July 16, 2010
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Mark Koernke discussed preparedness, wildlife threats, and self-defense on July 16, 2010. The episode covered expanding predator populations in Michigan including coyotes, wolves, and wild pigs, with detailed analysis of animal behavior and survival tactics. Koernke addressed handgun selection for self-defense, recommending full-size weapons over smaller alternatives, and referenced James Wesley Rawls's article on pistol calibers. He also discussed militia training camps across Michigan, the need for computer RAM donations, and various wildlife encounters including a California coyote attack on a child.
- coyotes
- predators
- self-defense
- handguns
- 45 acp
- michigan militia
- wildlife threats
- preparedness
- training camps
- wild pigs
- wolves
- concealed carry
- survival
- james wesley rawls
- animal behavior
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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 and 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? O 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 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 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? Is this still the land of the free afternoon ladies and gentlemen this is the afternoon intelligence report I'm Mark Porky and I'm Donald Thatcher One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories south, southwest, east, and north. Well ladies and gentlemen you are 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 Microstations, CB Bay Stations, and Ultra Net Technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We are 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 the third hi guys in the third of Wyoming. Also a cross over there in Iowa slash Iowa where we have micro FM and AM stations going up all over the place. You're probably heading home right now listening on one of the stations out there. Congratulations and hi to everybody. Then back over to the Blue Ridge in the Smokies where the Golden Spike Project is working diligently to cross that gap. Actually we got pretty much all the areas covered We're just filling in the blanks now. That's one of the most important things. And refining the technology. There are different generations of equipment being used. Everybody is coming up with new solutions. One of the big things I will recommend, guys, if you have old RAM cards of any age, we don't care what they are. Any old RAM cards that you have for computers no matter how old we have that's right even the 8 meg We don't care we need them they are something that we do need and that is a little comment there sidebar if you got a Closet and you got some old RAM cards you pulled out of say all the business computers But then that was like four generations ago, and you left them in the closet and Well, I'll tell you what you can do here. You can box them up and ship them to PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130, and we'll route them to where they need to go. But RAM cards, any age, any type, you know, they're dinosaurs. That's good. We don't mind. Trust me for what we're doing, everything will come in handy. We'll talk more about that in a minute because, Don, first of all, we need a benchmark. What is the day today, sir? Mark, today is the 16th day of July, year of our Lord 2010. Again, July 16, 2010. It's a great day. What does that mean? A little bit of a breeze here, moving the humidity around. But it's a great day. Oh my goodness, we're halfway through the month of July. Yeah, whoa that went by quick and been busy enough. I tell you what I can't complain We've been blessed with a lot of resources and material that people throwing stuff away guys. It's that simple We're scrounging okay, but I've just picked up enough stuff to help out one of our allies probably to do a nice little steel building if everything goes well They need a little shed area set up for some other projects, and they're already committed to steel. We're not so They're probably going to be pointed towards that project area, but it's really neat because the guys are really cool at the other end and as a matter of fact, they're allies. At least now they know where to look and what to do to find out about what's going on. So we're going to do our part to keep that busy and operational. But otherwise, a couple other things happening. Remember, Advanced Party, want to say hi to everybody. In fact, we might even hold it. Let's do it this way. Right hand to hi everybody. I can wait. Leave it up now, Don, on our Ustream account for all of our friends way up north that are deployed in the remote locations across Michigan and other places around the country. If you are deployed this weekend, chances are you have a micro FM station at your base camp, which is the tradition with all of our camps here in Michigan. Want to say hi to all of them, Camp Neg, Hicham, Camp Hemmerich, Camp Emerson, Camp Whelan North. Let's see, the Ogama Ranges and also, let's see, what is it? Camp Wolf, that's the new one, Don. I understand one of the other units is actually is now developing