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Invist the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. 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. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? 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 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 and tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He'd fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? still the land of the free 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, central, east, south, and west. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com AM and FM Micro stations CB base stations Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi and all the way up to Alaska waving to the left coast out there on the Ellucian side way way way up and way way way out. A couple of the red flag stores are also the relays remember for internet up there. Anyway, Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed Louisiana to Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, 5th, Pitt, and our friends in the recall state of Colorado, waving the left coast where we have the 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, grandma teams, okay teams and the Ma Bell Grandma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spike. Many hands make for late work. Don, it's still warm. It's pretty out there. Little critters, bugaboos are trying to come out and make their last jump of course through the season here because we're headed towards fall now. What's it like up in your neck of the woods? What's the date today? What's jumping off the wall? Well, Mark, it is the third day of September, year of Our Lord 2014, and it's turning into a beautiful evening sunset kind of day. We're starting the first official week of fall here or something like that they tell us about, but the solstice thing and all of that, if you want to go in that kind of worship number is exactly where we are in the university. You really, really know. I have to ask you that question. You really, really know for all your solstice people. I had to do that, Mark. Again, it is the third day of September, 2014, and it's the strike down the middle of the week of that which I am certain. That's a Wednesday, so here we go. One is 1911 in one hand and magazine in the other. The magazine is in the well, and you could sing a song like that, like the magazine is in the well, but it is. Touching that slide released, now we've got a bullet in the chamber. Some call it bullets thrown here. We call them cartridges, bullets, projectiles. But, uh, it's a A1 gun now, that's a condition A1 gun, there's one in the chamber. I think I'll turn the safety on Mark, because there's no one rushing through the door right now. But I can tell you, it is a weapons Wednesday. The perimeter is secure, and there's plenty more where that came from. We can now offer equal opportunity, core, or super force. And that means everybody, well, for all quarters, all weapons need to be prepared to be used on standby as needed to defend the castle. A couple of things here real quick, that 1911, prices have not really come down on the 1911s. The biggest thing they've got is like Rock Island, I think is doing some rebate, $50 rebate checks if you buy their gun. I haven't heard how that works out or how that's gone. Just a little hint, turn it into more magazines. Yeah, that's all I would do, is turn it right back into stuff you need for the weapon, either more mags or more ammo. So $50 worth of mags is a good thing. And that's really the issue is more mags, more mags, and more mags. Everybody's talking about, well, you know, take your pick, the riots, the zombies, the whatever zombies and rioters. I don't think there's any difference anyway there. But, Mark, zombies are brain dead. Yes. And your point? They only want your brains. Brains! I want to eat brains and eat you. Well, it's zombies and let's see, riders, they want to steal your property. They want to watch your property. Well, of course so. While they're flapping their yap and saying, we're looking for justice for Mr. Schmidlapp, I'm going to go steal for my neighbor. And by the way, if his good looking daughter is there, she ain't going to stand a chance. So unless she is well armed, and that's what everybody needs to remember, is make sure you're squared away, armament and equipment. Everybody understands how it works, what it does. Hacking and chopping rules do apply. Remember, you might have to use something other than your firearm to get to the firearm. Especially progressive, bigger and heavier weapons. When you're using the hand cannon, that's to get you to the next thing that's bigger still. But the idea is that everybody participates, I won't say all, but if you have as a primary weapon the hand cannon in a situation like that, continue to contribute to the defense. That's why more mags, more mags, more mags, more mags and more mags. Let's reinforce that because I watched over the weekend, Mark, I sat down and I got that lines for lambs for a dollar and a quarter, brand new. on a DVD. That's a tremendous movie, you guys. Even if it's got the little short guy in it and it's got that other one of the one... Well, you could look in different scripture and describe her. Sit down and listen to that. If you get the chance, pay attention to it. Watch it. Listen to what they're talking about. It is... Oh, Marcus pointed this movie out to us years ago in 2008 when it came out. Even in a semi-combat situation, the subject of that movie, Mark, was the gunner who fell overboard and his friend who jumped off of the helicopter after him. That was the subject of that movie. All of the ammunition they had was that which they had on them standing on board that slick. That wasn't no slick. That was a shi-hooke. Yeah, I know. It was standing on board that whirly gig. They are going to fly into a combat situation, but all they had, in fact the gunner, he didn't even have a long gun with him, in driver situations, even in medical supplies. You should have a sidearm that you are proficient with. I'm not asking the doctor to go out and learn how to shoot 1,000 yards, but I'm asking him to be able to