December 3, 2008
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Mark Koernke discussed firearms maintenance, spare parts availability, and preparedness on Weapons Wednesday, December 3, 2008. He emphasized the importance of proper firearm maintenance using cleaning kits and lubricants like Gibbs, and highlighted the critical shortage of ammunition and parts in the market. Callers contributed information about SKS rifle springs, magazine sourcing, and battery chargers, while Koernke shared anecdotes about Vietnam POWs and reflected on his early encounters with law enforcement.
- weapons wednesday
- firearms maintenance
- sks rifle
- ammunition shortage
- cleaning kits
- spare parts
- 1911 pistol
- ak-47
- preparedness
- vietnam pow
- magazine springs
- gibbs lubricant
- aim surplus
- mainmilitary.com
- stripper clips
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Something we don't have, just ask and we'll find it for you. So check us out, wolverinemo.com, wolverinemo.com. Check out our site, it's updating daily folks. Mention Liberty Tree Radio for your listeners discount or just call us at 734-340-7285-734-340-7285. I had a dream the other night that, well I didn't understand. A figure walked in 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. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. And this is the land of the free and home of 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, all people, 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'll 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 and 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 trample each got getting right. We only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a 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? Is this still the land of the free? Good evening ladies and gentlemen this is the Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kornke. one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories west central east and Southeast Well ladies and gentlemen you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. We're also on pbn.4mg.com and on Live 365 then go to Liberty Tree Radio. You'll find us on AM and FM microstations, ZB Bay stations and alternate technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, southern and central Alaska, and we're also on the Hallmark network, six colonial states and counting. Dom, today's date is? Hey, it's the... 3rd of December you guys and if you pay attention to things like that, that means it's like a special day. If you listen real close, I know that went out crisp, one in the chamber, the slide is closed, the well is full and it is Weapons Wednesday. Oh by the way, that perimeter, it's covered. That's right, now we can offer equal opportunity, of course, and force. And the weapon you were hearing was a 1911, 1911A1 frame. It is a beautiful firearm, it is an excellent weapon. If you have one, no, don't think about changing. Somebody may say, oh, buy a Glock, or buy whatever. No, you keep the .45, the 1911, and you buy a Glock. You want to go buy a Glock? Go ahead and do that. But you'll find out the price is a little farther out there than it was one month ago. What is that exchange rate? Yeah, availability also is another issue too. So if you've already got it in hand, most important is first start stacking more mags on top of that. There are still 1911 A1 mags in plastic, brand new government contracts. I think this is the last one probably from the 80s. maybe a newer batch in there but anyway they're excellent condition they're in the plastic and are available through amoman.com Amelman.com. By the way, it's I think the only mags they have they can get right now. So they're out of everything else. They've sold everything else. Amelman magazine wise. They may have a few other odds and ends stuff. You're gonna have to check their inventory and check their website and then call them to see if that's been updated properly and then go from there. One thing I did notice down is even for the updateings that took place, guys, they're behind on everything. And on updating their websites, typically all these companies are slow. When I called today most of them that I spot-checked their websites they were at least 50% if not greater 50% off whatever the listings were that were on the websites Now think about that in other words some shotguns rifles Specific weapons parts etc. We simply were not there They were simply nothing available to purchase in certain categories other items have been reduced to about 1 10th 1 20th 1 6th of their inventory from just five and six days ago so that means down that progressively we're seeing more and more of a Well, not loss because it's going out in the population's hands, so I don't have a problem with that. But it means that we're limited in how much is actually out there, and it's going to continue to be the case. Okay? Another thing real quick, maintenance. A lot of you are new coming into the program in many ways. We are jam-packed with regard to Live 365 and I know that our micro stations have almost doubled in numbers. This is another thing we haven't really talked about, but I want to say thank you to all of the individuals