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A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We'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. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. Invist the land of the free and home of the brave. You vie permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money 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 and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors so their children will have people. 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? Oh, 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, get the torch of freedom bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the midst for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm R. Koonky. 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The restaurant crews, Grandma teams, OK teams and on the flatlands, Ma Bell, Grandma Consortium, our retired telecommunications workers bringing us the Golden Spike. We're headed towards 93. 93. Think about that. Anyway, it is gray, it's now dark outside. BK, what's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the date today and what's jumping off the wall over there, sir? It is 10 October 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week four of the intelligence report. And that makes this quartermaster's corner. And it has been raining all week. I had hoped that the saga of the Hugo Project would be done. I'm accustomed to things taking too long because of my own personality flaws. I am an expert procrastinator and around two-its tend to be a bit of a problem. I have lots of distractions and happily this week I've had a little spike in business that has come up. That's quite welcome. I had hoped to have this done by now and it's nothing but a mud pile out there. I wanted to get it all dry until I did a little bit of peat before I backfilled everything. It doesn't look like I'm going to be doing that. After this much soaking, I can't see it drying out in less than a week. I'm probably just going to have to backfill this stuff, sprinkle around my coffee grounds and call it done. What a disappointment. Normally I expect these projects to fail or be postponed indefinitely because of my own flaws and here it's an external factor doing it. We're all rats. You know, so well, that's the way it goes sometimes. This has been an odd week on the supply front. Not a terribly interesting one, but just a dead one. There's not much out there in the powder front. This is very, very little changed from last week when I did my little shopping run through. All I see out there in the versatile range at the low end, at the fast end is LT32. That's available at Potter Valley, very nearly $200 per jug. And at the high end, the slow end, Graf says $48.95 at about $173, and that's pretty much about it. There is a specialty, there is a 4320, grass has that at 8 pounds at 173 and mid south has that at 8 pounds for 153 which is about the usual price differential. Outside of that there is just not much out there right now. It is kind of strange, I have commented before it seems to run in cycles, there will be I guess a shipment of two or three things and then suddenly everybody has two or three items and then it runs down for a couple three weeks and then we end up in one of these little valleys where there's practically nothing and we just kind of idle there for a little while and then it spikes up. But that seems to be the pattern right now. Right now we are in the Daldrums. If you like LT32 or 4320 you're in adequate shape. If you need something at the larger end that's not way up in the 4350 type range. 4895 is available. That was intended as a 30.6 powder and it's a little bit on the versatile side. People have stretched it down to 243 and things like that. But there's just not all that much out there. Comments? One of our friends in the chat room yesterday had pointed out Powder Valley. I had a few powders that came in including some rifle pistol, or forgive me, pistol shotgun combo powders. Scoped them out and see if it's still there. Problem is as soon as they get the stuff, guys, it's being cleaned off the shelf. Lots of people have the Super Performance, which is a shot shell powder and therefore can probably be adapted to a fair percentage of the pistol cartridges, since those tend to be in the same speed range. Oh, okay. Kentucky says that Butch is reloading his VDVRE N133. He didn't paste the price and I'm not going to operate the link. My machine's a little slow, but that's something. The VDVRE tends to go in the $200 per jug range. No matter who you get it from, I don't know what Butch's price will be. That is good quality stuff at any rate. $234.99 for it. Holy moly! $234. Wow, that's even more than I expected. If you've got a beefy wallet and a flabby supply shelf, then I suppose that's the combination for you. and then you're going wow when it goes up again. Ooh, well, bad enough. They do have a few other powders, but again, the average pound, the average per pound, IMR powder, $4,198, $25,99 if I have it in stock, IMR $40,64, $26 a pound, Winchester large rifle primers, $1,031. A few other