Live 365 You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay attacks you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame You've taken Satan's number You've traded in your name You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic 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 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'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Bless you. The afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is the afternoon intelligence report. I am Mark Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. South, southwest, north, and central. Well ladies and gentlemen you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, PBN.4mg.com, and we are on live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM&FM micro stations, CB Bay stations, and Ultra Net Technologies, both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We were on the Hallmark Network on the Eastern Seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico headed towards Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, a chunk of Nebraska, a little bit of the third of Wyoming, and then Iowa slash Iowa. We're also on the Hallmark Network on the Eastern Seaboard. Well, as we know, Forgive me, on the Golden Spike Project, on the Eastern Smokies and across the whole of the Blue Ridge. And everybody out there want to say thank you to the restaurant crews and to the grandma teams. A lot of work being done there. It's been busy, busy, busy. And I want to say thank you also to all of our friends with the different militia units who are responding to the call to assist our allies down in Arizona in the different counties there. It is important to remember that we have a number of units that are hoping to deploy, which sure may not get a whole lot of publicity per se, but they certainly are going to be assisting with the programs and projects as they develop. And we'll be sending technicians down either to help with the aircraft or to help with surveillance technology to include cameras, etc. We have some equipment we're putting together that we hope to have down there for experiment, especially in extreme heat and under the the unique conditions that exist in the desert of Southwestern USA. So we're going to do what we can there to pass on that data. It is, by the way. Oh my goodness. Not the 14th of July already. How could that have happened? That means we're almost halfway through the month. Oh my goodness. Well, anyway, it is the second year of Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K, and we are proceeding to do what we can to ensure that you are better equipped, better trained, and better prepared for what's coming. now food preparation food production guys were starting to reap the benefits of the gardens and oh my goodness Nancy made some fried zucchini tonight it was just fantastic it was about as fresh as you're gonna get she went out picked it out of the garden brought it inside sliced it up oh my goodness we had chicken you know the chicken eviscerated chicken embryos along with a batter and num num num num. The rest is history, so a fantastic meal. Well guys, wherever you can do that you're taking a burden off your food storage system, but we also have to add to the food storage system. So food drying, canning, jarring, whatever you're going to do. Let's get everything squared away before we get into the deep season because it's going to get busy fast. You're going to need everything filled that you can. Our goal this year, my personal goal is to have every mason jar that we have online full and ready to use. That's my goal. That's what I'm trying to get ready for right now. I got a bunch of the other shelves done and out of the way. Got to pull out all of the equipment that Nan's going to need. Plus, building up some special work area outside, because food prep outside is critical to finishing stuff inside. Getting things done out and away from the main work area is going to save us a whole lot of time in that direction. So that's something you should be thinking about, too. Well, I hear it sounds like we have a caller. Who do we have? Good afternoon mark. This is Sir David Andrew. Hey, we got Dave from New York. Dave jumping there what do you got for us today? Well, I think it's weapons Wednesday, isn't it? Yes, it is as a matter of fact. That sounds a whole lot better. She needed that to start the show. There we go. Any case. You missed a broadcast on Micro Effect from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock. David Hawkins was on. talking about the British crown and its pedophilia spiring that's been in operation from what he was saying, 175 years. Are you familiar with this? Go ahead. I'm pretty sure I know where you're going with this. Okay. This Anna Chapman that was recently arrested here and all those with her. They are all British Crown agents and they operate a pedophilia spy ring around the country. Well, David Hawkins said that one of the biggest financiers of this ring is this Warren Buffett. Yeah, that's right. Warren Buffett. And he has a bunch of airplanes, Gulfstream, Fives operated by Netjet, which they do fractional ownership and anybody that is involved in fractional ownership through Mr. Buffett's thing are subject to being broad blackmailed for sexual perversion because According to what David is saying, all those who hold fractional ownership are involved in either prostitution or pedophilia. He also pointed out that Tiger Woods owned fractional ownership in this net jet company and Obama Nation didn't like all the fanfare that Tiger Woods was getting and it was detracting and he didn't want the competition so he set him up. Isn't that one cute? He also talked about the 1980s about a man named Barry Satoro and his partner, Tim