putting up micro FMs and micro AMs around the United States. We have many more people that are listening right now and the response is very obvious. Because of this, a lot of you have thought probably about rifles or pistols or shotguns. You've probably thought about the ammo, that's logical. You have some spare magazines, that's purely a matter about where you were able to find them and if they were any available when you called. But something that people aren't thinking about is long-term maintenance. And this is critical. Guys, it's not just the razor, it's the blades and keeping them running and making sure you keep the razor running. You know, you leave it sit there long enough, she'll rust up on you. I don't care how good the razor is. It gets moist, it gets used, it gets dirty, it gets pretty, it rusts. Now, we don't want to see that happen with your firearms, so we're going to promote proper maintenance right from the beginning. Main military surplus. Epicenter, a couple others, but main military is the best actually for prices that I've seen for cleaning kits. Now I'm pushing that direction just like we are other certain items because most people underestimate the value of good tools. Now, the slaves of the 60s and 70s, or at least the willing laborers of the Eastern Bloc in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s, made some really nice metal. They did some really good work. And there are some really cool AK-47 cleaning kits. One is the East German model. It's in the cigar can. Really very well thought out and very well engineered. Takes up very little space. Has an oil bottle, all the jags, the cleaning rods, everything's there you need to get everything done. and you can buy them in a dozen lots and that's what I'd recommend. Why? Because it's better to have more than not enough and remember you're going to wear parts out or you're going to lose them. Plus you might break them. You know, that happens too. So cleaning kits, either the East German, the Russian, the Romanian, main military MAINE military dot-com also has G3 hk 91 30 caliber cleaning kits too for the hk 91 that work on the m14 f and f al Etc etc etc. So there's another option but cleaning kits and then the other thing is Gibbs Now your best source for Gibbs here in Michigan and maybe around the country because I don't know about any any other distributors, but for sure Tim Abel he's located at the leather barn The number is 734-654-6607. I'll give you that number again. It's 734. 654-6607. That's 734-654-6607. You want to call Tim and find out about Gibbs. He's got it in the spray bottles and also in the aerosol cans. And Gibbs is the all-round utility maintenance lubricant for all your firearms people. and it's going to do a wonderful job of keeping them from rusting, keeping putting a barrier that eliminates the possibility of oxidation, keeps the moisture and the air away from the metal that makes up your firearm. So one more time, 734-654-6607, that's for Gibbs. And if you get a chance, guys, once you try this stuff, you're not going to change. One cool thing is you get it in the spray bottles. You can put it in a couple of sealed, other sealed, say, wrappers, and then put it in your cache when you bury equipment. Because lubricant is just as critical as all the other tools. In fact, here's the thing, grab a couple of those cleaning jags, a couple of those cleaning kits, two or three spray bottles of Gibbs, and make a kit up and put them in the ground. We'll be back in a minute. 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Mention Liberty Tree Radio for your listeners discount or just call us at 734-340-7285-734-340-7285. and machine gun Randy so called because he was a Nike missile operator sent to Vietnam as we kind of said to him we don't have any Nike missiles here but I think you can run that 50 caliber okay so we call a machine gun Randy stopped in today had a neat little hat on Vietnam prisoner of war you know the MIA that's on the flag and neat little hat said M.I.A. across the back P.O.W.M.I.A. across the little adjustment strap and up front had the embroidered, not painted, embroidered, you know, the man with his head hung down, you know, just like being the blues. And off to the side of that was like a ghost, a gray embroidery of it, the same thing again. And he says, look at this Don. I says, yeah, that's a cool hat, Randy. He says, no, no, look real close. And I, he handed it to me. Good, stiff, good. It's an excellent quality hat. As if it was built in America. But he said, now look close. And I looked again, and he says, turn it over and look inside. And I looked and got off the magnifying glass. And this great, Lia-symbol, Nura War, MIA hat was made in Vietnam, Mark. Made in Vietnam. You know, you can get shrimp from Vietnam. And that's kind of expected. to have them sell a hat that is basically a commemoration of our prisoners of war that are left in Vietnam. That's like an insult. That's like a slap in the face. That's like, let's go bomb Hanoi. I mean Ho Chi Minh City again for a while. Oh, that's Ho Chi Minh City would be Saigon. Don, real quick. Yes. I don't know if you've thought about this, but yeah, it's coming from