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Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. Hey Dad, BK's offline on the state of the... Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to torture freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants tremble each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he plot to keep What would be your answer? He called out from the grave Miss this still the land of the free evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report I am our corny one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and north. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... 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Why? Because people will be reinforced with the word Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson! It's placement, marketing and placement, guys. Marketing, marketing, marketing, as they say. Anyway, it has been a great day. Acting like it wants to rain out there again. And, well, no, they're really not going to complain because it happens. It's that time of year. We have a fantastic growing season going on. I just checked during the break here the tomatillos that we planted and they are looking oh my goodness oh so happy and in fact I only put four plants in but I think I'm going to go back and we're going to get some more because some things that not always do so well in Michigan here today or I should say this year so far seem to be pretty happy campers with regard to production so we're going to take advantage of that. and get them out there into the ground or into planters real quick and see what we can do. I've got a lot of other orphan plants where I've been picking them up where the GART greenhouses have been getting rid of them and I've been ending up with some pretty decent little packages, little plants for a very reasonable price that have actually been, you know, healthy, turned out to be very productive. If they keep doing what they're doing, I've already got fruit on some Again, they were throwaways. Somebody else was getting rid of one of the greenhouses, the orphan plants as I like to call them a lot of times. These are springing right up and with all this rain and warm air that we've had now with cool going back and forth through the cycle guys. That's what makes all the difference here. They're continuing to develop the way they're supposed to and we're going to keep assisting them for as long as we can. It is Quartermaster Friday. This is interesting. I have a couple of XP machines in service here at Castle BK in daily service, other machines in intermittent service. Microsoft is very anxious to get people off of XP and onto wonderful, glorious Windows 8. Strangely enough, both of those XP machines this week started generating blue screens of death. interesting how that happens. I am of the opinion that they have recently released pathological updates to increase their memory consumption and slow them down to push people into buying new PCs. But it is quite remarkable that I suddenly started generating blue screens on two machines simultaneously the same week and so on and so forth. So I am not much of a believer in coincidence theories. And once you've been lied to a few times and told coincidence, coincidence, coincidence, you stop believing those. I wonder whether they have upped the ante a little bit and decided that they are going to force the issue. I had a number of windows and screens all open ready to go and I lost all of those and it takes a long time to recover them. So some of this material is going to be a little bit on the fly as I try to remember things off the top of my head and open and recover windows simultaneously. That will be an exercise in multitasking. A couple of things. Well, let's see. It is 13 June 2014, in case we didn't already benchmark. It is Friday evening, is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report, and that makes this Quartermaster's Corner. And being as it is 13 Friday, we are required to say, ah, ah, ah, I am so scared. 13 Friday. Okay, so. Yes, so we have performed the necessary duty. Did I sound adequately terrified? No. Maybe I should not move to Hollywood and look for an acting career. Well, we had a little break up there. Call her. I was just saying how frightened I was by the news. Oh, the whole raw. Oh my God, the whole raw. There we go. Go ahead, BK, jump in there, please. Okay, doing the regular little bit of weekly shopping, I found some interesting stuff. We are still in sort of a supply crunch for medium speed rifle powder, but there are some tiny bits of progress. Let's see. 7828 is a fairly slow powder. We have then able to access the slower powders. Both Powder Valley and GRAFTS have 7828. That is slow enough that I would consider it a little bit of a stretch on the downside to get that to cover 30-06, but it will do. So, if you need to feed OTSIX, I would say don't take your available medium powders and stretch them upwards towards OTSIX. Instead, pick up some 7828 and stretch that downward to cover the OTSIX. That spares, reduces the pressure on your supplies in the middle range. There is a new vendor that I just stumbled across called North Arkansas Guns that has a rather strange domain name, N as in noodle, A-R-K as in Arkansas, guns.com, N-A-R-K, you know, guns.com, narc, guns.com, it's kind of a strange little abbreviation. But they claim to have H335 in stock and also, what is the other one, BLC2. They claim to have both H335 and BLC2 in stock. Now those are both medium speed rifle powders, both fairly versatile. The BLC2 is a little bit slower, but the H335, we mentioned that on a previous week, a week or two ago. That's one of my favorites from studying the tables at least. For a very general purpose, reduce the number of items you have in inventory type powder. Those days