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His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and, speaking low to me, he said. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The 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 is spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. 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I'm our quirky and a butter knife one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories south west north and East Well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, PBN.4MG.com, and we are on line 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio, Rose 1 AM FM Microstations, CB Bay Stations, and UltraNet Technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. 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 ark of the Gulf of Mexico to Texas. Texas from Texas all the way up to the top of Nebraska and beyond. And then the third of Wyoming, our friends in Iowa slash Iowa, busy with all the micro stations they're putting in place. And once they're high to our farmers, still out there, probably even as we speak, run the machinery because it's harvest time. They'll be cranking out for every hour they can to get everything out of the field. They can as quickly as possible. Once it's premium grade, it's got to go. Well. Then back across from Mississippi to the Golden Spike Project. We have a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. A meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. Make sure you call on your meals. They've got time to do that tonight. A couple more hours. And it is a mandatory meeting. It's going to probably be a record. Everybody must attend. But if you're out there at 5 o'clock, you'll be missing out because they start 5 p.m. sharp on Sunday. No ifs, ands, or buts. Well, BK, what is today's date, sir? It is 1 October 2010. It is Friday evening and that makes it the last hour of the day and the week for the Intelligence Report and therefore Quartermaster's Corner. And that means that we're going to be bringing the bullets to these books, the bandanas, you name it, if it starts with an A or you know, starts with the Z, everything in between. We're going to make sure Quartermaster has it there where it's needed, when it's needed, and that means tactical deployment of resources. Strategic overview, get it down to the tactical level. We're not anal-retentive control freaks like the other side, guys. We need it where the troops need it. We need to make sure it's spread out so that no matter what, you can't hit me one place and lose everything. Tactical deployment is the key to victory. Quartermaster, your job is to, well, learn your trade, first of all. Develop your skills. Develop the technologies that you need. We're going to help you to do that, but we're also going to find resource points for you so that you can start to build up inventories. One of the things we're promoting is the 5-10 program. The ability to update a five-man fireteam or a ten-man squad. To do that, you need the resources on the shelf. This includes everything from socks to headgear, everything in between, weapons, ammunition, equipment, support gear, you name it, radio technology. All that and a whole lot more is what we're working to try and find for you and to come up with solutions that make sense and are economically sound. So here's what we're going to do. VK, we've got a whole bunch of subjects. Let's claw right into them, even as we speak. Okay, I think I heard a beep. Do we have a caller? I'm just listening. Keep going. Okay, very good. I thought I'd like to start off with a tiny little story. I was upstairs one afternoon and Fox was running on that television and I caught a piece of the Glenn Beck program. And he was doing his usual thing. He was talking about American history and saying a lot of true things. And then he was saying a bunch of stuff about what's going on in America and how things are falling apart. And these were all true. Of course, he skips the business about who's actually behind it, and he would never mention the CFR or what have you. But then he gets to the very end of the program. In the last 30 or 60 seconds, he slips in the poison pill, and he says, what do you do about all this stuff? Well, you don't want to prep. You don't want to put up arms, food, medical supplies. You don't want to get your communications going. You don't want to do any of those things. What you want to do is you want to pray. So, I have a new plan. When they come for me, they're going to find me sitting in the corner, freezing in the dark and starving, and all threadbare and skinny and falling over from fatigue and easy to grab because that's the new plan. So, this is going to be the last Quartermaster's Corner because I have a new plan that does not involve setting aside anything at all. I know better. April fools. Now you might say it's not April, but it is exactly halfway through the year away from April. So if I were closer to April, you might have guessed it. So I figured I would be tricky and sneaky and do April fools six months early. So maybe I fooled you. I don't think I did. But oh well, it was worth a try. We occasionally call out Honeyville Grain as a vendor on this program, and I just got an email from them again. They're running another of their little specials. The ones that we normally see are 10% off anything in the store, which is not a bad deal because they already have some interesting items. They specialize in dried foods and some freeze dried and things of this sort. But this time around they are having a 15% off sale on anything on the website. The website is