there. The real slap in the face is they probably have our guys making it. Yeah, that could very well be possible. At least one or two of them. Or, you know, packaging them up or whatnot. But maybe they just took one out into the... to one of the POWs that's still, you know, slaving away there in Vietnam. Hey, look what we make in South America. And that's a slap in his face, isn't it? Now, I'm gonna tell you guys, and I'll quit talking about this here in just a moment. You know, moment 20 seconds. But if you're out and about, and you're at the truck stop, the car meat or the bike meat or the swap meat for anything from lawn mowers on up and you see those hats offered and you turn it over and it says Vietnam in it, leave it there. Let them wither on. The people who bought those and brought them into the country, let them take the loss on that and let them realize what an insult they've done. Not only to you who would purchase it, but to the POW who's still alive or who died two or three years ago. I'll tell you a story about a POW and the will to fight. And then I'll be quiet for a while. There was this flyer, he was a lieutenant, a Sheldon, and he was shot down late in the war. They didn't give him up. But I heard this story in 1976 or 1977 on the PBS, on the public television channel. In Detroit it would be 56, up in mid-Michigan it's 27. But it's generally broadcast by your local college. And they did an hour on the prisoners of war of Vietnam. And they talked about Sheldon. Again, shot down almost at the end of the war. But the last thing we heard, he was never released, but the last thing we heard about Lieutenant Colonel Charles Sheldon, it was in 1975 or 1976 he was being interviewed by four North Vietnamese officers in a little interrogation room. And the only officer, I don't know how this came out, Mark, how this information came out, but it has been said of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Sheldon that when the only officer who had a sidearm got up and left the room, Charles Sheldon went to town. Officer came back, those three officers that were unarmed were dead. Last thing we've heard, I can't imagine how that information came out. But I watched it, and this is much like some of the other things we hear, Mark, and all you guys listening? We hear him one time and you know, oh we can't mention that again make that disappear I have never heard reference to lieutenant pearl. Oh, then again, I'll be quiet now What at the very least we can remember him and the point is that right up until the end you fight as hard as you possibly can and if you can take more of the Buggers out before they take you or even one then you've well done a better job That's one of the things that they really really don't want to consider is the bad guys on the other side are either sycophants that are you know that they're they're nutcases or their mercenaries and in most cases both mercenaries and probably nutcases but the thing is that they're fighting for different reason and one of the problems that they're most terrified of is the idea that people realize that they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by getting rid of these creatures. When the time comes and we have to fight we fight to win. Not just fighting for the fun of it. It's like well, I'll resist but It's futile now just reverse our job is to make sure that we do as much damage to the aggressor as we can when they strike Then we strike we take their hands off and we take their arms off we take their knees off And we do to them what they thought they were gonna do to all of us It's like this was said in that one movie with oh the guy who was it double-o-seven the original double-o-seven He was in a gangster movie, you guys, about Chicago during the Prohibition days. And he was looking at one of his boys right when he was brought in to become in charge of this anti-licker group. And he looked at one of his boys, and there's a couple others standing in the background, and he says to him, if they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. What are you prepared to do? You ought to have that mindset, too. Only you don't go to the hospital. You send them directly to the morgue. What are you prepared to do? I'll be quiet now. Well again, here's one of the reasons that we're we have weapons Wednesday. There are a lot of things that need to be taken into consideration. Spare parts. It's a little late, guys. I'm going to tell you right off the bat, going through our normal checklist and trying to find what it is that's available. I know this. A couple of the companies, AIM Surplus may have or I think they have some SKS firing pens. I actually tracked some down. You know how many they have, Don? How many? 20. Oh boy, somehow you can. That's hands and toes. That's it. You just said, yeah, I think we got 20 on the shelf. Now the SKS firing pin is a plus plus thing. And if you can, aim surplus. If you're going to get one or however many you want to get, they're about $3 and something apiece. Maybe a little more. Who knows? If the price has shifted, you're going to have to call and find out. But aim surplus. Their number is 888-748-5252. That's 888-748-5252 or 