Osman, who were flying around under British passports and they were making trips to Pakistan. Do you remember any of that? Well, I remember the Tim Osman name. I don't recall, but you know what? Barry Satoro. One of the things about it, when good old Obama's name showed up before as Barry Satoro, I am sure that there are files that were in Tennessee that cover this particular subject. And the reason I bring this up is because there was a consortium down there doing research back in the early, early 90s. And this name and others showed up. Now, in fact, the reason you jog my memory is because I remember we went to look at taking custodial ship of the documents of the actual files. There were probably about 20 different filing cabinets. I believe that those went to another organization though because they made an arrangement to take over both the properties and to take custody of the files. So that's something I'd have to do a little research on. I'm not going to say any names because I know who got the property and I know who they merged with. But, there is some information on that, as far as this, well actually what it was, is a prostitution blackmail ring. That's exactly what this is. He says that Obama Nation has been with it since the 1980s and that he's a British Crown Agent. I think in many cases, forgive me, John, Dave, but in many cases with what we're looking at here, I think they're working for more than one people. I think the crown is just one of several. And again, plans and then plans, circles with circles. Well, that's the issue because Anna Chapman is also a KGB agent, and her daddy's a KGB agent, but she also is a British crown agent. Then, oh, let's get this finished here. Tim Osmond. Better known as Osama bin Laden. Bingo. Well. Partner. So therefore your advertisement that opens this broadcast from your favorites gun shoot club is not so far along after all when he says I recognize terrorists when I see one. Well, yeah, but he's not just joking about that. He's talking about the rest of the administration that Obama has. All those people at one point or another back in the good old late 60s and early 70s were involved in everything you can imagine and openly purported, you know, again, proposed and executed bombings and attacks on the elements of the United States. That's just a given. But as far as the Tim Osman and of course Barry Satoro, one thing we've... it's been a sidebar. I've not been able to take the time to do this. But I do know that I can picture the room, I know exactly where the files are, and it's something that we just haven't had time to travel south to do because it would take a few days to go through the documents, but I know they have them. We have another copy of those. The only thing they asked is that everything was duplicated. It took about, I think, two months. And it was taken to another location west of the Mississippi. And I know that it's located out there still, too. So, this was the life's work of a group of people for about 40 years. And when we looked at this information, that was back in the middle of 1993, so you figured out going all the way back through to the 40s, you know, between the 50s and the 40s. And I'm sure they had overlapping data beyond that. Go ahead. Yeah, he was on with Raylan Allen today, and she asked him, she says, And near the end of the broadcast she says, well, where does Michelle Obama fit in this whole picture? And David stops and says, well, There was this particular organization in Chicago. I couldn't write down everything fast enough. He was going one thing after another. I didn't get the exact name. But he says this particular organization is a satellite spy operation for this pedophilia ring operating for the British crown. And he says back in 1984, Michelle Obama was working in the office of this spy organization. What is most interesting is, so was a man named Patrice. General Patrice also in 1984 was working in this British spy agency. Anyway, we're at Weapons Wednesday though. I just thought those were high points. He also stressed that this British spy ring are the ones who orchestrated and set up the 9-11 attack and he went through how and explained how they did it and what was involved including Canadian troops were involved in doing the 9-11. I think, I'm sorry, there I'd have to disagree. They might have been participant but I am sure the Jewish Mafia, the Mossad were the ones who did the majority of the work here. especially with 9-11, I'm sorry, you got silver, you got, look at the name, look at the owners, look at the names. That's not British and certainly while the kosher mafia is involved with Britain, the majority of what happened on 9-11, you know, don't deflect that from the people who really, really, really profited the most. And that's obviously out of hyphen Tel Aviv plus let's not get false feet, oh, I'm telling you, oi. Go ahead. Again, they're involved in a lot, but there are other actors in the game too. And each one is overlapping. Some appear to be working, as has always been said, for two, three, or four different tiers of institutions or organizations. Their names show up in more than one place. They eventually get a doggy tree to pat on the head to squeeze on the rumpus more than once. And then they're down to another job. or onto another different slaughter, you know, temporary position. The only thing with Barry Satoro is, because I think the dope he did when he was younger, great voice, great singing voice, pericomo voice, there we go. He's got a pericomo voice, but he's got the, I think the gray matter problem, because the same thing I have with Bill Clinton and probably with George Herbert, or I should say with George, Wirge the second, in that cocaine caught up with him, you know, the dope caught up with him. which