are gone. We are past the time when we could decide what we want, and the only limiting factor was available money, where we could just buy whatever it is that we want, and multiple vendors would actually have it. Now, we are back in Russian grocery store mode. that is, you know, we show up with our string bags and say, what do you have? We will buy either the mangoes or the toilet paper, whatever it is you've got, and try to make do. They're not entirely interchangeable. I will leave the imagery to the listener. But, you know, it's sort of a matter of what cane you get rather than what do you want. However, North Arkansas guns claims to have 335 and PLC2. The bad news is that $30 a pound and one pound containers. Now, believe it or not, that is not the worst we have seen. There's an outfit called Bruno Shooters that has, or at least claims to have, a fairly wide inventory and wide selection of all sorts of our favorite potters and things like that. They also want anywhere from $33 to $37 a pound for the stuff, which I think explains why they still have some inventory. There is enormous demand out there, but there's a limit to how much people are willing to get stuck. So that's an available option if you're totally desperate and are swimming in FRNs and don't care what something costs. I guess you could try BrunoShooters.com. Now over on graphs, they have not only the 7828, which we mentioned before, it's a little bit on the low side, but We have also seen in recent weeks the very, very fast stuff has become unobtainium as well. That's what you need for pistol or shot shell. Well, Grasse is listing 800X, which is not necessarily the most popular fast powder, but it is a fast flake powder. So that is suitable if you can't get unique or something that's more familiar. The 800X may serve your purpose. The price is not bad. I can't see it on my screen. If I recall, it was something Somebody in chat may be able to pull it up better than I can. But I think it was at around $30 a pound or less even. But there was a limit of four one pound containers per household per day. Now, maybe you can game that a little bit if it doesn't vanish instantly. Maybe you can order four pounds today and four pounds tomorrow, and if they don't ship it immediately, maybe the day after you can call them and say, look, can you combine the shipment? So, you know, perhaps you can avoid paying multiple hazmat fees, you know, for every four pounds, another hazmat fee. If they are too efficient at packing and shipping, that won't work, but it's a possibility, I suppose. So at any rate, There is a tiny, tiny bit of hope for some of these powders are starting to appear in tiny amounts here and there popping up little bits and pieces at a time. And we may be able to supply our source some of those. But those are the things that I found this week. Comments? I am making it hard on me because I don't have all that much material on my screen. I lost it all just before the show time. I have not received an email notification from Honeyville for a while or MRE Depot or any of those guys. I personally did okay this week because I rated an auction in the local area. of a collapsing business. This is strange as a metal fabrication business. I got many, many pounds of toasted almonds and fruit bars. I think they must have had those on hand for feeding a vending machine or something along those lines. I got a bunch of toasted almonds at around $2 a pound. a bunch of these fruit bars that are dollar a pound, not the greatest fruit bars in the world, but at a bowl within date and all that kind of good stuff. So it does demonstrate that you find unusual things in strange corners. If people want to go hunting in their local area for things of this sort, then The place to look is auctionzip.com. This outfit lists a lot of the auctions. I generally just select the business and commercial though of course they also list a lot of estate auctions and things of that sort. auction houses that run weekly consignment auctions and you never know what's going to be there, but they're not useful to check by internet because they do them every week and they just throw everything out. You have to be there in person, which in many areas means you have to drive a considerable distance and go sniff around and look to see what's there, and you will burn a lot of gasoline and a lot of time. in hopes of finding something of interest. On the other hand, you're not competing with all sorts of other people sniffing around by means of the Internet. You're competing only with people willing to burn time and gasoline and go, look, so you are in for more nuisance and expense to attend those. You may get better deals if they've got anything of interest, but you will find an air compressor or you will find baby blankets or you will find food stuffs or you will find, gosh only knows what. It is very, very random. So, you cannot say, oh, I'm looking for X, I'll go check the auctions because you're going to be disappointed. But if you're willing to be highly flexible and you have some expendable funds, you can visit those things. So, comments. Well, one of the reasons Honeyville did have a little bit of a sale in terms of shipping here, remember a few weeks ago, well more than a few weeks ago now, because of course some of that was sent to the Bundy's. But one of the things that I was going to point out, overlapping with that, we're now seeing the next wave in downsizing at the dollar stores, guys, and I want to give everybody a heads up. We have Dollar Tree in the area. I'm pretty sure you probably do there too, BK. Dollar Tree is one of the several national chains. At the very least I know it goes up and down the 75-quarter. Yeah, we've got them. Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar, the usual chains. The Dollar Trees have two pound bags of macaroni noodles. Well, they did. Now, here's a heads up, guys. You're going to want to go and do this right away. Today, at the Dollar Trees here, because those have the biggest bags, it was two pounds for one dollar for whatever pasta you want to buy. You can buy two pound bags of spaghetti, two pound bags of egg noodles, two pound bags of macaroni and cheese. Two pounds of shells, you know the tiny shells. Well, that just changed. And the latest bags of stuff that just came in are now 12 ounce bags. We went from 48 ounces, well, forgive me, 12 ounces, so 24 ounces. No, what am I talking about? 16 ounce bags. Slap mark in the microphone there. 32 ounces, we went from 32 ounces to 12 ounces. So we just lost 20 ounces out of each bag at the dollar store. Are you sure you didn't go from 32 to 24? No, to 12. I just looked at them. I didn't buy them. That was a point. What I did do was I bought the last four bags that they had of the two pounders. Now, from this point forward, all the brand new stuff coming in, 12 ounces. Still a dollar, same product, but you know, we're in the transition phase. They're using the same bags that they were using for the two pound product, but they're now the 12 ounce product and 12 ounces of product with a whole lot of dead space inside the bag. That's an extreme adjustment. Normally they'd not come from 16 to 12 or something like that. Going 32 to 12 is pretty extreme. The reason I bring this up is because what I did is I immediately started shuffling around through the shelf because they had bags of. I found four of the macaroni bags that were two pounders that were still on the shelf. So, anybody else out there at the Dollar Tree, if you want to go check it out, if you've got a Dollar Tree, the differential, you're looking at being able to get three times the product that you'll be getting with any of the new bags coming in. So, two pounds is obviously better than 12 ounces. And again, I bought the last of the macaroni. They also had some one-pound bags, which nothing is one pound, it's one pound even that's coming in. So, if it was one or two pounds, it doesn't make any difference. They're all 12-ounce bags now. Interesting. Last time I checked the everyday price for pasta, now I tend to look at the straight pasta, the spaghetti, linguine, fettuccine, that sort of stuff, because it is dense and easily stored, whereas the wrinkly and extruded stuff is... Airspace, yeah. Yeah, a lot of airspace. Was running about 80 cents a pound every day. Whereas even Sam's Costco and so on, they may have fancier brands, but they're running around $1 a pound and the grocery store can go even higher than that. $1.25 up to $1.79 for 12-ounce packs. But 80-some cents a pound at Aldi's for perfectly acceptable commercial grade stuff. You're not going to get gluten-free. You're not going to get guaranteed non-GMO, all that kind of good thing. If you want that sort of stuff you're going to pay through the does to avoid being poisoned. Aldi was very much a reliable price leader in that area at that time. So that's one of the vendors that I would recommend in that area. The only reason I brought it up is because of the idea that if anybody can check their dollar trees, if they're in a local over into the food section, look to see if there are any of the two pound noodles left or if in your area you'll notice that usually one runs out before the other. They're all by the same manufacturer. If there are any of the two pounders left, I grab them. Number one, that's why I went when we sent the food out to the Bundy's guys. I bought a whole bunch of those bags because it's the best buy for the greatest amount of food in that category that we could send. I'm going to shop around. I know that we can go down to a location that the Amish run and we're going to be probably buying that by bulk. But up here, that's another source that now has changed the specs. They already did this with their candies. All of the candies, everything that they're offering in the dollar stores, now these are pure dollar stores. They don't do any dollar, $25, $50, or anything like that. Everything in the store is a dollar. That's what the dollar trees are good for. There are one or two items, they are below a dollar or above, but they very heavily mark that so you don't miss it. I've done the same thing myself when I see a package shrinking through the bins and get the old one pound package before the 12 ounces are all that is left. The other thing about this is we should be watching other areas. One of the other things, I've been talking about the foot powders at the same stores. They were 12 ounce, which then they went to 10 ounce. See, that's the normal decalibration. But what's interesting is the foot powder as opposed to the quote unquote body powder, which by the way they have the same formula. One's in a yellow container, one's in a blue container. They're large. It's a really good size container and you get a lot more for a dollar than if you buy the government foot putter, which by the way the government foot putter does have camphor in it, which is a good thing. But for a dollar a pack, a container, it's a cheap solution and especially where you're going to be issuing stuff out or you may need it for medical support or whatever. Well, the new containers are 8 ounces. The container is the same size, but they've knocked down by 4 ounces on the foot powder. See, the one went down to 10, the other one went down to 8. They were both at 12. So, they ratchet the one down by 2 ounces, the other one by 4 ounces. So, pay attention to that and focus on the body powder. And, I'm going to do a little experiment with what they've got left. I'm going to buy all of the body powder they have, which is the last batch, and I'm going to look to see what they replace it with. Because they have