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It is dark, it is a little warmer, it's still winter, don't go out without a coat and sure as hell put a hat and gloves on and make sure you got boots because it's ooh cold and wet and cold and slushy and cold and frozen out there. In fact the temperatures dropping a little bit after the sun here so pay attention on the road we had melt a little bit Well, the shovels worked down the road and that means ice. So assume the worst, you won't be disappointed. Slow down. BK, with a leg in your neck of the woods, what is the day today, sir? What's jumping off the wall here on this beautiful Friday? It is 10 January 2014 and it's Friday evening. It is the last day of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this quarter masters corner. And man is it a wet and sloppy one. You don't need boots around here. You need hip waders. I don't think I encountered I was running around all day today visiting customers and shopping for parts and all this kind of good stuff. I don't think I saw a single driveway or parking lot that wasn't two inches deep in puddles someplace. We finally got above freezing and just everything is pouring off. I have not taken a look at it. I haven't had occasion to go over any of the bridges but I imagine the rivers are awfully high and so on. It is a sloppy mess out there and it'll probably get below freezing a number of times so Expect some major frozen puddles. That's going to be fun. And the weather continues. It's winter excursion slash extravaganza. So don't think it's going away right away, kids. It's just going into another part of the cycle. Be prepared for it. Well, it is Quartermaster Friday. And real quick, I want to point this out. There is a company I mentioned before. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. You guys in the chatroom know about them. They have a Super Sale section, but they also have what is their regular... You go to the home page, go to Military Surplus, start scrolling through their Military Surplus, and they've got a bunch of stuff that's not listed on their Super Sales. And BK, one of them, Dutch Camo Load Bearing Vest. Now guys, normally these have been running about $7-8. As little as, well actually 7 has been the lowest I've seen and that was on sale. But these things have been running a lot more money as a surplus item from the wholesalers. Well they've got them for $5.95 a piece. marked out from their normal $9.50 a piece. That's a very reasonable price. It's below wholesale. You can't buy these for this price wholesale. I'm telling you that right now. Dutch Camel load bearing vest. Doesn't have any pouches. This is like a mini molly system. About the same time that we came up with our Granada rig with the fixed pouches, you know, the double mag pouch and the single mag pouch in the left and right. This is what the Dutch came up with. The Belgians came up with an idea like this, the Germans had something in the intermediate like this. This particular rig, all DPM, OD, you know, green-brown camouflage range really works perfectly for our environment. Multiple keepers, fully adjustable. You can put Alice gear or Molly gear on this vest. Again, it's got a couple of chipmunk-cheek panels on the left and right, allowing for the front to be open for you to go prone. Laying on the ground is normal in a military situation. But it does have a rigid belt for the base. It does have a back plate for sitting up a butt pack or whatever type of fanny pack you want to attach. and for other fixtures so this is a really nice package for six dollars it settles the you know again it's another system for carrying all your gear putting all in one package and it will go over body armor So, most any rig will, but this one is designed to adapt to the body armor of the post-Vietnam era, which means it will pretty well work with anything else you got out there. There are pouches available in many different sizes, I've pointed out already, and there's a lot of stuff that's cheap, cheap, cheap out there so you can put a rig together for pennies from this site by comparison to a lot of other places. Now the item number on this is, the SKU is DCLBV. That's Delta Charlie Lima Bravo Victor. That's DCLBV. And uh oh, uh oh, I see something doesn't look good. Looks like it says availability three. I hope that's just a number there and doesn't mean what I think it means. Man, this always, aww. I got to test something here real quick to find out for sure guys because if this is the case, let's see what happens here. Uh oh. Maybe that's a number. I'm hoping that's a number. I really am because if not, Well, maybe it's an SKU number. Oh, I'm hoping it is BK, but it may not be. Because it looks like it might be an inventory number. And I hope not, but I hope it is. I hope it's an inventory number. But they show these on special for $5.95 a piece, whoever gets there first gets some. They do have the Dutch combat mittens for $8 a pair of the trigger finger mittens in the DPM camel. That's a good pattern. They also have the Dutch cargo straps that go on that vest. 99 cents a piece, these are 33 inches long. So those are the kind of utility belts used for the sleeping bag kit. You know, for your sleeping bag system, remember the Dutch have a three-tier sleeping bag system that they used with this equipment. So just something to point out there. They do have a number of other items. They have kind of separated them, so the Dutch items are kind of close, which is cool. So you might want to look at what they have there, but the vest is $6, however many they have left. If they have, a whole bunch of them. I hope that's the SKU number. I think it might be, if I'm lucky, part of it anyway. Number N, whatever. But it's the Dutch Camo load-bearing vest. It's in the military surplus for sale section. It's a military surplus section. And they do have a lot of other items that are at, you know, basically wholesale cost. I'm going to tell you that right now. Looking at some of their items, they're a little less expensive in several areas, so this is pretty cool. And they buy from the same place that I do. So I'm really, you know, I haven't looked even at all that they have available, but the Dutch, that Dutch assault rig is a good choice for a lot of you who are looking for a solution, guys. Okay, you're looking for a way to get out a bunch of troops. Now the other thing that they have, they do have East German equipment here. They've got the East German Camel Rifle Pouch and the East German Combat Pack for basically, actually the rifle pouch is less than normal wholesale. It's $3 a piece and they have the East German Combat Packs for $5. That's about average wholesale right now. So there is a mix of stuff. Now it's not a very big pouch. One of the things you can add is, for instance, that assault rig, they've got the French ammo grenade bandolier, which really is a bunch of grenade pouches put on a German web belt for $5. The pouches that are there will go on the kit that I just described, the web gear. So there's more pouches that are in the same color range. 