has been a problem for a long time. He said they did the whole scenario behind the scenes that got them to stand down so the whole thing could be pulled off. So he didn't go into detail. In any case, that's what I had. I thought you would like it. Very good. What about the stock market today since you're supposed to be keeping an eye on that for us too. That's your mission in life, Dave. I haven't even looked at it today, but I have been told that folks need to get ready. Sometimes between the 26 and the 23 it's going to do a downturn and they intend to drive it within the next 14 days. They intend to drive it into the toilet to cause an upset. So sometime between the 26 of this month and the 13th it's going to be doing a downturn which means they could drive gold prices right on up to maybe $3,000 an ounce. hang on for the ride, they're looking for an excuse for the next three weeks. in the last couple of weeks. Now they've always had them. They've always had them, guys. Going back to the Susan B. Anthony's. I got my first three Susan B. Anthony's while I was on the road and it was an accident. I went to McDonald's. I know I only had $2. I bought something for like $1.23. And later on I got to where it's going miles beyond where I could do anything about it. And I realized, wait a minute, these coins don't feel right. And I tried to put them in the coffee machine not thinking it was late at night. I was tired. And I realized they don't fit. And it's like, aw, so they gave me some French coins or something. And then I looked and it's like, oh, wait a minute. Those are Susan B. Anthony's. Well, the point is, Dave, and for all of our listeners, thank you for jogging me on this one. Right now, we've had several reports from people that are friends that have been in the banking system that the Fed is trying to push those coins out into the system because they're sitting stagnant right now. and they are trying to get them moved into the money supply. In fact, the Fed is trying to avoid, as we've seen throughout money history, if you've ever collected coin, remember there are different points where as we've hit the depression, they've tried to use... existing inventories no matter how obscure the coin or the bill so that they didn't have to necessarily pull more into the money supply. Not that they aren't printing the money a mile a minute, but the coin has already been paid for, but they have not been able to get it out into circulation. Right now there is a push to do this. What I am curious about and want to see is what areas of the country this becomes a priority for. This is part of management. You're going to have to recall. That's what I'm curious about. So watch your area. Start doing this. If you see a pulse of these, I would be curious because it also is demonstrating, remember, that the banking system is regionally controlled by some people who have different interests. And getting the currency into circulation that's coin would be desirable if you understand how battles work and how wars affect money. Paper currency you'll wipe your hind end with, guys. Any coin is going to be much more stable, it's tangible, costs more to replace, least likely to be replaced for that very reason, and will stay in service longer. So if we can run into the dollar coins at all, I want to point out, in fact I said this happened quite twice this last two days, the cashiers mentioned that, oh yeah, by the way, man, we're getting a pulse of these things that it's coming from the bank and it's not coming from the from the user end, from people paying in them. Now we've done this before too and this is actually a lot of fun guys. If you can get hold of the dollar, the latest dollar coins in good numbers, this is a way to show how we affect the community. We've actually taken the silver dollars, or forgive me not the silver dollars, but the new denomination dollars and everybody in the Patriot Movement that is all they've bought everything with. Progressively in smaller towns we've converted the whole town over to dollar coin. Which of course, they're like, oh my goodness, we can't handle this. There's too many. It's like, what do you mean? They're being used where they're supposed to be used. And they're in circulation exactly the way the government claimed they wanted them to be. But what it did, it also showed how effective an influence we have as patriots on the community. Go ahead. As patriots, you understand the value of using those dollars. There's no interest on them. They're interest free dollars. The Federal Reserve isn't involved in that circulation, which is cool. So therefore it's to our advantage to use the coins because they don't tax the coin. And people don't understand that. It's better for the country to use them. So there again, I'm curious about who it is. See, that's my point. I'm curious about who it is that's promoting bringing the dollars into what parts of the country because that man or woman may not be doing it for the reason that everybody thinks. It may not be because they're in the camp with the other side, but see the writing on the wall and are trying to strengthen their local economy. Do you see how that works? Correct. It does help the economy. So this is something that needs to be looked at. Now I tell you what, we've got to get on weapons, guys. We are on Weapons Wednesday. Dave, you can still stay here. That's not a problem. Don't have to take off. Here, I'll give you the market report real quick. Go right ahead. Silver is at 1829. The Dow Jones closed at 10,366.7. Crude oil was $66.60 a barrel and gold closed today at $12,700 and $7.80. And in the metal market copper is up again, $3. A pound nickel was $8.71, aluminum is $87, zinc is $82. and lead was 81 cents. Very good. Excellent. Okay. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. God bless. And again, that's Dave. And Dave, you can stick around if you want to, but real quick here, guys, I wanted to get back on this subject today because, and I want to say thank you to our friends in our research and development area because these are trainers, people who are educating other people into how to use arms, how to use rifles, pistols, how to use personal defense weapons, to include edged weapons. Well, they purchased a couple of PTR 32s. Now the PTR 32, I know one of our listeners in the chat room said, well, what's the value of the PTR 32 over the regular AK? Well, if you're using a regular HK91, that's expensive if they are real HKs, or sent me rifles, or if you already have a number of HKs of whatever variant, including some of the other mid-90s and late-90s knockoffs that were made with other receivers. Rather than putting mileage or in other words putting hours slash putting rounds through those 308 battle rifles and yet still training with the HK system the PTR 32 gives you an option to continue to train on the range at an affordable rate now I'm going to reinforce what was said on You know actually was sent through the report that I got from the research group in the field number one they tried over 2,000 rounds consecutively of every kind of you can imagine. That's their description. They used junk ammo, they used tired ammo, they used ding-damo, they used corrosive ammo, they had every variation in European ammo and Chikom ammo and Korean ammo on hand. Whoa! Somebody just got this not beat up. I know it's deep. Anyway, what's interesting is they had only two minor reductions in the ability to feed. And while the system did work flawlessly, they were very happy with it. They wanted to point out that the weapons are being kept. They're not going to be selling them off. They're not going to get rid of them. They were so satisfied with the weapon system that it's now part of their inventory. The PTR-32s are made by, it's an American company, they bought up the Portuguese military arsenal tooling for the HK-91 series of rifle, but also for all the HK models I'm sure made from that arsenal in general. And what they did is they started listening to something we've been talking about with regard to training tools and utility technology. And what's fascinating is I had a conversation with these guys a year ago on this very subject. They came out with, or apparently looked at the PTR, looked at the AK mag and said, yep, 762x39 is cheap, AK mags are out there in force, this is a decent system, we can do this. And so they did. Now they tested the rifle, our people did, with the Bulgarian made brand new AK-47 mags. And they found that those worked best because that's what the rifle was built around. Now, they do work with other AK mags, but there were two different types of mags and I do not have the particulars. I still haven't found this in the report. I'm going to have to send them an email when they have to do a spike. And what I'm going to do is explain to them that I need the particulars on which two mags, types of mags, didn't lock up completely with just the initial tap. Now I will point something out about AK mags. And first of all, don't modify mags and try not to modify the weapon. work the system. You will be amazed at what happens. But most of the AK mags are all designed around the same basic system. I would be willing to bet dollars to donuts that the mags that were a problem were the plastic mags. The reason I say that is because there's greater variation in how they're assembled Then we see typically the steel mags that were made especially during the Cold War. So with the unique mags of the phenolic plastic or with the unique plastic mags made after the Cold War, made in more recent years, they worked, but not all of them worked flawlessly as far as locking them in a magwell. Once in the magwell, they functioned fine. So the consideration here guys is to look at, you know, again the dimensions on certain production runs. Recommendation by the guys, hey the Bulgarian mags work flawlessly, they're available in good quantity, buy the bejesus out of them because there's lots of them around. That's a good plus plus situation. But again, PTR 32, now who has them? Well, Maine military has them and they've got a good number of them. I don't know how many are truly left. They've got a couple that are on the layaway, but I don't understand. Actually, probably you guys listening are the ones that got them. But if you have the HK-91, if you have the CETME rifle, if you have the PTR-91, and you don't want to necessarily blaze out your .308 ammunition all day because it's still there, but it's thin. There's a veneer of ammunition and that's about it. When the next wave starts to hit, which down in Arizona it has, the stuff's going to dry up real fast. The reality of the next wave is already coming up and online. As that happens, don't be surprised at the end result. We've seen this before, okay? So, mainmilitary.com, 8776-08. 0179. You'd be talking to Frank or the guys. That's 877-608-0179. That's 877. 