513-424-9960. That's 513-424-9960. Now if we go to the site, there are a few other springs that they have there too for the SKS. I would recommend that you get them. The reason being is that the one spring that they offer is one of the most difficult ones to keep track of when you're in the field. You can lose it because that spring is located right underneath. It's one of the tappet springs. It's located right underneath the site. It's inside the site receiver area. And it's actually with the tappet that pushes the bolt back into place. There's just enough energy to press it to move the bolt. and then it recovers. Well that spring under tension is what makes the difference. So what happens is when you move the site release tab that's on the side, what takes place if you're not careful, you don't have your finger or thumb in the way is first the tappet rod. Yeah, it's under pressure goes ping and right behind it goes the spring. And if you're in the field in brush, you're going to find it if you're motivated. Let's put it this way. First of all, you know that it's not a natural occurring object. You know that it's not in the rest of the woods or the forest. You know approximately where it fell. So you better get motivated to find the park. But it would be a good idea to have two or three of these. Now we actually got one of the spring companies here to build them years ago. We have about 10,000 we had made. Plus the company has it in their program so they can make more of those springs. Plus every other spring for the AK and the SKS by the way we did that back in the in the early 90s. Now here's the thing. AIM Surplus does have some SKS parts. If there's something you need to replace or something looks like it's damaged, it'd be a good idea perhaps to think about going through there what short little shopping list they have. It's AIM Surplus. Their number is 513-424-9960. Their website is www.aimsurplus.com. surplus.com. Aim surplus.com. So you check them out, see what they have on hand. They still have 8mm ammunition, as far as I know. Right now it's still up. It's a penny per order for the 8mm, for per can, per case. So it's a 340 round can for $99.95 and one cent for shipping, which isn't bad. So actually looking at a pretty good price from the ammo that way. Pretty cool now the rest of ammo cost full price to ship guys. Okay, understand that make no mistake We might have a caller mark and we did have somebody came in caller who we have Marcus and Georgia with some ques Hey guys now get the combat load my ass kiss today shooting an armadillo in a neighbor's field Yeah, we have to kill those things and definitely a and tasty. Well, I haven't eaten our video in a while and you only eat the back legs anyway. I should definitely cook them. We call them possum on the half shell down here in the south. And they taste better than possum, but you've got to make sure you bowl them good and cook them good because they do carry leprosy. Uh oh. Well, see, there's one to watch out for then. Yeah, a lot of people know that. Noah, Mark, I've got a rifle that was brought back from NAMM. back in the day. And it's got the original 20 round ox magazine that has a nice little Chinese star on the side of it. And today when I sped loaded this round, this is a 20 round mag. That's where the original combat SKS's were. And I took off the original bayonet and traded it off for a monopod bayonet, which I call the pig sticker, because I like it for a monopod when you go to the ground, you get this nice monopod. Anyway, spring that's on that arm I've not been able to find a spring to replace that thing with and over time I mean to Vietnam era SKS and I don't keep it loaded but I noticed when I pop those 10 rounds in I fired the first round I hit the thing at center map and did what I wanted to do with the gun jam dummy and I realized the split is tension you don't anybody makes a replacement spring for those old 20 rounders that's the bigger one of the two the now here's the thing I've never bothered to look at that you might be in luck in that it's possible, though not likely, but it's possible that the recovery spring might be the same for both of those because it's a lever type spring. Now I believe that AIM surplus had those. I was just in passing. In fact, go to their webpage, AIMsurplus.com and see if they don't have the spring there and see if we can find information on that. I've never bothered to check on the whether or not there's a A little different tension, there should be, there probably would be because there would be 10 additional rounds that have to be inserted into the magazine. However, the spring may be able to take the tension and allow for the leverage, you know, for the expansion. If not, the other option is Sarco. Sarco.com or Sarco out of the shotgun news. S-A-R-C-O. Sarco has a lot of stuff that nobody else has. And I mean nobody. Sarco has been carrying stuff for decades that, you know, still sitting on the shelf from the 60s, 50s and 40s. Tell you what, Steve, Mark your statement where you are. We're gonna go to break. You got Donna Mark here at the Intel Report. SKS is what we're talking about right now. We'll be back in three on LTR. This