October 31, 2007
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Mark Koernke discussed weapons maintenance and preparedness on Weapons Wednesday, covering magazine pouches, ammunition storage, stripper clips, and equipment load-bearing systems. He fielded a caller's question about attaching a muzzle brake to a Romanian AK and provided detailed guidance on barrel modifications and pressure sleeves. The show addressed ammunition quality issues, including steel-case versus brass-case ammunition, the deliberate degradation of ammunition supplies, and the importance of water purification systems. Koernke emphasized testing equipment loads, maintaining weapons cleanliness, and preparing for potential ammunition scarcity.
- weapons wednesday
- magazine pouches
- ammunition maintenance
- ak-47
- stripper clips
- muzzle brake
- barrel modification
- steel case ammunition
- brass case ammunition
- fal rifle
- ar-15
- water purification
- combat load
- preparedness
- equipment maintenance
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I had a dream the other night that, well I didn't understand. A figure walked him through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat. And speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free.
and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn.
and your daughters visit doctors. So their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?
Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic in each God-given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants trampled, each God given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, and dill the land of the free?
One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories.
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However many mags you're willing to carry, that's fine. Now you gotta look at your combat weight, a little subject note in the last hour. You gotta look at how much you can carry. If the person's very young, again, they're limited. There's only a percentage of body weight that can be, or I should say cargo weight, that can be added before it becomes cumbersome or almost impossible for the person to move. You also have to work with the equipment. You gotta make sure that it fits, that the ergonomics
You know formula are applied here There are many different issues the pistol belt suspenders pads shoulder pads which can be added Guys look at camping supplies if all else fails take a look at some of the stuff that's been built to distribute the weight Another thing is equipment flopping around this includes your mag pouches. There are suspension Attachments that are designed to clip to your web gear so that the gear is better supported
This is true on your old M14 mag pouches. This is true on your M16 mag pouches. Take a look at them. Is that funny straps? Got a clip? It's designed to hook up to your H suspender or your Alice gear so that it helps to take and distribute the weight and support specifically the magazines loaded that are in that pouch or the cargo you're carrying. So always use what's built into the system. It was put there for a reason. I will remind you, government would not spend it if they can help it.
In other words, not granted, there are some sugar daddy cases here and there that are set up where a contractor gets a goody contract that has nothing. With regard to equipment, remember, government is using a minimum bid contract and they don't want to put any more on there than they absolutely have to. They already take into consideration combat weight too. So wherever they can lighten things up. There are other tricks to the trade as far as mag pouches and we've heard many of them. You guys can do the research.
But basically, right now in the surplus industry, if you're carrying a unique arm that's from the last 40 years, or for that matter, the last 60 to 100 years, basic load-bearing equipment, the pouches for the ammunition, the spare parts pouches, all the support equipment to make that rifle work in the field are out there on the market. Do the research. Find what fits your weapon. Don't make do. Find something that is correct for the arm.
but military that carried it did the research already. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are a few exceptions to that. Most of you might have a 100-round drum or, for instance, a 75-round drum. Now, there are drum pouches that were made that are out there for like Eurodrums, for the Romanian, Russian, there's East German pouches, whatever. However, a quick fix and a simple solution. The two US military canteen, what they call the desert canteen pouches, the perfect size for the 100-round AK drum.
Plus, they have little hanger strap points where you can actually hook a supplemental strap or a cargo carrying strap to those 2-liter canteen pouches. What this means is you can actually carry the drum separate or hand it off to another person if need be or have them loaded, them ready to go so they're in the cans and all you do is pull the pouch out with everything attached and away you go. We do that with a lot of equipment. So they're all prepped in the can and there's nothing you do but then grab the strap, pull it out, hand it to a person.
Now all of a sudden you've got a great way and it's padded by the way on the inside. Remember there's that little fur padding on the inside of the two liter canteen covers. Well guess what? It helps to dampen the sound, keep the thing quiet. The most important thing, make sure that those mags are maintained and make sure they don't rust. Keeping sure that there's no surface accumulation. You've got to clean them off. You can lightly lube and then wipe them off again if they're the steel drums. That is necessary on the outside, not on the inside.
clean them up, make sure that they stay dry whenever they get wet. Hey, that's part of your maintenance people. Gotta make sure they get wiped off. Gotta make sure they stay clean. And by the way, somebody's gonna go, what do you think about drums, Mark? I've had that question many times. If you have an AK, an AK-47 of any kind, and you can put a drum on it, you should have at least one drum. 100-rounders, 75-rounders, steel Chinese are fine. The Russian Euro 75-round drum, snail drums work just fine, and they are beautiful.