608-0179 and that's MaineMilitary.com. M-A-I-N-E MaineMilitary.com MaineMilitary.com. Did I say MaineMilitary.com? Yes I did. Anyway, they had the PTRs in stock. Frank got them before anybody else because he jumped on requesting them sooner than anyone. And they were waiting for the rifles to come out, waiting for the rifles. Well they did. and a bunch of you guys have already got them, they're already satisfied with them, congratulations. Now does this mean you need to sell all your other rifles and go in that direction? You should know better than that, you know I'm never going to say that. The advantage of this HK system is while you have to have the HK firing pins and extractors and ejectors, remember it's the magazines and ammo that's going to really be nipping into your wallet when it comes to field operations. The advantage here the best of two worlds. If you prefer the HK system, there is one cool thing about the HKs which I think everybody should look at which we talked about for years. And the German philosophy was this. Once, how many of you have ever been pistol shooters? When you grip a firearm in competition or for any kind of accurate shooting guys, once this hand is rested, when I'm doing this on Ustream where I can show everybody, once the hand is rested around the grip, And once that hand is where it's supposed to be, that hand should never leave the weapon in that cycle of shooting. Now we have to do this to a degree with certain weapons. Although the M16, they did make it very user friendly in the same way. Think about this. When the M16 is used, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, click, bolt locks back to the rear. You check it, yep, your mag is empty. You pivot, you grab the mag, you use the thumb to disengage the magazine. You pull the mag, you insert, you drop it, you extract another magazine, you insert the mag, you tap it twice, and then you tap with your left hand the side of the receiver to tap the magazine release, so, or forgive me, the bolt carrier release, so the bolt goes forward. Now think about that. Your right hand has never left the weapon. Now the same is true with the HK-91, but they of course have a different bolt system, which means that there's less movement in operating the weapon too. Whereas with the M16 we have to pull the weapon away from our body, grab the charging handle, pull the charging handle back. One thing about the HK is that the charging handle front and to the left is actually operated with the left hand and with a bipod for instance which many of the HK's have. You can actually shoulder the weapon, leave the weapon into the shoulder, into the cruck. The pistol grip never leaves that right hand control which is already settled. It's already been, if you've been firing the weapon, you've already compressed the flesh, everything is making contact with the way it's supposed to. That charging handle is pulled forward, or forgive me, is pulled back, allowed to fly forward. Don't worry about breaking your rifle. If your weapon has to be graciously and generously and gingerly controlled to operate, it's probably not the weapon for you. because in a field situation adrenaline rush is going to be there the military knows this they didn't build your weapon to be delicate with it with the charging handle on the M16 you pull it back and let it go with the AK charging handle back let it go charging handle back let it go let it fly let the energy of that bolt pick up that round and do its job the HK is the same way charging handle back to the rear let it go That's how it works. Let her fly forward. Let that round be seated properly. By the way, that same violent action takes place every time you use the weapon. You just aren't paying too much attention because of the crack down range. That's the difference is you're so busy with all the other functions You don't really have time to think about it that first time when you load it though You're physically doing it and you notice it. That's why it seems to be a little more Mechanical and dangerous anyway, I think we have a caller who do we have? Jason from Michigan Jason jump in there, sir Yeah, I just had a question about your opinion of the M1 Garand Capabilities as a modern militia weapon. I don't have the main battle rifle niche killed yet and I definitely don't have the money for say an M1A or any of these weapons you're speaking of. So I just wanted to repeat on that. Oh, the Garand. First of all, remember this. The Garand is out there in such strength that it's going to be around for the next 50 to 100 years easily. One of the nice things is that we're reincorporating back into the American system all the stuff we sent out across the United States and across the world, mostly across the world, South America, whatever. The Garand is as accurate a rifle today and is as desirable a rifle today as it was when it was fielded. in 1940 or 1941. It is as lethal as it will kill just as effectively. In fact, personally, my attitude is this. Because it's in .30-06, it will be more effective than most weapons on the battlefield. uh... that thirty out six cartridge is a superiority round no matter what anybody comes up with a million years only say grossly overpowered it's me i want that gross over powered cartridge i want to get through everything that guys carrying punch through and get out the other side if i can so the at the out six first of all is a very desirable round that respect as excellent penetration has uniform energy uh... equal to all the other weapons we've talked about it to to the up to this moment other than again the three way drops off just a little. The OTSIX Garands are the most common so I'd recommend those and the reason I qualify that is because remember there are .308 Garands. There are people that have rebarreled the Garands for competition. We're not going to change those. If you've already rebarreled them back to .308, down to .308, then they stay at .308. The Navy did this with their rifles. It is very serviceable. There are specific parts and pieces though that you want to start collecting just as we've said with every weapon. firing pin, extractor, all the small springs. The only thing with a Grand, an M14, and an HK as such is the main spring and an Op-Rod if at all possible. Now, Op-Rods are not as plentiful as they used to be and that is a very intricate component of the rifle and it is a very critical component. What most people are looking for when you're looking at an