attached to the holster in most cases and the guns were pretty decent anyway music coming up here at the top of the hour new would be there somewhere god bless the republic death of the new old order we shall prevail the empire is on the run of war in march we'll be back just a little bit here so micro effect it is wednesday please say a prayer for joe joe mcneil and his family gotta be strong keep em on the prayer list people we'll be back Interrupt this program for an urgent announcement. The power's gone and the lights are out. We now have an emergency situation. Time to light your emergency candles. Don't have any? Then it's time to order your supply of emergency grab and go candles from LisaKCandals.com. The emergency candles outperform even the most extreme conditions. They are soot and drops and freeze and have a natural extended shelf life. The time is now, so don't delay. Have emergency candles from Lisa K. Candles ready when you meet them. So you remain in the light and out of the dark. Go to LisaKcandles.com. That's Lisa the letter K, candle dot com. Or call 731-441-3293. That's 731-441-3293. We now return you to the regular SCADA program already in progress. A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, speaking low to me, and 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 dilemma, the freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrant's 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, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. It's the start of business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. 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We're in the hallmark network on the eastern seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida from the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico headed to Oklahoma big chunk of Nebraska a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both fifth through the fifth and our friends in to the left coast we turn back to the planes who leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in this smoke for the rest workers gremitings okay teams the model gremitons or she will retire since workers do their part to ensure that we have a internet in another pain alternate hallmark and boldness by technologies continue to be patient you got to keep doing what you need to do to get the job done and do not slow anyway it is beautiful sunshiny they appear the sun is still streaming through the window across the field in fact it's Up above the trees now guys, it's up above the tree line in that, our closed trees. So, and we're about what? 25, 30 degrees off the horizon and headed toward 907. Obviously the 8th of Jankphabian's occupation of America with a K2000 and calendar or Mayan. We know it's going to be continuing old out there, but it's pretty well used to it. Mickey Mouse boots, the rells, the muck locks, whatever it is you got. You didn't take them out, finally, didn't you? Be prepared for this weather. Shouldn't have a problem getting out there, taking care of the critters, making sure everything's got the food it's to have. Properly done to everybody's purpose. Short time we're going to have this weather. This is a season, guys. Not going to be here for long. Just got to make sure that we stick to faithfully doing our part. Respond. The idea that we're prepared to defend ourselves, and it is a couple things. Touchdown, handgun, holsters, we went to the top of the break here. And I want to point out that there are three basic locations. You all should know this, but for those shopping for ideas, the shoulder holster technique, left or right, depending upon your personal, again, your dominant hand, your personal as an individual. Left or right hand determines what is underneath your arm, bite of your arm in a high carry. Hip carry and now the big thing of course is hanger carry off of a low carry on the leg Now each one has its advantages and disadvantages and each one is varies depending upon again application the hanger holster off the belt used upon the idea that typically you are infantry and there wasn't a whole lot of riding going on I Would point that out even if you were on horseback back in the day or even today The idea is that the hip holster a central location usually attached obviously to your personal belt. Maybe you got suspended, you decide to have a little extra personal support there. This isn't a bad thing, suspenders are actually a plus item by the way. But again, if you're using a service belt and a standard belt and just a quick tip station, there are different arguments. Each one is correct for the individual. I'm not even going to get into the debate about, well this is correct over that. Wrong, it's flavor of the day. Don't worry, you'll be frustrated because if you've been in the industry long enough or if you've been in operations long enough, muzzle up, muzzle down, dragging the muzzle in the mud eventually will not be a popular thing. When you're in sandy environment, that's one thing. Once you get back into the real world of the temperate environment, muzzle dragging, your whole day real quick and you find that no matter how you tried while you were fatigued while you were muzzle dragging, you got a big lump of dirt into the muzzle and just ruined your whole day. That'll be a flavor of the day thing for the moment. It's in vogue and everybody's read, you know, is oriented by the movies, etc., and television. Holsters are the same way. Camp forward, camp back, straight station for hip holsters. Again, the camp forward is for drivers. If we were going to circles all day, you want to increase belly for a driver station. Or while you're at the donut shop. Oh, I'm sorry, that's a certain in people, isn't it? uh... otherwise again low hangers in the middle of