honeyvillegrain.com. That is honey, like in the stuff that bees make, ville, V-I-L-L-E, grain, G-R-A-I-N, dot com. and the code that you want to use is all capital letters fall, F-A-L-L. That checkout code will get you 15% off anything on the website, including their clearance items. And bear in mind that they have, in the lower 48, they have a fixed shipping charge of $4.49, no matter how large your order is. So you combine that 15% with their already very desirable shipping cost, and you may get some good prices on things. If we take a look at their clearance page, They have four items there and two of them, I would say, might be of interest to us. Two of them are cocoa and that's a highly discretionary if you want some of that as a morale booster, that's fine. But they are offering their number 10 cans of powdered whole eggs. That is six number 10 cans in one case and the case is discounted to $83 right now down from the regular $90. That's 8% off for clearance. If you add another 15% off because of this checkout code, you're doing reasonably well. That is about 13 and a half pounds of powdered whole egg. It is not as cheap per pound as their bulk pack. But it's already packaged for you in number 10 cans, six of them to a case, and some people may prefer that. If you can't swing the the cost for the bulk pack, then this is an attractive offer. The other item that some people might care for, now this is not as great a bargain because it's basically just carbohydrates, but it is a convenience item. is they are offering a dehydrated diced potato currently at $40 for a case down from regular 60. That's a bigger savings, but it's intrinsically a cheaper product to begin with. So once again, it is six, number 10 cans. In that case, it is $40 for that case. And then you knock off that 15% for the F-A-L-L checkout code, which is good until October 5. That's October 5. It's only good for a few days, started yesterday, and you have an attractive possibility. The other item that I normally call out whenever these guys have a sale is that they do also offer a bulk pack on the powdered egg. For $200 regular price, they offer a 50 pound bulk pack of powdered whole egg. Now, this is a large cardboard box with a large plastic sack in it and 50 pounds of egg. You're going to have to repackage it. But you do save some money. You're getting $4 a pound instead of about $6 a pound. If you prefer, however, the convenience of the number 10 cans, they are currently offering clearance on these cases, one case being six number 10 cans of the whole egg on sale for $83 and then knock off 15%. And remember, the shipping anywhere in the lower 48 is $4.49. Go ahead. Excellent. Again, keep on going. Big thing here, guys, is cost expenditure. We're looking at reducing in one area so that we can increase purchases in the other. So we're looking at a reasonable price. We're looking at good quantity inventories. Of course, well, it depends on how much interest terms on this BK. We might be there the next second. Pay attention to the situation there, guys. Go ahead. Okay, I wanted to mention a few of the items that we have mentioned before, but which remain active. There is an offer running right now from Widners, that is W-I-D-E-N-E-R-S. That's a well-known supplier of components. And they are offering WC872 and WC... Let's see, what is it? 867, I think I'll have to check to be sure of that. Yes, 867. Both of these are very slow powders. They are effectively identical in their loading characteristics. These are primarily 50 BMG powder. and these are new in the eight pound jug. These are not pull downs, which is what most 50 caliber powder on the market is. These are brand new and never loaded before. And WC is what, Winchester, is that correct? At any rate, they are offering this, yes, they're offering this at $49 per eight pound keg. Now that is a bargain for any variety of rifle powder. And remember that 50 BMG powder is also... second, got a little frog in the throat... is also suitable for some of the larger cases, the heavy belted magnums and so on. So it can extend down the loading spectrum somewhat. You do not have to use it purely for 50 BMG. And at $49 for 8 pounds, that is quite a bargain and I would recommend anybody that does reloading of the heavy calibers to take a look at this. The rules on Hazmet are such that they can pack up to six of these in a shipping package, because that is under the magical 50 pounds, that's 48 pounds. So I would recommend anybody that does reloading of the heavy calibers all the way up to 50 BMG to take a look at widners, W-I-D-E-N-E-R-S dot com. and take advantage of this offer. They must have a fair amount of it to offer at this price, but nothing lasts forever. So why should you pay $90 per jug if you can pay $49 per jug now? Go ahead. Interestingly enough, one of the other things about the fifth caliber powders, remember guys, for any of you, are you doing 300 win mag? 475. Holland and Holland, 375 Holland and Holland, 330 for instance BSA any of the custom heavy rifle calibers no matter what they are or belted Magnum the 50 caliber powders will work just fine and you can load those 50 caliber powders down to 30 at 6. Now you're going to have to come up with some tables there are some tables by the way BK4 most of them that were done 20 years ago. because it was a flurry of 50 caliber parts that came in in 40 pound kegs from different sources down out of Kentucky and Tennessee. Everybody wanted to use the powder. It was only $2 a pound back in the day. The Winchester powders burned very clean. However, they used a little different residue. This is something in the long