Live 365 because mainmilitary.com is the only story you'll ever need all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at mainmilitary.com. That's main, like the state, military.com. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. 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. But 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 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'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 and 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 trample each god given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to 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? Okay, I assume we're on the air. There we go and good Evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Evening in Del Report. I'm Mark Kornke. And, butter nice. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, and, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. We're on Amenet and Micro stations, CB, base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west Mississippi. along with Alaska. Hallmark can't work from the top of Maine to the bottom of the float across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma. Big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, the 5th, and our friends in the left side. Waving to the left coast. We turn back to the east, sweep across the plains, and leap over the Virginia banks of the Mississippi. And land in the Smokies slash the Blue Roos, Grandma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell, Grandma Consortium of Utah. BK, it's dark out here. You've got an hour out. You're still an hour behind us, but you know what? It's dark outside. Don's night vision will become handier minute by minute while we do the program. Just there. Anyway, BK, what... It is 19 September 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report. That makes this quartermaster's corner. and it has been kind of pleasant recently. We've gone through some really weird weather gyrations. We went from sweltering hot, which is what we expect in August and early September, down to feeling like late October, even Halloween type weather, getting cool and damp and all that sort of stuff. And it's spraying back up again, which I suppose is good because it gives the trees a chance to notice that something is going on. We were getting to the point where it was starting to feel like we should have pumpkins and corn sheaves and stuff out as decorations, but the trees hadn't gotten a word. And we're starting to see a leaf fall here and there, but it's still fairly early. So I think the trees are all confused. I don't mind too much because that just postpones my having to run around and rake those stupid leaves up all the time. But here we go. and I'm making some progress on the hoovel project. It's crawling along step by step. It should be done by now, but it's not. Oh well, I guess the garden is not my first and most interesting effort, but we're getting it done. It's creeping along. I have done a little bit of shopping recently. Let's get back to a more traditional episode of Quartermasters because we've been doing some of the big picture topics recently and we'll get back to those in future weeks. But this time let's do some of the more traditional stuff. We have seen a slight loosening in this week on the Pado front. Let's run through briefly what we've got available. The most general purpose stuff available out there right now is LT-32. That's an accurate arms project. Apparently everybody's gotten some. They must have allowed a big shipment through. Accurate arms is out of Canada, if I understand correctly, so maybe they got a little pat on the head for something or other and were allowed to make a shipment or something along those lines. LT32 was designed for the benchrest crowd. It is priced accordingly. It's right up there with a beat of worry stuff, more or less. It was designed for 6mm, so it's not a significant stretch to drop it down to 5.56 for the 2.23 stuff. You can kind of stretch it all the way up to 3.08, though it's a little bit of a stretch. That being said, it is highly consistent stuff. A lot of people like it. It's easy to meter and so on and so forth. In a sequence of best and highest prices at Potter Valley, you can get the single pounds at 25.25 and eight pounds at 190. At Mid-South shooter supplies, it's at 26, which is not much different than 198. and Grass has it at about $29 a pound. So in all three vendors there, you can get it in one pound and Patter Valley and Mid-South both have the eight pound jug. So that is progress there. The speciality item is also available, IMR 3031. We've discussed this before. This is the guy that's really designed for 30-30 and those intermediate cases very, very close to 30-30. It's not really recommended to stretch this very far, either down to the tooth or very up to the 3L8, maybe in an emergency you could. I would be very hesitant to do that. But it's less expensive. So what you do is you take this and you use it for your 30-30 and you take the pressure off of your other more versatile powders. So the 3 or 3 ones available in 1 and 8 pounds from Potter Valley, 21.40 for a single pound and 1.54 at Potter Valley. That's not too bad. Mid-South has the 8 pound at the same price, strangely enough, 1.53, 1.54 and Grass has only the single pound at 24.50. If you wanted to pick that up, either Potter Valley or Mid-South would be a reasonable option. In the specialty well designed for 223 range, the commonly available this week is IMR 4320. There are others that are available here and there, but that's the one that's broadly available across the spectrum. Powder Valley has it at the same price as the 303-1, so 2140 and 154. Mid-South has it at about $21.50 or so and GRAFTS at $173. Once again, GRAFTS is almost always the most expensive. They have very good inventory control. If they say they've got three of something, you can count on it. They've got three of them at that moment that you refreshed your page. But the other guys are going to do better on price. 