hangers or something off the hip that everybody tends to forget the full some prison designs for police designs which have gone out of both a pivoting holster designed to deal to a degree with goals for how we move in a shoulder holster of course for drivers was very clear in that respect but also obviously for complete however driving station high station for high station a little more sensible only in that it keeps it uh... what is a typical free access in front of an opera let me point this out uh... down around your legs or around the lower part of your body you're either in a bucket seat or an armored seat or a pilot seat or even a vehicle seat when you're in a truck or whatever consider the full the holster in a low station have a lot of places where it can hang up but because you're typically an operator with the your driver your pilot whatever the area in front of you is free and clear isn't it or at least has some free and clear maneuver room because you've got to be able to steer. You have to be able to turn a wheel. You have to be able to move things. So the shoulder holster for an operator typically makes more sense because it also keeps the weapon close to where the hands are already oriented and time everything in a gun battle. Okay? So that's why there are different tools that need to be in your toolbox. Now the shoulder holster has to be, number one, able to effectively secure the weapon and that is especially critical, contrary to everybody thinks. Guys, you're moving around, you're bouncing around, you're climbing in and out of stuff. I have seen people have weapons slide right out of their shoulder holsters and they don't think about it at all or even in a hip or a low carry. In fact, the low carry hanger holsters, because of all the different ideas for keeper tabs, you know, what it is that straps that gun into the holster or what keeps the flap on the holster, you know, over the gun and on the holster. Guys, there have been every variation you can think of, some better than others, some, the only reason they disappear is because they were expensive. And they really aren't a bad solution, it's just that maintenance typically doesn't take place. Velcro is the big thing right now, obviously. Thumb busting snaps are still the most common and they've been around for a long time, but they're not brand brand new. But they're also, they weren't necessarily used in the application as holsters. because of other issues with regard to mechanical failure, things getting busted, crushed, snapped or whatever. Years ago with the standard US military leather holster they had a brass stuff, typically a slit was cut in the leather. These were very simple leather designs. They were designed to be one piece holsters. Most people don't realize that, they don't look at them. It's a component, the old pancake flat shoulder holsters made just after World War II, into World War II and obviously snapped you guys saw them at one point or another. Look at the design. They were designed to be cut from one piece of leather, folded over, stitched in place. A few other small pieces of leather are attached. I know that. Come on. But the basic component is a one-piece fold. Your old 1911 holsters, your old leather hip holsters, were leather one-piece folds and fought through so that they were sculpted. Now they had, for instance, a resting pad. There's one back strap hanger. for the 1910 hanger on the leather. Well, yeah, there's add-ons. Those are small tack items, and they're stitched on typically before the holster is finally assembled and stitched from within and put together as you know, they roll everything over. Look at how it's mapped out. Think about how intelligent the design was, okay? And done from natural leathers. Now, vary the leather quality very. But they work. However, that flap, if it gets tired, although leather typically doesn't, it gets harder. So it has to be supple. But the idea is that counting on the idea of leather and the way that it cures and cures to whatever's in it, as long as it's stuff that you know the weapon's in it on a regular basis, it forms to the gun, just like boots form to your feet. The advantage is that it becomes very, very much a literally a skin over the outside. means it's not gonna offer a whole lot of interference because it's molded to the design and will stay rigid once the weapon is extracted so it's not going to interfere with operations the big thing is with the hip holsters that you see before they started using snaps on the cheaper newer ones they went to snaps as a preference it won't say cheaper just because they have snaps were brought into service simply because it's the keeper of the day years ago that little brass stud served quite well especially since it was a a bunion type stub it's a sticker like a Light bulb, this glass light bulb, but it had been fixedured into the leather. Later on, obviously, we went to snaps, we've mentioned those, but another one that really worked well was the dot keeper. Now, where do you see the dot keeper? Well, if you've got a lot of the World War II med compass pouches, or if you have a World War I or World War II or Korean War cartridge belt, the cartridge belts used a dot keeper system. Now, those dot keepers were used on everything and were used quite successfully. but the problem is they're actually quite intricate. They come from the age of stamped sheet metal, originally in brass, eventually going to pot metals, which really weren't preferred, but because brass and bronze became more expensive and they just decided to cheap out a little bit, sheet metals are different, there's advantages and disadvantages of that with the metals. The big thing is that if you want to keep a dot system going, you've got to do some maintenance on