They function flawlessly. They were made for the RPK, typically. In both cases, they're military issue. All you gotta do is inspect them, make sure the lips are straight, make sure that your guide lips inside the snail drum are where they're supposed to be, and usually they're not messed up, coming from the factory. You can leave the drum loaded and wind the spring until you need to. So the advantage, you can have the drums ready to roll, already loaded up.
And then just follow instructions when it comes to winding up the drum. That's the basic thing. Do your research. Follow the instructions. Go to the Mitchell plastic drums. And by the way, they do make a steel 120 round or 125 round Chinese drum for the ARs. Fine, we've used the snot out of them. They're bulky. There is an advantage for air defense, for position defense, or what we use them for, the reason each person has a drum for each of the weapons that will take it, for traveling.
Notice I didn't say bounding overwatch, but traveling. You're on the road in motion, moving as a formation of a squad, a fire team, a platoon, or larger formations. Every man will carry a drum in his weapon, moving. Why? It's the most likely time when you're what's called traveling, the most casual motion in a military formation with regard to operations. When it's most likely, you're going to end up in a prepared ambush or a hasty ambush that an enemy has set up.
when you least expect it is when it's probably going to happen. So, now any other time, obviously the drums still come on just as handy, but for a fish defense, in other words, to respond. You have a 75 or 100 round drum, you burn the ammunition. In other words, one of the few times where I'd say is yes, you just point it in the direction where you see the fire coming from and you saturate that position. If every man in the squad has 75 to 100 rounds to draw on, even if the man's hit and down and wounded,
if you can't change the mag at least he's got seventy five rounds to sustain fire and support the maneuver element a now when you burn that drum out when you're attacking an ambusher in other words you don't run you're going to go into a kill zone if you don't stay in the kill zone you'll die there you attack engage and destroy the enemy you either penetrate the uh... the uh... the uh... the ambush line and then turn and run defilate and reuse all of your fire down the line of the enemy or you
Perforate the attack line and then rally up at another point. That's a preference depending upon the field commander and their standard operating procedure and the size of the formation. However, those 75 and 100 round drums make a hell of a difference when it comes to thinking about one thing. Shooting the bad guys, when you run out, you drop the mag. You pull it and drop it. Don't worry about saving it, don't worry about fixing it, don't worry about thinking about, oh my goodness, I spent money on it, it'll probably save your life.
You drop that 75 or 100-round mag, just put it straight down, go to your 30s or your 40s or your 20s, whatever you have, and you continue to engage. What that web mag did is it saved your life, hopefully. If you win, you can go back and pick it up. If you don't win, going back to pick it up is irrelevant. That's simple. It's not a throwaway, but it's an other than for that condition. And under those conditions, it's a drop mag.
Just drop it straight down, you continue with reloading, you know, drop reloading your weapon utilizing the other mags in your system. It's that simple. So everyone that can, if you can get a drum for your 10-22, combine, get it. If you can get something to offer more volume fire for each of your weapons, as long as it's not something goofy and something that's going to malfunction. Know the limitations, notice I didn't say that they won't work. Know the limitations of the Mitchell like plastic mags, they work fine, we've used them for years, but they are weak points.
Because of that, you're going to use them for very specific missions. For the steel mags, know that they don't maintain them, they're going to corrode. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot going on with them. In either case, basic maintenance is the issue and also understanding with regard to stripper clips. Something that came up as a question, are Euro stripper clips or NATO stripper clips for 308 NATO ammunition? I'm turning to what you might think. They are out there. Our stripper guides for the FNFL mag and for the G3 mag are available. You need to look around.