4320 is really a 223 powder. That is not one that you would want to try to stretch all the way up to 308 if you don't have to. Consider that one a 223 powder. And 4198 is also a 223 powder really and that one is available only at Mid-South. But at 2250 and 160 that's not a bad cost on that. So the 406-4, which is very versatile stuff, is not very widely available. I only found that at Mid-South and only in one pound, so I'm not even going to mention that explicitly. and let's see, the Vita Voorhe seems to be in only one pound anywhere you look. So you're going to pay 30 to 35 for that stuff and it's only in single pound packs. So we have, from time to time called out Vita Voorhe and said, well you know you've got one pounds and eight pounds and so on and so forth. Somebody has slipped down all the eight pounds. So people who are Don't have a problem with the cost of that have vacuumed up all the available big jugs and at 30 and 35 bucks a pound That's that's kind of pricey. Nobody has ever had a you know Anything bad to say about the consistency and quality and all that kind of good stuff that man is that stuff pricey? So, in recap, basically 303-1 is available across the board and that is your 30-30 specialty powder of choice this week. 43-20 is available across the board and two of the three suppliers have it in eight pounders. That one is a very good 223 powder and if you don't mind paying the price For a general powder, LT32 is available at all three vendors. Patevillei Mid-South also have the eight pounders in that. You're going to pay $190 to $200. for eight pounds, but it at least is available. So some availability is progress. There have been weeks when we have reported there's basically nothing out there. It's a bumpy little ride and these things are appearing. I think that somebody gets a truckload and then it evaporates over the next week and we wait to see what the next truckload is going to be. But at least it's loosening up a little bit from time to time, off and on, on average. So that's our market survey right now on the powder front. Comments? Most important here again is if you're able to access a powder that you already have confirmed, you like or you've had a chance to develop, start putting it on the shelf kids. You've already seen what's happened with just one burst. And the big thing is too, again, just because if you enjoy and prefer the performance of that powder, If it's a foreign powder especially, it's like Lapua, up and down in terms of access. Right now I am sure we're going to see an opening up or a freeing up of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland's powder. Number one, they're trying to buy products overseas for the war. Wow, the good thing? The... How do they get paid? Well, how do they get paid? We're going to see powdered, you know, other areas in probably northern Europe whoever cooperates with, want to do an eastern Europe. Got the same cross our fingers and hope it does happen. take advantage of it because you might even see a decent price for some of the more exotics that you've already maybe experimented with but didn't get a chance to extend. And the inventory that you've already given us, BK, guys we can handle. Light rifle, the pistol category too. Remember with a lot of your bigger case pistols, it's pressing sometimes but the formulas have already worked out for the hot short little cartridge room, the light rifle cartridge. And that's because again, you're looking at .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, any of the other like even 40 S&W is a mid-range for a number of powder. Now without somebody telling me that I haven't looked, 40 Smith and Wesson by comparison is actually a spring chicken on the block. It's not new new but it's not out there but not as much as you'd think because everybody's pampered because of the volumes of commercial powder and you know for commercial loads. If that backs off or things jerk out of the 70s and that's what just happened in this last year so if you're not worried if you're not sure about 40 S&W might find out there that people already did the, oh my god, I can't get my powder, I need fill in the blank. And so they may have already done the work. Right, and the super performance seems to be available fairly commonly. That is a shot shell powder. The general rule of thumb is the shot shell powders and the pistol powders seem to be pretty much about the same burn rate. So even if you can't find data, If you're willing to do a bit of experiment and be very very careful and pull a trigger with a string if you're using a firearm for your test pad, the shot shell powder can probably be pressed into service for 9mm 45mm, all that kind of good stuff. Just be very very careful when you're doing this stuff because there are weird aberrations in the pressure curve sometimes and you wonder Well, these two powders are similar general burn rate and this one behaves really differently in that case than the other one. I wonder why. There's no guarantee that the professionals in that area understand 100% exactly why. They just run a lot of tests and look to see what's going on. Even in that regard, only a tiny fraction of what they test makes it into loading tables. because the learning tables are pretty much descriptions of what the marketing department has decided to promote. So you can be very creative and ingenious and all that kind of good stuff. Do not expect maximum performance because the stuff that's refined for a particular purpose is very