February 21, 2014
Evening Show
1h 8m
Complete
Radio Episode
2014
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Mark Koernke hosted an evening broadcast on February 21, 2014, focusing on preparedness and surplus procurement. The show featured extensive discussion of military surplus inventory, including woodland camouflage elbow pads available through UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com at $3.50 per pair, ammunition pricing from BuyGunsAndAmmo.com and SG Ammo, gas masks and chemical protection filters from various wholesalers, and clothing deals from KeepShooting.com and other retailers. BK provided detailed market analysis on ammunition availability, mask inventory depletion, and reloading powder options. The broadcast emphasized preparedness, equipment standardization, and cost-effective sourcing of tactical gear.
- surplus equipment
- woodland camouflage
- ammunition pricing
- gas masks
- chemical filters
- military gear
- preparedness
- tactical equipment
- 223 ammunition
- x39 ammunition
- elbow pads
- molle gear
- reloading powder
- quartermaster friday
- militia
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Patient listener, not a problem. And remember, if you do want to call in, the phone number, just to be safe, is 713-403-20900. And that's, again, 712-4320900. And then the room number is 957-464-9. and the pound sign. So again for everybody out there 957-464 on the pound sign. Today is Quartermaster Friday. That means bullets and beans, basketballs and... Bibles, you name it, whatever it is that's out there. Well, beyond the beast, A through Z. We're going to be touching that hopefully tonight here a little bit. But for everybody that is listening, a real quick heads up right off the bat. This is a today only special. Now it doesn't mean it's the only buy that they have, but Uncle Sam's Retail Outlet. This is www.govliquidation.com. You have a retail outlet. It's UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com. That's the other page. www.UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com. They have a Bijon elbow pad set, woodland camel, medium. It's on sale today for $3.50 a set. Again, you go to UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com. and the DTID number is M2047032470001. There are 216 of these sets in stock. The code number is 4954. The product code number is 4954. The product code number is 4954. These are Bijan, that's gotta be Bijan, I don't think it's B-an. Or it could be Byan, who knows? B-i-j-a-n elbow pad set, that's B-i-j-a-n elbow pad set, comma, woodland camel, size medium. And the price is $3.50 a set. You'd be ordering these. You can use a credit card, whatever you want to. And they're $3.50 a set. They're on sale. This is the deal of the day price. Deal of the day price. $3.50 for a set of these. They're in excellent condition, supposed to be, if not brand new. 216 pairs, it's out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is where these are coming from, the depot there. They are new condition, brand new in the wrapper, never issued for $3.50 and they're Woodland Camo. Now this is Woodland Camo with the back black trim. You know, black nome now. And black echo. There we go, we got BK finally. Oh man, okay. That's interesting, okay. So, for everybody out there, again, this is at Gov Liquidation. We'll actually go to UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com. This is only good for today, guys. These are brand new in the wrapper, never issued. There are Oklahoma cities where they're located. You can order these with a credit card. They say they ship, usually ships within one to two business days. This is the retail outlet end of surplus. and you can buy this stuff direct. Now there's a lot of other woodland camo armor out there as I've pointed out including knee pads etc. so you can match the stuff up with this but when you see the elbow pads for 350 a pair these are military therefore our environment they're woodland camo. Okay that's a good choice. So, again, for all of you people out there, so we don't bump and boo-boo our, you know, bruise and boo-boo our elbows, this is a good idea since a lot of our people are older. But our younger people the same way, if we want to be able to fold and bend things later on when they get older, then it's a good idea to have this armor in place and ready to go. There's only 216 sets. They are brand new. It is the deal of the day. They do this every day. They have something that they put on sale. deal of the day price is $3.50. They have been listing them for $10 which they do. If you go through you can find all the rest of the stuff listed here. They may have some other items that are part of the deal of the day but this is through unclesamsretailoutlet.com. Well, what it is is there are lots. It's off a lot. This is a lot that what they've done is the PDO gets to pick a certain number of things that he has to offer from the retail end. It used to be they had to have what was called a semi, well actually every six months they had to have one retail sale at every facility, all the PDOs. No matter where it was in the country, one time a year you would actually put a price tag on something Set a date and you open up the doors and everybody runs in and fights over the stuff and clears it out in a few minutes that was just part of old government regulations and What they've done is they've taken there you've got the auction site which is gov liquidation comm and then you've got this retail division Which by the way when you go to that site remember, there's a sales section. There's the regular there's like well, there's home There's new arrivals. There's all the subcategories on the left, but there's also sales and there's clearance and And for what they are, again, this is on Oklahoma City. Sometimes these are out of lock burn. I mean, the body armor shows up in certain places, especially the elbow pads, mostly in Ohio and in Oklahoma, for whatever reason. Sometimes over there in misery and otherwise on our side of the