should arm themselves. I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of the government working for them and that ain't bad. I've not yet begun to file myself. 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. In this, 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 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'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, keep the torture freedom 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 God-given 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? 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, southwest, north, and east. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on the Micro Effect Network in the morning. We're also on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. We are on AM&FM micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies, both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. You will also find us on the Hallmark Network, eight colonial states on the eastern seaboard, and expanding into other areas, the Golden Spike Program is coming up very soon here. I understand we have a meeting which will be at the restaurant this Sunday, which will be discussing this very issue and many more. So for all of you that are listening, pay attention. Be prepared because that meeting is mandatory. We've got a lot of work to cover. They're asking, double up on your transportation. Try to put as many people in the vehicle as you can. There's only so much parking. And of course, meal will be served at the restaurant for the Hallmark meeting on Sunday. Also party on the beach. Party on the beach. Party on the beach on Saturday. But it is at Site 23, again, alternate site. So for all of you listening, again, remember the party on the beach this Saturday, but it's going to be at Site 23. So everybody will know what's going on there. And a pretty important event because, hey, we're going to have a whole lot of special guests and some special activities. So everybody, maybe make sure that you take care of the three S's. When you show up, make sure you look your best, because we are going to have some special visitors and be involved with, well, meeting the public in a couple of different ways. We kind of fund. So anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday, the 29th of April, almost the end of the month, people. It's the 29th of April, year zero. And obviously the bad guys are in motion. We've got all kinds of things to take care of here. But this is Weapons Wednesday, so we're going to be taking care of arms and ammunition and other equipment and support. Now, one of the things that we like to stress is ignore the Hollywood BS. Focus on accuracy over volume fire. Why? Well, once you take a look at your average individual, no matter what age they are, and remember that you can only carry so much. Now somebody say, oh, that's just crazy. I can carry well I can carry everything that I want on my belt my backpack and before I am all and I carry two ammo cans and this is true in fact We just did this the other day with a young man who's talked talk it all about how? He could carry probably a thousand rounds of ammunition, which is true You could if you were going one way and you have don't have to go to In fact, if you prioritize nothing but that ammo, yes you can carry a thousand rounds, but we're going to do the math on that in a minute here just to give you an idea of where that goes. Now, combat weight. Guys, you've got to figure that each person has different limitations or, of course, advantages. One of the things is the young have a little more energy and repair power and repair reserves. So the young people out there, you guys can do a fantastic job of carrying more. And by the way, you'll be expected to. If you're very, very young though, obviously body weight, in other words, the body weight limitation, they can only carry a percentage of what your actual weight is for any period of time without progressive, what we call, debilitation. And the same is true as you get older. Remember, as you get older, you're going to have to re-engineer the systems that you work with accordingly. Why is that? Well, upper body strength and lower body strength vary from person to person, and genealogy is the key there. Plus, purely it's a matter of what's your diet, what are you doing to take care of your body or to keep things fit. But there's also a benchmark at a given point. Your body is going to start to respond to age. so you need to make sure that when you were put that in the little put that into the inventory of the consideration so to speak that you start looking at adjusting to lighten up your combat load adjust your weapon system so that it's less abusive to the sh not that abusive if you're younger is a good idea they will get into that little bit too but uh... again there are weapon systems that allow you to continue to participate and of course maintain your accuracy with less abuse or with uh... less damage to the body because you don't recover as fast uh... from about the age of twenty seven or twenty eight on you're not producing as much in the way of the amino acids that are necessary for you to repair your system of the sounds weird but It's a fact of life for pretty much everybody. It's why when you were 17 or when you were 20 or 22 or 23, you could hit that wall and bounce right off and get back up and jump in there and, hey, I can handle that. You'd have no problem returning to whatever it was, basketball game, football game, maybe a little bit, oh, you might have a little ouch. But man, it was like, it seems like I could just do anything, which is true. You could do more. That is true. Well, what's happened is those amino acids as they are not produced, the