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You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MainMilitary.com. That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your 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 and 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 doctors so their children won't be born. 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 to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. 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Well, BK, it's been gray. Well, it was actually pretty before sunset. It was clearing up a little bit, but not too much. We had a little cloud cover, hopefully. And bright moon right now. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the day today? What's jumping off the walls, sir? There we go, a moment of difficulty. It is 17 January 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report. And that makes this Quiramaster's Corner. And we've had a lot of clear and chilly, and so we're still kind of coming off the Blizzard from last week. So this stuff feels fairly comfortable even though you would probably freeze to death in 30 minutes if you were throwing out the door in the birthday suit. By comparison, it feels comfortable. The furnace is not kicking in nearly as frequently and so on and so forth. So I'm going to consider this a nice thaw. Oh no, global warming is going to get us. We had our respite from global warming and now it's going to come get us again. Oh well, so it does. We have a number of things to point out. I called in earlier this week and we talked about lithium battery special. I just checked. It's still up on the site. So at the risk of sounding like broken records, we should hammer that one again because that sort of special does not come up very often. The vendor is BG Micro, that's bravogolfmicro.com. They are a general electronics surplus supplier. They sell a lot of components mainly, transistors, resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, speakers, coils, transformers, all that kind of good stuff. You name it, they probably have something along those lines in there. That is one of my nerdy shopping places where I like to go. I often don't place an order, but I sure do like rummaging around through their stuff anyway. Every once in a while I do place an order. This time they have a bunch of the CR123A lithium primary batteries on sale. Primary batteries are ones that you use once and then they are expended. The neat thing about lithium batteries is that they have an extremely high shelf life. Nominal shelf life is 10 years. These are marked for expiration in 2020, which means they have 6 years left to go, which means they've been on the shelf for 4 years. The manufacturer considers these guys, okay. I am told once again that my modulation is too, too high. Ed, can you dial me down a little bit? So these guys have been on the shelf for four years, the manufacturer considers them old stock and therefore they got surplus out. And the vendor, B.G. Micro is offering these guys at 99 cents a piece in very small quantities, but if you go over 10, they offer them at 75 cents a piece. So 10 for $7.50, 20 for $15, 40 for $30, you know, hands to hands. I don't think anybody should go buy three of these. Somebody should buy 20 or 40 or 80 of them depending on what your wallet will stand. There is no comparison on price of these. They are used in a lot of items, some of the digital cameras and so on because they are already an established battery. But from our point of view, they are a big favorite of the night vision industry and are used in some of these high-powered tactical flashlights and handheld laser designators and things of that sort. Given the shelf life of these nominally out to 2020 and in practice, you know that things go longer than that, these are an investment in consumables that is basically a no fail proposition. There's no way 75 cent batteries will fail to prove their worth even if you just end up at some point trading them off to somebody of yours. Suppose everything is totally smooth and nothing ever kicks off in the next 10 years. Five years out you may trade them off to somebody of yours for something that you need. So, there is really, really no excuse except extreme resource constraints for not passing on this and grabbing 20 or 40 or 60 or whatever it is that you can reasonably afford. A few years back, I worked a connection with a local dollar store owner and that dollar store has since been destroyed. by a franchise operation that moved in, but I got to purchase some cases of AA and AAA alkaline batteries. These were in the channel that feeds dollar stores because they were very near to their expiration date. I bought them in 2008 near mark 2009. I'm using those now figuring while they're on the shelf I may as well start using them before they do go bad, but they work. Now, I could hook those up with a dummy load and some instrumentation and run a clock and do little calculations and figure out to what degree they no longer quite meet the factory specs. But four years past the official expiration date, they're not leaking all over the place and they do work. They work well beyond the amp hour performance of the rechargeables that replace them. This is to be expected, of course. Rechargeables have less poop per charge. The idea is that you can recharge them 10 times or 1,000 times, depending on the chemistry. The point is that even these alkalins at four years past, almost five years past, their official expiration still have function left in them, lithium's I expect to be exactly the same way. So when these guys don't cross over their official expiration until 2020, then definitely that's a fairly long term asset. This is the price of dollar store batteries is what it comes down to a help not even dollar store rechargeables because dollar store rechargeable like big lots or whatever running $2 apiece for us just standard double A's or triple A's and In this case not rechargeable, but it's certainly a very specialized battery that you know I was going to my battery inventory I've got five batteries or variations on this theme in bigger and chubbier, but shorter and