January 9, 2014
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Mark Koernke discussed preparedness, weather conditions, and firearms maintenance on January 9, 2014. The show featured an extended caller segment about headspacing issues on a .308 Enfield rifle, with detailed technical guidance on measuring bolt faces and obtaining replacement parts from Sarco. A second caller asked about upgrading sights on a Belgian-made 1970s Browning High Power 9mm pistol, leading to a broader discussion of the Browning High Power's design, history, and advantages as a standardized firearm platform. Don, a night vision equipment vendor, provided product information and contact details throughout the episode.
- enfield rifle
- headspace
- bolt face
- browning high power
- 9mm pistol
- night vision
- firearms maintenance
- preparedness
- michigan
- jack mcclam
- sarco
- gun sights
- ammunition
- cold weather operations
- constitutional rights
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Live 365 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 IR. The conference has been unlocked. Money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit so their children are people. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children would be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic in each God-given right. And pray to God, keep the torch of freedom bright. As I awoke, he vanished and missed for once 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 watched 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 fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. And there's Mark or Don. Go ahead, Don. Yes, we have we don't have mark here the drums just stop beating as you chimed in oh Okay, how's that work mark will be with us in a moment you guys, but You're tuned to Liberty Tree Radio, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio. Did I get that one right, Spike? No disrespect. I got that right, didn't I? Yes, you did, sir. Okay, and let's just, you know, do the broad brush here. You know, many and various other outlets and forums that you might be listening to the Intelligence Report on today, this, the ninth day of January. You're of our Lord 2000, and yeah, it's 2014. And hey, we're running into the second week of it. Time flies, in particular when you're having fun kicking the new World Order Square in the teeth. But again, many in various. You might be listening on an AM station or an FM station short range. I call you guys the I call you the short rangers rather than the rebroadcasters or the micro broadcasters because the short rangers gives you kind of a militant bent. So hats off to you guys and there's that stay in the fight kind of thought line right there. If you got one in your neck of the woods, send them a pizza. Help them out if you can. Other than that, again, 9 September, 9 January 2014. Where did that September come from? I don't know. But I heard another... Beep, let's do this as a and and and we're here. This is mark. I know that's done also again remember for all of our brothers and sisters and alternate hallmark and The Golden Spike projects keep up the good work there and remember that we've got a lot of stuff happening this weekend Don that today's date is oh again the ninth day of January 2014 Let's see, before we go any further, the date is Thursday. A reminder, again, right off the bat, top of the hour, I don't see an update for Jack McLam's condition. As far as we know, he is still in the hospital, but of course he is on support, life support, so we don't know what the... shift is going to be there as far as I'm plugging in from the technology that's supposed to happen or well may happen. I've already been announced that that's the discussion so we'll see what transpires there. Again, a prayer for strength and for support for the family guys the most important thing to remember here again we've got a lot of people out there that can help and a lot of people in kami i in the surrounding area that are going to be there for the family but uh... vampire killer two thousand take the time go to uh... jack's webpage uh... the uh... aid in the bed uh... site is uh... has been up for a long time by the way guys For all of you, you can link up and get a copy of Vampire Killer 2000, all of the updates, and share it when the time comes. Yeah, he was. Jack put it together as a training tool, as an educational device. Okay. Now, another thing here, you got dark outside. We also have snow, by the way. A little bit of snow. Everybody's getting the same report that is supposed to turn to rain, or sleep rain, freezing rain. which I think is a fascinating formula considering what we've got going so beware on the road if you're third shift and you're headed home tonight or if you're second and third shift you're headed home or going outbound. Later on beware be attentive of the environment. Secondary roads are going to be a bigger problem than the primaries. Simply because those dirt roads with a packing of snow from all the snow that we've had get a crust of ice on them. It's January anything can happen and It may, we may get this, we may not. It's cold enough out there that it'll probably translate to snow before it hits the ground. But if it goes whatever direction it's going, you're all snow warriors now. You've had enough time on the ice and snow. I think you can figure out how to make it work for you. Just be, you know, a heads up and be cautious. It's winter time. Which they seem to try everything to avoid to call it a talk about yap about anything, but