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So it is a clear day out there and that means that it's a still 15th of September as we know that's halfway through the month of September second year Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2010 old earth calendar it is weapons Wednesday reminder when you're looking at a lot of the weapons and equipment that are out there guys I know you have to do this you got a bullet that balance a budget of birth you know need and budget usually wins. So we try to come up with solutions that are going to be a lot less harmful to the wallet from one direction and allow you to build up more weapons to bring it yourself to a certain tier of defensibility or performance. Now, the key word is defensibility first because we're not all offensive. We're having to take care of and protect ourselves. One of the weapon systems that I mentioned today, and you know I've talked about a lot, although we talk about many here, The high point carbine for what it is is very inexpensive. It is American made. It has a lifetime warranty and you don't have to go all the way across the planet to get to who it is that's got the warranty. You go right here to Ohio. High point carbines are made in Ohio, three different factories along with all the pistols. Those are high point pistols and high point carbines. 9 millimeter, actually start at 380 auto, 9 millimeter. uh... forty caliber and forty five a c p now there's those are the four basic calibers that are in place and because they're uh... again the most expensive strangely enough the most expensive is three auto sadly enough but uh... that's because we need problem of production uh... other than that though all three calipers all three of the primary larger pistol chamberings very common all over the planet not just all over the u.s. They make their own mags that is a plus and it's a minus on the one hand the high point pistols and car beans require their own magazine Which means you got to pay what price you can get they do have an excellent price from high point So you might want to look at them first and then look at all the other sources after that It would be nice if they used, for instance, the .45 would have been great if they used a standard 7-shot or 1911 type magazine that was geared to the same pistol mag in general as a standard 1911. That way commonality of mags would be cheap, cheap, cheap. But they chose to go their own path. That's a plus, like I said, and the minus. Still not outrageously expensive for the mags from High Point. Remember there are now with the high point carbine a number of different stock configurations. Now if you buy the stock that you think you want to switch over to separate it's about $80. $60 to $80. But if you buy the stock that you want on the weapon when you get it, it's the same price no matter which model of high point you choose. Oh gee, well it makes more sense if you want a certain specialized stock then purchase the weapon accordingly, have the weapon ordered. and pick out what you want make sure it's for sure what you're going to stick with. Now to be honest the first model that was made is actually a very comfortable light carbine design. It's not fancy, it's been around for a long time now, actually it doesn't seem like it but this is the year 2010 which means high point carbine has been around for about 20 years and that's not bad. When you're looking at 20 years worth of performance from its prototype to its final production phase now But today there are three different integrated stock systems. Now the critical thing to understand is with high points is that the stock is a cast piece of plastic, everything that's basically a pistol component, lays right into that stock. You know, from the factory what they did is they weren't stupid. They based the carbine on their existing pistol design. and scaled it up accordingly. Now the neat thing is you can't really hack and cut and chop the high point stocks or anything like that. So once you got it, it's pretty where you want it to be. It's a comfortable design for all of you older people listening, for people who have children that you want to outfit, for the ladies who may not be shooting as often, but when they do, you want to be able to hit what they're aiming at and they may not be startled or surprised. The high point is a very quiet and very comfortable weapon to shoot. Remember, it's only a 9mm and 40 caliber Smith & Wesson, so you're looking at not very much in the way of recoil, it's a pistol cartridge. But it's putting a good weight bullet down range. You've got reasonable accuracy with the system. You have the option to go with optics. The first model had picatinny rails and of course iron sights. You have the option to change out the iron sights for whatever optics you choose. And now the newest, the latest model, which is the entry variant, It has all kinds of picatinny rails, top, bottom, a vertical grip that's foldable in the front, etc., etc., etc., you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So whatever you think you want to do with it, you can figure out how to configure it and it's yours. But it's still a very comfortable weapon. It is an American-made weapon. and it fits a certain niche in the defense category of firearms. So if you'll see, it's only got a 10-shot magazine. Yep, it's only got a 10-shot magazine. It's a defensive gun. It's not an offensive, you know, strungewehr. It is a defense weapon system. Great for medics, great for people in rear areas or in security positions where they can't carry, they don't have to carry a, you know, a Zussman Ackerman 50 caliber semi-auto with a, what, a good four and a half foot barrel. wrong. We're looking at something that's very lightweight. In fact, it actually floats, amazingly enough, to a degree, which is, again, it's better how many gimmicks and goodies