on-time delivery. They do not hold any stock in the back. They have whatever they got they got and when they need new they you know punch in the computer and it you know It's delivered in the next two days And I just want to see if it goes because I'm gonna put more of this in storage anyway something I wanted to put on the shelf and it's a good experiment. There's only about Maybe 12 or 14 of the containers left. They're good sized and they're actually you know, again, it's a nice pass size package. The only thing that's better sometimes and I doubt we'll see it now, they've had the large like industrial baby powder containers which have about like 30 ounces in them for a dollar. Those haven't been in and I don't think we're gonna see them again. I think that's the last of that. You know, so always check out the dollar stores. Remember the Chaldean stores are really great. The Christian dollar stores. The characters there typically try to buy American, but they also check out the industrial surplus industry. And so they have a lot of unique things that show up there that you won't necessarily see at the regular commercial chain or box type stores. which again for the dollar stores. Not that the others don't have stuff that are worthwhile, they all do if you pay attention and look around. But know your numbers and pay attention to what's on the containers now. Because this is something that we already... Everybody's even joking about in the controlled media. They're laughing about it. The ship is sinking so we need to make everybody laugh while we're playing near my god to thee. It's funny. Look how small the baggage are. That's not funny. That means somebody is really mucking with your money guys. Oh no, no, no. You need to laugh about it. No, no, no, no. We need to go out and hang some bankers, don't we? What a thin situation. I was at the grocery the other day, well a couple weeks ago, working one of those holiday sales. In this area, a regional food is the pork stick, and old BK raids those sales and fills the freezer. Not that the freezer is the longest term storage mechanism, but it's a week-to-week economy measure. and I had occasion to chat with the butcher there because normally all of that stuff is way outside my price range but their special was very attractive. He commented that prices are going up, they're really going up really fast. I said, well, yeah, that's not an accident. He starts talking about the viruses that are tearing through the pig population. I explained to him, well, they're going monoculture and this sort of stuff. All these herds have exactly the same genetics. They're all going to be vulnerable to exactly the same bugs. He actually came up with the term monoculture and explained to him, the government is going around beating up anybody that doesn't use exactly the same flavors of pigs. There's no accident that these diseases are ravaging the food supply. The feds and their lickspittles in the states are imposing that. They're not doing it out of stupidity, they're doing it to make the system brittle. That gave them something to think about. I didn't immediately buy my argument. One more little opportunity to inject some of those thoughts into somebody who is in a portion of the system. Keep doing that, keep doing that, keep spreading the information. One of the other things about the meat prices, Nancy was bringing to our attention here last week, they've already told the meat industry that they're going to jack the prices anyway pretty well across the board. Pork obviously is hit. But because of that, they're going to ratchet up the price range for pretty much everything. Beef. lamb. Lamb is one that's never talked about much. But lamb actually is a big seller, obviously, in certain parts of the country, purely a matter of production. Around here, lamb is always expensive. The only question is whether it's really expensive or really, really, really expensive. That's not one of mine. I'm usually working the sales on the pork, because pork and chicken are the two cheapest. I operate at the bottom end of the curve. As a matter of fact, I have a roasting chicken in the roaster, slush the oven, even as we speak, baking to perfection. So actually, it's a big, big, big roasting hen that I got for almost nothing. So I couldn't complain about that. That's why we have to, like you said, watch for the sales. Real quick, before I forget, I wanted to bring this up. Now, he always says something, but I have not looked tonight, and because I was focusing on weapons, I was trying to get the information on the rest of the AK parts kits or receivers. And there are some other sources out there guys, so again we'll work on that in a minute, but we're on food. FreezeDryGuy.com FreezeDryGuy.com FreezeDryGuy.com He always has something that is a monthly special, okay? Or in some cases A weekly special. Now not week as in W-E-A-K. No weekly as in W-E-E-K. Now that's a week special, man. Uh, anyway, if you go to... Uh oh, I just had a... ...a floppy disk drive box. You're almost falling on me. a small one. I've been disassembling stuff in lots of little tiny things. Anyway, WWWWW.com. I've been meaning to get to some of those projects and have other things that are higher priority. It's one of the things where I just had to start getting stuff out of the way so I had to start disassembling so I can take all these little tiny parts and sort them by category, which is the thing. I've got the containers, I just got to keep doing it. Yeah, I need to do that. WWW have freeze, dry, Guy.com. I just posted in the chat room for everybody there freeze dry guy dot com Now I've noticed something and I was gonna call him the other day because I gave him a heads up on an email asking about submarine rations now The rumor has it that to ensure that you and I don't get it rather