run you have to remember. from the IMRs so that you're going to have a difference in how you see the residual carbon after the fact. Otherwise, both powders or any of the IMRs or the Winchester powders are pretty much comparable. Flinchchester, of course, has been doing military powders for as long as they've existed just about. The improved military rifle powders, or IMR powders, under the contractors that were generated or under government DOD, or under the destruction projects, again, had to meet very, very strict standards. And both are very stable for long-term storage, especially the .50 caliber powders themselves, by the very nature of how they burn and what they're designed to do. So, there are some advantages to actually having 50 caliber powder in storage. That's why a lot of the stuff that's coming on the surplus has been in storage for so long because they knew that its reliability was quite high. They also knew that they'd be going through a lot of half inch rounds if they get in any kind of conflict at all, which has truly been the case. And the only consideration is With or not they've had test batch issues where they decided that because the burn rate may have been slightly altered over a number of decades, that they've phased and replaced whatever is put into the market and then bought in powder. Right. One of the things to bear in mind with regards to military surplus powder, whether it is new or full down. is that it will be very consistent throughout a batch, but each batch will vary a little bit from the previous or the subsequent batch. They are not held to the same standards as the civilian powder, which is intended for sales a pound at a time, because it would be unreasonable to expect the sports enthusiast to work up a load every time he finds a new canister of one pound of powder. But the military contractors have no problem working up a load. and adjusting their charge before they run off. God knows how many millions of rounds of ammunition from a single batch of powder. So you do need to back down a little bit and test things each time you get a new lot of mil surplus powder, but then you can be confident of it once you have data for that lot. They have apparently a fair amount of this stuff it would be wise to get as much as you can reasonably afford all of the same lot because then you will have to work up your loads only once for that batch. Go ahead. And again, the big thing here is experimentation. If you have a unique caliber, again 338 Winchester, there's one. Big bore, good size case. This 50 caliber powder or any of the 50 power powders would work just fine as a solution. the big elephant cartridges. And that sounds weird. Oh, wow, Mark, I don't have one. Yeah, but you know, back in the 80s, a whole bunch of these elephant rifles came into the country in 500 and 600 Nitro Express. Now that's another cartridge where the large bore powder would be optimal, would be perfect. And actually, it makes it affordable to shoot the gun. Obviously, the half inch bore would be your best choice, 50 caliber because it's also, you know, bullets are readily available both in cast or, you know, cast solid copper or, you know, cast solid brass or in jacketed rounds of any number of different types. So, it's purely a matter, again, of need. You've got to experiment. You want to bring it down to a medium. load and then go up or down the scale testing it in five round increments with your rifle. That's your best choice. Today you can chronograph everything. On top of everything else, chronographs are so cheap. You can actually spec out the round and be able to do this with everything that you're working with. We would not recommend the heavy powders down into the light calibers. However, I will remind everybody, the Donut of Destruction, earlier none of the War Department, had already done all the tests and surveys on the emergency use of powders from one caliber to another. Reference is the Frankfurt Arsenal Armory Books. It's the Frankfurt Arsenal. That's where you want to find all your information. They did all of the testing from actually just from the time of the Civil War, the laughter. a little before even, early in one form or another. But the Frankfurt Arsenal was our research arsenal for the longest time. Aberdeen Proving Grounds kind of took that mission over for a period and now it's kind of distributed amongst a number of different private concerns that have foreign connections. So our research base has been stolen and carried out of the country. In each case, like with the Franklin Arsenal testing, they had to look at the probability BK of invasion. What happens if America is invaded? Well, if only plant B is available, if plant B has a medium caliber IMR powder available, what can we do with it? Or if only this particular plant that was producing 50-caliber powders or this depot is available, we can load ammunition, but what can we load and what would we need? So the what-ifs were already played out by 1940-41, and that sounds weird, but that's a fact. Pre-war discussions about the need for supplemental inventories or being able to master existing inventories of raw materials and make them work. and powders are refined though they are a raw material base as far as the strategic planning goes. So you can make it happen, you can make it work, but do some research into reloading. Get into reloading. Immerse yourself into it if you're going to do it guys. Watch for the total number of reloading books at the gun shows, the total numbers from the 20 to the 30 to the 40 to the 50 to the 60 to the 70's. Even the 70's, that's the 30, 34 years going on. They