you add to it. but a very simple design to maintain, very simple for connectors, keepers and fixtures guys so you can't get any easier to understand and easier to clean and maintain than the high point. Now it's not fancy, it's not overly intricate in any way and you should be able to figure it out. Now also simple finishing, simple parts and components assemblies. You'll notice that if you do a little research and you can find high point carbine on the internet Plus lots of people have done videos where they've been shooting their high points or where they've gimmicked up their high points in different ways. That's fantastic. You don't have to invent something. You can look at what somebody else's did. Excuse me. what somebody else has done and then mimic it. Why not? If it works, why change it? No reinventing the wheel? Wow, I like that configuration. I will go that way. Now, once you put it together, if you feel, eh, I want to change it out, congratulations, that's your job. Not Marks, not the guy who came up with the original idea. You tweak it to your needs. Another nice thing to do is where you have the high point carbine and the high point pistol combo. Are the high point pistols HK's? No. Are they Smith and Wesson's? No. They're high points. They're simple high point American made semi-automatic pistols. Pop pop. As long as you clean them and maintain them, they will function reliably. Are they a national match pistol? No, but they are reasonably accurate for the price that they are. They're a LUNKY. Which by the way is something that I would comment on because a lot of people go with their LUNKY. And if any of you have done any research on HK pistols, HK pistols years ago, if you watch the movie Aliens, you'll see one. Remember Frost, the black guy in the colonial marine unit there, in the marine unit, the landing unit? Well lo and behold, if you pay attention, he pulls out a very interesting semi-automatic pistol. It's one of the HKs and it's very blocky. Everybody goes, wow, that's a big handgun. Yes, it's a big handgun, but it's only a nine millimeter. This thing was all machine process, very few working parts. Every part served more than a few functions. And so the whole thing was very simple design, but bulky because of the nature of what it was designed to do. and mostly alloy which is really cool but it also something about the uh... h k pistols that that from that period is almost everyone h k fitted a shoulder stock to with a select fire option the select fire option was not on the pistol the select fire option was on the shoulder stock so once you've fitted the shoulder stock then the selector switch which was on the shoulder stock not on the weapon adjusted the sear accordingly. Semi, in fact it even had three round and then full auto. Amazingly enough, they actually had variations on the theme. They didn't sell very well because they were expensive and back in the day you could buy how many 45s are the price of one HK Star Wars pistol. Whole problem, so HK had a problem marketing the things in any degree. It's just, you know, wrong place, wrong time. Surplus World War II is still piled high to the ceilings. and so lots of wars could be fought on the cheap and by the way the high point fits the niche but it's not a Cadillac it's a Chevy it's a very nice Chevy in fact it's a very solid very rugged very simple Chevy doesn't have vinyl on the dash doesn't have any special you know super carburetor under the hood single barrel standard works fine works every time What about automatic transmission? Nope, no selective fire on the high point. Sorry about that. That's just how it works. And you don't need it anyway. It's designed to be a close-in defense weapon. The handguns are serviceable enough. You will see them, by the way, if you go to our YouTube videos, militia, the tactical fire videos, if you watch, especially with the many troops that are there, pay attention to the handguns being used. high point pistols and there were some car beams there being tested to failure. Now when we say test to failure we're not talking about until she boos up, that's not how it works. What they were doing is how many rounds can you fire through the weapon before you start to see significant malfunctions. And this means don't clean it, don't touch it up, in other words let the carbon build up, let's see where the failures are and what kind of failures we're going to get. Still, the high points performed exceptionally well for the amount of gunk and debris that was being built upon these firearms. In fact, while there were some malfunctions eventually, we're talking thousands and thousands of rounds before a malfunction took place. You better not be letting the weapon get that dirty or sit around that long. She's supposed to be cleaned up. Otherwise, if you don't, the carbon talks, not your weapon. Remember, it's Emory grit. Here's the best way to describe it. Just take a handful of emery grit and dump it in the machine and see how long she runs. Yeah, you know what happens just as well as I do. It's sandpaper, literally a handful of sandpaper dust. So that's what's happening when you don't clean your weapon. Of course it is polishing a lot of parts as it does scrape back and forth for a bit. That's why you get some really shiny spots inside that firearm if you're paying attention. That carbon works just like a sanding or an emery grit when it's moved, when two parts are of course grinding it back and forth and back and forth. So we don't want to see that happen and you don't need to test a failure. First rule, buy some cleaning kits, buy the solvents, buy the lubricants, we're going to touch on that in a minute again, and you're not going to have to worry about breakdown with these firearms. Okay, so high point, there's one solution. Now the next is Again, it's varying depending on what's coming into the country