Live 365 of the revolution. Thank you for listening to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. MainMilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store 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've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You 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 can be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from 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 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 fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free gentlemen? This is the evening intelligence report and butter nice Forgive me one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and and sisters behind the lines in occupied territories, southwest, east, 4mg.com, indianafreedom.credo.com, our name is after my crustacean, cb-based stations at all florida technologies east and west of the mississippi along with alaska, all marked ember from the top of main to the bottom of florida. From the bottom of florida coast to the ark of the gulf of mexico, headed to louisiana, mississippi texas, oklahoma, big chunk of derasco, went to wyoming to include both third and fifth pit and the twelve sisters on the left side of state, oh carl, the recall state waiting in the left coast. Jefferson and her friends from Mexico all the way up to the California frontier. Turning back to the sweeping across the place, leaping over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi, we landed in the Smokies where the restaurant crew's Grandma teams, OK teams, the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium brings the Golden Spike. And I'll tell you what, BK, it's dark outside. What's it like where you are, sir? And what's the day today? Let's jump off the wall, please. It's dark outside. Well, actually, we're not separated that very much by longitude. So, you know, when it's dark at your end, it's pretty much dark at my end. You know, it's mostly a separation of latitude. It is 26 September 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the intelligence report. And that makes us Quartermasters Corner. It's been a fairly pleasant week this week. The weather has stabilized back to something resembling seasonal norms. Old BK has been out playing in the dirt some more, another session or two, and hopefully I'll be done with that. I've squirted a couple of photographs up Joe's way so that he can see the progress in the dirt pile project. Not that it's terribly exciting to most people, but at least I'm demonstrating to somebody that I'm actually doing this stuff. It is remarkable how rarely I managed to get out there. I'll say, oh well, I've got to do this. Oops, I've got an errand to run. I've got to run an errand here, and I've got a customer to see there, and there's not enough time in between to get all sweaty and dirty and cleaned up in between. Oops, it got dark. It can't work in the dark. It just chips away, but it's going slowly. We have a few items lined up. I am working on one of these big picture episodes that we've done recently, but I don't think it's really ready for prime time yet. So we'll postpone that one for another week or two. And instead, let's do a fairly conventional episode of Quartermasters. One of the things I want to remind people of, before we forget, this is a seasonal thing. Time is running out or getting into the fall. There are some things that you can do in the garden in the fall, especially if you already have your garden in a shape like I do not. Those things have been discussed here. The biggest one is you can get out there and you can plant garlic because they like to overwinter and then pop up in the spring. This is about the time to be ordering them from territorial or grow organic or wherever you may be getting them. I would suggest that using some from last year is probably a good exercise to see what your recycle rate is because come what may, we may not be in a situation of being able to order each year from seed companies. We'll want to use whatever we save from the previous year to restart the next year. So, that would be a good exercise. If your success rate is low, that's something you need to know. If your success rate is high, that's something you need to know either way. The other thing you can be doing if that's what you prefer to do is you can plant ground covers. There are a number of species that can be just broadcast and lightly raked in and so on. grow somewhat over the winter and a little bit in the spring and then you till them in or turn them under or whatnot and they add nutrients, vegetation, they bind nitrogen and so on for your actual pay crops. And I am no expert on those so I'm not going to run through a list. Instead, I will refer you to the expert. We have a fellow here on Tuesdays. The fellow's name is Joe from the Carolinas. I guess his birth certificate says from the Carolinas. In between the afternoon and evening blocks on LTR you can tune in on every Tuesday and here, Grow Your Own, the budding revolution with Joe. Joe discusses topics of this sort and is much more adept. He has a green thumb, I have a brown thumb. I have not succeeded in killing absolutely everything that I've ever planted, though I have a pretty good percentage kill rate so far accumulated. He can answer your questions, make recommendations, all that kind of good stuff. He also does entertain questions by email and other such means. Let's see, Joe from the Carolinas at gmail.com, if I recall correctly. If not, he will tell you the correct email in his archive program. He too is archived the same place that we are. That is indianafreedomtalkradio.com. You can pull up any of the programs we or he has broadcast. They are available for $0.00 and 0 cents in MP3 format. Just grab them there and they are freely distributable. So that is not an issue. The other thing I would like to suggest is that the growing season can be stretched both fall into winter and spring can be stretched forward into winter if you have a supply of sheet plastic. That's one of those materials that keeps on the shelf not forever but for a considerable period of time, can be reused a number of times until it breaks down. All you really need is some means of supporting it. Wire hoops is a good one, but you can improvise things if you need to from locally produced strips of wood or what have you. It is desirable to add thermal mass if you're going to do this because there will be a period during which the daytime is not too bad, especially under