water, Pennsylvania, Mechanicsburg, as a matter of fact. So this is a pretty good buy. For anybody out there who's older, if you've gotten it, especially if you're standardized on woodland equipment, This is a good choice. It's a great price. You can't buy these even for just doing rollerblading, guys. These are American made. They're not cheapies. And again, they're $3.50 a pair. Whatever the shipping is, I don't know. I think you get that when you do the cart. If you do that, you say it's got a regular shopping cart like any place else. So again, keep that in mind, too. But that is through UncleSam'sRetailOutlet.com. Also, as a matter of fact, there are some other items that are in the sales section. Remember too that they do complete photographic portfolios. You don't have to guess what you're getting. They do complete photo essays for all of the products. So if you're going to buy it from the retail end, the same pictures they use for their auction side they use for these. So it's very detailed. Another thing that they have in the clearance and sales section are tools. Now a lot of the tools are more expensive but still reasonably priced to include SK and all the name brands. But right now there are a couple of items that are down on the cheap end of the clearance. They list them by price. So you might want to take a look at the tools there and see if there is something that makes sense for all you people that are wrench twisters because you can't beat it. In fact, whatever brand is your flavor choice, they have it. I don't know why but all of the same tool went out at the same time and it's not a recall because of a certain brand. All of them went out at the same time. KD, SK, Craftsman, it's every brand you can imagine. So you want to take a look to see what they have. And the price is very reasonable, especially if you know what SK tools go for guys. So, then the rest are all comparable brands, so I would say comparable price for you to go shop with them. Again, it's not always the case. You never know what you're going to run into with these government sales, but this is a deal of the day special. I figure I'd mention it right away, BK, because today is the only day you can order at this price, then it switches back over to whatever it's been. They do have comparable items. listed down below if you scroll down and they've got three colored desert elbow pads for $5.44. They've got Bijan Coyote elbow pads in the desert brown, the coyote, for $4.50. So you're saving about a dollar. The only other one that I see, it's a really good price. Actually, they've got Alta Industries ACU. If you're into ACU, $2.53 a pair for the elbow pads. It's the cheapest of the bunch there. It's in the ACU though, that's the only thing you understand. But purely a matter of, like I said, if you go through the inventory with all the stuff coming out in the surplus, if you wanted to go three-colored desert, you could buy brand new or almost brand new and as high a quality as you could possibly want, but you just go to all the clearance sections and buy part of it here, part of it there, etc. ACU is the same way and Coyote Brown is the same way. For that matter, Woodland Camel. A lot of Woodland stuff coming out right now. If you're looking for pieces and parts and you take your time, you could come up with a brand new Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit with all the latest gigs, whistles, dits and dots and dashes and all the add-ons. You're not talking top dollar, you're talking bargain basement. Be patient there, but look around. Anyway, DK, what else you got for us? Well, we have a few odds and ends, but this is a slow week from my point of view. Now, maybe I'm just missing stuff, but it seems like there isn't a whole lot of really interesting things out there in the supply channel this week. There are a few things that I will remind people from from the last couple of weeks. One of them, a site called BuyGunsAndAmmo.com. This is the outfit I reminded everybody of. They are carrying a 223 and a 62 grain variant at roughly 35 cents a round if you buy it in case quantity of 1500 rounds. This is new production brass case, boxer prime, non-corrosive, all that kind of good stuff. It is Romanian manufacturer, which means that it doesn't have a big footprint and a lot of name recognition and all that kind of good stuff. That strikes me as most likely an excellent opportunity to strike before everybody decides that this is a perfectly adequate manufacturer. There's always the slight risk that there's something wrong though, but I really doubt that there is. There is another one, I don't know if you've mentioned this previously, SGMO is currently offering a case of a thousand rounds of X39 at 210. Now, this one has an interesting story. They say, supposedly it is plain white boxed, but the head stamps are wolf and that there are some sort of bickering and nonsense over trademarks and therefore this stuff was tied up and sitting on a dot for a long time and now it is released and therefore has hit the market in a big lump. So I'm assuming that there statements are truthful and if that's the case then this is a again an opportunity to strike while the iron is hot that we cannot routinely expect this to just be on the shelf and are waiting for our pleasure when we get around to buying stuff. So that is two opportunities at a reasonable price for new fresh stuff. X39 Wolf at $210 per thousand and $260, or rather, 62 grain variant, you know, NATO specs, brass, all that kind of good stuff. At $0.35 around $0.36 and a half, if you buy it in units of $100, $0.35 around $1,500 per case. from the X39 is an SG ammo and the 223 is at BuyGunsAndAmmo.com. So, comments there. Very good. Again, plain Jane Box, but Wolf ammo stamped, correct? Right. They say that's the head stamp on the ammo and that there was some sort of thickering over the trademarks and so on. Probably, that's not like we've been talking about back during this window where they were retarding the ammunition and they still are. It just may have been