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He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, We've 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's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. 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O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoke vanished in the midst for whence he came, his words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. 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? Alright, and you're listening to the Intelligence Report here on Liberty Tree Radio. I'm at the AK-47. And butter knife is is mark hiding somewhere. Oh, he will be out shortly. He's just finishing up a project. He was working on but We are up live. It's 8 p.m. And it's time for quarter masters corner You're listening to us on Liberty Tree radio on Indiana Freedom Talk radio on the live 365 network the home art network the grandma consortium and the other myriads of alternative networks that are out there, AM and FM stations, CB Bay stations, etc. etc. And we are up live going out to every point of the compass, north, south, east, east, west, and southwest. And we're up. Go ahead, BK, take it away. Yeah, Mark has his little pattern all memorized, you can just feel it off at will. Now you're going to have to get a transcript of that and stick it up on a radio booth there so you can recite that one at need. Well, I know most of it. It's just that last part that's the points of the compass that's kind of important. Okay, so it is September 20, 2013, and it is Friday evening. That makes this quartermaster's corner is last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report, and I can barely think with the echoing in my ears, but hopefully it will settle down. Yeah, okay, we're operational again. Okay, let's start out with a few odds and ends and run through the supply chain that we've been observing every week. Powder Valley Inc. has small rifle primers. Finally, they have not had those for weeks and weeks and months and months and who knows how long. They have two of small rifle primers in stock at 23.50 gang. That is not only a very good price, but it is actually available. That's a new function for something to actually be available. They have a little bit of CCI starting to appear, but it's all in the benchrest category, horribly expensive and so forth. I would not recommend that benchrest primers are of significant interest to most of us. They do have Chetite shot shell primers. They have had those for quite a while at $24 per thousand. Once again, I will make the point that when rifle components and pistol components are hard to get, Shot shell components have not had the same sort of supply problems, certainly not in this last cycle. If you look at graphs.com, for instance, they have a wide selection of shot shell components, hulls, wads, all of that kind of good stuff. That's available in great profusion of varieties. You can get bags of 5,000 shot shell primers or wads etc. for what is it something approaching $100. I may be off on that I'm not looking at the page right now. But they are not expensive and they are wisely available. There's nothing quite like a load of 12 gauge to ruin somebody's day. And of course you can cast the slugs. So from a supply and support point of view, the venerable 12 gauge and even 20 if you prefer, is a worthy candidate. Looking at the list of Powder Valley's CCI stuff, yeah it's BR-4 small rifle benchrest at $49 per 1000. So I would not really recommend that. They also have the APS strips, large pistol mag at 36. Everything in APS strips is always more expensive. I'm not sure exactly what reloading equipment uses that, but maybe some of the fancy Dylan's or something along those lines. I suppose they are convenient to handle compared to the traditional tube feeder. But it's always expensive and if you have a simple single stage press then certainly the strips actually make things more difficult for you because you will have to unload the strips first before you then proceed to handle things in a normal fashion. They do continue to have Winchester 760 at 141.50. Now that's not a bad price. It's a general purpose medium speed rifle powder. You can use that especially for .308 and so on. But here's the interesting news. From Powder Valley and other vendors are taking pre-orders. Apparently, Anacurate is coming out with a new powder, it's called LT32, that's Lima Tango-32. Everybody is making a lot of noise over that. Apparently, it's a very, very fine diameter extruded powder, it's being pitched to the bench rust shooters. as very very tight quality control, very small variations in standard deviation, all that sort of stuff. It's not quite out. It's supposed to be shipping in January from Powder Valley. So, there's considerable lead time on that stuff, but they say it is coming. Now, here's the bad news. It's something on the order of $190 for an 8 pound jug and When they say a bench rest powder, that seems to mean that it is optimized for 6mm. I was not aware that the bench rest shooters were all focused in on 6mm for some reason, but I gather from things I have read that they are, which suggests that this is probably not a bad powder for .223, but I am skeptical how well it will stretch all the way up into the medium .30 caliber type stuff. So, that is the rundown for now on the supply chain. At the Winchester 760, the SSC powder from Powder Valley is down to one pound packs. I never advocate the one pounds because they are much more expensive per pound. The CCI primers are starting to appear, but they are the benchrest and APS strips. Those are more niche items and fairly expensive. So, let's see, and one more reminder before we move on to other stuff. Gun Parts Corp, we have been bugging you about this and I'm going to continue to bug you about this. It continues to have the 60 millimeter gas mask filters available, 45 per case for $150. Now there's a little bit of shipping, probably $20 and $30 shipping. But even with the shipping that works out, the $4 per filter. There is no other filter on the market, including these from other vendors, that comes in anywhere near $4 per filter. So if you have the USM9, the FinM61, pretty much the same thing. Mark, you said somebody