it, not the least of which is a little Vaseline lubricant that's not going to mess up the gear, permeate the material. What you do is add a little bit of that to those dock keepers because of the little spring pieces of metal inside that sheath. Dot through, you'll notice there's a little plug indentation in the dock keepers. That wire hooks to that and keeps it pretty well secure. So you apply a little pressure and it breaks free, opens up and you get into the pocket or you can get into the holster or whatever. Good design. The only reason we went away from it is because of cost. It was not because it was a poor design, it's because it cost too much money to spend on the soldier. so it went out of bulk now the latest thing is velcro in the middle of night two o'clock in the morning i need to check my compass there's somebody over there in the brush cuz i don't think we have a velcro push over there to you now but again we don't worry about it more sound discipline is something that disappeared from most people's minds so velcro is in vogue okay fine where there's nothing we've nothing you really make velcro quite your best better off just because you can to get to whatever reality it is the hook keeper system that is most commonly out there, it's not the only one. There's also knob type, the Chinese did this last, they were the last ones to where you see it in force. The wood toggle hanger type button system for closing flaps and such. They even used them on certain holsters, so you'll see those out there. Japanese did the same thing, very simple, very cost efficient, and from non-strategic material. So again, woods everywhere. The carving, a little slave working on a wood lathe. could be cranking out little knobs for you all day. Now, the big thing about the shoulder holsters, you will find a number of different types. Remember that it has to keep the weapon, but also obviously be kind of nice if you can extract the weapon quickly. So there's the balance between the two. And again, it's a matter of philosophy. After a while, people are going to get into certain situations. You're going to find that rediscover covering the weapon and why it actually made sense. Lubricants are going to be a problem down the road as you get into a battlefield situation always you're going to be short I highly recommend you put automotive oil transmission fluid on the shelf not only for your vehicles But you can use it in an alternate solution. I've talked about this for years Many people have picked up on it or they've learned from the same school that we have pol petroleum oil and lubricants are a commodity They always will be we get into a battlefield even more so they will become far more precious now shoulder holster hip holster or low hanger you know what if you're going to uh... you'll be sample back years ago when they start bringing the u m eighty four nylon holsters that all you middle middle-aged younger guys have used or what voodoo super one dot tactical or talked about walk out look out whatever uh... whatever the latest poking is congratulations from that puppy i think it's fantastic but remember that uh... typically as we go from one fashion statement to the next but they're getting rid of you'll get cheap If you're looking at building a 510 program, obviously a whole bunch of people use those. They apparently came back alive because they turned the stuff back in, or at least stayed alive while they were using it. Maybe some of them didn't. Maybe you'll find some of the blood stained. I don't know. But I haven't seen that in surplus so far. Like when the UM-84s came in, all the leather shoulder holsters and the old 45 hip holsters came out in force. and the guys at the gun shows had bins and I'm not talking boxes, I'm talking pallet bins they brought to the shows like in Ohio and those holsters were going for $3 apiece and $4 apiece. Well, they worked before and they still do so if you can buy the stuff cheap enough, UM-84s are now coming out as auction items, Gov Liquidation. There's piles of them right now in Ohio. Go to GovLiquidation.com, punch in holsters or punch in web gear and you'll find holsters mixed in sometimes. eighty ninety a hundred holsters sometimes eight hundred holsters the u-m-a-d-four is coming out with the bianchi design bianchi got the contract originally a lot of other companies built them as subcontractors uh... bianchi made it no degree made it black and made it in an earth brown savannah tan i'm sure is out there but so far i haven't seen it but the desert stuff is apparently being held onto holsters are a specialty item The UM-84 was designed so it could be actually used in a shoulder holster configuration or in a hip holster configuration. It's a little bulky because it is padded nylon. Okay, actually it's padded Kevlar depending upon the contract here and who built it. And God knows they probably chinsed out or somebody, whoever Izzy Blassenstein's cousin-in-law when he got the subcontract probably made it out of whatever inferior quality material they could get from over in Bangladesh or Vietnam or China or wherever. Who knows where it was built. guarantee that, you know, more recently the more the newer the stuff is more likely it's subcontracted very low grade by comparison but hey if it's still got some service life in it use it we pulled off the enemy's corpse it'll probably be foreign junk use it okay not probably you know it will be foreign junk the older equipment at least was still American made so a lot of this stuff is very serviceable remember too that it has to fit if the weapon doesn't fit If you know the reason it's not the right size or dimension for the weapon you plan on carrying, then that can be an issue too. One nice thing about the UM-84 holsters moving up into the modern