good for that purpose. We've been spoiled. We've been used to having an industrial base that actually functions reasonably honestly and so on. And we haven't made the transition to a totally Soviet style economy. We're getting there. Our ruling class is working hard on pushing us down into that level. If you are going to do an experiment that's wildly off the table, be very, very careful about that stuff. That's all I really have to say about that. We like to point people here at opportunities and every once in a while crow about little successes and so on. But it is my sad duty to report there is some bad news. One of the things we've been ragging on people about, and we have been doing this literally four years, is to pick up the M61 masks or the Canadian C3s if need be. because the filters are the least expensive guys on the block and available in some quantity at a fraction of the cost of 40 millimeter filters. The 16 millimeter thin surplus filters. We have been pointing people at Gun Parts Corp and saying, hey, you can get a case of 45 of these things for $150 plus shipping. That works out to about $4 apiece. Grab them. grab them, go get them while they last. They won't last forever and people get tired of hearing stuff from us and they probably just kind of roll their eyes and say, yeah, yeah, I'll mark them BK or nattering on and so on and so forth. Well, if you take a look today at Gun Parts Corp website, you will find that those 60 millimeter filters are still available for $25 apiece. and the cases are still available. No longer at $150 apiece for those cases. They are now listed at $900 apiece. That means that Gun Parts Corp is getting down to the point where they can see the end of it and they said, okay, well, you know, at this point we're going to upshift and sell them off more slowly. I'm a little sad because I've been thinking, well, you know, I'd like to get one more box of those things. Oh, well, that train has left the station. On the other hand, BK has the spares sickness. There's no such thing as too many spares. I tend to be a little bit neurotic about those things. I used to get a lot of static in the household saying, you never burn anything one. You always want to buy two or three of something. Well, yeah. I'd like to pick up another box of those filters. At $150, I thought about doing so. That's why I was looking at the site. $900 now, guys. The plus side is if you bought one, you spent $150 or $170 and now you've got something where the new vendor is looking for $900. If you wanted to make a few shekels, you could do that and you could probably put them on eBay for $750. What is breathing worth to you? Maybe you probably want to have the filters on hand instead. The C3 masks are still available on Gunpart site, but they come with a filter. So they are no longer, if I recall, $14 for a mask. Now they come with a filter and the package costs you $60. the 60 millimeter filters that you have in inventory are pretty much the 60 millimeter filters you're going to have in inventory. So... You break down and spend a lot more money. You bet. Yeah, a lot more money. Yeah, yeah, six times as much specifically. So, had you bought them when we told you to, you would be a happy puppy or at least a happier puppy than today. So, we should put a little black banner on the website saying, you know, the cheap filters are gone. We're sorry. But we told you so. We told you so. From the wholesale end, to be quite honest, I've got East Coast and West Coast BK and both are in the hall looking way off the purchasing agents overseas. And as I pointed out, even in regular militaries, for Europe doesn't need to ship. They've got so many people arming up in Europe that they just simply truck. When you can truck it to someone and they pay the bill and there's no garbage with the US government and all their BS that they put on. I hate to tell you where it's going to go. You know, there's number one, it's supply and demand and everybody understands there's a real need and a demand. Gas masks. Gas masks and signal communications are kind of parallel on this. Real military signal communications that can be beat to snot is priceless on the field and it is a high-end commodity. Gas masks are a commodity usually for the person and the strategic management because the personnel don't realize the value of a gas mask until after the first attack. then after the first attack everybody's scrambling, those that survived. And everybody else has learned from the survivors that maybe having a gas mask includes breathing. And then the inventory is more realistically maintained or at least more intelligently maintained by those who are undereducated in the process. Happening is, if you think about what's in the field, people are looking not just in the Ukraine now, if you're fighting in the Ukraine, you can turn your eyes to the stuff going on in Iraq and you're getting a bigger picture. Now, plus there's a lot of other, I mean, what do they say? There's only six of you that are not participating in the war right now. They may not be in the war, like in that country, but they're in a war with somebody, helping somebody else to kill Well, we are paying for the arming up of the combatants in most of these things. So your FRNs are being spent on those gas masses just that you're not getting them. You're just paying to give them to the Kiev regime or to ISIS or to whomever and you're not high on the distribution list. That's the way that works. Well, that's the other thing about this is the next step, as you can see, as we start to see the prices on surplus accelerate, let's not forget that we need to keep an eye on new production. You see, new production is already at, what do we call it, that unobtanium level because, I mean, the filters aren't, we