items, again, that is at Butch's, that's B-U-T-C-H-S, butch's reloading dot com, butch's reloading dot com. 888-960-2952, that's 888-960-2952. Check, see what they have. Do you know for a fact that these guys are reliable about showing their stock status? That's the thing. Like I said, I would call rather than just order. You know what I mean? I'd make sure I called. For the guys that are dealing with them, you guys might be more familiar with this company, Butch's Reloading. but they do show a few different powders available. So for anybody out there, take the time, plug in, check and see what they've got. Improved military rifle slash the IMR powders are again, even if they are a variation of something you're not familiar with, remember they are a standard powder. You just had to find the specs. Most of the companies rely on the base combinations from the government initially for the contract run. If it's .308, .223, or whatever, and heavy rifles are in .50 caliber nowadays. So that will vary. Powders being slower in the .50 range, but these obviously are standard powders. The other thing is they do have some large rifle primers in stock, which not everybody is really able to keep in the inventory. They were really excited. They got primers in over at one of the dunnams here and it found out it was like they got one half case of 500 primers, one half box, and they were excited. Yeah, wow, golly. It's like, oh, so you mean you basically got today for your whole order for the week? What used to be part of a little fingernail clipping of your normal order for a day back when stuff was available. That used to be what Grandma would walk out with. Yeah, exactly. My boy does some reloading. I picked up some for him. I'm going to do peaceful shooting today. Exactly. Other than that, within the reloading realm, again we can't stress enough cast bullet molds. Guys, cast bullet molds, even just the basics, just to have a single cavity mold means you can be clunking out projectiles. and pretty much everybody can do copper plating. A little hint there. Go to YouTube and punch in home copper plating. If you want to copper plate lead, it's not a problem. Very easy to do. And a lot of people used to do, in fact, it was basically what Winchester did years ago with what they called their Lubeloy load. or ultra shocks, or a number of different ones they came up with. It's a multi-copper washed or heavy copper washed lead projectile to keep the lead down in the barrel. Well for reloading that's really handy too. You can use any number of copper pieces of copper scrap to plate because again it's going downrange once and it probably will recover the bullet down the road but it's going downrange and it's gone. That kind of process, when you smelt it again, let me give you a little hint, even with such a thin coat, when you smelt lead that's been copper jacketed by electroplating, that copper will all be recovered and separate from the lead. You literally can replay it over and over and over again if you're willing to collect it. It's that simple. So again, just a solution for people saying, Mark, what about the letting in my barrel? Well, copper plate. And you know what? There's a real cute formula on YouTube, BK, for a coffee pot electroplater. Mr. Coffee Electorplater. And again, lots of them out there where people have broken the carrefs or they aren't really circulating because of the coffee grounds. You've got to clean them out, change the tubing anyway, and you've got yourself a tool. Another thing I would point out about that is those glass carrefs don't throw any of them away. Those are laboratory tools. You know what I mean? Think about what they were designed for, what they're designed to do. So, even though the China sport is cheap, there are a lot of other ones out there that aren't. Like they contain a noxious fluid or something you mean? You might like to be doing a noxious fluid soon enough. That's right. And coming up with products that are very desirable towards personal defense. Exactly. The other thing here again too guys is With regards to the electroplating, you're never going to get it perfect, but you're again, typically the guys would do 500 to 1000 projectiles at a time. However, they got washed, they got washed with the plating and then they're on to the next batch. You remember this is volume loading for basic marksmanship training. So it's more than enough to what you're doing. But it does keep the lighting numb. It's a solution. About the same time that that really came back into vogue, NyQuad is another load that came up where they had nylon covered bullets to really reduce or eliminate lead on the range. And Smith and Wesson came up with NyQuad. The one thing they didn't expect is a side result. The nylon clad lead projectiles became lubricated when they made contact with certain things and they helped to kind of slip through stuff. So very quietly, the nylon clad was phased out. Well, we should probably punch a hole in one of the urban myths. You're getting close to the old KTW bullet story. For a while there was a great deal of hysteria in the press. Teflon would cause a lead slug to just