October 6, 2010
Morning Show
59m
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Mark Koernke discussed firearms, particularly the 1911 pistol, its history, maintenance, and practical applications. The episode featured extensive commentary on 1911 variants (1911 vs. 1911A1), firearm quality and pricing, building custom firearms through KT Ordnance, ammunition types including .45 ACP rounds, magazine selection and combat tactics, and the importance of firearm maintenance and inheritance. Callers contributed perspectives on combat effectiveness, the reliability of the .45 in military service, and practical gunsmithing skills.
- 1911 pistol
- 1911a1
- 45 acp
- .45 caliber
- kt ordnance
- firearm maintenance
- gunsmithing
- ammunition
- magazine
- body armor
- combat tactics
- second amendment
- preparedness
- american gunsmithing institute
- knob creek
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Come in and out of vogue. The American tool 45, the 1911. We're not gonna do this, like, that's true. Coat revolvers are mentioned and so are I right now. He'll be in 9 millimeter. It might be a 45, you know, like a big old block for us with automatically thinking. 1911. Wait a minute, the barrel's so much so that everybody, if you look down after world of them out there dominant handgun doesn't mean that they throw all the others the i don't have a problem with units have to be in copy that some people still copy all the fifty nineteen eleven of of of the ground out of the sky sometimes maybe big enough piece of bomb fragment for another and you know it work to do truly are sneaking up on the injuries off your current katie ordinance what you want to do it cut everything just this side just like five operating See how that slides in and other parts sit in How tight that slides are. If patience comes to mind with us, remember be patient. You're not doing anything fast. 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Have you noticed, if you look at the inside your palm, you get a hollow, Don, you can, you know, stick your finger, bring your fingers together tight, They decided that for bigger hands, especially because people were starting to get larger. Hollow needed to be the size of a mission was to go in the other direction. In 1911, what they did, if you look, they allowed you to slip a little, you know, for smaller, you know, get in there. The only thing that was done, they didn't change. We had no problem with the person or, you know, the ground, be able to, and they got a sewer pipe. You get, if you inherit a weapon, if you receive a Liberty arm that's a gift like that, that is, you know, especially where the bad guys have no came from and they have no idea where it's going. That's right. That's to be clean, maintained, and pat on the family line and you need to... That's right. It is critical because I do not even consider air softens for the weapon. You will not have an accident. It still can happen. I mean, come on guys, they're machines and they're human beings involved. The probability dramatically. If I may have saved your father's life, you don't know how many times. This might be why you aren't here. That's right. You look at the girl, I thought I wasn't going home. In fact, I... He turned 91 this year. I want to say hi to our friends in the Upper Peninsula, Navy Mark I. And that Navy Mark I is the knife that he used and that notary public loan signing agent with a guy to exhaust for 9 an hour. Imagine grappling each other and not being able to move because you move your debt. One knife and he's a Japanese officer at the immunogol coming across before he came across and he smelled the liquor. Little in the night, he finally, I got that knife after that, they finally realized I better move because if one of them, they're for him. Yeah, and he was a medic. guard duty guys. World War II, back home, and you know what? A hunting knife. Why? It was made by one of us at the beginning of the war, and it is. Made it nothing but hunting knives. A man's life, and it's the son and the grand. That's what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for three of our family line. Plan on laughing about murdering me back in the locker room. fight them I'm gonna murder them first and I better do a good job of it well you know what it'd be kind of poetic justice of grandpa's 1911 that you inherited is what put the last hole in the last guy in the last action of the war wouldn't that be cool that'd be great if grandpa's here grandpa's been gone for 20 years when we pointed something out boom you're down there down we win hoo-rah grandpa thank you That's what you better be thinking about too. Grandpa, thank you. Thank God Grandpa was here. Anyway, we are going to break again, Dom. Yes, we are. And again, you guys... Well, I won't be so crude as to mention the sandbox or the chalkboard. I guess I just can't, but you know, here comes the opportunity. 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He comes over and you start talking about the gun. And you know, these days, any 1911, any field, any cult bring about $300 in entry level buying a real. It used to be like about $400. 