the reality we have a temper environment There are four seasons and it's winter time now for the idiots and the dunderheads want to do the global warm-o scam Oh well stuff it up their arse and tell them to do just exactly that. Oh shut up retire to your BS The Coast Guard caught ice at the intersections of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron earlier than in their recorded history this year, you guys, around the Sioux Locks and in that area. And I believe that the big plan behind this was as much as anything, the Shysters finance all this garbage. And they're trying to, they were hoping to catch everybody off guard. But a lot of people pretty well are prepared in general. And if we live up here in this neck of the woods, other than the move-ins, or the idiots that are on Prozac. Pretty much everybody's set up for cold weather operations, guys. So, we don't know, we didn't sell all of our goodies, you know, our parkas, because no, we were going to be at 100 degree weather and everything was going to be dust and desert. Well, look outside right now. Maybe an Arctic Circle type snow desert, but even there, hey, there's fresh water every place. That's half the battle. If you were to ask me which I'd prefer, I'll take cold and try to make it warm over blazing hot and toasted any day. So for me, cold weather operations is a personal choice. That water is the most critical component of making people, of being able to keep people alive and fighting. Seriously. More so than any other aspect of the formula, guys. Wow, look at all that wealth out there. Anyway, a couple things here too. Don, night vision technology. You have it and we're going to make sure we're reinforced a couple times through the hour. That way people who've been sending me emails will pay attention. Don addressed the .22 caliber issue a couple of times this week. It's in the archives. But Don, that night vision technology you have, especially in the rifle site, shouldn't have any problem sitting on top of a Ruger 10-22. AR-1522 conversion, you know, like where they've got the uppers we've been talking about. But what do we have to go on top of a rifle, and how can we get hold of you since we're chopping at the bit to get one, sir? Well, there's that first generation device. If it's going to live on top of a .308, it's going to live on top of your .22, your .22-50, your .223. I wouldn't say you can hit it with a hammer. You know, don't put it on top of your .50 cal, but the manufacturer is more than confident that it will sustain, you know, good amount of recoil and even the recoil in, you know, of a 22 that's, you guys hate. Manufacturer warrants you for two years against failure or recoil. Again, not on your 50 caliber though, okay? But we can offer something that'll live on top of your 50, both in green screen and in thermal. If you want to talk about that, well, my number is 2-3-1-7-9-6-8-4. Again, two, three, one, seven, nine, six, eight, four, five, eight. We can do a second generation gun sight 308 capable. It'll, hey, clamp onto your seven eights or your one inch rail, your Weaver or your Picatinny respectively, much like the first generation device aforementioned will. $1,305 right in your mailbox. Now we can go to a thermal gun sight. You guys, we're talking a big, big... room full of $5, a great big room full of 5 cent pop bottles at around $3,600 for a one power thermal gun sight live on top of your .223. Not your .50 caliber, not your .308, but it'll live on top of your .223, manufacturer says so. We could talk in a number of directions about thermal or binoculars, binoculars, gun sights, up and down the scale from first to first. fourth generation here in a whole bunch of people here and maybe we're getting a call or so one more time for the phone number you guys that number is two three one seven nine six eight four five eight and if we've got a caller waiting you know out of respect you guys you know who was first so if there's one or more in line eight star six will on you we gotcha how you doing this evening what you got going oh just fine What I wanted to ask this book, you know, was a terrible question, but I'm sorry I don't have anything hydrogen. But that's, I don't know if you all remember, I was having some trouble with a 308 issue port, Infield, and we had talked about it. And I went ahead and checked the head space and the way you guys had kind of taped on the back of the shell and tried to insert it into the chamber and see if, Well, I did that and I was able to get up to three pieces of tape onto the rear of the...tit was starting to tighten up and on the fourth piece of tape it would not lock up. So that told me that the head spacing was probably quite a bit out. Someone at Sarco who's trying to help me out with...because the interesting thing about the infield is that it has a removable Bolt head right has numbered bolt heads. They didn't change the bolt all the judges changed the bolt face Right the bolt face the boat face. Yeah, well it seems like he was telling supposed to be there their infield expert and he was telling me that the the Indians or India did not like the the What is it the number four in what he was telling me is that that on these bolts faces? And they never know but the Indians didn't graduating, you know, one longer than the, or shorter than the other. So, so he told me that I would have to measure it with the mic, you know, a measuring tool and call him back and let him know and he'd have to just go through. He said they've got like, you know, crates of these