point that gun at the doorway and pop three rounds into the man that's about to kill him and the man on the table and every nurse in the room. Protect his patients. Yes. But again, every man, sidearm at least, and a minimum mark you can call minimums for combat loads, But, you guys, if you're just walking around, there's no excuse for not having four or six magazines for your sidearm on you. Four or six minimum. I'm talking about, man, I'm standing here, I'm drying off from the shower. Right there's my sidearm. Right there's enough to get me those ten strides to where a whole bunch more magazines are and where the long guns are. Now I'm going to start punching you real hard. Well, that's another thing. Let's point out we were talking about pighty holes and stashes, guys. If you are, especially the more single you are or if you are older, there is just a couple there. You know exactly what is being done in the house from day to day. Putting up magazine points, it should be done with everybody anyway, but again putting up magazine points around the house is not a big deal. It is not hard to do. And to have a handful or a clutch of five mags here, five mags there, five mags here, five mags there, especially for the ARs in the A-case is nothing. Or to have boxes of ammunition for like the 12 gauge on hand. So you're able to just reach over there. You don't have to, we've got to get to the other room. No, no, it's like fire safety. I have fire safety equipment in every room. Every room's got a fire extinguisher. Every room has got, again, other protection technology on board. and some have more than one. Why? Ah, I keep watching for it when it's free or cheap. And when they're free and cheap, I grab them all and make sure everything's powered up, everything's charged up, the water fire extinguishers, which aren't as popular, hey, they still work just as well as they always have. But you know, it's the same is true with regard to around the property. A lot of guys that I know carry guns in their toolboxes. They'll just beat around. That's what those gold The 380 Auto AMT backups were famous for guys who were just stuffed everywhere. Guys had three or four. Mike sold seven to one guy and he was a plumber who worked in Detroit. He usually had to pull that gun out to remind the rats that they shouldn't touch his tools or try to carry his tools away when he wasn't looking. Oh, and I'm talking about the two-legged rats. So he had weapons stashed everywhere for that reason and they were all the same gun and magazines. He just kept buying mags. The AMT must have been really happy with him. Because the AMT Backup Roll 380 Auto, you'd want to buy a lot of mags for that. But the same is true for that 1911 you just heard. There's lots of mags out there. Having stash mags in places all around the house means that you can sustain fire and move towards them even. Remember, you know your terrain. If you don't know your house, I don't know who will. You know all the nuances of it. You know where all the stuff is. So creating cash points around the house so that you can bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, and drop the mag, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, drop the mag, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, drop the mag, bop, bop, bop, bop, to the next one already. A couple more around the corner, bop, bop, just to be safe. and pop the door sideways or move the board out of the way and there's sitting right in the rack and easily accessible right at eye level or at shoulder level, there's five more mags. It's kind of like playing a video game, only better because it's real. I only have to reinforce this you guys. Many times we ask you to compare an inch to a mile and what Mark has just described around your house in a very personal level can be done around your county and around your state on a unit level. Absolutely. You don't have to run all the way back somewhere. If somebody is attacking your property and you have allies and they are being attacked and you are in a certain area, your 510 programs if they are properly deployed, you can have individual person or two person or three person cashiers that mean you walk over, you open everything up, everything you need is to get you going and you can go to the sound of the battle. And you have confidence. In other words, yep, I've used this weapon before, yep, I know it works, yep, I've got enough ammunition, yep, there's the rest of my kit and it's time to go party. or if you are in the outbound. We talked about evacuation. You have caught an awareness of one of these Ferguson type riot BS things. It gets really serious and St. Louis is really big. You are on the periphery but you are still in a contact area and you have caches located around where you work or around where you travel. Well, you don't run back to the house through the battlefield. Think about it. What do you do? Yeah, the cache means I can pull out that Nagat revolver or that Smith & Wesson Model 10 or that Browning high power or that, let's see, it could have a Kel-Tec there, it's a little more expensive, or a high point, those are cheap. And I got a pistol, there it goes in the holster, and I've got a shotgun, or I have an AK, or I have an AR, shock! as I pull that little charging handle back in the rear. Whichever it is, when the time comes, I've got the ability, especially if again, it just has to be serviceable. It doesn't have to be the best weapon on the market. It's good enough for what it's for. One of the tricks to this, I've mentioned Steven's shotguns. Steven's shotguns are still reasonably priced. All steel, well made, they're not punk junk, they're American made guns. You'll find them for $100 to $150. If you look around in field grade, nothing fancy, no special deer on the side of the receiver most of the time. Typical flat wood stock and five shot too. Everything you need. And you know what? Ammunition is cheap. Well there's a gun to put away and you know what? Mr. 12 gauge can be your friend. It'll work just fine. Anyway, we've got other things we want to touch on. Don, go ahead and jump in there please. We're on the subject especially, magazines, magazines, magazines. CDs