is what this one is mine. It is my life. It's useless. Without my rifle. I am useless. I must fire rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. Shoot him before he shoots me. Before God I swear to scree. My rifle and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life until there is no... What fun you hear the red coats, what mind you madness builds In our valleys there is danger, and there's danger in our hills Oh, hear ye not just singin' of the view, though wild and free But soon you'll know the ringin' of the rifle from the tree Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle In our hands, the proof knows right bone You may ride a good late speed, you may know a stir in the master. You forward much with speed, but you'll learn to back much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And the leader just starts. Glad you make what little noise and always hits the mark. Oh, the rifle. Oh, the rifle. In our hands, we'll prove no trifle. Okay you guys, the intelligence report. of history there, Daniel Morgan's rifle corps marching song you just heard and prior to that you heard a bit of verse written by a marine general. I think it, Rupitus was his name, for his boys and to get their mind right. You know, this is my rifle, there are many like it, but this one is mine. And farther on down I must shoot better than my enemy who was trying to kill me. I will. That's a good mindset. But you know what, I want to back up in the, I know I've got Marcus from Georgia and John from Podunk, but I want to back up for just a moment, you guys. That story I told you about, Gordon Sheldon. For a long time I couldn't remember. I called him Gordon Sheldon, but he's actually, I found, you know what, I was 21 or 22 years old when I saw that on PBS. And the only thing around was a little shred of paper, like pink paper, about an inch by four inches. And I, again, I had no, I had my own little run-ins with the police that, you know, just totally were disingenuous, you know, as far as we're here to help. The very, I'll tell you what, you guys, the very first time I was ever pulled over for a traffic stop, I went through a light, I was a tail in Charlie. Maybe that light was red, maybe not. And a copper followed me out of that jurisdiction seven or eight blocks into the next time and I pulled off because it was a main road. I pulled off to the side street. I stepped out of the van and the copper stepped up to me. He was a strutting man. He was 240 or 260 pounds. When I was 18, I was about 180 pounds. He grabbed me by my bomber jacket and you're going to have to fill in the blank here, but he said, you blankin' punk. And I looked at him and said, if I'm a blankin' punk, you must be a blankin' pig. And that's when he let go of half of my bomber jacket and drew his fist down to his Hip and drew it up gonna lap me upside the head I just gave it that 45 degree deflection and it bounced over his head He let go of me and step back a few moments later. I'm in the car and he's apologizing to me He's had a hard day, but that was my the first time I'd ever been pulled over by a policeman I had no idea about the new world order or anything and you know it was just it was just a couple years after that that Again, I'm watching PBS and I heard about the POWs. It was an hour ago about the POWs and I heard that story about I wrote that down on a little piece of paper. I can't tell you why I wrote that down then. But it was an act of God that I did because I can tell you about it now. Now I'll tell you what you guys, we're going to fly a different kite here. No disrespect Marcus, but we're going to bring Marcus back. Well, you got to be a little bit of a... Oh okay. I don't mind being a kite, I'm going to let a kiker. There you go. Like I said, that's one of my favorite rifles and that's why I've always... it's nice to go blip and my rig that I carry with it, I don't carry 200 rounds, I carry 3 rounds. And that pinch thing they got that Chinese make. And everybody thinks I'm crazy, why don't I carry 320 rounds in my vehicles, everyone's like, well why not? Hey, it goes away quick, don't... Oh, I know. But like I said, that's a sweet shooting gun though. Well actually the SKS is one of the, again it's a carbine, it fits in the carbine family, it's an excellent rifle. It's very reliable. The Semenov design was one of the most thought through, as well thought through as a standard AK as far as the design concept goes. The only thing I would say is if you can't find a replacement spring, then we're going to, that was the other option is looking at, start to wander around the gun shows and look for somebody who's got a pile of those 10 rounders still sitting on the shelf. Because remember a lot of guys took those off and put these detachable SKS mags on. So usually you'll find a whole bunch of brand new 10 rounders laying there. At least grab one of those and have it as a spare for the very reason that you're seeing right now because better the magazine that works with 10 rounds than no magazine that's working at all. The other option is, and again I'm pretty sure that I saw a spring, a magazine spring listed, or it's the magazine follower arm. So you'll