that are all camera technology batteries guys and the average price was on them I got them from yard sales and stuff where people were tossing them out but five dollars and twenty five cents six dollars and forty two cents ever ready you know seven dollars and thirteen cents you're talking ten batteries for seven dollars and fifty cents seventy five cents a battery you can afford to put them on the shelf it's a short term or midterm insurance policy and since they're good to 2020 by their official spec I got this funny feeling you'll be using them way before 2020, don't you think? I'm inclined to that opinion too. Yeah, I would think 2014, that's six years out guys. So these are a valid, useful investment. And if we start using our night vision the way you're supposed to, okay, rather than being as conservative because you can't have no choice, you've got to use it, you're going to start consuming batteries. It's just that simple. There's no way you're going to get around it and now is the time to take advantage of these types of sales if they're available. I've never seen them for this price before to be quite honest. So when you point these out and be cats, well I harped on them for the last couple of days. Which is exactly what you should have been doing. Yeah. Yeah, so again for everybody out there take advantage of this. Remember if cold weather, especially bitter cold, because we've had bitter cold like we ever do every winter. Well when that happens, But bitter cold eats up equipment that has to be out there. And we haven't even talked about, well we did a little bit, but the idea of even preserved batteries, eventually people are going to decide they want to insulate their night vision. And that means making night vision shrouds that will be, you can use high impact, the high density foam, and cut and make a little U-shaped scabbard that's going to go over the night vision device just to insulate it a little bit more from the extreme cold. The reason for that is to help save the batteries. Whatever heat the machine produces will help to keep the internal container warmer. Electronic components create heat, guys. They do. Even micro milliamp components generate heat. The more you conserve, the warmer you're going to keep that battery and the longer that battery is going to last. It's not going to drop in capacity. That's something you need to be worried about. So this is a big plus. It's something that with all the other electronics that are part of it, you may not even realize with some of the stuff you bought that you need that battery. Some people bought goodies and they put them on the shelf and they figure, oh, I'll get around to playing with it. And then you open it up and find out, darn, that's the same battery that's in my night vision. Well, now I need twice as many batteries every time I got to change them. Yeah, there are a few night vision devices that will use double A batteries and I consider it big plus plus if they do because that's so common, but CR123As are still very very much dominant in that market. And one of the reasons for that as was pointed out is that their depth and performance The other thing is that government always likes to have something that's the odd man out. They're spending your tax dollars and that's why years ago they came up with very unique batteries for the night vision devices. They wanted to compress them anyway. Remember we used to try to make things smaller but sensible and so they were very durable. They had a particular slim line to them for a reason to reduce obstructions for the night vision equipment because a lot of the people that were using them were pilots. So streamlining and compressing you can understand, but because of that those specialized batteries also cost an arm and a leg both for the military and for the civilian sector if you ever bought any of the equipment. And the 123A's by government standards are a commodity battery. You should see some of the specialized ones that got out there. Yeah, there is a whole industry, well, they have battery companies. That's how they've made their bread and butter off all of the exotic batteries that every once in a while government resurrects a piece of equipment because they've got it in strategic reserve and they pull it out and lo and behold, well, they need enough batteries to keep that piece of equipment in the field and they use an estimate based upon consumption and that's what they buy. and it will there's all kinds of stuff out there like that even to this day that's still being produced I mean what was with this way look at your cell phones just look at your commercial cell phones and how many different ways their battery packed right now and most of them like the little throwaway when I just got one right here little unit I've got here which is a sprint oh come on there's no it's a Samsung Totally unique battery pack, I can pull it off right now, but it's a orphan pack. If you, they decide not to make it, no ticky no washy kids, that's all there is to it. And that's why some of these phones have become generally obsolete because that is exactly what's happened. The battery pack is what's not made. You can get the phones all day, you know, open it up in the Star Trek communicator. But if there's nothing to power it up, well, oh, you're screwed. So, that's another reason to again take advantage of these prices. Anyway, go ahead BK, I know we got more. Let's jump in there. Okay, yes. From time to time we mentioned Honeyville Grain. Usually when they are running they sail because who doesn't like a sail? And food is one of those things that we can chip away at on an ongoing basis for the time being until something unusual and unpleasant happens. And we should simply be chipping away at it. When supplies of other stuff become difficult, for instance, reloading supplies are a little bit difficult right now. We should simply shift over to the next column and start deepening our stocks on other things. Honeybell Grains is a vendor of various foods, generally in bulk or large cans. They have a lot of number 10 cans. They have some bulk packs. They sell dried fruits and grains and such and freeze dried. and some specialty