do the panel, and Dean Saffney for your signal. You can find it, but it is... ...settleable... Okay, you're breaking up a little bit in my speakers. I don't know whether that's my computer having a problem or something up the chain. I'll give it a shot and you tell me if I'm coming through poorly. Okay, that's a little bit. Something is going wonky at any rate. Am I intelligible enough to continue? It's far, but it might be your... I don't know if you're using Skype or not, but we're getting a little rasp. I'm using Skype. Give me just a minute and I will call back in on a landline. Okay, give just a second. It's okay. Your sound is good out in the air. Still there? I'm still here, but I can barely understand what you're saying. We're having a read-adjusted reading. Right now you're sounding by authentication. You're sounding good on the error. Okay, good enough. Then we'll just continue. Okay, we have mentioned this previously, but I want to hit it again. All these things are available. We mentioned 50 BMG powder. There is also some loaded 50 BMG ammunition available. This is Singapore manufacturer, aimsurplus.com. that is aimsurplus.com is offering 80 round cans of 50 BMG, that's M33 ball, at $150 per can. Now that is a 50 caliber can with 20 sections of four rounds in lengths. Obviously they have knocked out every fifth round of the tracer round and what they have left over is four ball rounds. in links in groups and they have 20 of those. So it's a grand total of 80 rounds in a .50 caliber can offered at $150 by five or more of these and they're offering them at $140. It's a little bit boring because we mentioned that before and the novelty is not there. But this is an excellent price and we should keep hammering this until such time as it vanishes because this remains available and we should exploit this. Go ahead. As a matter of fact, the City of Porter Coffee deal didn't even buy. I have not seen one of the reviews. It looks to be clean-handed missions on up at comments, you know, from people who already purchased it. We probably will even get some live feedback this weekend from the ranges here in Michigan because I know they did purchase some of this ammunition. for use with the Zussman Ackerman B7B rifles. They take the belted .50 caliber that you're describing and AIM had a very good price. It's one of the two best prices in the country for half inch ammunition, especially for being able to take it to the range and pull the trigger just to familiarize people. Hey guys. That's where the biggest cost is guys. You can get more premium rounds and more expensive loads. but if you're going to get somebody to the range you want to be able to put their shoulder to that rifle you've got it's got to be affordable. So this Singapore ammunition is an excellent choice and as far as I know it's firing clean but we'll find out more as we go see if there's any interesting powder that may have been used. The only thing is there aren't that many odd or exotic powders left in anybody's inventory so unless there's something really strange that was done the only variable here is Whether or not it prints differently in a custom barrel as opposed to a Ma Deuce we'll find out Yeah, you hear me Yeah, we got you go ahead. We do have a little static coming off of BK, but it's not bad. We can live with that Skype is making the conference line hiccup a little bit. So there's a little bit of a skip every night again when you talk But other than that everything's coming across clear just to the audio filter down a little bit so the fuzziness isn't as bad. Okay, sounds smooth now. It was breaking up badly a little while ago, but it settled out. So let's proceed. We are seeing some softness in some of the 223 ammunition supplies, and this is a good thing because this is a buying opportunity for us. Interestingly enough, to borrow one of Mark's favorite phrases, the 62 grain 223 is available at a somewhat lower price than the 55 grain stuff right now. For instance, DSG Arms, that is Delta Sierra Golf Arms, ARMS.com, is offering 22362 grain Fiocchi manufacture at $300 per 1,000 rounds. Similarly, AIM surplus, we just spoke of them, is offering the same thing in pervi-partisan. also 62 grains, and a 5.5 at $300 per 1000 round box. Right now the going price on 55 grain seems to be about $350. So strangely enough, the green tip 62 grain is now less expensive than the 55 grain, which suits me just fine because most of the recently manufactured arms are optimized for the slightly heavier round and it helps compensate a little bit for the lightweight of the cartridge in-air. But whatever your rifle prefers, the 62 grain is available from two different manufacturers, two different brands. AIM Surplus is offering Pervi Partisan and I have never heard anybody issue any complaints about the quality of Pervi's stuff. and the Fiocci is available from DSG Arms at the same price. Neither of these are free shipping offers, so you will have to check their locations and the shipping cost to you. But $300 per 1000 is a highly attractive price for 223, both of these being 62 grains. Comments? In the 223 the big thing there is test your rifle out accordingly. There shouldn't be any performance problems in the different twists with most of the barrels out there. The argument is then you'll see some key holding on occasion with destabilization with some of the older barrels. I've not seen that and we've actually fired a lot of this stuff over the years through most of the earlier ARs. We will see a stray, not necessarily a keyhole, but a stray because of variances in wear and tear on the original barrels. When you pull the