age of the 80s and beyond, the UM-84s will handle the bread of Model 92 and the bread of the bulky pistols, so all you guys that have all those larger magazine, you know, CanX, Browning High Powers, whatever else it is, will fit. They're universal holsters for the most part, but they're probably molded or have been carrying a Beretta Model 90 II for quite some time, so you'll find they got a little wiggle space in there. Just something to think about and look at. Again, with leather maintenance, got to clean it. Nylon, oh no I don't, I can let it all fall apart. No, that's the problem. Most people, they will do that. Remember, you need a fine toothbrush and you need to remember to dust off your equipment every once in a while. and dust getting into nylon fixtures or getting into points where nylon or material has been sewn together works like emery cloth. It will grind at the threads to hold together your equipment. That's why you need to dust it off every once in a while. Take a soft brush, not a coarse-course brush. You want a tired toothbrush to be a good choice. Tired toothbrushes are your friend. Do not throw them away. They are maintenance tools. You already broke them in so that they're not too abrasive but they still have aggressive points on them, an aggressive plastic end. And while they may be flattened or splayed a little bit, who cares? It's not relevant. I don't think your holster or your web gear is going to care. Your rifle won't care. Again, remember, anything like that, you're going to be short, progressively material. So carrying spares, or you know, again, saving one item and transferring it over into another use, Again, an intelligent solution. We aren't going to waste material. When you're done, a toothbrush handle too, no matter what sticker, if nothing else. You can add, in fact out here, you can add a metal piece of material. Hand it off to your guys, it'll improvise. It'll make a nice little pick-stickin' knife where you can stash in places nobody will find. And the handle, of course, you use the plastic toothbrush handle to wrap around something that's got a shape or a little bit of a blade to it. Oh yeah, it'll cut, it'll go side bar there. Anyway, holsters. The other thing is, remember, most of the companies make commercial holsters. uh... will of course specify the model in type that they're custom cut pay attention to that remember that usually there's a family of weapons that the holster will fit the cross referencing is readily available there so have a personal choice as a shoulder holster for when we travel around the country jackass rig jackass rig years ago now everybody their horizontal carry is convenient provided the weapons and to me i'm a big guy so carrying a six-inch three-fitter python fifty seven said Smith & Wesson Model 27, I can get away with that because I'm big. I can carry that in a drop holster, a holster that's parallel with a body, and pretty much you won't have an idea of what I've got on my person. However, taking a 6-inch and putting it into a jackass rig, you have what's called printing with your suit or with your casual clothes. People who are against you or people who don't like guns will notice that. Especially the anti-gun cops and other people. So a jackass rig is a neat idea if the weapon is short enough that it doesn't really have the thickness of your body from the front of your chest to your back. Always keep that in mind. So again, horizontal carry, simply reach under the armpit and if need be, pull the trigger in the holster. If it was an emergency situation, turn the body, pull, shoot through your coat. However, again, the idea is to get it away from your clothing because that first shot might bollocks up other things. So again, the idea is that you can quickly draw and the weapon is already at fighting station. You can turn your body, extract the whole, the weapon from the holster and bop, bop, bop, bop, without extending your arm. The shoulder holster has a mission there. Again, there's a number of different companies out there, but remember if you do carry it in a horizontal position perpendicular to the length of your body, Gravity sucks and if the keeper system doesn't hold that weapon in place, she'll slip out and you may have another embarrassing moment where, wow, look, there's that 45 on the ground. Oh, wow, look, there's that 357 four-inch barrel. Oh, wow, I really didn't want anybody to see this and oh, this is not good. So you want to balance that out. And again, it's a matter of how much activity you're involved in and motion. So for me personally, I like the World War II pattern pancake holster for the 1911. It's positive as a dot lock system. The newer ones have a snap if they're copies or if they were old, the last of the US contract. They come in black, they come in brown, they come in tan. I like the older World War II ones because they were to be browned out. Two different types of systems. One is simply an over-the-neck hanger with a belt keeper below. The others were more intricate with a Sam Brown or forgive me, what is it, not a full slit, double strap shoulder type system. More intricate, they require more tuning, but they do work. And for vehicle operators and crewmen, the shoulder holster, that particular pattern is pretty positive and pretty comfortable. It's got enough leather behind it so it doesn't gouge. open top which is again for a shoulder holster not a problem for your armpit and all that sweaty salt you got underneath it. Yeah that's going to be covering the weapon. Case in point, remind you if you're going to carry a shoulder holster all that sweaty salt has a tendency to be really bad for your weapon. Over and over again I've had people hand me firearms they've carried in shoulder holsters, not that I haven't