and investments by the way. If you look at combat loads or even we've talked about this and I've been standing in particular venues, scenarios and situations and look at the people around me and know that I can trust everybody around me and say, hey look at this. I like the guy who opens up his coat and says, you want to buy a watch? Only it's not watches. It's little pockets with little pockets the right size for the magazine for the 1911 inside the vest. People's eyes get big like they've never seen anything like that before. Well, it's like genius or something, but it's not. I can't remember who showed me that, but we've talked about this so many times. If you've got four mags in one side, almost at the front of your ribs just coming around the curve, and right there just before the obliques there, they kind of balance each other out. If you hang them in just the right place, it almost looks like there's no weight there. That's just like a civilian carry. How about if you're sitting around because it's been said, what's that description of war mark like 99% of boredom and 2% terror? We're really going to do something now boys. It might not be terror. We've got to go over here and do this, but 99% boredom. Don't forget the other factor in there is hurry up and wait. Yeah. But now while you're sitting around waiting, rather than learning how to play the harmonica, because I saw that movie. You all saw that one. How about someone a few of those into your thigh. One on each side over, two in front over, two just behind your cargo pocket there. And how about those are your last stash, your emergency for your handgun. I know it's going to be bigger, one for your main battle rifle. on your leg, just a pocket, and you sew a cover over it. You don't go to that until it's like we're being overrun and this is the last mag. But it's always there. Even if you're reloading before, we've talked about reloading. If you get into a big enough firefight, people are out there trying to keep you busy, you're out there, you've got people running guns, you're going to need people loading for them if you've got the cases of ammunition behind you. We've talked about where you can get cases of ammunition before. None of this stuff should panic you. None of this stuff should be, this is all brand new news, Don. We've never heard this before. These are the basics, you guys. If you want to, oh man, wake up at dawn and smell the coffee and know today's going to be a rough day because yesterday was too and the day before that was. It's been rough for a little while. We keep doing what we're doing and we're going to beat the snot out of them and we'll be here when it's done. That's 99% of it, isn't it? Being here when it's done. Now, you get to the point where the day is getting rougher and you're sitting there and you reach for your last mag and you've been tossing them back to the guy that's been loading them and he's been loading them like whiz bangs as fast as he can, but they've been coming back to them pretty quick. Now then, again, just about to be overrun, good time to have that one magazine that you said, I'm never going to touch that magazine unless it's Here we go Lord Almighty. That's one good thing. You know, it's not like buying insurance You can't say well, you're buying yourself insurance because God knows what's gonna happen But if you're buying yourself another 15 or 30, I'm still in the fight punches downrange That's a lot better than waiting for that guy to throw you another mag that he's been reloading ain't it and you will find things can get this thick I emptied all my mags, Mark. I'm just going to roll over here and crawl over there. You keep firing for me. I'm going to crawl over to that case. I know there's a case of ammunition back there. It's probably a hot cup of coffee too. You watch, man. I'm going to load up all my magazines and I'll be right back, Mark. Dude, I've got one more spare here. I'll be right back. I'll try to bring that cup of coffee too, okay? How about we stay and participate? That's a far better idea, isn't it? Everybody that's listening, that's a far better idea, isn't it? And wouldn't it be nice to have somebody back right there? He's drinking that cup of coffee, but he's drinking that cup of coffee, so his fingers are going a mile a minute, like almost one of them machines that's loading the magazines. Yeah, and he's throwing a leg at the people that are keeping him alive. See how that works? Remember, that's where casualties, you see, what can the injured do? Somebody who has lower body injury but upper hand mobility, that's one of the things you can do, is you be loading mags. When we look at staggering, the thing about this, we've talked about counting guns before, haven't we? We haven't brought this to the hour in a good long time, and we should. We'll do that right now because this conversation leads right to this, doesn't it, Mark? When you come up against somebody who is not very stupid, they'll try to count your guns. They'll try to pay attention to the whole of the action and it might be just you against another squad. But they don't know how big you are. They might be maneuvering and flanking and trying to figure. This is real close quarters basically. Generally this isn't going to happen in the desert. Least you just step right up over that little wiggle, that doom, that wrinkle in the land and you don't even have anybody looking over that before your whole squad walks across it. Come on now, we know better than that, don't we? These are all basics. The guy in charge, he's going to be trying to move his people to his advantage so he can take them home that night. He doesn't have to write any bad letters, no matter what language, and send them off the continent. But he's going to be counting guns. Now, think about this. This has been brought a number of different ways, but it was most recently in the video Own the Night that someone on the East Coast sent me. Thank you very much. It talks about talking guns. This goes over to pairing up gunners, shooters in rifle squads or across the whole platoon. Your battle buddy, they call it. CB and CFE talks back to you. At any rate, I've scratched my head over