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If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, Central, Southwest, East, and Northwest. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365 and go to Liberty Tree Radio. You'll also find us on AM and FM micro stations. CB Bay stations and Ultra technologies both east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska and We are on the hallmark network on the East Coast 8 colonial states plus Well today is butter knife the date is it is 8 May? 2009 it is the last program of the day and fortunately I can't think of a good fanfare for the guy with the number 10 cans or ravioli So I'll just say it's quarter minute burner We are alive here. It's Friday. It is about 806. right now. A lot of things happening today. We have, of course, advanced parties with several different training exercises across the country. So I will remind everybody to be careful. The advanced party is going to make sure that everything is set and ready to go, but it doesn't happen without all you people, when you get out there, paying attention to the instructors. So make a point of doing what needs to be done, staying focused on the mission. And for all of the instructors, again, patience is the key to success. Well, with regard to Quartermaster, we've got a whole bunch of solutions. We're not just lamenting about the problems. And if we are going to continue to operate in this country, we're going to have to have the ability to feed our people, manufacture clothes. There's a whole long list of things, not just simply pulling the trigger and carrying a rifle, guys. The clothes can be rags real quick and your feet. Well, back in 1776 and 1777, bloody footprints in the snow. I had worn the shit out of the snow. by making sure we have manufacturing to get the job done. And I would point out too, a little sub note here, a lot of you guys have the ability to work as leather crafters, the cobblers, that is not a bad trade and you should start looking at that again. Of course, it means you're also going to have to be building the shoes because a lot of the stuff today can't be rebuilt. That's an accident. You're on a limited retread. So the speed to be able to manufacture locally. And that's one of those little niches that people aren't thinking about. A good custom well built pair. of shoes are in the combat boots used to paid up to the whole month's wage that they might have earned to get themselves a decent pair of boots because throughout you operate on if your feet go everything follows so butter knife what do you got for us tonight well we've got a couple of things but let me mention a few of the routine items one of them before but i'm going to keep hammering on this one there is available uh... absolutely for free on patriot money dot com a spreadsheet written by yours truly butter knife which deals with built-in data for a number of especially some of the grains and spreadsheet will not only add also do some calculations so that you can designate volume quantities of I and gallon of right up the massive ever one of my lot of are storing some food have some other system that's fine but if you're not to do all these calculations. For goodness sake, download that spreadsheet, download Open Office, fire it up, enter your data and see where you stand. There won't be any going to the grocery store once they pull out what you've got now. This is a tool, it's not going to tell you what to buy, but it's going to tell you where you stand now. You can tell yourself what to buy. PatriotMoney.com spreadsheet, download the Office Suite that uses it. That's absolutely free on Windows, Mac, Go ahead and get bread sheet and use it. I will have little sympathy for you. Oh gee, I just real fat in my stores and I didn't know. You should know. This will help you know. And again, one of the things we looked at here is coming up with a system that is going to work and is user friendly. There's no sense in reinventing the wheel. The solutions are already there. And when you look at depth that we're talking about here is how deep, how far, you measure in days, weeks, and months. and years and how far you can support yourself. Now, I'll give you the best example. There's a lot of what we do here when we cook. Well, even just simple cooking. We have something popcorn. Guys, I traditionally have bought 50 pound bags of popcorn. And of course, we dry pack them, seal them in five gallon square bakery tubs. They're equivalent to the round tubs, but they take up a lot less. If you've got a source for them, they're cool. But we're eating popcorn. It's about 14 years old right now. Now you know what, I just do a little fun count here because if you don't know how popcorn works, you know you measure the quality of popcorn by how many unpopped kernels are in say so many ounces of, say one ounce actually, quantity of popcorn. See how many unpopped kernels there are. Considering how long this stuff has been in storage and if you all kept clean, doesn't have any weevil problems or anything, I'm looking at maybe what, 11, 12, 14 unpopped kernels of popcorn in the pan. No, not at all. That's pretty good. In fact, gourmet popcorn, which everybody uses that term gourmet. You know, gourmet popcorn. Most popcorn is gourmet popcorn in that it is all custom blended. It's all custom made. There's a whole group of people that compete against each other every year, and that's the measure. There's of course also flavor and unique color and the image of the corn before it's popped. There's a whole group. Bottling