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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 and home of the free? behind the lines in occupied territories again by Liberty Tree Radio. You've got, hey, this 29th day of September, year of our Lord Tucson, and then the Intelligence Reef's block of hours, or this brace of hours, this of hours like a fine pair of pistols, you know, matching pistols. That kind of leads me over to where we're going to go next, because you know the 29th of September here is a particular day to strike a week on the calendar, and if you know what's coming, it's a soothing And if you don't, don't panic when you first hear the chamber, the slide, the back, the magazine is in the well, and it is Weapons Wednesday. But your mark will be along in a few minutes, momentarily, or, you know, in a little while. But, you guys, it is a Weapons Wednesday, so we're going to run right into a couple of things here. Rogers, I just got to say that push out of the forefront again, because, you know, that's kind of what the intelligence report did was a particular thought to, you know, what Mr. Rogers used to do to the... of the main stream. Give me just a second here. I'll write a phone number. You guys want to get out a paper and pencil for this one because you know that. Do you want to go there on the Internet or if you just want to talk to somebody real live and in person 800-3. Again, 1-800-950-123. And one more time, a couple weeks ago they had a nice 8. And here are my notes. Again, the phone number 1-800-950-123. Now another thing we go in here as of It's a morning, one of our morning sponsor, and you know, then we diverse. So in the afternoon here, I'll tell you about, you know, because this is Liberty Tree Radio, about the American, a great american institute dot com, where you can, 1-800, again 1-800 substitute, you know, this is, if you want to be a mechanic, you go to a mechanic, you'll want to know a whole lot more about your gunsmithing institute, because you know what, what's really cool about the American gunsmithing, again that great immersion is on individual guns. Now, again, you don't have to be a god take your gun apart because, well, why? It's yours. Many intricate and interwoven and kind of locked together parts. Chinese Puzzle Master would be able to... But when you have instruction, and this goes over to build it on that a whole lot, and you know, without any sort of training on it, you know, outside influence, training, try to take a gun apart if you don't... Or try to... Even worse, you know, let's just stay with... Try to take a gun apart without... Now, if you've got a lot of... and And this is one thing about the ers inside thing. A lot of people know this but don't talk about it. But you know you take your car to an automatic mission shop because transmission and they'll take the torque converter out and they'll take everything out behind that and not everything. What they'll do is many of them will take till they find what they perceive to be the problem and then they'll stack and crush. While I, it does, if you only do half the job, and this is why a lot of transmission shops, But the ones that are there for a good long time, they're the ones you guys, and this is the one I'm trying to make here, the one, the transmission shop on the corner for a good long time. The one your father says, yeah, you can take your car there and they do good work. You can trust. Those are the ones that when, when they have your automatic transmission out of your car, take it apart. It's on the inside or laying there on the bench. If the man knows what he's, and then you know what, he diagnoses the press as it needs a new one of those, even if that's not been diagnosed. And many times that's with the whole kit, but you know what? We'll put it in. Why? Because, well, I found a problem and I used the parts I needed and I'll save those parts for a different job. Well, it's all good and economical, but you kind of shorted the guy who paid for it. So I just used that as an example. I cut and beat up your load. I don't, you know, lynch them, run them out of town. And you know what? You can get away with servicing your gun the same way for sometimes your whole life. Well, I come and I clean the cylinder and that cylinder. Then you put it back in there and, well, you think you've cleaned the gun, but you know what? Your transmission who only went down to the part that put that in and then closed it. like that guy eventually you're going to come to my clean the barrel for years and clean them their individual champ revolver doesn't you see where I'm going with that if you want to know a whole lot more American Gunsmithing American Gunsmith Institute dot com or one eight hundred seven on your individual great you got that's like going to uh Yale sixty eight core there just specifically well maybe not Yale I you know you guys the American Gunsmith Institute be your friend when it comes to learning how your gun works. I've given their number out and so again on this weapon I'm going to say, uh, Betcher. And I'm Mark Wernke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories south, southwest, and central. Well ladies and gentlemen you were listening to us on... the and Oklahoma with the pumping oil too. Then back up to Nebraska, oh the third of Wyoming. Hi