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A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You vie permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children 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 freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'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 keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right we only watch him 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 fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? There we go. And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, east, and south. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com, run AM and FM Micro stations, CB... with an alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida from the bottom of Florida to the ark of Mexico headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the third and fifth pit and our friends in the recall state of Colorado waiting for the left coast where we have a great state of Jefferson. We turn back to the east, sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in the smokies slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, grammar teams, okay teams and the Mount Belgraming Consortium bring us the golden spike. And Don, it's been a medium day. Clouds are kind of orangey and shiny because of the sunset or heading that way towards sunset. What's it like in your neck of the woods? And what is the date? And what's jumping off the wall up there, please. Well, it is the 13th day of August, year of Our Lord 2014, and the sunset is behind me and behind a curtain too, but the sky that I can see is all blue. There are no clouds to run up a sunset. You guys, it's just a topic here for a moment and a matter of discussion. Have you ever sat with a sunset behind you and watched the clouds all around you be orange like a sunset? The whole sky, like it's a sunset, that's a tremendous thing. That happened to me the other day for about the fourth time in my life. I've been here most of 60 years, almost, but it's a sensation unto itself. It's a sight to behold, a gift from God. But again, you guys, it is the 13th day of August. 2014. It is a particular day, Mark, and with that in mind, God bless John Moses Browning. I have one of his fine products in my left hand. Many times I've told you I'm left handed. Magazine in the right hand. We're going to introduce the magazine to the magazine. Well, hello magazine. Well, we're going to touch that slide release. Now we've got one in the chamber. We can say that's a condition one gun. It's a hot one, but hey, it is weapons. Wednesday the perimeter is secure. And you know there's plenty more where that came from. And that means we can offer equal opportunity, coercive force, the ability to continue to function everybody else is offline and the hand cannon for close order combat in the event primary systems fail or somehow you got caught with your pants down, you were doing something that needed to be done but just happened to have the weapon a little farther away from reach your main battle rifle. So the hand cannon should be right there handy shoulder holster, hip holster, whatever it is you're doing so that you're going to continue to engage to get back to your primary weapon. Remember, order to take your enemies. It doesn't mean there is a witch, but you're still going to be able to contribute to the fight and save your life. There are those who would like to put a hole in you while you're visiting the three-holer. No, I didn't think this was going to happen. As I said, Mr. W, two Purple Hearts, both of them are being shot in the butt, and both times because he was out digging a cat hole, kids. He'd be the first to tell you. His third wasn't really a Purple Heart, but he lost his... One of the things he could do is he could take his front left tooth and flip it like a chicklet in his mind, like literally with his tongue, because he lost his front teeth with a... He got smacked in the face, blew all the front of his teeth out. And they surgically replaced him. They've got inserts and stuff. Well, he actually could take that one tooth, and if he was getting nervous, he'd... Or just to scare somebody. What in the hell was that? I'm sorry. Speaking of paying attention, you can make of this what you will. I was first made aware of this through a series of pictures about four years ago. There might have been in the popular science, I might have addressed it at the time. But you guys, when I first saw this series of pictures, I'll tell you about it in a moment, I was amazed. It was something that I'm pretty certain we brought that subject to the air at the time. But if you go back four, maybe six years, and I'm pretty certain it's in the Popular Mechanics, you'll see the description of that highly mystical thing that many people have pondered on. Well, you got Mr. Mosquito. Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. He's flying along. Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. And it starts to rain. Patter, patter, patter, patter. And buzz, buzz, buzz. And patter, patter, patter. Mr. Mosquito is flying along and suffers a direct hit from a raindrop. Unless it's really, really storming, raindrops are a pretty uniform size, the way they form in clouds and whatnot, and around a single particle of dust and all of those meteorological things that your weatherman will tell you about, and those that study the atmosphere. But now we've got the dilemma of the mosquito buzz, buzz, buzz, and he's flying along and he's all of a sudden struck by a raindrop. Now that would seem to be the death of the mosquito, you know, think about it you guys. I'm just buzz buzz buzz flying along. I'm a mosquito. I don't know no better and wham a ton of water hits you. Now, you know what? Again, this was amazing when I saw this sequence of photos. You know what takes somewhere between 22 and 26. If I remember it might be 9 it might be 21 and 28. Links of the raindrop as it falls believe it or not you guys, for the mosquito to crawl up into the