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Look at that You know exactly but that's my point if we all do our different parts some people do the YouTube some people do the clear channel Some people do the fill in the blank and then we can all pull the people into our camp and point out the hot pot of what the clear channels are doing and then we can get them to hear our message without hitting them over the head and trying to demean them and trying to make them feel insignificant and just point out that well I just find it odd that you want to sit here and talk about hip-hop and conspiracy theorists but it seems to be that you guys are all full into this conspiracy theorists about 19 guys in a cave in Afghanistan to the fire. stuff to the fan, but it is supposed to be for people to call up here with ideas and whatnot, and I've got to thank Arizona for doing that. That is a subject that I've been passionate about and getting other people stepping up to do it. So thank you. 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Dill the land of the free and good evening once again ladies and gentlemen, I'm Mark R. Key and butter knife and you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com and PBN.4MG.com along with Indian Freedom Talk Radio.com. We're on AM and FM Microstations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Hallmark Network, Top of Maine, Bottom of Florida, Bottom of Florida, Coast Guard, Oakley, Olde, Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big John, Nebraska, A whole bunch of Wyoming to include both 3rd, 5th, Pitt and the 11 Sisters Colorado. Also our friends out there in the left coast to include the great state of Jefferson. Turning back to the east we sweep across the plains, land in the Mississippi, oh across the Mississippi in the Smokies with the restaurant crews and grammar teams. OK teams in the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium bring us a golden spike. BK what's the date today sir? It is 6 June 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the Intelligence Report. And that makes us Quartermasters Corner. And I think that Ed has just recently returned to a normal environment and is still settling into the groove. So we'll just give him a little hard time over that and proceed forward. This has been an interesting week for BK. I can't say it's been a terribly pleasant one. We've had nice weather except for when horrendous downpour once. But I had a new experience this week. Apparently some treasure snake in the neighborhood decided to drop a dime on old BK and I got a two page love letter from a local government official saying, we have received an anonymous complaint blah blah blah. And the short form is that The letter contains all sorts of copy and pastes of local ordinances full of lawyer blah blah about nuisances and causing hurts and dangers to the community and yappity yap and so on and so forth. You would think that old BK had been scattering bear traps and caltrops in the street out front. Turns out there's some object that some nutball disliked seeing in my driveway offended his delicate sensibilities he's sick of city government on me. They sent some guy around to slither around my yard and by the time they were done he'd come up with a whole list of things that I got to do at their behest with a whole series of threats and time limits and so on and so forth. So that's what I spent most of the last week doing, is dancing around accommodating the commissar of tidiness in my local area. I think I've accommodated that so and so and exchanged some messages back and forth. The final missive was very revealing. It gave me a whole series of unsolicited advice, listing little bits and pieces of maintenance that I ought to be doing on the house. These are truthful statements. none of his flipping business in my opinion certainly don't constitute a hazard to anybody else. And some of those comments suggest that in fact this snake has been slithering around in the backyard, which is nowhere near the original complaint. You have to go a long way around to do it, so on and so forth. And where do these guys get off doing this stuff? So you can imagine that I am less than pleased with the general state of affairs, of local political structure and all that kind of good stuff. This is, in the larger scheme of things, a trivial event. This is a tiny scraping of a fraction of a thousandth of what the KGB did or the Stasi did or the Gestapo or the Khmer Rouge or any of these guys. But you know what? It is the same stuff. It's just a little bit less of it. It's a whiff of sewage instead of a bucket full of it. And I'll tell you what, I don't like that little whiff. If you have comments, I mean this whole anonymous denunciation thing and, ah man. It's one of the things needs to be done away with. This is what we've talked about for years. Who is this Inani Mouse? Well, one of the things about the feds, they've done this for years, they have their little trash canks, they'll go out and they work in teams, and one will go out to a pay phone and call who it is they gotta go after. They wanna go after, because they get brownie points for where they can make money off it, stealing from you. And the same is true with regard to the garbage going on. Now you can't believe a word that they're saying anymore and you know that half the time it's them doing some kind of fishing expedition for whatever reason. In this case, well, you know, my first confrontation is, well, who is this anonymous person? Who signed this complaint? Where did this complaint come from? Well, somebody picked up who did. See, what