another piece of property, Decent Terrain. Looks like it's going to be pretty cool. They've already been camping there. There are other units that are establishing training sites that are similar. This gives them an opportunity to get out in the field. And in fact, you know, ideally if you've got water and mixed terrain, which isn't very hard here in Michigan. You've also got a good backup facility when the time comes. Things are a little tight or get a little dangerous or a little too hot in an area because, well, the local peasants slash E-O-E, you know, the dark side of the force slash whoever it is that might go crazy, well, you can back off from a distance and watch the glow on the horizon. You know what I mean? Be a real good idea. So just think about it that way if somebody decides to go crazy because they can't get their latest Nintendo game and they can't go to the video store or they all of a sudden their Latest football feat isn't you know working right and they go into riot mode. You don't want to be around You know, that's the stupid reason for doing stuff like that. In fact, there's not really a whole any reason for rioting Why would we want to do that? I'm gonna ask everybody to fly out to think about that guys Why and when have you ever heard of anybody in the Patriot Movement rioting ever? Never! I don't recall, I can't. Never! You're right. So that's the difference between us and the Diddle Fritzes that are out there that are, you know, shaking the fist, ranting, raving, screaming, hollering, but, you know, kind of playing the game of what the bad guys want, so. We're doing our part and I will say too that remember all the advance parties are on site and so far, I'm not going to do it this way, if I say it in a negative way, I just realized when I did that this morning, all facilities are open. All facilities are open. That way there can be no misunderstanding. All facilities are open this weekend. Everything is a go. It is a go. That way they can't say, well you said that Mark something was shut down. No, no wrong. Everybody, it's a go. I don't care if the mosquitoes carry you away this weekend. They probably will. We had moisture and we got heat. What do you think that produces in Michigan? Oh, that's right. That's what the Indians used to go. This was the land of the mosquito, if you don't know that. Little bit of history. If you want to see the really cute pictures of the Voyagers, you notice how they always show those dynamic paintings where he's got the skin hat, he's got the Voyagers jacket with the wraparound sash and all of that. He looks really cool. Well, during the summer months in the Great Lakes, that is not how anyone looked. You know what? The Indians were so grateful when the white man showed up and provided two things. Sash, curtains, and canvas. Do you want to know what they did with those? They cut holes, they draped the canvas over their body, put, like we were talking off the air don, whale oil, kerosene, whatever they could find, and they would saturate the canvas with that, and then they would cut a hole in the upper part of what would be the middle. Imagine like a poncho, but without a poncho head. And right where the face is, where the eyes are and where the mouth is, they would sew into place that really fine window mesh, you know, like the curtains, what we call shears. That was the bug screen of the day. And what they would do then is smear kerosene on that to keep the bugs back because they'd still swarm, desperately trying to get into the soft, chewy stuff inside, you know, the human flesh and the blood. and what would happen is they would pedal as quickly as they could from one place to the next quick pedal harder, pedal faster and there would be a swarm and this is not an exaggeration there would be... LOUD NOISES Yes, it would be chimneys in fact there are there's two other bugs here we don't have as much in Michigan thank you Lord I think we pretty well killed them off for whatever reason we're not in the line for them anymore but we were and that's black flies if you've ever been to Canada and the Canadians listening know this, there is a cycle. Just like I was talking about the red tide for the Gulf of Mexico, there is an extreme cycle for the black flies up in the Canadian provinces. And during the high cycle, literally there are chimneys of black flies wherever there is a living soul or a bear or a moose or a raccoon or anything they can feed off of them. And when I say chimney, we're talking 30, 40, 50 feet and like a line. It's like there's a laser line. traveling around with that poor creature. The train operators down the east to talk to up in Canada would say that the moose would come out driven crazy by the black flies and run in front of the trains and get hit. No matter how hard they tried to miss them, they were just crazed and they didn't really care where they were going as long as they were trying to get away from that monstrous little bug that was running them all over creation. Well, you know what? Those are the conditions that the Voyagers, the North American Indians, and a whole lot of other people