guys to the unit there. And then across Iowa to the Golden Spike Project on the eastern seaboard. In reality, oh from the middle of the country right back to where we started off. Not quite up to Maine again, but with the Golden Spike all up and down the smoky slash the Blue Ridge. That's there. That's what they do. And on the day's date is... Ah! I knew that was happening. There we go. And today's date is... is Guys, there was a whole bunch of different weapons or gas operated weapons that had persnickety problems because of lack of cleaning. Now one of them, actually a whole family of them we should mention, are the Remington Auto Loaders. Beautiful firearms, exquisite machining, some of the intricacy, or actually the one part that Don, especially for the model before the present auto loader that Remington presently built. was from the 50s and it was an incredible design, a beautiful design. Much machining was done and they tried to incorporate some new stamping ideas, but mostly all machined. But there was one, one problem that became a consistent problem with almost every one of these rifles and for that reason Remington made a lot of space gas turrets and gas diverter parts. Why? Well, unfortunately the gas diverter system is up underneath the, which of course is where it should be, but it's also pretty tough to get off. Actually it was very well secured. It wasn't coming off with any bumper, tap or oopsie. However, because it was out of sight, something you mentioned earlier, it was also out of mind. And so what would happen is individuals would fire that rifle in .30-06, .300 Savage. and many other number of other auto loading calibers, some of them custom for the era no longer made. And then put the weapon away. Now sometimes they carried out for the season, you know everybody was taking those out deer hunting. And they go to the range sighted and then they go deer hunting and they brought it inside, they took it outside, they brought it inside, they took it outside. Well there's moisture that built up, then of course carbon. And the gas system itself was kind of like, I guess the best way to describe the way the fixture looks. Have you ever seen those gas fixtures? Remember in the laboratories where you hook up the rubber hoses, guys? Remember those? It kind of looks like that, and it was all finely machined, very well machined, and very crisp and very bare metal because it was supposed to be sharp and crisp and make contact with the rest of the operating system. Well, Donnie would work back and forth. It would be worn a little bit, making a more abrasion. It would get a little carbon. lucky that probably be your best choice to have carbon over what happened next. Unfortunately it also got moisture in there that nobody typically wiped off. And then somebody got done deer hunting and they'd go put the rifle in the closet for the season. Standing up in a case or standing in a rack or in a rifle case, whatever. Now a lot of times a person thought about their weapon only in seasonal respect. And so all of a sudden a year later, well nine months later, They break the weapon out because they're going to go when they're going to shoot. Now they do what you said. They swab down the barrel. They cleaned off the outside with whatever kind of oil or whatever. But they didn't do a general maintenance check. And they get to the range and they would find out that, wait a minute, something's wrong here. My charging hand. In fact, they couldn't even get the operating system open. In many cases, they'd find out about it at home. But a lot of times they figured, ah, she's oiled up. She's greased up. I'll take it to the range. I'll pull it out, wipe it off, and then I'll fire it. So they tried to work that action and they'd find, hey, I missed a safety or something, maybe something latched in place. No, no, no, that was not the case. It was in reality that that gas rod had welded over and to this little tap-it diverter tip that was one small, actually pretty good sized. Now guys, this is true of most gas-arperage weapons, that's where all the junk builds up. the heat builds up. Therefore, if you're in cold weather, that's where all the moisture is going to build up to. Now the AK already thought this through. I mean, Kalishnikov understood. What was the country he was building a rifle for? Yeah, the land of ice and snow. They already took that into consideration. But the precision builders at Remington, they kind of figured that, well, you know, everybody will think this through. They'll read the manuals or they'll... No, they didn't. And so the most commonly sold assembly on these rifles, Don, was this massive gas block, beautifully machined. I have had to look at five rifles in my lifetime that in each case were the same model Remington. There are variations because it was also made for Sears and it was also made for J.C. Penning's too, by the way. And I think Monkey Ward's, Montgomery Ward's. In each case they put their name on it and they had their own logo for what it was, rifle, you know, the Splat-O-Matic or whatever. And in each case it was the same problem. And again, once they picked the weapon up and tried to work the action, it's like, man, this should not do this. And I'm looking first for it. It's so snug you think, man, it's got to be like there's a special manual