kind of slither in between the fibers on a mat of Kevlar. You need to spray on the Teflon. You didn't need to really apply it accurately. In a sheath, just spray it on. The truth of the matter was that the KTW bullets were brass bullets. They were not lead. They were brass slugs. It is designed to be armor penetrating, that means it was really intended to go through a sheet metal of an automobile body and were also somewhat effective against soft body armor. Brass is a hard enough metal, it is considered soft on the general spectrum of things, but it is a hard enough metal to rip up the rifling on your pistol or what have you. So they coded those and lubricated them with Teflon, not because it had any magical effects in terminal ballistics, that is at impact, but because they were trying to protect the lands and grooves in your barrel to keep them turning it into a smooth bore in 10 shots. So, they coated them with Teflon and then the press got a hold of it. And of course the press not only has its own agendas, but it's also full of stupid people that are very good at applying paint to their faces and yammering, but not necessarily very good at processing information. They convinced the general population that applying Teflon to a large lead slug would somehow cause it to teleport past Kevlar fibers. There are still people to this day that think that's the case. We even got federal regulations against all this stuff. It's just more smoke and mirrors, more squid ink in the water, more stupidity. Anyway, that's what was going on there. for coating or covering particular parts that may involve some shock absorption. That was the original idea behind it. And Nyclad, of course, came and went. You'll find the original military and police only blue boxes with white trim. If you do see them, remember there's another thing to think about. You might not want to shoot it if it's collectible. You have to remember that some stuff, guys, this is 30 and 40 years ago when all this stuff was being put into play. Ammunition, especially intact and in pristine condition, there are ammunition collectors, that's all they do. Before you start burning up some of the stuff you found in Grandpa's collection or at the yard sale, sometimes you might want to walk through and just see if you've got an arms dealer or somebody at the gun show that does ammo. As a, you know, again for collectability, they need it for a rifle, they need it for a handgun, because they're putting up, rounding out a set, it's kind of like we talked about with German stuff, where all the stuff is marked and ID'd and dated. You can make more money off some of these boxes of ammunition purely as selling them for their collector's value and buy a whole lot of shooter grade ammunition for the price of a 20 round box or a 50 round box of ammo. And depending on the going price, I would be inclined to go ahead and trade the guy for 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 or 5 to 1 or whatever it is just for straight up factory ball because I'm more pragmatic about these things. No, that's my point. You can trade or they'll give you cash, then you can go buy from the guy down the road, down the hall, or down the tables that has the better price for whatever you need. Usually if you tell him what you want, he'll say, wait right here, and he'll miraculously appear with what it is you asked for. That's a nice thing. It's like collecting rifles in the same way. There are rifles that guys, you know, we talk about guns are for selling, you know, guns are for buying, not for selling. But if I had a 30 Remington rifle, I'd sell it. Why? 30 Remington is like chicken's teeth, but there are people who love Remington. And those rifles are all pretty much in the collector's category, being a particular grade and era of weapon. Same with 32 Remington. Both of those calibers back in the day were very very popular. It's a rimless straight rifle case Very much in performance range with 300 Savage or 308, but it was a pre-World War two cartridge actually going back to World War one and It became very popular all the guys coming back from World War one well it dried up real quick the government bought tons of them the guns and Then they shut off the switch and the ammunition went with it. So if you run into something like that, unless it's grandpa's rifle or dad's inheritance, those things are different. But if it's something where you went to a yard sale and you found something collectible, it's like Winchester's. Love Winchester's, but if it was something like in .3850 or whatever caliber, I'd look for a guy who really appreciates Winchester, preferably a collector or a cowboy shooter, and that gun would go to them. They would be happy and make me happy with money or with trade, and everybody gets what they need. The rifle is preserved or the ammunition is preserved, and we get what we need to continue to function in the real world, the regular world. That's really how we should be looking at a lot of this stuff that's out there. There's this last weekend there were a whole bunch of sales around this area and some guys made off like bandits because it was like oh