can buy the filters, but the masks are two or three hundred dollars a piece. A family, I mean, you actually have to be making a major income bill to say, I'm going to spend as much on the gas mask as I am on the rifle. You're talking $300 a mask, you're still not quite to an 8K. You could get a couple of niggats in a case of ammo. You're getting into the same order of magnitude. Yeah, exactly. And that's where, again, that kind of purchasing issue is going to drive out your ability to perform better, which is what the bad guys understand. Now, the other problem is that unlike, well, I won't say unlike, because we've already had the signals on this where they've been starting to send in masks and they've Now then, other people got some of the filters and what's happening is they have what they call trade shows. Every month or two there's a trade show, well actually every month, there's a trade show somewhere in the US. There's going to be one in St. Louis where, you know, in the middle of the country and then there'll be one over in Los Angeles or out in Las Vegas. Then there'll be a trade show in Atlantic City, which is typically where a lot of them are on the east coast. And a trade show is where all these wholesalers and importers come in and the first thing they do is they have tables like at a gun show, guys. I've got a whole pile of these filters. Retail in like gun parts or all these others. Cut the price in half for the distributor and then cut the price in half again for the jobber. It would not double. I mean, each carry would double is what you do. And that's why when you get to retail, I mean, when I talk about some of these wholesale prices, if you were to go out and find the item I told you about, you would see it at twice the price of products. And there's a reason. Shipping, taxes, you know, you're trying to make a purchase and usually they've got this formula that they've become religious about, which is only make a few sales and you've made your sales for the day. Well, how about you make a few more sales by keeping the price further down, you know, not going to price them, and making up in volume and then making happier customers, which means they'll come back. But nobody thinks that way. So that's why people have been coming back and asking me, Mark, have you seen what Army Socks Park? years ago we got a lot of the 40 millimeter and the can filters, the juice can size. And it's like, oh yeah, I know, and it's going to get worse. And there's nothing we can really do about it except that, you know, there comes a point where if the surplus gets to as high a point as it may, the masks, the newer masks are then the option. I mean, it gets to the point where, you know, like at the time when Desert Dust 2 took place, Nancy had people, well, we were selling the masks. When Ed knows, he's talked about this. We offloaded those. I bought out inventories came to the gun shows to buy for their families and they were in tears and she said, $300 will buy me two masks. Now you've got to understand the same mask that we were selling for $6. Again, we never changed the price, guys. Everybody else was selling for $300 a piece. Same mask. Nothing changed. They just gouged the market. So when she showed up and said, well, how many masks do you need? Well, I need seven. I've got two children. And we had the sizes. We had the masks. We had the bags. They had brand new filters. And she goes, how much are they? $6 apiece. No, no, not the tax. How much are they? No, that's the price. $6 apiece. Then she started crying again. Because she was figuring she was going to have to take $300 to buy NBC protection for the family. Think about it. So that's the reality. We've seen this over and over again, but in reality, had anybody hit a button, guys, the mass would have been even more expensive. You know what I mean? How long can you hold your breath? That's why it's really important that we all have a protective mask, and we can still shop around. The M10s are out there. They're not as cheap. They've doubled in price from what they were originally. Remember, we could get them as little as $6 apiece only three, four years ago when they came in that one big rush when the Czech ones did, not the East German, the Czech. Well, that's changed, but there's still a reasonable price and at least you can get a gas mask on the cell. And that's what we're talking about. Like BK said, well, we told everybody we could for as long as we could. The other half of that is, I understand, the case is a chunk of change. On the other hand, consider what we've told you before about surplus. If you bought a case when they were cheap, you could sell half of them and pay for everything you bought. And I mean, everything is in the masks, three things. higher ratio than that now. Oh yeah, exactly. And the problem is, I've been talking, I've been doing something here, I went over to my wholesaler, and none of the filters are available. Now they're all in the, you know, so they're flagging, let's say, purchasing agent may have canned some that'll be here in 60 days. So I can't get any of the standard ring filters, 40 millimeter or 60, from two of the suppliers right off the bat, but I can get M10 filters. and we can get M17 filters, but we can't get M17 masks. Well therein lies the rub, and they're cheap. M17 filters are cheap. Now if you have M17 gas masks, and I've told you this a million times, don't get rid of them. Any mask you have, even if the mask is damaged, save it. Put it into a utility tub or a 5 gallon pail, make sure it seals or doesn't get wet. When you crack a lens on one of those masks, you've got parts you can't cannibalize. You can duct tape it initially. Let's remember one thing about NBC. Everybody carries a roll of duct tape. Mr. Duct tape is your