have to check with AIM Surplus on that one. Another option, again for mags, just to grab something quick to have as a backup. is they do make these detachable, in fact center fire still has them, maybe they do, maybe they don't, they might be sold out already, I can't tell you for sure about this, but they had 10 round detachable mags which you notice I didn't say the 30, I go 10 or 20 at the most on these for reliability because again you're looking at accuracy, not massive volume fire and with the stripper clips you can reload very very quickly anyway. I know the argument about the 30 round mag with the AK versus the SKS. I can show you all the old special forces, evaluations, etc. Bottom line is we're not trying to spray and pray. We're trying to hit what we're shooting at and the rifle is very, the SKS carbine is very, very accurate. I would be very satisfied if somebody threw one to me and said, hey, this is what you got. Okay, fine. I've used them many times, carried them many times. I'm really happy with the design. The Sarco is the other option. S-A-R-C-O. And other than that, we might have to just shop around to see if we can find anybody who might have a new 20-rounder. There were some of those brought into the country. There are a few of them laying around. Most everybody that's bought them has kept them and put them away. So you might have to either A, just switch it out so you can keep the original so you have it, but switch out and go to the 20-rounder that's the Chinese imported in. or cannibalize it for parts. If it looks like the parts are, you know, everything's compatible, copacetic, you can pop the pin, knock it back into place, and you're all done, that'll be great. But I have... One thing I thought about was calling Wool Springs and see if they made something that might fit. They might have something, that's an option. There's a couple companies that are doing springs, and you know what, there's another one I don't have right here in front of me, but there is another company that was doing custom springs. That one might be a little unique for them, but I doubt that it'd be complicated or hard for them to deal with. So that would be another option. First we'd have to check the dimensions of the 10 round and compare it against the 20 to see if it's possible that it can be pressed into service. That would be the option. I'm going to a gun show this weekend, a big one that we're having up at the 8285, which is the perimeter. And it's going to be Saturday and Sunday. And it's going to be a huge show. And we had one back in October. It was a huge show. And this is going to be the... the last really, really big one for the year. And it's an NRA benefit show and I'm there to benefit the NRA. I'm there for doing what I need to do. But that's one thing, though, Mark. I got a couple of Mac 90s that I got to put the drums in. I hand the guys and say, look, you're walking point or you're walking tail end Charlie. And I'd carry the SKS. I'll let them carry the AKs. They'll feel more powerful. But around, I know I'm going to hit my target 300 yards with Oh no, this is a 30-30 with a pointed bullet and it's very accurate. and we're going to have to be creative, look around to see what we can find. There's another company, oh I don't have that one here either, forgive me, it's not right at my fingertips, but I'll bring it up tomorrow if I can. There's a company out of Kentucky. That is north of where you are Marcus that may have parts also and I'm gonna have check they specialize in SKS and some a K parts, but mostly SKS Including a lot of aftermarket add-on stuff and new production American made parts, which is nice So we'll see we can find out about those I actually I'll just have to I just dig that dig it up out of the files It's not in this particular card file right here for me if I were to look I didn't could be a waste of time Anything else? Yes, sir because I keep getting this coming soon. I called them and asked the guy to check in the show in the 45 minutes of the seven hour here on the East Coast. I didn't hear it because I'll shoot a armadillo in his front yard. Hold him. The website has been expanded upon already? No, no, I just keep saying coming soon. I called them to ask them what's the story, asking them to call into the show since they're supposed to be a sponsor. Right, hold on a second. And I didn't get a call back and I'm just wondering if the guy called in. All right, well that seems to be on your end or have you when was the last time you checked the website probably about? This afternoon East Coast time. Okay, well cuz they did have a lot of winter gear on the website We had people in the chat room talking about it the other night I don't know if they pulled that update down. They might still be having problems. Keep in mind It's a fairly new website. They're trying to work out the PayPal issues and other things technical bugs not so much not from Mark but from the person who's doing the web page it's just working all the bugs out of is what they're doing right now. I know. All I get is that introduction that real loud music introduction. Right now what's happening right now I know for a fact where they work is