my god those evil guns don't leap off the table, but I will sell them. You know one of those routines, you know grandpa died or dad died I don't know who but again guys watch the yard sales and Remember that you'll find it's a niche or a window of purchase activities So you're going to see stuff that's in some cases very unique If it's something that's standard PMC or federal or whatever, don't worry about it. But if it's a unique load, and remember Smith & Wesson has gone out of business several times, it's like Winchester. Winchester has gone out of business several times. Right now they're technically out of production, like on the Model 94 guns. Well, everything has some collector's value at this point, but if it was in a window of activity before it cycled back up now, Then, typically, it has a greater collector or interest value to somebody out there who's in that niche. And that's what we're looking for. Again, like you said, we can trade it out to something better, and then we get down the road happy, and both people are satisfied. You get a really good deal because you got it for nothing. They get a real good deal because they think they got over on you. Because you know what that means when they offer it to you it's like I don't think it's worth maybe more than this then you find out you come back don't get pissed when he doubles the price that he paid you for it if he puts it out on the table maybe or just displays it a lot of times people do that a gun shows this little trick we did for years we might have a gun we finished up guys we'll put a $2,000 price tag on it is it worth $2,000 no We don't want to sell it, we're just displaying it. But if somebody really wanted it for $2,000, okay, go ahead. Maybe not that extreme, but you know what I mean. Anyway, go ahead, BK. Powders, we definitely are looking for them. Powders, we need. Yeah, let's see. A while back we reported the unpleasant news that we have been ragging on you for a while to buy the 60 millimeter filters because there was the cheapest thing going and the appropriate thing to supply the C3 masks and the M61 masks and so on. I then had to report that The price at Numbridge had jumped enormously and they were no longer the bargain they had back. I've done a quick little scan through. Apparently, the news hasn't propagated everywhere just yet. For the time being, the cheapest way to buy one of those filters is to buy an entire mask, bag, and filter kit. There are still a few people selling them at $15 per kit on eBay. Now you have to watch their shipping. But don't expect that to last. Anybody who is selling just filters is looking for $22 apiece, something in that range. But there are a few sellers still listing, probably old listings, that have been fallow, looking for $15 for a mask and one filter and a bag. If you kind of missed the boat on that one, there is a narrow window of opportunity to strike through that channel. You can pick up one of everything at $15 and that is still a good opportunity. Very good. Again, the catcher's catch can. Whatever we can find, if you can pass it on and share it with all of our friends, for everybody listening out there. Guys, whoever gets there first, you get it. The way it's going, talking to two of the suppliers today, they did not get any masks in. They were hoping that they would. In fact, they're still going through another couple of containers. I don't know if they're doing it this weekend. But these came in from the overseas buyer. It was expected we were going to see at least a handful of the U-Gos coming in, maybe 5,000, 6,000 or whatever. they did not appear. So whether or not those are in some other container or again it was on the wish list and then it turned out that well they wished but something changed. No additional NBC gear, no chem suits, absolutely no chem suits other than whatever's out there in the retailer and I'm trying to see if one of the other companies may have some of the German chem suits on the wholesale end. The price on the jobber end for import is all brand new stuff and it is crazy priced just because it is brand new from the factory. Well right now I'm not sad if chem suits are in short supply because that avoids the risk of a bunch of them being sucked up by people that want to use them for Halloween costumes. I'd just assume they'd not be on the market for the next month until Halloween's over. Well, another thing that just went out, and I know it was to suppliers, medical facilities, etc. One of our listeners is the person who wanted these, I know he's listening probably tonight, medical smocks and medical uniforms. All of them were bought up in blocks and are gone. In fact, typically there would be five, six flavors from the company that I was going to buy from, and I looked at these and was like, man, these are steel, we're going to use these for snow camo. because they were also in big sizes. Well, unfortunately in the last 48 hours or so somebody has gone through the industry and all medical supply categories, smocks, scrubs and frocks are all eaten up including the medical gowns. It's like, oh well. But let's see what else they have. He goes, no, I