items you can get, tomato powder, I don't know whether it's still carried, it did not have the best reviews, you can get powdered sour cream, considered suitable for sauces, not for baked potatoes, that's to be expected because of the fat content. I never have understood freeze dried butter or ice cream, that never made any sense to me. But there are a lot of other stuff on there. There are some things that are not so good. Also you can get sugar free gelatin which means there's going to be aspartame in there. So you've got to pay attention. But they do have a number of good items. One of the ones that I routinely call out is the powdered egg. Good old traditional powdered egg. The stuff that you had in the Army or in college, food service or what have you. Perfectly good for baking and cooking and you can whip it up and make an acceptable scrambled egg and so on and so forth. And your standards of acceptable are going to change a lot when the grocery stores are not working. If you dig deeply enough in their website, you'll find a 50 pound bulk pack of egg has in the past been around $200. Last time I looked, I think it was like $260 or something. They've been growing up. Thank goodness there's no inflation and all these rising prices would be a real problem when they mark. At any rate, a 50 pound box is still the way to buy that if you want to put some of that away. on sale is the way to buy anything from these guys. Right now they are running a 15% off sale. They usually run 10% off sales. Every once in a while they run a 15% and I think I've seen a 20% once in the several years I've been tracking this website. So 15% is quite good. That started yesterday on Thursday and runs through next Tuesday. Now that's another trend that's interesting. Some of the recent sales I have not mentioned on air because they decided for whatever reason to start them on Monday and end them on Friday or Saturday or something along those lines. Well, if we're broadcasting on Friday night and a sale is going to end in two hours, how many people can act on that? So when they do that, I don't even mention them. This time they started it on Thursday. So we've got several days to act on this one. So use the coupon code FRESH, all in capitals, F-R-E-S-H, and they will knock 15% off your order at checkout. 15% is not too shabby if you're spending a couple hundred dollars on something that's 30 bucks. 30 bucks, I'll buy you a box or two of ammo. Well, I used to buy three or four of them. not so much anymore. 30 bucks will buy you 20 lithium batteries plus some shipping and so on and so forth. Everything has fine print but that's the life we live. Honeyvillegrain.com. Lots of things there noodle around. Choose your poison or promender as you prefer. Coupon code is fresh. capital F-R-E-S-H, 15% off the entire order and as always their shipping charge is $4.49 for the entire order. So you can buy as much as you want and the shipping charge will still be $4.49. Mark. And again, one of the things to remember about resources like this is invest in a vacuum packer or let's not forget that even glass jars, mason jars, can be used for dry packing, guys. It's been done for years. There's a number of other container systems you can use to reduce the package down to a manageable containment level. When you open something up, you're only opening up what you'll basically use within a short or limited period of time. and the rest of the inventory is kept secure. The little vacuum packers are cool because you can make your own bags. With the seal and mule system you can make bigger bags. However, one of the things to consider is, since you've got it in those bulk containers, I would break it down into use as needed size. In other words, what's your average usage? How many people do you typically feed with it? Or know that servings for two or four people are an average package. depending on how many people you normally have to deal with. The two-person serving pouch is probably your best choice. If it's opened up and it's used for one person, that person can then work out in the next meal to use up the difference. Again, the idea is you've got to learn to ration what you have yourself and regulate through discipline. in a crisis or in a long-term situation like that, the idea is to regulate and to extend your inventory. You start supplementing it with what you can grow or what you acquire from your enemy or whatever the situation is. Now your food stores will last that much longer and you can change up the menu. But the big thing is to actually break them down into smaller containers from the bigger tub. Doesn't mean you can't put it on the shelf in a bigger tub format. You know, if you've got a lot of people, let's go the other direction here. If you've got 30 or 40 people you have to feed every meal, guys it isn't going to take very long to go through a 25 pound or a 50 pound container of something. It sounds like it should, but here's the best way to explain this to you. Do you have a cafeteria at your work or do you have a cafeteria at school? Now ask the cafeteria, the dietician, how many people do you feed a day? She's going to go about 120 people a day or maybe she feeds 500 people. If the student, like a school, could have 500, 600 students. She'll tell you and ask her, what volume of food do you use per day? How much do you use for one meal, for menu like this? Look at the menu and say, lunch time here, how much did you use for this menu? Well, she can actually, and most of them will do this for a show, well wait a minute, let me do something for you. And ask her, can you do a print up for me? And what she'll do is she'll go back in for a few moments worth of work, she'll do a print. It will show you the dietitian's estimate with the average serving because remember they regulate the servings when they pass stuff over and put it on your tray for you guys. Some places are all you can eat. Again, still it's about the same. Even if it's all you can eat, they know what the averages are. Exactly. The point is that they know what their production necessity is, barring some really strange things happening with guests or whatever. Even there, it's within their build