up the bat? I got a problem with you. Well, it's not our policy to die here because you don't get to face your accuser. This is America with a K. Well, that's where you go that it's like now only in communist states do you have rats and spies behind the scenes that are backstabbing and monkey poking somebody. So should I pick up the phone and start monkey poking on everybody here up and down the street until I figure out who I got right? See, that's what they're hoping for. That's one of the things about this. I mean, granted, there's somebody, like you said, nearby that needs to have that board or whatever they didn't like stuffed up. There are sideways, to be quite honest. You know that as well as I do. There's somebody that needs to be bored. I have a pretty good idea who it is. And without the anonymous denunciation mechanism, they would not have the courage. to tell somebody their opinion and you know they probably would melt down if the response were well you're right but bugger off go away and don't bother me again. Sounds like if you're pretty sure well there are nani mouses everywhere if you get madrift. Yeah, especially when you know the magnitude of the you know Stimulus is oh well it defends my delicate sensibilities to peer over into you know your property And I can I can see the corner of something well tough suck it up. You know I mean for goodness sake Okay, one little thing after another. Okay, so let's see. I have run through and done some of the usual checking on status of things, and there's an interesting phenomenon underway. Right now we have the same situation with powder that we've had in the last couple of weeks. Almost nothing is out there except some of the very, very slowest stuff. There's a little bit of IMR7828. I saw some at Powder Valley. They have 8 pound jugs at grass limit one per customer. which means that you know $180 for one jug and then you pay a hazmat fee on it instead of you know two or four or six or whatever it is. 7828 is awfully slow stuff regardless. It is not going to help your medium and small rifle cases. It's not going to do anything for pistol or shotgun. I haven't seen any of the light fast powder even that recently for several weeks. That was one of the ones that hung in there for a long time. For quite a while you could still feed your shotties. Now even that's disappeared. The only powder that I see on the market right now is 50 BMG in any quantity. That's probably because it's far from the most popular caliber and whatever stocking levels people had a year ago probably takes a while to pull down. I would make one comment. That is that the technology, the information for producing powder in the old ways in the turn of the century methods is out there and in circulation. I have heard rumors to the effect that some people have been exercising that and experimenting with it and seeing how it goes. A thought I might inject in there is that modern powders have an awful lot of ingredients. The slow stuff will have deterrence in there. I did not say detergent like cleaning material, but deterrence in there that slow them down a little bit. But be that as it may if The heaviest powder, the 50 caliber stuff and 20 millimeter suitable stuff and so on, is what's available. And people are thinking about doing their own manufacturing. Here's a possible shortcut. You might start with 50 caliber or 20 millimeter powder or whatnot. See about re-emulsifying that, cleaning it up in whatever fashion seems suitable, and then proceeding to the three-quarters point in the manufacturing process and do the extrusions and drying and so on and experiment and see what you end up with. If you start with something that's factory manufactured, and then just drop three quarters into the chain. You can skip all of the stuff about cleaning cotton and nitrating it and getting all the water out and all that kind of good stuff. Those are some of the most dangerous steps in the process. Nothing that we've mentioned here is Mr. Wizard's school child experimentation and any experimentation with energetic materials you want to do in very, very small batches. So if it does something to surprise you, you lose an eyebrow and not a limb. But It seems to me that there might be some possibilities there, taking some solvents to manufacture 50 powder, for instance, and turning that back into the emulsion and then proceeding to experiment with the extrusion and drying processes and see what you could come up with. What do you think of that notion? Did we lose the signal entirely? Sorry about that. I was just trying not to make too much noise because I got a lot of background here for some reason on my end. I think it's my line here. Sorry about that, BK. A couple things here with the powders. I have been perusing, looking for those infodos, no notorious AR-15s I've been talking about later in the week. Powder availability, two things that I've seen that have happened. Number one, Most of the companies were leaving a lot of their product lines up hoping that they were going to be able to replace, you know, like, well, we're leaving up, I actually had this conversation twice with a couple of locations where, you know, you go through all the powder listings and it's like, it's a total waste of time. I finally told the girls, I said, a lot of people are probably getting pissed and they're not coming back because it takes a long time to go through your page and go item by item and find other stuff. It's incredibly tedious if you don't have a button saying, just show me the stuff that's in stock. Exactly. They said, we're hoping that we'll have it back in stock. It's