seen this in also hip holsters, but they'll pull the weapon out and there's a and they really haven't paid attention because they've been living with a weapon so much that they keep putting the shoulder holster and they take it up, put it in the shoulder holster, but they don't think about working down the weapon. The other thing is green. Green, it's a blue steel gun or a phosphate finish, yeah, but it can be green inside the magazine if you're carrying brass rounds. and you got all that armpit spray sitting there, oh it did worse slowly. But remember that body temperature, 98.6, actually is a little higher under those armpits because they're getting rid of, oh that's right, it's a waste system. So remember that you also have to check your mags and it would behoove you if you're going to carry something in a passive way, nickel-case ammunition. No, I'm not talking about spending a dollar around on something unique, I'm talking about nickel-case, brass, standard load, whatever you got. because the nickel case will of course reduce the oxidation issue brass case is not a problem and no I'm not telling you get rid of all your brass case ammo, hello anything you bought you already got and by the way if it's what you got to use is what you used but because people have a tendency to be lazy I don't care how hard or how you work at this as a team leader or whatever people will try to get out of fill in the blank it's notorious if for whatever reason it can be fatigue belligerents, whatever. Because of that, assume the worst, you won't be disappointed. Remember the guy carrying that other gun is the person who's supposed to be supporting you and vice versa? So if they really don't have good maintenance policies, when the time comes, they may not be a benefit to you. Well, I guess they could draw fire, but if the weapon doesn't work, they're not putting targets down. So the other issue is flat holsters, something I talked about a minute ago, a few minutes ago now, because we're at the bottom of the arm, we're going to hear the music here in a minute. but flap holsters keep things clean and mean, ready to operate. You just gotta remember how to use them. The old leather holster we were talking about was very user friendly with regard to speed release. Using that brass, but a good job of keeping the weapon and the holster where it belongs. But actually, if you work that little bit, pretty straightforward to be able to pop the flap, acquire the weapon and bring it into service. And a lot of people modified their holsters in different ways. Beware on some of that. Remember, Some of what you might do you might regret later So think through and take a look at some of the ideas people have and maybe if you want to experiment experiment on something That isn't your favorite get another one see if you want to cobble a little bit and it doesn't work Well, you can put that on the shelf as a 510 hole somebody else Anyway, we're gonna go to break. We are we'll be back in just a minute. Grab that cup of coffee smell Hey Oh, and if you've got to go to work, be careful on the road, but it is cold dry, and that means a little easier driving. But that doesn't mean the other idiots don't know what they're doing. They probably have no clue still, so avoid by driving offensively. We'll be back in a little bit here. It's Wednesday on The Micahler. Regardless of the dollar price involved, one ounce of gold would purchase a good quality man suit at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, and today. 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The emergency candles outperform even the most extreme conditions. They are split and toxin free and have a natural extended shelf life. The time is now, so don't delay. Have emergency candles from Lisa K. Candles ready when you need them. So you remain in the light and out of the dark. Go to LisaKcandles.com. That's Lisa the letter K, candle dot com. Or call 731-441-3293. That's 731-441-3293. We now return you to the regular schedule program already in progress. We got sunshine, we got snow on the ground, we're all at one other country. so much of it. Did you get a lot of that snow? Did you get all that money? And there all that wealth? Wow, look at all that. Isn't it wonderful? It's fun to be in too by the way. Yeah, did you get your snowmobile out? Oh you were told to get rid of that. Fun is horrible. Yeah, but kind of handy to have a snowmobile right now, wasn't it? Kind of one of those seasonal utility vehicles if you treat it that way rather than just as a toy If you watch for somebody else that's getting rid of their toy and you have the toy on standby just do a little maintenance It's like a lawn tractor. It really comes in handy, especially if it's a you know, got you know, toe hook and yeah, you get a trailer for it Well, you could do all kinds of stuff with a snowmobile right now with the 20 inches of snow on the ground Yeah, plus there's ice fishing. That's a lot of fun especially when you got something you take back and you eat it when you're done too. Some of all, yeah, lake perc, crappies, all your own feed, the little fish fry, you get the old cajon out there. Yeah, even if you just use a regular American fry or the beer batter fry, whatever you're gonna choose to do, I just like to throw them in the pan there, get the grease going and a little batter sometimes, mostly it's just frying regular, you know, just the way they are. Especially when you used to get 20, 30, 40 fish at a time out of the lake, bringing food back, you know what you're gonna have for the evening meal. or for lunch, no matter how motivated you get to clean them as quick as possible and fish in there and they'd be fresh all the way back to the shore and then some. You didn't have time right away, leave