margins. They already know what they're doing. So if you get a copy of that, you start looking at, oh, wait a minute. Let's see, string beans, two full six can, number 10 can cases of string beans for one setting. Go right down the list of what it is. How many pounds of meat? How many pounds of pudding? How many pounds of, because remember, the pudding comes dry. Typically, they'll make it all, even buy that canned. So when you have 30 or 40 people, remember, you need to start changing your math, and there's where you have to think ahead. with regard to the fact that maybe you don't have to repack a lot of that. If you're going to be delving into it in pretty much every meal and taking a quarter or a six of it in consumption, you don't have to worry about oxidation slash breakdown and contamination for the most part. You have to obviously still maintain it. But you can pretty well work it into the inventory and cycle it out. within a reasonable period of time. The big thing is planning ahead because the other reason you might want to break it down is because specialized items like the eggs, the butter, you know, the other things like that that are dried, while you are going to use them, if you break them down and say half that batch or a quarter of that batch, you can also separate them in time for usage. You don't necessarily want to use up a specialty item that's a goody item. eggs are a goody item. No matter what anybody says and for all the complaints about powdered eggs, hey let's see, dirt or powdered eggs for breakfast. Powdered eggs are a change up. They're something that's familiar. They taste like eggs despite what everybody tries to lament about. It's just that they don't have that pretty little separation of the yolk and the whites. However, I'm going to point something out. BK years ago they actually did that. Guys, they made powdered eggs that were powdered egg pods that actually had the yolk color in the middle and they tried everything they could back in the space food day. Like when they used to make TVP meat that looked like pork chops and steaks. If you really wanted to, Honeyville will sell you powdered egg white and powdered egg yolk and you could throw them up halfway each and fold them together and so on and be all gourmet. I wouldn't go with that. You could do that if you wanted. That's again for the psychological message that this is normalcy. On the other hand for troops, It's more like shovel this in and get me more if you can. If somebody else doesn't want to eat, take their food. Oh, you're not feeling good about what's coming? Oh, thank you. I'll take that. See, people learn real quick about that one. When you can get it, take advantage of it. When you get a hot meal, you take advantage of it. Don't hesitate. Don't wait. Yeah, there's an easy verbal cue. Anybody that refers to food as either chow or grub, that's fuel. Yeah, exactly. That's what keeps the machine running. So everybody needs to remember that accordingly. Somebody wants to refuse it, let them starve for a little while. They won't starve for very long. They'll learn real quick whatever is in front of them. They're either going to eat it or it's not my problem. I take you to the water trough. You can't figure out how to drink. That's your stinking problem. If there's something wrong with your head, not mine. See how that works. So, everybody needs to act accordingly. Go ahead, BK, and we've got more. Jump in there, please. Okay, let's do a little bit of the routine stuff here. I weekly scan through some of the vendors and see how things are doing on the reloading components market. And they're still a little bit tight, but they've been loosening up a little bit in the primer's area and the bullets area. Powder is still hen's teeth, and I don't know why. something happened around new years and it just went poop straight off the market. Maybe we'll find out in three months that the feds used the magic checkbook and vacuumed it off the shelf or who knows what. Maybe a price increase was announced and everybody just cleaned them out. I have no idea. Perhaps even the manufacturers are just holding it back saying, well we announced a price increase so we're going to wait a little while until they're desperate and then we're going to roll it out at plus 20 percent. Any number of possibilities. In the meantime, when one thing is short, we just work on deepening stacks of the other things. Potter Valley is doing well on primers this week. They were in very bad shape last time, but this week they're not too bad. In large rifle they've got Winchester's at $29.50, which is a very, very reasonable price. In small rifle, Tula is offering 24-50 for either the commercial or the military style. The difference with the military style is that they are a slightly harder primer to avoid punch throughs and doublings and so on in the military style rifles. CCI is offering the military at 38. Now that's 24-50 versus 38. Either CCI has a very, very high opinion of its mil-spec primers or they are 90% of their production to the Feds and pulling off 10% if you're willing to really pay through the nose for it. I think that latter theory is probably the most likely. However, 2450 will get you to a Magnum commercial or military. Bear in mind the military stuff is always Magnum because they want it to work in arctic temperatures and it takes a bit more energy to get powder going when everything is cold, cold, cold. All right, large pistol is the worst category this week at Patter Valley. The only thing they've got is Federal Magnum Match and that's at $34.65, a little on the pricey side. Not as bad as what CCI wants for the no very small rifle, but still pretty steep. So if you can skip the large pistol for the time being, wait for a better price on that, that will probably cycle back in. Small pistol, you have a number of options. There is Winchester at $29.50. Tula at $23.50. Once again, Tula is offering you some bargain prices in order to go with the less familiar brand. And CCI at $27, Magnum at $30. I don't see any particular reason to pay $30 for CCI if you can get $23.50 for Tula. And Winchester is about the same price at $29.50. So those categories are in stock. Even