like, how long has it been? It got quiet on the other side. I said, now you'd be better off with, again, finding some way to, like you just said, modify the software. or find out if there's an option is probably there that allows you to temporarily cancel it out. Because a lot of people, I mean out of 28 powders or 40 powders listed, I found two that were actually in stock. Right. And a boat bought and worked stock up. Yeah, Graf's has a button saying, sort by availability. So you see the first half dozen and then all the unavailabilitys, you can ignore them. And when you're looking at the two powders available being the higher end trap and skeet commercial, like upper end powder grades, well, the average person didn't go any other way to buy that. So that's why they're still sitting on it. There's a number of people that are doing trap and skeet, but even they're biting the, pardon the pun, they're biting the bullet or they're biting the shot on this with a hit on prices. And the idea that they took out those other special powders and drove them up into the stellar range, well, They'll be the very last thing that's moved as people realize maybe they just can't get any more if things go into hostilities Then yeah, everybody would even buy that powder just to get it off the shelf So to have something to load with well, we went through that We called out the Vita Vuri stuff a while back Which had traditionally always been in stock because so few people were willing to spend the premium for it and that's all gone now Yeah, exactly. Well, Palmetto State Armory Again, they've had some stuff, and I haven't really posted them in a bit, but I'm going to bring them up right now because they have had some odds and ends stuff that's been pretty decent. As far as their actual sale items now, that works with sales, what might actually be as opposed to what really isn't much of a buy as we know. Palmetto State Armory, then go to Reloading. You'll find that they have all of the different items listed. Get out of Powders. Well, forgive me. Let's see if I can hold on here. Uh oh. Now what happened there? Priming tools, presses, calipers, cases, bullets, brass, powders and measures, primer, reloading, PSA, OK, site store location. Doesn't help me any there. Ammunition. How about if we go to ammunition and see if they switch powders over? That's really interesting. Hornady ammo sale. OK, Palmetto, what did you do here? That's rather interesting. Wow, I haven't been over it a little bit. Powder measures, I had priming tools, rebuilding and re-loading equipment, shell holders. OK, Mark's got a problem. Well, maybe I'm just not doing this right. Well, they do have dye still. I can go in that direction in theory, but maybe not even there. Pulmetos' army has been pretty good for dies up until recently and apparently with the next wave of interest. Well you can buy funnels and presses and all kinds of stuff and you can be all prepared for when you actually get your hands on anything. Right, as you find it. And in fact I was looking here, the Palmetto has been, there's one thing they've been good for, but I don't see them jumping off the shelf. I would highly recommend the 40 caliber dies. 40, and they have 45-70 in stock again. You got a 45-70, that is a kick butt case, but you better be ready to reload it. You can reload that brass forever if you don't go stupid with the pressures. You would literally just keep shooting, it's a straight tube case, there's no distortion. And if it's shot to a gun, it's fire formed to a gun. But one of the things they have is 7.62x54R dies. Now we've walked a lot of people into the 7.62x54R, but you're going to eventually need to reload. It's not an if, it's just a when. So if you don't have a pair of dies, well, a triple set, depending on what you purchase, a set of dies for 7.62x54 are get a pair. Get a complete set. And the reason I say that is that it's pretty straightforward to use a powder dump if nothing else. Go ahead, caller, jump in there. I think we have Fluffy. Yes. Hey, I have a question about the Berdan-primed cases. I have heard that some Guys, some reloading guys have a strong enough primer punch that it could possibly punch a center hole through that Berdan prime case and Then it could it possibly be used with boxer primers? Yeah, that's been done in fact what we used to do for years now, of course I would not do this at home, but Mark has done it personally Yeah, we're gonna do it. I'd rather drill it then do that But here's the other thing is that one of the items that's routinely available still at Potter Valley Inc are two different sizes of sedan primers 1 for x39 and one for 308. So if you've got some material that you think that you might end up reloading, either you've got perdan ammunition on hand or you figure you may be facing some and sweeping it up off the battlefield the next day, I would suggest just pick up a few thousand of those perdan primers and put them on the shelf. Also experiment. Take the time to actually work the technology. Now there's a couple of different methods. One is the hydraulic with a piece of dowel. That works, but you have to also make a jig up to hold it, although a standard shell holder for a 7.62x54R or 7.62x39R will work just fine because it has a de-priming channel. Well, besides you can build the tooling out of little bits of wood. And it's the sort of thing that you make a little mallet and you set the kid busy in the kitchen and get them to help and so on. The six-year-olds can do that job. So it's perfectly feasible to do with hand tools and even handmade tooling. If you can drill a hole You have a