things and define one the right size. But he, in order to get it the right size, make sure I do it the right the first time, he wants to You have to take it to a gunsmith and I guess make sure that I get the right length. I'm not really sure how a gunsmith does that. So I'm kind of like asking you guys, is there any way I can really fix this thing or rebarrow it? Or am I going to just do it and rebarrow it? You're not going to rebarrow it. They didn't rebarrow. That's the whole point. The cheapest and easiest way to do it is what you're doing right now as far as replacing the bolt face. But normally the armor would have the rifle right there. You know doing it on the phone is harder than hell. They're still rifling in the barrel, right? Yeah, it's a course number four mark one asterisk or is it number four mark one? What's it say on the side of the receiver strap? If you look on the side of the receiver strap, if that's an Enfield rifle back where the two stocks come together, it'll say number one, mark three, and then can have an asterisk, a digit, a letter. It's 2A. It should report 2A. Number four, 2A. Or is it number one marked? I think it's a number one. I have to go look at it real quick. Well, see that's the problem. That's what you're going by as far as information, first of all, because the number four bolts and the number one bolts and the number four bolts, the smelly boat. A number one is an SMLE. It'll say SMLE on the side of the rifle in stamping and there's variations on that. These are very collectible because there are many variations that were built. The Irish built contract rifles, India built rifles, there are other countries that built copies. But if it's an Indian bolt gun, yeah, he's probably got all the parts inventory Sarco does right there. Now, recommendation, before we go any farther, have you gone out to any of the Enfield websites? Yes, I have looked at those. I didn't get much help with those as far as bolts and stuff. Well, usually there's a user or a group that's what their forte is, and usually they're pretty up on bolt maintenance and everything else. The sad part is ammunition is not as readily available, but there's millions of these Enfields out there. They're all over the countryside. Luckily, this was a .308. I'm looking at it right now. It says rifle, 7.62mm. to Number one is you should be able to mic it from the length from the base where it screws and faces to the bolt body to the outer edge, get that spec, and then the other dimension you might want is the dimension from the same inner surface from the bolt side, from the bolt body side to the face of the bolt, which is inside where the case rests. You might want both of those dimensions. Other than that, it should be pretty straightforward even though, like you said, they may have changed out the numbering system at some time, which happens. It's not that they didn't have a system. It's that the U.S., for instance, the Europeans, their clothing system changed in how they numbered things. With ordinance and material, governments changed their specs. based upon some new idea that they had. Now the basic dimensions are the same from one part's inventory and it used to be they probably even had a cross-referencing sheet which might be able to dig out from somewhere else if anybody there might be a 308 Enfield 308 users group because that is a special niche. There's a lot of guys that have 308 Enfields that they either bought from England because England made a bunch of 308 conversions for competition and for military applications sniper rifles and then they also of course had their colonial rifles out amongst the frontier like in India which India continued to upgrade their arsenal they didn't get rid of their weapons they just changed them out. Now they did rebarrow them I mean they had to go to 308 they had to reconfigure the rifles two directions one is re-engineer the existing barrels rechamber, etc., which is not likely because of the 308 to 303 variants. But they probably rebarrowed pretty much all that they were using or working with when they were Mark IVs and going to the 308 conversion. That doesn't mean they didn't use smellies, because when these came in back in the late 80s and 90s, there were SMLEs in 308, there were number IVs in 308, not as many number IVs. But there were both and so it's just a matter of you know what which wave was you know which wave that rifles from that you have Well, that's all just trying to find out you know if It was you know what is what is a gunsmith gonna do for me to get the correct for him so I can tell him I told you he's gonna make it he's gonna pull a micrometer. He's gonna get the dimension That's what he's gonna do Well, you did the book that the sir okay. Think about it. What's the only variable in the geometry of this thing? It's the length of that bolt face because the width isn't going to change. The firing pin is not going to change. The extractor is not going to change. The only thing that's going to change is the length of that bolt face. And that's why they numbered them because they had rather than changing out the barrels, rather than getting another bolt and then on torquing the barrel off and then tuning it back in and shaving off so much metal because that's what you do around where it makes contact to the outer receiver. The intelligent process about this is it saved them a lot of money in terms of upgrading the weapon as it went through its service life. Typically, the things almost were never retired. They did cut up a bunch because of