wine, best example. Well, everybody prides themselves on being able to produce a popcorn that produces 100% popcorn. That's what your goal is. Now you're not always going to get that, but the idea is to achieve as high a level as possible. So there's an example of the storage food that we have on the shelf that's been in place for a long, long time. Some of the stuff like the rice we're using right now was dry packed back in 1999 with flour, any of the dry goods. beans. We just did black beans the other day and Nancy did a fine job. Of course, don't be surprised when you're using black beans. Everything you cook turns the same color as the beans. So if you put little pieces of ham slice in there, they're going to be the same color. Black as the beans. Black. That again, nothing. It's not a big deal. It's just again the very nature of the different products. You throw red beans in there, you get the same result. Things turn kind of a ruddy brown. Well, it wouldn't be a challenge to guess in which ones are ham if they didn't camouflage them. That's right. So it all blends in really good there. But the point is that again, storage, deep storage, measuring in years, it's possible to do. I will also point out again, a lot of people are worried because of this last minute possibility of them shifting the situation. And a lot of people don't have that much in the way of food reserves on the shelf. Guys, even if all you can do is go into either your feed mill or you go into your grocery store, you go down the cereal aisle and buy every oatmeal that's reasonably priced. that's on the shelf. Oatmeal is a filler. It's a jobber food. It's something you can do everything with. And if all spills, like I said, you just boil it up or you just quick throw it in the old, throw in some water in it, throw in the microwave, boil it up, however you're going to do it. And you got yourself something to eat. No, it's not pretty unless you're creative, which is why it would be a real good idea in your supply system to add cooking items, inventory items, maple syrups or artificial maple syrups, brown sugar. Just conventional sugar makes a big difference, obviously. Other items that can be dropped in, freeze dried items that you throw them in when you're rehydrating whatever you're using that's dried foods like that. And it changes the flavor. Changing the flavor every meal is good psychologically. Doesn't mean you can't live, in fact, easily. You can live for a long, long time eating the same thing every day. But it'd be kind of nice to change up. That's why in the past we had the Sunday meal. Everybody forgets this. We can have a Sunday meal every day now. In the past, there were just regular everyday meals, but Sunday was the big meal day. That's where you had the special event that benchmarked the end of the week or the beginning of the next one by having a special meal where everybody sat down. It could be a special meat product and you have all kinds of special trimmings and cookings. That's when we baked the chicken. You don't think that they had a chicken every night, do you? Let's do the arithmetic. How many chickens do you think the average farm actually had on hand at any given moment? Wait a minute. We're running out of chickens. After a while you'll never get done feeding them. You get to the end of a shift and the first batch needs to be fed again. That's right. So it takes time to build up those food reserves and then once you've got them in place, remember every day you're eating so you're depleting even as you're adding. So then that should be part of your process anyway. You should be using what you have. But you use your oldest first. You start consuming from the tail end. and working your way forward. That's how it's done with everything. That way your inventory is constantly cycled to date. Now again, the spreadsheet, very user friendly. Again, for everybody out there, butter knife, give them the information on how they can get hold of that. That spreadsheet is available on PatriotMoney.com. It's about in the middle of the page and there's a simple download link. You just hit it like any other download and it's all of about 50k bytes. So it takes absolutely no time to arrive. Of course, if you have a slow internet connection, OpenOffice may take a little while. You probably want to ask your neighbor with a cable connection to download that one for you. But the spreadsheet itself is quite tiny, straightforward. It's full of fake example and you type your own data and just take a look at the fifth. And you can adjust it. You can change how many calories you think a person should have in a day and what percentage should be fat and so on. Enable macros, say. Again, it's most important to remember, user friendly. So don't be boggled by this, guys. Real quick suggestion, if you have not read yet, surviving the coming collapse, I would ask that you take the time to do that soon. If you don't have a copy of it, go to survivalblog.com. And butter knife, one of the things they talk about is hindsight is 20-20. In this case, before you make the mistakes, I mean, obviously you make the mistakes in the wrong situation. You won't have to worry about it for very long now, will you? So what we need. Well, you want to discover the mistakes as early as possible when it's cheap or at least cheap. In this case, this allows for you to go into the kitchen, sit down with a laptop or go into the little office area you got, crank up the main machine. and sit down with the family and figure out what you need to do. And so you can all