body starts to find all those aches and pains that a lot of you are very familiar with now. And because of that, we need to supplement amino acids or digestive amino acids, come in many forms. That can help to repair joints, cartilage, muscle tissue, and help to rebuild it in the process. No, we're not talking steroids. We're just talking naturally supported minerals and vitamins. to keep you running properly and uh... again without the detrimental effects one of the things about it we know a lot of the stuff like steroids is that you had popped up the muscles also pops up the plane shrinks out of problems in the process also well remember the muscle of that is most important to keep you running is the heart and when it's well everything else up well does the same thing with the heart when you go off the steroids or as you work yourself off the steroids remember if you stretch that muscle tissue it gets blabby not really good not feeling very good in the old chest there when the time comes also time dictates that the heart is actually you know wearing as you get older so we're looking at less exertion and there was less stress on the system helping to keep that old machine that motor running that much longer This means adjusting the combat weight and also understanding limitations and again upper body strength and how your body is going to feel recoil. Now the AR-15s or light carbines we mentioned before, AR-15s, I know they're pricey guys. Boy, I mentioned everybody goes, dollar signs, dollar signs. I know, I know. But they're still at the high point carbine. There's a number of different 40 caliber, 45 caliber and 9 millimeter carbines out there. Marlin made a beautiful camp carbine. Remington's made its variation on it. Some do take multi-magazines, others do not. High points take very specific, you know, and again this includes their newer carbine, but the 9mm high points take their own standard 9mm magazine that they use in their pistol also, by the way, but it only works in their weapons. The Marlin camp carbine uses a number of different mags depending upon what was built when. and uh... is very convenient the marlin forty five cam carvings standard nineteen eleven forty five a c p mags which is really fantastic same pistol same rifle for mags which is nice especially when it comes to carrying stuff in the field so it makes it makes a nice camp slash uh... cowboy carby combination carving pistol now all those are very comfortable shoot little recall almost like firing a twenty two all day this is critical because if the shooter is in many cases we've watched this a shooter will be experiencing pain and responding but won't realize it they actually get to the point where they're anticipating a pain there anticipating injury and because of this uh... we want to try and switch out the shooters is something that is going to be more useful uh... for the shooter to continue to function and again put rounds on target doesn't mean you can't handle both action doesn't mean you can't shoot any of these heavier weapons but You've got to pay attention and go back to the basics every once in a while and have a coach helping you to review what you're doing and to monitor what you're doing because people sometimes actually being by themselves are in their own little niche and don't realize what's happening to their system. It's become part of their nature and this is something where evaluation and cooperation is critical. So, if you're injured, for instance, if you have, in some cases we have amputees, we have battle damage individuals that have had to heal, because of that they have certain injuries that are just going to be with them the rest of their lives. This is where, again, the light rifles or minimal recoil weapons come in kind of handy because you still continue to defend yourself, still continue to participate, but you're not looking at the stress issues again that can cause pain and that can cause some hardship you don't really need. Again, I'm not deriding anybody. If you're carrying something and it's causing you to flinch a little bit of a flinch factor in the long run, but you're able to operate effectively with it and you are able to put that target down, hey guys, go for it. That's not my problem. I'm just recommending that you start to think this way, especially where you're bringing people into the system that you want to bring them up fast. They want to participate, but they may have certain restrictions or limitations need to be taken into consideration with the very young or with new shooters. we do not want to play any games with hurting the shooter uh... we've seen a lot of uh... videos down there out there you've got like you know this one where young lady say they gave her what looks like probably twelve-gauge uh... over mag uh... they did not correct her in how she's holding the stock to the wood to the to her shoulder actually away from the shoulder she's only probably i'd say ninety two maybe ninety eight pounds soaking wet uh... they do not correct her stance and she pulled the trigger uh... the weapon rides up first of all it goes back and we know what happens there gives her a good old shoulder punch on top of everything the muzzle climbs and uh... then she she controls the weapon pretty well considering her weight pushes her back laugh about the idea it made her cry it's like well uh... i'll tell you what run uptake two-by-four let me be true in the shoulder a few times and we'll see whether or not you're gonna now do we want that in a in a in a person as an experience well with regard to their first time firing a weapon where gradualism, when we particular spies that word gradualism from the government or from other government, you can sneak up on particular