gun control, but that's about it. I miked it and I got 16mm on one side and 16.03mm on the other. So I'm not told him that, but he still wants me to do something with a gunsmith, take it to a gunsmith, to get the Karamee, he would just be able to get a finger one and send it to me, right? Well, I don't know how what the variances are. They shouldn't be that great. And there really isn't much of a difference between... The problem that you just gave me is... Did you measure, okay, you came up with two numbers here. How did you come up with two numbers with the length? On the side where the bolt is cut, the face is cut to accept the round? That was an actual variance in the face and a bevel to it. I measured on the outside edge where the bolt face mates up to the the body of the full length bolt. You took it off the bolt, right? You unscrewed it off the bolt. Right, exactly. Well then I can't see where it would be that big of a difference. I got two different measures. It's not much. It's 16.00 and the other one was 16.03 because I measured two sides. One side of it, you know, right and and and diagonally, you know right across, you know from from the other side You know, I'd like split it down the middle I measured the other side and and there was just that slight amount of variance Well the average being about 16 millimeter again I don't know what the stepping dimensions are for you know for the next bolt face size Yeah, but if it's I'm interested. Circle usually is pretty good about this. So there may be confusion between your communication and their communication as far as trying to explain what you're doing because there's nothing else that really can go right, wrong, or indifferent on this. It's pretty straightforward in the process. That's kind of what I was thinking, yeah. Typically what they would do is because there may be two steps. I don't know what the, like I said, the dimensional variant is to go up to the next bolt face size. There may be two Because of what you already described with how you tested the head spacing and you know that may have created some input problems with him. Otherwise, logic could be that you try the next size up to see how it seats. The problem is distance. You're way out west and they're back east over on the coast. Yeah. So you might be in the long... The only thing is you might look around to see if anybody's an Enfield specialist in your state. Only because that saves you having to travel and there's less confusion and if he talks to Sarco, they might be more reasonable about it. I wouldn't get rid of the rifle because again, if all else fails, tell him to go with a 16mm dimension and what's next in line and get that. And by the way, don't throw away the old bolt face because the old bolt face would work in another rifle that was the next size down but needed to go up. Exactly. So that's one cool thing about it. It takes a long time to wear the whole parts inventory out. Which is what they were doing. I'm trying to keep the rifle. I'd only sell it or try to get rid of it or shelve it if I couldn't get anything else out of it. Like you guys are saying, I probably don't need to rebarrow because it's they're still rifling in their height so i really don't need to rebarrow it now i'm not worried about the rebarling issue that more what we're worried about right now again the on the stairs some distortion the chamber something but that's not the case it's basically again that these weapons we have been in service for quite some time i do know that but uh... it's purely again an issue that both with a boldest the first keep the solution to the whole problem i wouldn't worry about thinking i would think about the bill change that would at least my worries right now First, that bolt face and knowing the bolt inventory and the parts system way it's set up, it's simplest and easiest and most affordable to go with a bolt face change to try and deal with the chamber space. I really like the infield because this design is a pretty intelligent design as far as you got a 10 to 12 round magazine, it's bolt action and it'll chew anything from metal Skate scenes to brass, whatever you put in it, it'll eat it. Hey, let's go in a different direction because if you can take the bolt off and you want to kind of be a little bit experimental here, mark the, if you can, with a little bit of blue, close the bolt with nothing in the chamber. Put a little blue on the edge where the bolt falls at the, at the, uh, at the edge of the receiver, the deepest portion. Take it apart. You've got an empty case for the gun, right? Oh, an empty case might not be the best because it's kind of fire formed. But it will give you a true read of the chamber. Now, take the bolt off the gun. There's a gauge, you know, a gauge that will read in hundred thousandths of an inch as it moves a rod into a hole. take your bolt and kind of weasel it up to where the blue lines up and take a depth measurement. You might have to measure it from the outside to the receiver, but still take a depth measurement. Now just take a wooden rod and just tap that down on the cartridge. You might even want to press ever so slightly like you would feel that press of the bolt moving that cartridge home. Now measure how far you've fallen. Measure the depth. How much farther. That'll give you a pretty good idea of how much bigger a bolt head you're going to need there, the old groom. Okay, now that's, we're kind of stabbing around in the dark because some of this is measure and some of this is Where does that bolt head fall