set of drills. You can drill a series of holes of various diameters and depths into a block of hardwood and reasonably match a case profile. From there, all you need is a little tub full of water and a bit of wooden dowel and a mallet. You can pop those guys out. Right. They do it in Peshwa all the time. They don't throw away any steel cases. They use steel case constantly. Now the only other thing about that, there are, and I still haven't, I know some people have them, but I don't know if they're still being made. There was a hook reaming tool that was done that just literally fits to the end of the case. All you do is spin, you twist the handle, and what it did is it bird in, hooked the primer, and pulled it out, then you just pulled it out like a wine cork. You know, hook, it's done. uh... there's a little bit more into a uh... boat removal tool yeah yeah there are three different methods are out there any one of them will work though it'd be nice to keep the primers at least in one piece because the one thing about bardam primers are basically like a uh... cap and ball cap in that be remembered the and what you're doing to the met with the middle of the case actually hasn't upward uh... firing pin basically an anvil So the cool thing is that reactivating a d-primed bardam primer is even easier than it is with say the work you have to do to put a boxer primer back together. That's what's funny about it. So if you can save them, the hydraulic method would work. I don't know, we've never done any research about what they do up there in Peshawar, but since they don't throw anything away, either they use those old primers for fragmentation grenades, which I would, or they're using them for maybe rebuilding primers, because they do everything by hand in little dirt huts with some of the finest heavy machinery in the world. It's really a contrast. They're in these classic ancient stone huts and clay huts. And if you look at the machinery, it's heavy industrial with all American names. You'll notice there's no Cyrillic cast into the machinery. If you wonder where some of our ordnance equipment went, pay attention to what's on the machine itself. It's all written in English. It's in fact indexed in with English, but it's all stuff from back in the day. Yeah, they bought, yeah, and I went all the way up in the middle of nowhere. To the far end of the world, where it almost fell off the map. Because Peshawar is over on the other end of Patio, on the northern eastern end. And that's where you fall off the world. You can't go any farther past the map there. And if you come from the other end towards China, you fall off the map and into the abyss from that direction. You can't just walk across from, oh wait, yeah you can. It's a circular globe. That's right. I always love that part. Remember what I was talking about earlier in the week? The world ends where Afghanistan ends on the far eastern side. Then you have to go all the way around the globe from the other direction. You never roll across to China and go, hey, there's China. You know what? They never do that, guys. They never do that. There is a psychological process to that. You're at the end of the universe when you go to Afghanistan or the edge of Pakistan you go to China and if you go to Western China Don't think about the fact that well what happens when you go to that into the sphere and head the other all your back in Afghanistan They do this all the time. I just watched this last night. I was watching a piece and it's like all of a sudden we'll go to the other side of the world. They went all the way around, back around the globe, came right back up through Asia Minor and there they are in Afghanistan. But wouldn't it have been shorter just to kind of like go right over the mountain there? Yeah, probably. But they still do cool things up there and they got our machinery doing it. So we just need to keep that in mind when it comes to wondering where all those tools are we thought we were going to use. Anyway, we've got more. Go ahead, jump in there please. I wish we could find some other machinery and put it back in working conditions. Oh, it's there. We were just actually, one of the things we're doing is looking for a building right now, a couple of them for some boring mills that could do pretty much anything. There's stuff out there and the men that run it still run them. They're trying to find a nicer building away from the Detroit area and we're going to do that. That's one of the expeditions this last weekend that we were on while we were driving around taking care of the radio equipment. I will say that the wave of business failures and liquidations has destroyed an immense amount of equipment. We'll never get it back. Yeah, if you watch some of these auctions and just see the stuff that gets swept up and sold by the box load, and a large fraction of it ends up going into dumpsters or going off to metal scrappers and so on. There's a huge amount of labor and expertise went into fabricating all of this stuff, and it just gets boiled down to nothing. The conversion rate measured by value. can't be more than a thousand to one on these business liquidations. It could make you cry. Well the sad part is that looking at some of the stuff that you know you've seen where our tax dollars paid for it I mean the Department of Defense material that came out years ago it's now long gone where it went over to China or went over to our enemies somewhere but you're still finding industrial material coming through the DOD auctions But nothing like what we were seeing, say, even just 15 years ago or 20 years ago. So that bathtub