the plastic, the temperatures won't be too bad. but at night it gets kind of chilly-freezy. Something people are not aware of but came to my attention when I was doing some furnace type calculations is that the thermal mass of water is some five times as high as the thermal mass of masonry. What that means is that a pound of water will soak up some heat and rise a certain degree's temperature for each unit of heat. and water will soak up five times as much energy to rise one degree as a piece of masonry will. Masonry doesn't vary very much from one form to the other so whether you got bricks or cinder blocks or concrete blocks or natural rock or whatever the case is, they're all more or less the same heat capacity and that heat capacity is one-fifth as much as water. So, one pound of water will buffer up as much heat as five pounds of masonry. Both of them are nearly free. Therefore, if you have pails or if you have pop bottles or any sort of container that can store significant amounts of water, sprinkling around a bunch of containers of that sort in the area underneath your plastic greenhouse, will provide a lot of thermal mass to soak up heat during the daytime and re-radiate it at night and again help you stretch out your growing time in a temperature basis. You might want to squirt a little bit of dark something onto the container so that they soak up the heat better. Maybe you want to drip a little bit of ink or some sort of cheap substitute for ink into the water itself. so that it actually soaks up the light and turns into heat. Whatever you want to do is fine. Pop bottles have a virtue in that they can be filled partially and then they get kind of squishy. So if you three quarters fill a pop bottle, suck the air out of it and screw the lid on, then it becomes kind of a squishy pillow. If that thing should by accident freeze, you've got some expansion space, it's not likely to rupture on the first few cycles. doing that. A pail is a little bit more vulnerable. You probably want to throw something crushable into the pail so that if it freezes the pail doesn't split and burst. It's not like you can grow new pails easily. In our area it's becoming harder and harder to get a hold of pop bottles, which is kind of annoying. One of the things our garbage collecting company has done is it's been changing out the recycle containers Now we've gotten to the point where we've got the 65 gallon wheel-lidded containers, both for recycles and for trash. So a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to discover that they didn't pick up my trash. They picked up the recycles, they didn't pick up the trash, and said, what's the deal? And I looked up and down the street and nobody had a trash can out. Everybody had two of these blue plastic bins, and I got on these guys and said, what's the deal? And I said, oh, sorry, I guess we missed you. We'll give you a trash can. The official story on that is that I guess they no longer want their garbage collectors to have to be able to actually lift an object. So now they have gone fully to a mechanized system whereby the garbage truck picks up the container and dumps it into the hopper and therefore they want a standard size container with a hinged lid and so on so that they can just dump it into the hopper and all the person ever does is sometimes turn them around to be oriented the correct way. I suppose that's convenient if you ever have to put little pieces of of Kevlar Zombie into the garbage can because nobody's actually going to see that. You could put it in the can and they would haul it away and nobody would notice. But it certainly is a disturbing trend. They are mechanizing to the point that even their garbage collectors are no longer expected to have to be able to lift an object two or three feet to dump it into the the truck. So we are really, really getting kind of flabby and weak. You know, perhaps this is a... a hiring practices thing where they said, well this five foot two little creature wanted to be a garbage collector and you're discriminating. I don't know. Maybe they were getting too many workman's comps claims or people wanted to retire and they used the workman's comp as a means of retiring saying, oh I blew out my back, you made me lift these garbage cans. Whatever the case may be, We are going to these containers which are becoming very very difficult to access and inspect and raid. So all of the nonsense that you get over the corporate press about how they really really want you to reuse and then repurpose things and then recycle is the last option. Well that's humbug. The corporation that collects this stuff really really wants that saleable material and they are not interested in letting you have access to it. expect to see more and more restrictions on evil people trying to collect pop bottles out of people's trash or recyclables and whatnot. Therefore, if you have access to a source of pop bottles, if you know anybody whose household generates a lot of them, whatever the case is, cultivate that source. Because for such an ordinary thing that you could use in very, very large quantity in your garden, for instance, it's actually strangely becoming harder and harder to get hold of. So I guess that's what I have to say about the garden stuff. Say it's not only have any comments. No, very good. Again, one of the things to remember, pick a container. Try to standardize if you can just for storage purposes, but eventually it's going to be catch as catch can. Just like all of the other reusable items that are disappearing, Now we're looking at the recycling, you know, the restrictions on access to the recycling material because there's less and less of that available. That's it. The commodity slash resource is going out of the country. Remember, that's the one thing that's going back overseas is all these recyclables, we're not, they're not shipping American products. Those container ships are going back with mass. They're going back with material. They want to get as much out of the country as they can as quickly as they can. They've been doing it. There are mountains. If you've seen the images overseas, we did a little series up north where the guys brought in the pictures of what's being piled up in China. Guys, they don't care what it is. If you're stupid enough to let it get away, they're dragging it all home. Hey, we're paying them to take that material away from us. We're paying them. There are billionaires in China who have made their fortune by being paid by the Americans to take the