the driver was here just before they went the ammo cans came in and as I kind of had to laugh when someone said well there's a whole bunch of things you know what's gonna they'll probably be done before we get down I said have you ever opened and closed 700 ammo cans? It sounds easy but every one of them has usually been sitting for a while and all these are like in really good condition and that's only part of the shipment that came in so they're kind of tied up time-wise is what's been happening with regard to the guys on the that are working right now. They're down in Ohio actually are down around the Toledo area and they're going through the inventory of what was picked up from Pennsylvania. I know what they're doing. And it takes more time. Most people don't realize when you're doing all this repetition, especially when you've got bulk and it's heavy equipment and stuff like that, and the stuff's got to be uncrated. It's got to be gone through one item at a time. You have to rate them and you have to classify them. And that's what they're doing right now. And there's only so many hands available, which is what's tying them up. So we're getting them there. We'll work on them. That's their job. It's not mine. Well, I just want to know what's up with the website, because I keep checking it. I don't get anything other than just Live 365. Collectors, outdoor enthusiasts, survivalists. The Army Navy Store from your memory as a child is just that, a memory. But there is still one place to find everything from gas masks to ammo cans and find it cheap. MainMilitary.com. Get hard to find objects like real wool blankets for under 20 bucks. Canteen for just $2.00 or Trioxane fuel for just $1.00 a box. 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Oh, one other thing. for a butter knife about food prep and stuff. We were given, you use the old, they have the wire bell on it with the orange seal. You know what I'm talking about? The old South Canning Lids? Yeah, we have hundreds of these ceramics. Some have the ceramic with the rubber seal. Others are the glass. Right. Yeah. Well, most of the seal, everybody knows that orange seal. Well, there's a thing called villagekitchen.com. I need four jars. I've got to have a couple spares. I got an email back. It said, the company no longer makes those seals. a white one that's not quite as good and don't last quite as long. I can either try to see any way they can. Yeah, well that's, yeah, it's like canning in the United States. In Michigan there's not a single company that makes cans anymore. Not anywhere in Michigan. We were buying one gallon number 10 cans, brand new, virgins. They are no longer produced in Michigan and they're no longer produced in the Midwest. If we made anywhere else in the U.S. we're not sure. They moved all that to Mexico and then out of the country. Wow. So as far as buying cans you can get them but the cans you're gonna get ain't made here. And very- Mark it's just like glass jars from Molotov Cocktails. I mean uh, it's hard and hard to get glass jars. Yeah, you're better than anything your best bet is to go to the well-to-do restaurants or any place Yeah, we got to get the other color and we get but anywhere that you got well-to-do restaurants or places where they're using wine or liquor and get their bottles That's still the best way metal caps at least a better than nothing. We let you go. We got John coming up next Thank You Marcus. Thank you, we got John waiting in the wings and now he's up front John jump in there Good evening I'm referencing the batteries that were just being discussed. I might throw in that you spend a few dollars and get a high quality battery charger. They'll pay you in dividends in the life that they will give you on your rechargeable batteries. Yes. I'm looking at one from Maha for $85. It'll do AAA, AAA, CD, and I believe 9 volt batteries. You can do one at a time or you could do eight at a time. You take them out, it analyzes them, it does its thing, it recharges them, tops them off for you. What prompted my call tonight was mainmilitary.com. I want to give these guys a feather in their hat. I just ordered in a load of, well they had a special running on, 2G3 mags, a double stack mag holder, what else came with that? A 30 caliber oil kit, cleaning kit, and some slings. I bought 100 sets. They were basically $5 a set, $4.99 a set. These magazines are brand new in the plastic or in the paper. They are absolutely drop dead gorgeous. I almost fell over when I saw this stuff. Okay, that's all I got tonight. That's a recommend from MaineMilitary.com. Thank you. Thank you gentlemen. Good night. God bless. And again, that's a reminder, even in magazines guys, if they have it, Do we have another caller? Uh oh, we have another caller. We're going to jump in with that caller next. Whoever is next up, jump in there. Hey, this is EZ1. I was calling about that guy down here in Georgia needing a spring for his SKS. Yes, go right ahead. A bunch of ports. If he wants to jump over into chat, I talk to him there, but I've got a bunch of ports and I'll just give them to him. Uh oh, would you hear that? Marcus, if you're listening... Marcus, are you listening? Boy, if