an F and FAL, you want to keep your 308 ammunition in five round stripper clips and bandoliers if you can. And if you don't have them, you make them. Okay? This is the bandoliers go. Why? Well, it's easier to handle a five round stripper clip than it is to handle a handful of chiclets. Okay, it's not bouncing around, it's not jiggling in your pocket, it's not bouncing around in a mag pouch. That doesn't mean you won't go to that when the time comes. Stripper clips are out there. Usually what happens is the ammo dealers steal the strippers off the ammo, repack it,
loose and then sell you the strippers separate. Shame on them, they shouldn't be doing that, but it's just the way things are, guys. So if you go to certain gun shows or if you go to certain dealers, you will find that they have the stripper clips, either A, that have been taken off the ammunition that you can repurchase. They offer brand new, in the box, never issued stripper clips for things like the SKS carbine, 10 round stripper clips, for the Moissan Nagat, 5 round stripper clips, either stamped sheet steel, chrome, or in some cases brass. Mandatory clips,
such as the Mann-Linter clips for the 6.5 Carcano. You gotta have them for the magazine to work. And by the way, where was that one that was a supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle? Yuck, yuck, yuck. We've always asked that question in a long explanation on the air. But if you need stripper clips, make sure that you test them, check them, make sure they fit the guides on your rifle. Your K98s use stripper clips, which means you can load faster. All these are solutions. Go to the gun shows, you'll find the answers. This is Mark. The Intel Report, Weapons Wednesday. We'll be back.
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About a year ago, I bought a Romanian AK, and between the site and the end of the crown, it looked to me, there was like a little spot weld, and it looked to me like it was threaded. So anyway, I went ahead and got a Dremel cut, and apparently what they had done is they had smoothed the threading off. Anyway, I had a
combination muzzle brake and flacer presser, which was a real cheap piece of junk. Anyway, it did slide on there okay, set a play. So I put a couple of sets, you know, correctly. It wasn't quite tight enough. It wasn't quite tight enough. So I tried TIG welding, MIG welding, STICK welding. The only thing I didn't try was OXIA settling. So I just wound up brazing it.
And I took it out to the range and fired it. I guess I ran about 60 rounds through it. And I guess, you know, I thought maybe it was hot enough to see if the brazing would hold. Was that enough to the brazing would hold? That should be enough, but one of the tricks that works, think about how pin barrels, of course, now there's two ways to go with this. Number one.
Before you do that, or any of our listeners do that again, if you do, for some reason, the welds break on those muzzle caps on the end, and there are the little thick welds that are there, remember that a steel insert sleeve over the barrel, I would never change, this is the first rule, never take anything off the original component. You got the right idea, the muzzle brake or the muzzle compensator or the flash rider is cheap. That's what you always change the dimension for and modify.
Now, one of the tricks that works is to create a flash hider itself, if it's a slide-on type, a little bit. Create a second sleeve that goes over the end of the barrel. Cut it to the length of the muzzle crown. Then modify your dimensions so the flash hider is tight-fitting. Those are locked. Was this a lock type or it goes around the site or was this one that just went straight on? Okay, then that would have been...
Okay, this would be the better solution because I know that there's always different ways they've modified the barrels and the metallurgy for many of the barrels has been intentionally, it's been tempered or acted within a specific way to try and not complement attaching some other things to it. As you saw, they've milled down or what they did, they actually milled down the threading. So what you do is a pressure sleeve. Now there's two tricks to that, A, if you have it tight enough, you can just, once it's cut to the proper length,
The other option is what you do is cut a groove perpendicular. In other words, if you cut your sleeve made out of steel or copper for that, what you do is you take a tool, a Dremel tool, and you cut a perpendicular line as if you're cutting the ring in half, only on one side. This allows for a spring type action so that as you compress the other fixture into place, you know, the flash hider into place,
it allows for the middle to compress and come together a bit and create the spring tension issue so this will help to walk the thing into place and keep it on the weapon uh... i think it is easy i'm saying you create a sleeve that smaller dimension in your flash i don't know but obviously will fiddle with the outer dimension of the end of the barrel and that gives you the the makes up the difference of there's no slop there's and there's no give and the advantage of the sleeves is that you can work on them you can view or in other words on them
Now when I say hone, I'm going to say this about basic weapons maintenance. If you do anything with a weapon, there is no machine grinding that should be done. It's hand fitted. That's where the term hand fitting comes from. You take the finest level of cloth, whatever type of abrasive cloth you can get, and you do one time and you test. So again, you work over the material. Be careful because once you've done your tuning on whatever part when you've honed it down,
You want to make sure that you wipe it off or bathe it in oil or a lubricant or cleaning lubricant or a cleaning solvent of some kind. Take off the abrasive material that you've used and then of course reapply a lubricant of some kind to fill the fluid that doesn't oxidize. Brass will work for this. Brass is not the best choice. Copper is cheap and easy. Brass is an option, but steel on steel obviously would be your first best choice. So if you got a good hardware, you can usually go and find that they have an entire
knick-knack shelf nowadays of stock metals in tubular, in round tubular, in square, in rectangular stock, in any length from a few feet, you can buy a foot at a time, up to three or four feet in length. So you might want to buy some of this if you're working on several quality of their weapons for say five. Back around 93, 94 when I first got into this and the ammo, I had no idea what it is. Some people told me it was the Norinko.