at different points, but there are still some pretty good buys on AK-74s out there. One that seems to be hanging on in the periphery, and don't ask me why. I mean I understand most people are very unfamiliar with the folding stock and you know Mark doesn't it doesn't get excited about folding stock anything. There are one or two types of folding stocks that would be great but you won't find them on most weapons. The model used on the Velmaze produced in Finland are the optimal stock design. They have two wedges that wear into each other so they could never get sloppy and flop. Most every other type of folding stock eventually gets sloppy and flops. the more motion with the firearm, the less accurate your weapon will be. Does everybody understand that? So while it looks cool, my mission isn't to spray and pray. My mission is to aim and hit because I'm only carrying so much ammunition. Probably a good point on that are airborne troops. Well, they're good at folding stocks. Yeah, and of course, they might be burning a lot of ammo. But airborne units are the first to suffer because if the parachutes stop coming in or the supply planes stop dropping, stuff in general are landing, that airborne unit only carries so much in the way of goodies, guys. And then real quick, they better have been collecting whatever else they've been firing on because they're going to be using captured weapons in a very short period of time. And that, by the way, is historically what has transpired. Rita Bridge too far. don't want to think about that one, do you? Well, folding stocks, whatever, are designed to lighten up the weapon or to make more space if you're armored, if you're an armored or mechanized force. My problem with that was mechanized is this. Everybody was lamenting. Now, I want you to think about this for a minute. Okay, back in the day, we had nine pound rifles and people were crying about it. We had the grand. Then we had the M14 and we said, we need to shave a couple pounds off. So they shaved a couple pounds off of the M16, then put about two or three pounds worth of junk back on it. So, okay, what's the savings? In other words, wait a minute. I took a non-carrying and inferior cartridge with less range and not even getting that much more firepower out of it. Duh. Well anyway, here's the one thing that gets me. Mechanized infantry have got a ride going into combat. So why do I need to worry about the weight of the weapon? You're driving everywhere. When you do jump out, the adrenaline rush is already there. You dismount from the vehicle. Don't worry, you're pumped up. You'll do whatever you're supposed to do. Oh, but wait a minute, but I might have to run with it. Another thing we have found to be historically truthful is when guys have to retreat and they have to run, trust me, they will find ways to get over obstacles. They will find ways to keep up with their buddies. And retreating is never a problem. Now, they might drop the weapon, but they'll do that even if it's a two-pound pistol. If they're willing to drop the weapon, you won't make an difference how light you make it, they'll still drop it. Okay, so that's something that needs to be taken into consideration. Otherwise, if you're mechanized infantry, why are you going with a lighter gun? That makes no sense. You're driving in an APC, you're moving in a fast attack vehicle, it's already wheeled, it's got horsepower. Whatever you want to carry, you can carry in. You're not going to be, you know, again in constant engagement. In fact, the big plan is you'd be exfiltrating back out of there, kids. So lo and behold, you haven't burned as many calories to get where you needed to be because you were driven in. I can never understand this. When you walk through the logic, there's nobody that can explain, oh, we need to go with lighter and tinier guns. Why? Because you're going to be in constant engagement. especially since there's another consideration. If you're a mechanized force, chances are you're going up against another mechanized force. Why would I want lighter weapons with less penetration going up against other mechanized units? Wouldn't I instead want all of my troops to be carrying heavier battle implements across the board that have armor penetration and the ability to do damage to the kind of fighting force I'm facing? Oh, and by the way, would I not also want to reach them farther out rather than wait until we have to get really, really close because I've got a real short barreled weapon and I've got a burp gun my way in theory through, you know, by pressure of fire through a situation? By the way, I can do still pressure by fire, but if I have a .308 or an .06 or a whatever new heavy assault rifle caliber, it wouldn't be assault, it would be an MBR caliber. Whatever MBR caliber they came up with provided it had that heavier, more ballistically efficient bullet configuration, wouldn't that be a far better choice than a woodchuck rifle or a squirrel gun? Hey, that does make sense after all, because that APC weighs 12, 15, 20 tons. It's already armored up, has more horsepower than it needs to push itself around, is highly automotive. Now I can go one step farther. I can do like they already did on the Saracen Nion what 40 years ago 50 years ago now well 40 years ago The Saracen if you look at it had fighting stations for the standard FN FAL Directions everybody goes what well I think you better to look closely at the Saracen design and Take a look at the viewing blocks and the fighting ports all the way around the vehicle Then I would have to remind you of something else. When the Saracen was built, which is an S-6 wheeled APC, guys, when the Saracen was built, in reality it became an IFV, infantry fighting vehicle, right off the bat. It had fighting stations, and the standard weapon for that period of time for the British Army was what? Y, the FNFAL, a full