Op-Rod on a Grand or an M14 is how crisp the end surface is, how sharp. The sharper that end surface, the more consistent uniform and new that piston probably is because that's all the operon is is a piston system and that shiny piece of banded metal you see on the end is a machine surface and of course so is the end and the crisper and sharper that that is the newer it probably is now it can be redressed and armors should typically do that and there are a lot of M1 armors out there got another thing to recall Because the Garand has been so heavily used in the DCM, Department of Civilian Marksmanship, and in competition for Nion 60 years, there are a lot of skilled tradesmen out there in many different companies or in private circles that can maintain that rifle. And you want to seek them out. You want those skilled craftsmen to deal with any maintenance on the weapon if you're going to tune it up. You don't have to change the weapon out. You don't have to glass bed the Garand. In its infantry configuration, it excels beyond on the typical performance of most standard rifles in pretty much everybody's country right now. Penetration. .30-06, of course, is the king of the battlefield there in the standard main battle rifle cartridges. Everything else is rated by it. In other words, let me give an example. Well, I'm thinking about buying a nagot. It's pretty close to .30-06. I'm going to get myself a .308 battle rifle. It's just a little under .30-06. You'll hear this all the time. So the standard has been, for a hundred years, since 1903, the M1903 Springfield slash the M1M2 .30-06 cartridge. Big thing, buy more ammo, buy more ammo, get into reloading. Anybody who wants to throw away brass, you grab it, always inspect it. The other consideration there is, if you want to go other sites, I would not go into the optic sites with that, be quite honest with the Grand. You can, there are men that do, I'm not going to fight with them over it, but the iron sites on that rifle were superior to pretty much anything on the planet that was issued in that day and is still compatible with or can deal easily with a threat with iron sights, almost anything in optics that's out there. Fully adjustable for elevation and windage, which is the critical feature, and friendly to the operator to do so. That's the other half of the battle. You just have to learn that weapon. Most important grease and lubricants beyond spare parts. Remember you're going to need some greases and you will need lubricants of mild oils. Gibbs works for most of it but you still want to grease for the key components that need to be greased because you want something that's going to bond and stay a little more efficiently. Plus it'll work up and down through the channel where it can be picked up and discarded as needed through the processing of the cleaning surface of the action. So the grand is good. Another thing, dee-clips, dee-clips, dee-clips. If you're going to get the grand, start filling up a footlocker. That's my policy. Most people go, that's kind of excessive, really. Fill up a footlocker. And rather than buy a McDonald's hamburger during lunchtime, go buy a bucket of dee-clips or buy a whole handful of dee-clips. Every time you got some extra money, buy more dee-clips. If you can get them with ammunition, better still. But that's the that's the direction I go if you're going the grand you want lots of d clips Make sure you have still the short list of spare parts right off the bat Start watching for extra stocks at gun shows you'll find in the junk boxes We got two carbine and one grand stock for five dollars apiece at a show here not too long ago Because nobody thought they were pretty they were perfectly serviceable And a stock of any kind is better than having a duct tape or having to pin in the armory fashion a stock back to the other. It doesn't mean we aren't going to do it. I'm going to tell you right now, we've done hundreds, if not thousands, of garands, 14s, 03 spring fields, and 1917 Enfield stocks, and many other foreign stocks, and we've pinned them to armory specification. And those rifles have been in service for a long, long time. but you don't want to throw it out if you can help it but while it's being fixed you need something else to put on the weapon. Another thing, find a bayonet. Even aftermarket grand bayonets are available now which should tell you there's a whole bunch of goodies out there just waiting around. Field grade all the way up to pristine original. I'd go field grade for a lot of the stuff because it's a working toolbox. I'm not going to be, it's not a show piece, I'm going to lay on the shelf. It's a tool that's going to be out there underneath the car grinding away on stuff. So that's the attitude that you need to take with it. Where it's critical, spend the money on the sites, spend the money on the gas system, spend the money on the spare parts. With the stocks, just make sure the stocks are tight. They don't have to be pretty. The bayonet, service grade, doesn't have to be pretty. Sling, preferably a fully adjustable sling, the grand with the grand, and especially with the rifle marksmanship programs, the sling was an integrated part of the system. for rifle marksmanship with a grin and helps to support the rifle in many different configurations. The leather slings of course or there were competition slings made and then there's the canvas standard or nylon standard everybody was used to later on through Korea and Vietnam. Go ahead, I'm sorry, long winded there. No, that's the other kind of stuff I was looking for. I've already got a 1903 receiver date. It's actually from 1905. It's a family heirloom. And on the other end, I have an AR-15. So I wanted to feel that niche. I'm thinking of going down to the civilian marksmanship