trigger, the muscles are compressed, everything is where it should be. From that point forward, all of your subsequent rounds repeated typically will be in a much tighter group. So, other than shooter variants, these rounds typically are pretty reliable. I don't even think twice and using pretty much any AR-15 we've got that's out there, or Mini-14 or SU-16 or whatever you've got in a .223. One cool thing is if you have a bolt gun, this would make a nice little tack driver load. I try to save the heavier bullets for if you had a lump of different ammunition, 55 grain standard military spitzer or Sierra boat tail. Maybe some 60 grain. This particular bullet configuration, I kind of hold that back for the bolt gun, but that's what I had as a combination and use the other weights for the semi-auto rifles. Because with a heavier barrel and with a closed system, you can bring the groups up really, really tight with this particular load. Even no matter whether it's military configured or not, it doesn't make a difference. It's just a... It has been a nice consistent package. I have seen some good write-ups on it for the people. I have been using it pretty much everything else. The big thing is if you need to apply a certain round towards a narrow mission activity, that would be the placement fire. That is where the 223 in this case would come in handy. Go ahead. Okay, for those people out there who have Mohs and Nagants, that's the 54R bolt banger that is in wide distribution, it may be that you consider that purely a bridging rifle. You get any old surplus ammunition you can equip that rifle with 100 rounds and say by the end of the 100 rounds, it's your job to have grabbed something more suitable. However, another approach you can take is you can start with that inexpensive rifle. It is now feasible to add glass to them because there are so many that aftermarket mounts have come out. Unlike some of the Mausers, for instance, it's not hard to put glass on those. Some people may actually set about seeing what these things can be made to do. And the stumbling block in that area is that the steel burden ammunition is rather difficult to reload. The most successful approach I have heard is to use shotgun primers in place of the Berdan and sometimes they'll fit and sometimes they won't. There are some variations in the diameter of the primers and things of this sort. An option in that area, now this is commercial pricing, this is pretty much comparable to Western calibers, but AIM Surplus is offering Purvi Partisan 762x54R ammunition in 20 round boxes at $13.75 a piece. Now that's just a hair over $0.60 a piece, so you're getting into the range of commercial 308 and 30.6 and so on in pricing. but this is brass case, boxer prime, fully reloadable, I believe it's, yes, non-corrosive primer. This stuff is built to Western specifications and it comes out of the box with a soft point bullet. So this is intended as hunting ammunition initially out of the box and the brass that it generates will be fully reloadable. Bear in mind that the Eastern Block 762 is slightly different diameter than the Western 762. You are generally looking at .310 on the bullets rather than .308 on the bullets. But you can vary things. If you're casting your bullets, you adjust the size or you run them through. You can get pulled mil-spec bullets in .310. There are a lot of options available. for components to reload. But this ammunition, even though it's more or less at commercial prices at $13.75, is also built to Western specifications. So it is a Neill-Brasse case and it is non-corrosive boxer-primed so that you will be able to reload this. This will be the kit if you want to do it. to work up a hand load that your Mosin likes best. So if you had, say, five boxes of this ammunition as a hundred rounds, that's enough to fire a few, reload some, get a few experimental batches, load three rounds of each powder charge working up through the chain, print them on a, on target, see how they do. It would not be unreasonable. to allocate 5 or 10 of these 20 round boxes to a rifle and go ahead and work up a hand load to see exactly what that rifle will do. You may come up with a few specific rifles and loads that will really print to rival anything that you buy at the Sporting Goods store. Go ahead. Again, you're talking this is a preview partisan? Correct. Yes, that is interesting. The Russians are contracting it, but not all of it is made in Russia, per se, but it is under Russian names. We don't know which of the contractors may have done this particular batch of brass, but the quality and standards have been excellent thus far. They fit in the same niche that the old Korean ammunition that was coming in in the 80s used to provide. other European brass makers produced for a little bit and then they got zipped by the US government right now. 3D Partisan is coming in in good force, boxer primed, reloadable ammunition, grab what you can while you can, especially in the odd calibers. 