raindrop. Now he's completely enveloped in it like he's like he first came out of the water and and he crawls up to the top and he breaks the surface tension and now he's sitting on the top of the falling raindrop and he buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz flies away. Now we'd have never known about this little act of nature, this little bit of self preservation other than high-speed cameras. And I did start this with I'm not certain where we can go with this but you know That mosquito when it got whacked with that, you know, think of it if you're walking along or you're well, that's a motivation. That's the way we locomotive, you know, we walk. How much water would it take to envelop you? To where you know, you stretch your arms out and your legs out and you can't reach the end of that huge bubble of water. A ton of water, a mosquito struck, you know, literally proportionally with a ton of water, climbs up into it. climbs through the water, grabs that surface tension, pulls itself through it, climbs up onto the top of the falling drop of water and flies away. Now you might think that there's nothing, why are you even talking about this Don? But you know, one day there was a mosquito that that happened to the very first mosquito in all of recorded history. There was no high-speed camera around to record the incident, but I'm pretty certain it happened to another mosquito before they took pictures of this mosquito saving its own life from some impossible situation. Now you see where we're going with that? Boy oh boy, that's like flying into a solid cloud for an airplane. A cloud of solid water. How do you think that part of you couldn't get out? He doesn't have the physical abilities. The airplane is not going to flap its wings. It's not going to crawl through the... That to me is a dinky little miracle to you guys. A gift from God, the ability to pull oneself, extract oneself, even just a mosquito from such a disastrous situation. And buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, just fly away as if almost nothing happened. There is a lot to be learned from that. That little mosquito is God's creatures too. One of God's creatures just caught in front of the camera and exhibiting an ability to survive through what should have been a killing instant. A circumstance that just drove the little mosquito to the ground and he splat on the ground and flat and here comes another raindrop and finishes off for certain. You would think that, buzz buzz buzz, you're a mosquito flying along. And I know this is out, you know many times we ask you to compare an inch to a mile. But you would think you're just a mosquito flying along and you're doomed when you're hit with a raindrop. But you would not believe it had you not seen it. I'm pretty certain we talked about this for a moment Mark when Popular Mechanics released these pictures maybe four, maybe six years ago. But it takes somewhere between 21 and 28 or 29 links of the raindrop falling through its own measure of length that before the mosquito has crawled out and burst through the surface tension of that which keeps the water in a drop instead of just turning to a mist. climb out and fly away. Buzz, buzz, buzz. Now, you know, I don't think that the mosquito has a very large battlefield computer. I don't know how many cells are dedicated to its self-preservation and feeding and all of the things that life is due in order that it becomes a full definition of life. We don't have to elaborate on that. You know, go out and make other mosquitoes and things like that. But imagine you're just walking along and a ton of light falls on you. Now, we're not talking about, you know, we're going to have to give you an example that is survivable. We're not talking about Larry Mohan-Crowley in a piano, you know? But to think that that little mosquito with hardly any brain has enough thought line to climb up to save itself from what should be a life-ending situation. And you and I got a lot more brain power than that, don't we? We most certainly do. And it is raining, isn't it? there is that threat and we're going to have to figure out how to get out from each individual raindrop problem and a single raindrop isn't a problem to you or me. We put on a poncho. We smack that mosquito that tries to fly into the poncho, don't we? Now the point here is you might think, well, Tom's just going on and on and we don't do this just to fill time. You guys, that's one of the, that example right there of self-preservation, of I'm going to get out of this sticky wicket no matter how bad it is, and I'm free. And I'm buzz, buzz, buzz just flying along again. That's a real good natural, that's a real good example of I will not be subject to even overwhelming circumstances. I don't think with a dinky little amount of brain cells a mosquito has it could ever come to a conclusion or a thought line like that, but it says, it's flying along, buzz, buzz, buzz, and man, I'm in trouble. It might not even have the ability to think that, but instinct says I have to get out of this. The mosquito doesn't even have the ability to put that sentence together, but it creates the situation until it alters the situation, until it survives. Buzz fly away and perhaps be struck by another raindrop that same day or another. but because it's done it before, the next one will be easier, won't it? Oh man, another raindrop I gotta climb through. A cold raindrop threatening its life. Got through it. Well again, you guys, half the reason I bring this, these were images of this sequence of events that happened is somewhere between about 20, 21 and 29 links of the raindrop. You see the picture of the mosquito being struck and the water just enveloping it. The mosquito just, well, you can't imagine, man, where did this piano come from? Then it's at the top of the bubble. The bubble is still falling, mind you, the drop of water. It crawls through the surface tension and now it's on top for a whole flash of that, I don't know how many thousands of frames per second. It's sitting on the top