that one. If you're working with one other man and you're engaged in an opponent that seems to be directly to the front, you can both go to ground, you can move far enough away that you can talk over the gunfire. If you're far enough away that you can talk, perhaps your opponent isn't hearing you, but if you're yelling and screaming and he's far enough away that he's probably still shooting at you, you might be hearing it. You might even know what language you speak. But again, your opponent might just eke up in the grass enough or lean around that rock, that tree, that car, that whatever to gain sight of the opponent and bang, bang, bang, get off a three-round burst. Probably not set on auto. Because if you have that thought in the middle, two is good enough, you still got one in your magazine, don't you? But if you look at this three-round burst and you're covering while you're Buddy is bringing up his head. He is going to run a three round burst while you are just watching the field. Seeing how hard the hornet's nest is that he just kicked up. You work a three round burst when the next target appears. If it comes to moving across the field, you and your buddy are going to split that field like directly ahead 12 o'clock. You're 12 o'clock to 10 o'clock and he's 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock. To the best of your ability. But you're still going to try to work this talking guns back and forth. I'm three rounds, he's three rounds. When you shoot your last three rounds, you want to let your partner over there know, I'm out, I'm changing mags. When you come back in, you want him to know, I'm back on. And that three-round burst, he might be right behind you, ready to change that mag. But now this goes over to instead of two guys sitting there and just battle rattle down range and they both run out of ammunition at the same time, that wouldn't be good. Remember one of the first video games, Aliens or something, and it was just lines marching straight down and you had one gun moving back and forth across the bottom of the screen shooting straight up? Eventually, the aliens overrun you because it's hard to be in more than one place at one time and it's hard for one person to pay attention to a broad front. But if you call, I'm out, it wouldn't be too much for your opponent, rather your shooting partner there, to pay attention to the closest person in your side of the clock and then the closest person in his side of the clock. By now, across that span of time, you should have been done and reloaded and been back in battle by now, right? See how that works? I have to pick up the hole of the load in front of me, that little 20 or 40 or 60 yards wide, 100 yards out, whatever the dimension, just giving you that. I can do that while you're dropping that mag and putting in another one. I know that because you've told me I have to cover your portion of the field in front too for a moment. for a moment. The definition of a moment is 20 seconds. Anybody out there that needs 20 seconds to change a magazine, you've never done it before and you're in the dark right now or what? 20 seconds is an eternity for contact operation. Exactly. In fact, 20 seconds is enough time to dump three mags. That sounds weird, but it's true. You're talking a seven-round magazine from a 45. It takes longer for me to describe it than it does to empty it, number one. And the immediate action drill of dropping the mag, inserting the next and activating the slide and then bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, b It doesn't seem this gets into a conversation I had we were talking about this was it Sunday night about time dilation What you perceive is happening and how you know on the one hand with fight and flight? Everything is your actual physical response is hyper but in the same breath you mentally I'm going to read this. So much as you register sound as target and identification. In other words, noise over there and is it friend or foe? Immediately that's what's going through your mind so quickly. It's like click, click, click, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, The time dilation, everything is especially where you hear everybody say, let the training take over. And that is very true. This is why we talk about time repeat. Time repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repetition, repeat. it becomes automatic. It is so second nature that if the weapon stops functioning, the magazine is automatically dropped, the next magazine is already being grabbed and inserted from whatever station. And you also have to remember this, that once you've started a contact, remember we've talked about training on where to pull your mags from. Remember we talked about this before, start from the rear to the front, and there's a reason for that. If the target is farther away, You pull from the side or most difficult point to acquire the mag from. You start from the rear to the front because as the enemy gets closer your crash time is shorter. You see how that works? The bad guys are closing on you. If you've already gone through, say, if you have a 20 count magazine rack on your belt, and you've already started from the rear and you've gone through and are at the middle of your magazine battery, consider that whatever the hell that is, it's highly motivated and chances are as it gets closer it's going to get better at what it does. So your time to turn around should be shorter. Always think about that. People usually grab what's right in front of them first. You can do that if you think it's a point-short contact activity, but especially where you're in a battlefield situation and you have time to observe what's coming at you. You start from the rear and move forward because if they're 300 or 500 yards away, they're not exactly going to jump on you. I don't care what kind of a sprinter they are, what have they been doing before they got in front of you? How many of the people have they already had a firefight with? How many miles have they already marched? How far have they run from the back of that APC? Hell, if they're that far away, they might not have even seen you yet. Right. And so your first rounds are going to