things. You know, earplugs are a real good for their training because it acclimates you to, you know, you hear the report, but that loud bang when you're trying to concentrate on muscle memory and instilling, it's something that needs to be distracted. That loud bang, if you hear guns go off, but they have the things that are frightening you, are the things that are flying through the air. I have to stick, it's not the loudness anymore. you sneak up on that and again as you pointed out Mark, a small handgun to a medium handgun to a large handgun is a lot easier than two inches off their shoulder handgun in somebody's hand who's never fired a gun. We want them to be comfortable with their weapons and there are many examples that are out there right now that I can say you can watch on YouTube and In most cases it's like, okay, I can see right off the bat we need to have an instructor right there now. Many people have done this. Many people actually helped coach their students. Those that are not are fixed the system, so to speak, correct themselves. And it's hard to get a person who's hurt themselves on the range, in many cases, back on the range. Right. See, so because for instance, that 98 pound, you know, old blonde haired blue eyed girl there, She doesn't want to get punched in the shoulder again. She's got an experience that's now going to create a memory lock. It doesn't mean that we don't want people respectful of weapons. We do, but that's all part of your training. But now we've got a problem, we've got to unteach what's called the flinch factor because there's going to be a memory issue that's locked in with the idea of putting something to her shoulder, which by the way, physically will exist for a while, depending on how that shoulder got bruised. It would be kind of hard to get that person right back behind a weapon if they're still feeling pain and when they pull the trigger a second time they get a reinforcing of that even with everything done properly the second time. So this is something that needs to be taken into consideration and it has to constantly be looked at. There are things that you can do to teach people all the respect that's necessary and that these are things that we've done in training before and we won't necessarily get into that right now. So much is the idea that again first we're not going to hurt the student. Now there are ways where we can, again, we will instruct this, almost everybody's nervous, they're all afraid. First of all, think about this, every time you've ever done something for the first time, your teacher or instructor is giving you a quick lesson sometimes, maybe not an in-depth one, and turns to you and says, oh, here, now you go ahead and do it. Well, if there's you and two or three other students or maybe even the whole class there, tell me that you haven't been nervous. Okay, because you want to do right, but you know there's the peer pressure. There's the idea you might be ridiculed. There's a whole bunch of things that are tied into this that are also part of what needs to be pulled out of the student's consciousness. Each student is put to the range at the same time, not isolated. Each student will be side by side. Each will be in their own world and you have to get them first to focus on that world, on the mission at hand, and of course also to incorporate all of these little factors and become automatic with training, safety factors, operation of the arm itself, immediate action if the weapon fails, also other individual actions that should be taken if the weapon fails, especially the combat situation, you get so fixated on taking care of the weapon, taking care of the weapon that you're having taken cover and you end up being the next pop-up target down. And this is all stuff that becomes second nature as your teachers. And by the way, some of you listening are the teachers. Okay, all of you will be a teacher at some time or another. You have to take into consideration that you need to direct, not scream, not shake into effect, but you want that student to become as adept or a better person at that trait than you. The best compliment, as far as I'm concerned, as a teacher, is to find a student who excels, to have as many people as they can excel beyond my potential. Yes. That is achieving the next goal, the goal in life. You're not just producing one of yourself, but finding the students or making the students capable of absorbing more information and taking advantage of even greater pools of knowledge and becoming an adept in their area of interest, in this case with the firearm. It becomes second nature, that's a term you've heard quite a bit. And by the way, before we go any farther, second nature, Don, this is Weapons Wednesday. It is a Weapons Wednesday, Mark, and we've been chased, so let's move into batteries. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't be looking around on other days and checking. Mark, you brought something up, and I want to make a feather in my cap. And it's an example of what you just talked about. Many, many years ago, I was on the street. I was 28 years old, and the kid down away from high school, and he was in the hot rod motor. Hey, Don, would you help me out? So I did this together, I knew it. you know, when you're assembling a motor, it's like a puzzle, they have to go into the motor and he applied a piston and rings and a connect shaft into the crankshaft. And then when he started the car, there was this peculiarly put one of the bearing shells in on the big end of the rod. So we polished the cranksle and wet sandpaper and he ended up in the 50 Nova. And we had a lot of fun and he was like eight last year. And we talked about, well, what are you gonna do? Well, I'd like to study G and