Mark Koernke discussed weapons and preparedness topics on Weapons Wednesday, October 1st. He reviewed the Ruger P-85 pistol available at e-circoinc.com for $225, covering its specifications, ergonomics, and aftermarket support. He provided detailed guidance on reloading safety, including powder storage separation, static electricity hazards, and equipment maintenance with lubricants. Koernke analyzed ammunition pricing and availability from UNAMMO.com and AmmoMan.com, recommending PMC 9mm and discussing the value of maintaining diverse caliber inventories. He highlighted a significant find of surplus marine safety flares at $50-90 per case of 50 from UNAMMO.com, noting their multiple uses. The show covered 20-gauge shotgun ammunition, 30 carbine ammo, and 8mm Mauser rounds. Koernke discussed airsoft training weapons as practice tools, their military origins, and their value for skill development. He also covered historical air rifles used by the Austrian army during Napoleonic Wars and modern DIY pneumatic weapons.
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With the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell Grandma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers, bring us the Golden Spike. And again, it is blue sky. Actually, it's cleared up even more, a little calm. We might get a little colder tonight. Got to watch the weather here now. And that means that we're changing out. We're heading into the fall, as expected. It's not a matter of just a matter when. Of course, Wednesday, Weapons Wednesday, 1st of October, 6th year of Open Fabian the Socialist, and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K, 2013, Old Earth Calendar, or Mayan, Crazy Town, Crazy Town Calendar. Now, its weapons Wednesday, and I know there are some other things I wanted to touch on, but we're still at Sarco, and I had to double check this, and yes, Sarco has the P-85 Rugers in stock. Now, these were Israeli guns. I already called and talked to them about this. I suspected they were. They're a standard military package P-85. They're standard for all parts. Magazines, everything is standard P-85. The only difference is some may have and some may not have the lanyard ring on the bottom of the frame. Now that's an odd man out thing. That's a special contract feature. But some of them have them, some of them do not. Whether or not they were cut off or broke off or whatever, I don't think it would be. It's not easy to break them off on those, but they could. I guess they have to do it almost intentionally because they wanted to get rid of them. As far as getting rid of the lanyard rings, some people like them, others don't. But the P-85 is a very straightforward American handgun. Now, Ruger was screwing the American gun on our left and right and was trying desperately to make government suck-up deals. That's the reason he got awarded this contract with the Israelis, I'll guarantee in the first place. So as it is, for $225, these are in good to very good condition. That's service grade. If you want to look, you can see carry finish, wear on the gun, around the leading edges. It is a P85. You want to know what it looks like? Go to e-circoinc.com, go to their handgun inventory, and go to pistols and it is towards the bottom of the page. I called them and they had 10 of these in inventory. They can get more but they had less than 10 or about 10 because by the time you obviously respond they might be gone or some might be gone. Anyway, it is $225 so that is $15 cheaper. $25 cheaper than the star that we mentioned on the other you know, of course at JG sales on the other page Now, would I carry a P-85? Oh hell yeah, and a heartbeat. The gun is very straightforward. Double action, single action option, pure choice. You can go both ways with it. The weapon is all metal. It's not a Glock. It's an all metal pistol. It is again, nothing to write home about, but a lot of guys do like them and will swear by them. Or they might swear at them sometimes, because I'm the attitude of the person. seen work okay we've had a lot of them in service there's of course the later p-series of rueger pistols that have come into play but the 85 spare mags are available through cdnn investments and copes distributing i'm pretty sure copes has mags for them too Aftermarket mags and Ruger standard mags are available for the P85. It's right at that point where they're actually reasonably priced. They haven't gone crazy with them yet because they're not collectible per se. The P85 goes back a few years, but well, so does the P38. In this case, it's a more modern American-made gun. Again, straight forward lines, good ergonomic design as far as how it feels when you bring it up to contact. And easy for everybody to understand. It's a plug and play gun. So that's e-circoinc.com. I do not know if they have spare mags at Circo, but as I pointed out, they do have all the spare parts now, and if they do, I'd buy them. If you have a P85 already, I'd buy the spare parts. Circo has them. Otherwise, if you buy the pistol, hey for $225, whatever you save, buy at least one of every one of the replacement parts, you know, the firing pin extractor, ejector, you know, plunger pins, you know, cross pins, whatever. There's all kinds of little tiddly parts left available there. Pull them over and put them in your spare parts kit for your Ruger. Mark what they are, make sure they're properly stored. And again, the P-85, more serviceable, lots of leather, lots of Bianchi holsters for it. In fact, everybody made holsters for the Ruger family of pistols. So all of that is off the shelf. In fact, the