that came through this piece real estate knew a lot about. And they did a lot of hacking and shopping and they did a lot of kerosene on the water and they used every kind of bug anti-bug device you can think of, including all kinds of chemicals, to kill off that threat. So be prepared guys. Nobody's going to be out there spraying for those bugs down the road. You know what I mean? Oh wait a minute. Oh, oh, oh wait a minute. There's nothing going on. Oh wait a minute. You can do this all day. You know what I mean? Instead bug nuts and yeah, you might as well throw some bug spray in there for a bit But how long will it last guys if you're out in the woods and you got to use every day How much can you carry and how long will it last? Rather carry bullets. Yeah, they're not to mention bug spray. You know go like this you guys out in the woods Hey, Don Yeah, there are natural alternatives, but you write and know what they are exactly. No go ahead. Yeah, we got to know what they are you're right But again, most bug sprays, if you're standing down and wind from them and somebody in your particular group of people has a pretty good nose, odds are you're going to start pointing up wind. Yes. Oh, I smell a perfume. I figure one of the other techniques, we've never done this before but it might work, if we have aggressors that are new world order soldiers and you capture them, remember that if it's during the bug season, in the evenings you strip them naked and just tie them, you know, tether them to a tree so they can run around in circles and you know, leave their hands tied behind their backs or in front of them, still able to move them. That way they'll swat and they'll make motion and they'll move around and they'll sweat and it's kind of like a bug light. Only in this case, what you do is you use the bad guys, you know, you capture a Canadian soldier or a UN soldier or a foreign Chinese soldier strip him down to his underpants if you want to let him keep those and just tether him there in place running around the tree or tying close and tight to the tree so he can't get away about evening about you know sunset and then while they're busy feasting on him chances are they'll leave you alone and the more he gets bit the more he'll probably get sweaty and nervous and maybe even make noise and this draws more flies it's far better than a bug light because a bug light goes zzzzk zzzk zzzk all evening. Instead it's gonna be OH EVEN GAAAH! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! Oh, poor guy. By the- by the end it's TOCHAMU MANG DA! TOCHAMU MANG DA! Hey, but you know what? The mosquitoes aren't biting you! Yeah, this is true. Now the more Chinese you tie up like that at night, the less likely you're going to have mosquito problems through the evening. So that means you're asleep will be more comfortable. So always remember, we're not going to hurt them. We'll just let nature take its course. Ooh, mama, hi! Ooh, mama, hi! Oh, I'm sorry, that's Vietnamese. So anyway, so as it is, just thoughts about the environment we're in, guys, and understand the world we live in and the world the way it has been naturally. If everything goes back to natural, There's a lot of reasons you're going to be carrying guns for instance. You know like right around here We have four coyote packs you know last night. You could hear them going off We had the train go through the usual turn here And there's a sonic safety device on the train to drive the animals away from the front kind of like an electronic cow catcher But as it broadcasts down and it sweeps the area And you can hear it makes the coyotes goofy. Yeah Yes, the yodel dogs all go off one at a time and what's interesting is last night You could hear all four packs One far to the north one to the northwest one to the west and the other one closer to Dexter now That's on this side of town, but there's also another pack on the far side of Dexter towards a an arbor Anyway, that's why the little cats and dogs are disappearing on the perimeter Dexter that direction. They don't understand my cats missing Did you let it out? Yes, then it became coyote snack. In fact, it was a coyote dog treat. Well, no, I can't believe it, but they're coyotes Yes, that's my point. They're coyotes Now, as we see more of these predators in the wild, remember, traveling cross-country at night is going to become more of an issue. And if things were to go really wild, don't worry. All of these canine critters are going to need more food and two-legged food is just as good as four-legged food and usually you're slower. So... Easier for them. Yeah, so learn real quick. In fact, they're already on the edge. You're getting used to the idea of people as not being something to fear. So you're going to... forced to be. In fact, people who thought, I don't carry a gun, oh okay, no problem. Can you walk out in front of ways? It's kind of like when you have, all of you know how headhunters work. I'm going to change the direction here just a little bit, but it's kind of like dealing with these kinds of predators. Headhunters don't kill you by running up and dancing around you