Powder Valley is down on powder right now. There's almost nothing there. There's a little bit of 50 caliber powder. I think I saw some 4831. But all of the usual medium speed powders have routinely been a hen's teeth at all the vendors for a long time. But the very fast stuff and the very slow stuff have been available. The very fast stuff suitable, of course, for pistol and shot shell. And the very slow stuff for the heavy belted magnums and so on. Right now the powder is really really stretched thin and I do not know why. That's the game right now. One of our friends is saying X39 bullets at 32 cents, that's a quantity 1000. That's 23 cents. That's better. But that's X39, so we expect the X39 stuff to be a little bit cheaper. It's pull down is probably from Eastern Block Manufacturing would be my guess. But the powder is just rough. Now there is an interesting special on Powder Valley. If you take a look at the specials column, the specials page is also replicated over in bullets. They have 308, 155 grain hollow point boat tail, palmer they call them, the major manufacturer of factory seconds. I think that's Hornady. I'm not absolutely certain and they don't say, but I think that's Hornady. So they're offering 500 rubies at 106. So 308 bullets are always our worst. category. As far as supply when they're available, they're expensive when they're not available. I think that most of us are worst category as far as supply is concerned are these factory 30 caliber bullets. That is an available solution at 106 per 500 or 212 that multiplies out per 1000. These 155 grain 308 plasma bullets they say and I believe those are Hornady. They are major manufacturer factory seconds they say but I believe that's Hornady. So that's an available option at Powder Valley. Comments. One of the most important things again is standardization. So I know that we're going to have to bounce around with bullet weights, but remember to try and spec all of your loads out to the consistent point of impact and the sighting systems for the weapon system that the bullet is going to be committed to, the loaded cartridge. This is something that's true of a lot of specialized rounds where you have AP, AP incendiary, tracer, ball, etc., etc., etc. Well guys, remember that though they may be varying in great weight, you know, disciplines up and down the dial, and they are. Remember that they have specced out the powder charge accordingly and painstakingly recreated the consistent point of impact from one load to the next. Now that's a solution for a lot of you out there where you may have to go from one bullet as you said became be sold out This is happening more and more. This is a quiet part of what's been going on I don't anybody's notice this we've been talking about about this on the air There's a little gluts of stuff because of the way things were ordered over the last 24 months But in whole categories there has been no significant gains because there have been very quiet second, third, and fourth wave surges on the industry. And this is being acknowledged by many of the people that are out there. People are collecting up funds. They have to wait until they have what they need. They know they want to buy in bulk. They're buying quantity. When they do, they'll buy out a whole category. Now it's not one person, it's actually a group of people or groups of people getting together. This is just like what happened before the American War for Independence. Guys, they scoured the countryside for powder and shot to purchase. And we had stuff specially imported from Holland or brought in from the Caribbean and smuggled in from all points of the compass. And like books, as soon as the powder and as soon as the lead and as soon as the books hit the boat docks, there were crowds to collect and carry it away. That's a variation on what you see nowadays. So understand, the thinking, knowledgeable people accumulated and built up inventories and stockpiles. And I would point out something, during the process of the war, where do you think we kept finding the equipment to rearm the army with? The same is true now with what's been going on. Between the billions and billions of rounds accumulated over decades by people who have understood this threat and have created a deep tactical reserve is the next or the series of what I would have to call retail waves because a lot of the people I'm talking about bought it at bulk by the truckload. But when everybody goes out and takes their wallet and purchases as we warned you years ago and before the last wave that just took place, if everybody goes in looking for the same thing, there isn't enough to go around. And especially if it's a precision or a specialized item. The more specialized it is, the shorter the list of customers it will get what they want. Besides, the enemy can monkey around with the supply channel much more quietly and with much less attention than if they passed some decree and said you can't buy a Pizza Hut anymore. Or you can't buy a McDonald's anymore. People notice that. They can monkey around in the components and ammunition and so forth and their little friends in the corporate press are so and aren't going to see a thing. Exactly, so this is another reason to pay attention and pass on the information as we can. Go ahead, any more on this particular train? I want to throw something in here real quick from the last couple of hours. Not on this one. I do want to mention the 16mm filters once again, just to keep everybody on point on that one. But go ahead. Very good. Now, one of the other things that we've brought up here, guys, if you go to Royal Tiger RoyalTigerimports.com. This is only good until Sunday. Now, I still got a pretty good price on the mags. The best way to buy these mags, if they're not on sale, is with the mag pouches. You get a mag pouch and you get the mags cheaper. If you buy them separately, the mags run a certain amount and you get two of them, you get them for less. Right now there's a sale going on. It came out as an email notice. I got on their email list intentionally for this very reason. But Royal Tigers imports sale from January 16th to the 19th. They have HK91 slash G3 German made