now? Because unless you can get right to like fit a fielder gauge in and then measure from the bolt face to the receiver edge and then use that as your base, see where I'm going with that? You're going to have to look at this and figure out your gimmes, your set spaces. You know what I mean? Your starting line. And then try, now you're going to have to, if you do this, you're probably going to have to, the bolt isn't going to turn into the, it's not going to pull itself down. That's what the head of the bolt face does, right? Right. With that in mind, Mark, can this be done with the right of the bolt, the bolt face pushed in, and then the rest of the bolt extracted? If it's not assent together, will it leave that bolt head there? And then can we do the measurement? Well, again, he's going to have to keep everything in place and you can't witness any emotion because the witness will lie then. Just try some different ways before you commit to. There's a whole bunch of different ways to roam, so to speak. That might be one of them for you. If you can come across a buddy who builds motors, you'll be able to find the measurements, you know, instrument measurements I'm talking about. Caliper gauges is the word I was looking for. A caliper gauge should generally be able to measure the depth of a hole. Exactly, like the one I'm using. Oh, there you go. So we're headed in the right direction. We're going to go to break for a minute, Don. Yeah, headed to the bottom of the hour also. So with that in mind, hang out to the other side if you've got any other questions. Okay, I have a question. Write down these phone numbers you guys if we run up any sponsors or just enjoy the music we'll be right back. HempUSA.org urges everyone to plan ahead for possible food shortages in the future. We offer this dense nutrient-storeable food directly from the farm to your door. 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Before we move away from this, let me ask that the shaft of the bolt engages the head of a transmission, doesn't it? It goes in and turns and it locks. Okay. No, not into the receiver, the bolt shaft to the bolt head. Same answer. It just screws on, you're saying? It fits in. Okay, that answers my question. It's threaded on. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So you might have trouble turning that bolt head down if it's not pinned or screwed down tight and then backing that out and then turning the bolt head out. That might not be an option. Yeah. Yeah. I see what you're saying. It doesn't take much to loosen it up even after firing. It doesn't really lock up. It's pretty easy to do. The other way to sneak up on this, and it will cost you a few dollars, what you're going to... You might answer, this might be, Mark, tell me if I'm wrong here. You might have to go out and spend like three or four dollars for what they call a machinists gauge, which is the really filler gauges, blades. Now, what you're going to do is take and you're going to cut those into squares. It would be easier to cut them into squares unless you have a stamp machine that can cut them in discs. Now you tape a couple of them to the back or one of them at a given until you close the bolt on it and it drags. Don't tape it because you're going to get that tape influence. You might just kind of want to, for lack of a better thing, just a touch rubber cement or something just to hold it there. Then when you close that bolt and you start to see a witness mark that is metal pulling away, back off ever so slightly and then you've got your head space. Ta-da! Now it's going to be a patience thing because if you run those through a stamp you're going to get a false read on them. Then you're going to have to go over to your dial caliper and read them. The other thing to do would be just start cutting some strips of metal. Exactly. I see what you're saying. Okay, you come to the go-no-go portion and when you start to put a witness, the circular scrape on the back of the cartridge or on the metal or the bolt face, inspect them all at every stage. You can probably sneak up on your problem and just beat the heck out of it. Okay? That sounds pretty good. Then you'll have a number for that guy who will sell you the bigger head, bolt head. Yeah, then that's what he wants exactly. The question was, I was able to pick up a 9mm Brownie high power. Oh yeah? Yeah, I got it last year and it's from Belgium. It's Belgium made. It's made in the 70s. It was actually a surplus sale. that it was one of their police issues. And it's nothing fancy, it's just what they call it, packarized, you know. And it's got the, but it has the military sights on it, the rear and front, they're kind of small. What would you all recommend for changing out or what type of sights could I put on it to, you know, bring those up or get a better sight for it? Well, you can replace the sights by personally wouldn't I leave them away that they are. It's a design is a battlefield Euro battlefield site probably However, it was an import. It was it was a police issue. Okay. It had doesn't have a fixed rear like tapped in from the side Yeah, the not Okay. Well, that's just a standard. That's like a like on a Smith and Wesson model 10 You have a straight battle blade site where you have the notch in the roof of the cross strap and then you have your front blade I don't know that you'd really want to go to changing everything up. You can. It's a 70 series pistol. Does it have any department stampings or anything on it? The front plate is fixed. Yeah, the front plate is