safety or something in the way, Dom. And then you realize, nope, nope, safety's where it's supposed to be. There's nothing in the mail. There's nothing. Oh, this weapon's got problems. So then you disassemble the foregrip. And by the way, there were some complications with the gunsmith. if you're a gunsmith even working on these things because of this. But by the time you're done, lo and behold, about a $72 to $80 is what it came down to. Which, if you look at the cost of weapon, that's a big chunk of the firearm right there for back in the day. Most of them have had that gas block replaced once. The reason is once it's rusted and scored, it can't be used again or typically will not operate properly. And because of the way they typically rusted down, they rusted so well together, whatever steel they were using, I don't know what the 4140, 4130, you had to be some variant probably on that. It did a fine job of oxidizing right to the other piece of that wall, almost like chemical welding, actually just natural welding. One piece of metal, two pieces of metal became one piece of metal. So this is an example of what we're warning you about. First of all, the Gunsmithing Institute has all the information you need, guys, so that you don't make these mistakes. The other half of it is that you'll know the weapon before anything can go wrong. If you've gotten hold of something that's grandpa's collection, or dad's collection, or great grandpa's collection, there are weapons in there that you'll want to take care of. Do you know how to take care of them? Well, let's see, just like you said, you just cleaned the bar. No, that's not how it works. You know how many carbines? I'll repeat, and I'm not exaggerating. I have probably bought alone over 250 to 300 carbines, all with the exact same problem. The person cleaned out the barrel, wiped off the bolt, and never bothered to take the action out and do a proper military clean of the weapon. For this reason, and typically with carbines guys, it's the same problem over and over again. I'll tell you this right now. This will probably ruin it for some guys at the gun show who will buy your rifles. Unscrew that front, that front bayonet lug band, slide it forward a little bit, there's a little tab pushing on the side of the wooden stock. You'll see it. When you push that in, it slides forward towards the sight, towards the sight at the end of the barrel. Then the whole assembly will pivot out of the wooden stock Now that will expose the guts of the gun and right there You'll see there's this tappet assembly and a big lucky box You probably didn't notice you didn't even know existed maybe that was part of that carbine operating arm You know the op rod now what happens is that tappet slaps that piece of metal and pushes that bolt back It's what it does, but if there's carbon down there and down like the m16 like the M14, like the M1 Garand, like that Remington we were talking about, like the AK47, if it says gas operated, that means the gas does what? Does it kind of get diverted? Oh yeah, it's the thing that makes the next weapon. Well here we have it, the key word is right there, the key word's inside the weapon. Now some weapons are designed to be more forgiving than others, example, and we do keep mentioning the AK. Oh man Mark, you're harping on it. Well because, guys, I'm sorry, Kalashnikov had his act together, okay, no matter what we come up with. Now he stole a lot of stuff from the Germans, by the way, so let's not make, let's not forget that part of the man formula here. You know, the Germans had their act together. The Russians had a real good job of stealing stuff from the Germans, so they got the rest of the game. Okay, that's how it works. But they came up with a great idea based on the idea of self-cleaning. This is a key word. Most weapons are self-cleaned to a degree. Any engineer knows what his weapon is going to do. He knows what the machine he is working on is going to do. So there is a certain amount of self-cleaning that takes place. Let me give you an example. The FN FAL. The Hakim rifle. Even the FN49, the mother of the FNFAL. Their flat surfaces are designed to scrape and move debris out of the tray, the receiver tray, and down through the magazine well and through the trigger assembly. Down through, they actually have so much trigger assembly, but there's gaping little holes there. And it seems weird, but it was actually the way the designers intended the design to work. Even the M16 to a degree does this, but unfortunately it takes everything right back to where it defecates, where it eats. And so the problem is that you've got a bunch point, we all know where that is, little gas tap it, that's saying all the gas tip, on the top of the bolt carrier and the gas tube itself that's up there in the corner, so hard to get at that you had all kinds of special cleaning tools to get to it. And pipe cleaners and blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, the Remington's and the carbeans in this case, it's out of sight, out of mind. You literally, unless you take the time to instruct somebody on the weapon, if they have not any time with the firearm, they like it, it's fun to shoot while it works, but then when it starts not working down, they get frustrated. Now, you clean off that tappet, follow military instructions