was looking too while we were talking here and I think everything is gone. And he said, yep, everything is gone today. So that's another interesting item because again, the sad part is they're using them, but their logic I'm sure is that they're going to use them and burn them. But you know what's funny is guys, he's not the cheap China sport clothing like they should you know use and burn it would be throwaway This is the stuff that's like the check gear that was made in the 80s that is very very well made and very well tailored and custom tailored I mean really well executed and that's what they were picking up all of the the checks and the polls have been moving a lot of their strategic support gear and For tactical support units like medical units and you know chemical NBC units Well, that's what everybody's scarfing up right now. So there were several thousands, for instance, of the gowns. I think a total of six. They were all gone, two purchasing agents. And then with the rest of the, you know, like the, you know, you know, the open back door, you know, patient outfits guys, you know, where you go, is my bar showing? Oh yeah, all the time. Can you lace that up for me? I ain't going near that. I ain't touching that at all. Well, those are all gone. I tech two other companies and they're all telling me the same thing. So I was trying to deal with that. Our listener who, well, again, we had a limited number so the cool thing is we're not out much by comparison. But just a heads up and I'd be curious to see there's another thing I was looking at. BK is a bunch of military spec surgical gear, including syringes. came in or is up on the docket right now and I'm going to be curious to see how that goes because fire and forget and if you know what the prices of these things are what they're paying for well they're paying far less it's probably about ten for one for the throwaway stuff that's from the official industry but the sad part is it's much higher quality material and it's going to go in the biobags there's no doubt when they're done using it if they decide that things go to hell in a hand cart that's what will happen with it So, gas mask filters, guys, chemical suits, hoods, whatever you're looking for. Remember, we also mentioned this, that there are systems to this. And pay attention and try to make up the systems that make sense with your system if you've committed to a mask. The equipment out there, everything you need to put a whole complete person together in MOP 3, MOP 4 is off the shelf. It's there already available. But whatever's out there is pretty much all it's available until you then go to all new. And when you go to all new, it's the difference between a $10 or $15 gas mask and a $120 to $300 gas mask. At least some of the industrial masks are single lens and those are kind of good from a visibility point of view. But man, they are well into three digits. Kentucky is pasting that Sportsman's Guide is listing used Serbians 60 millimeter masks at $20 but that still leaves open the issue of where you get the filters now. So that's not a solved problem at this point. Right, again the idea is you can pick up a whole system. It is going to get to the point like it always has where there are certain masks where it's cheaper rather than going to buy the filter you might as well buy the whole mask and with a filter. And people go, well I'll have more filters, more masks than I need. It's like, well no, think about it. What you can do in an emergency is you actually prep the second mask and have it ready to change out. Yeah, well that then becomes like the M17s. Yeah, that becomes like the M17s where you just swap the whole kit. Yeah, exactly. And again, the other issue is that, well hey, the masks aren't going to go bad. Bag them and store them. Bag them, can them, and store them. Because masks wear out, masks get tired, things get cut, stuff gets shot. So you're going to need to replace things. Remember, think deep logistics as a quartermaster Friday. Another thing on that note, the three basic masks that seem to be available that you're going to see more of, but only for a little bit, there is another check mask that is a fairly new mask that parallels the M10. It is a 40mm filter system. It is in the gray almost headed towards white shading. Otherwise nothing to write home about. It is basically like the Draeger mask but it is reasonably priced on the wholesale end. I don't know what they are going to do with other retail. I have not seen it anywhere in retail. Sportsman's Guide has two other check masks that are earlier variants. They are serviceable. I am sure they are. But, like I said, the checks are moving a lot of stuff out so they can buy into the NATO junk. I think they're going to regret it in the long run with a lot of their equipment because they actually had a brand new camo system that was really well done. Somebody talked them into dumping that for something else and what they were replacing it with looks to be junk. So, we're benefiting, they're screwed. Oh well, I'm not worried about it. Go ahead. You know a forbidden knowledge says he's got thousands of masks. He's