UM-84. slash the whatever they're calling it now, the M8 or M6 holster, it's out there still, it's a Bianchi design. The P85 sits right in there real comfortable. So if it'll handle a Bretta 92, the Ruger fits without any difficulty at all. So there's another option. In fact, you can get the holsters through Gov Liquidations or Uncle Sam's retail outlet cheap right now. Just have to look and see what they have on the shelf. So the other option, and I wanted to mention these before we go anywhere else, there are some other stars. It looks like they've sold out of the star fires, guys, which I think is rather interesting. And again, for everybody out there, the Ruger P85 is a modern arm. Not that there's anything wrong with the star pistols. But the Ruger P85 everybody pretty well will be familiar with. Now the Daywoos are out there still, but they're almost $50 more. To be quite honest with you, I like the Daywoo, especially the Model 51. It's basically a Browning High Power Smith & Wesson Model 59 crossover is what it is. The gun itself is pricier but magazines are harder to get whereas those P85 mags are still in the American inventory all over the United States. You'll be able to find them without any problems. So I highly recommend that gun as a hand cannon solution. If you're looking for a semi-auto and you were looking for American made and you were looking for cheap because they're also cheaper than most of the guns that are out there and they're a standard caliber and they're a standard firearm for the inventory. Next is the discussion and the question about, well it was actually a reloading storage issue and this has to do with powder and such. Rule number one guys, if you are going to be storing a lot of powder, separate the inventory and don't just separate it by a can or a box or something like that. No, no, no. Static electricity is not your friend, number one. It's what causes oopsies in most of these fireworks plants that have these terrible accidents. Static electricity is not your friend and yet it builds up quite easily when you have powders and certain combinations of both metals and other materials that are organic. They brush up and create their own static field just with motion or with electrolysis. There are a number of different things that can happen, and especially the stuff sitting even. Now, to alleviate part of the pressure on that, separate your inventory of powders. There's two schools. One is separate and put a little bit in each cache, around, but away from each other so that they're less likely to create harmonic explosions slash burns, depending on how much powder you have. The other option is put all of your eggs in one basket for a particular powder and then your other's cash point has the other powder and your other cash point. One has your rifles, one has your pistol, one has your shotgun. That way they're separated. And again, it also makes it easier for inventory and for recovering when you're in the process of reloading stuff and you want to stay focused on the task. You know where everything is, it's all in one place but it's separate from the other powders. The other thing is don't get sloppy. The most common thing with reloaders is the guy that smokes in Ghostbusters where you watch the one character who has the cigarette hanging from his mouth and he opens up and he drops his... Well, you see the ash is burned up quite a ways. That is typical for people who are used to smoking and get into things and get focused on stuff. You kind of forget they had the cigarette there. They kind of butt the ash off there kids. Bump it off. Well, unfortunately they could usually bump it off with just a little jar of their head or a bump of their body. And every once in a while somebody might be near the hopper, kind of like big flash pan, and you'd see them a day or two later because you missed what happened and they'd have no eyebrows and the hair in the front of their head is all like singed, curled and singed off and fallen off. Yeah, yeah, we've seen this before. So again, when handling the powders in any way, shape or form, the most important thing to remember is again, fire safety, fire hazard, and again, harmonic catastrophe. You pile everything up in one place, you can also lose it all at one time. And that's one of the most, that's the biggest concern, one of the most disheartening components, you know, issues with regard to defense. It can be any number of ways though, it doesn't have to be a combat failure to create the problem. Now for this reason another thing that you really really need to invest in is static guard. No name brand spray cans are fine. I was just looking at my inventory here and I have about 16 cans right now on the shelf. Progressively you buy them from the dollar store. They're a dollar a can at like the dollar tree. But invest in having some cans of static guard. No, not for your clothes. We're talking about for your reloading system and for your bench. So you don't make any oopsies. Just that simple. Do we have a caller? I heard a ding. Alright, anyway, forgive me there. And I've got my extra four pod helpers right next to me trying to pitch in with the program. They're all excited and listening in. Anyway, the next thing, we're almost to the bottom of the hour here. We'll have a bottom of the hour break. Static guard and also sewing machine oil. One thing that I or a fine machine oil doesn't have to be but sewing machine, not 10 weight sewing machine oil is fine. Dollar stores have it still. In fact I've noticed that a couple of the dollar stores actually have some of the larger containers for