friend. By the way, remember what duct tape is for. In the heating and ventilation industry, it seeps air from getting through. Actually, if you get far enough down the curve, you'll lay a little bead of epoxy and use the damaged one. Or Mr. Duct tape will be later. I mean, again, my tactical reason, but a real ducted quality duct tape, guys. Even if it's silver, you know what you'll do at night? You break out those Sharpies and you're gonna color it with it. It might take a little while, but you get a broad that tape is probably bonding He says right now that are malleable years ago when the gas masks that were being destroyed by said became about halfway through they get tired of taking that that that box cutter knife and trying to pull it tell at a certain point where they're kind of like the cuts were like really short like not even cutting the rubber And then after a while I was like, oh the hell with this, is the boss looking? And they just slide them into the box, you know, and then bury a bunch of other busted ones on top of it because, man, this is work, you know, because they would do the 28 pallet. There would be other things. But of the gas masks, I think we're able to recover close to like 7,800 of them that rims, you know, in good shape. uh... let's respect that although of the ones that were damaged uh... they got tired of busting the lenses give you a good your tax dollars work at a guy sixteen seventeen dollars an hour to lay all the masks on the table cut the masks with and then take a hammer and smash all the lenses that they flip the mask over and they smash all the ones on the other side and then they can slide them into the bed and they had a special table built just for the state and half by eleven or you know uh... for you before they keep why would with a a border wall like a sluice so that when they were done they'd pick up the end and they'd kind of slide all the junk into the bin. None of the other governments do that, guys. Everybody else, Holland, Denmark, else, Sweden sells NBC protection equipment at the surplus. They've all got a rule requirement. They can't sell NBC equipment to the United States, which tells what their plan is for us. We all need to make sure you have gas masks, see? Well, the Swedes aren't trying to take us over, but you can be sure that we have twisted their arm and said you're going to write this code into your rules. Exactly. Oh, you know, it's nothing else because of the EU and NATO. You know, and again, they're cooperating with us. Plus, Sweden is big into the UN. You've got to remember that. If nothing else, Sweden is big into the UN. Anyway, go ahead BK, you've got more for a surgeon in there please. Okay, so along the lines of We Told You So, now we are telling you that you should pay attention to an offer that we've been mentioning in the past. BG Micro, that's BravoGolfMicro.com. It still has available the CR123A batteries. They've got a big batch of these guys. from an unnamed manufacturer who had produced a production run of some product. They don't say what it is, but you figure if they're using a lithium battery, it's probably some sort of high standby type product. And they changed their mind and scrapped the whole thing and they pulled all the batteries out and sold them surplus. And BG Micro got them. As a result, they've got a pile of these lithium batteries that are end date marked 2020. That means that at 2020, They will cross the threshold at which they are below the data sheet values. It does not mean that they turn to dust in 2020. They are offering these guys at 99 cents a piece, but if you buy 10 or more, they are offering them at 75 cents a piece. BG Micro is one of these outfits that does not gouge on shipping. As a matter of fact, I've ordered from them a number of times and twice now I've gotten refunds on the shipping, partial refunds, because they say, well, we managed to pack it into a smaller box, so we're refunding you the $4 difference. So, unlike some of these guys that you deal with where you can say, okay, well they're selling at a cost and the shipping department seems to be their profit center, BG Micro does not play those games with you. And if they don't say we've got 392 of them on inventory or whatnot, that means they've still got a bunch. When they get below something like 500 of most things, then the website starts showing you how many they have in inventory. These things, I don't know how many they've got, it seems to be a different page entry than is normally the case, so they may run out at any time. But at 75 cents a piece, that is a dirt cheap bargain. And the best price you will find for those anywhere is going to be on the order of $3 a piece, and you can easily pay 8 to 10. They are Panasonic, it's not in our Joe's Battery Company. These are CR123A lithium batteries. These are the batteries that are used in a few radios, but they are used in most night vision equipment, most of the high intensity illuminators, some of the high tech flashlights. That sort of thing. The big virtue is that they have high power density and very very long shelf life. So, if you do not have any of these 1, 2, 3, A batteries on hand, I would recommend having some of those parked away. If you have a fair sized pile of those, you may even be able to swap them with somebody that's got multiples of some low end night vision and no batteries anymore. You say, well, you've got five of those things, give me one of them and I'll give you enough batteries to run all the rest. You may actually get a bargain along those lines. See our 1-2-3 batteries from Bravo Golf Micro, BGMicro.com. and if you buy 10 or more they're offering those things at 75 cents a piece. This is a surplus offering. This is a big heap of batteries, but it's a finite heap of batteries. This