got the Israeli mask. Yes, I've said that before he does have masks and I've told everybody buy from Craig go to listen to Craig's program He's got him 15. I think a few of them. He's got mostly the Israeli civil defense and he does have some children's masks still Yes, and he is a he's a an excellent option. This other people have been, you know, asking questions about these others so I figured we'd answer them and The other mask is, well of course the three masks are available. The Yugo which is a copy of the Nokia mask like the Fin mask. It is one of the Fin mask variants. The Czech mask we're just talking about and Polish M10s. This is the next wave because the Czechs are not giving out. I don't know what they're doing. The Poles may stop giving these out too. Poland's getting tied into this BS with the Ukraine. If Poland gets tied into that and joined at the hip on that fiasco, they're not selling any more war materials. They won't be going anywhere because everything they've got will have to be pressed into service. It's just that simple. They won't have enough to go around. Anytime somebody goes into a battlefield situation like this, once you start recruiting stuff, watch the videos that we were talking about. Go to YouTube, punch in militia. More than 90% of the videos that are being posted there now are videos from the Ukraine, mostly from the resistance slash the eastern states. Now pay attention to these latest ones and BK their... What problem is that? I have a problem with the dingleberry that's going through the gear, the equipment. He's happy because he got a whole pile of stuff, several semi-truckloads worth of munitions that were buried that were going to destroy but they never hit the powder on, right? and it's small arms ammo, mortar rounds, rocket rounds, RPG rounds, recoilless rifle rounds, you name it, it's there and piled up. But it's typical of what we've told you about guys with regard to battlefield munitions. Everything and anything that they've had in service for the last 40 to 50 years on both sides is now in combat. If you look at some of the artillery videos, you're going to see M9M So, forgive me, M1942, 76.2mm field gun howitzers. There's one shot where the guy is loading it, he kicks it off, and the round doesn't fire. Now, I'm going to point something out about that. If you'll notice, the crew, what they did was they got in a hurry, probably because, oh look, a cameraman. If you'll notice what they were doing is they were prepping the shells by scrubbing them down with a scrubby. to clean up the oxidation on the outside of the case guys. Yeah, what's the immediate action drill on a misfire you put your face in front of the puzzle to see what's happening? Hey, what's happening? Well, remember a dud doesn't mean it's not going to go off guys. That just means it might take one thousand, two thousand, three thousand... Oh, there's a smoldering ash in the way. Oh man, I should have opened that after all, should I? So it is true, if they actually have a failure, what they're supposed to have is a sump off to the side and the loader is supposed to reach in, they're supposed to semi-eject it, grab it, and they should be throwing it off into that sump. In this case, they were trying to figure out what went wrong. Instead, they pull around. Now they're also running every other artillery piece you can imagine, and you get to see firsthand what I've told you about how to handle munitions. The best way to find out when you capture stuff, how to make it work, is to watch somebody using it that's making it work. Guys, there's some excellent, these are some of the best, the most valuable home videos. The RPG crews, there's like teams. You can watch them actually prep the round that shows you where all the safeties are. Watch what they're doing with their hands. They are unwiring the safety on the warhead, they are throwing that to the side, they are turning the fixture on the rear where the charge is, they carefully load, they are loading the charge up into the launcher, they are locking it in. When you see them twist the round, when they grab the thing and twist it, the reason they are doing that is because remember that the RPGs are electronically fired. Now what they have is a magneto. They don't carry batteries on the RPG-7. There is a magneto. When they pull the trigger, it's just like that same thing you see in the movies where you see the guy with the little plunger. Not the big ones, although that's the same thing. That's just older. But the new ones where you see the guy where he has that T-handle and he sticks it in and he twists it. Well first they twist it. Before they twist that thing to activate it, they wind it up. When you hit the switch, that magneto goes free wheel with that clock spring in it and that sends the charge down the wire. While in the RPG-7, the reason you set it in and then twist it is so that the two lead contacts can bite the area where the wires make contact with the primary charge wires. with actually two pieces of copper that wrap around the charge and the wires attached to that which attach to the the blasting cap that activates the charge. Well