this and that and the other thing. But he went into her and became in the, in the detron knowledgeable. to do this and that, send him as they could out. He worked at a deal, diagnosed and elected over to him. And he gained such a reputation inside the GM dealership's mark that GM grabbed him and pulled him up into the organization. And this young man of mine, the best thing he did for GM, and now he lives in Hawaii, I'm going to put him in my cap. I knew that young man when he was, you know, didn't know exactly what he was going to do, but that became part how he made his living. the service manual portion for the end of the Corvette. That's just thrills me to no end. Exceeding the instructor. Yee-haw. And again, that's an example of what we're aiming for. Remember, we're training the trainers, guys. We are bringing up the next generation and the next generation after that. And the best compliment we can have is not that, gee, we accumulate a lot of resources and we're all by ourselves and just keeps getting smaller and smaller because age and time wait for no one. The best thing that can happen is that you actually extend yourself through your teachings to multiple generations and that is how we continue to live and we continue to breathe on this earth. Remember but for a time, but the teachings and especially the disciplines that we create carry on if we've done well. And each person that we affect, well think about it. Do you think that man affected a lot of other people after you trained him, Don? After you helped him move him in a certain direction? The foundation is everything you guys. And I still talk to my friend and he's composting. He is what one might call a jack of all time. Oh, now he gave a, uh, something from around the country and people interested in, you know, get the most out of here. And he was based, this is a goodness, just puts grins on me. He was instructing in how to get the most out of the way. We've had him on the air and then posting on the intelligence report last night, two days later. Our objective is to give you all the information we can to keep you alive. That's really the reason we've been doing this program for all the time that we have. Is to allow you to make intelligent decisions, hopefully based upon the idea we can provide a lot of data in a wide range of areas. We'll talk about medical support, we'll talk about composting and using a shovel. Oh my goodness! Yeah, exactly, having the W-O-R-K work. We'll be working in a completely different field here if we are, because one of my students that comes here to train with me, he wants to go into the real world and fight. He wants to be a professional fighter. And this young man is quite capable. He is sharp. His reactions are like three tacks. Different world. We'll see what happens with it. To train them to the point that they think they can go out in the world and fight anybody else who's been trained by anybody else. And just feeling. An integrated process here is again, as we've said, mind and body and spirit. Most important is remember, the body will follow whatever the mind commands. The mind will follow whatever the spirit demands. Always remember that. Everything, you know, is of course, the body in its physical condition obviously is critical, but the body will do anything, no matter how it's injured, no matter how it is debilitated, there is a point, there is a moment at which you can command the body to do anything. Now, you may not do it for long, I will tell you that. And it might hurt. Oh, it may hurt. lot. But the bottom line is, remember that the mind commands the body and the spirit can demand anything of both and can accomplish what is necessary. You've got to keep yourself sharp. We need to keep ourselves balanced and we need to look towards the goals that we've set and we need to follow through and set them. Now, we've talked about preparedness here, and one of the reasons we have Weapons Wednesday is because we're trying to sharpen all of those tools to keep you alive. And again, this is because of an aggressor's physical threat. It can be on a large scale with what we see with the globalists trying desperately to steal our liberty. And we've seen in the last six months, especially, a hyper intensity in trying to figure out how to take Ruby red slippers. how to break our liberty, how to convince us. And you'll notice they keep doing this. They create these conditions and they're trying to convince us to surrender our liberty. Get us to. That's the key here, people. It's the old devil's deal. The devil can't take anything. But like the vampire or the devil, once invited in, he's like a cockroach to get rid of. And that's what they're hoping that we won't realize. So again, no, no, no, no, no. We're not surrendering anything, but you know what? The American people are arming up quite heavily, which is good. The wave we're seeing right now is not, oh, I just need some more of what I've got, although there's a lot of people that are doing that because they have certain arms and they realize now they've got new people coming in and they're trying to arm them equally to the rest of the team or the family or whatever. There's a big chunk of you listening right now that are brand new firearms owners. Okay, right off the shelf. In other words, boom, you're jumping right into this. It doesn't mean you haven't had a weapon before, but the majority are new firearms owners and individuals who are in the Patriot effort now. They've fallen off the fence because the obvious is before you. You're having to deal with all of the what do I do's. Well, Ammunition, one of the things to remember is basically cheapest for the most is the best thing, obviously, because you need to put training time