American material away from America. Can you believe it? Yeah. Well, we know it's treason. We know it's betrayal on a massive scale. This is not news to us, but it certainly is extreme. And again, that's where the stuff is. Why it's being fought over here. or while they're doing more and more to restrict it and step in and see a lot more. One of the things that I've been doing, watch the yard sales. The latest thing for all the food items like meats and such are these inexpensive glad type clear containers. You know, they're smoky plastic below or clear. And they've got a colored lid. Everything is coming out in those and a lot of people are tossing them. I just got a box full of those today for free. Now I've told you before, for reloading, or for parts, or for sorting out nuts, bolts, and screws, which I get all the time. I'm watching for anybody throwing that stuff away. They're perfect containers, guys, because you can color-code them. You can take the purple lids and use them for one item. You can use the red lids and use them for another item. Take advantage of these, because progressively, even if you've noticed how cheap and poor the containers are, that even the salad dressing and stuff's coming in. They're trying to thin down and minimize everything to the nth degree. Of course, it also makes it dangerous to ship. And I have noticed that certain products, they're seeing a very large casualty rate on damage in shipment. Something that some of the stock are even talking about now. Because the stuff they're trying to handle it BK like they always have. And the problem is all they have to do is bump a corner and they fracture the package inside. So that just gives you an example of how, well, I've got some of the old plastic mayonnaise containers. Keep them. New ones are absolute garbage. I just used a couple of the relish containers from the dollar store type items. And they're one step away from a crinkle, like almost bag. Take what you can get, but pick a standard and go after it. The other thing is don't forget restaurants. Restaurants go through a lot of the same products over and over again because they have a menu schedule. The cool thing is, if you talk to them, they'll even run the stuff through. In fact, most of the times, like in this area, they do. They'll run the bigger containers right through their pots and pans machine, and they'll be sterile when they come out the other end. And that means you've got a really nice storage container for free. Yeah, don't rely on or require that to be sterile, but at least he gets the mayonnaise off and things so it's not going to be all gaky in your garage. Yeah, the cheese or whatever it is. The idea is that it cleans it out and it's got it where you've got it serviceable again. I always plastic bagline everything. If it's dry stored, garbage bagged first. Then everything goes inside that even if you have other containers. I automatically do as part of the multi-barrier protection system. Go ahead, BK, jump in there please. One of the other things is, anything you get in glass, I have a really hard time letting go of anything that's made out of glass. If you can possibly match the original lid to it and scrub it up, set it aside even if you don't have a use for it. Because glass and metal, or even if need be, the plastic lid, will last a very, very long time. It's very, very airtight. It's very, very sanitary. Which also leads me to something that occurred to me. I'm listening earlier on LTR. One of our friends, Joe, mentioned that if you can't get quick clot, a field expedient for wound closure is sand. Well, something crossed my mind when he said that. The sand that's out in your backyard is probably a lot dirtier and grubbier than you think it is. But if you have access to a beach, or have a little bit of time, or even just visit the garden center or whatnot, you can get fairly clean sand. But here's the deal. Sand is extremely inert. It's basically glass. You can wash that as many times as you want to get all the organic material out of that. You rinse it, you fill it with water, you stir it, you pour off the water until it's cloudy, you add more water, you stir it, you do it repeatedly. You might even want to run some soapy water through once or twice and then several rinses to get all the soapy out of it and so on. But then here's the second notion. Sand has extremely high temperature resistance. They make glass out of it. That's what goes on. You can run that stuff through your oven and you can bake the snot out of it and get it sterile. If you pack that into glass jars, hopefully small ones, maybe you can find spice jars or something like that. You've scrubbed out, run through the dishwasher, got good nice airtight caps, that sort of thing. If you take that heated sand that you have sterilized in the oven and pack that into those individual glass, that's probably pretty, pretty good. sterilizing procedure for that. That's field expedient wound filler that you can actually access. It's really, really hard for the vampires to make it difficult to get a hold of sand. They can make it difficult and expensive to get a hold of the official wound packs and so on. But if you went through that process of cleaning and especially baking the sand to get it sterile, then you've probably made considerable progress in that area. If you save one of your friendlies, then it's worth the effort. Thoughts? Yep. Again, there are a number of different techniques. The most thing we're going to talk about is a quick expedient right there on the spot. But again, remember that improvised... Well, that's clearly what he had in mind, but it occurred to me that, oh, well, once we've got the idea, then, hey, we could go with that. Right, exactly. The idea is that, again, we're going to be improvising progressively as we can. And I think most people are still thinking that if we see a war, that it's going to be an American waste. And I'm going to point out that you pay attention to the way all these other parts of the operating and what they look like. You know, what you're going to get a better feel for is what you see in the Ukraine right now or what you've seen in Iraq or Syria. It's the kind of situation where you better be prepared and understand that you have diminishing returns based upon lack of replacement production. So improvising is going to be the norm. The other thing is, again guys, wherever we can, we have to salvage and we have to save, be conservative wherever possible with our resources so that we can stretch