like it's riding that raindrop and then in the next one it's got one foot on it and the next one it's completely free of it flying away. That's an astounding image. But you guys, we bring that as an example. Certain situations and circumstances might seem overwhelming and just crushing like a ton of water or a piano. Very Mo and Curly piano now we're talking about. It falls from the sky and makes that guy really short. That's a crushing situation, but if you see it coming you step out of the way. This is another thing you need. We talk about paying attention and we're done with the mosquito. Let's smack another one. That was an amazing sequence of events, amazing sequence of photos. But you know if I'm walking along and you have to learn this for yourself, there's a whole bunch of little tricks that will help you stay alive. But if I'm walking along and someone says, hey, like it's a warning, I don't have to hear my name to hear somebody cry out like a warning for me to look around. Now that might help me avoid that piano situation. You see where we're going with that? But we can take this story, we can compare that inch to a mile in so many different arenas. We could talk about two guys holding down a ton of enemy, a wall of opponents for a couple or three days. Granted, they had other people lobbing in star shells at night so they could see they didn't have night vision. But two guys and some long distance assistants kept more than 100 guys pinned down for most of three days. People would say, I've got a hundred guys after me. I don't know what to do, man. I'm one of them threatening the herd. Yeah, start cleaning the herd. Cutting one or two of them away. We brought that example of cutters and the bomber that drags away from the formation and the cow that wanders away, the buffalo even. The Indian knows about the buffalo from the herd. The wolf knows about the sheep or the elk that steps away from the herd. So does the bear. Start thinning them out. But you know, I'll have to read that one day. There's a chapter in that book I've been referring to for a few years now off and on, that forked-tailed devil. There's a chapter in there about a lieutenant up to test his engines in his P-38. He looked over there and out from the cloud come 100 Japanese airplanes at least. A good portion of them bombers, the rest of them fighters. He got on the radio and warned everybody and attacked that flight. He shot down seven airplanes. I won't tell you the end of it. But to think that you look at a hundred, that's the title of that chapter, a hundred to one. And to run into the battle. You know, that's like, man, there's a piano falling on me. I better be moving as quick as I can. Now, you guys, I'll read that chapter to you someday soon. I don't want to leave you in suspenders there. That's most speak going back to the piano falling on you. I don't want to leave you and suspenders there forever. I'll read that. It's about four pages. I'll read that chapter to you maybe before the week is done. But there are so many examples. We can go even, what, some three. We reference to the movie 300 now and then. But there's another. There's a biblical 300, wasn't there Mark? Wasn't it 300 with Gideon? Yes, actually, remember you take the chosen, the best of the warriors, and chosen in a very unique way, by the way. Yes. But they just walked into and surrounded an enemy camp, had the enemy known how many there were there. Well, they might not have lived through the night. They put the fear of God in them and they kind of got up and left, didn't they? I think they were doing more than playing the sultry in the sack, but let's put it that way. Yes. Now again, you guys, Mark, you've referred so many times to that, you know, greatest battlefield computer on the planet, that gray matter between your ears. I referenced back and sometimes we bring out that yardstick an inch to a mile and man, that mosquito or just a couple of brain cells, you know, I don't know how many it's got, but it's got enough to know how to take care of that overwhelming circumstance in the blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, how far can a raindrop fall before it's fallen some less than 30 of its own length through the air? How much time is that? But again, you guys, you might come to a point where you think all is lost. The nail, the shoe, the horse, and everything else. To stay in the fight when the fight's not over, to stay in the fight until the last, you know, Determining shot is fired until there's no fat lady on the other side singing Unless she's singing the death song for all of her son and you have to have there is always a way out There is always a way to better where you are Even if it's not staying where you are there comes a piano stand over there. There comes the truck down the road turn the corner Okay, you know and I hate to bring you know You guys that that mosquito falling through the air that's almost supernatural. That's ethereal That's something if if we didn't have the high-speed camera, we would never know happened That's one of God's little secrets for fast camera found out now you go you guys read the Psalms I'll do this for just for another second read the Psalms and find out a whole bunch of things that people that that the Bibles don't they don't even want to address the Psalms A lot of people who call themselves Christians and read the Psalms once in their life and don't use to revisit it. Why? Because it's mean and it's like my brother used to say, I don't like reading Revelations because it's scary. Sometimes you have to face scary things and sometimes you have to own scary things. But again, I'll yield to you, Mark. Start at the front and read a chapter or two. of the Psalms every day. There are less than 200 of them. Some of them are most of them, but you will find courage there. In fact, if you want to verify that, pick up the book and start at the Psalms. Open it up and go to that. What is it? 141 or 144? Mark, I know. The interesting thing, many of them are battle champs for all practical purposes. Many