for cleaning, and you'd be amazed just how well that weapon will run. Wow, thank you very much, Pillow. That's right, typewriter. John Wayne would be proud of you. Of course John would always use a grand. I think I would always use a carving in a few movies because it looks so small on such a big guy. But that doesn't mean John Wayne didn't Gary-carve me. There's a time he did. You'll notice that if you pay attention to different movies. But there again, the carbine will function flawlessly once maintenance is done. And I bought close to 300 firearms, or somebody said, it's not working, I don't know what's wrong with it, I'm fed up with it, including carbines and folding stocks with double vertical grips. Very popular in the late 70s and early 80s, guys. carbines with paratrooper folding stocks, carbines with specialized thumb hole stocks, you name it. All the same problem eventually and they said, I asked, did you clean it? Yeah, well yeah, I cleaned it and I'd take it apart and I'd open up the stock assembly the way I described and guys, it looked like somebody poured a handful of emery cloth, emery grit into the gas area. So they kept firing that gun down until, it's almost a bolt action, but they are, I'm gonna make it work. So, let's not see that. Now, another area where this is a real problem is with the .22s. One of the reasons is that the .22 carbon, actually, the residue looks so much like the interior finish of the firearm, that many people, what they will do is literally brush it off, dust it off a little bit, and usually grease the part. Have you ever noticed that, Don? The guns look like gun grease, the gray grease. Now, the problem when you do that, that looks just like the carbon in the spin powder. And now you've created, well not just carbon, but you have carbon clay. Hey, if carbon was bad before, emery cloth type only liquid emery cloth is worse. And so what happens is you'll get buildup in all the fine contact areas. Why will you have failure to extract? Well, it's real simple. That carbon's going to work into those fine line tracks on either side of that extractor. And progressively, it's not just going to be on the sides of it, it's also going to build up underneath it. And it will impact that area to the point where the extractor will not function the way it's supposed to. It has no place to go. It has no motion. If it doesn't have any motion, it can't do its job. So there's another area in the 22s and the semi-automatic 22s especially. Manually operated guns are much more forgiving because most everything goes down the tube. So there are still problems with carbon. You have blow off and blow back a little bit, a little bit of a puff. But that adds up when you do hundreds or thousands of rounds. Again, you're abusing that beautiful machine you spent thousands of dollars on or hundreds of dollars on if you fail to do the maintenance on it. Talk about revolvers? Yeah. Pistolos in your... Oh, see, Pistolos is a beautiful firearm, but if you ever take the time, you can either do this yourself now with all these neat portable cameras, these digital cameras down. Take a digital camera, put it on a tripod, take your favorite handgun, put it up there in front of that camera. and run it at normal speed and then come back and do it at quarter speed. Do it at slow-mo. And watch to see what happens around that cylinder when you pull a trigger. Now because of that, that means there's a whole lot of other places where Mr. Carbon is going that you may not be able to see easily. But there are still points of contact and channels of access that allow for a certain amount of dirt, a certain amount of carbon, a certain amount of debris to pass through. Now, the actions are very forgiving again, but you need to know how to do maintenance. The more you, the cleaner the firearm, the longer it will last. That's simple. Now, with the AK, that means it will be forever. You'll hand it off to your grandchildren. Sorry, I keep rubbing that in for a reason. I will say this, there's a lot of guys I know that are carrying Model 1917 Smith & Wesson's Colts from World War I that their grandfather carried in the trenches. I know many of them that are sitting right now within very close distance that are with militiamen right now and that's what they carry is they carry their granddaddy's gun. Kind of like I remember you said in Red Dawn. Remember that? Here's your granddaddy's gun. Instead of a Colt Peacemaker, it was one of those big original Dirty Harry N-Frame revolvers made for World War I 45 revolver, rim 45 ACP. You talk about a sewer pipe. Oh my goodness, it echoes just like the 45 1911. Now, the neat thing about those revolvers is that they never get rid of them. Because people are going, well I can't get 45 rimmed revolver ammo. Well, that's why they make half moon clips and full moon clips. And if you look, the back of those revolver faces, the cylinder faces are recessed so that they'll take a half moon or a full moon stripper clip. And your regular 45 ACP ammo, just like the stuff you hear down, load into that 1911 at the beginning of every weapons Wednesday. will fit into that standard revolver. They were built that way, which is really kind of cool. Now in fact, I have a whole bunch of them still down put away. Now they're stupid collector's items. But it used to be we'd