them out for the very reason we're talking about here. Eventually, we're going to have to use the alternatives. And if you're remote enough in the field, you may have no choice. And very quickly, it won't take very long to... Oh man, I am out. So just have to think about their kids. It doesn't take very long. I mean, after all, we're going to... Not only do we have to change a dress or, you know, initially treat the wound, but let's not forget, we also have to change out the dressings. In the long run, after we get past the emergency procedures, we still have a whole long way to go to bring that patient back to 100% or as close as possible. Well, if you've seen the price of those clotting agents, remember that that's interchangeable. If you've got a budget, that's interchangeable with food, with ammunition, with clothing, with everything else. So you've got to make your decisions how you're going to allocate available resources. If you want to get close to by stand and you're not near a B train thing, Another good idea is an aquarium shop or aquarium supplies. They sell really clean, and I've had aquariums all my life. You can buy really high grade sand because they put them at the bottom of the thing. Yeah, and they kind of probably laugh up their sleeve at the price they're charging you per pound for sand. Yeah, I know. But still sand. When you think about it in terms of total dollars per possible life saved, yeah. I mean, in terms of nice clean package, it's already packaged up. You could have paid like three bucks for a pound of sand, you know. Right. Yeah, and I think how much you're going to pay for a pound of wound pack. If you're looking at wrecked storefronts, it's not very likely that anybody is going to bust in the windows and grab the sandbags. Right? Yeah. Think about it. Look at what you saw right there in Ferguson. Okay. Think that way. Think about what would you, if you were to walk to an area that's damaged and you were patching somebody up, where could you find it? So, what would you point out? Head supplies, things of that nature. Yeah. Suggestion. Ever heard of perlite? It's used in gardening shops. It's lightweight. It's used as a soil expander. I'm aware of the material and it's good for a lot of things. People use it for insulating their little home forges and things of that sort. I don't know whether it would work for this application. I'll defer to other people's experience in that area, but it's a thought. I believe it would, but someone else may have more experience, but it was just a thought. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, so let's do our quick market survey. We have been emphasizing powder recently because that's the category that's been in tight supply. If you had asked me five years ago, or maybe you did, my opinion would have been that they would clamp down on the primers as a pinch point on reloading supplies. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not sure why. It could be the volume and the bulk involved. It may be that there are so many billions of primers sitting on people's shelves with nearly infinite shelf life that they kind of gave up on that and shifted over to the powder. So for the time being, powder seems to be the pinch point. So that's what we're going to be focusing on for a while. I have listened to some of the archives and if I didn't have this stuff all written down in notes ahead of me, it would be a little bit hard to follow the way I ran through. So I'm going to reorganize this a little bit. I'm going to do this by caliber or burn rate. So, starting off at the fast 2-3 end, what we have available this week is age 4198 and we have IMR 4320. The 4198 is available at Mid-South shooter supply and they're offering that at 22.5 for single pounds and 159 for 8 pound packs. or jugs, whatever the case may be. The 4320 is available at Powder Valley and Grafs. As always, Grafs is more expensive, but they do have very good inventory control. You can be sure when you place the order that they have it because two minutes later if you refresh the page you will see the number on hand at decrement. So that's a plus plus, but you pay for that service. The 4320 is available at 21.40 for single pounds and at 153.70 for powder valley and at 173 for graphs. In the 223 range, the two powders that are available this week in any reasonable quantity, and I'm just going to repeat the eight pounders, is H4198 from Mid-South at 159. and the IMR 4320 at 154 roughly from Powder Valley and 173 from Graps. Now, if you are specifically looking for 308, I'm not as familiar with the normal line as with some of the others, but the Norma 202 was designed specifically for 308, and that is available right now, mid south, or I'm sorry, GRABS has it in single pounds. That's the only powder that I see available this week that is specifically 308. Now in the versatile powders, we have three options. We have LT32, that's the accurate arms, that's been available for some weeks now. We have Vito Vurian 133. The 133 and the 135 are both useful. The 133 is a little faster, the 135 is a little slower, but they both run all the way across the range from 223 to 308. And there's the accurate arms 2460, which is really a 223 powder, but it can stretch maybe as high as 308, especially if you're using light bullocks. But, so those are those three. The LT32 we have available at Powder Valley at $190 for 8 pounds and Mid-South for $198. So those guys are not very far apart on that. That is expensive stuff. It was designed for the bench resters. It is very, very well regarded as far as consistency and everything and it is not cheap at $190 and $198. The V. DeVore N133, I'm going to stick just to the 8 pounders. Graf's has that at 221. All three vendors have single pounds, but you're paying in excess of $30 a pound for this stuff. So I really can't recommend people to pay $30 on up for single pounds unless you're really, really desperate. And the Accred Arms 2460. is available at graphs in single pounds. That also is a bit of a desperation option. So the main offerings this week in the versatile range are LT32. Eight pounders are available from Powder Valley and Mid-South in the 190 to 198 range. and the Vito Vuri-N133 is available from graphs at 221 for 8 pounds. Ouch, ouch. But it is widely regarded as a very, very consistent stable powder. The 303-1 we've spoken of before, that is a specialty powder, a suitable only really for 30-30 and near-bys and that seems to be down to the 1 pound package at all the vendors where I found