99% of anybody looking them wouldn't know the difference. They would be basically the same color spec. and would work very well together so there's a bunch of solutions if you peruse the page uh... for the cc french uh... best say you know that were french web gear uh... while what's a good thing i turn pages sometimes bk they have the uh... french heavy assault vest if you're serious about humming survival prepping tactical shooting or other similar activities this best is I just saw a price of $39.95. I don't know. I doubt that it has the armor in it. But if you look at it, guys, this is a threat level four, crotch, hanging crotch armor. It's got the rest of the carrier tech. I don't know if it's a bumper vest. In other words, if it's the high impact foam or if it's that and body armor. I haven't had a chance to read through this. It has a backpack built in BK. $39. This is actually for a corman. Guys, this is in Woodland Camo and before I came up on the air I didn't find this. But this has built in backpacks, side panels, front pockets and it's armored for $40. So, and let me give you the SKU on this, it's FV038 and I've got to benchmark this because this is, you know, again, if I'm mentioning this, there's a reason. This is jumping off the page for $40. This is a really nice solution for a lot of you guys. And again, apparently, may have been, well, it's got it set up for magazines, ammunition, and medical supplies and other field gear. Now you can throw all the junk into the backpack and call it a day, but all that does is ensure that you will have trouble finding what you need when you need it, not to mention a sore back. Instead, you should consider getting a good load bearing vest that can help keep, well of course they're trying to sell the product there. The French Heavy Assault Vest is now available from KeepShooting.com. Pick one up today. Well, we'd like to if we can find out more about it. and take a look at this, see if this is something that will suit your purpose. Again, if it's just floppy resilient impact armor for the crotch or for the butt, whichever way that's supposed to sit, I would say that it's still a pretty good solution for everybody out there that might be putting together panels of Kevlar, like from, oh, let's see, Apex Gun Parts. The panels could be again adapted to these you know go into the sleeve slash the insert points I'm gonna call and find out more about this, but this is definitely worth looking at so BK. That's it. Keep shooting calm Keep shooting calm. It is on page six of the page now. This is very different There's actually a French camouflage vest. There's two of them here one is $20 and the other is $40 Apparently, they also have the desert camo, they are plate carriers. I'm going to have to find out more. Flakfest Camouflage Plate Carrier for SAPI Ceramic Plates. So, I'll find out more about this. But if any of you have armor but you were looking for something to carry in, here's a solution. So this is something to take into consideration. Apparently, BK, they have it in colors. They've got it in standard French and they've got it in the French three-colored desert. A lot of that stuff is coming out, so in the French Woodland. Guys, if you put the French Woodland with the regular US stuff, pretty much nobody's going to know the difference. A lot of you have standardized on Woodland gear, and I highly recommend that if you're going to standardize, you might as well take advantage of all the stuff that's showing up cheap. I would not go...well, wait a minute. No, they've got the French Pommas 30-round 3-mag pouches. about three dollars a piece but you can get those for a little less but if you shop through this go through the pages available you never know what you're going to find on the shelf in places like this especially in the markdown section so let's take advantage of that. BK go ahead I know you got stuff for us tonight jump in there please. I have a lot less stuff this week than you would think. I have been running around like crazy today doing miscellaneous customer service and things like that and I jump on and say, oh man, I'd better check and see what things are. And I go looking around sniffing at all my usual watering holes and so on. And I found a remarkable thing in that it's one of those dogs that didn't bark. I'm seeing absolutely nothing out there on reloading supplies right now. All of the usual outfits that at least had powders of some sort and so on, even the limited amounts of really heavy slow powders, even the fast shot shell and pistol powders and so on, I'm not seeing them out there. I have no answer for that. Maybe everybody got stuff for Christmas and then that sucked down the supply channel, but it is an absolute mystery to me what's going on. I don't have an explanation for that. So, you know, I guess my advice right now is if we are out of business in that category for the moment, just shift to, you know, our regular old standbys. Keep looking at the at the pantry, visit the feedlot, all of the usual things that we've been pointing you at. I will remind people that while the economy continues to slide and degrade and the corporate press is full of alibis and obfuscations, there hasn't been anything sudden happening in the last week or two. So you can still pick up those 50-pound sacks of rice on the order of $17 or so. Costco or Sam's Club or any of those outfits a little bit more at the Asian stores, but you get to choose among various varieties. The feed mills still have wheat at something on the order of $11 for 50 pounds, $12 for a bushel at 60 pounds, something in that range. The big staples for us are rice, wheat, and pinot beans are considered sort of the bottom end of the