barreled, full length MBR, main battle rifle. The counterpart weapons in the inventory included the Bren gun in .308, the Browning machine gun in .308, and the Sterling submachine gun in 9mm Parabellum. And a sundry number of other leftover weapons depending upon what part of the British Army and what part of the world you were in. Yeah. The Saracen was built to accommodate the FNFAL as a fighting weapon. Now if you get a chance check those out. By the way, our guys bought a bunch of those Saracens over the years. They were only $8,000 a piece back in the day. Now they're outrageously expensive at $25,000, $27,000, $30,000, whatever. We don't know what the prices are right now. I haven't bothered to look recently because I know they're goofy. But back in the day, you could buy a brand new reconditioned Saracen, one of about 600 that came right out of the refabrication Rolls Royce plant. They ran them in, they cleaned them up, went over everything top to bottom, put brand new motor packs in them, reeled them out the back door, parked them, and then ended up selling them, rather than keeping them in the strategic reserve. That's the vehicle that mostly ended up here. Now the Saracen is the only vehicle like this because pay later on first the BMP comes up with very flat very short looks like a big you know Italian boot shoe box guys very flat Italian shoe box well anyway Fighting stations all the way around but as everybody knows well they want with the Krinck off on that mark. Yeah. Yeah, I know they want with the Krinck off short barrel Lots of firepower very high cyclic rate and spray and pray So again, the Krenkoff is in not a assault rifle, but sub machine gun category. Now, if they were going to do that, here's what always bothered me is why not just leave a Krenkoff fixed in the position and give the guys the regular AKs. That was the whole idea behind the Bradleys originally guys. They weren't supposed to pull the weapon out and run with the weapon. They made firing port weapons eventually. Again, very high cyclic rate, very small magazines. By the time you're on a target, you're already out of ammo. So, leave it to the United States immediately when they have an idea to immediately bollocks it up. Instead, leave a firing port weapon in station, originally with the McVie before it was the Bradley. Guys, the idea was to have your standard MB, well not MBRs, but standard assault rifles, M16A2s or M16A1s in Iraq in the middle, those were your infantry weapons, a couple of MAG 58s or M60s right beside it, and your firing port weapons were to be static and in place so that you'd have the ability to continue to participate. Now, the only other idea was to go with a Car 15, not a little mini car, and keep the cyclic rate at basically the level that it was with the Car 15 through its entire history going back to the XM177. Now, that weapon worked just fine and would have been okay. Still, reduced fire power, or actually reduced range, reduced penetration, again, my problem with that. Gee, everybody else you're firing on, although a lot of people probably would be infantry, most of the forces you probably are facing if they're AA class fighting formations or even A class fighting formations is they'll be mechanized. So why do I want to use a PipSqueak 55 grain bullet when I could be using a 147 or 160 or 170 grain FM J or FMJ specialized round in incendiary, incendiary AP, armor piercing, incendiary tracer, etc., etc., etc. In fact, tracer would be preferred and the Russian armor piercing and incendiary tracer round would fit the perfect need for mechanized forces. You get both an armor penetrator, you get incendiary potential to fracture fuel and to fracture ammunition, and you got a trace so that while you're bobbling along looking through that vision block you'd actually be able to see where the bullets were going which would be kind of nice. Now, somebody go, yeah but they can tell where the bullets are coming from. Hey, you're in a 20 ton APC going down the road with guns blazing in all direction. I'll bet you that they're going to know where you are. Do you think? See there's the balance on this. We're not playing infantry at this point. We're playing mechanized forces. This is Ogre. This is where you're playing the Ogre game. And you got big Ogres and they got big Ogres and the Ogres and the Ogres are beating on each other. Ogre 1, Ogre 2, Ogre 3. The bigger the Ogre, the more fun you have with the warm mallet you're carrying or warm mallets. Now the tiny ogres in this case the big you know the the look light mac you're gonna want as much firepower on it as you can you're not gonna want to lighten it up so that every time you fire on something it becomes a nuisance. Oh man a 223 I might as well not fire it's not really doing much see that would be the attitude on the other hand you could even have come up with and consider this look at the designs that have come up in the civilian sector for 50 caliber guns. Now consider, say, a lightened Barrett with a fixture mount, which means it doesn't need a buttstock, with a 15 or 20 round magazine, or just a 10 round mag that exists, and those infighting stations in stirrups inside, left and right, of say a bracelet. Would that be a little more in the way of teeth? You know it would be. Would it give the infantry a lot more confidence? Well, hell, it's a lot better than riding long waiting to get shot. Even a .223 weapon, I would admit, is better than just riding long and not doing anything. Being in an APC and being stuck with your back to the wall waiting for the next anti-tank ground to burn its way through the hull, your body armor, your spine, your lungs, and then watch it burn out the front of you, yeah, it's not a whole lot of fun. But if you want to relieve some of the tension, hey. get to those firing stations and start dumping rounds downrange. At least it