magazines guys, best quality beautiful mags. They're aluminum, I don't care. I'll carry these aluminum mags all day. I've got a pile of steel ones too. But I'll carry these aluminum all day. Well guess what? You can carry a lot of them for let's see $1.49 a piece if you buy a hundred at a time. Remember what I said, if you're going to buy a PTR-91, an HK, or any of the HK knockoffs that have set me, buy 100 of these mags right off the bat. You're not going to lose as an investment anyway. But this company buys right from the single supplier and they're just to the west of where this business is located, which is why, again, they've got a lot of Sturm stuff on their menu. Anyway, go to www.royaltigerimports.com, then go to hk91003, that's the S-K-U, it's hk91003 and you will see the prices, it's $2.95 a piece if you were just buy one, that's the average price, but if you buy a hundred at a time, it's $1.49 per unit. and that is a great price and for all of you who have those rifles that means right off the bat you got firepower right off the bat you can load up a bunch of these mags put them into engineer bags and you have breakout mag kits ready to go uh... if you were to buy one well let me give you an example m14 mags for the Korean manufactured remakes were thirteen dollars on sale from centerfiresystems.com yesterday now that sales off now But, when you look at the math here, guys, it ain't the razor, it's the blades. For the price of one $13 magazine, how many of these mags can I buy? Oh, that's right. I can get nine magazines for the price of what I would be paying for one M14 mag of the cheapest quality. And these are German-made military mags. The Germans don't make junk. And especially not for themselves, and especially not for national defense. Number one, you've got to remember, in the 60s, 70s and 80s they were only 20 years out of the devastation of World War II. Whatever they built, they made a focused effort, a focused effort, forgive me, a focused effort. They were very much myopic on every project to ensure they got the best for the money they spent. So even these aluminum mags, again, they're not lesser, they're just designed to carry more is what it was for. They gave these to the airborne troops initially, they gave them to the air mobile troops, that way they'd lighten the combat load. But they also gave them to the troops to carry more mags. They lighten the weight of the mag so that they could put more mags in the field. And the steel mags paralleled these projects, so you will see magazines with the same date that are steel and or aluminum made. So, definitely take the time and invest in these. If you're going to buy a PTR 91, that's the most common rifle. I'd get the GI with at least the 18 inch barrel. If you can get one with a 20, better still. But the 18 inch would be your first choice. If they're all gone, then you go to the 16 inch. And that's not your first choice, that's your second. But the big thing is the magazines. The rifles, pretty much are, the PTR is still one of the cheaper for a common mag. And this is where the factor is. The mag is the issue. because FNFL mags 13, 15, 17, and $20 a piece. M1A mags 13 for the foreign Korean made. And then you jump to about 20, 22 to $30 a mag for US depending on condition. And for some Taiwanese mags if there's any out there and there aren't any that I've seen. So the three basic biggest military battle rifle magazine users This is the cheapest which really wins out the HK for the moment. Now the other good thing is people complain about things not being made American. The PTR-91s are all made in the United States. So it's an American rifle using existing surplus parts which makes it a viable combat rifle. And that's the only reason I'd focus on it for now because I'm trying to get more of you armed better for less. The rifle itself is perfectly serviceable. There's nothing you have to worry about. It will function flawlessly. Like the M14, the FN FAL, the HK91 requires specific maintenance. By the way, so does your AR-15. Remember another argument that I've made repeatedly. Suppose you have uninvited houseguests who are carrying that system and you plan to rely on battlefield drops. Well, you drop one house guest, he drops a rifle and a combat load of magazines. And the next one drops a rifle and a combat load of magazines. And then you use those and the magazines get, you know, ganked and stuff happens to them and after a little while you have half a combat load of magazines per rifle. Well, you want to be able to resupply the consumables when you put that back into service. And for that reason, you don't want to rely on combat drops for any of the consumables, either the ammunition or the magazines. You want to have the mags on hand. And these again are German made so they have the ID marker on the side of the magazine slab. They give you the month and the year of production. They tell you which factory it came from and it has the German part number on it. These are well made, in fact they span about 24 years of production by what I've seen as far as the ones that we've already had. One company, one unit here, we call them the HK Crew, bought a truckload of these guys. They literally sent a two and a half ton rider truck that they bought for this mission and they go all over the country and when they find stuff you don't get it. They go and get it before you do and that's what's why a lot of the stuff has been bought out I didn't know about a few things until what a month or two ago before Christmas that That's what's happened. Sometimes we mentioned stuff on the air the reason you don't you and I don't get it because they got it and This is something where again, they've already they get a quantity price when you buy a truckload of mags you get a real quantity price Okay, a real quantity price They are buying from the same person. I put them in touch with the people who are the wholesalers for these. They did what they were supposed to do. There is something to be said for having three pockets, isn't there? Yeah, well, doctors and medical people are pissed. They were pissed before the Obamacare became official, guys. Those doctors now have nine