is pretty well emptied in several areas. Now the other thing is to a degree some people are hiding it here and there too. I've got to admit that. Government is. The military is or people who are in the know because we do have people in the system and they're trying to say what they can. The big thing is that we can expect it to do nothing to get worse until we make the effort to fix the problem. And that means we've got to set up more machine shops or greater production capacity and we need to resurrect what we can. There's a company that's notorious just down the road from us right off I-94 and you drive by it and they'll have two or three machines that they just throw out in the weather. I mean, bridge ports or other boring mills and things like that. They're complete. We've stopped by. They just put them outside. Oh yeah, you see eBay listings for some of this equipment. You look closely at the photographs and you can tell that was parked out in a parking lot for a year. Yeah, exactly. Look at the ground around it. Look at the rust marks around it. Well look at the rust on the equipment too. I mean they didn't even throw a tarp over it, the jerks. Yeah all of that has to be reworked and in that fact one of the things one of our people is doing here recently is they've come in and we've been rebuilding these kinds of machines. Where we've ever covered a few. They're flawless now. I mean everything they've been completely de-oxidized. Everything has been re-cleaned, re-oiled, re-polished, re-painted where it's supposed to be re-painted bare metal surface. But guys you know it took three to four months. to get those machines back up to spec where they needed to be. And I just looked at them, I mean, the shop's complete, but it took a long time and a handful of people focusing day after day after day to get that to where it is. Now we can build anything. I mean, literally we can build anything. and the plan is to save as much as machinery and get it under cover. I mean here's the thing that's really sad about this too guys. Go down the road and look at how many empty factories and plants there are. Where at least this machinery would have been, I mean if you think about it, it's the old story that goes into it is not where it goes onto. It's the stuff, it's a skew. And the stuff, there's a million, million square feet of space that I can find right off the bat and it's just sitting there. And again, when you think about it, down the road, the problem with a lot of that stuff, and Detroit is a poster child for this, there is property, not just, you know, industrial, also residential property is exactly the same, that has negative value. You could buy it for $500, but it's not sensible to do so. It's not worth $500 because it comes with $50,000 worth of blood suckers hovering around waiting to pounce on the first person that puts their name on the deed. That's why the more remote it is, the better off you are. In most of the metropolitan or any village that's intact, There is still that hanger honor that figures there's going to be the feces bird that flits onto your corpse immediately to try and steal everything that they possibly can in the process. I mean, to try and milk you immediately. You're the only cow to milk, but they would be on you in a heartbeat. This is what we've talked about in the questions about building communities, guys. First rule is when you acquire a community, you make sure that there are little, in fact, no existing government mechanisms left at all. but little to no other population components there. Although typically the ones that stick around while they don't have businesses might actually be simply retirees. individuals who have some form of income where they're not going to be a threat or anything. In fact, they would like the idea of having neighbors that probably aren't going to steal them blind or rip off everything that they own. Yeah, the retirees mainly just care that the power in the water stays on and so on and they couldn't care less what else goes on around them. That's part of the problem with the metastasis of government. A large number of the people in my neighborhood are retired and their attitude is, well, I don't care. I just write a check to have people do things for me and as long as I keep my head down, they'll leave me alone and I'm only going to live for a few more years and blah, blah, blah. Well, okay, that's called apathy. There's an old saying that people get the government they deserve. I would modify that a little bit. I would say that people get the government that their neighbors deserve. I get the government my neighbors deserve. They deserve to have secret rat lines and all that kind of good stuff. I don't. I'm not quite at the point that I'm willing to go to war with these guys. Putting on camo and running through the woods is not my particular forte. I would be better off building electronic devices or something to assist the effort or yammering on the radio every Friday night or whatever the case may be to do my little bit. We all have different skills and abilities. bad knees and poor eyesight and so on and so forth don't make for the best infantrymen. But we're not quite quite at the point of willing to fix this stuff in the throw down fashion because not quite enough of a population has realized that It's ox is going to be gored too, that food isn't going to keep magically appearing in the grocery store and so on and so forth. This is the old boiling the frogs thing and the enemy's task is to boil the frogs as slowly as possible so they can get lots of them to keel over first. There are all sorts of