be doing damage while you have plenty of time to think about where to put those bullets. Much like the pack of coyotes, Mark, I interject. When we talk about shooting a pack of coyotes, you can transfer that whole thought line over that Mark's describing the scenario of, shoot the farthest target away that you are certain of hitting. That way, you're certain that the farthest target away that you are certain of hitting did not escape. The other ones are closer, aren't they? Easier targets. Not to mention they have farther to run before they're out, before they're hiding like people do. What was that? Hahe said, people tend to run and zigzag and hide. Exactly. They have a tendency not to want to be shot. The point overall here in bringing up three and three and bursts that are continuous in small group contacts like that, If it's not a fixed ambush, if you're both moving, you tend to drive your opponent to ground immediately. It immediately means he hasn't picked his cover to the best of his ability. Who's advantage now? The next time he moves, the next time he lifts up his head, he might even try to move his knee to just gain advantage any way he might be showing you a target. Because again, where he jumped to just to try not to be shot immediately, It probably wasn't real good cover or concealment. If he stayed out long enough, you got him, didn't you? These are basics and we've touched on this a number of times. Thank you, Mark. One of the things too with this time dilation issue, combine that with the fact that your muscles are receiving an adrenaline rush. calories are being poured into the musculature to either allow you to run like hell or fight like a dog. That energy can be channeled and can be taken advantage of. Again, that's where practice comes in. People are just amazed when they see, for instance, these little 11-year-olds that are handling the weapons the way they are. Well, they're students. They have been taught properly from the get-go and they have repeated in discipline without firing the weapon. They have repeated the drills that you see to the point that the actual rounds going off is an aside. In fact, there is a basic rule. I mentioned this many times on the air, but I want to reinforce this. As a competition shooter, when you are pulling the trigger, it should always be a surprise when the weapon discharges. In other words, you're focusing on all the basics to the point where there's no pre-ambition, there's no flinching. If you're thinking in terms of all the basic actions that need to transpire, the three-point control of the weapon, the cheek weld, the shoulder weld, everything, sight alignment, and breathing, and you're doing everything that you're supposed to and you've allowed, you've stabilized yourself in the standing position so your musculature and your skeletal structure are resting on themselves. This is a trick that is most important, but in the final product, while you're doing this, you're squeezing, there's a trick, you know, squeeze that titty, okay? We want to make her excited. We don't want to put her in pain. You get my drift? And so the idea, as my instructor said, is squeeze that titty. In other words, it's very light to the touch. And when that discharge takes place, don't worry. The entire process works. Again, if you're using a semi-automatic rifle, like an automatic weapon, then when it discharges, it's going to go through its mechanical cycle. You have to reset to confirm that everything is set in place. And you repeat the final actions to include making sure that you incorporate a little more oxygen into your system. Two of the most common mistakes made are moving your body after that first shot. Seriously. and the second is failure to introduce more oxygen into the system because once you've locked everything up, once you've scrunched in, you've pressed your body, guys, and if you don't provide more oxygen, your body, everything you're doing in your body is consuming the oxygen supply that you have. Right, those muscles are making demands. And so that progressively is where you see people where they try to hold the weapon up too long and their hand starts to shake a little bit or they get wobbly, okay? If you'll pay attention, When you see long range or competition pistol shooters, you'll notice that they don't wait until they're exhausted, until their body is exhausted of oxygen. You will notice that the shooter will relax and not drop, but with muscular control, bring the weapon down to the 45 degree or to a lower rest position to the side of the body. is breathing even while they're doing that and then you will bring the weapon up, corkscrew it right back into the target. And by the way, I can't do it on the air, but basically the way to describe it is you think the homie shoot and twist your hand around as you are extending your muscles and putting everything into play, extend your hand, start with the weapon horizontal, the homie shoot, corkscrew the pistol into the target so that it's in its proper station where you will hit something. In other words, perpendicular to the ground. You will be amazed at how well that works at corkscrewing that because what happens is you're actually flexing and stationing your muscles. Think about it and look at the way your arm muscles operate in their normal function. By bringing the weapon up and screwing it in, pushing forward and screwing it into the target, you're extending the tendons, you're now resetting because you're going to pull everything back in. What's going to happen is all of those points of contact in the arm, all the bone and cartilage are going to rest properly against each other rather than being hyperextended at one point, mildly extended in another, or improperly resting unbalanced. This is the whole process of being able to literally close your eyes, do this, open your eyes and bring it on to target. A little hint there, what I just described is how I was taught to shoot to begin with. with my eyes closed as a as a competition pistol shooter. That's one of the first ways that we identify your proper posture and stance in proportion to or in perspective to the target you are trying to hit because Don has different issues