7.62x54, 8mm Lebel, 7.5 Swiss, 7.5 French. Used to be you could only get these calibers from a handful of companies, either custom load or one of the independents that was making brass and the price was many many times what you're seeing here right now. So while it's cheap, while there's an affordable range on this stuff, 6.5 Swedish is available. Several of the other calibers. But everybody's got these nagots. We've got lots of steel-case ammunition. That's our battlefield no pickup or probably not going to be picking it up. Might not be able to. The boxer primed ammunition on the other hand is what you should be shooting and taking to the range and then practice reloading. This is something that people usually think the other way around. Take a percentage of this ammunition, get your dies, get everything organized and put together. Casting bullets, commercial bullets out of the bag, whatever you're going to do, but actually practice it doing both. and you take these rounds to the range and mark the box to the rifle. In other words, if you have five boys and they gots on the range. This ammunition, put a piece of tape on the base of the rifle and put number one on the box. Take another little piece of masking tape and put number one. Or take a black magic marker and mark the box, number one. Now, everything fired in that chamber, everything that's fire formed in that chamber comes out of that rifle and goes right back into the box, match the number to the number. And the reason for this is, well, now it's not gonna be as difficult for you to size up that case for that rifle. In fact, typically you only do throat resizing once you get really good at this, guys. You're not gonna do even a full case resize because in most cases these chambers are pretty tight, pretty accurate. and all you want to do is dress up the upper body of the case and everything else is set to go. So this is something to think about. You've got an opportunity to hold a boxer primed ammunition right now, do it. Do it in quantity. Keep buying more of it. When you go to the range, no, don't shoot that military Polish ammunition at the range. You want to know why? Well, you're going to want to test it. You want to print it to see what it does. But that stuff will sit on the shelf indefinitely. Typically the older military rounds are mercuric primers. They were designed for long-term storage. They were designed to take moisture better. They were designed to take inclement conditions better. And they're in the sealed tin, so where are they going? On the other hand, the preview part is on ammunition. Boxer prime, heat anneal case, ready to roll. You pull the trigger, you get a positive print. And when you take all your brass back to the workshop, you actually have part of a learning curve being developed now. You don't have to wait until later. The 100mm BK, I've never reloaded 7.62x54. It's kind of like 308. Hold on here. Let's see if we can find the second one. Well, it's very much like it. It's somewhat rimmed. You know, it's got a rim like your 3030. You probably reloaded that approaching deer season. It's not that much different. The approach that I would take is similar, but for slightly different reasons. If you're actually engaging a foe, you're probably not going to lollygag around afterwards picking up your brass. If you've got some that's a real pain in the neck to reload and some that is much easier to reload, I would be more inclined to lose the pain in the neck steel ammunition, steel, uh, uh, uh, cartridge cases than the nice reloadable brass ones. And, uh, actually engaging in the field is the circumstance in which, unless you just, you know, destroy the Faux in detail and have no reason to expect a reaction force, I would not hang around and police the brass. I would be inclined to strip the bodies and beat feet in a hurry. Exactly. Well, you'll be collecting as you can, but again, let's assume that you're also moving any number of different conditions. It won't allow for you to just wander along, unless you have a coolly or slash an assistant or slash a take your pick. And that's probably not going to happen. So you'll be doing all the work on this if it's going to get done at all. So there are solutions to dealing with the problem. It's inexpendable, possibly damaged or broken stuff that will be dropped. You won't worry about it. Probably don't step on it while you're moving around through there, depending on how tight the conditions are. In a distorted case, they're not very easy to work with. So you eventually might even collect everything, depending on how tight things get. But this is a solution and an excellent one right now. Like I said, buy them while you can. I don't care what unique caliber it is. They've got 8mm Kurz for the 8mm short, you know, the short round for the 8mm semi rifles from the middle and end of the war. Everything in pretty good part is on. Oh, by the way, pistol calibers like 30 caliber Nagat BK. So these are a good choice. Take advantage of the stuff while you can. Put it on the shelf. I don't get Merv, what are you thinking? Well, Pervy's niche has traditionally been to fill some of the oddball calibers that were hard to get. Even 20 years ago, I recall them being the source for, let's say, 7mm Mauser or 8mm Mauser when other people were having a hard time producing them. So, always look to Pervy because they have come across on the quality and they have made a practice. of supplying some of the more obscure calibers. Before we move away from Weapons Wednesday class items, I will point out that Center Fire is offering the Polish Dragunov, or no, that's the Romanian variant on the Dragunov, at $450 now. I think that is a reflection of the fact that people are basically just running out of money. and the, oh my god, who did we elect? Panic! is two years in the past and that purchasing frenzy has died off. I imagine sales are a little bit soft on any large ticket items. If somebody is really in a quandary over what 30 caliber range semi-auto they can pick up, something that can take some sustained fire if need be but is intended as a placement rifle. At $450, these Romanian dragonos bear in mind that there's some difficulty with the magazines, but these Romanian dragonos at $450 strike me as an excellent option. They