a dollar. It depends on which store you're at but you want to pay attention to that. Most people don't think about it. Simple POL, petroleum oil, lubricant products like that. are very very handy but remember that we're dealing with a lot of small machines and fine machinery. We're not going to dose up anything but we are in need of adding lubricant every once in a while to keep our equipment online. This is a problem with weapons. Most people don't pull the screws, they don't have the right screwdriver size. They are afraid of damaging the head of the screw. Well guys, get the right tools, take the thing apart, lubricate everything, put it back together. It doesn't need to be soaking in oil but you need a surface coat. This will prevent adhesion. This will prevent oxidation. That's especially critical because first comes oxidation then adhesion. How's that sound? Because the stuff kind of welds itself together through nature. Especially too when you're doing reloading, certain components do require a small amount of lubricant, especially if they are working hinged parts. Oh, not just the dies. The machines themselves need to be maintained. And so you need to put a maintenance cycle into place. Nobody talks much about that. We talk about the reloading part, but you've got to remember guys, all the equipment you're running is precision machinery. In some cases, not that expensive of metal to begin with, like if you're using a lead. That's not a problem. In fact, the lubricant extends the life of the machine. Now we don't soak anything. We don't douse anything. We're looking at just enough to, again, coat the bearing surfaces that are moving back and forth every time you pull that arm down. You can also use the bindable grease, whatever kind it will lock onto a surface area. It starts out as again a liquid and then progressively becomes tacky over a period of so many minutes. There are a number of different options there for inserting it and getting it into where it needs to be, along that pin or along that pivot point or along that race. Again, wear and tear. We don't want this machinery to wear out too soon on us. Basic PM, basic maintenance is not typically taken into consideration. Not the way it should be. So I'm just going to harp on you on that again just as a reminder. Right up out there planning, prevents, piss poor performance as we know. Now, let's see. Okay, one more thing. I just want to double check because I know you guys have been finding stuff that's been going on around the country. I don't mean to leave anybody behind. The next thing is again both with UNAMMO and AMMOMAN.COM. Now I know there's a bunch of exotics and I've noticed something. We went from a lot of the boxes of exotic ammunition were 25 rounds per box which to me is like okay it's a half box. Well, when they're charging like $23 to $27 a box, it makes the bite seem less because if you double that number into a standard 50-round box, the price goes, oh my god, through the ceiling to the point where it's like, I ain't going to buy that. But what's bizarre is then somebody will turn around and buy two 25-round boxes and have a total of 50 and well then take a look at the price tag. What are you actually paying for that 50 rounds of whatever? Oh, about three times, twice, three times, or four times as much as you would for a regular ball round. Now, again, there's a use for the specialized rounds, and there are ways to utilize them. Not all of our weapons are necessarily engineered to handle a specialized round, so why bother? Again, ball ammunition. Well, if you go to unamo.com and check out amoman.com, unamo.com, unamo.com. or amoman.com. Two cool things. Number one, they offer, they show you the price including the shipping. Now with UNAML they show you the price if you go pick it up and they show you the price if they ship it. With amoman.com the price is including the shipping, it's what it costs, that's what you need to get it to your doorstep or to get it to wherever you want it sent. In both cases, there are some 9mm including some PMC. PMC Korea is a good production, they are a good line. One thing I would point out, we already know this, somebody is going to say, oh he doesn't know what he is talking about because they have a thinner wall, they have a thinner case. Yes, yeah they do. Their rifle cases are a hair thinner and thinner especially at the base. However, it is primary performance that we are interested in and the ability to put more fresh stock on the shelf. In PMC 9mm the wall thickness, there are no significant issues. In fact they seem to have decided that NATO standard, NATO spec was the norm obviously because they are marketing against a bunch of other companies that build for NATO. And so their 9mm seems to be pretty much two spec across the board. Nothing to say amazing about their ball round bullet, it's standard FMJ. the powder charge, standard NATO configuration and granular and boxer prime non-corrosive. So PMC can be reloaded. How will you get as many loadings out of it? If it's a, again, thinner wall, well it depends. If you try loading up the Dirty Harry specifications, the brass won't last as long, but no brass will last that long. On the other hand, if you do factory standard middle of the road loads and you're using a ball round for reloading, well in reality it's indefinite. You're good for at least seven, maybe eight reloads off that case without any problem, depending on how hot it was when you started. Another consideration here, with especially the 9mm NATO, is again, understanding that we have several different weapons that are NATO