But anyway, it's all copper washed, a magnet will stick, and then it's green or red. What that is, copper wash is an option. Of course, now it's become even pricier. Militaries have gone to steel case, but used a brass or copper wash to deal with the adhesion problem. Now, one of the things that I questioned when I saw that, because everybody's used it. I've used some of it too.
When I first inspected it and looked at it, I was thinking that it was just one of those things where the Chinese were coming up with a solution to this whole issue of trying to look more commercial, trying to look more normal. But the other issue too is the lacquer case. A lacquer steel case is actually very reliable and they wouldn't really change from that. They know that they've used it in the field extensively. The AK is designed for it. So I had a question about possible
In other words, possible concept here, maybe oxidation being a positive thing when it's in the field since it's not lacquer coated and I'd have to experiment depending on the round. You'd have an oxidation problem with the copper very quickly as opposed to say a lacquer covered steel case. The stuff shoots flawlessly. I mean we've used it in SKS's, AK's, RPK's,
on the range for years we use this for training many many many people I wouldn't have a qualm about using it uh... it might actually be a plus to use in for instance say a thirty caliber AR because the copper wash will give it's going to the soft metals the idea here is that when the softer metal makes contact which is why our cases are brass why we use brass cases
Even that simple wash of copper or that layer of copper is enough to ensure that there won't necessarily be adhesion between the chamber and the case that's expended. Are there any significance to the color of the rain at the bottom? Yes, depending on the country there is. I've mentioned this before, now the French, now the Chinese, it's just a matter of production. It may denote, here's what we don't know about, the different factory codes.
Primer color works primer paint color and the canallura paint that's used around the mill where it seals the bullet to the case You'll notice a lot of them have a color that matches the primer now in most countries that usually denotes or allows you to identify ball round from say armor piercing or tracer Not all countries use a tip coating to color an ID their ammunition
So for the Chinese and for the French, typically they use the cantilever and the primer paint. It made you note the difference between AP and standard ball. Okay, thank you Mark. You're welcome. Thank you. Anyway, we're in our bottom of the hour break already, half hour gone. This is the intel report. We will be back in about three minutes. Fabrique National makes a rifle known as the Fusil Automatic Leger or Light Automatic Rifle, considered to be the right arm of what's left of the free world.
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And eventually, like one of our instructors used to say years ago, he goes, yeah, I was carrying my ultralight tent, my ultralight backpack, I had my ultralight sleeping bag, and I had my ultralight shovel, and by the time I was done with all the ultralight stuff I was carrying, I wasn't very ultralight. Okay? So much, you gotta figure your combat load, and yeah, you know what, people will grab a piece of equipment and put it all together and then put it on their back and go, oh, I can carry this.
Now they talk themselves into that, but then you get about a mile or two down the road, the first time you have to start carrying, you start to think about, what the heck have I got here? You need to test your equipment out. Notice I've said this several times for a reason. Even if it's a light combat load or a garrison load, test it out, take the time. If you've got a wife that you're preparing and outfitting for, she needs to try out her equipment. She needs to find out how things work. Can I remind you that ladies are built differently from men?
Could this perhaps mean that some of your equipment might have to be stationed in different ways because, well, we have different body parts that work differently, ladies do, from the way men work. So that is another reason to try out and test your equipment for all of you who have children that you're preparing with 72-hour kits. I would ask that A, you put them together and them, take them apart, give them to them with the responsibility to maintain them.
Now this includes, they're going to have to take care of them. You can't do 100%, they're going to have to pick up a percentage. Every little thing that they can do, and every little thing that they learn, makes your overall job that much easier. And that's what you're counting on, is everybody cooperating and working together. That's very important. Check your gear. A lot of you are giving the children Ruger 10-22s. What do you have in the way of a mag pouch for the extra mags? What did you set up? What did you think about that?