it. So that seems to have been swept off the shelves in the last week. Now we haven't been spending a lot of time talking about the slower powders. The 4350 has been available consistently for months. Some of the other slower powders are as well. If you need something for your heavy belted magnums and all that kind of good stuff, you're in pretty good shape. Because that's the area that has been available. I don't know whether the bad guys figure that we don't use it, or it's not a problem, or the manufacturers have produced some and the bad guys aren't sucking that down. They're concentrating on the mid-range or whatever the case may be. But the slower powders all the way up to the 50 caliber stuff and down to the regular heavy Belton Magnums are available and have been available for some time. 4350 is one of them and the 7828SSC is a slightly newer variant as the SSC stands for super short cut. The benefit of that is that it is a cylindrical powder but it's got a very short cylindrical nature so it's not this sticky fluffy stuff that we're all accustomed to. Rather it meters fairly well and is easier to handle. Eight pounds of the SSC are available from a couple of vendors. Mid-South has it at 153. and Graf's has it at $173. As usual there's about a $20 price difference but that is available. You're not really going to be using all that much. of the very slow powder simply because you spend a day on the range with a 2-2-3 you may go through a few hundred rounds or a couple hundred rounds or a hundred rounds. You spend a day on a range with your heavy belted Magnum you go through five or ten rounds and most of the people that I know say okay that's enough. So even if you are practicing continuously with those calibers your consumption rate is likely to be very low even though you put a fair amount of powder into the case. Your actual consumption rate in terms of pounds per year is likely to be very, very low. So that's not likely to be a pinch point for most people. But if you need to up your inventory in that area right now, the 7828 is a good choice and it is currently available at what passes for reasonable prices nowadays. I am told that Bass Pro continues to have inventory. It's a smattering of, I am told, Alliant and Hodgson and so on. It comes in and out. It is mostly one pound packages and is not a price that most of you would like. But if you need to make cash purchases or you want to be very, very stealthy and do cash purchases and so on and so forth or insist on it, then that is an option. Cabela's also has a reputation of routinely having something in inventory, if not very much. So you can get a pound of this and a pound of that here and there at your local store as need be. That's something for you to check out in person at the brick and mortar stores. I can't help you with that. The other comment I'll make is that I am told that Walle still has a little bit of that VQI. I believe if I recall correctly that's Turk surplus. Apparently they made a big buy of that. I would surmise that it was one big purchase and that it just kind of ripples through. It's probably a payment for the Turks being our catamites in the Middle East. that they get to sell to us, the vampires get to hand out access to our markets like so many door prizes at a party. I don't particularly like that, but that's the way it is right now. We see signs of that when we see materials appear and disappear on the retail market. The VQI appears to be very, very good stuff and that remains available to some degree here and there at various Wall-E's. It does appear to be selling out and vanishing. But for the time being, that may still be available near you if you are interested. Comments? One of the things actually brought up, you may have noticed there, www.accurate4350 smokeless powder. They do have some, not a whole lot, but they do have some powder. And that's what they do have. Eight pounds container, hazmat fee required. So again, that's www.sellwayarmory.com. just let everybody know. Thank you, Kentucky, in the chatroom. Again, that's www.f-e-l-w-a-y-a-r-m-o-r-y dot com at accurate 4350 in 8 pound kegs. Again, you don't see that as often as you'd expect, you know, we used to, especially 4350 or any of the 44000 series putters, but... If somebody has got it, they have a good eat. You might want to check it out and see if the price is reasonable and whether or not it is something you need for the kind of reloading you are doing. But if you don't have fire, you're going to spend an awful lot of time working on it. Believe me, you do not want to do the bow saw trick. It works. But you don't want to do it. If you can store stuff up now for future use, you will be glad that you did. Actually, you probably won't be glad you did. You will take it so for granted that you won't even think about it. But if you don't take care of this in advance, you will be sorry that you didn't. The two obvious approaches to that are the disposable butane lighter has the advantage that they're easy to hand out. to multiple people. The sustainable technology that I also recommend is the Zippo lighter. They are more expensive per unit. The best ones I've seen were about $11 a piece at WALL-E. They have a plain brushed steel version that you can pick up in a blister pack. Anywhere else they're going to run $15 to $18 a piece for the US made versions. You can buy cheap Chinese clones on deal extreme and similar sites for as little as $2.50 to $3.00 apiece. They work to a degree for a while. I have tried out a couple of these things and they work to a degree for a while. I do not think the wheel is the same grade of steel that the Zippos are and they don't seem to hold up all that long, but they are more sustainable than the butane style. The one thing I will warn people about butane lighters is contrary to what you might expect, the things do not last in storage forever. They do leak. The cheaper ones will leak faster than the fancy or Bic brand for instance, but I socked away some of the cheaper ones because I got a bunch of them at 11 cents a piece whereas the Bics ran 50 to 60 cents a piece from the absolute best sources I could find. So with a 4 or 5 to 1 price ratio, I figure a 20% quality differential is not worth it. What I would recommend for butane lighters is that you store them in a traditional latching ammo can. If you put them aside and then you come back in a year and you open the can, it's going to burp at you. It's going to go poof and you're going to smell that butane smell and that will