bean market by the Hispanics. If you go to a Hispanic or Mexican grocer, they kind of look at the pinot beans as well as the junk, and that's still at 80 cents a pound, which is vastly more than the rice and the and the wheat and so forth and then you get into red beans or closer to a dollar a pound and so on. But you know those will make a good change up in the mix with the rice and so on. But you know those remain available for the time being I would say if the Reloading supplies and that sort of stuff remain scarce for some reason. Shift your attention to the other columns in your supply channel because we're going to need more of everything than we have of anything. I've said this before, the task of replicating an economy in miniature is a daunting and intrinsically impossible one. This is why we're interested in, you know, the metals, interested in the cryptocurrency, is interested in some of these fungibles, because there's no way you're going to have all of everything that you need. But, you know, if one column just plain dries up for a while, shift to the other columns, we're going to need to fill all of them. Exactly. One of the things here too, even at the less expensive stores, Nancy was pointing us out the other day that the grains, all the legumes have basically doubled in price. And the watch the dollar stores, especially since typically they're one pound and two pound bags, also in the pastas. Pay attention to manufacturing location of course, but there are still some buys out there. Take advantage and clean the shelf off if it's cheap enough. Just take a look and compare. If it's a quarter of the price or half the price of everything else you're seeing there in that category, I would highly recommend using that to fill in the difference if you're short or if you're trying to volume out that particular area, your food reserves. It is especially critical right now because of what we're seeing with regard to other activities that everybody's acknowledging. We don't even have to go to the independent media anymore for a lot of the flapping yap where they're trying to do the spudal resist, you'll be absorbed, blase, splee stuff. So what we need to be prepared to do is deal with the problem, and that means square your material and equipment away accordingly. Be ready to deal with what it is that's going to be hitting us here head on. Yeah, one of the things one of the cracks that is appearing in the system and even the the corporate press is talking about that this week is that they release new unemployment figures and so on and they said oh There's a wonderful new figure. We're down to six point seven unemployment and so on and so forth and at the same time They're kind of admitting. Well, there's there's also nearly all-time lows in work employment participation. They say, well, the economy produced 70-some thousand new jobs last month and almost 400,000 people exited the workforce. Well, bear in mind that the baby boom cohort gets a year older every 365 days. and you got a bunch of boomers that are 62, 61, 63, this sort of stuff. They are not beating the bushes looking for a job. because, you know, what are they going to do? They're going to get pushed out in two years or something? You know, the motivation is not there. They know full well that their old jobs are gone. They would have to start all over again in the new ones. You know, if an employer's going to hire anybody, they're going to want a 20-year-old. So, you know, they know better than to expect much. The politicians are arguing, well, you know, if we continue unemployment programs, then those lazy bums will just be encouraged to not try as if those characters in DC know a thing about, you know, the real world out here and so on. So, you know, the comedy just continues. Onwards and at the same time their own numbers indicate that they're being remarkably effective at shutting down the system and then they debate, you know, and they say, oh, well, you know, we ought to tinker around the tax code and create a prosperity zones and all this stuff. How about just not shutting down our industry? Oh, wait, you already accomplished that. Okay. Well, the thing there too, especially the idea about the job issue, you've seen a series of stories, I know most of everybody's perusing the more common Patriot sites, and the discussion about the 30-year Pentagon, you know, like Colonel or Colonel or, you know, the individual from the Navy, there's several of them where they're living out of their vans or they're living out of their cars. They're not on the street, per se, because they've got a vehicle. I would point out the one story that said, well, his retirement, you know, he was making $40,000 a year. So the question mark is, well, where the hell is that money going then? You know, obviously he's paying out, I think, to the wife, I assume, or he's paying for the son's tuitions because they're in military school. But he's basically, you know, I'm supposed to feel bad about him living in the van, but he's got a retirement. A lot of those guys are retired at half pay plus some benefits and stuff. Compared to a lot of the people that are working, that's cushy. The fact of the matter is, with that kind of retirement, you're making more than the average person. So learn to live with less. Obviously, you need to re-engineer your expenditures if you're having a hard time making it with $40,000 and you're by yourself. bottom line. That's just considering the situation. But here's the point is these people that they're showing you are a demonstration of what BK is talking about and that nobody really wants, you know, they've got a glut of personnel. They think they can run on the cheap. But I would point out that a lot of the places right now, most of the younger people, not all, but a big chunk of them because typically the management was all fired and the people who've been hired as the new management don't have any management skills. A lot of people don't want to put up with a hassle and really aren't ambitious enough to latch onto the job and keep it anyway in many cases. It doesn't mean that they won't stick around a little bit, but if the nonsense and pressure goes up, the manpower walks out the door still. Well, another factor in a lot of this is that some of the big technology heavy companies are coming out with a bunch of PR about, oh well, we can't find STEM employees, we can't find