makes you feel good, no matter what's in the fighting station. That was actually the reason for that, to actually build up confidence with the troops. Now the Russians, of course, use the BMP and the BMP doesn't just have side firing ports. The squad gunners actually station left and right of the front of the vehicle and fire forward on a bit of an angle or can fire pretty much almost forward to the front of the vehicle. Don't forget the BMP and the Bradley both have turret guns, they have main armament, they have secondary infantry armament, yada yada yada, etc. and I add on turret armor and add on turret armament on the roof on top of the turret. Well, and that's in both sides. Both the Russians did this and we did it, and the Chinese do too by the way. If you look at all their actual equipment in the field, ignore some of the parade stuff where they dress stuff down so it's a little neater. Anyway, a long way from just talking about the AK-74. The AK-74 with standard magazines and the 53 grain projectile. Yes, I know, Mark just mentioned wood chuckloads. Yes, it's a wood chuckload, but it's a reliable, combat, military proven, and built to kill us round. The mass number of 53 grain 545 by 39 loaded cases that are out there were built for the Cold War against us. Somebody screws up on that, somebody takes somebody out to a wall and executes them. So they were very careful to make sure that everything worked. So that 53 grain standard, it can be East German, it can be Russian, whatever it is, if it's in the Ham tens and you can get hold of it, whether it's in the gray case, the dark gray case, the green case, all of it will be steel. In fact, I've pointed this out. I don't believe I have ever seen a brass cased 545x39 load. I don't think I've seen a brass washed steel case. So it's going to be light gray, dark gray, or it's going to be in the gray green or green shades with a full metal jacket bullet, preferably the earlier 53 grain because that was the earliest. There's more accuracy involved there. Yes, there are heavier bullets and wolf makes them, but the problem is it's wolf. There are variations on the powder charge that allow for muzzle velocity variance of about 200 feet per second and that is major. Now for blasting ammo, that's not a problem. But we're looking at both accuracy and fire power. Accuracy preferred over fire power. The AK-74 original military loads offer that. The other consideration is this, and I'd like to ask you to test this for me. A lot of you out there listening have a whole bunch of AK-74s, and if you're not using them for anything else, they're still cheaper to take to the range for training than the regular AK-47s. We want to save all the 30 caliber Russian ammo we can. Ah, so if you have a handful of AK-74s for training, and you go to the range, I would ask that if you've got some wolf ammo, and you've got some of the Russian military ammo the 53 grain and there's some 60 grain stuff that came out there too I'll admit that because I've seen it but it's not as common or not as as readily available if you run into any of it we want you to separate it don't mix this up up in the same mags I want you to take one weapon loaded up with nothing but wolf factory It wants to take another weapon with regard to its magazines and load it up with the 53 grain military ball 545. Now go to the range and even if it's raining, ideally if it's raining I'd like to hear a report on this. I just want somebody to comment on it. Fire these weapons side by side and videotape them. But make sure that they're separated by about 10 to 15 yards. Now why do you think Mark's asking you to do this? And by the way, you can burn a magazine. Go ahead and, you know, don't blast the stuff until you're hitting the berm, you know, 25 miles down range and up a little bit like an artillery piece. No, no, no. I want you to aim and control consistent rapid fire, but not so rapid that it's just bursting all over the place. Boom, boom, boom, boom. 30 rounds, one after another. And I want you to film it. Why would Mark want you to film it? Well, I want you to teach people something. Notice the amount of powder discharge from the wolf ammunition. What? Well, it used to be we called it smokeless powder guys. Used to be, but it seems that all of a sudden we've gone back to the Stone Age with regard to a lot of these loads. And I'm noticing that the ammunition actually produces a major powder puff, a gray smoke. Now that may sound you know look neat for a movie and that may look interesting when you're watching videos But that's a real bugger when you're a combat infantryman and you're trying not to be shot So if I were going to the range now if I were doing 5 4 5 I would prioritize to use up the wolf ammunition if I tested it and I found that the 53 grain ammo Actually is pretty much smokeless But the new wolf ammunition or the other ammunition's actually have this gray haze smoke being generated from the muzzle because one means that all we have to do is watch for the pfft, the puffs of smoke. You may be far enough away that they can't immediately ID your position, but if you blast two, three, four, five rounds, you know, pom pom pom pom pom pom, and stop, what do you think the little smoke pocket's gonna do for somebody wanting to ID your location? You think that might attract attention? Is Mark being facetious here? Yeah, I am for a reason, you know why. Because what I'm talking about is true. Now, when you're reloading, I'm going to point this out too, because this is something we've had a terrible debate with people over for years. First of all, when you're reloading, you test an experiment by first doing what is laid down as a factory specification. Now, you have to base this. First of all, I have to understand, what barrel length are you loading for to whatever chain bring? Ideally, you want to balance out both discharge