prove to you that they do slowly leak. Ask me how I know. So I guess you don't want to have a stogie in your mouth all lit at the time that you do that. You might end up regrowing some eyebrows. But otherwise it's not a problem. But if you do contain them in that fashion and the internal pressure rises a little bit, that will slow down the rate at which the lighters slowly leak. The other thing is the Zippo. And why do I recommend the Zippo? Well, because you can go down to the hardware store and for $20 you can buy a gallon of Naptha. That will be in the woodworking section because it's one of the things that the woodworkers will use to raise grain and to tinker around with their stains and things of this sort. Naptha and Zippo fluid are exactly the same stuff. That's all Zippo is. Alright, so for $20 you can get a gallon of that stuff and that is equivalent to an awful lot of the silly little yellow squeeze bottles. The yellow squeeze bottles are useful and I recommend having a few of them because that's the easy way to use these things. You don't want to pour a gallon can into your Zippo lighter. It doesn't work that way. If you have a syringe to suck it up and load your lighter, that's fine, but it only works for the first inch or two of the big can. You can refill the little yellow squeezy bottles in this fashion. I experimented with this and discovered this actually works fairly well. What you do The NAPTA comes in a gallon can that's sort of a paint thinner can. It's an F style can. That's what they call it in industry with a screw cap on the top. Just set that on a table and unscrew the cap. What you do is you take a piece of silicone tubing. You can get this at your hobby supply. They use them for refueling the model airplanes, that sort of stuff. Put one end of the tubing over the little spigot from your yellow squeezy bottle. Drop the other end into the F can. Make sure that it's below the surface. And then you just squeeze and release your yellow bottle repeatedly. Each time you squeeze it, you will be blowing bubbles. You will hear the bubbles blowing inside the big can. And each time you release it, then that will suck fluid back up through that little flexible tube and into your yellow squeezy bottle. So you do not need to do any experiments with trying to pry the lid off of your yellow squeezy bottle, which will degrade that cap very quickly. Instead, just stick a piece of this tubing onto the end and drop the other end into your big metal can and squeeze and release, squeeze and release, and you will refill that yellow squeezy bottle in a couple of minutes. Yeah, one thing I think with these Zippo lighters, I think the other stock up to is on flint. Definitely, and you know I've found that the Chinese flints are basically the only game in town anymore. I don't think they are the same quality as the old Ronson flints used to be. I think they have a lot of imperfections, a lot of inclusions, a lot of contaminants in them, so you probably go through them two or three times as fast as we used to. But they are still available in quantity. I would purchase those from the deal extreme type vendors in large quantity. And if need be, just call those trade goods as well. You get a couple of pounds of that in a sack and you've got an awful lot of strikes set aside. Yeah, I also do. I store a lot of stick matches and book matches. I just take out those silicone packets, I get out of packets, so I keep the moisture out and I seal them in a tub or a packet. Yeah, it's not bad. Those are particularly suitable for handout purposes. They're more divisible than any kind of lighter. You can give a pack of folding matches to one each to ten people. You can't give one lighter to ten people. So, you know, that's beneficial. The paper matches are more susceptible to moisture. Both paper and wooden stick are both susceptible to moisture, so you have to take some care with that. The strike anywhere matches of yesteryear are no longer really available. If you can even find strike anywhere matches, nowadays they are a pale and pathetic copy of what we once had. The little white dot on the end is microscopic. You get about one try to strike those things, and that's that. But, you know, they are to some extent available. I do like the little small size wooden strike matches even if you have to use the box and the striker strip. There aren't so many matches in a box that you're going to wear out the striker strip. So, you know, that's not too awful. If you put that in a plastic bag, that also is available. Well, one thing I did save up and I still have is my MRE matches. Mark, is there a distinction between MRE matches and the regular book matches you get off the shelf? It's supposed to be a lot of water durable, water resistant. The big thing is, they were free. I grabbed, I got MREs, like C-ration boxes. I Ziploc bagged them though. Everything that we got when we got it years ago, subdivided out, counted out by so many pieces per bag and then bagged it up and then boxed them up in C-ration boxes. The big thing there again, real quick on the flints, don't forget anything you see in the way of a lighter that somebody is throwing away guys, grab it, rip the flint out of there, save the little striker wheel too. You might have to build something back up, you know, where you've got everything there, but darn, I dropped the fill in the blank, so the internals from the old ones are worth hanging onto. At the very least, keep the flint. You never wear the flint out in the throwaways. the fluid is gone before the flint is used. So you may have a little bit of difficulty using them. You probably still can use them. You probably won't get anywhere near as many strikes out of them because they'll tend to break off. But one strike may make the difference between freezing to death and not. The other thing is that you can, as one of our friends in chat points out, you can use all sorts of liquid fuels, anything from moonshine to kerosene in the Zippos. Well, bear in mind that The tendency of the things to strike will vary. So you may have to fool around with a little bit. It helps a lot if you carry it in your pocket and keep it warm. All of those liquid fuels work better if you're keeping them warm, if they're cold and you're going strike, strike, strike and it's not igniting. Well, there may be a little bit of fooling around with the wake to be done, depending on your circumstances. But the other thing to do is put them in your pocket and try it again in 10 minutes. You might be surprised