and holding you down and sawing your head off. That's not how it's done because that's not proper through custom. Through custom, the victim has to be taken unawares and the head has to be taken with one fell swoop while the character is unaware and his head is severed from his body. Now that really sounds like, oh that's terrible. Well you don't really feel anything. You do see the sky, ground, sky, ground as the head's kind of I'm sure twisting around there and then for a little bit you're looking at somebody's feet and after a while it kind of black out. And wait a minute, those are my feet. Hey, that's not good. So anyway, the important thing to remember is this, that if you take a step and you're, you know, if you want to really muck up the head hunters, you know, remember, tell your body to move. You'll be probably panicked and frozen. They're going to take your head. But the electronic charge usually kind of gets to your feet. And if you take a step, under the, uh, this is South Pacific policy, guys, with the headhunters, and I'll explain the whole cause here, but if you take a step, THE HEAD'S NO GOOD! BAAAD JUJU! So in other words, they killed you for nothing! YOU BUGGERS! Anyway, yeah it's true, that's actually how it works. But you see the thing is, they'll try to find people that are by themselves or unawares, that way or like they're walking in groups, but like the groups are spread out because they start talking and they think they're safe and they're walking along the trail. All of a sudden you hear a bunch of rustling up ahead of you about 50 yards and you run up and you find Frank's body, but Frank's head is nowhere to be found. Don't worry, Frank's head is... He's running through the wall, running through the woods, heading back to the ryse because you see, the reason they're headhunting is not for the fun of it. Headhunting is done as a seasonal thing because of the rice ritual. Rice does not grow properly, Don, in headhunter countries. That's right. He's going to be the center of the ceremony and unka, unka, unka, ooh, unka, unka, unka, ooh. After they have the proper ceremony, they take Frank's head, put it up in the rice, in the rice granary, and the innards drip down and make the rice stronger. Whole reason for actually having headhunters. How do you like that? Now? They don't eat the rest of the body. Come on, everybody think they're not chewing on the rest of the body. They have to leave it behind. It's no good. It's no longer necessary. They're not cannibals. That's another story. That's right. They're not cannibals. That's the neighbors next door who finally figured out that the other headhunters were there. So they pick up the leavings. Don't! Did I say that? Yeah, they could do that. Then they get rice and they get long pig. Oh! So they buy the rice and they harvest the... Oh! That's terrible. Anyway, point is this. The coyotes you have now that right now are kind of nice and the wolves, they're all like, they're little wolves. They work just like the head hunters do, but they carry everything. They're like aliens. Okay, more like aliens than anything else you can imagine. We had a wolf attack in Michigan last week. Oh, yes, that's right. Somebody brought a wolf home that was injured and she thought, oh, it's just a poor little defenseless animal. Its leg was damaged. She left it at home. And when she came home, home, they didn't find the child but in pieces. And, well, he didn't like them firstly, but he liked them for dinner. then the old days are back. In fact, some people are going to kind of wish these old days didn't come back. But this means that if you do not go, if you go unarmed, I'd rather have you up in front of me. You want to know why? Because whatever's tracking you, we'll be able to see it after it's grabbed you and it's trying to drag you off into the bush. See how that works? So I don't have any problem. It's the headhunter syndrome. Well, okay, I'm telling you Fred, the headhunters are here. Oh, that's crazy. That's just mythology. Okay, Frank, wait a minute. Slow down a little bit. Okay, don't slow down. Wait a minute, Frank, you going up ahead of us? Okay, well Frank, no, no, don't go around the corner. No, no, slow down, Frank! Slow down! AAAAAAAHHH! Hey, did you guys see the brush root kind of rustle up there? Oh yeah, uh huh. Let's give him a few more minutes. I wouldn't want to interfere with the ser- with the ceremony. Well, the same is true with the wolves, guys, and the same is going to be true of the coyotes, no matter what anybody says, because here's the other problem with the coyote packs we've got here. To a degree, they're breeding with, and they have been intermixed with, some domestic animals. And because of this, we're ending up with two things happening. We're ending up with a dog that's even more familiar with man, a coyote, a yodel dog, but we're also ending up with a bigger yodel dog. In other words, the gene line has been beefed up. Remember, we've been breeding all these big dogs. We've got Rottweilers, we've got Great Danes, we've got Black Labs, we've got Golden Retrievers. Well, if they accept or if