are rivaling the setmes in price. They're coming in even lower than the setmes and you do not have to wonder whether this is one of the goofy century builds or whether it's built properly. This being essentially an AK action are well enough understood is really hard to bollocks up in an AK or its variants. The other thing is that Centerfire is currently offering the 10 round Romac Dragon off mags at $18 apiece. That is a discount from their regular 25 at $18 apiece. That's better than their four pack price, which will, you know, throw in a pouch. $18 a piece, anybody that can, you know, is interested in this $450 rifle could probably afford 8 or 12 or, you know, 15 of these magazines and they would be all set with a complete kit. Go ahead. Did we lose connection? Oh, no, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to decide. Go ahead, please. Okay, that was Centerfire and they are offering the $450 Romanian Dragunov and the magazines at $18 apiece. And we have mentioned previously, but I'm going to continue to hammer on this, main military is an excellent long-term supplier that's maintained friendly relations with us and has a broad range of products that we're interested in. Every once in a while somebody skunks them on one item. And I am not above pushing that one item while that lasts and then encouraging people to go back to main military when that sale is over. Sportsman's Guide continues to have these Swiss hockey puck 40 millimeter gas mask filters at the insane price of a 20 pack of these guys for $25. Now it will be about $10 shipping somewhere so figure 20 of them for $35. or you will save a little bit on chipping if you order two or three or more of these packs. But while they have them, work this offer. Sadly, it is undercutting Maine's price on these guys. Maine has had them for a long time. Do not look to Sportsman's Guide long term. for gas mask filters, that's the sort of thing that comes and goes and they have no particular commitment to that market. Maine will support you on an ongoing basis and are the go-to place for the adapter rings to use M9s with these 40 millimeter filters. But for the moment, Sportsman's Guide has these 20 packs of Swiss filters at $25 a piece plus shipping. That is a no-brainer. Grab some comments You can't beat them for the price and they're already packaged individually for transport or for caching If you want to separate them and put them in different locations Or put them into the backpacks and leave them. They're already set up in their own self-contained system They'll stay high and dry. They'll also again be ready for use. You have to pop up with the clamshell and Go through the normal routine But you can't beat the price on these and that's something we've agreed upon. I don't know where they got them because they're not from any of the normal sources, but this is happening with surplus. Every once in a while somebody's got a deal on something and they got a big pile of it and nobody else has got it and so somebody else makes a deal with them. And that's what it looks like happened here. They got a whole bunch of these things for a great price. These filters are in short supply. 40 millimeter filters in general are so short in the system right now. that they're sending gas masks without filters. Two reasons, they're saving shipping weight and they're peeling off the new filters and sending them or selling them to other companies, other industries or other countries. So this is a pretty good package deal and for all of you who got the Russian masks, the standard NATO masks that take the 40 millimeter configured threaded stock connector, this is the way to go. Go ahead. And the M9 masks as well, if you use the adapter ring, we'll also use these 40 millimeter filters. That adapter ring is $2 quantity one, or it's all the way down to $1 a piece if you buy 100 of them. And that also is at Maine Military. That's the only vendor I know of that offers those at a reasonable price. Okay, we have one last item. and this is a recycle not from last week but from last year we were talking about these things. I went and checked some of my old bookmarks and surprise, surprise, some of these remain available. So we did not completely vacuum out the supply channel last year. What are we talking about? Wool socks. We're getting into that season, gang. We should have emptied these guys out in the height of the dog days of summer and gone totally counter-sick like. But we didn't and there is some inventory remaining. We should hit these. First vendor is EABCO. That is ECHO Alpha Bravo CO. That is Charlie Oscar. So it is EABCO.com. They are offering the US Army wool socks. Many of us will be familiar from those having been issued them. I'm not one of those folks, but many people are familiar with those because they were issued those particular socks. They are offered at six pairs for $18. $3 a pair is an excellent price. And you guys who have already been issued those know exactly what it is that's being offered. These are asymmetric socks and a little bit thicker on the bottom. And they are wool blend. Go ahead, comments. On the wool socks especially, guys, wool is one of those things where it's not really exciting. It's not one of those things that is, you know, wow, man. You don't see them writing up about it like, my latest pair of wool socks. You hear about Gore-Tex, you hear about anything else you can imagine. One thing to remember about wool. is when it gets wet, it retains heat. This is something, and it's a natural fiber. Now some people, very rare, people are allergic to wool, but as often as not, it's not the wool that they're