All kinds of systems out there. And I'm going to say again, if you've got a Ruger 10-22, you don't need 50-round mags or 30-round mags. You need reliable mags. And again, cost is going to be an issue. If you can go out and buy a whole bunch or a pocket full of Ruger 10-22 10-shot mags, look at the problem and make your equipment work for each of the people. Design the old, again, this is ergonomics, making the equipment work for them. But you've got to test it.
You'll talk yourself into that picking up that, I'm going to carry that 30 caliber ammo can loaded with 7.62x39 or 7.62x61, 30 out 6, you know, in other words 30 out 6 is a 7.62x, it's got a metric value by the way. The point is that if you've ever picked up a 30 caliber can filled with OTS or 308 or a 30 Russian, you may vary the weight by about a pound and a half. Combat weight for that can is 22 pounds.
Why two pounds? I can run that out to the truck and throw it in there real quick and I carry it around and it doesn't bother me that much. Well, you're also carrying your seven pound to ten pound rifle. You're carrying your combat load, whatever else it is. Yeah, the first mile that you carry that little mini briefcase made out of steel, the next mile, it's to play a little bit on those muskles. While you think, my goodness, can I find a brush pile, throw this in. Yeah, because you spent money on it and we can't afford to lose the ammo.
So you also need to come up with solutions for carrying your bulk ammunition. Start with a little hint. Watch for these people who are near golf courses that throw out those pulleys for the golf bags. If you take some of the jump parts off, awfully convenient cargo carriers for the infantry. When time comes after I'm done with it, if I can't carry it any farther, I'll throw it away. I'll leave it in the brush. I'll hide it somewhere.
But you know what, for the time that I could use it, if I got it for free or I went to the resale shop and got it for $1 or $2, and I don't need a pretty one, by the way. I'll get the chunky aluminum one that's kind of tarnished and has a part broken, because I'm going to put a different rack on it. I'm going to make it a nice little stackable tool carrier, and then I'm going to break out my three or four colors of $0.99-cent-dollar store camel paint, and I'm going to make it whatever colors fit best for the environment that I'm in.
I just made a cheapie throw away combat ammo cart. You know what? When the time comes people, it's priceless and it pays for itself if you could only use it once. See how that works? Start looking around and thinking and applying all these cool tools that are from all these other industries to make your system work better. Now, we noticed we had gun parts at the bottom of the hour and I cannot say again enough to hold a gun parts guy. If you've got a .308 or if you've got any other .308 battle rifle other than the FAL,
Give them a call. They can give you ideas if there's something that needs to be addressed or corrected if you're looking for spare parts. 360-906-8369. Again, that's 36906-369. I want to read this little email sent to us by one of our friends. I want to say thank you to the guys for passing on the information. And again, this is stuff that we expected, but it's just we're seeing it happen.
adjustable gas systems on military rifles. The FAL is one of a number of military gas piston auto loading rifles that features an adjustable gas system. The user may adjust the amount of gas pressure and thus the degree of robustness of the cycle of operation. In other words, how much gas you divert to the gas system determines how hard you cycle the action to extract that round or to move that crusty piece of brass that you might have had to use because it's the only ammo you had in hand and it's really not that well made and it's not that you have to use it because it's all you got. Once you do,
you can adjust the FAL just like you can the HK91 so that that particular type of ammunition you've had, that flavor of ammo you had to go to, well it'll work. Well, because of this there are different ways that it can be adjusted. This feature permits the user to alter the amount of recoil and literally tune the rifle to a particular ammunition being used. Instructions that come with a rifle advise the owner to adjust the size of the purge vent by measuring the distance ejected cases are flung.
recreational user, that is all fine. But my advice to the series user is to close off the purge vent completely and leave it that way. Now there's a reason. In a vehicle defense course last weekend in blank state, a student brought a DSA FAL and a mixture of 308 ammunition. With ammunition ever more expensive and skiers, one needs to use whatever he can get. XF doesn't short cycle and create a stoppage. Remember what I've said about the issue of clearing stoppages and the problems you're going to deal with?
to the increasing annoyance of the rifle's owner. After witnessing the problem, for a time where he had his gas adjustment set, the purge vent, as it turns out, was half open. My colleague suggested he close it up completely. When he did, the short cycle problem immediately went away. So the FAL and other gas adjustable rifles, never knowing what brand of ammunition they may be compelled to use, are thus well advised to forget about adjusting the gas system at all under certain conditions.