in. However, remember, we're going to go through the three basics here on that real quick. A training aid can be nothing more than a wooden handgun or a simulator of that type. The next phase is airsoft, and the reason for that is that you practice all the basics in marksmanship and all the basics you've learned with a training aid that does not discharge an You go to something that actually you can practice all of the marksmanship skills on. You perform exactly as you would with a conventional arm. When you pull the trigger, a pellet or a projectile goes down range. A target is knocked down which gives you healthy confirmation that you have performed the action correctly. That works positive reinforcement, demonstration of performance. Airsoft is a beautiful choice for that. airsoft is a solution if you're going to get an airsoft that looks like the weapon that you are training with right now you better go out and do it because they've already started to change the laws they're not going to allow anything in they're doing all kinds of goofy stuff because they realize that nobody's getting major training the government and the military in many areas are using airsoft people because it doesn't require a whole lot of checking out and signing out in special forms for ammo and weapons lethal device. Right, so they can get out there. They already know what we've been trying to explain to everybody for the longest time. If you're going to pick up these training aids, you better do them now. Now, the other thing is, remember, with pellet rifles, like 177 or .22 caliber, when you pull the trigger, that is a bullet going down range. And with all of these arms, treat them as real weapons. All of the discipline that you have with your conventional arms, you have with all of your training aids. This is what we talked about before about memory. You're going to be disciplined to the art before you get to the final tool that is the signature of an individual who has gained enough skill. They are now going to demonstrate that competence in a physical fashion. And oh, it's only just a martial art. Firearms are a martial art. They are, no question about it. All the discipline of the mind and all the command of the body is what puts that bullet on the target. Spraying and praying ain't gonna make it. Spraying and praying is gonna get you killed because you can't carry enough ammunition at the bottom line. And you don't have some government contractor or the, you know, some foreign contractor behind you to do it. A deuce and a quarter full of bullets. Yeah, exactly. That's kind of tough to pull down the road though, Don. You know, the five-turner's kind of heavy. Yeah, that's about what he needs to keep going through this action. Yeah, I know, I know. Anyway, you know, that is an issue. So again, what you're doing is graduating the term. Graduating, or graduated process. Think about it. Moving from step to step to step can actually become or be considered a qualified shooter and an adept with the weapon that you're dealing with. Now, also, once you choose a weapon, become a master of it. My goodness, don't have to, you don't have to, people, I don't know what it is. an attitude. I don't need to read the manual. I know they're dry. Boy, if it's a foreign manual, you can't guarantee the guy understood English. Exactly. Okay, and there are so many. My favorite, okay, here's a fun one. This is totally off the subject, but about instructions, it's right online. Did any of you ever assemble any of the Tamiah models from the 70s? they went from having you know japanese uh... uh... you know form to actually having english on them and if you got the ones that came in went to my first bought the model in there all in japanese but only realized women not many americans over here going to take the effort to learn japanese to put a uh... six dollar eighty five cent model together so tomorrow hired some japanese of men and women to translate well they did translate but that doesn't mean they translated into proper english okay their structure was kind of a mix And so you ended up having to play interpreter. You got the basic words down there, but you had to kind of remix them because the structure was not based upon our forms, but rather the Japanese form. So it was half of mine working in one direction and half of mine working in the other. The same may be true with some of the manuals you're gonna be looking at. But remember, nomenclature and basic information will be there. Now you have a path. You can start to look for other information that is viable with your arm. And no matter how simple it appears to be, do not assume that you can just look at it and you know everything about the firearm. Every weapon has a quirk. Every weapon, I don't care what it is, a K98 Mauser, Moison Negat bolt-action Tokarev rifle, no matter what it is, even the AK, are little components that have a little twist or quirk to them that if you know the trick, It makes it so much easier to disassemble or assemble a rifle. It makes so much easier to do maintenance on the weapon. And that's why you need the instructional information. You will become an adept with your weapon. You will understand as you use it that some of these quirks show up and are not even in the manuals. There are things that you will find out about the weapon system and go, hmm, they didn't tell us about this. Well, sometimes they are a little, or we might call them tridos secrets, you know. Like ancient Chinese secret, have to do with the laundry. rest of history but uh... again comp milk become competent with the weapon become women yes become one with the arm why because it is an extension of you let me point this out as a shooter i can tell you as i pull the trigger basically