else was sourcing similar masks. probably from the same modes as that Yugo or... They're Yugoslavian, they're the M2. This is the latest one to come into the country. It's called the M2. It's nothing more than the M9. It's the Yugoslavian version. They're brand new in the package. They take the 60 millimeter filter, but these look more like the M9 than the Model 61 does. The interesting thing, they're made by Nokia. They acknowledge, I talked to the guys, they said, oh yeah, these are made by Nokia, slash Finland. and Yugoslavia didn't make its own mass. The whole batch were made in northern Europe. This is like we've told everybody before, there's a handful of countries that are doing specialized work or have been for years and everybody else counts on them to make what they need. Well, yeah, and we know Nokia as once upon a time being king of the cell phone market. That's been taken away from them, but the reality is that Nokia started as a They are a conglomerate. They are basically Finland's heavy industry. They are in a lot of different fields that you would not normally expect. So, you know, that remains available from Numbrich, it's the 60 millimeter filter. And when they run out, then suddenly the next best price is going to be double that. So, do not cry to old BK when Numbrich runs out of these things and suddenly the cheapest filter you can get is $8 to $10 a pop. And oh, BK, how can I possibly afford uh five filters for uh the six masks in the household they're so expensive well I told you so you should have bought a case and then you would have uh you know deep supply and support on your filters if you don't have at least four or five filters per mask then that mask has very limited tactical benefit. If you've filled a mask, it ought to have a couple or three filters with you at that time. And if you use a couple, then how many times can you resupply before the thing is down to one filter? Okay, this is not complicated stuff. A, filter in a cloudy environment, say somebody is spraying around a lot of CSCN or something like that and you're moving and huffing and puffing and so on, you can clog a filter in an hour or three, maybe even less if there's a lot of burning smoke and things like that in the environment. You go through a couple of filters and then you're down to a couple more. You've got no sustaining capability. You've burned up everything. So, you know, looking at a mask and saying, oh, it's got a filter and a spare, it does not cut it. I would say that you want a bare minimum of four or five per mask. Otherwise, you're going to get to the point where you don't have filters, you throw away the mask because, you know, there aren't any filters. Well, you know, what good does it do you then? Maybe it served you once or twice, but masks themselves will survive an awful lot of use, but it's the filters that are the consumables. And while in theory we can rebuild them, at four bucks a piece it's stupid to rebuild them, there's no point. Buy them now while they're available. They're all factory sealed, they got the caps on, they're in the little plastic bags. No reason not to, except of course financial exhaustion, which a lot of us are facing. Nonetheless, this is a wasting asset, a bargain that will go away. One side benefit before I forget, I had a little adventure today. I was driving down the freeway and it was kind of rainy and tottering along and having a great time. Then I heard this big bang. Uh oh, and then a couple of thumps. I thought, oh man, tire? Turns out that my windshield wipers decided to let go, the linkage broke. Well, I had had a problem with this in the past and discovered that the problem was a nylon bushing. I had replaced the bushing as best I could, but the way they assemble this thing, they must use an arbor press or something in the factory and then assemble the subassembly and then weld parts on over it because there's absolutely no way in the world they could possibly have installed this thing while it's on the vehicle. So I improvised, used some washers and some epoxy and things like that. And that held for a couple of years, sounds like it did not hold now. So driving down the freeway, not seeing forward, is quite an adventure. I managed to pull over in a safe place, find a tree and do a quick little emergency application of Rain-X to the windshield. It really wants to go on with the windshield super clean and all dry and all this kind of good stuff. I didn't have luxury doing that, but a lot of paper towels and a certain amount of elbow grease got the windshield operational. What brings this to mind is that Raynax is nearly magical stuff. I have no idea how it's made. I cannot give you a recipe to produce 50 gallons of it for $1.95. Just buy the stuff. Retail is available in the Auto Parts Center anywhere. This stuff really makes water bead up and vanish. I have used Raynax as the exterior coating on all of the ready mask filters I have. And I think that's a good idea for everybody else to do. Get them clean, use a little Windex or something, get them all squeaky clean, avoid all the fingerprints, you just paint that stuff on, let it dry, buff it off with a rag, reapply it, you know, repeat. So you do it twice. You spray that stuff on, it smells like isopropyl, that's obviously the solvent, and go ahead and just follow the instructions. And then keep your fingers off of it, because fingerprints and friction and so forth is not good for the surface. But when you have done that, water just absolutely beads up on those surfaces and runs straight off. very little point in having a mask and being able to breathe if you're out in the rain and you can't see because the water gets on your lens and there's nothing you can do about that. So treating the exterior of your mask filters I would say is a desirable little bit of homework that you can do. And while you're at it, do your windshields. You never know when the windshield wipers are going to go and that may save your backside too. Anybody have comments, arguments, etc.? Yes, DK. Go ahead. Good evening, DK. Hey, Mark. I am not hearing you very well. Are you coming to a later health press? You're breaking up. I'm muted. This is Tim Seward. How are you doing this evening? There we go. We got you. Go ahead. That's