporary subject work. Communications, mapping, pictures, navigation, and reporting now rely upon electronics. An influence financial institution is now not a comfort merchandise; it’s an operational dependency. Most battery banks, nevertheless, stay client electronics carrying an outside aesthetic.

Darkish Vitality’s Poseidon XL was chosen as a result of it’s engineered as subject gear first and electronics second.

The 27,000 mAh lithium-ion battery is constructed round environmental survivability. The housing exceeds MIL-STD-810G sturdiness requirements and carries an IP68 ranking, permitting full submersion to 6 toes for 45 minutes whereas remaining dustproof and crush resistant. In sensible phrases, this can be a battery financial institution that tolerates river crossings, heavy rain, snow, and pack abuse with out protecting dealing with.

Functionally, the Poseidon XL outputs and accepts 100-watt USB-C energy and helps photo voltaic charging via an XT60 port. It may function a Starlink Mini terminal for about two to 3 hours, recharge a 13-inch laptop computer about 1.5 instances, and cost a number of gadgets concurrently utilizing 4 fast-charging ports. The unit contains inside voltage regulation and surge safety and is rated as the most important airplane-safe battery capability at the moment allowed for carry-on journey. The machine additionally contains timed shutoff modes to stop in a single day parasitic drain, a element extra related to expedition use than informal tenting. The result’s an influence answer that bridges backcountry journey and trendy connectivity fairly than forcing a alternative between them.

Tactical Minimalist Award

Sunshine Security First Assist BRIK Micro

Key Highlights:

• Berry compliant
• 3.5 x 3 x 1.75 inches
• Kevlar aramid stitching
• Mil-spec elastic and hook-and-loop retention
• 10 ounces
• URL: Sunshine Security First Assist

Preparedness gear usually fails for a easy cause: folks depart it behind. Bulk and inconvenience are probably the most dependable predictors of non-carry. Sunshine Security First Assist approached the issue by compressing a trauma stabilization functionality right into a footprint sufficiently small to hold repeatedly.

The BRIK Micro (Bleed Useful resource Particular person Equipment) measures roughly 3.5 by 3 by 1.75 inches and weighs beneath one pound whereas sustaining a full traumatic hemorrhage response functionality. Regardless of the compact dimensions, the equipment comprises a tourniquet choice (Snakestaff ETQ Extensive or SOF-T), QuikClot Fight Gauze, nasal airway, emergency trauma dressing, gloves, and supportive medical provides.

The pouch itself makes use of Berry-compliant development with Squadron 1000D laminate nylon, aramid Kevlar stitching, mil-spec elastic, and hook-and-loop retention. The design goal is fixed carry fairly than staged carry. It suits small packs, belt kits, and automobile compartments with out displacing different gear. The importance of the BRIK Micro is behavioral. A medical equipment that’s current is infinitely extra helpful than a complete equipment saved at residence. The product prioritizes accessibility and consistency over capability whereas nonetheless addressing the most definitely preventable reason behind loss of life in subject trauma: uncontrolled bleeding.

Solid Innovation Award

Iron Ethos / SEAMARTEC – Orion Hatchet

Key Highlights:

• General size: 16.54 inches
• Blade size: 7.88 inches
• Blade thickness: 5 mm
• Blade materials: D2 device metal
• Deal with materials: Micarta
• URL(s): SEAMARTEC | Iron Ethos

SHOT Present 2026 marked the debut of Iron Ethos and Seamartec, a collaborative manufacturing effort bridging tactical and searching/out of doors design philosophies. Their first main launch, the Orion Hatchet designed by Jason Breeden, acquired the Solid Innovation award.

At first look the Orion resembles a hybrid of a tracker knife, hatchet, and struggle choose. The weird geometry is deliberate fairly than aesthetic. The ahead edge helps chopping and limbing, the bolstered level helps penetration and managed splitting, and the deal with geometry helps each hammer grip and choked-up management.

Constructed from D2 device metal with a 5 mm blade thickness and a micarta deal with, the 16.54-inch device occupies an area between camp knife and compact axe. The design permits wooden processing, shelter development, and managed carving duties with out requiring a full-size axe. It’s a part of the Mountain Peak Collection and represents a brand new producer getting into the market with an outlined identification fairly than a by-product product.

The collaboration divides roles: Iron Ethos represents the tactical utility aspect, whereas Seamartec targets searching and normal out of doors use. The Orion establishes a shared design language targeted on sturdiness and multi-role functionality.

Closing Ideas

The Prime Brass award is just not a reputation contest and never a advertising partnership. It’s a field-relevance award. Every choice represents gear meant to resolve an precise drawback encountered outdoors the conference heart. For OFFGRID, meaning survivability, reliability, and carry practicality.

Take a look at our in-person protection of those corporations at RecoilTV: SHOT Present 2026: The Greatest Survival Gear No one Is Speaking About!

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Written by Patrick Diedrich