run into hundreds or thousands by the bale by the way, World War I, 1917, half moon clip magazine pouches. for the 1917 Enfield. Everybody kept asking me, what are you going to do with those? Use them with the 1917 revolvers we have. Oh yeah, we got a bunch of them. Why? Oh, oh, okay. Well otherwise it's like, what are you going to do with them? I'm going to put someone on the shelf. You want to know why? Because they're a stupid price now. Because World War I is a century back and there aren't any more being made. You see, so for those people who need those for that pistol when they pull it out, either A, I'm going to take the used ones and those will go out to the troops. I could dispose of a few of the others and we'll at least get some compensation for being patient. So there are solutions, guys, not just one thing about the problems. Now, another thing about those revolvers is utility maintenance, both internal. Another thing that most everybody seems to forget about, Don, is especially if they carry... I've seen police officers do this, cops do this all the time. Maybe not so much for the automatics, but I don't think it's really changed is you've got to watch holster wear with all of your weapons if you're carrying them on a regular basis. There's two things that happen. You have finished degradation, but here's another thing. Don, where's that front sight sitting? Or even if it is, it's kind of taking a lot of energy there, isn't it? You're kind of getting worn on. See, so one of the things you need to keep an eye on is, I've seen this happen more than once, and it happens with, by the way, riot shotguns and things like that too. That front bead, somebody might have put a halo bead on it, they might have put a gloss bead or those reflector beads, or one that's with the fiber optic plastic, and they'll pull that weapon out and they'll bring that weapon up and they're trying to find that front sight. It's not there. Now, why is it not there? Well, because what's happened is you're carrying in that holster and a lot of guys will carry them and they actually, familiarity breeds contempt. Now, there's two embarrassing things. You talk about embarrassing them, like you're saying they're going to the range and trying that weapon and finding out that it won't open. How about opening up that revolver and trying to get that cylinder to empty and you find that there's green around them there brass casing. What does that mean? But isn't green natural for brass casing? They're left out. I'm laughing but I'm not. Actually, it's happened to all of us guys. I'll tell you what, I've even had this happen and what I noticed is it's interesting. I'd prefer if I'm carrying a revolver I'll try to get nickel cases. We use brass, we use nickel, we use aluminum, we use steel. I don't care what it is, if I can find it, it'll be put down range. But I try to carry nickel cases for that reason because we learned this long ago. We only learned this trick long ago about the problems involved. But here's the thing. This is another thing about familiarity. You don't want to spend more money. Example is I used to buy Winchester AP Conical 357 or plus P plus 38 loads for my K frames. Winchester still makes these. I challenge you guys if you do an inventory check. Now they may not have them now after all these years. Back when the 357 first came out, everybody goes, yeah, you can split an engine Mach with a 357. What they didn't qualify that with is that both Winchester and Remington made very special loads, or initially, police use only, AP loads. Now, these were actually a very specially designed conical front. almost like a German World War I conical 9mm round. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, do some cartridge research. Imagine instead of a round taper to the bullet, instead of a step taper like you see on a wad cutter or a semi-wad cutter where it's flat in the front, instead imagine a conical taper like the nose cone on a missile, like an angled nose cone, or like on an RPG-7. There's a good description. An RPG-7 conical with a flat center nub It's like a flat tip, you know, like a teat, right at the very end, just a very spine, like a crayola crayon. Here's another way to describe it. You've all seen a crayola crayon. Basically, that's what it looked like except a little finer tip where that conical end is. Now, these were also full jacket and they were a little higher tint and anemone when they first developed them. They're actually different combinations they came up with. What did this do? It hardened the bullet. It created a more energy, you know, projective When it made contact, it would start burrowing right away. It would eat into sheet metal. It would go into iron. That was its purpose. That's the wound that was developed for the .357 Magnum when it first came out in the Highway Patrolman's Midwest and Model 27, the pre-Dirty Harry Gun. This is the .357 Magnum, the fourth most part, the third, well close enough. The third most powerful handgun in the world. Before the .44 Magnum showed up, it was the most powerful for a little bit of time there. Very popular with a lot of people. Patton carried a Model 27, carried a Colt, carried a Smith. Most people don't realize that it didn't carry matching guns guys. He carried one Colt, carried one Smith. The Smith that he carried