or a different musculature from Mark. Now we're actually pretty close to the same size. We're not too far off. But still, each of us has physical injuries, we have physical experience, our body and muscles develop differently. So what works perfectly for Mark does not work necessarily for Don, just as any of you other shooters out there. So while we will use a basic format, a basic system, There are pluses and minuses. There are ways that we have to adjust the body so that we get the perfect balanced non-restrictive and settled rest to the weapons platform. Now, everybody goes, well Marko would be competition wrong. Once you find this niche, you will be amazed at how easy it is to pick up in any form of shooting. And if you practice that, even speed combat shooting it becomes so ultimately natural it's ridiculous. The term is out there. It's second nature. You know what occurs to me, Mark, bringing the gun up from horror. If that's a one-handed shot, that's what you're talking about, right? Right, offhand. Now you guys, what's being done in that? Ask a doctor. Ask, oh, what is it? The bone people. There are basic muscle charts. That's about the closest thing when I reflect on that, Mark, to being a tripod with one arm because you're involving almost every muscle in the arm. Instead of having muscle, by involving almost every muscle in the arm and into the shoulder and across the chest and whatnot, by doing that you're not allowing that muscle to do something else. Think about, feel that motion, describe the motion again and then just bring the gun up like the gun is at your side and swing the gun up. Think about how you use three muscles to do that. When you even have the gun flat horizontal to the ground and then turn the gun up, you're using almost every muscle in your upper arm, in your forearm, and across your chest and back to do that. When you command every muscle, there's nothing there that's going to all of a sudden do something that, gee, I didn't want it to. It's involuntary motion rather than an involuntary motion. That's the process. Think about what you're doing. You're literally giving an order to all of the musculature of your arm. It's under control. It is not a twitch, a boof, a skip, a jerk. There's nothing there that has not received a command that you normally, if it's a muscle that can be commanded because you've disciplined yourself to it. There are certain muscles that we don't practice controlling, but people have taught themselves too. Now we don't use most of those in what we're talking about, but amazingly enough, that's the next degree in discipline that we're talking about. When we talk about it, everything is an art. There is a term you'll hear with skilled craftsmen and it's called a discipline. What discipline were you taught? In other words, how were you taught? Who was the teacher? See, each instructor has their method of instruction and they have a style or a discipline that is theirs. Once you are able to do this with offhand, single hand control, remember that if you go into two-handed combat stance, remember that you are bringing up that much more support and you can also change the way that you are able to work the lower part of the body into a mobility platform. Let's reinforce before we move to the lower. What Mark is transitioning to is that what one might call the Weaver stance. or the weaver hand. The weaver stance would be more like where you put your feet or how you move your whole torso toward your opponent as you're drawing the gun and bringing to that, much like a shotgunner. A lot of people don't look at pistols like that, but pistol arrows do. Dang, that was Spanish. Let's go back to that single arm and think about using all the muscles there, and instead of leaving anything just to its own, la di da, because when you do that, they tend to do their own thing. When you bring up both hands, what have you been taught? One arm is pushing slightly forward, the other arm is pushing slightly backward. So you build that stable platform for the gun, right? Now, isn't that the same thought? Mark, I have to go back to that because I've never thought about that before. It didn't take long to know what that action is doing to your body, what it takes to make that happen. But it's very much as close as you're going to get. to having two hands on the gun compared to just swinging the gun up like what do they call that Mark? The bowler? Right, well I used to jokingly call it the Mr. Whippet stance. Well, actually the idea behind this is that there are different techniques utilizing a speed draw. You may not even bring support to the weapon. Remember that we talked about instinct shooting. That's something a lot of people are still trained today and should be. But the difference between this type of platform shooting and instinctual reactive shooting, the difference is that you may not have the ability to move your body or the rest of your body in a position. to fit what is the standard for bringing support and accuracy to the weapon at range. But if you're in a reactive shoot, you're typically not talking about 50 yards or 75 yards or 40 yards or 30 yards shot. You're talking about in a room working on something and somebody bursts through a door. Now what do you do? Well, this is where time is, of course, the issue. Then you're looking at reactive compression shooting. You might even be looking at picking up the gun and the farthest foot away from the person stepping away just enough to create the space to give you the time to bring the gun to bear. Exactly. Rather than thinking about moving in, the idea is to step back. People have a hard time with that too. They create time and space. The one thing that's important about this is again, we're looking at now we're going into a different world as far as the different elements of handgun shooting and why it's there, but shotgun shooting and shotgun defense is no different. Mr. Shotgun is certainly your friend and I don't care what anybody says, provided you don't thrust the weapon or your defense system into the contact area of your aggressor, then the gun's going to win. But the most important thing to remember is to keep the weapon close. You'll