them in there as long as you can keep them in the sun, didn't kill them off that way. Got fresh water coming in. You all got all the fish you need for when you gotta eat them. Of course when you get them in the ice, you just throw them out and let the coast outside do the job and back to the house from the shiver, Shanny. If you got the old ice shed out there or had a hole in the ice, you sit down on a bucket or on a wire. Remember the old foldable wire? See, they were used for everything by the way, but steel wire. No, not the aluminum lawn chairs. I'm talking about steel wire, a little simple. You got to basically crunch your butt on a small surface. You got a cloth, you know, the stress, kind of like a neat version of a sleeping cot. Anyway, you should. And let's not forget skating, and let's not forget skiing, and now there's snowboarding and everything else. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can get out there and enjoy this weather. Air your hind end out in the process, move around a little bit, find out what muscles aren't working. You can do that real quick if you've got to shovel some of this stuff too. Remember, if you're shoveling it, well, do it until you start to feel a little fatigued. Push it a little bit if you want, but don't get stupid. Go back inside. Don't worry, the snow will be there when you come back out. Rest for a bit, because you haven't been doing this for a while. You're using muscles that you don't normally use. It's like, first, see the water ski. the first day and you all get there and do some water skiing. It has some fun getting towed around behind a boat and it's you know again you pull yourself up out of the water yeah you're up there on top of that ski and you're using muscles you haven't used all winter possibly not the way you're using them for water skiing and you slide in you know you release the rope as you you know swing in towards the shore and you slide into the shallow there and you get off and you believe it not bad but Yeah, the old muscles start to talk to you in a few minutes and you realize, whoa, dudes, yeah, I can feel those shins. Yeah, it's like your shin muscles are all telling you, you gotta work both ways when you're skiing. Same is true when you're gonna be out there doing whatever you're doing in the snow. Pay attention, remember, your first two or three days, you wanna phase up, physically phase, now, it's a little late for a lot of you, but you're out there looking like we got, you're all been shoveling snow or using the snowblower, whatever you're doing. but you have usually the show will move a few things uh... again be careful pay attention use common sense there i think we pretty well gotten the holsters arrested the way or needed a pancake holster like use the hangers single hanger type goes over the head and across the neck for the shoulder that quick and easy now there's a reason i like that shoulder holster it quickly baht notes not a real good hiding holster although we'll go underneath the pilot jacket a field jacket or whatever quite well but that cross-strapped is out where you can see it But the advantage is this, if I wanted to pick something up real quick and carry it with me, see I always look at the idea that I've got a farmstead or everybody's talking about a retreat. And you need to make your system so that it's convenient enough that it's not, you know, it doesn't take minutes to get into your rig. One of the advantages of having a hanger shoulder holster like that is it goes over the head, you've got a 45 in the shoulder holster, a Smith & Wesson Model 10, or an official pulley. and it's got wet rounds on board. A lot of guys, like what we used to do is we take the little Bianchi 6 round cartridge holders on the strap. It's not a big deal, they aren't in the way, but it gives you more rounds in addition to when you pick the gun up in the holster. Let's say you hang it out of nearby and you're not wearing it all the time. Say that you're not. If you grab the holster, pick it up, it's got two speed loaders or two Six round pockets plus it's carrying six round. It was a 45 The idea was to usually you could buy single from any numbers Sierra Bianchi single mag pouches You have that so that it slips on to the holster. It's on the holster Holster stretch band, you know the leather band on your hip would be a or a lot of guys even carry, you know, three four or six mags in Carry mag pouches are already built. They've been building them for decades. They're out there out there The other advantage of course of the hip holster is it's out of the way for the most part convenient to carry. I like the 1911 leather type but I've used every other variation you could imagine pretty much by anybody because I always go to the grab boxes for what somebody else got rid of. That way I can experiment. Sierra's made some really nice nylon holsters over the years that will work well with small frame automatics. PPK, little snubby chuppies you got out there now that are stacked mags. There's a bunch of stuff out that you can get that's quick and convenient. And it's not necessarily the new rigid plastic holsters, which of course are in vogue for the moment again. But they bite. Now that's one thing about those holsters is that they bite. Yes, sitting in one place and doing not much of anything because you're a box person, that would be OK. But in the field, you're typically flexing and moving a lot and really working. doing other things. In other words, we are in combat troops, but let's say you're in a retreat mode or a garrison situation. Remember, the idea is that the holster, it's not going to be so intrusive, it becomes an encumbrance. And because it does, typically people find excuses for not carrying on their person. Now, let me give