than giving it like say to the natives of Iraq or what about those starving people in you know, Bengal, Uhudala, Siam, Mira, Fura, Daya, Paistan Well, apparently the government logic is, well heaven forbid anybody should have this, and so they're throwing it over the deck when they're on their way back to station now. Now we're going to find out more about that, but I've already had somebody that's on the Fort Bragg circuit there, they buy a lot of surplus obviously from the Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps. and uh... that's where the information came from that all we have seen the navy has already been doing that heaven forbid the peasants should get this Well, that's not a new practice. I've had World War II vets give me a chapter and verse about how towards the end of the war and in between World War II and Korea, immense amounts of tools and so on were all thrown overboard and so on. Because the manufacturer didn't want them hitting the surplus market and depressing the prices for new retail. For some reason, the wishes of the suppliers actually carried some weight. My attitude would be, if I'm running the federal government, you sold it to us, we own it. We will do as we see fit. And if they're surplus, we dump them in the market. And if you had a heyday for a while during the war and got the gouge, well, you get some linear. So what? Top. But that's been done all the way back to World War II. Immense amounts of material were destroyed by the military for fear that the peasants might get it, because in that case they wanted to accommodate the suppliers. Well, the other thing about here is again freeze-dry. Remember, this is premium grade, usually has about a 30, 40 year shelf life. At the very least, it should have been going into civil defense in some way, wherever, find a tunnel, find a cave. But what's interesting is I'm gonna talk to the freeze-dry guy and say, hey, what's been going on? Because he was the source and he has been the source for decades on that. That's actually what I used to buy. I used to be, I would not buy very much of any freeze-dry foods. But if I did, it was the submarine rations 30 years ago from this guy, from Freeze Dry Guy. Now the reason I wanted to check is because guys, you know, the price of those lerps that came in was kind of high, I thought. The latest batch of overruns, the latest wave, he had a little bit left from before, which are the Western Eggs and Ham, which don't seem to be taking off even yet. He still has some of those in stock. And they're at a really good price of $112.95 a case. The more you buy, the cheaper they get. If you buy more than three, they drop down to $106. But remember that there were about 12 different menus the last time we checked. There are now only three. and in fact LRP Spaghetti and Meat Entree, $150 per case. The LRP Chili Mac with Beef Entry, which is a pretty good one actually, that's an old one. That's been around for a long time. That's probably almost as old as since they started doing lerps. $150 a case. And then they have Scrambled Egg and Bacon. That's 159 a case. Now I should point out guys that some of the other entrees were $210 a case and they're gone. I want to remind people that freeze-dried is not the stuff you buy for first consumption. That's deep storage stuff. If you have three days of power outage or something, eat everything in the refrigerator and maybe the freezer if you have to. If you've got three or six weeks of emergency, you go to the dried, you go to the can. The freeze-dried stuff is for field use and for long-term storage. One of the things about this is that that's one of the things I would figure looking at the variety of menus, the exotic menus are the ones that went first. The seafood medley chowder thing, which you know it's like, oh yeah, right, I'm in the field, I'm worried about five star cuisine. I think that was cleaned out by the yuppies who still have incomes. So, yeah, the idea here is that, like I said, I'll tell you, out of the bunch, although the spaghetti is great, the Chili Mac with beef fentre, that is an old one. It's one of the three staple lurps that originally were made. And it's really got great flavor. You're hungry, you're starving, you add boiling water to this. Oh yeah, yeah, you, trust me, you will eat it. Of course you'd eat anything cardboard given the chance, but this is a big step above cardboard. And of the three, the Chili Mac, if you're gonna pay the same price and actually pay $9 less for the Chili Mac over the scrambled eggs and bacon. So for $9 less, I'd go the Chili Mac and the spaghetti meat entree just for change up. And there are other items they've got. They've got a meat, rice, and potato unit. which is one case of, well wait a minute, hold on here, its meat, rice and potato unit contains one case of delicious freeze-dried foods with each case containing six number 10 cans. This unit contains 152 1⁄2 ounce cups, well you know, 1⁄2 ounce, 1⁄2 cup, forgive me, 1⁄2 cup servings, I'm going to put an ounce in there. Anyway, with 100% real meat, These are of course the 6 can cases. I've noticed, I don't know if anyone has been paying attention in the volume food services, they are now doing 8 count cases which are not convenient. In fact, adding those 2 extra number 10 cans adds a lot of weight to the case. So, you might want to beware or pay attention there. Remember, we've told you about this before. There's a tipping scale for weight management when it comes to everybody being able to help you carry your food in order to move it. Besides, 6 number 10 cans is a convenient size in volume as well. When you go to 8, it's probably two layers by 4, and that makes a big cube. Oh, no, actually, it's side by side. They do a two by four. And so it's long. It's actually long. Oh, that's awkward. Yeah, it's