fascinating statistics, one of them that they've bandied about some in the alternate press but not in the corporate press, is that 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug. Now, once upon a time we used to say, well, yeah, that doesn't apply to anybody under about 18 or so, and it does now, because those are mostly mind-altering drugs. And then, of course, there's the plague of asthma that is blamed on the dwindling supply of smokers. If fewer and fewer people are smoking, there's more and more asthma, so obviously that's the cause, right? No, how about GMO foods and so on and so forth? We're poisoning everybody. We're slowly working on this stuff. chemtrailing them, etc. But even so, I have to give it to the vampires. They've done a pretty good job so far at the frog boiling game. A huge number of the population out there are still being sucked in by the frog boiling game. But more and more of them are waking up and that at least is progress. So, you know, that's something. It certainly can be a little bit frustrating and it's really, really frustrating when I got my own personal little whiff of the star-east state. But, you know, so it goes, this is what we've been dealing with for years now and trying to get people ready and so on. The shortage of powder and, you know, reloading components is obviously a near-end game move by the enemy. Oh yeah, I should throw in one more little statistic before we run low on time. This week there is an interesting phenomenon going. Surely there are some little niches here and there, but on average in the usual watering holes that I've checked, small primers are available large or not. There's 50 BMG out there. Large rifle, large pistol are pretty much on a titanium primer this week for some reason. Small pistol and small rifle are out there. Naturally the small rifle military variant from CCI is hideously expensive. They're up at around $40 per thousand at most of the vendors. But the average right now this week for some reason the large everything is out of stock. I do not know why, I just report the facts. Well, maybe, but it's not like they've got vast quantities of, you know, 308 suitable powder available to them, you know, so I don't know what's going on. It's shopping here, shopping there, to piece it together. It sounds like we're going to the caller. Call her, jump in there. No, I was just trying to find out what size for Dan Farmer to get, like for the 7.6 to 54R. Right, the problem is you have to ID the primer type size. You have metric dimensions. You need to measure the width of the pan. Forgive me, the primer. But the pan itself, remember there's large format, bigger than anything we use in the US. That's one of the traditional primers that goes all the way back to the Czarist era. And in fact we built them for the Russians originally. Hey, Plasti? Here's a suggestion. Why don't you order a thousand or five thousand of each of the two sizes available from Potter Valley and then do a little bit of experimentation. Worst case, you have a thousand or five thousand of those things on hand. Best case, you find they're suitable for something. Someone can use what I don't. Exactly. Right, you can always sell them. I mean, eventually there's nothing in primers that's going to go bad as far as down in price because the availability is not increasing but rather has stayed at a very low level and appears to be decreasing progressively. So, available inventories, whatever they are, take advantage of them and we'll figure out what fits what. Remember there are a lot of these, got pistol and rifle. The Russians are very pragmatic. They use many of the overlapping primers as they find a need to. We've caught that several times where they've been using other primers and have switched out to a totally alien primer because of availability and the lack of the other. That's happened several times with their 223 loads recently. It's happened with their 45 ACP. We had a batch of 45 ACP wolf that came in with a small pistol primer instead of a large primer, which I thought was rather interesting. And it really stands out when you're looking down at the brass, the empty shell casings on the ground, and you're like, hey, take a look at this. Which is something I've never seen but it's a practical application if all you've got or your primary run has been a particular size all you do is change the bore specs for the through machine that does the primer pocket and so they took 45 ACP and used small rifle or small pistol primers in them now those burdam primers are still obviously something that was a priority for them because I mean, they typically do make all those different sizes we're talking about, but even they apparently are biting the bullet on consumption and production. So it's happening at all ends. The demand is incredible. I mean, come on, come on, they're shooting each other in Ukraine. Syria hasn't slowed down. All the other places on the planet where you can sell arms and ammunition are in demand too. Plus, the US is eating billions and billions and billions of rounds, if they can get them here. So, the market is not as soft as it was when things were actually better. That's what's really comical. When things were better, we could buy ammo for less and we told people to do that. Some listened, most did not. Then the price went up and then availability went through the basement or went into zero or negative range and then on top of that, fiddle farting with the market coming in is taking place. So, that's where the issue is, is it worthwhile to go into these different inventories? Or you're not going to lose a penny. I've