program down in Ohio in August to pick up a grand and... wanted to know what you thought. Do you have any recommendations for gear or load bearing equipment that's maybe stay different than the N-1928 cartridge belt that we're used to seeing from World War II. One of the tricks that you can do and it's a matter of whether or not you find something that's already been butchered a little bit or chopped up, always watch the junk boxes. The German paratroopers came up with a really interesting idea that we experimented with. For instance, if I use eight suspenders with the ten pocket cartridge belt. Remember that the cartridge belts will come apart. The suspension strap in the back unlaces from the buckles and you have two five pocket bands. Now what you can do is work another set of straps through there, save the original one, it's worth money. But if you got one that's kind of really beat up, or you can find an aftermarket Korean one. What you do is divide it five and five and for your suspenders that are attached to your cartridge belt, you can put five horizontally-fixtured pockets on one side, lace them through and then stitch them into the web gear, stitch them into the suspender, and then do the same on the other side on the upper end so they hang off the main suspender on the Type 56 Type, Canvas suspenders. Now below, you're going to fix those and what you have to do is first adjust the length of your belt and You can secure those with electrical tape behind the pockets because you have a certain amount of flex there. The other option is once you know what the length is for your gear, you can stitch it into place. or you can you can put another buckler in the back. What this will give you is your standard cartridge belt load down below but it gives you an additional however many rounds you want to carry up above and you have these utility pockets made with a dot system and if they're correct they should have both the dot pull system or they can have snaps if they're the Korean copies but the reason you can do this is because on the inside of the original 10 pocket couches the 10 pocket cartridge belt system there is a second suspension strap inside that snaps down the ammunition. So for horizontal carry like this you can get away with it and it's actually pretty comfortable to add more combat weight, number one. It also keeps the combat weight closer to the body. In other words, whenever you start adding things, things have a tendency to step out away from you physically. And this changes the dynamic with wear and tear on the body, the center of mass, both with regard to height and with regard to lateral motion. When you start to move stuff, example, when you have an Alice pack on, you'll notice the fatigue area changes because when you try to turn and move quickly, the weight that you've moved into motion, well, centrifugal force takes over. So any time that you can take combat weight, especially ammunition which is heavy, and bring it in closer to the center of mass, you will find that you will see less physical fatigue. You'll see less wear and tear on the person and you'll see the individual able to maneuver more efficiently. Now the other option is, you can also find, and these are another way to go, the British made a three stacked and they're canvas so they're actually pretty cheap usually if somebody doesn't know what they are. There are three individual cartridge pockets stacked like a pyramid. Two on the bottom, one on the top. Again, those can go over top of the pockets left and right, so it almost becomes like a grenade or an assault vest, but you can mount those over top of and on the H suspender. Now, it's a little tougher to do on the original eight point suspenders used for, you know, World War II. They're good suspenders. World War I through to Korea, they were still used. but the eight suspenders will integrate with the cartridge belt and what you can do with those is the same thing. They'll hang from the upper hanger on the British gear. You have one, two, three more pockets for more de-clips. So there are six more stations on your gear. It's close to your chest. If you're going to wear body armor, it will actually lay front and flat, which is nice. So it's another option, and these are mixing and matching old gear with integrating it with new equipment. The pockets run as little as a couple dollars apiece sometimes for the British ones. Two is sometimes as high as five. Typically the ones you'll find now are not going to be in tan. They'll probably be in the Air Force gray, or blue gray that they did for the RAF. and they're still, they're the identical cut Typically again, they will also have a brass snap instead of a dot system, but internally many of them have a cross strip just like we're talking about to keep the rounds from bouncing around. So that's a good thing. Remember a lot of times you're going to be in transit, you're going to be jiggling around, you're going to be trying to run hell bent for election, and stuff rattles free if you're not careful. So having secondary keepers, especially with you guys that are a little younger and are going to be doing a little more jogging, It would be a good idea to be able to secure that ammunition that way. The other thing are 1910 hanger medical pol-pouches. The guys used to load those up with d-clips to each, one facing each other. Integrate the rounds into each other when they're locked together. Hopefully that gives you- I have one more. Go right ahead, go right ahead. Just one quick one because I know surplus ammo is not as available as it used to be and when it is available it's pretty expensive. Do you have any experience with the aftermarket adjustable gas plugs so that you don't bend your off rod on the hotter load? Oh, that's a good question. Well, those