you can get into the chat room right now, we need to have you do that ASAP. It's Easy One? Yeah, Easy One. Easy Echo Zulu One, correct? You got it. Thank you very much. Okay, and again Marcus you're probably listening get over in the chatroom right now Easy one you can connect with him and he's in your neck of the woods So you guys be able to work together on that let's do that ASAP if not What we'll do is we'll work out something so we can get that we get the information to Marcus as quickly as possible But I sure Marcus is listening by computer so he can jump over in the chatroom we go to Liberty Tree radio dot 4 mg calm and then go to the chatroom and and EZ Echo Zulu 1, underline 1, is who you want to contact. And again, easy, straightforward. Hey, we're using our tools. Other things, real quick. Stripper clips for the SKS. If you can find them, keep piling them up because it's one of those things you're going to drop even though you don't want to lose them and I don't throw anything away. You still fumble and miss one once in a while. Progressively, if you miss one here, you miss one there. Eventually, you have none anywhere. OK? So these are the little tiny items and the expendable items Another thing if they still have it and for you SKS owners There's still this kind of handy because it has other goodies if you got a K's and SKS as you'll use everything They had still these Dragunov stock sets. It's actually the Dragunov stock for the AK, broken shell extractor, oil bottle cleaning kit, adjustment tools, the slant muzzle brake for the AK, a sling, a two-cell or three-cell pouch, and a gun lock for your enemy. $14.99. The stock is worth that. But here's a way to get another stock for your rifle if you got an AK you better get one now if you have any other spare stocks laying around in fact here's the thing some of you may already have done this I know we're getting close to the top of the arc if any of you have any old stocks laying around don't let the kids just play with them don't put them out there leave them out in the weather round them all up a lot of people are grossly underestimating the value of the wooden stocks that they might have collected over the years. Now here's the thing, with the military stocks, if it's for the carbine, the garand, the Springfield, the 1917 Enfield, or any commercial rifle people, they're pinning and re-welding wood back together in any way they can to match up what they need for the rifles. And you can do a lot of armorers work. I mean, I've seen quality work done with doing, following armor specifications where you can't even tell where the wood's been bonded even if the stock has been cracked. There's all kinds of new adhesives that are out there. There's all kinds of solutions. So don't waste the parts if you got something that breaks Don't throw the part away. If you have a piece of equipment that jams up or is rusted. Hey Lubricate it put it in it put it in oil wrap it in an oil rag wrap it or wrap it in grease Put it on the shelf. Let it permeate with with lubricant You're gonna find in the long run that you can break this stuff apart better a part then no part Okay, so we don't throw any weapons parts away. It's just like if you're on the battlefield you have stuff that shot Oh, that's useless. You know, so they condition you with that in everything they do in the movies Instead if it's use it even if it doesn't look like it's immediately usable it gets carried away. Yeah, don't shoot your pistol. Yeah That's Holly weird. I'll tell you what you got it. We got another caller caller jump in there, please Hey guys, this is Charles in California. Hey Charles I was just looking at Hal Turner's website and he's got the Amaro paper currency on there. The Amaro paper? Okay. Yeah, it goes to halturnershow.blogspot.com and you can see the different currencies of the Amaro on there. That'll be so good to see you. The depth of the new world order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the Empire is on the run. But we are on the march both day and night. Moo-rah, Fix Band-Ace kick him in the slats, drive to the coast, give him a backpack full of dye-boating machines, and swim halfway back to the spiders. Thank you Don. God bless you Mark. God bless you Mark. Collectors, outdoor enthusiasts, survivalists. The Army Navy Store from your memory as a child is just that, on memory. But there is still one place to find everything from gas masks to ammo cans and find it cheap. MainMilitary.com. Get hard to find objects like real wool blankets for under 20 bucks. Cantines for just $2. Or trioxane fuel for just a dollar a box. MAINE. Military.com with free shipping on items over $150. Not including heavy items. Find surplus items for cheap now. like 30 caliber cleaning kit for just $2.99 a piece or a dozen for $30. Flair pistols are only $25. Want to add a brand new Israeli gas mask to your collection? Kids in adult sizes are just $20. Get G3 Max for just $2 or a military fuel cap for only $16. Add this iPhone holes for another $7.99. Find it all online at mainmilitary.com. With shipping throughout the world, check out mainmilitary.com or call 877-608-0179. That's 877-608-0179. 0179 call today.