awkward. You're right. It is. No, no matter how you look at it, that's why I don't know why they're doing this other than somebody thought this would be a great idea to change things because the industry has known this for decades, forever. As long as number 10 cans have been around, they experimented back and forth, and that's why they gravitated to the six can case, and it is perfect. You can give that to a Smaller person they can handle the weight. You can give it to an older person, they can carry it. Well maybe they buy a pound bag of rice. Same thing. Maybe some desk jockey says, well you know we're doing six cans of heavy stuff like canned vegetables so we can do eight cans of less dense stuff that's the freeze-dried. It's a stupid decision and ought to maintain the same volume but maybe that's their rationale. Oh wait, no, no, but this is a freeze-dried. I'm talking about it like Gia Gordon's. Gordon Pidge. Oh, well then, that's just stupid. Yeah, we're the wet pack cans. Yeah, see, that's the thing that got me. It's like, why would they do this? I mean, we ran into this when we were picking the food up for, they still, they had both on the shelf, but they're going towards the eight. If they're doing that and they're doing it with the dense stuff, then I would say that some clown decided that the cost of the cardboard boxes rises slower with size. They're shipping it around on pallets anyway. Their processing line is two cans wide. They can handle four long instead of three long and save a tiny amount on the cost of the cardboard boxes at the expense of being incredibly inconvenient for their customers. 48 back injuries later amongst the staff, he twisted and wrenched his beep again. But that doesn't count because that's a different accounting column. That's over in the medical account, exactly. That's over in the workman's comp account. So it's not over here with the case and packaging account. Exactly. That's how it does work too guys. For anybody who's not familiar, it's like, well, we saved 100, that actually, that happened years ago. I've related this story. Yeah, we saved 100 grand in department A and then department B. Yeah, but it cost us 200 grand. Well, that's not our problem. 1.4 million dollars in mistakes, but we saved 160,000 dollars in heating expenses. Yeah, Michigan has winter. Somebody got the bright idea that during the Christmas break for the University of Michigan, they would turn the heating systems down. without asking anybody in operations, maintenance or engineering, right? So it's like, well, you don't do that. You can use... Yeah, well, what happened is we had that usual cold snap right around Christmas. And what happened is they turned all the heating units down. They actually cranked off wings of these massive buildings. Well, someone came in on Saturday and could hear water running. And the reason is that, well, first it froze and went down deep in temperature, stretched all the pipes, and then they all thawed out because that was hot water. It's hot and steam heat. hot water and steam heat depending on which building it is. Well, let's just say that we had all kinds of overtime for all of our tradesmen, plumbers, electricians, outside plumbers. We had everybody in there. Total expenditure for repairs, $1.4 million in damages. But we saved $160,000 in heating expense budget. Well, there you go. And that actually I sat at that meeting and listened to that comment and was like, we saved $160,000 through the Christmas break because we turned the heat down. And I just happened to say, actually I read the old plumber, yeah, and you spent $1.4 million fixing that wonderful idea. Eric, cancer map. Yeah. I've sat in meetings where I was the technical expert and was asking the awkward question, are we deciding whether to do this thing or coming up with alibis for having already decided to do this? Everybody looks kind of embarrassed and you can tell, okay, a couple of managers got together and came up with some some idea and they decided to push it through and they're not asking whether it's a good idea, they're just asking how can they get away with it and excuse it. But we can't do it. It would explode. In that case, they got away with stuff like that because the customer, who Rumor says is the Air Force working on product, which Rumor says was the stealth bomber, thought that it was being very sneaky and sly and that nobody could figure out what the aircraft was. So the customer representatives tended to scuttle in and out of the building and hover around only in the black area. and never attended any of the real decision making meetings so they didn't realize how thoroughly they were being screwed every three weeks. Man, these guys, they're just too clever for their own good. Paycheck the paycheck, as they say, and especially when again it serves no purpose. Well, smile and wave, as we know. Smile and wave. Support the socialists. Only so long as they again provide something to you. The moment they are a failure or a waste and you really don't need them anymore. Expect something of them. They fall apart every time. My favorite comment about that project was, I'm smart enough to program their computers, but not smart enough to figure out what aircraft has 17 fuel tanks and a V-shaped configuration and very complex fuel management to maintain center of gravity in flight. Come on, guys. What exactly are you guys smoking? This is also a time when they were proposing that everybody had to pee in a jar to find out whether they were competent technically or not. Except for management. Yeah. Well, one of the guys found some documents in a trash can and we had a lot of fun passing them around. They did a sneaky stealthy audit of personnel and they were trying to figure out whether or not to go forward with all the piddle testing. What they found is