better. Go ahead. I have some experience with Raynax. I had a car for a while that the windshield wipers did not work. And you're right. It does work very well. But if you look in the can, I think, or the package, the bottle, I believe it says that it's not supposed to be used on plastic. Well, the mask lenses do appear to be glass. I don't know, they might be plastic, but either way they do seem to work. A good portion of the, for instance, the American M9s, I'm pretty sure the fins are probably glass. Only a small percentage of the older mass had any plastic lensing. That was one of the things about the USM17, if you remember, they had a glass lens, and then they had another glass lens out-cert. And the out-cert, of course, typically if you tried to find the yellow ones, but they came as a safety glass feature. The idea was if you took a tap to the windshield on your gas mask, the outer lens would take the hit rather than the inner one. So it depends on the mask. Some of your newer ones are polymer, like you see those new full face masks, those are a cast polymer. So you're right there. Right. But here's the other thing. I don't know how that has an effect on rubber because if you get that stuff on rubber it might cause the rubber around the lens to deteriorate. and that you lose seal around the lens. I don't know. I'm not going to say that. an M9 that's damaged, in fact it's one that was butchered by the US government, that'll be in the US gray polymer, and I'll also do it on the M17 mask, and that should cover the three basic plastic slash polymers that are used for most every mask out there. I don't want to do this to a good mask. It's a good question. This is something because you see, another thing that guys did years ago, there was, and now you jog my memory only because this didn't last very long, the government had a material that they used for coating the masks. the whole mask, not just the lenses. And I remember this because we had a window where some of these masks had like a crinkly outer texture to them. And it's not that the mask was breaking down, it's that the material they applied to the mask was breaking down because it didn't have a really good IR defense, you know, IR protection or screen built into it. And that's... Go ahead. That's kind of like a little, like a little, like, cowlet. Yeah, there was there's two versions one had like a can and the towelettes came in a little gray can that was about the size of a Chubby 35 millimeter film can now one of those when I was in the core Yeah, now one of those was the lens cleaner now that was a good that was the lens cleaner in the mask cleaner There was that but they had a treatment material that came in at those three containers. They came in a small pouch It was like a little ammo pouch and it had all these materials that you were supposed to use in progress You know one step after another Those only last a short time and I think they decided that the maintenance and upkeep that it would add because of the the It's psyched a lot of people out. My god. My mask is breaking down and sprinkling on the outside. We're gonna die No, it's just the outer gunk they put in to try and seal the mask for you know for I I assume it was because of obviously liquid agent Usually, polymers that break down are vulnerable to ultraviolet. If they are not opaque, then it's hard to put UV blockers in them without messing them up. Try to keep it out of the Sun for whatever reason the again Either it doesn't have because he cranked out more of them an example is the Russian mass They're very thin the East German Civil Defense mass or military mass of the same way They built more of them. They got enough masks out for everybody But because of that they also skimped in you know, they cut back on the IR protection So if it sits out in the Sun for a long long time and gets beat down by it, it will break down faster That I know, I've tested all these things and I can show you another mask. I probably should do a video on failures because I've got enough of the examples when I had stuff that was junk and clunk and laying around. It's like body armor. Most people say, well, I think it'll stop this. Guys, we did the whole range. We shot every kind of armor you have out there because I was getting it by the ton from the government. as auction, you know, at the auction. So it was like, hey, we got enough of these things, let's do some research. And so we tested them. And I'd have no problem. That's why I'll wear a 1956 Flak vest all day. Somebody says, well, that won't stop anything. Oh, BS. I've already done the test. I know it's not going to stop any heavy rifle, but it's better than my arse hanging out in the breeze. And if I can get better, I'll get better. With the mask, it's the same way. If you can spend the big chunk of money, then go for the gusto. With the ones that we have at the lower end that are available and in good quantity, it's the same mass the average trooper right now is getting out there in the Middle East that's going to war. They are not going to buy any super duper new stuff for these Obama's terrorists. They are going to be pulling it out of the rent revolution industry. It is going to come from Germany or it is going to come from England, maybe from the United States, and it does shame us, but that is not a surprise. They will pull American equipment that you and I can't have in civil defense because they will destroy it. They will give it to our enemies. That is exactly what they are going to do here with Obama's terrorists. Again, it's a matter of make it work, but this is a good question. It's a technical question we need to address as quickly as we can, because there is an advantage to using the material on the glass. As long as it doesn't affect any of the other material around the perimeter, or break it down, or make it malleable, make it softer, make it gummy. We know the effects of different types of materials. I don't see it doing that, but we need to test it, so it's got to be done. And I'll do that probably Sunday. So it will be sitting and curing over a few days. I don't think it will be able to get it done tomorrow morning, but I can get it done probably starting Sunday. Thank you for bringing it up. I have a few other things. Go