standard 9s that are overseas that we have adopted here. So even if you don't, well Mark I only do 45. It behooves you to have a certain amount of .40 cal and a certain amount of 9mm ammo on the shelf. Captured weapons are, you know, again you can throw the magazines at them when they're empty. I would never do that, but in theory it could and then use the pistol for a beating tool. But having a certain amount of the ammunition in inventory at any given time, of course, provides you with a deeper 5-10 potential. So again, you don't want to go the most expensive. You want a couple cans of, or say a can of 9, even if you don't run 9, at least a can of 9mm around means that if your friends show up or if you capture arms from the aggressor, you're able to provide some ammunition to put those weapons into the service of security weapons, auxiliary firearms, etc. Maybe you're not your first choice in front line weapons. Well Mark, they're military arms. That's true, and you'll probably be using them no matter what. The other consideration, as we pointed out many times, with 40 Smith and Wesson, is the fact that, well, there's all these cop shops carrying it. We grabbed all the brass. I just counted. I've got seven five-gallon pails of 40-caliber brass. They didn't cost us anything. Actually, they probably did in a roundabout way because this is government shooting where they are just dumping the factory fresh brass. In many cases, not only are they dropping the brass, but they are dropping super expensive goofy price brass. Can't pass it up, got to use it. But, again, do we necessarily have a bunch of 40 calibers? Not right now. The only cool thing about that is, as we've said many times, You can go to a high point pistol and get for a very reasonable price a .40 caliber, a .45 ACP or a standard 9mm Parabellum and guys they'll run like typewriters all day. So if you are accessing a lab brass and you can afford to reload .40 cal for a reasonable price, well guess what? It might behoove you to invest in a few other areas like maybe for less than a couple hundred dollars, about $150, $160, 40 Smith and Wesson, the high point. Including a couple of mags, if not four or five or six, and you got yourself a nice hand cannon, you start to recover 40 caliber ammunition, you're not going to be the orphan out, you have the ability to have a weapon on standby that pop, pop, pop, boom, boom, boom, does the job. So just something to think about. And again, amoman.com. Amoman.com and unamo.com. unamo.com. We should be here in the music. We're at the bottom of the hour break. You may ride a good late ski, you may not turn a master You forward much with speed, but you'll learn the back of such faster when you meet our mountain boys And the leader jot a start And you make what little noise you always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, we'll prove no frightful No graves at home, back across the bright water And here the emus come like fall at the zoo This is the intel report right here and it is a beautiful weapons Wednesday for everybody out there What's really cool is if you go to UNAMMO.com, they do have some carbine ammunition. I've mentioned this many times. We're out of stock here, remember, I think about three weeks ago. Lo and behold, what did they replace their carbine ammo with? Mexican Aguila ammunition. Now, this is not bad ammo. This is Remington, Mexico, made for the Federales so they can shoot the peasants. Brand new production 110 grain FMJ 30 caliber carbine ammo made by Aguila brass case non corrosive boxer prime break out that old M1 carbine and oil it up. I wouldn't shoot it. I just oil it up and put more ammo on the shelf. Now it's $440 for 1,000 rounds if you go pick it up or $470 a case if you buy and have it shipped. So you can see it's $30 more to ship it. But it is a block of ammo. 50 round boxes. You can get carbine stripper clips that have a built on guide. They were made, started making them in the Korean War. and they produced them through to Vietnam. Those usually come separate. Some places have them. They're orphans. In other words, they don't have anything else carbine, so you can sometimes get a pretty good price on those. At the very least, if you've got any carbines or anything like the stainless steel, remember the ultra mags, guys that were in 30 carbine, one of our friends listening way up north carries a carbine and carries the, that's right, one of those stainless steel AMT automags. Oh yeah, 30 carbine. That is a bad buck round and a bad buck gun, actually very, very accurate. So it is something to take into consideration and to take a look at. And again, UNAMMO.com, UNAMMO.com, they've got the carbine ammo in stock. They do have a number of flavors of 7.62x39, and they have had two different flavors of 8mm Mauser. It looks like they're back down to one. They still have 10 plus boxes of the Romanian 150 grain steel case. Now that's a copy of the German round, except It's the 150 grain bullet instead of the 200 grain bullet which was standard for the Germans. So not a bad load. Everybody that's shot it tells me that it works fine. It's in the stripper clips so if you've got those K98 Mausers or those Hakimps in 8mm or the FN49 or the Heck, you might have a G43 slash K43 German semi-auto rifle. I don't know. But whatever you got, they do have ammunition, 8mm for it, and it will work. Now the other thing, I mentioned the 9mm ammunition. They've got a good price for, right now, for the standard ball. There's three different loads. And again, if it's factory reload, but it's done in their factory, buy it. If you can save $20 