fixed. Yeah, they are. Small bump. Small bump. What Browning did, that was, you know, that was, you know, what he put that pistol together was his last design. They really didn't change anything on it, even into the 80s, except that when they wanted to bring it and the Model 1910 and Model 1922 back into the US, they had to put a higher profile sight on it, which actually is a lot of, creates some snag issues, I think. Most of the sharp sights that you see that are raised or elevated on these types of weapons have a tendency to create snag points you won't expect. Remember there's a method to the madness of the way these weapons were designed. Minimal contact, minimal sharp 90 degree edging or surfaces. The big thing is you can lighten the sight. For instance, that blade, I know it's a small strap blade, but you can take, for instance, an illuminating paint of whatever color you wish to use and actively color the top of that blade towards the shooter eye. Number one. And then number two, you do the same thing carefully with the two back straps of the rear blade. You can use red paint, you can use white paint, it's a personal choice issue there. Traditionally you'll see most everybody has used red because like you can see outside where we are here, white doesn't create any contrast. Where red pretty well creates contrast in any surface that you're going to experience in daylight shooting. So, at night it's a catch-as-catch-can thing. You can do night glow sights, which on the one hand are a plus because you can see them. On the other hand, night vision devices can too, which is why they went out of vogue. They're out there, but they're not popular with everybody for that reason. A simple process of using a modeler's paintbrush and a very steady hand. I really like the pistol. I never thought it on a 9mm, but I kept hearing you guys talk about getting different cartridge sizes. I guess like you guys, I always thought any kind of pistol should be all steel, all metal. That's why I went with this. It's an interesting fact that when they sold this, because uh... they were you know like refurbishing or i mean or they were getting new pistols for their uh... police force and and uh... instead of going back to belden with the smith and western m and p well the one thing about the browning is often till smith and wasn't came up with their model fifty nine the browning hyper was the only large stack magazine capacity pistol in the market And for that reason up until say 19 what 69 70 Even when Smith came out with a 59 first they came out with a 39 That's a straight stack eight shot Then they came out with a 59 with a staggered mag and everybody just had to have it because all of a sudden you had machine pistol You know you had a big magazine and a 9 millimeter pistol pop pop pop pop pop Double action. Browning still pretty well held the market because of two things. Number one, all steel. The Smith 59 had an aluminum lower frame which was not bad. There are still a lot of them out there. They don't wear out right away. The big thing was also the common mags. High power mags up until maybe the last 10 years were still very, very common because there are so many browning high powers out there. Now, they didn't get thrown away and they didn't get burned up and they didn't get melted. They're all out there. It's just that people buy stuff, they get it in the niche, they got everything they want, or they got it as a defense gun and it stays in the drawer until somebody finds it later on if somebody passes away. A lot of guys bought them and didn't carry them. We bought hundreds of them here. I know several of the militia units we have here. We had people who were dealers at the shows and we told them anything in a Browning Highpower, anything in a 1911, or anything in a Model 10, the K-Frame Smith Revolver, buy it, we'll buy it. and the guys would bring back from all their expeditions around Midwest gun shows, we would have English Browning High Powers, American-Made Browning High Powers, and the Belgian, both the battlefield pickups, etc. And a lot of those back in the day, not all of them look pretty, but we standardized. And the high power is one of the pistols we've standardized on for a long time, because mags were readily available, both original factory and aftermarket. The FN mags are making right now, the majority that I see that are surplus, not surplus, but that are available are leftovers from the magazine restriction window, you know, back in the 90s through the early aughts. And they're brand new in the package and they're still a little pricey, but about $18 apiece. They're made by FN. Now there's a couple companies I'm just trying to find the name of the one for you. I'll probably have to bring it up tomorrow just in passing on the air, but there's a couple companies that have high-power mags in stock right now. And that's the big selling feature, number one, commonality ammunition. There's lots of 9mm round, number two, lots of mags. And Browning designed it. It was the end of an era because that was his last firearm. When he built the 1911 and developed that completely, then there was that contract pistol, the Model 1935. the Browning Highpower was built to a European contract specification because a lot of people usually complain about the safety because the safety is smaller. Well, it's the European philosophy thing. Every country has their flavor of ideas, their bouquet of how they think things should be done. And if you're the guy building it, you build it the way the guy wants it built. It's