was a Model 27 Highway Patrolman with a full length barrel and combat sights. Combat front but adjustable rear. What's important about this is in the case where a man's carrying a gun like that, brass cases are so critical to maintain control over and Mark even has had this happen, I carry that same. I don't want to buy more of them. I do have a 50 round box times, you know, 20 or 30 or 40 of them by the way. I mean, did. They're away, they're safe. But the point is that an HSK speed loader with three more six cylinders full of Winchester Western AP Plus, a whole 6-bot loaded into the cylinder of the gun I normally carry. It should be a Smith Model 19, or later on I also got into Taurus model 66 with a 6-inch barrel. Now, I would carry enough down that guess what? Those little cases are moving around inside that cylinder. It may not seem like it. But you know, you move it around, you open the cylinder, you dump the load, you check the gun, you clean the gun, you put the rounds back in. If you do that enough, Don, what happens to that nickel finish? It comes off. It gets scored. It shows pretty badly it's off. And so eventually, even though you're thinking you're going to be cool, it would be save the embarrassment of making that mistake. Lo and behold, guess what? If you're not paying attention, those worn cases, a couple of wet summer days, and you got green in that cylinder, and it ain't money. It ain't that dollar rolled up in that X. Remember how these two that the dollar rolled up into the one empty chamber for the guy to bury, remember that trick? Well, that's not the kind of green we're talking about. So again, maintenance not only on the weapon itself, but let's remind somebody, maintenance on your ammunition too, which means wiping down, not with oil. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never when you are working on ammunition. Ever, ever, ever. Don't ever want to hear anybody say, well I'll use some more of that new. Make sure that doesn't happen. You're sizing your cases. Yep, only yeah. And then there's a special lube for that and they have a very specific mission and there's a whole process. And they were engineered even to deal with the problems that we were concerned with, which is petroleum oil lubricant products and pyrotechnics slash powders do not mix. They will neutralize or it may deactivate them. the primer. In one of the reasons too is that in many cases the front sights are made out of a dissimilar metal to the weapon. And that's something when people say dissimilar metal. Well, some people want to lighten it up. They'll use plastic. Sometimes they've used aluminum. Sometimes they've used even titanium. They've used other infusions or combinations of plastic and metals because they wanted to, A, try to shave a tiff of an ounce off the weapon, but also they want to make a more intricate sight. Now, the problem with that is that if it's an insert or if there's something that's jutting up a little higher like that target site we were talking about a minute ago, your holster is going to protect it. But what happens if you're dinging in and out of stuff? You're jumping out of an APC, you're jump climbing in and out of a patrol car, you're stepping in and out of your van in every so many days. Well, you've got to be paying attention because you may pull that weapon out and find out there's no front sight to line up if you haven't been doing a full inspection of your firearm. Now this sounds like a rudimentary thing, but I cannot tell you how many times I have run into people carrying holstered weapons. Shoulder holster, hip holster, ankle holsters, okay? Were they pretty over sure that that sight was in place? An interesting gun down that this became very common a problem with Well, remember first we had the Glocks out there. Everybody loved the Glocks. So Smith and Wesson thought, man, we've got to catch this wave. So they came out with the Sigma. Now, the Sigma is purely a thievery of the Glock. There's no other way to describe it. But beautiful firearm, except it's weak point. Guess what? On sight. Do you know how many owners I know that pulled out and showed? Let me show you my Sigma. And I'd see something go slip as they'd pull the weapon out of the holster. And they would bring the weapon up and they would check the mag and they would clear the weapon and then they would hand it over to you. And you would pick it up and you would take it and you would lift it up and it would be like, where is the front sight? Is this like a combat sight like in a Smith and Wesson Model 10? And they would go, what? What do you mean front sight? Front sight is right. And immediately I said, freeze! Because I did see something fall when that weapon was taken out of the holster and lo and behold there would be that translucent sight, you know, it had the insert for the color to the rear, it's only a line up for the two colored dots in the backside assembly and the part literally just fell out. It can happen and you need to do maintenance on this on a regular basis. Why? Well it doesn't mean you can't point and click if they're within 11 feet but once they start getting farther out golf balling a pistol is not your first choice. Okay, it can work. Granted, I think, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. You can do it just as fast and kind of