of them are battle prayers going into combat or could be upon a person's lips as they are fighting. Just something to think about there. They were songs. Actually, they were both a combination of the traditional metered poetry, but in almost every case they were brought into music in one form or another long before we ever existed. Just something to think about there. Oh, yes. We are at the bottom, by the way, before we go any farther, bottom of the hour break for us here with Don. Don, night vision technology. A lot of people have been picking up the A3 kits. Little suggestions, something that I noticed here. The micro Picatinny rails that are out there, they seem to be flourishing right now for a pretty good price, under $10 for a set. Guys, something to take into consideration. They allow you to keep a permanent fixture or a small set of items prepped and ready to go to lock on. Just an idea there for iron sites. But we're looking at daylight to nighttime. Depending on what you build, one of our friends is building three ARs. One of the things to look at is like golf clubs. Why even switch out? If you have enough golf clubs, you go to your nightclub. I ain't talking about the drinking place. And if that's the case, the flat top with an air 15 with a whatever length barrel with one of Dom's night vision devices permanently affixed, certainly you could change it out and you have the ability to do so quickly. But leave it on the weapon system. I mean, come on, a Kar-15 with a Polymer receiver, a Paloa receiver, you're looking five, six pounds for the rifle. You can't carry another golf club. In fact, quite easily you can. Then, it's a matter of what do you put on it. Daylight scopes, any number of options in terms of long range, intermediate or short with regard to optics potential. But night vision, that's a must. So Don, what do you have to throw on top of that A3? And what else do we have out there in the way of monocular technology and what is changing and how can we get hold of you? Well, we can go with a first second generation piece, both of them being entry level in their category. The first generation piece, an integral rail that would thumb screw right down onto the rail on top of that gun, put that gun sight in your mailbox for $390. In fact, if you were to look at that profile and up it to AR-10 configuration, the 308, this gun sight will live on top of that. It's built to the 23 configuration, no problem. 308, no problem. We can do that in a second generation gun sight also. Second generation gun sight that's 2 power, right in your mailbox delivery, the 2-year warranty, the detachable illuminator, again, delivered, $1,248 right in your mailbox. When we look at viewers, you guys, I talked to my guy today, we have 204 of the 3 power. We have, I'm looking right at the numbers, exactly 600 of the 5 power green screen viewers. I did not get a number on the amount of gun sights, the 4 power we have left. But that's the number for the viewers. I should have a number for the gun sights soon. The problem is when these are gone, we'll be looking at white light, a little black and white television you'll be looking at instead of a little green screen, green and white television. and we've addressed the white light on your face at night. That's not a tactically sound thing to do. Suggesting the green... Oh, come on LEDs! Because it has been brought to my attention that that big configuration should be lit with LEDs backlit when it's not a true night vision device. And if they light it with white lights, well it's white light. And if they light it with green LEDs, which has been pointed out to the company a number of times now, This is one of those, you should do this, you should do this, that they've been hearing from Don over the years. Let's see what they do, because that would be really good if they go back toation, even if the innards are from a digital video recorder, at least the light is coming out of this green. I can't make any promises. What we are looking at is hard numbers now, again, on the three powered, just over 200, 203 or 206 or something like that, or right at 600. That's again entry level what one might call a spotting scope. The 3 power, I can put that in your mailbox for $205. That includes delivery. The manufacturer is going to get $219 and they're going to get delivery beyond that. It's a first generation device and I'm not beating the manufacturer by a whole lot, but the margin there is almost nothing. So again, you guys, it's almost what one might call a loss leader. but it's in your mailbox for $205. Now, we could talk about third generation or we could talk about green screen. We could talk about, you know, heat vision, you know, black and white screen and white would equal heat or black would equal heat. Not certain if the entry level device I'm talking about is able to swears like that though, but I'm pretty certain if it's just one setting, white would equal heat and the black would be the devoid of heat. But I can put a generation, not first generation, forgive me for that reference because they don't refer to thermal in generations. But I can put an entry level piece of thermal, a viewer in your mailbox for $1895 right from the manufacturer. There will be a one year warranty on it overall. I just found this out, a 10 year warranty on the inner tube. Not, not, not, it doesn't hold air. The tube portion of the device itself. will be covered for 10 years because it's marked because the entry-level piece here is drawn out of the automotive industry or what they have supplied to automotive for vision for dashboards like in Cadillacs and a couple of other cars. That is what has made this device as affordable as it is because they're mass producing it for cars now. So yee-haw, again, the more they make of them it seems the cheaper they get, but that goes over to supply and demand too. A piece of thermal, you guys, handheld thermal viewer for $1895 right in your hand. That includes delivery. But any of the affor- I mean, that's taking up five minutes doing this. If