they at least mate a couple times with a couple of those things and they still have the dominant coyote gene, which they will, you now have a coyote gene critter but with a lot more muscle mass. And this is something we're starting to see with the animals that have been killed in the area. So, because we still have guys that are hunting coyote. and they will tell you flat out we're getting some bigger dogs now there is another thing as they find more domestic cats and more poodles left on the chains out behind somebody's house right in the wild uh... yeah they're getting better food and they're getting food that's cleaner think about this they eat bunnies all the time they grab a pheasants they kill off all the other game they're gonna kill off the turkeys and everything else if we don't watch it But at least with those, to a degree, there's kind of a vendetta because wild animals, to a degree, a percentage carry disease. They're not going to the veterinarian. They're not getting shots. They're not getting anything fixed. So the coyotes, in many cases, or the predator game, have a tendency also to snag stuff that is, oh, it's slower, so it's easy to catch. But that's because you may not have wanted to catch it in the first place. So because of that, you've got a second tier. of problems that are developing because the other half of the problem is that now that they're in closer proximity to modern man a wider range of other diseases are being carried by the yodel dogs slash the coyotes that wasn't there before. So something else to think about. Now imagine unbridled breeding a whole bunch of them out there running around and eventually end up with a 200 pound dog like they have in the other room there. Well we meant Bruce is in the studio. Well, that's like a lion then. Yeah, we got a lion dog then. Well, not exactly. But, you know, if you had a coyote that big, that would be a threat to numerous people. You'd be finished. Let's put it this way. A 230-pound yodel dog would be like a football player coming after you, and especially with yodel dog speed. So they're getting and and that is this sounds strange But we're seeing this also in two other categories and something in Michigan which again at night I'm gonna warn you about I have traveled many miles at night across, Michigan I've gone cross-country across many sections of Michigan to meet drivers and link up with other escorts, etc. under time schedule processes, you know, at different points over the years. And guys, wild pigs are now a problem in the state of Michigan. Pigs are a predator. At the very least, they are territorially dominant. They will pick an area, they will control it. If they meet you on the path, it's their path, not yours. Everybody understand that? Don't think, oh look, it's Wilbur the pig. It's like meeting that wolf and taking the wolf home. Look, it's Wil- Shoot it. Yeah, it's Wil- Shoot it now. But wait, it looks so cute. What are those things in the side of its head, Don? They look like two bananas. What are they saying? They're called cuffs. Those will eviscerate you. No, but- No, that's a fancy word for being gutted. Yeah. There you go. So you see the point is also remember when you hear the word, oh wild pig, you better start doing some research and understand what you're going to be facing there. We also have, as we've seen in other parts of the country, got a lot of listeners in California want to say hi and also into the high country, you're seeing more of the mountain lions show up. Now the mountain lions have increased in population, but here's the thing, they were introduced down in the area where the wild pigs were. You know what? They didn't put a den in them at all. didn't even slow them down. In fact, I got this funny feeling that mountain lions aren't stupid. They don't go up against a pack of pigs. know what I mean? Oh no. So there's another thing that we're starting to see this in Michigan and this is something that you all need to be thinking about because almost every other state of the union progressively is facing this. Now there's a two-fold reason for this. Number one, hey guess what? You kick all the farmers off their property, people aren't going into the back 40s or in the middle of sections anymore. If all of a sudden you're anti-hunting and you're anti and I don't care what predator you come up with, you're not going to slow this one down. If you don't get hunters out there and you don't create game teams to go out and hunt and to clear out areas. All of these animals we're listing are smart enough to figure out where to go where you're not. You understand what I'm saying there? In other words, and so what happens is they create breeding colony areas and then they'll pulse back out because eventually they're going to over breed the area and they're going to push back out into the areas where they were where you are. Again, pistols. I like what Don James Wesley-Roles just wrote a really good article. Somebody sent me the email on this, but it's on survivalblog.com. Survivalblog.com. Survivalblog.com. And it's on big pistols. Now, you know, we've argued this forever. Number