spray and pray. But I like the idea of being able to keep ball into the nose area if I can. You know what I mean? Like, wherever I want to put it, I want to roll it. This is the two most common. We're giving you some hints here, but one is maintenance issue. The other is inspection. It's not so much abuse as it's an inspection issue. The other consideration is if you're going to carry these weapons a lot and if you've got this kind of weapon that takes replacement inserts or things of that nature while the weapon is common. And this is another important thing. Look at that sigma. The sigma came out, it's in vogue for a little bit, and then it kind of waned because, well, glocks are still out there in force and the sigmas are still made and there's a Smith and Wesson following. But progressively, There are fewer spare parts available. And if one part is really a thrower, like you know it falls off a lot, don't you think that it would be easier to use up the inventory faster? Oh yeah. Now with every year that that inventory gets consumed, the price goes up. Kind of like me joking this morning about all those M14 parts. It used to be $10 for this and $3 for that. And an op rod for $20 all day guys. Barrels of them, remember at the gun shows? Not anymore. $175, $200, $300. What do you want to spend? How much do you want to spend? You can spend whatever you can imagine. When you used to pay for the rifle, you can now pay for an operand. Therein lies the rub. So if you have these little parts that you know seem to be a twitch on your firearm, you need to put a little firearms kit together. Where would these sites go? Well, how about next to your spare firing pins, spare extractors, spare ejector, your extra springs, your extra fittings and pins, and a little niche off to the side, either a little Ziploc plastic bag, four, five, or six of those little extra front sight inserts, and maybe one or two of the sight bases. Just to be safe. And you put it in a kit, and you make it a little hard. In fact, let me give you an example right here. I've got one sitting right here that we do all the time, even for radio gear, guys. Little bait box, it says a little tool box. I got this one a yard sale. 25 cents. What's it got? Well, you open up the lid, it's got a little pop up during. It's got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 little compartments down. It's got a main chamber underneath and a nice long channel on the side. Let's see, what could I do with this? firing pin, extractor, let's see, firing pin goes in one little tray, the pin's going another, the spring's going another. Hey, that long tray area on the back of the tray will fit a 1911 barrel quite nicely. And the whole kit would be the size of a little transistor radio. I'm holding this right now. And everything that you need, all the parts that you'll probably need will now be in a self-contained box that can go where? Well, if we go into a real fighting situation, this would go right in my backpack. Because I have to I have to maintain the weapon myself or eventually you know not only my weapon But if I have enough spare parts in here I might become a little baby unit armor if need be because if the other guy's 45 fails I really want to make sure his 45 continues to function because he might save my life with his gun right now Wow that 1911 I hear go clunk every time I'd like to hear that keep going if there is a problem with it We're not going to complain about it. We're going to fix it and make sure she continues to work So, there's again another consideration. Example, Sega shotguns. We talked about that. Every weapon we can describe guys has had a peak least expensive point where when it's available, buy the stuff as quickly as you can. Buy it while you can. Even if you have to scrimp a little bit in other areas. If Mark tells you to do it, there's a reason. Right now, for instance, let me point this out, Don. They're not expensive and they're probably not pretty. In fact, I guarantee they're not. If you've got a Yugo AK, Centerfire Systems right now has Yugo M70AB2 barrels used part AK-P46, $13.99 and it's an original barrel. Now, what's the advantage of that? A barrel is better than no barrel. Oh yeah. If you have a malfunction and if there's a... In fact, I'll read what it says here. You go take off barrels from park kits. They are original Yugoslavian made barrels which are in used condition. Typically, bore conditions on Yugoslavian barrels are, well duh, we know that, okay? But, a barrel, especially for only $14 a barrel, means you've got a 7.62x39 piece of machine work here that will get you started if something happened to the other one. If you've got a YouGo rifle, this YouGo AK, this is a solution. There's an example of something to put on the shelf. They're cheap right now. In fact, they've been impossible to get. Just something else. We've got to keep reminding people. All of a sudden, there are a handful available. OK, grab one. Here's another interesting thing. I've got to mention this before we get to the top here. We're pretty close done. So many KP44 submachine gun kits. Kit with barrel. The kit is the MP44. $49.99 for the whole set, for the whole kit. This is including the pistol grip, folding stock, all the internals, the front barrel shroud, front sights, bolt carrier, bolt, blah blah blah