you want to talk about any of the aforementioned devices or any green screen or thermal, my number is 2317968458. Again, two, three, one. 7 9 6 8 8. Thank you Mark. And that means the ability to be able to see at night. Don has the technology available. Why are you dealing with a stranger when you can deal with a friend? Now, one of the things that was asked about the other day was, well, can we use night vision on Airsoft? Well, why not? One cool thing about Airsoft for night fire guys, no felt recoil with these plastic pellet guns. The performance is very acceptable. Some of the more successful modified systems with all the add-on motors and accentuators and focal systems allow you to put that pellet down range at a pretty good velocity. And it does give you the opportunity to practice yet again with a positive response at night. Now, a lot of people that are using night vision and Airsoft for night training are using the more sophisticated Airsoft weapons for that purpose. In other words, typically they're all metal. They are some automatic, fully automatic option weapons. In other words, they're not manually manipulated. The other thing is, again, not unlimited capacity. You want to choose a weapon system for Airsoft. that matches the actual performance. In other words, if it's a 30-round mag, it should be a 30-round mag. I know they've got unlimited mags. It's a 500-round Hollywood mag inside the container. 500 pellets and they'll feed, feed, feed, feed and feed. Well, that's not real. So again, that's one of the things to take into consideration. You limit to the actual natural capacity of the magazine. that forces the individual to think about rounds you know slash consumption and you have to go through the action drill of replacing magazines charging the weapon again and utilizing it in its original configuration as expected. Otherwise there's no reason not to use it for range fire, you know night range fire. In fact it's perfect because it is kind of a hush puppy you know practice you know you really don't make a whole lot of noise. Anybody's going to hear you know two miles away going I'm echoing across the valley. That big kapow going across the valleys. So again, yes, it is night vision with Airsoft, not a problem. Pretty straightforward in terms of sighting. There's no difference with regard to performance in sighting of the weapon, just as you would during the day with a conventional arm. Night sighting with the Airsoft is pretty much the same. By the way, there are bolt guns that perform exceptionally well that are airsoft. And again, as we said, gas slash semi-auto guns, a lot of them are actually electric. Well, there are some gas guns, certainly in the handgun configuration. Green gas is one of the more common. So that is a solution, and it is part of the training process. Another option here, again, is at the very least Remember, getting people out on the range to share fire and night fire operations. If you have one weapons system and you've got a night vision device on site, if the other people are looking at buying one but you're limited and everybody has to kind of maybe pitch in and there's a couple systems that people are using, they're buying them for the units. Everybody collects so much money, they buy another system and they wait until they collect enough money and then they buy another system. You should still put everybody behind that scope on what is the most common weapon system that you are all carrying. If the majority of the men have AARs, it should be mounted on an AR-15 first, obviously. Of course, the owner is going to probably say something if he's using an AK, but I would recommend that if you can dismount and remount the fixture, the sight system, on the most common weapon that's in the team. It's an AK, it's an AK, it's an AR, it's an AR. If it's an SKS, it's an SKS. And everybody should be put behind it to see how it functions, to put at least some stick time on with night vision technology in everybody's brain. Because half the battle is when we do get the technology either captured and acquired on the battlefield or we purchase more in a, you know, maybe a It could be a godsend, a special dropping of something from heaven, whatever, however it works. This was supposed to fall over there. Yeah, well, look at all we got in this here box. Oh, ain't that special. And it will be because we'll make sure it's used. Grab it. They'll be here soon. The big thing is, again, to work with your people and give all of them some time on the system as quickly as possible. And again, if we do capture equipment, don't just try to plug and play. Pull it back to the rear, inspect, ensure that there's nothing strange, exotic, or unusual in the way of an issue, and then service accordingly, but still with classroom time. Even the time before, you have classroom slash tutorial slash instruction time, especially as you're incorporating new weapon systems. You know, the Army and the Marines didn't just dump men behind the M1 Grand. Oh no! They had to pull them back, they gave them familiarization time, they developed their skills with the rifle, and then they cycled them forward. Now until such time as they could do that, many units were of course, instead they were on the line with whatever they were already originally issued and they stayed with that weapon system through that particular deployment. Now, there are a few upgrades that took place because of attrition. The Marine Corps is notorious for that. An interesting thing to point out is, again, remember that we went into the war with a bolt gun. Despite the fact that you see all the dates for the Garand and there's the real early Garands and this and that and the other, let's remember that the minority from the get-go had the Garand rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield and the Johnson rifle. went into the war with the Marine Corps and with the Army, just the O-3 Springfield and all the others, full-auto weapons, squad guns, BARs, etc., that you're familiar with. In fact, even the 1917 Enfield