where it's are going to hit you have fired enough and i will tell you what uh... i had i've had a big problem dealing with with uh... competition shooters sometimes because some would be so finicky or persnickety that they would actually get on the range. There are two five round sets and they go all this is it I can't handle this today. Now, their groups were tight, but their groups weren't what they considered to be their trade group. In other words, keeping everything within a quarter at 50 yards with their match, 1911, customized, counter-weighted, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they became a little, they were a little too avant-garde in that respect, too a persnickety. Instead, and they would shut everything down, they would make this big event to get to the range, and they'd get into this toothed because it just, they were not a my niche. Well, that's not how I was taught. And one of the things I find is that what I'd have to do is step back, take control of myself, step forward again if I had a day like that, and then I'd have to focus. And amazingly enough, I could bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, put those five rounds into the target, bring the weapon down that quickly. In fact, actually, it's a little faster. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. the weapon down and i knew i could tell you what the fire was going to be if there was a flyer on the target i could tell you which round it was any belly gunner or any pistol shooter can do the same thing and there's another point to be made here in the same breath down when you bring that weapon to the shoulder and everything goes perfect and you have your body is set guys who there's a point when you're a rifleman especially where your body rests on itself in a certain way and you have perfect where it needs to be. Your cheek wall is where it needs to be. Your breathing is perfect. You work the action. You check the safety. You have perfect grip. You've brought your finger to the trigger. You're squeezing. It's going to be a surprise. And you know, even as you pull the trigger, that that bullet is going to hit the center of mass. That that bullet is going to take down that target. I don't care if it is 300 yards, 1,000 yards. You know it's in the niche. You feel it. There's a sensation to it. It's a mathematical subconscious formula. And it just, you feel it as it hits, even before it hits, the guy goes, you can tell a person, one o'clock, four o'clock, center. You pull the trigger and you're going, boom, center. And even as your spotter's watching, he goes, yeah, you got it. And it's like, yep, you could feel it, you knew it. It's a part of that whole thing where they say, oh, he goes, like Asians, how did the kunga pull? How did the guy know how to do that? How did he know that was gonna happen? And it comes with all of the martial arts. firearms or martial arts bow and arrow everybody bow and arrow spear you could be howlberg it could be it could be any number of different weapons the bottom line is when in the niche so to speak or in the mastery of your of your trade or of the weapon system people you will feel feel it and you will know it it's that simple And it's, but it's one of the things where you can't let a down point because here's the other half of this. And again, going the next step, you know, there's going to be a point where you're going to be in your perfect match, your perfect slot and your perfect age. And everything's going exactly the way it is, but time waits for no one. And so you're going to become a little frustrated if, as your body changes, you're not seeing the performance. Well, guess what? Then you may have to change the tool you're using. You're holding that weapon the way you always have, you've got it seated the way it is, you pull the trigger and something's not right and you realize it's not just a weapon, it's your body. You know, Mark, give Talbot off the perfect or used to offer the perfect example. You guys formed the IMSA, the International Handgun. But, 10 target shooters, the guys that shoot profiles, skip Talbot at the beginning of that. And a champion for a number of years in a size chicken at 50 yards. And then he went to a contest and he says, Mark, He said to me, Don, and he said this on the air, I missed half the targets. And I didn't even finish in the top third. And I really, you know, and he went to the doctor and went to the eye doctor and the doctor told him he's got diabetes. And his eyes were deteriorating. So, loving to shoot, what did he do? 50 caliber with optics on top where he could adjust the optics to his eye. And you know what he did then? For Shooter's Association. Not maybe the ultimate example, but very Again, adapting to the knees, of course, as you get older, if the way you decide that it's time to form the .22 caliber long-tooth rifle association. Long in the tooth, you know what I mean. Getting up there and grab. That's not a problem. You can still perform, but you need to adjust accordingly. You don't want the shake, rattle, and roll. You don't want the wobble. What you do is you eliminate that by adjusting your toolbox to meet your needs. And then you start putting targets down the exact same way that you had before. You choose the tool out of the toolbox that still gives you the energy that you need to perform but does not abuse the shooter accordingly or alters, shall we say, the parameters so that the shooter can effectively... That's what we want you to think about. Ladies, you're not out of the game at all. You're not in the circle. Some people, those buttons are awfully heavy. Well, there are light arms available. Sometimes we have to look also at budget, so I will mention this. Don't think that because Mark's saying this, oh, I got one of those nagots. They're really heavy. changing something else well if that's what you can afford and right now shifting too far in the tools is gonna be harder so you can have to think ahead now uh... into razor it's the blades you know it's the old stories not the razor expensive it's the blades and what that's talking about remember free razor and five razor blades in every pack but after those five razor blades are gone guess what all the rate this you have to go by new but you find out that now that they built this new razor blade it doesn't cost what the old ones did it's much more expensive so you want to keep that in mind when you're thinking about adjusting 760 by 54 Russian rim is the cheapest main battle rifle cartridge out there in the best quantity. 