at the difference in the responsiveness of the device. when that happens. Anything else on this topic? What about white fuel? Well, white fuel is basically just gasoline without all the nasty additives. Actually, like you were saying, the idea is that the lighters, there are a number of different other lighters than Bix or, forgive me, rather than just the Zippos. A lot of guys have the German equivalent that are member of the round ones. Actually, I've sold probably thousands of those. In fact, the company that has them is the same one that has all those G3 magazines. They're the only importer of the German trench lighters, and those will run off. Originally, they were boasted by the Germans. They'd run off anything. Because you've got to remember, it was coming from a poor country. So, well, we had Zippos, and we had lighter fluid. old German trench lighters and anything they could find that was combustible. Just keep that in mind. Okay, go ahead BK, please. We don't have so much time. Okay, miscellaneous items. At your local Dollar Tree, one of our friends called my attention to this and I checked it out and he's absolutely correct. Dollar Tree has incandescent lamps. So, those of you who do not like curly bulbs, who prefer the incandescent bulbs, and are probably aware that a band has gone into place, it is supposedly a phased-in band. Any information I can find is kind of vague and squishy, but basically access to the regular, mid-range incandescent bulbs is being pinched off. What they're doing is they're banning manufacture and import and sale of these things. But there's a lot of vagueness in the descriptions of what's going on. There are also various exceptions. There are exceptions for the massive three-way bulbs. There are exceptions for anything outside the 40 to 100 watt range. The little ornamental ones are okay. There are probably some some loopholes to call this ornamental or call that ornamental. In theory they are not outlawing all of the little flashlight bulbs and the illuminator bulbs that go in behind the instrument panels of older equipment and dashboards and things of this sort. But when they ban the large volume commodity bulbs you can be sure that the factories that produced all of those, the whole range, are going to shut down because When you remove the bread and butter, then the quiche goes away. So for all practical purposes, incandescents are becoming very hard to get. Dollar Tree has them. They are offering 60 watt bulbs, three packs for $1. And they are also offering 100 watt bulbs, two packs for $1. Why that should be the case, I have no idea. The manufacturing cost of a 60 versus a 100. is probably indistinguishable, but that's somebody's marketing decision. Looking at the package, they appear to have come through Canada and they're probably China's part manufacturer or Montreal manufacturer. Interestingly, there are some manufacturing operations remaining in the Montreal area when we have shut everything down in the rest of North America. But for the time being, the Sunbeam brand is available 360s or 2100s. at Dollar Tree. So if that is your cup of tea and you are a little bit annoyed at the shutdown and clampdown and have not purchased a lifetime supply, by all means nip on down there and clean them out. Comments? I guess not. OK. Are we still on? Yes, we are. One other item that I noticed when I was in there is they have a decent little canned chicken package. I would not recommend buying any of the seafood type things, the tuna, sardines, etc., because we do not want to be eating anything out of the Pacific because of CZM 137. and we do not want to be eating anything out of the golf because of all the corrects that that contrary to the corporate past is still there and is still poisoning people but so far they haven't found a really good way to poison the chickens except for antibiotics and Dollar Tree does have canned chicken I tried some of that it was perfectly okay and I can recommend that so You might want to take a look at that while you are in. So all these on canned chicken, number one, as one of our friends pointed out while he was up here from one of the other states, all these canned soups in the Denny Moore sized cans drop down by 40 cents a can. Anywhere from 40 to 60 cents a can. So guys, you want to check your store to see what they have. Usually they're in an end cap, but what I've seen is they're pretty consistent with how they set the stores up. Now the other thing they've got, BK, something that's new, they have They're the large tuna cans, size cans of chicken, but they're in flavors. So for those of you who are looking for food change up by being able to just open the can and eat, the price is a little better than it has been. Those have come down by just a few pennies probably as promotional because they've got buffalo wing and two other flavors. We just got one of the buffalo wing flavors. I haven't even opened up yet. But the idea was that the price is right. It's again a change up item. If you're looking to buy stuff to put in your backpack, you were to go into a store, some we've talked about, take $20. One of those cans of chicken is a good protein, you know, food source. It's got a good flavor, it's a pick-me-up thing. And it could be eaten out of the can cold if need be. It's already cooked. Everybody cooking your shoes. So that's another thing to watch. And the stuff, somebody else said, man, I tried some of that, it's really good. They made stuff with them, okay. They made like buffalo wing tacos. And it's like, they were great. So again, there's a solution. The other thing, and I'm noticing this with most of these stores, is mistaken shipment sales. The policy is if they get it to a store, a lot of these places do not want to spend the money to send it back. And two of the oldies we have here, I've checked three, actually big lots, they've got a little section. You've got to look around through like the grocery section. and it'll be oudments. Now with all these they've got a rack and for instance in our area they don't sell popcorn at BK but guess what? They got popcorn. Well they don't ship it back to the warehouse. The girls said, oh no, it goes over the markdown bin. For a day they had popcorn at about two cents a regular price and that was a good buy. But the meat is the same way. Watch for the canned meats. It's a change up item. You can go with the chicken, you can go with the, well I guess if it comes from China it will be donkey or fox. In this case it's not, it's Danish or it's