right ahead. A person mentioned the APS strips. They are utilized in a special pinch mounted priming tool that RCBS markets. It is very similar to their regular pinch mounted priming tool that I depicted in my book. uh... that we just fill up the primer to it basically the same only if you do the trip to make it because of our cb s and uh... cci are owned by the same company they they developed it uh... another thing that white version has large grateful primers post internet bag them entered large rifle primers are offered fifty five dollars for $5,000 and the Magnums are $145 for $5,000. As of Wednesday, they still had them. Okay, that's not bad at all. Yeah, that's I should add them to the regular checklist. We know of them. They've certainly been in business for a long, long time. Right. They're good companies. I develop habits of who I go looking for and I've gotten a little bit sloppy perhaps if not checking those guys as well. Good, good catch. Oh, real quick for Tim, give the website for Widener's Out, please. My website is www.widener.com. Tim Seward, that's T-I-M-S-I-E-W-E-R-T-L-L-S-T dot com. And also, yeah, I go to Potter Valley. Those, them and graphs, probably the three most reasonable, unfortunately, Mid Bay and Missouri, they have, their inventory, they usually have more in inventory, but they're a little bit more expensive. You usually find that you're looking for. The graph idea of a sale is 5 or 10% off, but they have a very, very wide selection. Their specialty is that they've got good inventory and they have a live inventory. If it's on their site, they've actually got it. If they say they've got three left or something and you put them in your cart and order them, then the next time you refresh, it will be gone. They have a well integrated inventory control system. So that's a useful thing. If you're checking them to see if something's available and something appears, it appeared. And you can grab it until such time as it's gone and then it will disappear. So that is a benefit to graphs. As I said, they're well-stocked in the shot shell stuff. They haven't had primers worth a darn in a dog's age. They have occasionally had some powder of various sorts. Part of the problem is powder. Go ahead. Speaking of powder, that powder that you mentioned, that's probably an accurate version of the IMR8208 that IMR came up with about a year and a half ago. It was a powder that IMR developed specifically for small, medium capacity cases, particularly targeting the benchrest crowd again. And you mentioned that the benchrest crowd focuses on 6mm. That's because most all of them now are using the 6mm PPC piece or cartridge, which is a cartridge that's based on the 7.62x39 cartridge case. It's got the same head size. The only difference is the case has been shortened and it has less paper than the 7.2x39 case. Interesting. I wonder why they chose that. Well, the PTC stands for Paris or Pindall something like that cartridge it was developed in the early 80s by these two guys one of them were an orthodontist and they were both bench-to-shooters anyway and that's what the PPC stands for but it's been around for a long time probably three decades but a lot of people maintain that it's one of the most accurate most inherently accurate cartridges out there because of its cartridge design It's short, it's kind of squat looking, if you know what I mean. And 6mm is better at the benchrest distances of 100-200 yards, especially in the wind, because you can shoot 107 grain bullets in 6mm. Those things are like shooting a pencil. Right. What we were talking about before, remember the 6mm Lee cartridge design only take it down to a micro cartridge, take it down, which they did by developing, I'm sure what they did is they did the coefficient based upon expansion chamber size, taper of the shoulder to ensure that the focus of energy was as efficient as possible so that it backslaps that round perfectly. I mean there's no wasted energy or there's no secondary eddying. that takes place inside the case. Which is something from the micro-engineering perspective is hypercritical to putting all the energy you've got behind that bullet. So that's, like all wildcats, almost everything we've got that we use started out as somebody's bench gun, you know, cartridge at some point. All the new cartridges coming out right now weren't invented by Remington or Winchester. They were invented by people who said, hey, I got a lot of these bullets and I want to see what this does. Exactly. Yeah. A bunch of people picked up on it. One of my favorite cartridges that I use for long range is the 6.5x284. That is like the best as far as I'm concerned. It's better than any of the 30 magnums if you're shooting at 600 to 1000 yards because the 6.5mm bullets Again, it's like shooting a pencil. The 140, 140 grainers are really long for a 6.5 millimeter size. And the 6.5 by 284, you can get 3,000 feet per second plus on the 140 grain 6.5 millimeter bullet. That bullet will remain stable out to 1,400 yards. It will remain spersonic to 1,400 yards. Well, that was one of the arguments at the turn of the century, remember, of the 1800s to the 1900s that everything else was going to be obsolete to include grenades and mortars because the progressive development of smokeless powder cartridge guns was going to over sweep everything else in technology. And in fact, the argument was sound. This is what I've been saying for years, but based upon what they originally pointed out, you can perform to that range perfect each rifleman to do it. Isn't it amazing how we've got this technology off the shelf? You're describing it right now. Based upon a combination of 120 years worth of experience with smokeless powder. But we're not telling everybody we can't reach any farther than 200 yards and there's no sense in shooting beyond that distance because what effect would you have anyway blah blah blah blah blah. Really? Would you want to get hit with a 140 grain supersonic 6mm bullet at 1,400 yards? I know I wouldn't. I'd rather not either. There is something to be said for grenades. They go through windows and a bullet was. There's something to be said for mortars. They do a good job of going over a hill and still landing on something. They do great work on machine