and flash. So that literally the powder is so efficient that there is nothing left that is unconsumed by the time the powder, the gas charge reaches the end of the muzzle and the bullet leaves the weapon. With reloading, you can still keep the performance pretty much within spec. And in fact, pretty much you'll see the paper chart consistently over and over again. If you bring the load back a little bit, you don't want any muzzle flash out of the end of that weapon. Why? For the same reason, I don't want any smoke out of the end of that weapon. I want all of that powder consumed before that charge is exposed to the air because the bullet leaves the muzzle. There should only be a little microjet, if anything, it'll be just a small amount, just a very, like only about a half inch to three quarters of an inch, sometimes an inch long, that is a little microjet, the last of the powder being consumed and being carbonized, okay, being converted over into waste material. But that's it. And that can be done with loading by simply balancing out the powder to the bullet ratio. That's personal. Now otherwise what you need to look at when you're looking at some of these rounds that you're using, and I will warn you of course for instance, you guys got the M44 Nagot carbines and you go Mark it's like a flamethrower. Well the reason is because the rounds, the loads that were built for the model M91 Nagots were built for the standard rifle. So when you're using a carbine barrel and you lose a few inches of barrel length, That's that much more barrel that the powder would have been burning in and building up charge before it left the muzzle, before it left the crown of that barrel. Because of this, if you experiment with night fire, you will find that the shorter the barrel, the more dynamic the muzzle flash. This, again, is why you may want to do two things. If you have a carbine, there are a number of different solutions that the Army's came up with. Number one is obviously a flash hider. This is a basket type, it can be a colander type, it can be a juice squeezer, pepper box. There's a number of different types of flash hiders and if you look at, for instance, the FN49, there's a classic example. The FN49 was produced with a number of different flash hiders, all three of the types I've mentioned, and in some cases with no flash hider, depending on what country ordered it. It has a threaded barrel but it doesn't have a flash hider. It just has a crown protector at the end that screws on. The Russians with the Tokarev rifle did the same thing. The Tokarev rifle has about four different types of muzzle compensators slash flash hiders. Each one is a unique design trying to come up with a solution of muzzle blast, flash, and of course, muzzle compensation to bring up the accuracy of the weapon. So it was a balance, a combination of the two. Whenever possible, you try to take that unexpected gas and use it to your advantage to stabilize the weapon. The sooner that you can keep that muzzle on target or the longer you can and the less close creep up there is or recoil up, the more likely the weapon is going to be accurate with the next follow-up round. It gives you more time to press down and into the target and recover that much more quickly. That is critical to performance when it comes to zipping more than one aggressor that's in front of you. So, are you recovered? Better, more likely you're going to beat the next guy to the punch. So anyway, AK-74, beautiful firearm, inexpensive, 53 grain bullet, still the 53 grain military load, still the cheapest, everybody has it right now, and I mean everybody, there's not a company you can't go to that doesn't have it, all that ammunition came from our guns out of Chicago, he was the number one honcho on this. Everybody has been buying stuff from him and he had a warehouse that wouldn't quit. It doesn't have much ammo but that's one of the loads that he does carry is the 545x39 53 grain FMJ. Now, magazines, Centerfighter systems and many other companies have the mags but Centerfighter has the best buy plus you get a mag pouch with every four AK-74 mags that you purchase. You're looking at about $380-$450 per rifle, some less, some more. You have to look around. One of the rifles that shows up is the Tantell, the Polish AK-47. For whatever reason, there are a lot of these available. They have been out there on the market for quite some time. And for whatever reason, what's interesting is because of their availability, I get a kitty cat, a four pod keyboard operator, bad kitty, here you go. Anyway, reasonably priced and a good design. The Polish make good weapons. It's just I'm not excited about the folder, but it works. Now, from AimSurplus, something they have in stock, and I know, boy, I hear up and down, back and forth, and I know I'm going to mention this and immediately there's going to be people going, hey, come on, sir. Well, here you go. Right now you have the Romanian AKWASR Wasser 2 in 545x39, prices $400. No it's not Mark, it's $399.95. True, unfortunately it's also sold out. There's an example of a really clean rifle, new stocks, new pistol grip, very clean action in general basic stamped a k m guys that's all there is to it nothing fancy to be all right home about but a basic rifle and it works uh... most important is if you run into them named surplus will probably restock as quick as they can there's a solution that mayor may not you know picture won't fit your wallet now the other one This is going the other direction here. Unfortunately, also sold out in most places is the Russian arsenal SGL-31 Sega. Yep, some of you guys bought it. If you look at some of the latest training films, you'll see a lot of the guys carrying the Sagas. They're carrying them in the 7.62x39 and the 5.45x39. Very popular, very clean gun, very well built. The big thing is more mags, more mags, more