was resurrected and was issued extensively throughout the war in the early stages in many fronts simply because there weren't enough weapons to go around and while they tried to route them and secure them, they had to use them. So nothing was outdated, nothing was obsolete, nothing was thrown away. But that's a significant change going from a manually operated gun to a gas operated system that required a lot of special support. You know, changing a weapon system, guys, the armorers have to be developed, if nothing else. The part you don't see in movies are the armorers vans moving forward with the units. Guns would be withdrawn, new weapons would be issued because of, again, time and service. Even if it was the old three Springfield, a lot of weapons were rebuilt by the armorers and rebuilt again. They didn't throw anything away. Parts, pieces, and assemblies were stacked up and some were kind of like what we call hanger queens. We were talking about that the other day. You cannibalize a gun until there's nothing left you can use off it that makes sense. Then it goes either into the scrap metal pile or it gets thrown into the ocean or it may even be sent back in its crudest form for complete factory rebuild, which they did do en masse. You pile up enough, you throw them in a barge going back the other way, a hulk, and when it gets to the other end, they do something with it back where they have the parts, pieces, assemblies, and the factory to do it. Just something to think about there in terms of again when we're training people most common weapons one of the things that I have noticed a new Well, it's not really new but there's a new airsoft carbine out about $44 Woodstock it is Mildly sporter eyes to look more like the later model Universal in some ways not every way but some ways So in that respect, it is not a significant variance and in fact these carbines make great training aids for a lot of you people who have the M1 carbine in service and there are millions of them. Don't poo-poo the carbine. There are going to be a lot of them that show up on the battlefield that are going to be on our side. In fact, we just kept putting them away and putting them away. The same with the ammo. Billions of rounds of ammunition. God knows how many magazines from World War II and Korea. and all kinds of carbines that in waves have come back into the US and we've all put them away. So there are many, many carbines. Become familiar with that weapon system, and I would highly recommend that you do it because there are so many. Now it's a pretty straightforward weapon to operate, but there are some special needs just like every weapon system with regard to maintenance. The M1 carbine has a little trapid system that's out of sight, so it's out of mind. Problem is, it will all be in your mind real quick after about five, six hundred rounds. Maybe if you're lucky up to a thousand, but you'll start to get a little sticky. And when that happens you're going to go, hmm, something's not right here. My weapon is all of a sudden becoming a bolt-action semi-automatic rifle. In fact, it's mostly not being semi-automatic. It's becoming a very frustrating bolt-action like rifle. Well, the reason is that gas tap it system. This is a very common problem that most people fail to catch. I am harping on it for a reason. If you inherit a bunch of car beans and somebody like maybe Buford or your brother-in-law or your brother took them out and fired a bunch of stuff up, now they're like, well, think you should have these because they ain't that good. This one don't work that well. Oh, OK. You sure you don't want it? No, I don't want that anymore. I've had that happen on the range, like I've said. Don't argue with the characters who initially grabbed and scarfed everything up and then went into stupid mode. If they don't want them, take them, shut up, take them home, break them down, clean them up, and you'll find out they work just fine. But that means a thorough cleaning. And that includes that gas caplet system, which is typically, 90% of the time, the problem. It's not the extractor. It's not the ejector. It's just that the gas system doesn't work. There's no oof getting to the base of that rod, that op system, that pushes back the bolt, the carrier and the bolt. So just something to think about there. Anyway, the other thing is SKS's. Bunch of SKS's coming in. I'm going to tell you what most likely is the problem with the ones that aren't working. Carefully disassemble as much of the gun as you can. You'll probably be able to get the bolt and the dust cover off and the bolt out. However, The gas tappet rod, most common problem with the SKS and AK in their long-tooth form, is that while they did chrome the inside of most components, they still have a standard wear factor. Now the tappet rod and the operations rod that work the gas system on the SKS, just like on the AK, guys, those channels get worn. Then something gets put away. Oh, they greased the outside of the rifle. They may have even greased some of the inside of the weapon for storage. But you have wear points that are along all the high riser points on the inside of those stamped sheet metal tubes. In addition, you have a worn metal gas contact point, a gas seal point. that typically if it sits long enough, well, nature takes its course. Oxidation, mild oxidation, takes place. And you will find that before you don't try to beat anything out, don't try to hammer anything, Mr. Penetrating Oil is your friend. Take the time, there's little ports in the front end of those gas systems, and also you've got the channel of the tap it comes through. Spray down that channel and leave the weapon standing vertical to the ground, perpendicular to the ground, straight up. And make sure that the penetrating oil is applied to all points along that gas tube and along the gas system. Now what you do, a little trick here, bounce the weapon down a little bit. Up and down on the ground. Don't beat it. Just let it bop, bop, bop a little bit on the butt. and then let it sit for a minute