gun now, so on and so forth. But not too many of us. have any of those on the argument we're going to get close enough to use them in fact what's interesting is remember they actually had these data tribes going on from about eighteen ninety nine to about nineteen fifteen actually forgive me until about nineteen eleven but we got in what we didn't get a role when the world got into the great war and more grenades and more mortars were made during that four-year war than the entire history of my black powder and smokeless powder armaments ever both mortars and grenades. More were built within that World War I period than all of the history of man playing with those kinds of destructive devices. I would suspect that a lot of them were misused. I would suspect, for instance, that they probably fired an awful lot of mortar rounds to just try to blanket an area, for instance, which is really not the smart use of a mortar round. But if you've got a ton of this and you've got an objective there, you kind of use what you've got. Well, the other thing is, well, let's remember the one thing, I'm going to thank you for bringing it up. The trench mortar was not a factory-produced trench mortar. Everybody needs to remember this, and we need to look at World War I because guys, everybody says we won't have it available. Do you have any iron pipe laying around? Let's put it this way. Trench mortars were made with 75 and 90 millimeter and 105 millimeter straight artillery shells. Think about that. They would, in the field, with wood, a little bit of ingenuity by some kid who knew how to use some tools, actually several men, and copying other designs and improving on them. Basically what they did is they made trench mortars. It would reach a few, like up to a thousand, two thousand yards, but they were mostly designed for close-in work where, like you said, they're getting close to the bayonet. You'd fire off a handful of these, which would be a brace of 10 or up to 30, and the idea was you'd permeate an area, and hopefully it slowed them down a little bit so you had time to fix bayonets and get ready for the attack. And that was the whole idea. And everybody built them because, again, like we said, it was the dark side of the moon. They pulverized people, plants, rocks, and everything and churned it over and over and over. And the front never went anywhere. So it was just blow more stuff up. The more stuff gets brought into the meat grinder, you put it all together and throw it down range. But if we take the ideas, that we're talking about, improved rifle marksmanship. We have this ability. Think about this, guys, what Tim's talked about. Don's discussed this with our 50 work that we've done. Guys, we have the epitome of cheap technology that can achieve phenomenal end results. We have the advantage of the brains and skill of generations of rifle marksmanship development. combined with cheap slave sport technology which is overlapping with other technologies we've developed and combining them all we can not only can make something but we can make something we can get a lot of if we decide to focus on it like I was saying during the tour block focus is the big thing we can outgun, outrange, outmaneuver and perform better and we've got the thinkers what we need to do is conserve that fighting force That's the other reason we have like quartermaster like we're talking about where to find end results We need to be there before everybody else to get the goodies that are out there Because we need a deeper logistics support system in terms of munitions Where even just working knowledge? I mean, I hopefully I just planted a seed here trench mortars You know the cool thing about a trench mortar you can shoot it and forget it you'll shoot it and abandon it and don't cry about it because well I can build another one and So that's its objective. It's designed to be It's the ultimate, you know, like short-range defense gun that gives you a lot of firepower, but you don't reload it right there in the spot. You make a battery of them. I reference that and go into the old World War I imagery and you'll see many, many variations. It's like the tomato can grenades. The French were so cheap that, remember guys, they figured out ways to reuse everything. They sent tomatoes to the front, stewed tomatoes. BK and Tim and myself, we sit around the fire and I'm a chef. I make you some tomato puree today and we are going to have the boulevard meal with the Nudel. And then after we are done, we wash out the cans, let them dry, and another case shows up tomorrow morning. And what is it? Oh, it's the fuses and the caps and a can top that go on the tomato cans we cleaned out last night after we had our delightful last meal. And then we build our own grenades so we can charge the German banettes and machine guns and die the next morning. Well, at least we had tomato. Yeah, I'm not sure how good a grenade casing, a thin sheet metal, can really be. It was an offensive grenade. But it does not necessarily contain a lifting charge. No, it's an offensive grenade. It's like the potato masher. Remember, the German potato masher was an offensive grenade. Today, to lie about it, we call them flashbangs. The idea behind an offensive grenade, now you can do a couple of wicked things to the inside. For instance, inside the charge, what they would do is take empty pistol and rifle cases. lots of those laying around in the trenches and they would line the inside of the can with those and then put the charge in the middle but otherwise just loading the charge away it was it was no it was the answer the French answer to the German potato masher everybody sees those were us again for the Sturm the Sturm obtalung the Sturm soldier the Sturm assault unit they're storm troopers they threw their storm their thunder in front of them and then attacked with pistol and bayonet at close range Yeah, I knew the potato mashers have a cylindrical canister and I don't know what the thickness of the metal was or what the bursting charge was. I know that we used all kinds of material in the bursting charge of the old pineapple grenades. Those were heavier cast exteriors with the signature grooves and bumps molded in. We actually used nitro starch, believe it or not, because the