is just like the filters that we were ragging on you for so long about get the filters, get the filters, get the filters, oops, gone. Now these batteries exist in a big pile and are available to you now. at a bargain price you will pay much more later if you wait and disregard this heads up. Comments? You can't beat the price on these for what these are especially when they do pulls like this what happens is they've either been they're in the factory and they never got to completion but they were probably on standby for final assembly or whatever battery packs ready to go somebody twitched a button he ran out of money or somebody bought some Whatever they did, there's nothing wrong with these batteries. With the date placed on them, the way they are, you're looking at a lot of service life for little and nothing cost-wise. Go to even big lots right now. You're looking at three, four, and five times the cost for that battery at least. If you can find them for that kind of price. Because the other thing that I've noticed is, and there's a couple things this week, of course meat prices went stupid, we know that. I have seen the prices jump in the other direction headed towards $6 and $7 of battery in some places for not just this other batteries. Now, in theory, they're supposed to be better quality whatever, but I'm telling you to have $7 or $6 or for the price of one because you don't have to work for it. These are Panasonic's with a green stripe on them. This is top flight, front line first tier batteries. It's as good as you're going to get. It's as good as you need for what you're doing there. The fact that we talked about the night vision equipment, these batteries would be your first choice. Every penny we can carve off there, you're going to get more batteries. And if you have more batteries, and they all hold the same amount of energy, you've got more running time for your night vision. That would be kind of nice. And that means you still have money left over to spend on other things. This is one of the... We promote these ideas for a while. They've got a source because they've been able to access them at different times. Now they've run it down all the way just about because we've seen that. We've got to go onto the site, pick it up, and... Oh, they're almost gone. Yeah, they talk about that. This manufacturer, unnamed manufacturer, sold off a batch of these and B.G. moved the batch and exhausted it. And then they went back and said, okay, well, these things move fairly well. We'll take the rest. And they got the rest. So they've explained that this is a big pile, but it's the end of it. There's no more going back to that source. batch of these batteries, basically these are the ones that are probably going to have about another two boxes sitting right here by my knee and anywhere where we can find any rechargeables, anywhere we can find any new pack batteries or to give us any kind of long life even if you do use them. Remember have a magic marker set up with your kit even if your alkali batteries are used flag them, date them for consumption box and do not throw them away and as long as they have them fried and they aren't boiling out Keep them dry, keep them clean. Down the road, it might be just enough to... I guess that did work after all it did. Well that plus, we haven't spoken of it for a while so I don't have the link hot and ready at my hand, but if you Google Jewel Thief, J-O-U-L-E, thief. You will find a one transistor relaxation oscillator circuit available to you that can be used to get useful amounts of light still out of officially exhausted primary batteries or secondaries for that matter. But that's a clever little circuit and it costs about 50 cents to build and you can build yourself a little LED illuminator or flashlight or whatever you want to call it. that will use batteries that are otherwise below a threshold to the point that they do not run other things. It's called the JUEL Thief. J-O-U-L-E thief uses a small light weight signal transistor, you know, sort of stuff that I buy for, you know, one and a half cents a piece. You can buy for six or seven cents a piece and a ferric core and You just wind the thing a little bit of magnet wire and glue it all together and an LED. You've got yourself a last-gasp flashlight that will get some actual use out of a battery that's otherwise useless. Now the other thing there too is, remember if all fails lighting with LEDs, that's something I've been collecting every stinking light I can find. LED stuff laying around here and there at different locations, guys. I wanted to actually do a piece next week of just taking, going from the front end of an automobile to the back and just going right down the list of things. What can you do? What is there off a car? There is, you know, an example because you seem like Walking Dead and all these others and zombies and it's like, do you realize how many things there are on board each vehicle that would be useful for one end to the next? I mean, from front to about, that with about here, things that you would normally have tough time finding and the stuff you can scavenge off of the vehicle when you combine the two, you have a lot of useful weapons, a lot of useful tools on hand. That's what we need to be thinking forward to and radio communication even, at least, and our antenna arrays, things of that nature. Like to take, we were talking, one of the guys has a recycle station here, he's taking a car and literally taking a cutter to it and just saying, hey, what could I make my antenna out of it? Which antenna? It'd be just all, there's That's how we need to be thinking down the road here. And again, we've got to have the basic tools. Even in a car, unless that car exploded, there's a battery under the hood, but