have been out at different times in the industry. One of the reasons for that is, actually was going again into the competition shooter sphere because a lot of guys wanted to produce homemade or actually competition hot loads for extreme range. They were bringing up their pressure, they're bringing up their powder charge, they were trying to strengthen or trying to reconfigure the op rod in whatever option. The first choice was to try to find an NM op rod, National Match Op Rod. It'll be tighter. Also, usually a little girthier. The specs were just a little higher depending on what year it was made. as far as you going to the other option of modified out prod and with the gas diverting system. The only thing I would say is you might want to do some research on that and be careful because the Garand and its present configuration is pretty serviceable. I have never seen a Garand and we've used a lot of them. Back when I was much younger and not as experienced, the Garand was the where we basically learned to develop technologies. It was the platform of the day because there were a lot of garands showing up in the 70s from guys who brought them back from World War II. The other thing we were doing is we were building garands from cut receivers. And because of that, we had to gain a lot of experience in how things line up, fit and feel. And also you had to have an eyeball because there are a lot of scurrilous guys that were selling their garands that were cut as uncut. And the guys that were machinists knew how to stroke the metal to make it look correct. They used to wave the metal and cut it so the tooling marks would look really good. But there'd be a little line here and there you might notice. So I'd never seen a grand malfunction to failure with standard factory loads. Even with going and even going up to 180 and even a 200 grain load in a grand, which I've used more often than not. So unless there's something really strange with the load itself and that would have to be lack of quality control which would be the biggest concern. One of the things we've been so used to which actually helped to make the grand function is America's gold standard with regard to ammunition manufacturing. Even our surplus was considered a head above most everything made with the exception of a handful of countries like Finland or Switzerland that do far better work or comparable work but only in a much smaller scale. failed in the U.S. That was the big advantage we had. For the billions of rounds we produced, uniform quality in production with our surplus is what made us king. As far as add-ons, again, I can't stress enough. First of all, I would be more careful with the ammunition. If it's questionable, I'd put it over into the bolt-action guns that have the higher pressure potential to begin with, and I would prioritize most of my better ammunition towards the Garand anyway. In other words, well, example, we don't mention this much, but in 30-06 there's the Madsen rifles out there. There are Mausers that are in 30-06 that are kind of tired. They're good and strong rifles. The Madsen's a very strong action too, by the way. If you have a questionable family of loads that work, but are still, you know, again, they might be a little hot here and there, I would use the bolt guns to service those out and prioritize the best ammunition for my gas gun. How's that sound? That sounds good to me. I don't know what happened to the program, but back in the late 80's a gentleman, actually a couple of different engineers got together and said, man I like the Garand, let's make a .223 Garand. And they did. Now somebody out there listening might have seen one at the shows, I'm sure it's a collector's item because I don't think they kept the program up, but they scaled the rifle down. So like the Mini-14, this would have been the Mini-Garand. Which would have been a neat little package. It was just that again the you know the air 15s were the mags were so dominant Everything else was so readily available that the in the mini 14 kind of hit that niche that the mini Grand never did really take off, but it had its its its cheering crew in people who had used the Grand that were World War two vets or guys that were shooters that just like unique firearms I think it would be a neat idea, but the D-clips would be really really super unique and that would be your first problem. So very quickly somebody would have probably come up with a, we need to make an AR-15 adapter magazine for the 223 Garand, and they would have. One thing on your Garand, by the way, which I wouldn't do, but there are guys that have been doing this for many, many years. They will take a BAR mag and convert the Garand over to 20 round magazine feed. Now that's been in place for about 40 years. The guys that did this basically copied the Beretta concept of the M1 rifle with a magazine feed system. The BM-58s, BM-59s, and BM-60s and 62s the best example if you want to look them up. The originals were full-size garands with 20 round BAR mags and they started cutting the rifle down to make it more like an M14. And it can be done. I just wouldn't personally do it. Stick with the 8 round d-clips and have some fun. And relax and aim. How's that sound? Sounds good. Thank you sir. Appreciate it. Thank you for the input Jason. Thank you. God bless. We're going to go. You want to close with me? Sure thing. There we are. God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march both big and nice. U-Rod with the M1 Grand at maximum range. They won't even know what hit them. They won't even hear the crack. Thank you, sir. Thank you, everybody. I say what? We've got live programming coming up next. So stay tuned. We'll be back at 8 o'clock right here on LTR. 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