other materials were in short supply. They reserved TNT for the artillery shells and cotton derivatives, nitro cotton for rifle powder and the propellants. So, they had to scrounge around and find some other organics they could use for the crummy stuff in the grenades. They used nitro starch in the grenades. because they still had starch available and it wasn't good for anything else so it was good enough for the bursting charge of those pineapples. But I don't know what the bursting charge in the potato mashers was. I do have to say that the expedient of adding a handle was a smart one. We disdained that because it was not invented here but it's an excellent way of throwing something a lot farther than you can throw a baseball. Leverage! That's right. Centrifugal force is your friend. The other thing about that too is remember most of our grenades that we embraced that everybody's pretty well trained with were defensive grenades. That's why we shout grenade and take cover because the burst radius of our grenades, they were defensive. When you use the tomato can or the German stick grenades and the Russians made their version of it. Now they did make other versions of the stick to include one with shot. Some of them use cylindrical rod that was cut from wire. Just little sticks like instead of circular, just imagine something three times the size of a BB, but like a trash can, like a little trash can. The others used just round shot or debris from industrial sites. In other words, they had a stamping where they went kachunk, kachunk, kachunk and they had a whole pile of stampings. Well, they didn't waste those. They actually switched those to another part of the Ordnance Department, the Germans did, and then they would incorporate it into their anti-personnel grenades. But they're mostly, again, offensive slash small burst radius so that you can move to your assault. You can move to the assault with a grenade. The other guy is stunned. This gives you a chance to ban at him and scare him to save the next rifle round for the other guy who is really close or again if you are using a knife and a pistol which for trench clearing was very common then you stab him and shoot the other guy who is getting too close to help the guy you just stabbed. In the brawl they called World War I. If the goal is simply to discombobulate an opponent while you cross the last ten yards to deal with them, I could even see using gravel or something. Oh yeah, anything that was available, I'm sure whatever it was that they could scavenge, again, you keep throwing stuff, you're going to run out of goodies. Eventually you've got to keep improvising. In fact, gravel today, rock, would you want to pick a rock that was traveling at, say, supersonic velocity out of your arse? You all know what's going to happen with it. Anyway, point here real quick. We still have Tim, but we've also got Joe with us. Tim, anything else? Please jump in there. No, that's about all I add. LLC dot com. Thanks, Black Mark. Now, I've noticed something, tool prices for China Sport junk are going up by about 10-20%. So stuff that was $5.99 is now like $6.99 or $7.50 or whatever. That's not a problem because they've still got some good prices on some really exotic or oddball tools that in the past nobody would make but they're bringing in. Couple of them, right now on sale they've got a bunch of these back in the sale bins so you need to all look for this, go to tractor supply. They've got a crescent wrench with a half inch socket drive. Now that's an interesting combo tool but it's really nice because if you've got one socket and you're a kajunkajunkajunk then you've got to start something else up or you've got an oddball size, that adjustable on the other end gives you the ability to switch the size out first, loosen it up and maybe finish the job without clawing off the ladder or clawing off underneath the truck or the tractor or whatever. Okay, yeah, when you said crest, you mean one of the variable head ratchets? Yes, exactly. They're only about $4 a piece on sale, $4.99. These are the large format that go up to, I think, 2 or 3 inches, and it's the half inch drive on the other end. Not a 3.8, it's a half inch, the bigger format. Well, the socket on the other end you use for breaking things loose, and then once you've got it turning, then the adjustable is quicker to get things off. So that makes sense. Exactly. Righty tight. As it gets finger, you know, it's wrench tight, finger loose. You know, one of those things, I should say, forgive me, wrench loose, finger tight. There we go. Get that right, Mark. Anyway, real quick, another thing, though, that I found at the front cashier and they were going fast, they had a bin full of them. He said, oh, yeah, everybody's grabbing these. There's a new version of the dollar store yard lights, the little dollar store lights I told you about, guys. They've got them for a dollar at tractor supply. It's the regular price for them, but they're narrower. They're smaller. Now these take the 3 quarter bullet rechargeable double A's, the little short double A. It looks like a double A's, 3 quarters of one, 2 thirds of one. Neat thing, you're getting one of those rechargeables for a dollar if nothing else. Looking at this design, they've carved down as much as they could to save plastic. You know, they're shaving pennies, wherever they can. But it's a very streamlined little square top. And the roof just accommodates the solar panel. Now I would still, and I'm testing two of them tonight, so far they work flawlessly. They're really nice. Eh, for a dollar a piece, who cares? They work for a year. How much would it cost to leave a light on for a year with power going to it? If they work for one year, I think they've paid for themselves. In this case, I'm going to do a field test in less few days. Probably tomorrow, I'm just going to go over and buy $30 worth. I'm going to break down and buy a case or whatever. They may not have a case, but they put these into a utility bin. For a dollar a piece, it's like going to any of the other dollar stores, and these are at tractor supply. If you didn't pick up a brace of these, like we discussed before, I highly recommend that you do it, please. With the power issues everybody's talking