or $30, I'm going to be quite honest. Anybody says, well, what about the quality control? Guys, I've seen $40 boxes, 25 rounds per box of ammunition and pistol, show up here in Michigan with a primer punched in backwards from the factory. Again, any number of different companies have dumbed this. So the reason I bring that up is For people that are worried, most private contractor reloaders that are big guys like this, they do a lot of work, they don't fool around, they don't do stupid things and they actually are pretty good for quality control. I used to deal in reloads back especially for bulk ammunition. I could do a better price than anybody else in the county. They were definitely worthwhile. Again, happy shooting time, about one quarter the cost of Standard Factory. Everybody brought the brass back in. We traded it back into the company that was reloading and a good time was had by all. So they work just fine. Oh, wait a minute here. I've got a heads up for you, something that just came in. This is why you've got to keep checking these places out. attention, attention. Remember I told you guys about marine safety flares? Attention, attention, attention. For everybody out there listening, go to UNAMO.com. Go to UNAMO.com. Go to UNAMO.com. Now these are the cheapest, and I don't know if you have any of the pot flares, I'm looking right now. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but he has the safety flares. These are $50 to a case. Now listen up here. All of our people carry three of these per person, mandatory, but the price, this is the best price I've seen in a while. Now remember, lifeboat stuff that they take out of lifeboats, it had my law they have to change it out every so often. Everybody understands that, every two years actually. There's nothing wrong with the stuff. It's in a sealed environment. And then remember, it was built to survive in a seawater environment. Ocean spray, ocean air, salt air. So this stuff hasn't seen any salt. They're telling them what's packaged, individually packaged. OK, well, they've got one minute Superbright Marine Rescue Flares box of $50 for $65. Box of $50 for $65. Now the shipping, you can see a stupid price. There are two reasons. Number one, it's $90 to include shipping. Well, that means that you're looking at $25 to ship 50 of them. Why? Well, it has Matt. But you're all set to pay for Matt with the ammunition. It's a stupid thing and we've never had an issue with that. Nobody has. Everybody knows that, especially the guy who's been shipping and operations for years. It's all a lie. But it's a great scam for them to screw everybody and the government is of course the one that pushed that garbage on everyone because again the filth is trying to figure out how to rake in extra bucks and hinder the sales of things. Anyway, these players, the reason I bring this up, there are three different listings and it looks like one may be a yellow. In fact, whenever you see the colors, orange, yellow and bright red, which is interesting. Let me read this here for you and let's see what we can find. Anyway, these are German manufactured. Very high quality. Actually, a lot of our guys carry this model because it's what we bought the last time. One minute hand flare, super bright manufactured by Comet. They are identical in every way to the Payne's Wessex, except these are manufactured in Germany instead of England. And each flare is waterproofed, plastic wrapped and orange instead of yellow. These are out of date signal flares for ocean vessels in distress. Remember what I said guys? Made for an aircraft to spot a vessel day or night. They are that bright at 15,000 C.D. They are out of date per Coast Guard regs, but they all work. They have so many purposes. Yes, they do. They are great to go camping with, they are great to keep in the boat, auto, glove box, etc. Use them for what they were made for, search and rescue, emergencies, also great for camping, lighting, wood, fires, I wouldn't bother wasting a flare on that. No matches, unless it was a real dire emergency and somebody is really dying. No, I'm not wasting a flare on that, I better get back together. No matches needed. Pull open to extend. Unscrew the red cap which exposed a pull cord. Pull the string and hold. They burn for one minute, super hot and bright. There are many uses for these. They keep repeating that. We already know that. There are many uses. We plan on using them for whatever. Anyway, they have the orange ones. OK, those are definitely orange. And then they have the... I'm pretty sure these are yellow. Again, blah blah blah blah, Wessex, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well, good question. I'm going to have to find out. These are out of date, yes we know. I would think that they are, yes they are yellow. Okay, there we go. Mark should read the box. It's a very small print but I can see it there, yellow. And then they have, again, these are from Lapua. Okay, this is another batch. 