a combo fight because of probably what they claimed it to be. Remember, they're going to grab and snag them and hang them up on any technicality that they can. So what do you want to bet that the manifest said one thing and the packaging said another? Well, it may have been the feds bickering with them. It may have been a buyer. Yeah, more likely the feds because a buyer wants to get on with it and move the product. Could have been a lot of ammo supply contracted something from Wolf and they got all upset that there were Wolf head stamps on the brass or something, but there's a steel case, of course. So, there's no telling exactly what's going on. I would give 80% odds that the feds caused the problems. So again, in the long run we may get a major benefit out of this at least and the price is reasonable and they've got a good chunk of the product there, right? Yeah, for however long this particular lump and shipment last because they're not saying that this is an ongoing stream, they're saying this big batch was held up for a long time, now it's hit the market, here it is. So that looks to me like a short term, one time opportunity. Again, go ahead and give out the website on that a couple more times for everybody. Is there an ID code number for that? I'm sure there is. I don't know what it is. sgmo.com, we're familiar with them. sgmo.com, that's SierraGolf.com is the vendor on this X39. and the 223 Romanian is from BuyGunsAndAmmo.com at $0.35 around, that's cheaper than the Wally Price and that is the 62 grain which is what most of your modern AR barrels are designed for. People think, oh wow, you know, I'm going to have the high-cost barrels and you know, blah blah and so on and for the good old 55 grain through because that's what the Vietnam rifles were designed for. Well, The Stoner design had a 1 in 14 twist intended to operate with the 55 grains, not a 1 in 12, not a 1 in 10, not a 1 in 9, which is very common. There's even some 1 in 7s, so on and so forth. You can put either of those bullet weights through the modern rifles that are generally either 1 in 9 or 1 in 12. But the 62 grain is really what the 1 and 9 is the faster twist rifles are designed for. So, you know, do what you want. But my advice is that 62 grain is what your modern barrel is generally designed for. And this is the good stuff. It's generally not what you would find in, you know, sale offerings. So... I think this is a very good option. Buygunsandammo.com for the .223 and sgammo.com for the X-39. Excellent. And again, for everybody out there, if you're going to be doing a stack-it-and-rack-it, because if you're going to standardize on a load, and that's going to be, for instance, in your bolt guns, Nice to have consistency. You may commit a certain, let's say you have an odd amount of ammunition, zero it and then commit that ammunition to that particular weapon system if it's the odd man out. As we've been collecting 223, a lot of people have been biting from whatever inventory they can until it runs out and they want to go back and get more and it's gone, so you've had to switch to something else. Remember that you can prioritize if you have a collection of weapons like that. Take a particular batch if you have your smaller lot you decide which one to commit to each of the rifles. And if you have one of the bolt guns in .223, best to take the odd man out and commit it to that. Anything else that's a standard grade that you have more of then commit that to your light rifles that are semi-auto. That way you have greater consistency across the board from one ammunition change to the next. depending on what you've got in the ammo cans. Go ahead, BK. Okay. I will also remind people that we are running low on options with regards to chemical protection. And at the risk of sending like a book and record, I will remind them once again that we still have access to those cases of 45-60 millimeter filters from Numbrich. That is Gunpartscorp.com. $150 plus a little bit of shipping will get you a plywood case with 45 of those filters in there. When you add the shipping and do the division, you're basically paying about $4 apiece for those filters. And I would challenge anybody to come up with $4 apiece for any style of filter at this point. And you'll really start around double that and go up rapidly from there if you go looking. So that is a source that should not be overlooked and needs to be exploited. We're not going to get a lot of warning when Nirmritsch gets down to the bottom of the warehouse on this one. They will simply have them one day and they will not have them another day. If you have the fin masks, vast numbers of the fin masks were sold. And that's a lot of people buy a mask and they have one filter that came with a mask. Or maybe they figure, oh, okay, I'll be really deep in my preparations. I'll have two filters for the mask. Well, You use one of those filters on spec, meaning you screw in the filter and start using it thinking that there might be a problem in your air. Maybe it will last quite a while because there isn't a lot of crud in the air. You're just picking up a little bit of dust and very, very slowly loading the filter. You encounter an environment where there is crud in the air. The filter plugs up in half an hour or an hour or an hour and a half. You swap over to your number two filter and now what? You're out! Guys, one or two filters is not going to cut it. You may find yourself raiding the other masks that you've got in inventory for their spare filters, and then what's the point of those other masks? Pretty soon you've got a pile of masks with no filters. So it does not make any sense to follow the pattern that so many people do. They put all their pennies into a rifle and they buy three boxes of 20 rounds of ammunition and figure they're all set. They buy a whole kit of reloading press and scales and dies and all this stuff and they get five pounds of powder on hand. It's like buying a whole kitchen and you've got two cans of tuna on the shelf. It simply does not make a lot of