browning 1919 gas operator or semi-automatic belt-fed guns. They've got they just picked up another M2 semi-auto a Valkyrie gun they got from another person all Liberty guns They just kept shopping around they've been very patient They've got a guy that does all their armory work for he was a heavy weapons a crew-served weapons specialist with an engineer unit and These guys have got a really good collection. They've got the equipment to carry them too Let's put it that way they can put all those teeth on something that moves and these guys have been very patient but they're very intelligent, they're looking for field gear, field capable, they're not looking for pretty and they're looking for functional and that's how everybody should be thinking right now, we're going into the next war, nothing these guys are going to do to back down on what they're doing. Quartermaster Friday is to get you motivated to put the deep logistics in place that you need for what's coming. Now, everybody talks about combat, you know, the battlefield. Well, you know, guess what? Without you being able to continue to feed the soldier and keep his energy up, without you being able to get those, as we said, perishables, because that's what these magazines and clothing are considered perishable in the military supply chain. They're not considered permanent fixtures. They're considered consumables. They're a perishable item that will continue to be, you're going to bust them, break them, people are going to fold, spindle your people, you're going to fold, spindle their people. And because of that, things just wear out or get eaten up. In fact, obviously with food, it gets it up. And ideally, that's the best case scenario. Instead of burned or ravaged or you destroyed to make sure your bad guys don't get it. That gets to be real hurtful. It really hurts the old belly there. I tell you what, it creates a lot of heartburn when you realize you've got to get rid of it yourself, guys. You don't let the enemy acquire it. That's another thing you're going to have to get used to. A lot of guys from World War I that I worked with years ago that were World War I vets, like the engineers, all they did was collect everything up. Their stuff, German stuff, whatever stuff, and they blow it up. Make sure it didn't get back in the hands of somebody who was trying to kill them. So just something to think about there. And everybody will be doing it. Don't worry. You're going to pick through even that wreckage though. I'm going to give you a little hint. Just because somebody blew something up doesn't mean that it destroyed everything, guys. Do you understand that? You're going to look for the ones that aren't as bent. You're going to grab all the cartridges that are bent, and you're going to pull the bullets. Then you're going to dump the powder. Commonly, made up the cartridge, dump the powder. Then you're going to figure out what can be repaired or rebuilt and what can't. Why? Because you're going to need it. That's a fact. Things get exploded and blowed up. Contrary to what everybody thinks, everything that was blowed up is sitting right there. Remember, all it is is a shock wave that pushes things away from the epicenter. Now some shock waves are bigger than others. But the fact of the matter is, it's still laying there to some specific degree. How closer is the epicenter? More just more blowed up and destroyed it usually is but the lion's share of whatever is there actually survives. Well, that's what's interesting to pull apart into molecular powder. Yeah, exactly. It's bent and there's little notches and dings and you know, some chunk of stuff hit it and there's a dent that keeps something from sliding back and forth, right? But you know, you'd be surprised how much stuff can be fixed. Spent back into shape. You know, maybe you have to do some ghetto engineering with a big old pot of epoxy and kind of stick things on, but you know, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish with a little ingenuity. That'll get you to the next battle and through it to you know, whatever the bad guys are carrying. That's exactly how to look Anyway, we are headed to our stop, BK, anything else jump in there please? Yeah, I want to remind people that Gun Parts Corp, Old Numbridge, still has the cases of 45 gas mask filters at $150. I keep checking these guys because I'm sure that at some point they're going to run out and we're not going to get any advance warning. They're just going to run low on these guys and then poop, one day it will not be available. That is the bargain of the century on general purpose gas mask filters. filters. They are 60 millimeter filters. These are the ones that use with the M61 fin. They're the same as a US M9 mask. You've got those masks stock up on the filters and you do want to get the adapters so that those masks can also use captured 40 millimeter filters. GunPods Corp also has the Canadian C3 masks which also use the M60 or the 60 millimeter filters. So if you've got some of the M61 masks and you're finding that they're becoming a little bit more scarce now, you don't necessarily have to go into a heterogeneous inventory of masks. You can say, oh, okay, I've got so many of these M61s and I've got a bunch of filters for them. I can just keep buying filters. If I need a few additional masks, I've got the Canadian C3s. So that is an option uses the same 60 millimeter filter. If you buy the 60 millimeter mask or already have some, you want the adapters that will let those masks use a 40 millimeter filter because the 40 millimeters are what you're going to find on a drop. The vendor that I know of that has the best price on these things, these are fairly scarce, but Maine Military still lists those as $500 for $9. It's a lot more expensive than they had a few years back. I got a big old sack of them a few years back. They still list five of these adapters for $9 and that is a definite go-to source for those and you definitely want to have at least one of those for every 60mm mask. It would be nice, but at least one and a couple of spares floating around if somebody drops or loses one. Some of those will be black plastic, some of them will be orange