1 minute hand flares, these are manufactured by Icarus in Sweden who is a subsidiary of Lapua. These are out of date signal flares for ocean vessels in distress. Now these are not pop flares, but somebody has them. If somebody has access to the ground flares, then the elume flares are available too. Now the only problem with that, there's wars going on and stuff like that goes to the war zone kids. However, taking a flare and dumping that into a flammable if you need to get a fire started where you want somebody to be pissed off. They're trying to screw with you and you want to get something going. Flares are awfully handy for any number of things, for marking objectives. You don't need to be infrared. Pop that sucker, throw it, it's good for a minute. Everybody, fire on that area. Dump it now. And boom, and by the way, boom. You got something that's got to burn if it's down the tube or down a hole pop that flare open up that open up that cap Throw it down and run like hell because you don't want to be around for the next part of the experience and no you don't walk away Looking cool you get away from the AO. You don't know where the underground lines go Okay, so this is the best find of the day right here and fifty for sixty five dollars if you are in, Arizona $50 for $90 is still a very reasonable price. These are useful pyrotechnics. They are in orange, they are in yellow, and apparently in red. So you've got your choice. Orange, yellow, and red. The red ones are again a Lapua knockoff. They are made by Icarus. of the I like flares. They burn very hot. They're nice for getting things to go hot too. And of course they're in colors. So you get them in orange, you get them in yellow, and you get them in red. They are 50 flares if you have to have them delivered. 50 flares for $90. And that's at unmo.com. So there you go. Solutions. Not just complaining about the problems. They also have a number of buckshot loads and number 6 and 20 gauge. See, I keep scrolling and I find another one now. That's my favorite load and 20 gauge right there. Number 6, that's a good people. That's an anti-personnel load. Number 6 is just small enough that you hit them with a whole pile of pellets and there ain't no way they can go anywhere other than the doctor to get them all out. Oh, that's kind of nice. The other thing, lots of energy at short range. Not so powerful that they're going to go through the neighbor's house, but more than enough energy and especially for pellet size, good for game utility work. So the number six shot is a good utility load. 20 gauge, 2.5 inch, 250 rounds, $79 if you go pick it up. $1,99 if you have it delivered. It's by Eli, but you know what's funny? Eli stole the cover art, the box art, is from old federal. I've got those boxes. I have a bunch of those boxes from the 70s with the exact artwork on it. So Eli simply put their Eli name over it, otherwise their Liffel is exactly the same. They also did that same box instead of yellow. They did it in blue. But in this case, the yellow marker for the 20 gauge, which is kind of nice, even with color code pre-will pick out your shells, that is kind of a good thing. So, alright, pay attention here. Go ahead, color. Yeah, that 20 gauge is good for a rifle-grub shotgun or homework, you know, just like inside your house. That's right, a lot more comfortable to shoot. You're absolutely right. And again, 20 gauge is still out there in force. There's a lot of them out there. But if you see it, it's cheap. Buy it as far as ammo goes. They're also offering a bunch of slug. Now, this time of year, guys, we should be seeing a lot of bird and bunny ammo. But I'm not seeing that much. Now, Cabela's has gotten some pretty good piles of it. But Cabela's buys a year beforehand. So that's why they have it in stock. They're already ready for the season. But I have seen very little. I mean here we are. September is hunting season for us here. October is hunting season for us here. We should have seen ads and flyers. I've seen nothing for any ammo sales. Nothing that made me go wow. Everything has just been basically normal prices. This time of year, remember, Federal especially was notorious for doing the basic game calibers. For instance, like I said, nowadays instead of .30-06 they might do .308, but .30-06, .308, .243, .270, and .30-30 at least. And with a couple other calibers usually thrown in like .35 Remington, which is not as common as it used to be, but .35 Remington there's a whole pile of liver guns out there and everybody takes them out to kill Bambi. So, there's nothing that I've seen that's been a seasonal sale. And even in the local places that, you know, they've kind of gotten some stock back in like the Meyers Shifty Takers and places like that, most of our stores here have maybe five flavors of ammo for the cabinet that used to have, you know, 70. They still haven't been able to restock or re-inventory anywhere near what they had. So whatever they got, not even in any kind of real super sale. Maybe they've got a shotgun show they've chosen because they've found a deal on it somewhere and that's about it. So don't be surprised. It just seems to be the trend. Contrary to everybody thinks, people are actually listening and ammunition is going out the door along with weapons that are pretty good pace even as we speak. I mean people are paying attention to what's going on in Missouri and they're paying attention to what's going on with the border and they're acting accordingly. I had two people... Go ahead color. I had a fly that laughed this morning. I punched up at YouTube. This one guy demonstrating the fast draw holsters for the Glock. And he's standing in front of a silhouette, two feet away, and he's demonstrating the fast draw. You've probably seen a video. He sticks a 9mm down his leg. He pulled out so fast it shows up in the way. Have you seen that? Right, well yeah I've seen several variations. I haven't seen that one yet. He's a Glock. He's a holster salesman, right? Yeah, sorry. He was just demonstrating it. I'm Mr. Pistol. I'm an expert at pistols. Yeah, I am a trained professional. Do not do this at home. Oh, trust me, I'm not going to do that at home, sir. Well, there again, see that's one of the things about the Glock, is