that they evaluated personnel based on contract versus direct employees. and they evaluated them on competence, i.e. resume fraud and so on, versus the likelihood of passing a Piddle Test. What they found is that a fair percentage of contract employees would fail the Piddle Test, but they were the competent ones. The direct employees would in general pass the Piddle Test, but a huge percentage of them had engaged in resume fraud and were not competent. So management made the correct decision in that case to delay. doing all the fiddle dusting because they wanted the project to actually complete. That was a pleasure to hear now. We might have to get this done. What do you mean? Well, the people that you're actually qualifying, in other words, you're giving the pat on the head to, aren't really the people you want. You're trying to apply a filter that's directly antithetical to success. Well, we've got, I'll tell you what, before we go here, Rick, we're going too far from where we were covering powders earlier. Did you see in the chat room where Cellway Armory? From time to time Cellway has had some things. I did not check that one because my browser wasn't working at the time. They have some accurate, yeah, they've got some accurate powder, 5744. Now guys, if I were to tell somebody that Accurate was going to be doing $30.99 a pound back in the day, someone would laugh at me. Yeah, Accurate was not that loud or just the manufacturer is perfectly okay stuff, but not the market leaders. Again, that's a good price. Yeah, they have five in stock. They're $31 a container. It's $57.44. and that is, again, sell-away armory. They do have that in stock. That's not a variety. Let's see. Oh, wait a minute. Okay, a hazmat fee of $28.50 must be purchased for every 48 pounds of powder and primers ordered. Orders of 48 pounds will require additional fees. Yeah, the regulations say 50 pound packages, so they go 48 to be safe. Right to stay underneath. I understand how they're doing that. The thing is that again, they're very apparently because people have been kind of agitated because that hazmat fee has shown up. Well, they've had hazmat's for a long time. I know, but they're putting it in big red letters now. In other words, there may be people buying this stuff that aren't accustomed to buying it. Exactly. They're agitated and so they've been agitated enough that they've had to put that flag up there. It's not the mortise ship. Because I was shipping it charging more for the Hazmat. It's the same thing we're seeing with everything. It's like I was saying about surplus. That's painful when you can only order four pounds of something and they inflate the Hazmat on it. Right. And you're going to have to, again, you might as well go to the, well of course at $30, $31 a pound, you ain't exactly going to be carrying the house away, but you know, for instance, that's $150, well $155. for the five containers that are there if somebody were to scarf them all up. So you'd still have the $28.50 Hazmat fee on top of that, which I expect. They're posting it as a flag, and when they do that, that means somebody's had a problem with it or complained about it, and they've had to engineer accordingly because they didn't have it quite set up that way before. Right. Remember we mentioned one vendor. I don't like to throw their name out too frequently, but earlier in the program, up to $37 a pound. This isn't getting kind of bad. Now one of the other things as we pointed out is in fact you were bringing up the idea when we're going to be sliding powders up or down It is better that you come down from above with a heavy to intermediate because again, consumption of powder. It will take less to get the job done. Most of the hotter, higher burned powders, the fast powders, are actually pricier in general. Remember how many grains you've got to apply per load. Remember that you're looking at only one pound in every container or a three pound container, but a pound is still a pound. Well, if people are buying powder for pistol reloading, for instance, and you're using anywhere from four to seven grains per cartridge, it's not so painful to pay $35 for a pound because a pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes a long way as a thousand. A pound goes Wherever you've got the worst dip, you want to fill in from either end that's better supplied. So if you're weak in the middle range stuff and you can get the heavier stuff, then you want to slide the heavier stuff down. If you were weak in middle range stuff but heavy on light, then you would want to slide the light upward to the extent that you safely can to fill in the dip. It's wherever you've got a dip in the curve, you want to, you know. backfill it from the edges. As a matter of fact we've discussed the other idea here too. Remember we don't need to be dirty hairy, we need to hit something. So again remember if you look at your most almost all of your loading books have a sliding scale for ratios, you know performance ratios and it'll give you specs on your velocity, cup pressures, the whole nine yards and it is a working scale. Remember, if we back down that powder load, still get sufficient performance, we get more bullets loaded, more cartridges loaded, out of that one pound of powder. And that's really- The other thing to bear in mind is that you may end up making different kinds of ammunition for different uses. For instance, if you're using really slow powder in a medium cartridge case, you're going to be getting lower velocities and you're going to be getting a lot of smoke and a lot of flash. if you've got a little bit of BLC2 and you've got a little bit of 4350 and both of them end up going into 308s. You may want to say, okay, the 308s that's slower and flamethrowers we're going to use for garrison use and we're going to allocate the