like buying by building a house. Well, I don't think you should put that kind of door on the front end. Well, it's my house and I want to buy it. See, so when the Euros did that, that was one of the things that for that reason, that safety if nothing else is why a lot of people didn't use the safety, to be quite honest, because it is a little small. A lot of people just leave the safety off and go to a cox station with the hammer or leave it rested because it's a pretty safe weapon to carry rested. Again, put the safety on either way and you're going to be able to handle the weapon all day. But most people adopted the French philosophy don't touch the trigger and the gun won't go off So leave it the shoulder holder without the safety on okay on the Browning's on the high pars I'm just telling you experience the guys I know that carried him Like carried a lot of them that you know shot with them a lot or the carried them and they like Detroit for instance because they needed protection They just decided they didn't want to fiddle with the safety because it's small So what they would do is just leave it off And it's a single-action automatic anyway, so you know you can leave it on down station and then cock as you need to use it and that's all you know you're ready to go. But I don't recommend that okay because I said it I'm just telling you back years ago everybody to carry Browning High Pars. I had two of them. I had an Inglis and I had a standard not a Belgian but an American Browning and both those I got cheap, cheap, cheap and the Inglis had a shoulder stock and I used to carry those in Detroit. Okay, because they were really really nice to have a lot of firepower and the magazines used to be four dollars apiece and Amiation was what a half penny to a penny You know back in the day, so you can afford to carry a whole lot of magazines, too There's lots of aftermarket stuff for that too. Yeah, there's all kinds of in fact a lot of stuff for China China brought a bunch of stuff in back when the China window opened up because China had a lot of browning high powers But you don't see much of that laying around because it's all been absorbed by the industry now In fact, remember, back when they opened up China, a whole pile of captured English Browning high powers were sold to back out again. And those came from both post-World War II with the Communist Revolt, and they came from Korea, because a lot of those were captured from British and Canadian forces. and whoever else was, you know, colonial aligned, well the Chinese routed those all back and they did this with their whole weapons inventory. If they had a certain pistol, they'd put it in one place. They wouldn't have 25 different types of pistol in one unit. They would centralize them because they had total control and they'd pile them all up and they'd refurbish them or use them and issue them out as a unit. So when China opened up, those Browning Ingles high powers came out for about, I think it was $69 a piece. Oh man. And they were park-arised, but they've been re-park-arised. Now the difference between the English and the regular Browning is the English has the tangent rear sight like a Mauser and it's set up to take a shoulder stock. And the Chinese made brand new shoulder stocks that had the, you know, they were just, the shoulder stock for the Browning was designed so that you actually used it as a holster for the weapon. So, it nested inside the gun when it wasn't in use, inside the shoulder stock when it wasn't in use, and they had brand new leather fixtures, they had chest pouch magazine holders for it that went 10 magazine pouches across the front. All kinds of neat stuff. Now that's all gone, but back when it came in it was dirt cheap. Today they charge top dollar, I guarantee, and whoever does have them is charging top dollar. They're charging now what you'd pay for something made in America. So they're good gun. I'm you for me browning high power I'll be in fact let's put it this way if it was good enough for Indiana Jones you to use first to hose down the bar in the first movie It's good enough for me even better. Yeah, what's John Moses Browning? That's a trick question you we always bring up guys remember What was the first gun that Indiana Jones used in the in in the arc of the cut in the? Oh, come on, the first movie, Union of Jones, the Ark of the Covenant. If you pay... It was a Browning high power. In the very first movie, you see he's wearing a pair of gloves. He kicks, you know, he's shooting through the door. If you pay attention, it's 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, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, b You'll see if he holds these holding the pistol up close to him. He's looking at it while he's dropping the mag You know he's trying trying to re-reload or whatever he was doing and so but the next thing he pulls out is that 44 and that's what you see it for the rest of the series is the big 44 revolver which was a 44 Smith & Wesson not a 44 Magnum was 44 Smith & Wesson special See but the Browning high power was first so obviously he had the same you know ID everybody else did yeah I'll just make sure I just hose the whole area down. I got to hit somebody It's called fire for suppression. Everybody's going to duck. Now I've got time to go with something I can aim with here. You can do the same with the high power. The other thing about the high power is again there were some simplifications that a couple of the companies embraced. Take a look at the way that the plunger system