you know, here's something that's a little secret. There's a bunch of spy with some real big money on some little tiny onboard batteries for backup to keep those little processors running. And you know those, if they're cannibalized along with other neat things, let me give you a little hint here. Do you guys have airbags on your cars? Have you ever thought what makes those airbags work? is Okay, anybody who has been watching the grocery stores knows that things have been going kind of wonky. There were some mentions in the corporate press a while back that meat prices are going up and so on and they stopped talking about that. Well, the reality has arrived. I have gone through the grocery looking at the price of things and seeing bacon at $9 a pound and things like that. It's not the most expensive. I'm not the cheapest version at that price, but that's stuff that used to be a minor purchase in a normal American household and now it's actually become a finance issue and say, do you really need this? Do you really need this? If you consume bacon, I sure hope you're not throwing away the bacon fat. Because for a number of reasons not only is it useful stuff, dribble that on the veggies and make it taste good and all that kind of good stuff, but if you can bacon, for future consumption. There are various techniques you can use. We discussed this at some length. One of the episodes in which we did discuss this was on December 5, 2008. That's a long time ago. We've been talking about all this stuff, but that archive is still on the site and you can pull it up. That's 2008, December 5. If you want to can bacon, there are a number of approaches you can take. You can go all the way from the quick and dirty safe, but it's not as palatable method of just chopping stuff up, packing it in and doing a heat seal canning process, to the slightly better process of you fry it all up and dump it into the jar as a hot pack and can that. to the gourmet approach where you fry it all up, dry it all off with the paper towels, chop it into pieces of the same length as your jars, wrap it in parchment from the baking supplies center of your grocery store, and can that. This in a sequence provides everything from kind of squishy, icky looking stuff that you're going to have to cook all the way up to fried, tasty, ready to eat straight out of the jar if you like, and in increasing order of labor intensity. So you can decide how you want to process it, how much time and energy you want to put into it, and how tasty you want to make it if you do the hand packed with with parchment and so on and so forth. It is really very tasty and very nice and you can just pull that straight out of the jar and chow down and it's actually quite nice if you just pack it cold into the jars and can it. You will look through the jar and you'll say, oh that's kind of icky looking but if you uncork it and then fry it up again it at least is noticeably bacon. If you go to the intermediate stage where you cook this stuff, you just drop these strips one at a time into the jar until it's almost full and then pour in the bacon fat. You'll find that the bacon fat that goes with what you fried is not going to completely cover that. It's only going to about half cover it. If you have saved the bacon fat from previous times when you're actually just consuming the stuff, having breakfast and so on, then you will have something that you can pour in there to supplement and completely cover it. If you completely cover it, then the fact that you have screwed down the lid and do a heat canning process for safety's sake is sort of a belt and suspenders type approach. You have practically made pemmican and then you have canned that. That just guarantees that it's extremely safe and solid and will last practically as long as the pyramids The surplus bacon fat when you're done is of course an available cooking material. When we get into really, really hard times, it is desirable to have those sources of fat. We have been propagandized heavily to never consider any fats you should eat, lean, everything you should have. Nothing but carbohydrates in your diet and maybe a little scrap of protein now and then. Your peasants really ought to eat bugs actually. We have actually heard that. You ought to be eating bugs. Well, if you're starving or if you're out in the field and have no assets of any sort, yeah, do eat the bugs. For the time being, I'm going to avoid that. Thank you very much. But hold on to that fat, save it, use it in canning. It will prove very useful and it will be an asset. As nine calories per gram those calories are going to be precious when the time comes. So pay attention to that. We have also gone past the seasonal specials in our area. Pork steaks is one of the big things that goes on sale from time to time because it's one of those regional items. I haven't heard them promoted elsewhere in the country, though these things do tend to But in this area pork steaks is a big thing and from time to time they do go on sale. We're past those however because of the end of the summer barbecuing season. But be advised we're coming up on other holidays. There's always another holiday coming up. If you practice on the bacon or whatever else you have, watch your sales. You know that we are going to be getting into turkey sale season. We get anywhere near Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatnot. You will start seeing the turkeys going on sale and if the grocery stores follow the patterns in the past, they will have, you know, buy ten dollars of other stuff and we will offer you the turkey at $0.79 a pound or whatever it is. If you have the canning technology up and running and you've practiced with it a little bit and so on, Turkey can be canned just like everything else. So