mags. You know this just as well as I do. So I think everybody is listening to what we have been recommending and the 545s are being consumed. Also we are not seeing them being properly replaced in inventory right away which means that there has been a great outpouring of interest. Part of that hopefully is that we have pressed that in the inventory. Now classicarms.us, and I want to emphasize this, classicarms.us, classicarms.us also has uh... the uh... a case seventy four is an inventory and they have ammunition now they got the ammunition for the same place everybody else did so you should have to ask mark about that you're going to have to ask them they'll tell you but uh... they do have some a case seventy four variants to include the ten tell uh... and those are reasonably price i'm gonna try and find your present quote on these by the way too and i'm doing that uh... because you got a check and get the spot check as you go with this The regular AK-74s, or forgive me, AK-47s are running as little as about $380, $370 more you buy cheaper they get. Romanian models running as little as $380, but I'm trying to find an AK-74 here to confirm the variant on this rifle real quick, and I don't see anything jumping out of me. You're going to have to hit me in the head. Well, as usual, as it is, it will probably be there. We've got the very last thing on the list of things to do. My goodness, you know what I think? I think we've done such a good job that everybody has carried the AK-74s away. Ooh, this is not a good thing for those of you who are standing in line for that idea. Well, let me see, we can do one thing that Classic Arms has a bunch of that most of you will probably be interested in. If you have an AK and you do not have a cleaning rod, ClassicArms.us has AK-47 cleaning rods. Now that doesn't seem like a big thing, but you'd be amazed how many companies don't have them, okay, where they're simply not available. Now, uh-oh, you know what, I think I was right on this. Forgive me, I steered you towards Classic Arms, but in the last two days, guys, their AK-74 inventory has disappeared. Not an exaggeration. I'm just looking right now. I figured, okay, I'd at least steer you to the latest sale item on that. I hate to tell you, but it looks like we're too late. And so you're going to have to shop in a few of the locations for the AK-74s. If you are scouting around, JG Sales is another option. I will mention that, well, let's see if we can clear these off the shelf. Obviously, we got rid of all their AK-74 variants. There are probably some other things out there. Hmmm, and I had just called on these two guys. Apparently, our mentioning them did help, I guess. But, 7.62x39 variants are available. Those are still in inventory. And they do have 7.62x39 Yugoslavian ammunition in stock. In both cases, the NAIGOT revolvers are back in inventory for a short time. They don't have very many of them. I'll tell you that right now, warn you. They are about $100 a piece now plus or minus 10 depending on who you buy them from. Forgive me, the, let's see, I was going to do that a second. They got revolvers about $89 to $100 a piece. You read that $90 to $100 a piece. Ammunition by the 50 round count boxes of the new production ammo. It is boxer primed, it is brass case, it is 2 mil spec and it will do you justice. It's a decent round and that's, you know, again, you have to go back and forth in the ammunition. Ah, here we go. Sega carbines. Now, whether or not they have these in stock is going to be the issue. If you're looking for a 5.45 rifle, $340 from classicarms.us, Sega carbines. Now that's a decent rifle package that's using the C stock. Do not bother trading out the stocks on these rifles. Save the money for now. Buy more mags, buy more ammo. Buy more mags. Did I say buy more mags? Yes I did. And buy more ammo? Yes I did. But for $340 you're going to save a few dollars in another direction. It's the only AK-74 variant for 545x39 chambering. that apparently they have in stock. Sorry about that guys. Apparently we've done a really good job of selling them out. So there's another one cleaned out. The other option is mainmilitary.com. And you know what Mark is going to do this for you. We're getting towards the top of the hour here. Now my curiosity is picked because we've seen these things cleaned out in the last two to three days. That's a flag. If I see this in another direction, I'm going to be really curious. Somebody is making a major purchase sweep here. And replacements are becoming a problem. That's another consideration. OK, we're going to do this. And forgive me. Oh, excuse me. And you know what? All rifles. Let's go here. Now mainmilitary.com mainmilitary.com, M-A-I-N-E mainmilitary.com. Did I say mainmilitary.com? Yes, I did. And we're trying to see if they have, here we go. Well, 47, 47. This is not looking good either. You people have been listening to what we've been saying, apparently. That's a, I thank you. But what it also means is everybody else is thinking the same way we are, guys. It appears that main military, you're going to have to call them to find out if they do have an AK-74 variant in stock because it appears that they do not. Now that will be the second. Now let's go someplace else. I don't normally do this on the air, but this is interesting. www.centersystems.com. Now, we'll see if anybody has an AK-74 variant that I can steer you towards. But you know what? I found three companies sold out so far. That's in the last two days. I called on this, well actually, yeah, two days. I called Monday on these and I confirmed because I wanted to make sure I could bring this up on Weapons Wednesday. This is not looking good. Okay, now, if we can, the next option is... Why am I having a problem? Well, if that's the case guys, all I can say is catch this catch can. What do you think about that one? All