Close it off and leave it that way. Now, the consideration with the gas adjustment system, little sub-note here. During war production, the Germans automatically assumed and knew that if they went into a war, they were going to go from brass case to steel case, kind of like what we're seeing right now in America, people. So they automatically designed their systems to have the gas adjustment system for two reasons. Number one, changes in propellant and the type of cases that would be manufactured. That's number one.
Number two, you're on the battlefield. You've been up for two days. You've been fighting the Russian hordes as they came across the fold of gap, and you have been doing nonstop nothing but that. Halfway through your first day, and most of your magazines, which you now can't find because they've been lost on the battlefield as you've been retreating and fighting, well, all of a sudden you realize that your weapon's getting pretty dirty and you have a malfunction when you didn't want it. Well, you break out your gas adjustment tool, you adjust the weapon system accordingly.
when you don't want to hard stroke it. And this will vary because you may have had to adjust it for the punky ammunition with the new propellant which isn't working as well, etc, etc. Now you've had to close the system up. That's why you have the adjustment system. So that up as a weapon gets kind of nasty, you can adjust the gas system accordingly to make the weapon force stroke or continue to function even under the worst of conditions. Higher, you don't know what to do. Bad guys keep popping up in front of you. What this was all about, that's what it was for. That was the second half of the form.
clean my weapon as much. See that was the problem. You have to make sure that you maintain and clean your, if you stop, the first thing you look at is your weapon. Then you check your boots, then you check your gear, then you make sure everything's squared away and you help your buddy too. Then you proceed for the moment. And all during your leisure activity, you should be cleaning the weapon. Eat a little bit, dust off the site. Eat a little bit, check the magazine well.
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Gentlemen, we are back. This is the Intel Report Live and it's Weapons Wednesday. Thank you for listening. By the way, real quick, Berkey Light Filter, the water filters. Guys, if you don't have a Berkey system of one type or another or a water purification system in addition to everything else we've talked about, we've got Mike from Arizona who's been pointing out the different concepts. While you can get them, these water purification systems are priceless. Water, for lack of water, has killed or incapacitated whole armies.
bad water can incapacitate whole armies. Think about it. You're sitting on the pot because you've got diarrhea or whatever other terrible, you know, Montezuma's Revenge as they used to call it down south of the border, whatever. If you're not used to the water that you're having a process or if your system is not adapted to it, guess what? You're in trouble. So for that reason, you got to get the bad stuff out of them. Let's keep the system functioning. To do that, you're going to need water purification. So get a hold of the guys.
as quick as you can and deal with that problem. That is a high priority. I consider that parallel with ammunition and with all the other issues we've talked about. Water purification. We can get the basic components. They may not be too pretty when you end up with it. So you've got to be able to filter the system out. Now here's another solution. With all the things we discussed, and I know we've got a call, we've got Marcus real quick and we'll come up to him. Think about all the other things we talked about with hygiene. You basically prepare the water in one way, okay, to get rid of
to the problem, then throw it through the filter the rest of the way and guess what? You've eliminated anything else that might be an issue. In other words, we can use tear markers in Georgia. Come on up, please. Yes? The non-chlorine you want to get rid of so you're a CAD diner too. That's right. You basically are pre-filtering, which is an excellent idea. We need to think that way. All of that. And I used the CAD diner case, AKSK. That's one of the... I'm sorry. Fire that ammo, router mini 30. AR-15, him said bad things about the router mini 30.
300 yards with a Reuben mini 30 wasn't good night. They're a beautiful fire. That stuff is not fired in the form. And one of the good point here, now by the way, one of the things that is happening right now, and we're seeing this with some of the new companies that are building ARs, is they're actually building both in-house AKs made inside the US. They're building our chrome lining them, which is one of the most important things. Chamber obviously, and the boat, trying to press them. This is something we're hoping will happen. We were trying to press these guys to offering barrels in our standard
arms like the Mini-14 or even in the carbine that would offer the same feature, making the barrels. This is part of the issue, but I've asked this question on the air if you've been listening for a little bit. Why is it we're not seeing? We should be a wash, for instance, in Chinese ammo right now, shouldn't we? I can have a gat with me right now. Exactly. They're shipping that that way. So instead, we're seeing the Russian ammunition show up in mass.