about, these are cheap candles. Look at them as candles. No, we're not going to be having a dining experience. Well, yeah, we could. I can eat by these. But we're not going to have some grand ballroom dining experience. And no, you're not going to be blaring light out to the back 40. But for instance, I use these as, for instance, a farm animal perimeter lights. I've only had one, and actually I can't complain about that, the one ran for two years and finally died. The others have been up for between two and a half and almost three years, and every one of them is still working. So again, what would it cost if I had that plugged into the wall, BK, and just let it run for three years or two years? I'd have a light bill. Well, most of those units from China use NiCads. That's the only place you can get NiCads anymore because Cadmium is one of those You can kill fancier higher performance ones easily. In general, those Chinese products have really lousy chargers. They don't even put a regulator chip in there. They just connect the photocell straight across the battery, maybe with a diode for blocking purposes, and that's about it. So, NIKET is a good choice for that. If you popped in or adapted a nickel metal hydride or something you would probably find that it's not going to work very long. Question. Go ahead. Can you still get defogger for the inside of your lenses for your mask? Actually, Coleman's Surplus, Coleman's dot com, Coleman's dot com, Coleman's dot com, I believe they still have some on the shelf. And I don't have it in front of me, but there's two companies over where BK is. They're actually older surplus companies, the guys in a retired American major. and he has pretty much all of the American defogger kits and everything else that are designed to keep the lenses clean and it's also for doing maintenance on the inside of the mask to wipe them out from the body oils and sweat and dirt. I'll have that for Monday and I'll make sure we have it for next Quartermaster Friday and I'll repeat it during the week because those sources, I haven't brought them up in a while, thank you. We need to pull those off the shelf for our own gear. Yeah, I got a load of that stuff from Spruce Mountain Surplus some years ago. M T surplus. I don't know whether he's got that now. I got a bunch of it back in the day and I applied that also to the interior The defoggers there are a lot of defoggers available and you can even use detergent Shampoo things like that the divers always use spit, but they have a different situation there They're always we can't take the mask off to do that though I keep trying to do it with a mask on, I keep hitting my nose. Yeah, what's more, you usually aren't dunking your gas mask in a bucket of water, so the diver situation is a little bit different. But there are a lot of materials that will help with the defog. And if you absolutely have to improvise dishwasher detergent, you know, lemon joy or whatever, you know, palm olive, that kind of stuff, can do. You want to dilute that heavily. But you can find the surplus material. I found some at Spruce Mountain Surplus back in the day. It may or may not be in stock now. Mark can run down the more current sources if he's familiar with those. But yeah, that is available. And you can improvise other materials too if you have to. If you go to any of the older supply surplus companies, Coleman's has been around for a long time. They've got a lot of stuff on the shelf that they don't have on the webpage. call them. Go to Coleman's.com. Coleman's.com. They also have the rubber gloves. Remember they got 72 pairs for like $8. You can't beat those even if it was just for cleaning houses. They've got the rubber GI boots for $3 a pair, size 6 to size 9. That will cover most of you out there and that's the present NBC boot for mop operations. Okay? So the basic stuff is there in the accoutrements. All the oddball pieces that usually nickel and dime you to death Well, 72 pairs for $8. You can't even buy cheap Chinese sport junk gloves for that price. So, take advantage of that. And then the NBC support equipment, it'll vary from company to company. I'm actually searching for this stuff right now, but two companies have sold out completely. One of them says they can't get anything. One of the wholesalers in California does have masks, don't have decon kits, don't have repair kits, but they do have some of the new Nokia masks. I should say the Yugo masks that just came in, the M2s. And the price is pretty reasonable, but there's only two companies that have them right now. And what I expected to see happen is happening. I think that's one of the things Obama is cutting off to the US is the NBC equipment. The other half of that, even if they didn't do that completely, guys, there's a war going on overseas where everybody talked about gas. If you were in a war zone, wouldn't you want a gas mask? Oh, hell, yes, you would. And that's where it's going. The stuff is going there. If you look at the new pictures, go to Google, punch in pictures of the Syrian war, Iraq war, now we're going more to the left, Syria. Take a look at what they're wearing. Take a look at the masks they've got on. Take a look at the equipment they're carrying and using. Pay attention, because you're seeing the rent revolution market being vacuumed out of all this equipment again, just like what happened with the Iraq wars. Now it's a little more to the left, it's Syria. And those people are taking it seriously because yes, they've already seen if we believe all the stories, let's ignore the fact they can argue back and forth about who did what. One way or another, somebody deployed chemical agent on the battlefield and once that happens, everybody wants a mask. And you know that we are bankrolling the insurgents. Yep. And we have the magic checkbook we're willing to indent future generations to any degree necessary in order to advance the agenda. The administration is very, very determined to overthrow Syria because that's a preliminary to starting World War III in Iran. They don't want Syria at their rear when they attack Iran. So if you think that people are opposed to engaging in Syria, they have no clue what the plan is. By the way, there's a little cartoon series called Snafu. It was generated