science, technology, engineering, math type employees, and so on. At the same time, those same companies have laid off all their boomers that were engineers, programmers. this kind of people that already knew how to do it exactly they dumped them and then they claim they can't find new ones well what's going on is that's the best the visa scam game okay uh... the way the uh... h one b visa scam works is that i'm an employer i wanna hire a six pack of pakistan is a ten grand a a year each you know get get you know half of it as an oven for sixty grand a year so i make up a job requirement that nobody can fill Okay, I say well you have to have this package and that technology and five years of this and ten years of that and blah blah blah and I hire a company to Sift through every to advertise the job requirement overstated to the point that almost nobody applies and then find fault with everybody who applies and after they've done that for a little while then I get to import my Pakistanis and Of course they don't meet the requirements, but that's different So, once they're on the job, we just set them to do whatever scutwork we had in mind in the first place. So, an awful lot of the stuff you hear about, oh, well, they can't get science technology type people and so on. That is a game. I had a conversation some years back talking with a young lady who was in her 30s and sent me retired or retired previously in a play at Microsoft and she was very straight up. She said my job was to lie to the government about available programmers so that we could import foreigners and get lots of visas. And that was just her job. And she did it and she got paid very, very well and she was retired in her 30s. So this is a huge game and everybody knows about it. And the politicians and the government undoubtedly know about it too. But they're being run by the vampires. They're on board with the program. When you hear all this stuff about there's no technical talent and so on and so forth, be aware that that's a visa scam in process. Exactly. One of the other things to remember is watch for and try to find individuals. This is what we've been doing with our machining operations as I pointed out the other day. There's a lot of people that have retired in the skilled trades that they're getting up there in years. They'd like to be able to, you know, piddle with projects. They have a vast treasure of working knowledge. This is also true for our tech people. We'll seek out individuals that are in the situation we're talking about, if you know any, and recruit them to at least keep their fingers in a project or something. Even a little bit of help goes a long way when these people know how to cut all the corners and are familiar with the technology because they grew up and they worked with it and they lived with it and in many cases invented it. So what we need to do is bring these people into the fold and if the bad guys are going to continue to pee in their face, well keep rubbing that in, pardon the pun, remind everybody of that. Wow, you really got screwed by the system, didn't you? Want to poke them back? Want to have some fun? You don't like them, do you? You think they did you right? You know guys, you got to remember, start learning how to motivate people that obviously really do have an axe to grind. and start moving that mass in our camp's direction, at least in the same direction parallel. That's the thing needs to be done and there's a lot of cool stuff radio signal communications computer programming computer We've talked about with all these different alternate technologies guys Yeah, they're being built by people like this that we've been talking about or people have already retired They don't want to completely leave what they're doing They enjoy dabbling and stuff like this and they're building their own plus a lot of them carried all the old stuff away in hopes of saving it and And now, if you go and find out they've got a whole two or three garages full of technology, well, if you start doing with it what they originally said could be done with it, you've got a highly motivated individual on your hands. Well, there's also bear in mind that there's junk and then there's tools. And if the guy who knows how to use this stuff is attached to the items, then there are tools. And if you lose the guy that knows how to use them, then it's a bunch of confusing junk. That's why you have to make sure you have a cadre of teachers right away or people working to educate you. Assign younger people to the older individuals to collect that knowledge. That's the whole idea, exactly. Exactly, the difference between junk and asset is whether somebody knows how to work it. That's where we need the priority to interlock and create multi-generational institutional mechanisms. That's why a lot of stuff has failed over the years, the failure to bring in the next generation and integrate. the idiots that are in management like you said because their argument is we'll get rid of all the old we'll just kind of chug along with whatever well you know that same philosophy is what brought us NAFTA and GATT and where all these American companies their logic was we'll just go overseas with all this fine machinery that all these Americans helped to develop we'll have the Chinese run it and we'll make money hand over fist really talk to Lionel train about that Remember what happened with Lionel? Of course they have never recovered their name. They shot themselves in the foot and torpedoed themselves. They never recovered from them. They've never fully and never will. I don't believe ever because there's a couple things. I'd never buy a Lionel toy train ever again. Might buy an antique. But I wouldn't buy anything. They'd betrayed us at a critical moment and helped to undermine the economy. Destroyed, destroying the American system. They ran overseas. They produced even shoddier products than anything they were worried about here. Nobody eventually wanted to buy their product. Oh, oh, oh, we're going to come back to America. Oh, but by the way, they also decided to move over towards Mexico. Well, a lot of these companies, if you let an MBA run your company, you're letting it be destroyed, basically, because they're taught to work the gradients, but they're working only momentary, immediate, near-term gradients. So, their idea of improvement of a tech company is you fire all the