cooperate. Everybody has their job. Everybody may have certain resources, especially when you bring your teams together. Somebody might have access to food, equipment, or because of their job, there might be things that they manufacture there you can actually buy. Keep that in mind. A lot of people work in factories, whether it's material and resources or food production, where also they can get discounts. They may have access to the second or the scraps of things, whether it's food or manufactured material or bits of wire or whatever the case may be. Find out what people have access to. Use it. That's a good point, too, because for instance, with the freeze dried foods, one of the things the DOD used to do, and we bought these before, is they would buy these little pork steaks and little beef steaks freeze dried, and they were done in one gallon cans, the number 10 cans. Anyway, the originals were the whole pieces. But then, obviously at the end of each run after they've got so many whole pieces that came out of each bin when they were freeze dried, you've got to figure that during handling there's stuff that they have little oopsies with. So lo and behold, the next thing they did was an end run of parts. Same nomenclature, same but you got a lot more in the can because remember once there are pieces and parts, They tell you there's less air space between stuff. And they were actually a better buy. You got more freeze dried meat per can. And they were an oddball out. They were sold to the Navy. The Navy took a percentage of those for their submarines. But that was probably the first thing that usually in the lots would be sold out as excess because they were allowed to do that because it wasn't at spec. And the prices were quite reasonable. But where we really saved is we had friends that were working with the companies that were doing it. There is an example, if you are in the factory and they have got like an end run, it is the last of. Usually the department of defense or whoever will only order production plus they will buy about 10% over, sometimes only 5%. Whichever that is, the company usually can sell off its excess beyond whatever it is that it produced for that run. The cool thing is you get the benefit of the same product, same quality but maybe little variation as far as the type of end run means that there can be leftover pieces of this, little piles of that. Nothing that is netable or anything but stuff that definitely would be much cheaper and affordable to put into your supply system, your inventory. There are C rations, not MREs, but C rations were the same way. You didn't see it as often but you did run into it every once in a while. Another thing to watch for, and this is for storage purposes, you want to talk about something that is really cool, and I wish I could still get these in quantity. The one company, I've been trying to get hold of them, but I haven't been able to so far, Butterknife used to do what they called hospital cakes. Now, these were in cans like the... I don't want to think about that. Oh no, they really... No, no. I thought silent green. Well, they are green cans. Oh, OK. But what's cool is that these were designed to offer a whole bunch of nutrients. They were called hospital cakes for field use. But what they were is instead of the little sea ration cans, everybody remembers that your little fruit nut cakes and your name in, the pound cakes. Imagine one done in a can smaller than a high sea can in height, but the same diameter. These things were phenomenal. They had mocha, java, macadamia nut, walnut, supreme. They didn't have icing on them, but you could do that at your discretion. If you've ever had these, and somebody might remember this from out there, that these were readily available from Surplus. Guys, you want to talk about some rich eating. Again, that was the whole idea, putting out of the nuts. The freeze, forgive me, dried fruits, apricots, you name it, it was in there depending on what it was and they were just heavy. People make these jokes about fruit cakes saying there are only 12 fruit cakes on the planet. Everybody sends them to each other. Well, don't do that. You send them to me. I'll take care of the fruit cakes. Thank you very much. Then there will be 11, 10, 9, 8 or none, right? That's right. I have no problem with fruitcake at all. In fact, it's funny that they should make comments like that because when you figure what goes into it, the cost, and that's why again, the girth. If you want to understand old food and the way it traditionally was made, consider this. Fruitcakes, which are made with all of the candied fruits of whatever kind, plus dried fruits like dried pineapple, or And it's interesting that even when we have bread, most people don't think about this, we have what we call a one pound loaf of bread. Where did the idea of a one pound loaf of bread come from? A one pound loaf of bread was a rationed bread. That was actually a one pound loaf, it was typically a meal loaf. And in the past, we didn't have all these fine grinders like you see today, so a one pound loaf also wasn't all fluffed up in the beautiful white bread that we see today, which was the mark of royalty. Instead, it was a loaf that was about like a, imagine like a Kaiser roll. Bigger, little bigger, but very dense, very, in many cases, modified or improved in different ways by adding things to the bread. Hopefully stuff that was edible, but who knows what fell into it when they were making that dough. I would expect it to be around the size of maybe a pint mason jar. Yeah, and