762 by 25 pistol the Tokarev or Tokarev pistol round is the cheapest pistol round out there right now 545 by 39 is now the cheapest of the light rifle calibers And while there aren't as many weapons that shoot in that particular caliber, they are out there. The 53 grain ammunition that you're seeing all over the country all came from one place, guys, our guns. They didn't import a whole bunch of new ammunition. This is even where you see wholesale and people don't realize they don't pay attention to patterns. uh... our guns bought so much of the five four five by thirty nine eighty seventy four ammunition that he just he's been begging to sell it for a year we've had it with not hit him up on the air but i've been pointing this out yet the best price in the country when the price change for everybody else is didn't want to be one of our work he's trying to move it will guess what now that nobody can get the other ammunition it's not that new fifty three grain russian uh... military ammo came in uh... Everybody started looking around and they turned their eyes on Chicago, hey, our guns has got some ammo. Yeah, but it's five, four, five. Hey, but it's better than no ammo. And so they went up and they bought a bunch from him. That's how it works. It's not that the inventory has increased. It's just the stuff that's available has spread out. And the sad part is, if you've been faster than those people, you'd have bought the ammo cheaper because you wouldn't have bought it from a second purchasing agent. You'd have bought it from the man who brought it in. See how that works? These are considerations right now when you're looking at cost. Guys, now we have physically available to us. $68 a box, 380 auto, ammo. That is not a typo. No, it's not in fact and you know what it was it's also blazer guys now if you got blazer ammo don't don't say oh my goodness Mark says this is junk blazer ammo from an industry perspective is garbage in tree level Yes It's the stuff you use to blast if you were gonna blast anything and everybody was always doing all the stuff where they were blasting their military I'm when I kept saying go get both go buy some blazer blazer ammo is an aluminum junk case and I'm gonna call Blazer ammunition is a junk case with a burdam primer intentionally built so that the stuff was not reloadable. The case is biodegradable. If it's left outside too long, it'll disintegrate and fall apart with a standard ball or standard minimal cost projectile and the cheapest powder possible. It is not Remington Center Fire Boxer Primed Heat-A-Neill Case, guys. It's aluminum junk. and the charge sixty eight to seventy dollars a box is an insult to the shooters however the fact that that's what the stuff's running right now sixty eight dollars because that's what the markets pressed on it okay however the right next to it blazer thirty eight special built the exact same day in the exact same factory twenty dollars a box now there's more powder more aluminum in a heavier bullet in a thirty eight special around those than there is in that three auto They came off a machine at the same time, so why is that other bullet 68, why is that other batch of ammo $68 a box? There's no excuse. All made in-house, the primers caught, basically the same primer. Same primer, little larger projectile for the 38. More work to actually make the 38 than the 380 Auto, as far as the tooling goes too. So the question is, what's in that box of 380 Auto ammo that we need to know about? Well, we're dissecting now. So, we are going to find out now the clincher is this. It ain't going to cost 10 cents to check it. It's going to cost us $1.15, $1.25 around to check it, which is ludicrous, about $1.25, yeah about $1.25. Anyway, $1.23, whatever. Anyway, the point is that it's going to cost us more to dissect those things, but we have them now. and we've got people that are checking them over, doing radio scans on them, the whole nine yards. We're going to find out, my question is, why is this costing that much more except that probably these are the first of the marked or traced projectiles? And that's what we're going to find out about because Blazer is junk ammo. That 380 Auto should cost no more but actually should cost less than the 38 special box right next to it that's only running twenty dollars a box right now to as much as it depending on what you're getting the way of a projectile twenty four dollars a box so that ludicrous remember the gate mode 3D Auto is also known in europe as nine millimeter curts which translates out to nine millimeter short all in other words it's basically the nine millimeter family yep nine millimeter or three eighty auto nine millimeter parabellum And don't forget 9mm by 18, which is the the macro round. Now the macro round guys didn't go up to $68 a box either yet. Why? Just the 380 Auto. What is it about that? What there's something about this that we're going to find out either administratively