you an example of where that happens. You might recall we had a couple of ranchers down on the border here a few years ago. Some more than a few years ago now, the guy would patrol his land with a four-wheeler. Caught a couple of illegals. That handgun was on the four-wheeler. His rifle was on the four-wheeler. You want to know why it was on the four-wheeler? Because it was convenient. Too convenient in that, again, you've got to get used to the idea that you are going to be encumbered by carrying a firearm. So you need to find a location where you can carry that firearm in such a way that it is not going to be a problem for you. It's not going to be separated from your person. Now, this mostly is with regard to handguns. Now, if you're carrying such a big handgun, you decide that you don't want to carry it, then obviously that handgun's not necessarily gonna serve its purpose. It doesn't mean it can't be a saddle gun. Cavalry have carried saddle pistols or a Dragoon pistols for a long, long time. But if that's the case, then you better have another weapon that you are willing to carry that's convenient, that is an extension of your person so you don't have to stab somebody or try to wrestle them to get back to your personal firearm. Okay, in other words, you should still have a personal firearm on you. So that's where the balance is. Well, he told me I should have this eight inch hog leg, you know, single action, you know, Dirty Harry 44 Magnum Blackhawk. I agree. You should. Whatever you want to carry, it's up to you. But be used to the idea of carrying it. And understand size is one of the issues with regard to field operations and everyday work. you're on the four-wheeler out there and you happen to have to check on something but what were you out there on the four-wheeler for in the first place? Oh, you're doing ranch maintenance. Now, if you have to take your weapon off or if you decide to take your weapon off, it now is not within quick reach. It doesn't jump to your hand. If it can't jump to your hand, it's not necessarily doing the job it's supposed to unless you've got other people doing security. Where then you have an opportunity with a little bought time maybe to get to where the weapon is you weld behind. So these are some of the balance There is no peace, there is no comfort time, there is no rest time. In a retreat environment, you're back to frontier life. And that means the weapon has to be within quick access. And again, doesn't mean you can't carry more weapons or that you can't have a big weapon in a sheath or in a scabbard or in a holster attached to your horse, whatever that is. And the horse doesn't have to be at four of those. It can be that four-wheeler, that motorcycle, it can be that car or truck. It's the idea that down the road weapons need to be where they're accessible but not necessarily immediately observable by an aggressor. Again, limited concealability is also a factor or quick access for the driver operator or for the crew of a piece of equipment. And everybody needs to know where all of the weapons are for that reason. So holsters aren't just carried on person. One neat thing about the parts bin for holsters is remember With a holster and some wood screws or some pan head, some washers, you can put holsters in places where they're very convenient and you can park one of those orphan guns we've talked about on the air, something that doesn't have a whole lot of mags or maybe is an odd pistol out. Well, it's nice to have those guns spread out around the house. Mark, they told me that'd be an oculoster you mentioned, and all that great. Oh, okay, well, cool, but it does make a pretty good bucket holster screwed into a desk side, you know, underneath the table for you to keep a handgun, right? It's a great holster to screw into a box and a wall so the gun's not just laying there, but could actually be at a convenient angle and prepped and ready to go. So all you do is brush a curtain aside, reach into an alcove, pull the handgun out, and you might even have the mags and everything right there. I think that would be cool. Oh, so those old holsters might come in handy for other things. Yeah, see, Mark's thought a lot of this stuff through because we usually apply it, and having things where you can, you know, they can jump to your hand. It was a real good idea with a hand cannon. Now there's one category I haven't touched on, and that's ankle or leg holsters. Now ankle or leg holsters sound really cool until you start using them. That doesn't mean you can't, doesn't mean you won't. Smaller, smaller firearms attached to your leg are a pretty cool idea and I've carried them at different times and I would carry them again in the future, provide the weapon where the right size. One of the problems is people carrying boot cut type pants, tapered cut inward, well if you got that, if you got an ankle holster and it's restricted by a boot cut jean. When the time comes to try and get to that, oh yeah, you're trying to pull a narrow cut pant leg up a calf, trying to get it over a holster. By the way, if you probably are doing this, you're in a bad situation. So one of the things to keep in mind is if you're gonna wear a boot and you're gonna be carrying a shoulder holster, you wanna wear a baggier pant. Actually have some flex to get around that holster, that ankle holster you got stuck to your leg. You know, the tight spandex ain't gonna do it, and not only that, but it prints all over creation, you know that. But the tighter pants, if feet the purpose, accessibility is limited, restricted. So the ankle holster, yeah, 25 automatics, everybody goes, well, what the bit of that? Hey, I'm gonna pepper their face with six rounds out of that little colt and bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, You