the Glock, the safety is don't pull the trigger. It has a French safety on it. You know, that's one thing that really concerns a lot of people when they get hold of the old French military rifles is where's the safety? Well, for the French, for the longest time, the safety was don't touch the trigger. If you put your finger on the trigger, you probably intended to shoot someone, right? So, don't touch the trigger. Otherwise, it was a hot gun. Well, the Glock is, again, that's how she set up kids. So congratulations, there you go. Pop, pop, boom, boom. And that gets back to the whole issue that anybody and everybody can make mistakes though too, even if they've done something a million times. Eventually, something catches up with you. You can't really control it that well. The other thing there too is for anybody out there listening, we're talking about drawing a weapon from a holster. Don has talked about this. We've discussed it for years. Don't be embarrassed to practice alone. In fact, practice, practice, practice. The only good thing, you don't have to practice with an active gun. You can practice with an airsoft gun. You can buy any firearm you own out there in airsoft. I mean any firearm. Hell, somebody is even making a copy of the Browning 1922. They make a copy of the Baby Browning guys in 1925. They make copies of SIGS, Steyers, Colts, Smiths, Rugers. Every weapon I've mentioned today on the air, they make an airsoft for. In metal. There's no reason not to have a really good training aid that even allows you to pull the trigger and make something work. So if you make a mistake, that little pellet BB isn't going to hurt you like that 9mm pellet that 115 grain doing what? 23, 2400 feet per second. That might be a little more embarrassing to the leg. The airsoft idea was invented by the army back in the early 70s. Just like force com training aids which were not active weapons in any way. They were just lookalikes. They were like the cast plastic toys coming from China, the figurines. They were gun sized weapons. They made RPKs, AKs, M16s, you name it. Well, airsoft came out in cartridge form and it actually came out from a bunch of toys that really were developed by the Germans that the Jewish toy companies, when Germany would collapse, they captured all the toy patents. They stole those and dragged them back over here. The Germans were intricate toy makers. Most people don't realize this. They were like cuckoo clocks too. All those things that the Jewish mobster stole, the toy company stole, you know, cows, like marks, and dipco, and mikko, and whatever. Well, they made an equivalent to airsoft that was a German idea from years ago. The army, looking at ways to save money because they were coming out of Vietnam, you could see Vietnam ending, they wanted to develop training aids that would allow them to train indoors in Europe because of the Cold War. So they developed tank training ranges that were inside that are scale models, remember that guys, where all your optics work and you can fire the launcher and do everything you're supposed to do, but it was all indoor range. Well, they came up with these airsoft weapons the same way, but the problem is because of the anal-tender control freak attitude of the government, it cost you just as much time and just as much paperwork to pull them out of the armory. They treated them like firearms. Get them out of the armory, you had to do just as much paperwork as if you went out and grabbed an M16. So most of them were like, well, hell, if we're going to do this, I've got to have my men with more... I'm not saving any time with the Airsoft guns, I didn't call them Airsoft, they were actually just Mark I training aids. They all stayed in the arsenal and just sat there and collected dust. Now, some guys made an effort to do it, go out and get them, and I can think about one out of ten times in a training operation where they actually came out, and they were used for in-baric training. Because you could set up a cardboard box impact area, you could practice every aspect and meet an M16A1. Well, it all disappeared, dropped completely. But the guys who came up with this for years, if you pay attention to the back of Popular Mechanics and in the back of a bunch of other magazines, there were these caricature guns that were called, you know, they were called BB guns. They didn't shoot a regular metal BB, they shot a plastic BB. They were airsoft and they were an offshoot of that military program. But they were caricatures so that nobody could go, oh my god, he's got a gun. So you have a little chubby HK-91s and chubby Stubby AKs and little chubby Stubby MP5s and little chubby Stubby M16s and little chubby Stubby whatever. They made all of these and those are still available. You can still find them if you look through like China Sport, like Deal Extreme. Well, eventually somebody is like, well, why don't we make real sized ones? We did this before and that's where the Airsoft idea started to come in. Now, they make metal Airsoft that even when you're standing right there on top of them, guys, you can't tell the difference. Now, that's a hell of a training aid and even if they do cost a couple hundred dollars, you know what? You can train any hour of the day. When you're not working and if you had time, if you were going to take a 15 minute break, what better way to take a 15 minute break at the beginning of the day than to be able to go down to the basement, pull out, pick up that airsoft gun and get serious for 15 minutes. When you're done with your 15 minute break, set your airsoft gun down. You don't have