American product. Check them out, take the time. We're almost to the top and we're left. Anything else sir? Jump in there please. We are at the top and the next topic I have queued up is a good 10 minutes so we should wrap it. We have, by the way, a little sub note here. Guys, we have had more frogs this year than I've seen in a long time. We've had heavy frog traffic, you know, population here pretty good. But while I've been doing the program, the tree frog walking to the window, my youngest boy would just notice that we've got one right now that's splayed out, and we have one at almost every window in the house catching flies right now. You know, our moths is what they're after. I've been watching him decimate the moth population. It's perfect because there's a light right here and it totally illuminates him. The light is drawing the bugs and the frogs are taking advantage of the light. It's kind of fun to watch. Also, these are very beautiful. They're a blue-green. They've got a blue-green shading to them over their body. It's modeled. They're one of the old Michigan breed of frog that we've had here that's part of the Department of Natural Resources. Oh, we've got researchers here. I talked to the guys. They've got a survey piece of real estate that's down the road that's been surveyed for about 58 years. And this is a Michigan breed that has been in the state forever. It's a unique breed that we have here that most of you don't have. We have had massive quantities of them. That occurred to me. People put out bug zappers and they're expensive and they fry all the bugs and all that kind of good stuff. If you had a gallon glass jar and you put one of those little LED photocell yard lights inside it, then that would be a really convenient platform for little frogs because it would give them a way to climb up where the mods are going to and at the same time That would allow the little LED device to produce its light. So the combination of a gallon glass jug and one of those LED lights, just put them out in the yard and the frogs make up the third component of the system. You've got a bug zapper. Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about doing before we go. We've got a minute to start our network, guys. On that note, a little trick for outside winter use with LED yard lights. Go to the recycle bins like we were talking about. The oddball but larger glass jars prefer to like the longer ones like the spaghetti sauce come in guys. You take the lid, you secure the LED light there. You know what you do is make a fixture base for it so that the rod goes up into the glass. Take bathtub caulk, first, like I have fence posts. What I'm going to be doing this year, I'm going to screw the lid to the fence post. Then I'm going to take bathtub caulk real quick. I got tubes of it for free. In fact, I got a bunch of it today from one of the yard sales for free. Just run a bead inside the lid, screw down the light, you know, the glass, just like you were talking about, BK. Only, you're not talking about sealing them, I am. You're going to seal it, and then I'm going to bead caulk the outside. Now I've got a full winter, completely weatherized, but fully, you know, light collectible. nightlight that will just run indefinitely. I want to see how long they'll last. Well, you might have time. It occurs to me, you know, if you've got some of these gallon jugs or whatever that don't have matching lids, you just stick one of those little LED lamps into the ground and drop the glass over the top of it and the frogs can climb up the glass, which gives them a better shot at the bugs. Yeah, it's got perfect service to work with and all the illumination they need. Exactly. I'll tell you what guys, we are at the top. It is Quartermaster Friday. For all of our friends at Emmerich, Emerson, New Camp Staso, Wayland North, you guys are listening right now, probably either in the barracks or over in the range buildings. For everybody out there, be careful and be safe. We are crowded. I just shipped a bunch of radio gear up to Camp Wayland North. It's going to be probably already there as of tonight. Also, for again, Nagy Hicham, the Ogham Arranges, and Fox and Wolf, you guys be careful this weekend. We've got Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot coming up at the beginning of October. That's also going to be the Colonial Marine National Meeting. A lot of discussions there with what's going on, BK. Anything else, sir, before we go? No, we're way over. Let's wrap it. We are. We should be hearing the music, I think. I'll remind everybody our archives are at IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. Not only the archives for this program, but all the others that LTR runs. They also carry a BK spreadsheet, which we haven't discussed this week. They also carry, last time I checked, a transcript of an interview that we ran a while back with Verole Smith of LBT Molds. We should talk about that another week. That transcript is there in PDF format and is a much quicker and cleaner way of reading about that topic of hand casting and so on than is listening to the relevant raw audio. All of those things are available at IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, our archive site kindly maintained by Spike. Very good. Should be hearing the music. Now, if that isn't a cue, I never heard one. I know. I've never heard one. Well, I'll tell you what. A couple of you. It's interesting. Do you hear any noise? I'm hearing a little bit of noise in the background. A bit of a buzz, right? Right. You're bugger. He got bigger again. I think the telephone service is just getting a little crazy. It's just garbage phones. That's just the way it is. It's the world the way it is, unfortunately, today, guys. That's one of the problems. Welcome to Mexican-grade utility service. Yeah, the stuff I've got in my head is all 1980s or 1970s heavy gauge electronics guys. I've completely changed everything out. We've been very, very blessed with whole piles of stuff that's been showing up. One of the things I've gotten recently is a lot of wireless stuff, which I'm not excited about, but I have been playing with what it does. And like I said guys, these little BOW FM retransmitters for the wireless technology. I just got one for free so I could afford to take a look at it, take it apart, and then I just started tuning it up. And it's a little micro FM station. It's fixed frequency, but you know what? Inside it has an adjustment key. So guess what? I can pretty well run it.