sense. And people are doing the same thing I think with the masks and filters and we should not do that. We ought to be smarter than that. If money were no object, I would say have 10 filters for every mask. I don't think most people can do that. It's, you know, even at $4 a piece, which is a bargain, that sort of adds up pretty fast. But if you've got 10 masks on hand, one case of these only deepens your supplies by four and a half filters per mask. So you do not need to have an enormous inventory of mass before it is worthwhile to grab a case or two or three of these filters and put that away. You are not going to be getting second pass at these once the NUMRICH is out. That's pretty much everybody. I think everybody's been going to NUMRICH for their wholesale supplies. And we've seen what's going on with the one-off retailers. They are basically out of these. Numerage also has the Canadian C3 masks, so if you have some 60 millimeter masks and some filters and you're thinking, wow, maybe I ought to broaden my inventory a little bit, you can go with the series and they're going to use the same 60 millimeter masks and the same 60 millimeter adapters. Main military is the source that you want to look to for the adapter rings. They are offering five of the adapter rings. They are assorted orange and black. If you don't like the orange ones, you can go at them with a Sharpie or Magic marker. or give them a little puff of paint or whatever the case may be. Make them darker if you like. But five of those for $9 is a bargain, which offers them at $11 apiece. And I've seen lots of other places offering them at $10 and $11 and $12 apiece. So five for $9 is an excellent price. Grab those from Maine Military, match them up with the filters and the masks, and you've got a kit. If you have the adapters, then you can use the 40 millimeter filters if and when those fall into your hands. The 60 millimeters you have will not be useful to an enemy. That may be a benefit actually. Not one that we talk about very much, but it may be a benefit. In any event, the fin masks are a perfectly competent design. The Canadian C3 mass work just fine. The laws of physics have not changed since those things were designed and fielded as front line equipment. Grab those, get them stocked away because they are not making any more, at least not for us. Comments? Another inventory I was looking at has completely run out of all of their masks on the wholesale end. I actually went to the page today figuring that we could at least probably order a number of the Russian masks, but they've sold out completely of those, so they have no gas masks available. That's one of the wholesalers that I've been dealing with for a long time. I still have to get back with the one in Georgia. They didn't get back to me today, so I assume that I'll hear from them Monday or I'll talk to them Monday. We'll get an overview. We'll have an even better or clearer picture of the general supply problem. The speed is a bit different. The numbers have a couple of the Russian masks at $3.50 a piece, but just a couple of sizes. They have the Draeger M65s. How much are they asking for the Draeger? About $24, $25, and it comes in the hard case. That's not a bad mask. It's a little more expensive than the than the fin mass when we had access to them. But at $24-25 a piece with a hard carry case and wind filter, that's not a bad option. And they're also OD green, they should be. Yeah, they're OD green and they are twin lens style. Some years ago I got some of the Draeger single lenses from Numbrich, but those are out of long gone from them. But they do have the M65 twin lens on hand still. Very good. And again, all of these, a lot of the different parts such as the, for instance, with the Drakers and several of the other NATO masks, the over or the outserts that go on the M17 or some of the newer masks actually fit on the Draker and several of the other that have the triangular but with a rounded edge. They're a triangular type lens. That gives you an extra shield. Plus, you can make an M17 hood work. I'll bet you're still going to have those two cap holes on either side, but you can make that work with the dragger or you can use one of the earlier US military hoods. There's a number of different models that were out there from the 60s and 70s. The masks are no longer in service, but the accoutrements are out there. And remember, just take a look at the fixtures. Now, little point, if you want to use an M17 hood on this equipment, just remember, take Mr. Duck tape and cover up those two holes. One piece for each side is sufficient, but what that does is seals up the hood the rest of the way and it offers additional protection. So it improvises adapt and overcome and Mr. Duct Tape is your friend. Try to use tactical colors obviously. You even get camouflage in duct tape now, but I wouldn't worry about that OD Green or Brown or Earth Brown is fine. The other thing about this too is the retail end or the industrial retail end or semi-retail is where the masks are. So, whatever we're going to find, and like you said, if they have the Russian possum mask, in fact, to be honest, as quick as they came in, they were gone. I've been expecting this. A number of Polish copies or variants on the Russian possum mask came in, but they were a different eyepiece configuration. The thing is, they lasted a day. As soon as they showed up with the wholesaler, they were gone the same day. And I understand that he had about 2,000 masks. He had them come in all at once. It takes time to process them through. They were not finished with processing until sometime I believe Tuesday. I called Wednesday and he said they were already gone. In other words, if people had found out they were there while they were processing them, they made the orders. So expect to see what is a gray, the gray Euro, Eastern Euro mask rubber. The eyebrow or the forehead has more of a Neanderthal type of step to it. It has a smaller eyelet than the standard round, larger Russian possum type. It doesn't have