plastic. I don't think it matters very much because they tend to be completely occluded by the filter and the mask and so on, but if you don't like the color, you can just go to work on them with a Sharpie or something along those lines. So, five of those adapters for $9 at main military and the filters at a case of $45 for $150 plus a little bit of shipping is a dirt cheap bargain. Keep working those until they go away. We are very, very close to the top and I've been hearing a lot of things. Does anybody want in? Do we have any callers? Real quick and while we're waiting for a call if you want to jump in there just interrupt me before we get to the top I mentioned these Yugoslavian copies of the m9 which do look they're there they were made by Nokia They're an exact copy of the m9 guys the the the actually they're a copy that was made to Tempered environment specs as opposed to the finished models you've been buying which by the way are designed for cold weather operations something we should point out Yeah, there's some little differences in the nose filter or the nose valve or what have you, but it'll work anywhere. That was intentional because of the environment. Look outside guys, you're going to be in cold weather. It's not a problem. They will work in any other conditions, but guys, those M1 and M2 Yugoslavian masks are all gone. In the time since I mentioned them last year in November, they were gone. The first wave disappeared by the end of November. I've already called on these. Now they were wholesale. They were $9 apiece. They still had to get the shipping covered and everything, but they were $9 apiece. Now I know for a fact they received $12,000 in one order and they went out in two days. There are no more of those if you see them those are at the retail end at the wholesale end Everybody sold out of these all at the same time now there is a small number there at the retail end But they're already out of wholesale of the Norwegian military masks which came out But those take it now those take a 40 millimeter filter, and they look like the Israeli Civil Defense mask They are actually a variant on the Swiss military mask which has the filters straight in the front. It's a 40mm filter. They have the round eye socket but they are a modern mask just like the Israeli Civil Defense mask which is a German made mask. Almost guaranteed by looking at the specs and the detailed imagery that the mask was made in the same German factory. I doubt the Norwegians made it. I would be willing to bet they contracted it through the Germans. But most of those masks are already gone. However, the cool thing is that M1 and M2 Yugo, the M9 and the finish masks all interlock for filters and spare parts. So there's a lot of other parts. For instance, over-surts that go on the outside cover the lenses to give you a second layer of protection for the glass are out there. Remember the M9 equipment is out there in force because there weren't that many M9 masks really in circulation. Most of those have been destroyed. They were destroyed by government orders so that you wouldn't get them. And that's a fact. I've told you about this for years. Well, because of that, there's a lot of M9 support parts if you look around, and you can integrate those into your system so that you can upgrade your, in other words, maintain the system when the time comes. So don't be distracted by the idea that they are out, because they're going to start telling you the stuff they're drying up. We know that. But that's inevitable. It's a bathtub. There's only so much water in the bathtub. So, we work on the next inventory and move through that. They may not have the bass, but like BK said, Gun Parts Corp has got the filters for as long as they have them. You need to be buying them as you can. Make it part of your budget. And work together, just like these guys down the road do. That's the best way to make purchases. Volume purchases wherever you can. We're almost to the top. BK, anything else? Jump in there, please. No, the remaining topics I have in queue will take a lot more than the two minutes we've got. Very good. Again, for everybody out there, guys, remember, oh, first of all, a quick reminder again, some of you are just now heading out of work from work or from home to go to Camp Emmerich or Camp Emerson. Traffic control and the militia MP units that are there are going to be routing you and giving you a place to park for a reason, follow their instructions. Remember, tomorrow is going to be a very tight, over-scheduled day. They put more people on the ground than normally would, but people said they could do it. They wanted to do, they didn't care, so fine. What we've got to do is treat the site as a tack lane site. They're going to be synchronizing all the classes, the main classrooms, all the main buildings are full. Parking will be overbearing to say the least, but they've got snow buckets there. Our roads look better than the county roads up there right now, guys. Our trails and roads are better cleared. Our people do a better job. They're not government hacks, they're private people. So, the fact of the matter is, we're looking good. But, we've got a night orienteering operation tomorrow night at both sites, and they're quite extensive, and that is a safety issue that we always take seriously. Make sure you've got your cold weather gear, make sure you've got your spare gloves, spare mittens, socks, etc. Take everything with you. You can leave it in the barracks, you can leave it in the encampment, in the GP medium tents, etc. Okay? Better to have it than not need it, than need it and go, I'm going to be chipped out about boots. I don't want to hear about that. Also, don't get lost. We know how to use a compass. We don't use GPS. We know how to use a compass and a map. Get together, work as a team, get it right. BK, we are at the top. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on a march for day and night. Quartermaster Friday has come to an end for us, but it hasn't come to an end for you. We've got Hamfest coming up this weekend, gun shows. Don't forget the specials. Go to Royal Tiger Imports Rules, $80,000, $91,000. Thank you, BK. You're welcome.