the whole point behind this was that that was enough to feed a person, actually, fill you up. and keep you satisfied until the next meal. If there was going to be one meal today, that would be great. If not, in many cases, they might have shown up that loaf of bread and you had to go along with whatever cheese or whatever else was scavenged. or was issued or was handed out or that you bought depending on if you were being provided by your employer. You figured out what it was. In some cases they issued us so many ounces of, so many, you know, like quarter ounces of. But a one pound loaf was consistent and goes back through to the good old days when that was actually the center of the meal. That was the thing that kept you happy. So your stomach wasn't grumbling and you were thinking with your stomach rather than your mind. and the rest is history of course. But much coarser, much heavier. A lot of people they say would have a hard time. Trust me, lots of roughage. Oh boy. And that goes even back to Roman times, all the way back through to the Empire and also to the Republic before that. So, little bits of history. Anyway, you've got a lot more for us, but I'm going to jump in there, please. Okay, don't forget to exploit available freebies. There are two emailing lists available for freebies. One of them is called FreeCycle.org. That's F-Cycle.org. The other cascade of them in a single day saying, I have this junk I want to get rid of. I have that junk. Everything on there is free. You can get good stuff and the idea is the diverter knife has gotten the televisions and all sorts of useful stuff. There's also a free section on very frequently haddlewood. This is the season to be grabbing all that free spring winter is probably the first one that a lot of people are going to encounter. Maybe the gas doesn't work, maybe considerably from having all that fire that's warmed up. As we said, you can go to, well, of course, now I noticed Arby's is rationing out now. They used to have it out in the lobby, but they realize everybody's been grabbing and carrying away. So now you have to tell them what you want. But guys, ask for whatever or however many extra you can. Usually the kids are cool about that. Other places, you might find packets of pepper. seeds and everything right there. Great way to spice up a meal, change the flavor out. Of course, it might not be for your breakfast, it can be for everything else. What you must make is that there's a lot of other stuff out there that is. A lot of times you'll get little packets of the napkins, a couple packs of sugar, a couple packs of creamer, and usually a plastic. Grab them, throw them in your gear, put them on the shelf, make up a box, start filling it up with that kind of stuff. When the time comes, that means that you don't necessarily have to pull out a whole bunch of equipment to take care of somebody's needs. It's individual packaging where somebody else has done it. Fantastic. Another place where you want to watch is if you have people who work in the hotel industry or work with different manufacturing companies that provide for those types of industries. You said earlier, Butterknife, a lot of them have excess or have debris. Something that the batch didn't turn out quite right, labeling is wrong, something happened to a box. They can't use it. They aren't going to repack it. And so many times they throw it out. I have always wondered where all those partial bar soaps from the employees can only take on so much. After a while, I get kind of tired of it. Actually, that's the case. Think about many, many different places we see saturated by. It's kind of like even people working McDonald's. People are working McDonald's go eat a Burger King or go eat a Pizza Hut, not because they don't like McDonald's, but because they get so much of it and they usually, unless they're, to me, they got a meal out of the deal every day. The old story was that chocolate factories, a lot of problems with the is gobbling up a large percentage of the chocolate. They figured out when they'd play, they said, eat as much as you like. They'd get tired of it and that would reduce their consumption. Little keyboard, keyboard pad, trying to help out. So in the area of not necessarily free, but cheap, remember that this is going to try again to do the hard switch over to, I imagine they'll actually manage it just because it's too embarrassing. That happens. going to be worth pairing up with a fifty dollar converter box june co watching your girl shop and so many that people can stick onto a dvd player and provocations by the minimum use of home field advantage made that one of the pet be able to swing on any other section of the yard without picking your faith in front of the window necessarily to do it actually free televisions care that with that depending on how old the television want to get the cheaper than your power and you still want to see you get those close circuit television side or what's going on on the corner. It's your tactical if your eyes out, the switch over occurs. Awful out of those little televisions will become available. That situation will be temporary. It should be. One of the cool things, everybody starts getting rid of TVs, especially some nice color equipment you might want to use for the future here guys. Remember that we're showing up out by the curb because people are going to decide to a degree that they want to get new, not many but some. and if that's the case, we'll carry it away. So you upgrade and you also can have backups to backups to