engineers, because that does improve the bottom line for a couple of quarters. you immediately shave your car to get rid of engineering department and for a few months you still got products that were in the pipeline and then after a little while suddenly your products are obsolete somebody else is eating your lunch and they say okay where is the new products and they say there are many you fired all the engineers also that's that's the sort of we've seen that that cycle over and over and over again. Only this time they're doing it to an entire economy all at once instead of one company after another taking turns shooting itself in the head and then recovering. The ongoing pattern was that different companies would take turns blowing their own brains out and then recovering from it. But now we're doing it to an entire economy all at once. Exactly. Right now, with what's on the horizon, this is not going to change anytime soon with regard to the corporate. In fact, they're the cackling insane people at the bridge, bare butt naked, okay, doing really weird things with the strange sticks that matter part of the wheel, taking individual funny rides, and meanwhile, you know, screaming at the moon, smeared in green jello, while they're aiming for the next iceberg after they hit the first one. Don't expect a solution from those fools because the only thing that they'll do is they're standing amongst other buffoons all with the same mentality trying desperately to kowtow to the next tier up while in the process, you know, not giving any interest, you know, in the long term, the short term even is a disaster. But in the long term, they're going to be kicked to the side of the curb just like everybody else, off to the edge of the road and then over the cliff. All kinds of people are being used. It is hard to develop sympathy for some of the fringes that are being used, but even they, if you can really take a step back, are being manipulated. For instance, the stuff that we see in the news, one of the big things is that, okay, Colorado is legalizing pot. We've all railed about the whole drug war and what a scam that is and what a machine that is for just sucking resources out of the economy and terrorizing people and all this kind of good stuff. But they are not legalizing pot because it's going to be good for people. They're doing it because it's disruptive. It is going to have costs. They probably worked the jail end of things to the point that they're at the breaking point. Now they're going to see what they can do in terms of propagating that drug. It does make you lazy and demotivated and things like that. That's a lot better than letting people be arrested for it, but it's still not a good thing. They're pushing the whole gay marriage thing. Well, those people are being used. You will never convince any of those couples, regardless of what anybody thinks about what they're doing. to realize that they are being used by the system. The only reason they are being given what they want is because it's disruptive to the culture. It is a cultural toxin. You will never explain to the illegals who are swarming and being allowed to swarm in, actually practically being kidnapped and dragged to the north, you know, if you really look at it. that the only reason they are being allowed in is to be an economic toxin to the system they're being used. All of these different little fractions, all of these people that are getting benefits and so on, they do not understand the vampires only have one means of dealing with people and that's to use them if they're still useful and then knife them when they're not. But you know all of these different little fractions and and some of them you know you understand the you know person that's it's you know living in a you know sewer that we call Mexico under the corrupt monstrosity of an excuse for government they've got down there you certainly understand them wanting to get out and get somewhere that's you know a little bit safer a little more prosperous all of that kind of good stuff and on an individual basis, he understands why they would want to do it, but they will never understand that the reason they're being allowed across is because their presence is seen as harmful, and the moment they are not seen as harmful, they'll be just as expendable as anyone else. So, this is just a pattern, this is across the board, there's all kinds of people, ones we like, ones we don't like. and so on. But the one thing they have in common is that if they're getting something from the vampires, it's because the vampires see them as a pathology. We just need to understand that in the process that the situation can be better tended to and better dealt with, but we're going to have to be the ones with the answer. It isn't going to come from the machine. The machine's broken and intentionally so. So let's again pay attention and do our part to get things squared away. We're a little past the bottom of the hour and Well, let's see, there were a couple other things. BK... Meanwhile, I've heard an awful lot of dings. Do we have anybody that's trying to... No, let's check C. Do we have a caller? Just to be safe. We have a lot of people sitting in, I'm sure, too. Okay, maybe they're just listening. That's cool. One of the other things that I pointed out here, and I will bring it up again, guys, there is a lot of other unique stuff coming in in Surplus, but it's in odds and ends waves, and I don't even know where some of this stuff came into the system. A lot of it is where it's just so unique or so odd in terms of issue that it's one of a kind. So some of the items you're seeing, if they're really, really cheap, you know, we were talking about, wow, there's some great prices here or a great price there. If you're looking at some of this stuff, like I was kind of shocked about the number at first, I think I'm hoping it's just a guide number. If you see two or three of them, buy them all. It's a standard piece of equipment. A lot of you are building up a 510 program. This is Quartermaster Friday. We're looking at logistic support in a deep sense. The cheaper it is, the more you can buy, the more money I've left over to buy other stuff. But the 510 program is part of the Quartermaster theme and concept that we've been promoting for as long as we've been on the air. And the purpose behind this is to create deep tactical local logistics. We don't have to