and it could be some BS treaty like the garbage you're trying to pull with going after the reloaders. that the 380 Auto is covered under some specific document and they may have jacked the price because of that because there is no excuse production wise for the cost of that ammunition to be where it is. Not one of the same with 9 millimeters off the shelf and 38's off the shelf are running so much less. So there's a flag right there. I'm trying to explain the math. Anyway, we got a caller. Let's get that caller in before the top of the hour. Jump in there, please. Yeah, real quick, this is Marcus in Georgia. Let me talk about math. 9x17, 9x18, 9x19, and 9x21. It's Makarov, Booger, Parabellum, and Largo. Now, Mark, the thing about you're exactly right. We consider that a 3.80 Auto, 9mm Kurtz, 80 gun here in this country, you know, a good pocket. In Europe, weapons carry the 3.80 Auto, and even a lot of the cops over there carry the 3.80 Auto, if you remember. That's right, there's a lot of them, that's why there's so much in service and again there's no excuse for this to be expensive as it is because of the Biacci, uh, Franchi, uh, S&B, all of them have made 380 Auto en masse. We didn't bring up about on practice stuff is, uh, Pac-Mare makes snap caps. You just go out and buy the class to cycle them through, but bottom have a spring basically. It's not a primer, but it acts like a primer with a spring that you can dry fire your weapon to get the trigger. There's another company out that's making a snap cap. It's a solid metal round that has a temple that can handle the hit of a firing pin. You can practice your weapon and dry firing. You learn base recoil. The actual combat weapon you're going to be using so you've got proper weight and balance, which is something with muscle memory that we need to bring forward. That's why whenever you're creating training aids, try to simulate to the best of your ability the weapons that you're actually going to be using. When you go to, for instance, Airsoft, there are copies of all of the different pistols basically out there, the 1911, the SIGs, the Berettas, even the Glocks. You can pick the one that matches the weapon that's most likely to be carried by your people, train them in muscle memory phase one, which of course still won't have all of the weight. but it brings you in the put you in the proper direction so for the time you're done you get into the next phase with the with the actual weapon uh... it's there's less of a curve to bring them up to speed the rest of the way and this is critical because reinforcing a really realistic environment over and over again shortens the discipline time shortens the training time to what is your ultimate goal which is creating an adept i've got it for the guys other like that the f n f a l the m fourteen m one grand The L1A1, R91, 93, the CETME, you know, all those different things. The blue-loaded mag are pretty heavy. When you get a micro... Before you hand your wife this FN-FAL and 3R, an M1 Garand, or an M14 Flash M1A, expect her to handle the recoil, why don't you let her actually hold the weapon and see if she even likes the feel of it. And then if she doesn't, then, you know, the Mini-14, the AR-15 weapon that she's using, fits that because maybe she can hold that weapon up. I mean that's just a suggestion. Before you go train somebody on something, they really can't handle it. Well that's where we get down to the whole idea that you're going to have to bring them up progressively through one step to the other to get them to the conventional arm. And you're going to have to have live fire training or at least simulation training with a regular arm in the final phase in preparation for a combat situation. However, any training in any range time, this is one of the other things, I got into this argument in a few of the videos where somebody had made some snide comments about the Airsoft and some of these kids using the M14s. And the bottom line is, the only thing that I saw that was not a mistake, but it's a critical issue is, they're LBE for their walkthroughs and runthroughs. They're still firing with the Airsoft and they were doing a great job. They were performing exactly as they were supposed to. They were taking cover. and as you can so that when the time comes you're going to understand that there are these extra steps that need to be taken. The adrenaline rush is going to be up. You're going to be probably under fire. You're going to not like the situation, but you're going to have to focus through discipline and training. And again, repetition. The training takes over. That's where you hear that term over and over again. The training takes over. Well, that is exactly true. You get to the point where the subconscious will follow certain actions no matter what else you're doing. Guys, you do this every day, by the way. We do this in what we call multitasking. How many times are people talking on the phone and doing something else? Trying to accomplish things. Some of the stuff is automatic. Some of it requires a little more cross-focusing. That's where things get jumbled up and confused. So again, with the weapons, phase one is a complete simulator with no function. Phase two. is where you get into the airsoft phase 3, the actual arm, just like you're talking about Marcus. Get him into the real weapon, have them handling the actual firearm because center of balance changes, especially with the ladies. Remember, they don't have the upper body strength. So we've got to get him used to it. I hear strange music here. Oh, this is a pleasure fellas. Here on the Intel Report, stay tuned to the Microwave Effect. We'll be back in about six minutes. 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