backups, which is another nice thing. I- Textures are nice, free. Personally guys, I'm not getting any of the bobs. I have not spent any money on anything like that and I won't this time around. Real quick. If and when the time comes, they're gonna show up either with onboard equipment or out by the curb just like everything else or Generation 1 slash will become Generation 2. which will then be ad nauseam, etc. etc. Mark, can you hear me okay? Real quick, I for one would be completely surprised if they do not roll it back again just because looking at their sales of the devices and even with them putting that out there and making the units cheaper, nobody's buying them. It's entirely possible. I think there are a lot of new televisions out there that don't need conversion. number of the analog televisions have had them. I do think that the total number of televisions in service will be in the garage which will eventually find their way into. You may be right, it's entirely possible to slide it back but I think the third time is the charm that it would be too politically embarrassing for them to slide it a second time. I still think this is going to be another case of them cutting off their nose despite their face. If they do push through with it like this, I mean there is They pushed it back several times as we know we watched it happen. It was supposed to happen in 2007 originally wasn't it then 2008? Oh, yeah, well it did they keep pushing it back and they're making it mandatory by law mandatory by law Well, you know what if it's mandatory by law aren't they breaking their own law right now if it was supposed to be by that date? the You lose about 50% right off the bat. I mean, imagine some of the problems you're going to deal with here. They already have an advertising issue. Well, yeah, actually right now that's one of the things I was just going to bring up. Channel 7 for one. They've got these other channels. They're channel 7 and they're little subnet channels that are on the digital frequencies now that they're having to pay for, running the time, but trying to sell the advertisement for? is becoming nearly impossible. They're having to up their rates for their normal advertising for their analog channel because there aren't that many people watching the digital channel right now because nobody has the money to go out and buy the box. Again, we spent all the money on the family main battle rifle. Yeah. Well, you see that's where- These are the boxes invested in that AR and AK. They're sitting in the closet or in the gun room right now. Yeah, but you see that's where, that's what's going to dictate whether or not they roll it back or not, is if it's cost, you know, if they can justify the cost of it. The longer they roll it back, The only reason why they're rolling it back is because they can't justify pushing it forward. They can't afford to push it forward and they know they can't. Because if they do, all these people who didn't bother to upgrade when they hit that date, when they hit that wall, they're not going to be plugged in. They're not going to be getting the propaganda. Where will they turn to? That's what they're concerned with. Yeah, that is going to be another problem. A lot of people really aren't excited about the idea of doing it. I mean, nobody that I've been talking to except the concern in one or two areas. We've had a couple of notes from friends as emails that, oh, by the way, one of their local stations switched over to digital and now they're lamenting because they aren't seeing any interest. So far we've got some of ours that have reduced their analog power so that's an incentive to switch over to digital but they don't dare completely show the middle finger to their analog customers just yet. Right and if they do it's like okay goodbye. Hey that's what I got DVDs for. Congratulations you just ran yourself right out of business. There is nothing that is really jumping out on anybody that they can't access. This is the same problem. They have created this environment and there is no real need to be using any of the regular press or any of the regular medium. There are just too many other ways that people can decide to go. Of course, we have independence separate, which is why they really want to close down obviously elements of the Internet and other systems that are online. The cool thing is that with the scenario played out the way it is, like we said, a lot of analog equipment will become available and will be very reasonably priced and can be set up completely on standby, ready to run, or it can be run now, depending on where you are, because there will be no television. This could actually be the death knell for a lot of companies that think they are going to continue to sell, when in reality it is just the wrong cycle with the money market, the way the money situation is. That is half the battle right there. I think it is rather funny because their assumption was it is just so important it is the center of my universe and it is like not, wait a minute, you mean we are not the center of my universe? No, not at all. Goodbye. No, wait a minute, you need us. No, goodbye. I think that's really the problem they're having. Plus, again, the timing. The timing of economic timing is everything. There were all kinds of innovations that were coming up in 1929 that absolutely disappeared from the planet with the Depression. Whole technologies that in some cases did not reappear in any variation until about 1965 or 1970 and 1972. So, I don't see it any different right now because where the