wait for something to come from the capital. We don't have to wait for something to come from a controlled depot. The idea behind this is that reasonably priced, well-made equipment can be on hand to expand the militia accordingly, resupply your units that are already in place, and this is another reason for trying to Pick up material and equipment as we pointed out by camouflage pattern or style of material in that if you are already using a certain type of equipment, whatever you have left over from your gear, if it's shot up, if it's damaged, if it's worn out, whatever can be moved into the inventory to slid over to whatever we have that we put into service next, eases our supply train. But the idea is it's also fully integrated so when you switch over to the newer gear, especially if you're buying this for yourself bottom line, you buy the same equipment in duplicate. Now, when your other stuff tires out to the point where it just can't be duct taped anymore, Well, you take that off and give that to the bare naked kid that shows up who doesn't have anything because he'll be more happy and hug you real tight and he'll add more duct tape if he needs to. And if you have to, you break it down for scraps and patches of materials for the other stuff. Yeah, he'll make that puppy ride somewhere, but you're going to the new gear that you just pulled out of the bag that's exactly like what you've been wearing. This is why I was talking about the AKs and this is what I've been saying. Go to DealXtreme, buy three of the DealXtreme AK mounts that are the slide mounts that are all the same. Buy two scopes, or three if you want to. Typically three is the cutoff for the better price. 3 scopes, your choice, whatever you think your optics need to be, intermediate, small format scopes, long range or intermediate format variable magnification scopes, that's up to you. That's a personal choice issue. And I'm not going to say do this because each area has different applications and needs and your background experience is different. But two of those mounts should have the same two pieces of optics on them if possible. Again, the reason you're in the field, your downtime means that you can't, you know, anytime you have to step back and redo something or have to re-engineer something, you're losing time as part of the support or infantry formation that you're a part of. If your equipment is already matched up and you have that spare optics in your daylight optics, for instance, and something goes bop! You run through the woods, you're returning fire, you decide to un-RCAO just like you're told to do per plan. You go through the woods and you miss that branch that smacks right into that lens or right into that tube of your scope. Maybe it even hits the fixture and just plain gags it in some way I can't imagine, but it happens. Well, instead of going, oh my goodness, what do I do? Oh, I'm going to have to... No, instead you very calmly undo the fixture, slide it off, pull out the Pelican case that you've got in your backpack, your assault pack, the small one. You pull out the other optic device you have, you slide that back on the rifle, you take the one that's damaged, carefully put that into the case where the other one came from. Later on, you'll figure out what you can do with it. But you're immediately back in the service. and since you've had time to sight both of the scopes in you won't have any problem with any downtime in performance. See how that works? Now the third frame, what's that for? Well go over there to Don Betcher and get a night vision device from him. Now you have night capability same scope fixture, you know same mount everything's identical your optical performance should pretty on your performance of the rifle should be pretty much the same Needless to say your ranges will you know be knocked down a little bit because of the night vision technology It's how it works guys But you are going to be able to continue to function without any additional training if you're totally familiar with the system You're totally familiar with how it comes off, you know goes on and you know in how it's remounted over and over again And you get really good at doing that, although you won't blindfold it by the time you're done in pitch black. But the point is that it's commonality of components. A lot of this surplus stuff is dirt cheap, because it's not the latest fashion statement. It's perfectly serviceable. I'm not going to be showing up with anything too fancy or new. I hate to tell you. Well, I don't hate to tell you, but because I've got a certain system that I like. I know that it performs to my needs. It fits my body. Works for my experience, and I'm going to run with that puppy for as long as I can. Now, I'm getting older, so I am going to have to re-engineer and lighten up some things. Eventually, as I get older still, I'm going to have to change out of the weapon system that I would prefer to something that's going to fit my physical restrictions. I'm already having to...everybody should be looking at this. You know, when we went into the American War for Independence, we had to run with what we had. But in this day and age, one thing we are technologically...you know, we're in a glut in terms of options that in the past men did not have. So you can't tell me you can't find what you need to go into combat effectively as an older person. You know, in other words, retailer it so that you're not burning calories, stressing muscles, or, again, expending energy that you don't have. But you can still contribute. Now, you all need to be thinking that way. And again, there's some really cool stuff out there. That's why, again, remember, even the paintball technology, guys, we've tested all the paintball equipment. And I've had somebody say, well, it's all cheaper, this and that. Well, it is cheaper, but you know what? We've beat the living snot out of some of that stuff and we tested to destruction. I want to see how long it takes before pockets start to rip and flaps start to fall off and snaps start to disassemble, clips start to break because maybe they're not as well made of a better plastic. I haven't seen any of that guy. Well besides the riflescope stuff and the mounts and things like that, we think of 223 as being battle rifles and they're sort of really like battle rifles but they are not the recoil that we're accustomed to on 30 Cal. So you get some of these nylon scope mounts and things like this designed for the paintball market. They'll work for a while. on 223 that's not a heavy recoil rifle. Or they'll work on .22s. Yeah, 22 LRs, .223s, some of the light varmint rounds, there's a lot of things that we will work with. And they'll take some pressure off the other stuff. Do you want to put a long eye relief scope mount on a sub gun? Okay, well those things just do not slam your shoulder. 