should set a person six times in the groin area like right at... I don't care who the hell they claim to be. I don't care what they are. Yes, you will bite the bullet. But first you're gonna get six of them in a place you didn't want them. Remember that you're inflicting pain and you're gonna have to follow up with aggressive attitude. But if you had to go to a backup weapon or a light weapon to begin with, well chances are you were caught in the wrong place at the right time. What happened to the rest of the stuff you mentioned Mark? But the cool thing about different holsters such as... motor holsters, belt-fixtured holsters, or even low-carry holsters, or hip holsters, forgive me, or ankle holsters, is that they also are typically separately affixed from your web gear. That's the more common policy that's been in place for a long time. Now why is that? Well, if I get rid of my backpack, because I'm going to lighten my combat load, because I'm going into a fighting situation, I don't strap or affix any primary weapons to that, although I may lose my machete when I drop my backpack, so I just shed a weapon. If you have your entrenching tool attached to your backpack, well maybe you lost your e-tool and you lost your machete because you dumped those. Better have a fighting knife or some kind of blade on that web gear or on that assault vest, right? Just got rid of that backpack so you'd have more maneuverability. Well, the other thing is then you get more comfortable, you sit your backpack down because you're in a more comfortable environment. Then you want to take your assault rig off and then somebody told you they're going to watch your primary weapon, which personally I would never do, but people will do this no matter how you try to tell them don't really control of your primary weapon ever. Instead, people will do this. Well, the idea is that if they do or if you're in a comfortable situation and the weapons are secured, then you're still, when you shuck your web gear, your pistol is still either in a shoulder holster or it's in a hip holster that is attached to your person. Which means that at any given time you have a weapon at your disposal. Needless to say, that ankle holster does the same thing. Now the ankle holster is a unique tool because you think you're going to carry that all the time in the field. Now have you been out in the field for a very period of time? With your feet down, where the dirt, the muck, the snow, look at the snow out there right now. With all of that comes moisture, in comes mud, in comes dirt. So you better be prepared to do maintenance. And remember, it's an encumbrance. It's going to be something that knocks on the other leg if it's on the inside. It's going to bump stuff if it's on the outside. And it's something that, again, it serves certain applications. If you're looking at casual work or public work where you're moving around with allies and you feel that you might need or want another backup, which I thoroughly believe and anybody wants to do this, I'm not going to ridicule you for doing it. I'm just going to remind you that get used to the idea before you get started and think things through so that when the time comes, don't become frustrated by it and decide that you need to get rid of something. Understand before you get into it, there are pluses and minuses to each of these systems. But the ankle holster is not as desirable for a lot of processes. A lot of guys carry boot type strap-on or calf type ankle to calf knife scabbards. Now the knife is a lot easier to clean, a lot easier to maintain, stays close to the body, and is a lot thinner. But there's a lot of small automatic 380 autos, 9mm, and even 45s that are so thin and narrow now, but they fit in the same category as that little 25 we were talking about. So the balance, though, the plus up, is you've got another weapon with bite. No matter what it is, if it's marked like a dog and it goes boom and it puts a hole or a stipple hole or a pimple hole in somebody, it's a useful tool. just again understand its limitation and that you have to follow up oh I shot him he should be in convenience now yeah but you probably have to finish him off with whatever you get hold of that he was carrying if he got his stun or you get hold of that ball peen hammer and you keep his head in the rest of the way because obviously the rest of your weapons aren't directly available so you had to use a pipe a phone an ashtray whatever you got you're gonna kill off whatever it is that's in front of you that obviously you felt was such a threat you had to shoot it right Oh yeah, because you don't have your other primary weapons with you, which is why you're having to go to your backup weapons, right? It was just my select choice, happened to be near my leg. You know, but I was bent over and just having to be convenient. That does happen, but it's not the most likely variation on the beam. Anyway, point is, understand the system, experiment. The way to experiment? Hey, go to the gun shows. Take a look at some of this cool stuff that's in the $5 box and $10 box. Look at it, see if it might suit your need, play with it, and then if you want to get better, spend more money. But research and development, R&D is a personal choice item that you can deal with with your unit and with your people. We're at the top of the hour, my goodness, the hour flying. God bless the Republic. Jeff, the new Aurora we shall prevail. The Empire is on the run. We're in a march. And however you're carrying that hand, Kennen, just show up for the fight. If you want to carry more than one, hoorah! Congratulations. I'll love you for it. We'll be back. Third hour of the intel report coming up shortly. 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