money situation is. There simply isn't the capital there. And even if they try to phase it, the big same problem. Nobody is willing to spend money on something like that. If they perceive and understand the greater threat, that rifle over in the closet now is what's really taking their place. You know, taking that box's place. Anyway, guys, go ahead. We've got a lot more to cover. We've only got so much time. Go ahead. That's right. Okay. I will remind people that we have had on the air in the past a guest named Viral Smith who makes custom bullet molds. His website is LGBTmoldfashion.com. So it's LGBT. That's Lima Bravo Tank. He advised that Viral is running a 40% off-sail fabricated. So the custom molds are 125 and you can pull our pistol. He has molds available off the shelf now, $5 a piece. Call everybody's attention. Not for custom. These order from him. You can take a look at his website. He's got an email. And if you like, you know, you can mention, well, we heard about you on the intelligent mind that if they do manage to push through all the serial numbered ammunition stuff, blah, blah, blah, you can be sure that it will be molds. Again, sir, to make sure that everything is You know, remember, don't buy what kind of close to what you need, guys. Make sure that we understand what's for proper dimension and for final guides. And again, you've got referencing text. There's a lot of work you can do to bring yourself up to speed with the technology, the right tools for the right toolbox. Although, I will say this, in every category with all the stuff we're doing, sometimes when you go into a shop, you're going to find something sitting there. I don't care what it is. It can be food production. It can be ammunition reloading. Somebody's got a sale going, they got something that came in that, wow, I wouldn't normally buy that, but it really would be handy for this, this, this, and then comes. If you get a chance to pick up extras in a certain category or something that's in the periphery but could be applied to what you're doing, make the effort to put it in the toolbox. That's critical to overall operations. When something breaks, at least you can make do with the next tier, the back of the long term jacketed bullets. The better the mold you get, the better the results you're likely to see as well. Now another thing with the real quick on that note with molds before I forget a lot of guys are worried about trying to get double out buck or number four buck turn in another direction go over to your Civil War you'll find that like EMF if there's out there in any number quantity they've been making replica arms for decades black powder they also make all the accoutrements are smaller little baby coal that are calibers you're not a light that's a You can find single cavity, double cavity, and four cavity molds that are round bullet molds. If you're needing to make additional things be a problem, guys turn to alternate areas. Most people don't think about it, but round ball standard pistol shot will work just fine for casting for making buckshot. Even .44 caliber buckshot would work just fine. So the round ball for the .44s, .36s, the .31s, the .31s and .39s. There's a couple oddballs out there that were made for different little replica weapons in the last 30 years. Depending on what you're going to find laying around, guys, those will work for your shotgun reloading. Now, you can also, a little trick here, with a bullet, you can actually use round balls, say 36 for any of the 357 or 9mm. That sounds weird, but there's a reason for this. You can also do that with 44 in the 44 caliber range of weapons. There are a couple of different loads that are for at it down so it will slide right into a .357, .38 Special, .38 Smith & Wesson. You can also go down to .30 Caliber. And what you do is in .30 Hot 6 you can produce a light game, an anti, you know, like small game getting bullet. It can be like a wad cutter by the time you're done. And it delivers a lot of energy. It doesn't have great range, but it's accurate out to reasonable range. There's a lot of other venues, a lot of directions you can go with this when you have these molds, round molds at least. Standard bullet molds, jacketed tools are becoming a problem as we know. If you can access a source on that and you find what you need, I would say grab it because they're looking way out before they actually fill. It would take them years to catch them. They already know this. They're understanding the problems. The people that are into reloading are going to proceed. They're going to follow through on what they're doing. So remember that you're competing with a very serious crowd of like-minded individuals such as yourself. I think that's again where we have to remember scavenge, which you can find wherever you can find it. An awful lot of reloaders in the past have had the attitude, well, you know, I've got the presser and the dies and all this kind of good stuff. Now I'll go buy 100 bullets of this and a pound of dirt and so on and so forth. I think a lot of them are starting only backed off from this. Disappear to me there for a minute. That's okay. That happens. We know that. Well, I just run out of wind at the end of a sentence. Okay. Well, I know you've got more jump in there. Let's keep right on going. We had a lot to cover. Right. I found a very interesting thing. This one violates that I don't consider it a super duper cheap bargain, but I do find it a very interesting item. Other people may also find this in the traditional approach to stripper