to clean it. You don't have to worry about maintenance. Just make sure the mag is pulled and the gas is released. and that way you don't put pressure on the system and congratulations get on with your work lunch time grab something to eat nibble on a sandwich go down to the basement start it up again see that's the beautiful part about airsoft and training with regards to like you know driver what you were talking about you know with quickdraw hey guys all day in fact you even make revolvers you got a Colt revolver they got Colt airsoft you got a Smith and Wesson revolver they got a Smith and Wesson wheel gun 2 inch, 4 inch, 6 inch, dirty hairy, extra long 8 inch. Your choice. So whatever you want to do. They got air rifles that'll put a hole in you too. I mean, you know. Well that's where you get up into the game when you're looking at weapons for application. You know, but that's just it. Yes, you can take any of the air weapons, well for years, air is just as deadly, it just doesn't make do pot, you know, any money. That's why air rifles were not popular as war machines. Because DuPont and the Powder Makers don't make any money off you. See how that works? We can develop lethal air guns right now that would be as probably as great a potential as any cartridge gun that exists. But it's a gift that they couldn't control you. I was watching a movie where the guy was a monster fictional type thing. An air canister, like a size 50 Aqua-Long type thing, the air canister. It was hooked up to a pipe. The pipe actually fired a rod out of it. This is how he went around murdering people. He was a hit man. He carried around this. Aquariums, I mean, Aqua-1, the type of cancer, were hooked up to a pipe and he walked up to the guy and put one in the back of his head and all it was was to steal a lot. And, you know, I mean, there's no way to train a bullet. The thing would fire from like 30 feet away with accuracy. I mean, it was, you know... Right. Strange. But there's a lot of ways to kill people out there, man. Yeah, not the least of which is just driving down the road. Yeah. But... So, making sure you can choose just a regular rod out of a pipe. Well, actually, I don't know if you get a chance, search YouTube and Edward pointed this one out to me. There's an excellent video showing these kids a couple years ago, more than a couple years ago now, they were taking Schrader valves, CO2 pop bottles, you know, forgive me, two liter pop bottles, pumping those up with pressure, putting a PVC tube on there with a release valve on the regular screw cap. They were shooting arrows and going through 5 1�8 inch and 3 quarter inch plywood. The whole thing is throw away. Absolutely throw away. They are shooting from behind a garage, probably for about a good 20 feet. Again, that was just a throw together. That's just PVC. Again, the Schrader valve of course gives you the ability to put pressure into the into the 2 liter Pepsi bottle or Coke bottle or no name brand bottle and the PVC pipe is what contained the arrow. The arrow was pushed by the pressure. All he did was release the valve, just turn the valve and suck. and And the cool thing is, it doesn't cost anything. The PVC pipe, you could even make the shafts out of any number of things, and I would barb the snot out of them, and I'd knock them so that they would break off when they tried to get them out. You know, you groove them. You knock and groove them so that they, in fact, they might even break going in. So they're already pre-snapped. Once they get into the carcass, they're finished. You're not getting them out. You'll get the part of the shaft out, but you'll leave the rest in. There's a lot of weapons that are pre-1900 that were used, that were built that way. Years ago they were pre-knocking a blade, or like Billy Club's had. Billy Club's that the cops carried used to have iron hooks. And what they did is they actually just set inside a rest, actually a little bit of pressure. And if they wanted a Billy Club, what these were, they were rusted hooks. So they would snag you with them, hit you as hard as they could, which would leave a bruise. But then they would also hook you with that rusted iron hook that would gouge into the flesh and there were no tetanus shots back then. I forgot you had mentioned about Napoleon. I want your show to go back over the air rifles. Yes, the air rifles. It was the Austrian army that created those. The Austrian army was completely switched over almost completely to air guns. And in fact that's something that really is kind of funny that they can't depict in movies or they try not to because when you see all these Napoleonic Wars it's like the Civil War. You'll see a cloud of smoke. Well when the Austrians fired there wasn't any cloud of smoke. and you've never seen that in a movie. You'll see all of the Germans or you'll see the French, they'll pull off around and the whole line turns to smoke. And by the third volley you can't see but 25 yards. Well, you turn around and with the Austrians, when they would fire, they'd have a clear line of fire every time they reload. Just think of the advantage that that would be just enough itself. Being able to see your target and not have to worry about losing it in the fog. That's a big plus if you're behind a position and you're defending yourself. Oh, yeah, you can muck somebody up You know really big time and really muck them up. They would be in deep mud if you get madrias Anyway, we're at the top. I talk about drift. We're just going the other oh we got right now. We're watching right now
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