and do it again and then spray it again and walk away. Oh you thought Mark was going to say it's time to disassemble the weapon. No, I just told you you're loosening up the crud and garbage inside with a little bit of impact energy there but it probably isn't going to go any place and isn't going to move yet and I know you may have bought one of the finest penetrating oils money can buy that's your favorite based upon name brand or whatever. Well, be patient with the old girl. She's going to be a fine rifle that will serve you well. But like a Chrysler that's been sitting for a bit, you squeak a little oil, you'll pull those plugs, squeak a little oil in there, walk away for a day or two, come back, tap it just a hair, and then do it again, and you'd be surprised at how those old Chrysler engines work. Well, it's the same with that SKS. All of those parts were cured. We remember that in order for them to have been chromed, those parts had to have fully cooled and gone through a storage process to get to the chroming process. So the neat thing is that the metal on that SKS, and typically on the AKS, especially the machine AKS, were allowed to cure and typically set in bins or bunkers until the chroming process could catch up with those parts. This is much like the Chrysler engines, which the 318s, the 360s, when they were built down in Toledo, they would sit in the yard for one full year and were allowed to settle and cure before they would go into the plant for boring and milling. So the SKS is an amazing weapon and a very forgiving beast with regard to potato abuse or rice farmer abuse. Potato farmer and rice farmer abuse are horrible. And in each case, I'm mentioning the Russians and the Chinese and how they maintain their weapons or the lack thereof, that SKS will forgive you, or I won't say forgive you, will forgive the person who misabused it earlier in its life. Once you get it and you can then start to work that tap at work all the components again, You should find that they will break free fairly quickly. Once that happens, because they're not rusted all the way around the surface of those rod contact points, the piston points. Remember, if you look on the outside of that SKS and the AKS, you'll find that there are serrations and that there are intentional, what are called basically dirt cleaning points on both of the systems. Well, that's typically where also the rods are resting. Once you disassemble them, they will slide out quite comfortably. You might have to assist them a little bit with a wooden dowel. Then once that's done, the real work begins! Because now you're going to clean up the inside of that so she it's going to be like the old sergeant working out You got a potato patch in there son I just looked inside your gas system and you have a potato patch at 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock and I'm fact I do not want to see that weapon until you have gotten rid of the potato patching. Are you a farmer or a marine? That's right exactly and then you go back and you clean it up by the way since you brought it to me and show me the weapon you thought it was clean give me 50 push-ups and then you can go back and start all over again. So, it got real motivated to get it done right. Final inspection was done as part of it. Again, the idea was to teach you a lesson and break in with some more exercise. Well, with the SKS, again, typically it's because it even said in the article, the reason I bring this up is Royal Tiger imports. If you read the article, these weapons were stored for the last 20 years in a neutral country. I could for them. Well, if they were stored for 20 years, do you think that some armorer went in there and cleaned every gun up and then re-greased them 10 years ago? No. You think the last time we were touched was 20 years ago? 20 years ago? You could also read that print as, these weapons were put in storage and forgotten about for 20 years. We found. And if it was Vietnam, we don't know where the hell they stacked these things up. You know what I mean? It could have been found in a tunnel. Yeah, how many of you have been to Vietnam? How many know what the humidity factor is over there? In a tunnel. In a tunnel. And still 110 degrees, you know? Think about it. So, that's why those weapons are sitting the way that they are and were rated the way that they are. Like I said, personally, I'd get a $200 one and I'd just take and go through it one step at a time and I would bring it all back. Only because it takes me less time to do that. Rather than spending money that I can spend on ammo and other things that I want for that SCAS, I can do some TLC work on it because I know what I'm doing and any of you could handle it the same way, but you need to remember to be patient. don't try to beat it apart. Don't try to break it. If it's locking up it somewhere, especially when you consider the again the history and the pedigree of what they've told you about with regard to what happened to this weapon, it's not the weapons fault, it's just you know age and age catches up with everybody. Even you and me, we're going to have entropy problems just like anything else. So again, the other thing about maintenance, once you're done, again, start with the polymer brushes if you want. You may want to use not necessarily emery cloth or anything like that. But you may want to use a little more aggressive stainless or copper brushes. Those are available on the market, even at dollar stores. The thing is be careful, but it's an internal component. So these are internal parts, out of sight, out of mind. You're not going to really be ruining any finish. And because the oxidation is there, you want to be aggressive to get rid of as much of that as possible. Now you can even go so far as to have somebody recrome the internals. And that's something that some people have done if they're lucky enough to have a shop that can do that. We used to have one here six miles away from where I'm sitting. It closed down because Yuppieville took over. And all the manufacturing places