clip, to three field. Follow the little guide into the magazine and you clip the little... are cheap enough that they can distribute widely. There is a slightly different approach out there that came to us a while back. Adopted a very unusual surface. of So that's a little more expensive than it is. It is a kind of neat little thing. The other side effect also works probably just about any double stack. This is a kind of neat thing. Some people may strike their fancy and they might be interested in it. Cashgunparts.com. The item number is 880. It's all the same item. They're just curious. Rifle your rifles here. This is part number 8. $8 a piece. And one of these out of curiosity, they are kind of neat. They are about the size of a, oh, it's a gar box, I would say. 150 rounds. The canvas is rather thin stuff. That part is not super duper impressive. It does have a shoulder strap. I guess that's consistent with the idea that these are bandoliers. The strippers are entirely reusable if you don't run them over with a truck or something like that. I think they do accept the two, two, three rounds. They stack right up in there. they are slightly can't it actually a one-and-a-fucking so it's been four finger and slide them down and that magazine is half fault second time and it is full and it is a kind of neat little gadget deal of time to one of the most important things to remember is uh... on combat weight also the reason for doing bandoliers is because Every ounce that you add is that much more obviously you're carrying it doesn't take long for a few ounces to add up to a pound and then pounds to add up to tens of pounds and guys you can only carry so much. So one of the solutions the military came up with was the stripper clip system. That's when you see these guys carrying these bandoliers separate from their basic web gear. What they do is they open up a new can and then when you pop the lid right there at the top or the suspension straps for the bandoliers pre-packs that you pull the strap out, the bandolier comes with it, you put it over your neck and hang it over your shoulder. And congratulations, you've got a ready-made pack of ammunition that's one step, it's better than a handful of chiclets, it's one step away from being reloaded. Typically there was a stripper guide in every bandolier and there were a set number in double packs of 10 or single packs or double packs of 5. larger battle rifle calibers like .308, .30 out of 6. There are five rounds typically for a star that carry 10 rounds per. Of course, they have 10 rounds and it's a disposable stripper clip, but don't throw them away. You use them and put them in your pocket. Same with all the rest of these. You use them and then pop them in your popcorn pocket. Put elastic in the top of it so you can retain the stuff. From the nature of things, the empty stripper would go back in the bag. Yep. Where we can recycle it, you can reload loose ammunition and bring it back up to combat specs. rear if all else fails and gets sorted out and used accordingly. This is a big advantage when it comes to time to reload. As quick as it takes for your Tino to put the guide on, line up the first five rounds, crack, they're in there, then put that empty, put the next one in, crack, then you pull that empty, put the next one in, crack, pull the empty next one in, crack, you've got a 20 round mag full. And it took longer for me to describe it than most people can do it, especially when you're highly motivated and you're under duress. When it's being explained that the counter attack is coming, you better have the ammunition loaded before it gets here. There are a lot of got 30 round mags, it's only two cycles with these guys. The advantage of this is, again, you've shaved off combat weight, you're carrying the ammo, which you gotta carry no matter what. And the stripper clips are negligible, minimal weight, and the guides, of course, same thing. You'll notice that they also made the bandoliers themselves a lighter, military bandoliers that you are going to be using. Some are heavier than others. The British stuff in World War II was comparable to any other cloth used for uniforms and equipment. They just used the same material. Why reset the looms? They just had them running one stock, one color. Congratulations, one color, one stock fits all. You can add a button or snap accordingly. You need to come up with a solution that will help you make that work. I'll tell you what, Butterknife, I think we might have a color. We did have another voice pop in there. I don't know if we have another caller. Is there anybody else online? Hopefully everybody at least we gave you some ideas One of the things about stripper clips they do make them for mousers They do make them for most negants guys if you go out and search you will find them this makes your weapons that much easier to use Mousers and negots have stripper guides built right into the top of the receiver So the stripper goes right in there crack and you got five rounds that quick Anyway, buttered I've got blessed the Republic. Yeah to the new world order We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the empires on the run We are in the March of the Day and... Urah! Six panheads kick him in the slats, drag him over to the fence and throw him over to those land piranhas, you know, those little packs of rabbit chihuahua drug dealers on the other side of the border. All the horror. The horror. It's not for the piggies. That's right. Remember, they're kidding too. 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