this would not be an unreasonable time to practice, to dig around in the basement or attic, find grandma's pressure canner and practice a little bit. You can practice on bacon, you can practice on anything that's on sale. and scrounge around and see how many jars and lids you have, etc. and so forth. Get that technology all set up. I tell you right now that it takes a lot longer than you would think to do a batch of canning. You would think, oh well, you know, just fool around, you know, set this up, turn it on, stove, wander off, so on and so forth. How long can it take? Well, What seems like should take 20 or 30 minutes or what not to get going and then wander off actually always takes two hours. I don't know why, but it always does. And by the time I'm done with a big batch and got things simmering on the stove and so on, I'm tired. I want to go in the family room and veg out in front of the idiot box or something along those lines. So, try it. Practice it. Shake it down. Treat it just like any other tactical asset. You want to practice with it a couple of times before you need it, and then you will have it available and on hand and ready to go, and you will have developed the expertise. It's not brain surgery, but there is no action you can take in life that does not benefit from a little bit of practice. If you have not canned before, choose something. Whether they can add full price or on sale or a park stick or whatever it is you can buy that's cheaper. Go ahead and can it. Then a day or two later, pop the can and use it and see what that's like and practice and proceed. You'll be happy that you did, but there's nothing quite like practice and preparation to get you lined up to take advantage of these things when they do pop up. Again, remember it's part of the insurance program. You put it on the shelf, it's there. It'll be referred any time you need to use it through the winter into the next season. build up. It's not only practiced, but it's part of the insurance policy. And you will use it. Get used to the idea also of using some of this. Right now, the big thing that we're doing is getting as many variety of things canned as we can. Nancy was doing relish this last week. We used the last of the corn rally. And it's pretty tasty. She does really good recipes. You got it from her mom. And other people are the same way. Some of these you can pull right out of the book. Others you experiment, you come up with your own combinations. uh... zucchini is really out there and it's been a wet and i've got three or four mama on the right now those are going to be there walk like half long two people for one of them they really took in the moisture we had a perfect little pulse of heat there and those are going to get chopped those are going to become a zucchini relish but the bars up here people what do you do with the big ones for the tiny stuff nobody will know the difference guys but we're going to call it Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. 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So here's the other thing about that. We've talked about food fatigue. I don't think anybody's going to care if they eat duck or if they eat pheasant. And here's the other cool thing. You've got lots of Asian cuisine, and everybody's used to that now, eating Asian cuisine. Well, take a look at how many duck are out there. Then take a look at how many pheasant recipes. There's plenty of ways you can do it. German recipes using the meat with a number of different stuff, menus. There's all kinds of different recipes you've got for that. I'm not talking about stuffing the pheasant, I'm talking about stuffing layered with whatever you've got for meat. The duck or the pheasant though could go into your Asian combo without any problem. And that's a good change up, yeah, as Ethan was just saying, there's also lots of fat too. So that's a good rich food product to have on the shelf. You better go back and buy the rest if there's something. The thing is I also buy up gradually, and people say people aren't going to eat that, I'm buying up cans of chipped beef. Yeah, I hear horror stories but Mike I mark my you know they they made it a special with I hear it is back in the day when we were in the military That was like the norm although years ago. That was like chip beef again. Yuck. Well nowadays It's we're having a special on Friday if you get here for lunch We're gonna have chip beef at the mess hall and everybody's like You know, you know, you know, whole new generation is not burned down on it like right exactly. Yeah. That's what generation was burned out on spam because they got fed a lot of it in Korea. But, you know, Mark, you know, the thing is, I had a dream last night. I cooked a whole big pot of chili Mac is going to send out to the troops in the field. The other thing is volume and filler and I can't stress enough guys in the field. most memorable meal and I've repeated it many times, there's three of us eating off one lerp and everybody was so stinking hungry because the good old Air Force didn't hit us. We didn't wait for it quite to rehydrate all the way. Okay? And you know what? We really didn't care and when I talk about that, I can still taste that. It was beef with potatoes and it's one of the most memorable meals only because at three in the morning, if we had to make hot water and we didn't have anything to burn, it was soaking wet. And when we finally got everything heated up and poured the water in there, the smell was just like, oh man, that steak. That's pretty good meat. It was like chip beef and potatoes, guys. That's what it was. Anyway, thank you, George. And guys, be caning anything else before we go, please. No, we're at the top. Very good. 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