never lost a penny on ammunition, weapons, components, or anything like that. If anything, I regret that I should have spent more money buying more of it when it was cheap. Yeah, I wish I had some of that. Yeah, exactly. I'd bought that for a dollar. Hell, I'd bought it for a penny. You know, a nickel. I bought that for a nickel an item. Now you do pay a dollar. Ooh. Wow, that's like a 20-fold mark up there. Oops. You know, when it's the nickel a piece and now it's a dollar an item. No matter how you look at it, you've got no retirement or financial institution where you have that kind of return. That's the best way to explain it and the while there are hiccups and burps if you're an intelligent investor all you do is wait You know I kicked myself in the arse They used to have high em part is freeing yourself to actually part with this stuff. That's a free. Yeah, I can't get any more of it man That's the other problem. It's like man. I could sell this but you know what I use it too, and I can't get any more That's part of what everybody's got in the back of their mind with everything they're doing now. Man, you know I like you a lot, but I like me a lot too. And I'm just sorry I can't release any of this because I ain't got no more to share if I give you what I got. And that's what people are thinking now. And I understand it. I mean, you know, it used to be, I mean, just think about this. We had, well, trap and skeet shooters are probably, you know, biting at hardest because they do literally go through thousands and some of these guys shoot tens of thousands of shotgun shells in a season. I mean, if we go, well, they're extremely low. Well, they got to remember if they've got a team, usually there's one guy that has the reloading operation. And to do 20, 30, 40,000 rounds of shotgun shells in part of a season is nothing for them. Because if you've got a team and you're going to every match and you've got so many relays, we just had a competition here in one of the ranges. And I probably picked up, no exaggeration guys, we got 11 buckets of shotgun shells. And we're the after everybody pick crowd. Everybody else went through and got what they thought was the best cases they wanted. We just waited and I just drove around with it. We just drove around in a pickup truck and we went to every station and we loaded 11 pails of 12 gauge, 9 pails of 20 gauge, and then the rest is 28 gauge and you know, and 4, 10 maybe another 3, 4 barrels. 5 gallon pails, forgive me. But all of them are full. I've already sorted them out by shell size, color, by brass height, and by manufacturer. So they're all ready to go. That part is finding the suitably fast powders, which I think is going to come out of the man. Yeah, exactly. Now it's... Actually, we might be forced to go... But does not forget, shotgun and black powder work just fine together. So if we have to, we'll go shotgun and black powder and we'll use a paper wad and I'll use nuts, bolts, screws and those old primers that Fluffy pulled out that he couldn't use. When we're done, oh my goodness, that's a shredding mess. But yeah, well, I got what he's got now. Congratulations. Yeah, at least the Jedi primers have come back into inventory. Here's an early warning, guys. We are at 6 June as we speak. On 5 July, Quartermaster Holiday comes up. Remember what's important about 5 July? Well, it's the day after the 4th of July is when all of those fireworks stands start shutting down and have their traditionally 50% off clearance sales. So we're a month ahead. I'm just reminding you in advance so that you have the idea in your head and set aside a few FRNs and so on. Get ready to raid them on the 5th of July if you need any, especially if you need smoke, because that's one of the ways of getting small commercial smoke. July is a mini Quarter Masters Holiday. So, you know, be prepared. Don't forget. Yep, as a matter of fact, again, buy ammo cans in advance. Don't forget, Colmans.com, Colmans.com, Colmans.com. They have, if you're within reasonable drive, or if you're going to order stuff from Colmans guys, the way to do this, they have the Deep 81mm Mortar Cans. They are the cheapest can for their size available. You can do a lot of different things with those, but the big thing is that if you're looking for a can you can store long items in and store things in safely to keep them from the moisture which is not good for any munition. Then, ammo cans are the solution. Go to Coleman's, check to see what they have. They've got some pretty good prices. You can put cans inside cans to have them shipped. That's something most people forget to do. I used to take two or three 30 caliber cans and put them in the 20 millimeter cans and then lay a couple of the other flat pans on top of that. And that's how I'd order them and tell them what to do. Open up a can, here's a little fit, and they would ship them that way. And that way the volume, the UPS can still handle it. The only issue is watching your weight. but you can get the stuff in hand before this takes place. If not, go to your recycle bins, grab those clear peanut containers, and grab those coffee cans that are laying around out there. And what you do is you take the peanut containers that are just a little smaller than those nice larger, little, they're a little taller number 10 can. I just loaded a couple of them today with some other stuff. But they're a little bigger than the standard number 10 can by about an inch. A lot of these new Cashew and Almond containers fit perfectly inside them. The first container is your first air seal buffer and then you put that right inside the number 10 can to armor it. And guess what? You've got yourself a double seal system. Your firecrackers, your fireworks, whatever you save, smoke devices are all going to be that much more secure and safe. If you don't have ammo cans, go look for the junk that will improvise and give you similar protection. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than just leaving them on the shelf. Don't do that. If you need to reuse these little luminized cardboard cans that nuts come in or Pringles or whatnot and all you have is a little plastic snap-on cap, you can put whatever you want in that container. Put the snap-on cap in there. If you have the ability to melt some wax or paraffin, you melt it just above the melting point. and just dip that end in there and the paraffin will make a very very good water seal and air seal. It's like the government used to do, exactly, same thing. You find ordnance, flares and equipment stored that way. These two beeswax too by the way. Beeswax is a little more precious now so we'll stick with the paraffin. Or candle wax if you find it out there. There's a good choice. I've been getting candles left and right. I don't know what it is. Right now this is a good window guys. It's getting warm. It's warm and I don't want hot things around. Yeah and we'll sweep out all the ones that don't smell so much and things like that. That's fine. Just scoop them up into a box. You don't care if it's bug juice color when you've melted it all down. Exactly. Or you can use that color for actually coating the containers like those Pringles containers. Also make a point of trying to standardize on what you use. as a container even to the point where you have to use those Pringle containers and you got a bunch of them try to color you use them by color match them up that way sort them out first that way your containers are relatively identifiable even in darkness to you or light and you've got a system you can establish a system taking advantage of what they've already done with a product. Yeah that brings to mind an old engineering joke The thing that's so wonderful about standards is there are so many of them available Exactly. Yeah, you'll make you create your own Exactly. Well, you know what? One of the things I mentioned these nut containers That what's really cool is that the different brands even though they're all using the same container or the different flavors have green caps purple caps red caps black caps and Guys, this makes for perfect inventory control when you're reloading stuff Remember that's like those clear colored sandwich and meat containers they've got now. They've got a pink or a blue or a red or a yellow top. They're all the same size. They stack on top of each other. But for reloading, guys, color coding is a big plus. Because you can look and see, well, what have I got left in my inventory over there? OK, we're working on auth6 yesterday. My red is auth6. Oh, man, I'm down. Hey, we've got to cast some more bullets. or hey we gotta do some more brass because you know that in each one of those trays you can establish or each one of the containers you can establish a standard for count and you go we're gonna have a little 30 out of 6 party tonight well no we're not unless you get that brass tumbled because look at the bottle over there you know look at the racks what do you got on the racks oh man you're right quick grab some of that brass throw it over there yeah get the jiggler going there you go you'll be ready by the time everybody shows up to have some fun The big thing is work together too guys, small production needs to be developed now. We talked about that in touchdown at the beginning of the hour. This is Quartermaster Friday, a lot of people are going to be doing this this weekend. In fact, a lot of people build their own firecrackers. Though they like the ones they get from the store, they usually take some of those and they make prettier firecrackers. I'd like to use factory if I can because the QA is generally a little bit better, but you know that can change. Oh, I got word from one of our friends, got a shipment of fin filters recently and his batch was labeled October 89, I think. It sounds like they're probably getting pretty close to the end of those. Grab a case of those fin filters if you have any possible use for those because when Numbrich goes out of inventory, suddenly those are going to double in cost because everybody else is already charging double for those. Remember, Centerfire does have the masks without the filters in. Numeric for the filters. Center fire for the gas masks and bags you can get the British or American modern gas masks. They're designed for a side filter system like the M9. Main military for the adapters. Yep, exactly. There we go. So we got you a solution. I'm just complaining. Where did it go? Well, here's where it is. Got to go to four places to get it, but you'll get it all. Be kidding. Anything else before we take off, sir? No, we're passed. Let's go. Very good. God bless the Republic. Jeff, this is the world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire's on the run. We are on the run. We are on the part. Day and night. Hoorah! Sounds like we had our other callers in there too. You jump in there, guys. Interrupt us. We'll have a blast right now. We gotta go for now, little. We'll be back Monday. Regular, it's not important. Be careful on the road. We'll be out in Nevada pretty soon. Bye-bye, guys. It's Ray Martin, this is the Arizona. Can I give you a scoop on it? It's a tall old tree and a strong old it's a tall Together we'll stay well, get well, find cures and fight back.