8 or 9 pound carbine that's firing a pistol round. You can tell that it fired, but you have to pay attention to notice. And one of the important things here too is again, you're going to have to experiment also, which is why if it's affordable, you can actually test it. If it doesn't work, you can either hand it off to somebody for the price you paid for it if you've got somebody else, wow, I want that. Or you relegate it to your 510 program. I'd like to see everything, you know, the same but what I do with a lot of any gear that I find that it doesn't match what I can use. Guys, it goes into a general bin depending on the category so that someday down the road someone's going to get it. Someone's going to use it. Like I said, right here next to me right now, today has been... hear that? Sounds like a plastic drum. Those are those square five-gallon pastry pails. I'm sorting out all of my containers for the next wave of packing of material because I've got a lot of stuff that I've been accessing. Here in this area, certain shops are throwing stuff away every day, especially sport type shops. Guys, I just got a bunch of ski goggles for free and they look nicer than the ones that I bought. They were thrown away. Brand-new ski goggles in you know flat black Yellow lens, you know ski lens or snow lens Same thing the troops are wearing right now. Can't find that mind-boggling. What was it a model change outer? Just tough tossed away. I don't know why they did they're out of the package But they're brand new and the same with maybe they were on the mannequins or something That's what I'm possible to but the thing is that you know, it's constant. It's every day I get helmets from the same locations and uh... body armor from the same locations hockey armor stuff all the time because they've got a lot of it we're not we're happy when you're around the old and arbors thing more money than brains i'm not gonna complain i want to keep doing this but for instance i've gotten a whole but been full of helmets this way And the helmets are all the same model. I grab all of them no matter what. In fact, right now I could sponsor, and the other half of that is I could sponsor a junior hockey league, a Pee-Wee league right now, and they'd be outfitted better than the average professional team. Do they all say red wings on a mark? Dead wings? No. The dead wings? Yeah, that's a joke. Remember after they had the horrible limousine accident years ago? Remember, support the dead wings. Those guys didn't fare too well out of that. No, and that's back when we were treating remember Polish and Russian slaves Oh, I'm sorry hockey players remember before the iron curtain fell that are trading those people Well, the guys didn't make millions when they were shipped over here the red the red communist did why should say the communist corporation did Because they contracted and traded them out and these guys came over here and they got wind and dined But most of the paycheck didn't stay here He went back overseas. That's why I always joke, oh you mean those Polish and Russian slaves you've been buying? And here we go, whoa, whoa, whoa. I said, well, let's do a little background. How do we get them? Yeah, those Pakistanis, six pack of pakis won't play hockey as good. No, no, neither. Well, you know, again, the thing about this with regard to the gear and equipment like this, guys, real quick, this stuff is out there. Remember what? I've mentioned this a million times. If you watch Black Hawk Down, if you read the book, watch Black Hawk Down, it's propaganda. Read the book. If you read the book, he goes, yeah, these guys were running around, we couldn't figure out they were kind of funny helmets. You know, there's hockey helmets. Why? Well, because you go out with a gladiatorial combat stick, two blades on your feet, and you go out and beat the snout out of each other, wearing body armor. So the helmets do have to kind of hold up, you know what I mean? It's hacking and chopping rules, guys. So the SEALs used to take the standard hockey helmet and that's what they used for a combat helmet. It wasn't expected to stop bullets. It was designed to protect their head from bouncing, which is far more a concern when you're running your arse off because these guys run everywhere. They run everywhere. So a helmet like that will work just fine. You want to make it look like something else? Hey, go over to Maine Military. They've got 12 cloth, cloth, three color desert Kevlar helmet covers for a dozen of them for five dollars. You can't beat that price. You can buy the cloth for that guys. And we're talking already sewn, all have the hangers on them. They'll go on a number of different helmets without any problem. In fact, they'll really go well on the Russian helmets, which have a little bit of a knock step on the side. And if you put a US Kevlar helmet cover on most of those Russian helmets, they look enough like the Kevlar and no one knows the difference. Great way to kind of fake things out, make everything look the same, is to use that other stuff that's out there available, cheap, cheap, cheap. Well, besides from the special forces guy's point of view, aircrafts in the larger sense of things may be kind of squishy, but compared to your head, they aren't. If you have a hard landing or whatnot, out. Exactly. I'm sure if you could bring an old goalie from the 70s up into now and let them see the headgear these guys were when those guys are like missing their teeth. Oh, yeah. My favorite is looking when they always have those different team shots of the teams for the last 70 years. And the newer ones have all these, they even have all their cool armor and everything with all painted up and the goalie helmets are now real fancy with airbrushing. And then you go back and you can tell right where the helmets kicked in because everybody's smiling but there's a lot of missing windows. Where the teeth are, you know, you got a lot of open windows there