stuff that's loaded properly for the field because we don't want the low velocity high flash stuff out in the field around garrison If you're repelling incoming, there isn't any secret about what your location is or where the fight's occurring. You may end up making different flavors of ammunition just out of necessity. Another thing here real quick, and you'll bring up the point about different loads, there's a lot of discussion. Amazingly enough, we might have gotten this back into the game again, I think, because it's been kind of laid quiet for a while. The idea of using birdshot loads for defense again. Not for long range combat necessarily, although I'll put anything down range if I don't have anything left. Number seven and number eight is going to go down range. But for close in defense. Now every so often somebody finally resurrects the idea or reminds everybody that if you're inside a structure, friendly fire isn't So, one of the advantages, just as a quick reminder, they go back and forth on this in the debates, and I've seen several things posted in BK over the last two days, more than a few articles. In fact, one initiated several others that are all independent articles going back and forth on this debate. Number seven and number eight, shred. That's the only way to describe it. We hear that close, guys. There's no time for it to spread. Depending upon proximity, it may not spread at all. That wad does not have time to open up. What that's equivalent to is like a big butt glazer safety slug. Glazer safety slugs were loaded with number seven and number eight shot. and they were virtually a cart-mouthed hollow point that came to a conical close at the top with a very minimal exposed area. But when they hit, that jacket virtually was shattered and it was like an explosion going off. Well, number seven and number eight do the same thing with out of a regular shotgun. We've talked about it again. You don't have to do anything special. Just understand what each of your cartridges do. That's where you need to develop your skill. We were just talking about developing different loads for different missions. If you're operating at 20 or 30 feet of range, it almost doesn't matter what you're throwing down there, as long as there's mass. It's going to be the same weight. Take a look at your dram weights on everything. Take a look at your specs. They're right there on the box. So, it's going to get the job done. You just need to remember that if you're chasing something or you're in a firefight in a house and you're still engaging as something is trying to move through or you're going to try and prevent something from continuing to advance, understand that that number 8, 7 and number 8 is going to start spreading with each foot. So, if you have to go to an external situation, then you have to be thinking while you're doing this. It's not that difficult though and typically again the bad guys, probably the latest incident is the one that we just all saw, everybody's been around the internet, the two thugs that grabbed the daughter out in front of the house, mom and dad armed themselves, of course they weren't using a shotgun it sounds like, and when the bad guys came in, you know, get ready to rape, kill, pillage and burn, they just started plugging away and it killed one in the house and the other one of course was hitting both legs. and hit in the chest and had to go to the hospital for obvious reasons. So it turns out he was already wanted for murder, a whole bunch of other breaking and entering with murder by the sound of it. And so again, the wise thing is don't take any chances. Well, again, remember that 12 gauge does talk quite well and it pointed down a hallway as long as you're sure of your target. Don't just spray and pray. You've got to know what you're shooting at. But if you do miss like the 38 wad cutter, The energy is sufficient for really messing up a person, but if it hits a hard object or the first object it hits, be it a person or the wall or the drywall, it's probably going to stay there not in the first wall, it's going to stop with the second panel in the next room. Yeah, you have a great license they'll fly off into the other room and hit a friendly. Presumably the friendlies are behind you but you never can completely control the situation. Before we run out, I'll mention BuyGunsAndAmmo.com. This is the outfit that I've been reminding people. It has the Romanian 223 and 62 grains. They have been offering this at $0.34 a round. It's all NATO spec, boxer, brass, all that kind of good stuff. I'd be grabbing that if I were in the market for this stuff. They're having a Father's Day sale all the way down to 33 cents a round. So why not? Buy guns and ammo dot com. The Romanian 223 and 62 grains. Excellent. One last thing before we go. Anybody listening is going to the Bundy Ranch tonight or tomorrow. Grab a pickup truck. Grab four or five Harry Hindens. Get out to where the cows were held and get those stinking camouflage nets off the ground out there. In the video that was on Henry's program, they show these piles of camouflage nets. Guys, we were talking about taking them out. There's about four or five thousand dollars worth of camouflage nets sitting there that are priceless and again overhead shade and cover It's already there. We didn't know this but in this follow-up video. Well, did you see what they left? Hell if I'd been there they'd have been gone five six days ago actually two weeks ago to be quite honest So again if there's a crew out there take a truck take a trailer round all those nets up get them into the into the camp now We're gonna use them when we get out there if nothing else guys they're gonna be deploying and covering a lot of equipment Anyway, we're gonna go to the top here. 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