see sometimes in movies Let's do that like a martial artist would be taught from a child. My hand is stronger than my finger. My wrist is stronger than my hand. My forearm is stronger than my upper arm is stronger than my forearm. The farther away you move something, the easier it is for someone to lever it away from you. That's why again you see a lot of these scenes where they actually are quite accurate where the guy tries to stretch the gun out or extend the gun out to shoot and the character steps into. Again, the motion is already in play and the miscalculation eliminates what advantage the defender had. One of my favorites is you're walking down a dark hall, doors open on each side, and your gun is as far away from you as possible. What a maroon! I'm going to take his gun. As a matter of fact, if I could find something to put in my other hand, the one gun, the firearm would be close. into the belt line utilizing instinct shooting because it's amazing kind of like what you see when we talk about instinct shooting think this way everybody loves the movie Predator right? Remember that shoulder weapon that the Predator has and everywhere his head turned the tracker unit followed? Yep. Well, you actually can do that. Your brain is as good as that sophisticated sci-fi image that they show. Just like that little turret under the chin of that helicopter and connected to the pilot. Exactly. Only in this case it's the weapon in hand and again you practice this. Now here's the cool thing. We can do something we weren't able to do maybe 40 years ago and or 30 years ago because it was too expensive. Today, you can buy lasers for everything. And while I would not use a laser in most work that I would do, for training instinctual aim, the laser is now, it's like Airsoft. Airsoft and the laser are a priceless tool. Now, step one would be to practice with no functional firearm whatsoever, a dead Airsoft. a bone yard gun or a plastic toy. I don't care which. And the idea behind this is to actually get the person used to the idea that they're tracking with their eye, but they're instinctually... You want them to experiment, not thinking about it, but try to track with your hand to your waist, with your index finger, while actually observing something. Point at something. Look at a light and point with your index finger, but don't look down at your hand. Now, point at something and do what we are talking here, guys. Then take a look at your hand and then line it up and look to see how accurate you are. You will be amazed at how without thinking how much within the ballpark you are, except consider this. Let's take like a light bulb. You have pointed a light bulb, spot the size of a light bulb across the room. Guys, a person's shoulders are a lot wider than that light bulb. If with your instinctual point you were able to put it within two inches of where that light bulb is, you've hit somebody in the chest. You see how that works? You've hit something. In an instinctual crisis shoot, the idea is to put bullets into the target. I don't care what anybody says about being Superman. That's all a D.S. for propaganda. You start tearing tissue. I don't care who they are on the other side. Certain parts now don't work. I've got a drill for this. If you can come to a place that you can be in a corner and your far corner is maybe 15, 35 feet away, maybe 40 feet away. Like a big pole barn or something. Mark, you talked about lights. Set up a few lights at different places. Lights are good because this would be good for your learningness. Now, what I'd like you to do, and these are basic things for your optics, you guys, empty your gun. You're going to have a friend there, and he's going to make sure your gun is empty. You want to do this with your handgun. You're going to look the width, hold your hand out, your arm straight out, and make a fist. Now, I want you to swing your whole body like Mark points out, like the gun turret. Swing your whole body until you've picked one of those lights, and you're going to point your gun at that light instinctually. This is how to get there. This is the best practice how to get there. You take and you swing your fist, left or right hand, until the outside portion of that, because your fist is level to the ground, the thumb inboard, so to speak. If you made two fists, the thumbs would be pointing at each other. Now as soon as your baby finger, the knuckle of that just starts to touch that light, stop there and look over to the other side of your fist. Where does that stop on the wall? Now what I'd like you to do is don't look away from that portion of the wall and bring your gun up and point it at the light. Do that a couple times. Just practice that, but don't look away from that width of the fist away from the light. There's a reason for this at this short range. There's a reason for this. I don't want to explain. I don't want to tell you why. I got to take the rest of the hour. But you want to look at that portion of the wall. You can paint little dots on the wall once you've measured these This is a measured portion of distance for you because it's X amount from your face. When you do this, you're going to point your gun at the, as example, the left hand where your left little pinky knuckle is, but you're going to look at where the top of your thumb is on your fist. That's where you're going to look in that column. You're going to point your gun there while you're looking. Then you're going to look, point your gun there, point your gun there two or three times, and then you're going to look them for correct aim. But when you're doing this, you're doing this in your field of view. You're learning to get just off of that, I'm looking right at it, and bring it to target. You're going to get so much faster this way. Just be, I'm asking you to do it with a friend. Make sure your gun is empty. Don't pull the trigger. But do this. You guys, if you get good at this and comfortable with this, you can do this with a full magazine. and nothing in the chamber. That gives you even more feel of the weight of the gun swinging it too. When you're swinging a gun up, let's do that bowler. From your side, your handgun is pointed at the