that are kind of dark. And front teeth, side teeth, you know, sometimes most of their teeth. They got paid well in the day for what they were doing and they liked what they were doing and they liked beating on each other. Not only that, it's not even that, they have to do it intentionally. Skates are very unforgiving when you're in a pile-up and someone slides in and that skate meets the side of your head. The steel wins and your face loses every time. That's another good point. Those helmets are made to take that kind of stuff. a piece of heavy rubber that's flying through the air at 100 knots an hour or two. Punk! Oh, that had to hurt. Oh, it did, sir. It did. Punk! Yeah. So again, there's a reason, you know, you pick it because of what its original mission is. It wasn't intended to go into combat, but it did. And quite successfully. And by people that everybody consider very special. So don't poo-poo the idea of taking equipment like this and transferring it over. Mostly it's to protect you from the bounce. That branch hanging at forehead height in the middle of the night while you're trying to DD the AO and you didn't see it because it was in your peripheral vision as you were turning but you didn't notice it in the darkness? Well, I'll tell you what, that'll ring your gourd in a heartbeat. But if you had just nothing but a bicycle helmet on, that's enough to save your life right there, guys. Or at least keep me from having to carry your sorry hind end very far. I might have to pick you up and drag you for a minute, but you'll start to regain your senses because at least your brain's not leaking out the front of your forehead. So anything will help. Even people make comments about the steel helmets. Well, we used to get steel helmets cheap for about $4 to $6 apiece. Now, cheap steel helmets at this time are running maybe as low as $10, but $12, $14 is the bargain low end right now, and then everything else is in the 20s and 30s. Yeah, it seems to me that I keep seeing 25 with all of the trimmings. Now that's why I was going to bring up the, we're going to go another direction here, Colmans.com, Colmans.com, Colmans.com. Not very many companies have these anymore, but even if they do, they're charging what you said, $25 to $29 a piece. Colmans has the Swiss 70 series combat helmet for $14.95 right now, so $15, which is pretty reasonable. Now, this is a heavy steel helmet with a full basket inner liner built to Swiss specs, so it's very well made. It's like the US M1 pisspot, except what they did is about where you would normally have to look up and bend your head back where there would be an over brim on the US helmet. They cut it laterally across the arc. And so instead when you look up all you have to do is bend your head a little bit guys. It was built for people who are in a mountainous environment. It is a well made helmet. It offers all the protection of the Mark 1 US piss pot or the German equivalent or the Dutch US copy of the M1. They're good pieces of equipment. Highly recommend them. I bought all of them. I could until the wholesalers ran out of them. None of the wholesalers have had them in stock for quite some time and the few that have have had them for about $30 apiece. So Coleman's is selling that helmet for about half price of what they would replace it for if they could. Now it may be off by a dollar, it may be $14 but I'm going to say $15 and that way if it's cheaper you'll be happy. But for the price they're a good helmet. Now I will remind everybody these are Euro Steel Helmets. Euro Steel Helmets come in sizes. So you want to give them a call. I haven't done that yet. Hey, what size range have you got them in? Because yes, they do go all the way down to 54 metric, which is small and extra small, all the way up to 60, 61, 62, and that's big. So big's fine, small. Remember, if you've got small people, you'll need some. But they are a sized helmet. The USM1 was a universal sized helmet. It had the helmet liner. It did all the adjusting. On the Euro helmets they went with size ranges just like hats. So you have to pay attention to that. And that's also true of the Russian helmets. They've got some cheap Russian helmets out there. But remember that whenever they get these they're going to get a size range. Now they're probably not going to look to see what they're pulling out of the box, but if you can specify that, do it. Medium size or regular size is about 58 to 60 metric. That's 58 to 60 that'll accommodate pretty much everybody because there is a little bit of adjustment in the in the helmet strap in The the sweat man inside, but it's all fixed to the helmet so they are a good solution Anyway ideas the helmets that are out there you can put one of our helmet covers on it guys and make it look like whatever Camel pattern you already have The big thing is to get something on people's heads make sure you got them covered up and with some decent clothing and again OD green whatever color camouflage you do your choice you you pick that's fine by me whatever you whatever your color combo is but try to match it all up whenever you can and that's where you go to the clearance and close outs. Woodland camo is on the edge of flip-flopping in cost. I'm warning you on this right now there's a glut of it for the moment but what's going to happen is you got to remember that from the 70s that's when it first came into service. Vietnam junk that used to be pennies is now collectible. Keep that in mind. That's going to change the formula. So all that cheap stuff you thought, well, there'll be just more of that later. Buy it while it's pennies. Later on, it'll be dollars. Somebody wants to buy it for dollars from you, take one out of your pile and pay for all the rest you paid 10 cents for. See how that works? Just like your ammunition when we told you, buy that cheap ammo now. Remember the nickel and round toker of ammo, VK? I remember. Yeah, that stuff was not that long ago. That's not like way back in the old days, guys. That's just a few years ago. Well, we are at the top. God bless the republic. Death to the New World Order. Shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march, both day and night. Quartermaster Friday is over, but the weekend has just begun for a lot of our training personnel. Everybody be careful on the range. Wear your cold weather gear. It's nice Mark. 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