one, You're not shaving that much off the weapon to get some of the lighter firearms that are out there. Granted, you can create pocket pistols which are now in place that will carry the 45, the 32, well, the 32 has always been around. But you've got little Rugers, you've got the AMT backup and 380 auto. The key word whenever you hear this is that was a backup. Like the AMT back up in other words my main 45 or my main revolver or whatever I was using in three five seven forty one Magnum 44 Magnum 45 long Colt Whatever it is I pulled it out and it went boom boom and then boom and then maybe something maybe just maybe something happened or went wrong. Maybe I lost it because I got hit. Well, I can't reach that big boom toy, but guess what I got in the other pocket where my left hand can reach it? Ah, surprise! Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop! See how that works? That's what a backup's for. Now, a lot of people have decided that, oh Don, that .45 is just so heavy, or even the 9mm Glock 19 or my SIG is just too big. I'm going to carry something smaller. What it comes down to is the convenience issue, but you're negating knockdown capability, and you have the ability to carry a better weapon. Now, in the field, they already know about this. You might recall there's a whole family of guns, handguns, that have been very popular for years called camp revolvers. Now, there's a reason they were called camp revolvers. Typically, they're in the middle to higher end calibers, 38 special being probably the lowest, but 357, 41 mag, 44 mag, 44 long colt, 44 Smith and Wesson special, which is to 44 mag, what 38 is to 357. Now Charter Arms made a beautiful little five shot blown up copy of the undercover and it was called the Bulldog. It's now out there in another form with reinvented charter and it's a decent little example of a three inch to four inch, in this case a three inch, 44 Smith & Wesson Special five shot belly gun. Advantage, a lot of lead that opens up real big if you use jacketed carte mouths and it offers knockdown power. It's designed to give a lot of energy, but at close range it was designed to be carried conveniently. But it was also again also called a snake charmer. Why would they call it a snake charmer, Don, if you're in the field? Could that be... Well, it would just be handy and right there all the time. So if you run into a little predator problem, you deal with it, right? Yep, well that's where these little revolvers or these mid frame. They're not really little they were mid frame and and full-size frame revolvers in a standard police or a little under police issue range barrels again, I mentioned the three inch, but you'll find them in four inch too and Very popular for the reason I mentioned positive action Don you and I both know wild animals don't give you any warning do they oh? No, if you can walk right up to them, and then they decide to do something and for that reason Any, any, almost any brand, a mountain lion, a bear, a coyote, some of them will try to run from you, but if you walk right up to them and startle them, you're in a deep, deep wall aren't you? And the fact is that the revolver choice, the reason they argued this was that you pull the revolver even injured, it will operate if you have a malfunctioning round, which is not likely, but let's say you drop on an empty chamber, one that's already fired, all you do is pull the trigger again and boom, boom, click, boom, boom, boom. So all the rounds go into the target. So that was one of the reasons for the camp revolvers. Now today, still the .45 ACP, the SIG pistols, the Glocks, everything out there, there are full-frame weapons available. You want the energy and you need the weight. It's not that heavy to begin with and they're certainly still concealable. That was the argument about concealed weapons that James Wesley Rawls was bringing up. But I would point out, and this is cool because this has been a discussion we've had when he was visiting here before on this subject of handguns. The idea that we don't need to go smaller. It doesn't mean I won't carry a smaller handgun. You give me whatever I got. If I go into an area and I need to re-equip from whatever spares you have, I'm not going to cry about anything you give me. I'll make it work. But the idea behind this is if you're choosing the weapons and you're having to go out and you're having to defend yourself, you don't need to be pulling down your probability of survival. For that reason, you have a full-size weapon, especially for the men out there, is preferred. Ladies have different upper body strength, but they do have better places and a lot of places to hide weapons that we can't. Hey, wait a minute, that's right. Hmm, less likely to be noticed. Although sometimes people stare too much in those places, and so better make sure it's contoured, right, so it doesn't kind of create another bulge that somebody might wonder, that doesn't look natural. Yep. I didn't know the rhythm. Well, anyway, three of those? No way! Yeah. So it is a consideration and it's one thing that needs to be looked at with regard to