the tiny mouse size like you see in the earlier masks. There are two versions you'll see in the Russian. Both are good. I've got hundreds of those masks. The Polish ones are as well made, but they are a unique design, a little different. They take the 40mm filter though. If they come out, they'll probably be for a reasonable price, but they went as quick as they showed up. By what they're saying, they won't get any more of them. At least not that they can see on the horizon. They've been pretty good about telling us about this. At least giving us a heads up, because they know that we buy a lot of masks. The Polish ones will be on the horizon. The other thing is there are some of the Swiss out there still, not at the wholesale end. They just sold out at the wholesale end, but they are out there at the retail end. The Swiss masks are a fine mask also. There's nothing wrong with those. A lot of people ask me, the Swiss make everything top end. If you told me I had to take it, you wouldn't be telling me I had to do anything. I'd be more than happy to take any Swiss equipment. The only other thing, there are a small number of M10s coming in this week. They are probably going to be here Monday or Tuesday as far as in the system. So that is the only wholesale mask that we've seen that's come back into inventory a little bit, or will be in theory. Now I don't know for sure, again, if the stuff is moving as quickly as it is. First of all, it's not like there's 100,000 pieces coming in. It's like 2,000 of this, 4,000 of that. 9,000 was the big lot on the Swiss masks, and the Swiss masks only lasted a week. from the wholesaler end as soon as they had them took about from Monday through Friday and they were gone and that's been a month ago now by the way so that's that that was yeah I imagine that's all retailers buying a thousand of these 500 of those you know yeah exactly it's gone well plus plus remember sportsman's guide guys go to sportsman's guide everything you see that we're talking about is there and these big box companies they have the purchasing power to walk in and buy them in that block They will do that. They will go in and say those are ours. That's all she wrote. When that's done, then you're having to go to the next tier. That's where you have to go to get them. Don't be surprised there either. That would be another idea, by the way. Thank you for bringing this subject up. Sportsman's Guide has clear ins and close outs too. They've bought a lot of stuff. In the past, they were able to send it back to the wholesalers. Guys, there has been a policy change. They're not allowed to send the stuff back anymore. If they take it and accept it, they're not going to give them any special credit for the ones they don't sell. So the good thing is that if they, based on their computer graphics, their computer demographics for the amount of time they should hold the inventory, because that's what everybody's doing now, which is stupid, but because they're doing that, they're dumping more stuff into the sales section. In the past, I used to buy sportsman's guide leftovers. What they would do is send the stuff back to the wholesalers. Then the wholesalers would end up with bins of this stuff. We would go down and make a deal on it. In fact, a lot of you guys bought stuff that when you got it from us, we offered it. It had a sportsman's guide wrapper. It had a sportsman's guide insert the whole nine yards because it was from sportsman's guide. But, it was returned and they gave them a credit. They don't do that now. So, that's changed with regard to the industry because they don't want to have to double handle anything. Wholesalers are wholesalers. Buyer, not buyer beware, but buyer it's yours. Congratulations, don't come back on me. It's not as if people are having a hard time moving this stuff. They're always out of it anyway. Exactly. And not only that, remember this is something I'd laugh at. When we direct you towards things, remember if we're talking surplus, most of this stuff is surplus except for like the new, you know, like the knee pads and the elbow pads. That's all been the last six, eight years they built this stuff, guys. If it's Woodland cattle, it could be up to 10, 12 years old. But Woodland was being built still in contract because we also have foreign countries and foreign armies we support and we were buying stuff for them even though we ended up issuing it to our own troops because the system is so screwed up always. Well, the thing is that there's a lot of material that is out there that is, as we pointed out, it's 20 or 30 years older and it wasn't made in Bratislava and it's not made in Taiwan, it's not made in China. You know, the Norwegians don't do that. The Swedes don't do that. When you get sweetie surplus or Swiss surplus you're getting stuff built to the best quality and standards by upper paid professionals that do the job even though it's their version in that country of a sweatshop. Well, they don't have the exact same problem with traders at the top that we do. We're certainly the focus of the vampires at this point and shutting down our industry is their top priority. I'm not sure that the Europeans would put up with that nonsense. They certainly play games and they dance around with the vampires on a larger scale, but there are limits to what they'll accept them doing to them at the lower levels. The whole trend of poisoning our supply chain has gotten a lot farther with us than it has with any of the others, in my perception at least. Exactly, that's the whole point. Again, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, if you're looking at Swedish surplus, the stuff is from typically the 80s to the early 90s, if it's OD green. The same with the Norwegian equipment and the Swiss stuff, which is Alpine Flage, is from the late 70s, but mostly the early 80s to the middle 80s. That stuff was built to last. In fact, it was designed to be issued out in a multi-generational fashion. Well, we're benefiting from that for the time being. It gives us the ability to buy better quality. And again, if we keep picking through this, like I've been talking about guys, we do it for a better price. We keep the cost down. That's really what I'm more concerned with because the more we can keep the cost down in one direction, the more money you have to outfit equipment and put material in hands of more people. That's the reason we've been doing things the way we have. I can't stress enough that if it's China Sport, I'll tell you it's China Sport. We had this week. In fact, I'll bring this up right now again. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. KeepShooting.com. If you go over into their military clothing and gear section, they have, I'm sure they're, I think they're Rothko is what I think they are. I was looking at them and I looked at Rothko's catalog and I saw the same picture. Even though I couldn't get the pricing for them because they're discontinued for the time being, they're restocking. So they're out of stock on these. Well, KeepShooting.com got the extra-large and extra-extra-large woodland camo. They have a hoodie for a top and a sweater for a top. They have a standard sweatsuit bottom but they are in Woodland camouflage. They are an extra large for $19.95 a set. You really can't beat for what that is. So, again, it's probably a Rothko product. Pretty sure it looks to be. Rothko buys from overseas. Rothko has their own sweatshops in the US. And they also have them in the Caribbean. So I don't know where it was made, and I'm not really worried about that. But these are in big sizes. Makes for a good item to put into your kit as a second uniform or a piece of clothing. So if you get wet or if you needed something to go over everything fast to camouflage your body out, Well, it's $20 and you're done. Again, it's brand new. These are not used. I don't have a problem with used. We were selective on that when we looked at stuff. But these are brand new. If you like sweats, which a lot of guys in the morning brought this up, I don't like long johns. The reason most people don't like modern long johns is where they got the idea for sweatshirts and sweatpants is from the way we used to make long johns. See, the new long johns are a very different pattern and design. And for all of you who bought some of the stuff I have that's the Swedish long johns from World War II and pre-World War II, everybody goes, oh my goodness, these are soft. I said, yes, they're just like jogging suits, like the sweatsuits, but higher quality still. Well, the whole point is that if you had long johns that were made the way they were supposed to be made, everybody would be more satisfied with the product. But as it is, it's a mix. If you were raised with the newer ones, that's what you know. If you're looking for sweatshirts and sweatpants and you're looking for a reasonable price, and you need big sizes, these are in 1X and 2X. So they definitely can handle big people. Also again, they're spacious. If you are a 1x, you might like the 2x just to have a little more room underneath for putting stuff for layers on. Depending on the agenda, how you're thinking about using the gear. So there again, keepshooting.com, keepshooting.com. You'll find it in their surplus clothing section. They have, again, the Woodland camouflage top and bottom in a sweatshirt set. The top is a hoodie. It has knit cuffs, as the legs are knit cuffed also. So they're very well made, looks to be a decent product. I talked to the guys there and said, oh yeah, they're good. They got a pile of them and they probably got them for $4 a set. Maybe three, because Rothko, when they sell off the big sizes and the small sizes on the end of a run because they want to restock guys, from their wholesale end they'll give you phenomenal prices if you'll take them all. I've done that myself so I know what they did. Again, it's big sizes. The other thing I would point out, and I don't know why except that a panel, for whatever reason it's in the surplus cycle, there are some phenomenally great prices for big sizes right now. Now don't assume you're always going to be there because I'm going to tell you typically when you get to the end of surplus items, extra, extra small, extra small and medium and maybe some smalls. Well actually all the small sizes and maybe some mediums are it. Right now up to 3x seems to be available in a good number of patterns and types and cuts. The traditional thing is that you can equip the 12 year olds just fine and the adults are incredible. Yeah, exactly. Which I did. All my munchkins grew up with brand new US military equipment for pennies guys, or foreign equipment. In fact, they look better than the average soldier in the field, but it was durable clothing and looked good and I could get it in colors. Air Force, Navy, Army, so nobody knew the difference. Anyway, BK, go ahead. You've got more. Please jump in there. Go ahead. retail outlet. When you get to the retail outlet, it's item number 4954. It's the Bijan, that's B-I-J-A-N, elbow pad set, woodland camo, size medium. They're brand new in the package, never issued. And they're $3.50 a set. It's the deal of the day. They will only be that price for today. Now they have other things on sale so you want to scroll through their sales and through their clearance section because there's other stuff they have. Thank you. I did not get the complete web address before written down. Very good. Okay and again for everybody out there that's www.UncleSams.com. retail outlet dot com that's uncle sam's retail outlet dot com you can use a credit card has a regular shopping cart site guys just like any other website and basically what they say is as long as it goes to the computer system gets to them i'm sure the next business day they pack it and wrap it and it's gone but the price is very reasonable i would get a couple sets because the shipping is going to be the same no matter what i mean for about three four sets at least And so since you're going to pay the shipping, I would grab a couple sets at least for even myself. Which