by the same people that did Bugs Bunny. Watch the last cartoon that had Snafu in it. It talks about deployment in Iran. The individual that the snafu is talking to is the devil. Why? Well, they kind of explain that Iran is not what you think it is and it gets hotter than Hades, along with a whole lot of other problems they don't have in other places where they deployed, even in the Egyptian desert. So, something to pay attention to there. Cool things from the past that tell you about the present, which you're going to have to deal with if you're stuck going over there. Real quick, before we go, we got Joe there with us still, right? Yes we do. Permaculture, Joe, I know we are going to have to spend a Friday where we're going to have you talking a lot more, but how can we get hold of more information? How can we get hold of you if you want to find out more about permaculture, please? Well, personally I don't have a website, but if folks want to sort of cruise around online, there's a really good website to go to. It's permes.com. There's also richsoil.com. So those are probably the best ones. You could also go to I believe it's permaculturenews.org, permaculturenews.org. That's Jeff Lawton's site. So that would be something. I do have two things. Two weapons for the garden that I wanted to cover and I think I can do it in two minutes. Go ahead, jump in there please. Okay, first weapon. If you guys are out at the yard sales, if there are any badminton rackets, grab them. There's a very useful purpose for the garden. A badminton racket is the perfect length and weight to take out cabbage moths, which are still flying around right now. Those are those little yellow and white butterfly looking things that fly around in the day, about four to five feet off the ground. and every single one of those is getting ready to lay things on your winter crops that will eat the heck out of them. So your cabbage loopers, those little green worms that are on your cabbages in the winter, those are the little things flying around. You just take them suckers out with a bad mitten racket and you don't have to worry about it. Second thing, last thing. DE, diatomaceous earth, what a great substance. I mean, this stuff was discovered back in the mid 1800s. Alfred Nobel used diatomaceous earth in his earliest formulation of dynamite because it's a porous dust. and they can absorb nitroglycerin and it actually rendered it less volatile. So if you guys are looking for something for pest control that's organic, diatomaceous earth, many diatoms. They're made of ancient one-celled algae. If you dump all that white dust all over your crops, it will actually kill pests by drying them out. It can also get under the shells of bugs that have exoskeletons and it will literally kill them. and there's absolutely no harmful effect it has to your crop. Yes, and Mark was mentioning about gask masks and everything earlier. If I was the enemy, you know, I would probably need one of those things because you can buy non-food grade diatomaceous earth really cheap. Like, you need to buy food grade if you're going to use it on your garden, guys. But if you buy non-food grade, On a microscopic level, if those little jagged things get into someone's lungs or a respiratory system, it's game over. So make sure when you're buying your diatomaceous earth for the garden, it's food grade. And if there just happens to be some non-food grade laying around and the enemy's coming, well, they should be wearing gas masks. Dumb it down a hallway. Remember, you're going to make sure you don't make a cloud of that and get in their way, because that would be an OSHA violation or something. That would just be terrible. Yep, as a matter of fact, real quick, it's what asbestos does by the way. Remember if you do an electron microscope of asbestos, the same pod, the way that it sits is a crystalline structure. If you break it down and break it down and break it down and break it down a million times over, it breaks the same way. in the same crystalline form as a long dagger, a dual edge dagger. Oh, would that be mean? After you do that, you let it settle for a second, then you hit the hot water shower up above with the steaming supercharger. First, they get shredded from the inside, although that'll take some time. And then from the outside, they get parboiled. So while they're trying to recover from being parboiled, and if they get back to medical support, they die from the lung abrasions. Oh well, yeah, one way or another, you got them. And that was about it, you're pulling a trigger. I think that would probably take a little while to have its effect, but definitely don't put any of that in a tin can with an M80 in the bottom. It burns! You don't want to do that. That's right. What a great pest control device to have around. We deal with bugs in many ways. Hey, by the way, as Huckleberry pointed out, Russia Today, all the chem suits you guys have been buying from Maine Military, we're right there on the news today, guys. Guess what? What a surprise, like I told you. There is nothing you're buying that is outdated or obsolete. Everybody's using it. Just remember that. All these goofs wrote this nonsense up a few years ago and everybody was going, well they said it was obsolete. Really? Well then why is he using it and he using it and he using it? You want to know why? Because once you see a chemical attack, you're going to understand the concept of breathing and how important it is. Okay, so everybody make sure you square your technology and equipment away. It's Quartermaster Friday. We got a long weekend. Birch Run Gun Show tomorrow and Sunday. Birch Run Michigan Gun Show tomorrow and Sunday. Well, BK, we're at the top. Joe, thank you, sir. You betcha. And Tim, thank you for calling in too. BK, God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on March 4th, day and night, and we're pre-ordering our garlic now. Oh yes, and we want more of it. Garlic is part of the medicinal category for herbologists out there. We know what garlic's value is. You need to get it in the ground. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. This next announcement is serious news and you won't hear it in the mainstream media. 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