ground as you're walking. A target appears at your front at like 15 feet and he's running toward you. You swing that gun up and pull the trigger when it's level right at you and you continue swinging the gun up because you just did it so fast you're probably going to shoot over his head. Why? Because when you start pulling that trigger and it's pointed right at him and you're still swinging that gun up, that gun is going to go off over his head. Now I'm talking about your average 1911 with about four or five pounds of trigger pull. I'm not talking about something that if the ant sneezed on it, it would go off. And your Aunt Jenny would win the pistol arrow contest, you know what I mean? Because if it's pointed there and you touch it, man, you've got no reflection time. There ain't no I'm going to flinch time. is swinging up. If you have five pounds of pull on your trigger, as that gun is swinging up and he is closing at you and running at you when you are bringing that gun up, as it is passing point in his groin, you are pulling the trigger because if it is swinging up, you are going to put one into his abdomen or his torso in his abdomen or his ribs because it is going to take that little bit of lock time as that gun is still locked time. The time when you pull the trigger until the time the gun goes bang, There is a measured time in every gun and some of them are really long, particularly if you've got four or five pounds of trigger pull. That is gunfighter stuff, you guys. Another thing too is that we're talking close-quarter reactive. Don't forget that you only have so many rounds. A lot of people that are listening are carrying a five-shot J-frame. They made 38 special. Hey, I got tons of 38 special stashed all over this state. Okay, we were used to buy them for 50 to 75 dollars back in the day for K frame Smith and Wesson model 10s. Okay, five screw victory models, you know, the whole nine yards because a lot of them were out there after, you know, the post World War II surplus guys. They were out from police departments because they went to 357 Magnum. A bunch of J frame police, official police and police positives. or out there. The police positive is a J, the official police is the K. Anyway, both of those guns are out there in force. Well, it's five or six shots. Remember that as Don just pointed out, you, well Mark, or you know, Don was saying you hit him in the leg or you hit him in the abdomen or you hit him in the hip. Guys, if you blow somebody a hole in somebody's hip bone, do you know what that feels like? If you've got a grandparent or somebody who's broken hip, ask them. Just ask them, what was that pain like? Could you stand up? Are you having fun? No. Now here's the thing. You put five rounds into a target and you can't reload because apparently the target's doped up or hypered up just like you are. Guys, you see the end of that barrel? You know you've got a good pistol grip on that, don't you? Remember that it's a weapon, but I would jam it right into a wound channel. See, if you're close enough that he's still thinking it's got some kind of energy left, jam it into a wound channel or stick it into their face. We are getting well passed into the next hour but I need another minute. You guys look for yourselves here. The thug in Ferguson there, Mark, did you know he was charged with murder? Second degree murder and he was involved in two other murder investigations that they are trying not to talk about. This person had already gotten away with stuff and now he was graduating to the next level. This is stuff we talked a yap about and brag about in prison. It's not a surprise. Again, it takes longer to describe it. If the person was already hit, In this case the cop was and he already had smack down injuries to the head which were broken bones. Which again, he never had a broken bone in the head. You know what kind of pain and confusion that creates? Well, it's one of those things to remember you won't forget it. Let's put it that way, especially that cracking part. One of the bone chips. So anyway, when Thuglicious got shot, first of all, remember time dilation. On the one hand, everything is slow-mo's, but on the other hand, you're hypering. So as far as hearing a semi-automatic gun go bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, it's like I told you guys, seven rounds, three seconds. And that's actually kind of slow. I can do it probably, I can put down five to seven rounds in under two seconds, I'm sure. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop But the bottom line is that I can dump those rounds into a target area now of course she's barking so she's moving too But remember your targets closing which is what was happening with this guy. That's how you get hit in the shoulder and the arm and yeah Which on the other hand everybody could say well, you know it actually tells you was pulling up until the Up until the left by what I could see he was coming at him and target most of his most of the of the shooters You know energy was keeping the rounds up and to the left, which is why the hits are where they are. Only at Point Blank Range, you're close to it, is where the head shots take place. And you wonder, let's go first full circle on this because of basically the beginning of the day. You know, fearless leaders working as hard as they can to destroy this nation. You know, we sent how many representatives from the White House to that funeral? To a murderer's funeral. Yep, exactly. Meanwhile, a major general killed in Afghanistan, not a single White House employee showed up. A single White House employee showed up where a general staff officer killed overseas, and that's unheard of, guys. That's an absolute insult to the general staff. To the whole of the Army. We are at the top. Down your number for night vision, please. My number is 2317968458. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. The other half of this formula is expect to be hurt. You must put that in your mind as you are fighting. You are going to be hurt. You have to override that. Let your training take control. That's why you train, train, train with discipline. 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