is as soon as Nancy gets home, that's what we're going to do. Maybe 10 sets and sell the extras. Which you can do, yes. Yeah? For $350 a pair, you can just sell them for a lot more than that. Well, you know, the thing about it is that they are useful for a lot of other work. But boy, I hate tearing up some nice woodland camo ones. I'd buy some of those ACU ones that are used and tear them up. Only because, again, the Woodland stuff is going to be, if you can match up and make a really good combat kit, all in Woodland right now if you look around in all of the clearance sections. There's a lot of stuff, not just there, but all the other stores we're talking about. Thank you Mark. You're welcome. For everybody out there, Molly Gear right now in Woodland, between Maine Military KeepShooting.com has the Woodland Camo, MOLLE, it's the French CCE, but it's the Woodland Camo double pocket grenade pouches. Seven of those, seven double pocket sets plus a German combat belt for $5. It's over in the clearance section. And if you're patient and you go through all of these sections, you got brand new Woodland gear, you look better than the average soldier because at least all your equipment would match. and you don't have to pay top dollar just go from place to place to place the other parts with dimensions and those approaches no actually you know what i've uh... the guys got him and i was just down there and i was going all you know what i have a pile of stuff here's post go to them and we went down and i i when we visited i could have i should have had a pull them out but somebody just took off and went down the road and we got into something else talking about guns because somebody wanted to start trying to find again like i said guys i want to put the word out again we're looking for the cheapest 40 caliber Glocks, you know Model 22s police have hand-me-downs are what we're looking for best price in the country on those But I will get the specs on those because we're gonna experiment They're gonna try different mags and you know get the complete picture on those These are yeah because they help us to have an idea what all you can stuff in there, you know Well, the size of a standard US baseball or lemon grenade, so figure the dimension In fact, you know what, they've got them right here. Hold on a second. Let's see if we can not the, they don't have, they have the single pocket US right here. Just saw an ad for them. And if they have it, we can get the spec off that. Here we go. Here's a MOLLE multi-purpose pouch, which is typically the grenade pouch. And let's see if they give us a size. and they do not okay well it is everything else but the spec on the size so we look around everybody's first to know what that is because you know every household in america has pictures of grenades lying around and i hear it all absolutely the other the other thing about it is like i said for the grande eclipse for all the grenade pockets would be the one to use for making uh... in one grande e clip or in one car being uh... pockets for What I would do is create a cardboard or plastic cardboard insert and that way I could nest so many carbine mags. Remember it's about the length of a 15 round carbine mag, about the height. And the d-clips, I might have to put a spacer in the bottom, but I'd also cut it so that my little fingers could get around each of the d-clips. And I could make that work really well. I think everybody else just being a little creative. Look at how government Uncle Samuel does some of their stuff and then mimic it and we'd be in pretty good shape. There might be other combinations of things that you can get in there. For instance, you might be able to get little sandwich bags with stripper clips in or something of that sort. There will be different other things. Oh, you don't get those all day. Yeah. The big thing is again, and there are some other, for instance, again, I'm not excited about ACU. But if we seriously got into supporting the guys on the border again and everybody started pointing themselves in the same direction, the ACU camouflage, I've seen the terrain works really well. The ACU works down in the border in New Mexico and Arizona. In fact, it is a Predator uniform down there. It disappears. So it does have a niche. It was not the universal camo they pulled out of their arse as far as an idea. It was wrong. Because up here it's a shoot me uniform. When you're in the green with this uniform, it's like what are all those ghosts? Because you're going to turn them into ghosts. But it's weird. That's what they look like to me. It's like Casper with an outline. So the ACU, it might be good for snow camo. I mean, if you mix snow white with the ACU underneath, like use a camel veil and a camel poncho, it would probably be cool because if the ACU peeked out, it'd have the color shading and ranges of the snow. You know, and the dirty background with fence line, tree line, brush. So it wouldn't be bad that way. But again, there's a ton of the ACU stuff coming out and you can put a whole unit in ACU together and they'd look better in the US Army because most of the Army units don't have matching gear, guys. If you were just patient, you could put together a unit that would be strapped and they would be well equipped and they'd be well prepared. Don't say the equipment isn't well made because your tax dollars paid for the junk. It's whatever they're using we're using. So when they try to talk you down, just laugh at them. You know what I mean? Well, that's just woodland camel. Yeah, yeah, made by the same company that's whatever the latest involved camel is. The company made this is the company that made that. So what's the difference? I have to laugh at that. It's like, well, it's just not the latest. You know, I was thinking about this the other day. You're going to see me mostly in Vietnam era equipment because I like the TA-56 gear. Now, you know what? I've got a complete museum that I'm carrying because I carry World War, I've got a couple of World War I pouches on there. I've