guns, here we go. Let's see what Mark can find here for you. Well, you know, the 7.62x39 looks like the direction you're going to have to head in order for you to be doing what you want to do here by the looks of it because AK-74s are becoming few and far between. This is not a happy camper scenario. up for giving you may have one option and the one that i originally proposed okay uh... one variant one company check to see what has changing sales may have to the polish can tell five four five by thirty nine rifle which uh... the i'd be number four center for systems is eight k a to end dash can tell that's t a n t a l so it's going to be a bond we've got a dog yes is content arrived for mister ball Yes, it would rip through plywood like there's no tomorrow. Find you, find you, seek you out, I say, Mr. Bond. Well, anyway, the Polish-Tentel 545x39, this is a wire stock, folder, side folder, rifle. Take standard AK-74 magazines, $400 a rifle. That makes it the most affordable right now because it's also the only one that appears to be available right now. The Polish rifles are very well made. This has an extended flash hider on it so that it meets legal specifications. Poles make darn good pieces of equipment so I won't complain at all and that's not a bad price. $400 for the rifle, $10 apiece for the magazines, unless there's been a significant change. If you buy four magazines at a time, you get a magazine pouch with the AK-74 mags. In fact, here it is right here. pkg a k seventy four four magazines and a mom a cave of seventy four mag pouch with a shoulder strap built-in eastern european spec which they may be hungarian all these things are girthy well-made and what's neat is guys you can load the mags up into the pouch put them in the animal can and have them have the uh... straps the carrying straps accordion on top of the pouch pack them in tight and when the time comes you open the 20 millimeter can. Look! There are stacks and stacks of magazines and 4-mag pouches. Here's your 4-mag. Get out of my way. Here's your 4-mag. Step aside. Here's your 4-mag. Next. Here's your 4-mag. See how that works? So this is a good combo package. $10 per mag and you get the pouch for free or figure $4 for the pouch. $9 for the magazines. Now, I don't know about the shipping right now, so you're going to have to check. And Centerfire Systems number is 1-800-950-1231. Again, 1-800-950-1231. That's 1-800-950-1231. CenterfireSystems, that's CenterfireSystems.com. CenterfireSystems.com. The Tantell, AK, and 545 by 39. That appears to be the only one in the system that I can see out of the more common companies. It doesn't mean that there are other people that have them. We know they do. But this is a heads up, people. A lot of people are listening. They're looking at price. Plus, again, cost of ammunition is the big thing. It's still the cheapest rifle right now to shoot in the center fire weapon. I would buy it and I would again put a couple cans on the shelf, or basically a case per rifle right off the bat as quick as you can, and then start stacking the cases up. would also pick up the mags while you can. The AK-74 variant is going to be out there in force. It's not the only rifle out there, but you're going to find bad guys carrying it, which means you'll be stripping them for all the other goodies. You shoot them in the rifle, guess what? You even carry the rifle parts back. Why? Because you can use them later as spare parts for your weapon. Or between several shot or damaged firearms, you can build another gun from parts. They do this all over the world. You can too. And you'll make it happen. Anyway, we're getting close to the top here and now we're going to hear the music. Center for Systems 1-800-950-1231. Maine Military, again, is the other option. Remember, don't forget to go to MaineMilitary.com. MaineMilitary.com. Solutions, not just complaining about the problems. 8776-080179. LTR Special Section, they've got the Swiss Canteen with Canteen Cups. Five for $10. You can't beat that price. I don't know where they got them from. That's a jobber price if there ever was one. That's a Canteen Cup with the Canteen. They're black. They're Swiss. very well made and there's a solution a lot of people looking for hydration you know systems for you know can teens and covers they don't have a cover but they do have the cup that goes around the canteen and every canteen comes with one that means you got more cookware when the time comes to a lot of times guys will just prep and cook in the canteen cup. That's what you'll use. It's fast, it's easy, it's one thing out. Add the water to whatever is dry. Heat it up on the little heat tab or make up a little quick fire with match sticks or whatever. All you got to do is get the water to boil, dump the stuff in, congratulations you're eating. That's how it works. Only enough heat to warm the water so it can be used. and that way it will help to actively cook the food or rehydrate the food more efficiently. You get a warm meal out of the process. You're taking fluids in, etc., etc. You know, yeah, it works. Straightforward process there. MainMilitary.com, MAINEmilitary.com, then go to LTR specials. LTR specials. LTR specials. Well at the top we should hear the music anytime now. And we got Spike coming in right behind us here. live broadcast in LPR. Then you've got the Ingo Report and then Dutch Jones coming up after that. So guys, it's going to be a big line up here for the weekend. Oh, forgive me, it's not my time, sorry. Craig's coming up next, and Craig better hit me through the microphone. I did it again. It is winter. Craig's coming up. He's going to be right behind us here with forbidden knowledge. It's forbidden, but he's going to make sure you find out about it so that, well, they may not want you to know, but he'll ask the word out. 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