blah, you know how it is, the bolt actually snudged bolt carrier. But the barrel is the big thing. And again, magazines are not that expensive, they're about $10 a piece. So this is a nice parts kit to have on the shelf, not for doing anything with now. But down the road, you might want to consider the fact that be kind of handy to have. By the way, drums for the M31 are $20 a piece for the Swomie drums and $12.99 for the stick mags which are 36 round. Actually not just 32 rounders. Very interesting. So something to think about. There are mags available and there are other things available that are really cool for weapons of that type that down the road might be kind of useful. They also have the M31 kits for $70 with the wooden stock. Everything there including the barrel which is rare right now. Something to think about. And drums for the same piece. 71 round drums. Now that's in 9mm by the way. Not in 7.62x25. Which I think is rather interesting in itself. It went with the 9mm because they were aligned with the axis. An interesting piece but a lot of stuff out there, it's cheap. When it's cheap pick it up or put some of it off on the shelf. Don't forget Knob Creek is coming up here guys. Knob Creek is the sponsor. You want to give them a ring, say hi and also let them know that hey, you heard about them on the intel report. That does help. Can you need some feedback? 8, 9 and 10 is the date. That's the weekend. And guys, like we've said every time, this might be the last one. You never know. So everybody treats it accordingly. It's a special event. We get down there. Everybody says hi. Everybody takes care of business. We get information out to make sure everybody knows what's going on and how to connect with us. The details down there, ammunition, components of anything and everything you can imagine. Most interesting, Don, was a bunch of AR-15 gink receivers in the white, unfinished. Which means, guys, if you know what you're looking at, if you've settled for something, like the Picatinny rails weren't being ground right, but everything else was complete, well, can I get away without or should say without it being absolutely perfect because one part of the rail on one end is messed up, I'll bet you I'll figure out how to make those rails work without ever using that back spot that was ganked. Yeah, in fact, that's one of the things to consider, guys. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. Make it work for you. And we're only talking $10, $15 for some odds and ends junk. You never know what you could do with that odds and ends junk when the time comes. Right. Magazines too, same way. Don, before we go, we are at the top just about. You've got night vision. You still have the one site available. Give everybody the information on that, please. Oh, that's gone, Mark. Viewers, even thermal, you guys. If you can reach me at 231-96-231. Excellent. Now, on our final note before we close for this hour. Guys, watch for white... In fact, save any t-shirts that you got that are fragged. You know you need gun-cleaning rags anyway. but put a certain quantity off to the side, ideally white or tan, so they're clean and you can see them. We're doing weapons, ammunition, inspection, and cleaning in between use. Little trick there, the white cloth allows you to see, hmm, why am I getting gunk or dirt there? Why have I got, see the cool thing is the ammunition can be read just like anything else. If you get a little coloration of some kind, that's not natural. Well, it is natural, but it means that something unnatural is happening that you don't want to see happen in the gun. So you can read your maintenance work as you go. You should be doing a quick swab on that revolver chamber in each one of those cylinder chambers. You should be doing a quick swab if at all possible. Again, have a knob brush, but like a cotton ball. with a wire swab or whatever you want, you can throw some quick lubricant on that and do a brush through just to make sure that chamber stays bright and shiny. Remember, it's a piece of machine steel. Typically it's bare. That's where you're going to see some of the oxidation start first if you're not careful. All that the lubricant does is put a barrier, you know, oxygen seal against, you know, H2O because that's what's going to start promoting the rust. All material is trying to reverse original form. you know and back to the dust and aluminum it's a little outside with the wire and it's lost all of the doctor is a little rough also you want to prevent that from happening to do it you want to preserve it for as long as you can't do the right thing do the right maintenance done that number for the uh... instructional courses again you've got it there you guys and the number is one eight hundred dot com there at the top god bless the republic that's the self-evailing gentlemen the empire both day and night. Fix them, fight them, and put them down. To do that, your weapons have to function flawlessly, people. To make that happen, you're going to have to do the maintenance. Do your part, we'll do ours. Well, Dom, thank you very much, sir. Do your part, God bless you. Have all the military surplus stores gone? Don't worry, you don't need one, because everything you need at Military Surplus is at mainmilitary.com. 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