got Vietnam era M14 gear. I've got US modern M16 Alice. I've even got some Molly junk I added on because I like one or two of the pouches. I engineered the rig for my needs because I'm not having to satisfy some supply sergeant. Well, besides which, even if the match is not perfect, if you go belly down in the bushes and you hold still, you're going to be hard to spot. Exactly. And not only that, does it work for us? You see, that's the big thing. I'm not worried about trying to make somebody else feel good about how I fight. I'm trying to kill them. Always remember that you have that other fool on the other side It's where you and then the people are well you don't have blah blah blah It's like I'll tell you what boom there. We go. I'll bet you I killed him just as dead as you did Congratulations, and by the way I'm gonna walk up and look at his body the same way I'm gonna peel his gun from his warm dead hands, and I'm gonna go you know BK that one pouch there looks like it really would work for that went pair of wire cutters I'll take that pouch. I don't need the rest of the junk, but I'll take that pouch See how that works and I'll leave the rest for you guys. Anybody wants a rest, pick off the body, you know, take you strip them all anyway, but you know, if there's something that looks useful, I'll adapt it. And that's how we need it. You have nothing behind even if a lot of it goes in the miscellaneous sack. Oh yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, that's my point, but I'm just saying, if I'm picking out, if I just harvested the black uniform knuckle dragging moose, guys, I'm going to take off him what I like and I'll make it work for me because I don't have to worry about some table of authorized equipment because that's really the biggest problem that most people don't understand is that the way the system is set up, you've got these control freaks. And a fighting unit doesn't have to look pretty. A fighting unit simply has to be efficient. In fact, by tailoring and engineering to our needs, it's like I said, my arms are different from BK's arms. Each of us is a different age. All of us have different capabilities or might have a handicap. So we need to engineer the stuff that will make us more effective in the field, which is how we should be thinking. See, that's why I like these elbow pads. I'm not excited about them. And I'm going to tell you, if you guys show up, I have been collecting elbow and knee pads for decades, guys. I have barrels full because we have Ann Arbor with more money than brains. Do you know how many people buy roller blade armor in black and then throw it away every year? I mean brand new. I go to the church sales and I get 20 pairs of top and bottoms like that for free at the end of the sale because nobody takes all of them. The kid got tired of them or decided that he didn't like getting banged up or whatever the case was and the next guy he bought knew for his kid. Exactly. So what it is is there are piles of this stuff. Even if there is just one there, you know what, if I'm patient I'll find two or three more of the same and I can match them up and I've done that over and over again. Now that's an addition to all the others. Go ahead, color. Jump in there. Let's just break in as your friend. Exactly. Yeah. If I want to make it a different color or if I want to break it up anyway, I take some OD green and some lighter brown and ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch I have a squiggle pattern to break up the design. It will work just fine for our purposes. Besides it's going to get beat up anyway. What are they? Elbow and knee pads. They're going to look pretty in the bag, but they're not going to last long as far as looking pretty in the field if they do their job. Right guys? I'm wearing them for a reason. It's great that you can buy these brand new. That's what I'm saying. For $350 a pair brand new, you can't beat them. Your tax dollars paid for them and for a change we benefit from it. That's a good thing. I like that. Anyway, BK, jump in there. We're almost to the top, sir. Yeah, one last thing, powdervalleyink.com, they have the Vita Vuri N133 powder in 8 pounds at 196.50 for 8 pounds. That is the ideal choice in their product line for 223. That is the N133 Vita Vuri at 196.50 for 8 pounds. More expensive than we were used to back in the day, but this is no longer back in the day. They also have the 135 which is a wee bit slower but only in the 1 pounds of $30.35. The 135 is a little bit better choice for 308. The 133 will reach up to 308 but it's not optimal for that. The 135, I would characterize that as 30-30 up to 308, maybe a wee bit heavier than that. They've also got the 1 pounds of N150, that's pretty slow. very slow stuff. The 133 at 8 pounds, 196.50, that is nice, clean, high quality powder. It's more expensive than we would prefer, but we don't get our drawers on a lot of these things. They actually have it in stock. That's a big plus plus. So that is powdervalleyinc.com. Here's the V to V 1, 3, 3, 8 pounds in stock right now, and we are out of time. Very good. For everybody out there, guys, remember, organize, arm equip, and train as militia. We are at the end of the week for the Intel Report. I want to say thank you to everybody for pitching in and helping with the micro effect. This is a critical project. You know, Joe has had a lot of pressure on him from all directions. Then, wife went into the hospital. I mean, guys, think about it. He's out there in a remote location and at the top of a mountain. He has done well but it takes all of us pitching in to keep him upright and keep him on the path there so to speak. He needs help. He needs a little extra energy here and there. In fact, we need to get him away from that so he can take the family and do a few things with them. Most people don't even think about that. Right now, all we're thinking about is cracking the whip and keeping him on the radio. Do what you can, help out whatever way you can. 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