350, $400 about five or eight. Once it looked like they drove in 10. You know what I mean? Some guns are different lives than others. Anything from beating in the pickup, turning the toolbox to being beat on the battlefield. and tag it and warn. But you're going to pay $550 or $600, maybe $500 if the guy just really needs some money at the gun show. Now think about this, that's one way to get there. Now you can save your nickels and dimes and your pennies and your pop bottles and all of the aluminum and steel scrap and everything and go out and cash it all in at once and now you might have enough to go out and you're going to spend these days $1,800 for one of those and that's going to be an entry level. But you know what, that's getting long in the dollars. Again for $550 or $600 you guys you know what you spend for a KT ordinance if you've talked to him and you know what if you buy a used barrel well it's kind of like you never know where that barrels been or but you can buy a used barrel. You know what if you've got a particular if you're building a gun if you've got a buddy who works in a chrome shop tell them to take that to work. Chrome that you can mic it out and find out how loose it is and you might want to open up the chamber a little bit so for the chrome once you chrome that barrel once and then chromed properly, it's going to last almost the rest of your life. You can do that to a gun you're building on. Just forget that you can do brush. The guy might take it to a 27 and why it's so forgiving, guys? The chrome barrel and chrome chamber, all the chrome parts that they build, whatever variation. You're building that up. You can build, and as mentioned, Mike out the barrel. And if you're working with someone who's living, they're going to know how many thousands they lay on, and for how much time it spends in the van. It's a given formula, you guys. So they're gonna tell you, well, I can put 5,000 something. So you make the room. Time, and you build the external spec to fit that chrome piece. Because it's gonna be chromed on the outside as well as the inside. So there you go. But you know what? $150, maybe $500, gun. Now $500, you're kinda getting close into time and do the work. And put the finish on it. You've got a brand new, you might have a used slide. But you know what? That slide doesn't, dimensions, haven't you? How that works, you have a- When you build it, even if it's a used slide spec, if you want to build a Kimber, a little bit looser, if you want to build a metal fragment, it's a matter of your choice. And I would say, and I'm, you and I will get off the air, but you know what? Years ago, I had a, they didn't like living it, so eventually I put a jubby in it, and then I did it for, and then I did it for someone I didn't know for money. It looked like it was fat, and the mount looked pretty and everything. But the more you do something, the better you get at it. And you might think I'm going in a different direction. But you know what, if you get that, if you were to purchase a K-T Ordnance, it would almost be the next logical thing to do to look over to that American gunsmithing institute, get the what-nots for a make-up. Yes, as a matter of fact, that is a prior... If you're going to do the T Ordnance project, then you must go... You need to have all the information on the shelf. If you're going to embrace any particular firearm or you're using them, you must have the database on the shelf. A book has been done on what you've got in your hands. That wheels already been turned takes of others live long enough to make them all your steak on that paper That's all it is for the real want that to happen. I think I heard the bells. Who do we have guys Marcus in Georgia? You took my words right? I'm on AGI guys I'm not I never talked anybody down on buying a fancy racehorse like one of those you know a top-end Kim Kim petition when I was an active nutrition National match 45 for a wonderful weapon once a while when the hammer would jump the seat I let the slide go and you shoot a hole in the table there at the 50 yard line or 25 yard line. I realized that it's not going to be a horse. I wanted a work horse. And I found a lot of work horses to shoot a quarter size group, shoot a three inch group and do the same job. That's where you get down to combat, you know, the tack drivers. Two of the tack drivers is when they tighten the 45 up, which is what a lot of these guys do. The one thing that can have 45 was built to field use as it went into it. I mean seriously. of the battlefield to a dust to debris and that's what was going to get into your weapon and the 1911 every man I know had said the 45 never failed him. Well Mark the 45 was the original AK-47. Yeah and it was fine linen cloth spread with a fine linen and I put out real quick carried them on lanyard flat military holster, but got dirt in them anyway. I want to bring that up guys. Judy that's fine when you're humping it through the woods it's a different story. Guys that's