is set up and how the front of the slide was constructed. That was another idea that, you know, it was a plus or minus thing, toss of the coin really, but it was something that was specced out by, again, the Euros because of their concept of how to seal up the slide for dirt and maintenance. So, just little ideas. There's actually a dozen different basic ways weapons can be built. You can do variations on the theme and Browning pretty well worked it all out and all everybody's done is copied him. And then there's one or two other giants, Donner and, you know, Kalashnikov. Stoner is as influential as Browning in the history of American firearms, but nobody really acknowledges that. Because by the time the Stoner comes into power in the 50s, he influenced virtually every design except maybe the M14, and I'm sure he had some kind of finger in the pie on that because everybody was working on the project once it was adopted. He built a bolt fed. Or rather a magazine fed bolt action 50 caliber. Browning machine gun 50 caliber you guys, BMG 50. I don't know if you knew that. Now Stoner would start a project, get it in motion and already be working on two others. And in fact there's a whole family of rifles. You would need to pick up a Smith's small arms of the world from the 50s and or from the middle 60s. and you will see a wider variety of the prototype guns or the family of weapons which disappeared and then have been reinvented now and everybody else has put their names on them. But these ideas weren't theirs, they came from Stoner. Stoner just had a whole bunch of ideas he wanted to plug in. They were innovative. They were based on other things he'd seen the Germans and the Russians develop. And he saw a better solution and in reality they were. Probably the best example is the Stoner rifle during Vietnam. Not many of you would see it if you were in service except for, again, the SEALs adopted it and some special forces units had it. And the Stoner was a modular gun just like the AR-15. except it was all steel. So it fit more the Gewehr, you know, the strum Gewehr patterns of the World War and World War II rifles that you see. Guys, they made sure none of those survived except for the museum pieces. And the only thing you'll see are chopped and lopped parts. That's all you see is from a, like, Sarko used to sell chopped and lopped stoner kits. And when I say chopped and lopped, there wasn't a useful part left on it the way they cut them up. They didn't want anybody to see them, they didn't want anybody to have anything to do with them because they worked flawlessly. The seals used them with reckless abandon and abused them horribly and they kept right on ticking. And I know a lot of guys that carry the Stoner rifles, obviously they swear by their life because it kept them alive. So, and again, they had the opportunity to use the M16, they used the Stoner and they used anything else pretty much they wanted to. And the Stoner is what most of those units gravitated to. So again examples, but anyway, that's far past the Browning High Park good pistol I would just buy more mags look for a firing pin extractor and As far as the slide as far as the sights I just leave the sights away the air but experiment with just a little either bright orange phosphorous and orange or For instance the one idea is a phosphorescent green for the two rear, you know side plates in the back of the site and and an orange for the middle or a red for the middle, you know, for the middle blade front. That way you have color contrast which confirms alignment. And if you see that color contrast with the orange or red dot in the middle of the green field, you know you're on on, boom. And for the most part within most combat battle range of, you know, say urban warfare or house defense or whatever or close quarter defense, long you can see over that rail and know those two dots are lined up in aim for the crotch I'll tell you what if you're a little high off the crotch guess what you probably hit him I know that we're going to jump mark headshot no I'm sorry guys more people worried about getting shot in the crotch near where but it shot me head you know you really think about that which one would you remember oh yeah oh man oh it only for a few moments longer because I'll follow up with the next three rounds and I'll trail them right up in your corpse okay think about it Anyway, we are at the top. Don, your number for night vision before we go any farther, please. Your number is 2317968458. Very good. And guys, for everybody out there, again, a prayer for Jack McLam, please. Remember again, we have a lot of patriots who have gone before us. Jack's not gone yet as far as we know. But let's help with his pain and let's help with his family. Give them strength and give everybody a blessing from the many points of the compass around this country they're listening right now. God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. Kick him in the slats, beat him down hard and don't let him get back up. Thank you Don, your number for night vision and closest please. Thank you Mark. That number is 23179684582317968458 Again, thank you Mark. God bless you. God bless America. And we are the sons, yes we are the sons, the sons. 365 Want the same great Live 365 website experience without opening up a web browser? With the Live 365 Desktop app, you can do just that. At homework work, utilize the desktop app to reduce browser clutter while still accessing your favorite Live 365 stations. 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