concealed carry. But concealed carry and open carry, either way, if we're dealing with the predators, that full force round and the ability to have a full-size magazine or a full brace of rounds available makes a big difference between life and death. And there's no negotiating with predators. Granted, we're talking, but we can be talking about the two-legged type too. But in the wild breed of predator guys, there is no debate or conversation. There isn't any talking out of it. This is not a two-hour movie. These are not farm animals from, you know, Animal Farm. These are not creatures from a Bambi movie. These are indi- These creatures have individual personalities, which is the first thing we have to acknowledge. They have different, you know, problems or internal problems. One of the things that may have brought them into contact with man is their lack of ability to perform, which means, again, Don, they start looking for what? Easier what? Easy your dinner, play, food, something that doesn't put up so much of a fight or cannot run as fast. And let's look at something we saw here not too long ago. Remember, something happened out there in California at a park. Remember, some woman was watching a child and all of a sudden a four-footed friend showed up, didn't he? Well, that was a coyote. That was even a this. You know, the wolves never attacked people and even if that's true, well coyotes never do, but this was eye-witnessed you guys. Many people running around in the suburbs of most every city now. In fact that tug of war, the animal came in, snuck in, grabbed the child, thought it was going to run with a snack and it perceived the baby as a snack. And the woman was in a tug of war and everybody else tried to scare the animal, scare it, startle it, oh it's like how about walk up and kick it in the head. That's what got me about that. It's like okay men what the hell happened to you people you know? Wait a minute stop you savage stop you evil Oh, oh the coyote or wolf whatever you are stop you evil savage stop I didn't work the stop didn't work so I said it's all intent on biting the child It seems like you could just relieve it of its trachea Yeah, exactly if it's already chewing on something guys It's only got one real appendage you can use to you know to fight with and if it's already clutching a child guess what everything else is free game uh... i would point out that anything you've got snap its back busted Remember, along the spine or along, like you said, down along the throat, you can do leg damage, whatever, but remember it's still gimp on what it's doing and it might clutch the target. If it's injured in such a way as we're talking where you go along a lateral surface area, it's probably almost going to immediately let go and respond. Now, it may not respond positively to you, but the job was to try and save the child. So if you're next in the line, well guess what? Fight back. That's one of the other things that just didn't seem to be sinking in with these people. We had to negotiate with a coyote. We couldn't believe what it was doing. Come on, coyote. Don't you read the script? No, it doesn't. The other part about it is, and here's the thing, you've got to think about one other question that nobody wanted to ask. I know that buckshot covers us extensively, but this is tied in because we're going to be out of the field this weekend, and a lot of people are, and you're going to see these predators. Does everybody understand that? You're going to experience them. In fact, I'll tell you one of the other things I've run into patrolling with you guys across the country that are listening, the Florida FTXs, especially wild, wild cows, feral cows. No, they're not bossy, you know, as far as being friendly. In fact, they are territorial too. In fact, they also run in herds. That's why they do run in herds to defend each other and protect themselves. Well, guess what? If they perceive you as something interfering with their territory, the area of operation, they're not friendly. Okay? And they're not the cute little bossy, and they're not the Larson cows from far side, okay? Just doesn't work that way. Now, in this case, the coyote, my question was this. If the coyote perceived that child as a target and was identifying it and was able to recognize it as a snack, don't you think there was a high probability it already did that once where somebody didn't catch it? Where did the child go? Yeah. On to the back of a milk carton. The FBI is still looking for them. Exactly. So this is where, again, people at the very least think of, and this gets into something else we've talked about. In a situation like that, I know everybody is like, it happens so quickly, but here's the thing, you have to think faster. Everything is a weapon. Everything is a weapon. Everything is a weapon, but the hardest, heaviest, biggest thing you can find is a weapon first. Okay, well throw whatever you have to, but then in other words, immediately eyeballs are roaming and anything that you can find. I'll tell you, let me give an example. It might have been a baby buggy there. Fold it up real quick.