And we're seeing a combination of obviously the wolf, which is all steel case, and they're making steel case in every caliber, including like the inane caliber's 7.5 French, 7.5 Swiss. Now why are they doing that? Because they know just as you pointed out, we've stated this, steel case is going to cause greater wear on these existing arms in the inventory.
so we have to be ready for that now i don't mean i'll throw that ammunition wake as one of the time comes in put a nice poll in something you make it week so we can get what he's carrying we need to be focusing on better quality and initial whenever possible as we can afford it and uh... well one of disappeared off the market and i know why because it was part of a little bit with uh... mister moon uh... pmc ammunition pmc out of korea remember they did the same thing and i don't know them all made over from over
They made it in 6.5 by 55 swede, they made 7.5 French, they made 7.5 Swiss all-gas case. And the thing is that we've seen that. Now part of it is pressure, I think, from within the system because they were offering a quality product and all of their components were reloadable. These themselves are a hair thinner. If you do a crosscut, you'll find that their brass was a little lighter on the millet. But it still reloaded just fine and was off. And still, if you got it out there, this is what we're seeing. If you got PMC ammo out there,
Save it, hold it back, there's nothing wrong with it, don't have to burn it out. It's actually preferred for battle pack ammunition. It would be something that I would not want to even think twice about carrying. In the steel case though, and that's one of the things to point out, the 30 Russian is so tempting to burn it into the, in these American weapons, what we need to do is come up with a solution, which is cross my fingers. I've got planted the seed with every AR company that's making uppers.
The 545 by 39, we're going to put them up on the air the day that they come out with it because they're doing prototyping right now. And we're going to deal with all the issues we know are going to be a problem. Chamber wear, barrel wear, and the other thing that's a weak point with the AR is the extractor. With Steelcase, it's going to be a problem, but I laid down a print. I already gave it to two of the engineers. It's going to be a change in the extractor, but it's something that could be done and would be worth doing.
the weapon up so that it could handle the steel cased ammunition. It's only for the 545 and it's only because, again, 223 has become so outrageous, it's not that it isn't there, but when you're talking 8, 9, and 10 dollars a box, now you're looking at... Yeah, and we're going to have to save all of that back we can. If it's brass cased, I cannot stress this enough, better to train with a 22 than expend your 223 ammunition right now, because we're going to need it.
They're expecting that. There is a whole formula. This is part of Secret Weapons for Silent Wars. It's a paperback book. It was available in most colleges in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. My copy came from one of the libraries in 1982 that disposed of it, and they were supposed to destroy them. And it is the mathematical formula for debilitating the industrial base of a nation. And part of it is exactly what you're talking about. Think about it. If we ran this other stuff, all of our systems,
be it our weapons, be it our tools or machinery, if you introduce something that is a skew in the formula, you wear down the equipment and it's guaranteed that you degrade the capability of somebody that you're aggressing against, proceed to defend themselves. That's what this is all about.
I've had people send emails, say, well, Mark, in my neck of the woods, we're fine. And we got lots of powder in brass liner. I say, well, good. Then buy it right now. Because as each pocket is found, it's like locust. People are going from place to place, and they're cleaning it out. So I'm not going to tell everybody, well, just feel comfortable. Just the reverse. There is an agenda afoot. You are already seeing the first rumblings on the horizon of the next gun grab, aren't we? People with a 2-2-truc, you know, use.
In fact, that's a good point. There are a lot of used, even A1 barrels laying out there, a lot of A2, whatever we can get our hands on in, spare parts or spare parts. The most important thing is even as with the, we've said about storing everything, if you're not going to use it right away, hey, even if all you do is take a regular grease gun, fill the tube, fill with grease, throw grease over the whole of the thing and then plasti-wrap it that way. But grease just, I mean, we're talking to the point where it's caked.
You store it that way, it'll look just like when you put it in the bag 10 years from now. That's right. Exactly. Thank you, Marcus. Please call in again and we get a chance. Oh, I love listening to you, my brother. Me and my best friend down here. He's ex-Marina McSailor. We love listening to you. Well, we need more. Find another man.
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