there, well, the Yuppie scum have run them out. And now they're farther away, about 20 miles away. But they're still... Ew, chroming stinks. Yeah, exactly. It's new, it's new, it's adorable. Yeah, it's industrial processing, you know, it's like, oh my god. And then you walk around the land a little before you bought it, lady. Yeah, this company did park rising, chrome plating, and even any other kind of metal plating one, including gold. But, needless to say, we ain't doing any gold on the inside of a gun, or outside. Chrome, maybe, nickel finish, etc. And maybe phosphate finish, but that's about it. Now the other thing here about those internals is again inspect all components, but when you're disassembling any of these used weapons be patient, but take all threaded stock and disassemble break it down virtually to the last part and lubricate everything. You know straight blade screws or a lot of times you'll see a straight blade screw in a gun. You guys, you lay it down and this goes back over to letting the penetrating oil do its job while at the same time, you know, you can hit all of those screws with that pea oil, that penetrating oil, at the same time that you are looking that gas tube. Now, you get a screw that's stubborn, you put the screwdriver to it and man, you don't want to turn those edges out. You don't want to find it, oh wow, I can't get this screw out because well, I've destroyed the screw head. You get a screw that's stubborn, you put a screwdriver in it, or you get one of these screwdrivers that has the removable tips, and you take that straight blade tip and you put it in that screwdriver, and you get the smallest hammer in your house, and you rest that hammer. Listen now. You rest that hammer on that bit, and you raise it about a millimeter, and you let it go. falls and barely taps on it. We're not trying to hit it. We're just trying to send some vibrations into it. And you do that about 30 times in a minute and then you walk away. And if it doesn't move the next day, you do it again with some more oil. You send those vibrations to it. Eventually that screw will move. Or eventually you'll have to drill it out and tap it out. And you know what? It's a lot better to turn that screw out even if you have destroyed the head because you can find another screw than it is to destroy the screw and drill the screw out and have to tap it, isn't it Mark? I usually a wooden mallet. A wooden mallet is good too because you're not trying to drive it in like a nail. You're just trying to put frequencies in it like ringing the bell. You're shaking the whole component is what you do. Just enough to break the adhesion. Cracking the rest. Yes, yes. Powering that penetrating oil to move just a little more in. Thank you very much. And another vibration. And it moves just a little farther in. And then you hit it a little more. Thank you, Fluffy. And not only that, but the one thing about this is, guys, we're not just talking about the SKS's that are available right now. We're talking about a lot of other weapons you probably have and aren't thinking about. Carcanos, M1 Gran, K98 Mausers, even those nagots you've been buying. When was the last time you think all of those threads were back, all of those screws were backed out completely? The channel was cleaned carefully and that's what Q-tips and pipe cleaners and plastic brushes are for. plastic bore brushes of different sizes. If you can find the taps, God bless you. Yeah, get down in there, clean them out and remember nothing else if you re-lubricate that area and it can be either a fluid or grease lubricant either way. Obviously the longer lasting it is the better off you are maintenance wise. Oils have a tendency to be compressed and sloth out through gravity Greases are obviously, the lubricant is bonded to a, forgive me, to a wax of one type or another and eventually there is separation. Once again, the lubricant sloths out. The only cool thing is that the grease being made up with a wax, the paraffin, actually stays there and is a separating agent. It's not really going to go anywhere until there's heat. If there's heat, just like cosmoline or any of the greases, there's not just separation. Initially, there's actually re-adhesion because the stuff typically melts in the same temperature range or becomes fluid. And then what will happen when it cools, it will just repuddle and settle somewhere else. Unfortunately, that process may allow for a majority of that lubricant to move completely from the area it was intended for use. Now, even if this is on microscopic level, so to speak, it's actually bigger than that. But it's such a light coat that you really can't see it. Remember, the purpose is to seal the crystalline structure and to prevent oxygen from making contact, which of course, that's what rust is. OK, oxidation. There are some finer, the more money you spend, the nicer the lubricants you can find out there. PLS does some really good long-term, long-lasting weave tested. There's long-term storage grease. Actually, if it's used in very moderate forms in any of these screw surfaces or underneath the stock where it can't be seen. People forget that, oh my goodness, look at the pie marks. Well guys, by using PLS products you can lubricate, seal, and it will hold for two years in salt water so I don't think it's going to drip off that rifle right away say over the next five to six years in fresh water, you know what I mean? In an air environment like this. So it should be good for a good long time even if you forget to do maintenance for a while again because you've got a hundred of these Nagats to take care of. We are at the top. By the way guys, again, do PM on all your weapons, check everything, don't assume, and rotate your ammunition out if you've got bags loaded. Remember, don't just keep going that way for six, eight months. Come up, bag reloading, like, not your... So gotcha? It'll be gotcha there. He just, I think, it just turned the music down. That was a bit overpowering. 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