what you both. 1911 And not only that, but by the time you're done, you'll find a quality as those very terms you're talking about. And I know there's some people, $1,200 tied up in a 45. We're not complaining about that. I'll go one step and imagine. They're service grade, fully functional. I mean, fine. 45 ACP, 1911, because 45s are made by everybody. And every can imagine out there. And in long slides, for up about $150 apiece. I'm not exaggerating, hundreds. totally clean and they got to the trade of the issue and I don't think it's exaggerated. On maintenance, all mark, your life depends upon this thing guys. Rule number one, when you pull the trigger do you want it to work? Comes to maintenance, what's, do you have the number of their hand? Forgive me, I don't have a right. The reason I bring it up is because if you have all the work time again, because it's readily available, magazines are available for the 45, for the Glock. Yeah, oh yeah, whatever flavor you want. In fact, you carry a wide range of mags for that 45, don't you? Yes, that would be, but more mags are better. More mags are better. String them in the right places, they become like armor, don't they? I've been minding here guys is more mags, U.S. mags, now they're three, four, and five dollar mags. Each can be used for suspicion. If you don't trust, are gonna get stuck with deep mags, because guess what? If I'm doing a five, five 1911 sitting there and they're like from, as long as that mag fits, you're gonna have to work that mag into your system. Mag and that's it. You'll have the ability to at least deliver some kind of volume fire. And you're going to have to check on that. It's like, you know, in fact, even in pay gushing about that about purchasing where they bought a whole bunch of mags and then they upgraded to the other mags. So they sold those magazines. I understand that's cap. You're not going to get what they're worth. So you keep the other mags, you put the very combat mags, you upgrade to the next magazine. You're going to find out that when you get into a shooting situation, the magazine well gets real and the magazines get really big. And, you know, again, for the fact where they belong is a mag and well, then you don't have time to pick it up. five mags to three mags to no mags. Now you'll probably keep that last one once you realize it's the only one I got. Last one you'll probably, even if they're those cheap mags or the other mags you change because they were performing badly, you want to add a few more rounds to the magazine. Example down the standard. Some 11s there, don't you? Sometimes you'll see bubble magazine or this is a whole magazine. Depending on the situation, depending on the openness or fight happens to hit them real hard, that might be the one in the chamber and the one behind that might be hollow points. You think that, well, you get the first one and his buddy, tension now, he might be going to cover. You might want to punch through. Again, there's a whole, and you can do the same thing with your wheel gun. I'm coming, you guys, but one day I did an hour on weapons. Go get your 1911 bit, that number for the gunsmithing, it's the 200 number, and it is 21800. Now, you might get grandpa's of 1917 or Starz's spells, 1917 revolvers, who were models that take your pistol years ago. You will find things like that laying around. It's a modern manual. You can always go. Amazingly enough, they might go, oh yeah, yeah, we still got... So they got piles of them, they'd love to sell them to you. Collecting dust. The .45 is also ammunition. Now you mentioned ball, not a wadcutter. P.P. round for the .45. Very well you have it. Please don't shoot it to test it. .45 is a low velocity. Guys, it's a barely hypersonic. The .45 up, she'll suck me when it hits. You'll know it's a golf ball. Anyway, the conical AP rounds look like a, literally like a nose cone on an RPG-7. Little less of a pitch, still like an RPG-7 has. And if you have them, save them. You might want to be very, very careful, make sure they maintain, you know, they're kept clean because their brass case is typically not nickeled. And it's a very reliable round, a little hotter, and will punch through body armor nicely, even though it is a .45 because it's almost as ill. 45 can't go through body armor. Oh, trust me, this one does. So I'm warning everybody, if you've got grandpa's gun, you might get grandpa's ammo. Don't abuse it and don't waste it. Don't blast it. Find out what it is. You never know what you got. It could be a treasure unto itself and you're pulling a trigger on a $6 bullet every time. Oh, that's not good. You want to make it, send it to somebody else. You can buy another gun. There you go. Well, down at the top. Night vision. If we want to get hold of it, how do we contact you? 3-2-3-1-7-9-6-8-4-5-8. Raw. And we've got Knob Creek coming up. 8-9-10. Only two days away, guys. We'll see you down there at the creek, possibly. God bless the Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the run. 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