allergic to, but in some cases the wool is treated with lanolin. And it's the lanolin that sometimes gets you. and almost all wool is processed with lanolin to one degree or another. Well, there's lanolin naturally occurring because, you know, sheep leak lanolin. Yeah. Well, the thing in this case is that it's also, again, they do this to help preserve the wool and actually make it more supple in many ways. The higher grades of wool, the virgin wool, are some of the best clothing you could possibly buy. I don't care what anybody says. We played with all the polypropylenes and such. Yes, we use them. But wool, in general, is a survival clothing, is critical. It's one of those things I would far prefer. If you're going to stay out in the environment, you're going to be out there for a period of time, guys. There's no, oh, don't, we'll be here at 6 o'clock. We all go home. No, it doesn't work that way. So guys, wool socks are an excellent option. I'm surprised they are still there because, to be quite honest, socks are a premium in the surplus system right now. There are very few and far between surplus socks anywhere. The last batch that we saw were British. They were in the khaki tan color, which is still okay because you're going to come up with boots and pants anyway. But trying to get hold of cushion sole socks or any utility sock that is in reasonable price range like this is not that common anymore. We are still thinking back in the 80's and 90's people are not thinking the degradation of the American industry and the teens. We are now into the teens. This is 2010. with every passing year more and more of whatever there was piled up in the way of surplus that the old system ran until it was run out of the country. It's drying up. So be prepared for that. If you see something like this you like or if you've got a 5-10 program you're putting together this is a solution. loadup.com. This is also an offer that we called out last year and they are not yet completely out. These are Swedish military army wool socks. These are $5 per pair. I'm inclined to consider these the best I've found on the market in recent years. A little bit more expensive, and they say they have only 654 in stock. I'm sure that's pairs, not socks. But at $5 a piece, it's a little bit more pricey. But I think these are the items you probably want to use in the field with boots. And the third item I can offer is Army That is armysurpluswarehouse.com. They have a three-pack of merino wool socks. Now these are not mill surplus, these are commercial. This is a three-pack for $10. And I got my hands on some of these, and I'm quite pleased with them. They are not tall enough to be considered boot socks. So you could wear these with the mountain boots, you could wear them with street shoes or anything in between if you were for some reason using those goofy hikers shoes that are heavy soles but not all the way up to your over your ankle like a regular boot or whatnot. Any of those intermediate height footwear these would be appropriate for. They are very pleasant, very soft, nice good quality but they are not tall enough to be considered boot socks per se. These are three pair for ten dollars and that also is a highly attractive price. So those three options, we'll call them out again in the near future, but those are three options available right now. And wool socks are something that you really, really want to have an inventory. There's nothing quite like toes still attached to the feet to make one a happy camper. Excellent. And again, the biggest issue here again is having backups and support, guys. You've got backpack. You don't just want one pair. You're going to want three or four pairs in the backpack. You're going to make sure that you have a few others tucked in the butt pack and also zip lock or seal in the other one and put a couple. Put one pair in the left or right popcorn pocket of the pants and one pair of socks in the field jacket or you're in your uniformed blossom. Take your pick. The reason, you might drop your coat, but you're probably not going to leave your pants behind. So one way or another you end up with other places where you have something that is easily stored. You distribute the weight over your combat and house load. And in the long run, if something happens, you've got another pair of dry socks to switch out to. And as long as your feet are maintained, everything else follows. This is another big problem. Can you explain to people, again, if your feet go, everything else follows. It's really tiring to walk around on your hands. There are people who can do that for a few yards. Feet are a lot better for that. Again, there's no reason to be in discomfort. You have the ability to change out. You want multiple change outs whenever possible. The same is true with glove wear. By the way, to be quite honest, I've been to the point where even with all the extras I carry, typically your boots will keep you. If you do anything with your boots and your rubber liners, etc., everything is fine. But you know what? Socks can be used as mittens, guys. A pair of wool socks and a pair of cold hands make all the difference in the world, especially if they're dry. I'm pretty sure we're going to hear the music here in a minute because we're right at the top of the hour, BK. Yeah, my clock says that we're a minute past. Uh oh. So we're going to hear the music. There we go. I knew we would. We've got Dutch Jones coming up next right behind us. We'll clear the line here in a minute. God bless the republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. 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