when they twist that they're biting it to make sure they get a good contact and you see put it to a shoulder and whoop! Okay, so there's technique to this. Watch because the best way you can learn is why. And also watch mistakes too in the process. Oh boy, he made a mistake. Well that's not the way I saw it. I saw them, they lifted straight out of the transit case and the things mounted right in the end and the foam is all cut out in a nice shadow mask fashion. And then he threw it down and got another one, right? Well, it actually, you know, it's funny you should mention that because there was an Arrow episode that's on, what is it, Hulu. We were just watching it a minute ago as Ethan plugged it in. and an illegal shipment of RPG-7s and guys they open the back door and there's RPGs hanging out of boxes and belt fed ammunition hanging out of boxes and stuff just stuffed in the boxes and of course the rocket grenades are locked right into the launchers and just hanging around just in the boxes hanging out of the boxes sitting on an angle yeah yeah that's how I transport all my high explosive devices don't you know exactly what you said It's like no, that's not how it works. The other thing that's really important though is guys we've talked about different warheads for the RPG-7. Watch these videos. You're going to see the HE round which is the slender longer tube. Then you're also going to see the AP round which is the one you're so familiar with like you see in Red Dawn and a lot of the others. That's a shape charge or a double shape charge. If it looks to be a little longer, that means it's a double shape charge. It has one shape charge sitting over the other. The first one cuts, caps through the material on the outside. The second one compresses right over the first hole and goes right on through to the next layer of armor and then burns through to the troops. That's what its purpose is. But there's a wide range of equipment. Also, the recoilless rifles, especially the ones that everybody said weren't going to be in service that now you're seeing everywhere. I had people that were writing, I've seen write-ups, well you know, these recoilless rifles are totally obsolete and blah blah blah. Really? Well they're knocking out APCs so they don't look too obsolete. And amazingly enough, they're popping stuff left and right. I would point out though that the same people who would yap that would tell you about the Carl Gustaf. Well, the Carl Gustaf, which is Swiss, Which we embraced by the way, and we purchased for the Marines the Marines are carrying it right now guys the Karl Gustaf is 54 years old actually Passes 2004 to all say 58 years old 58 year old design and it's a new gun for the US Army work carried it now for the Marines anyway So just something to think about there. None of these anti-tank weapons are by any stretch of the imagine obsolete. There's a whole bunch of burning wrecks you can watch when they become burning wrecks being knocked out and hit by stuff that, well, that's old. Yeah, and you're dead. What difference does it make? So remember that. It's just like saying he's got a muzzleloader and he's using black powder. Oh yeah, they use that for reenactments. BK, we're OK. He can't hurt us. Yeah, those particular particles don't work anymore. Yeah, exactly. Especially with that 58 caliber bullet going down range. I think if it hits you today just like it did in 1863, you're just as dead today as you were then. Right? Well... Yeah, by that principle I shouldn't be nervous about a guy with a crossbow. Yeah. Oh, I guess I should after all. Oh, man. Actually, there's another category of weapon guys, don't sneeze at because we've got 200 and 300 pound proud crossbows you can buy over the counter right now. And those will go through pretty much anything that's in front of them. And if you got a little creative you could do a lot more with it. Oh, we should invent crossbow control. Oh wait, they did that in medieval England, didn't they? They did crossbow control, believe it or not. That was the precursor of all the gun control stuff. The Church was behind it, in fact. They were dismayed at the fact that any smelly little old peasant with a crossbow could punch a hole in an armored knight. That was a threat to the established order of things. The Church actually proposed and pushed crossbow control in the medieval period. Go ahead BK, please. Okay. I'm not sure how to make a smooth transition, so I'll just continue on the ragging on the media theme because that's always an easy target. I have observed a few things recently that I find a little bit dismaying. In general, the press is kind of a disappointment. Recently I have been sniffing around in the satellite late at night just because I have been working on machines at the same time. I don't know if it's my perception or not, but it seems that the entire feed has gone to pieces. Even some of my old standbys, the History Channel and so on, have gone flabby on me. We seem to have lost All of the, isn't it cool, work what we made in the past type things like modern marvels, engineering disasters, things like that, those seem to be gone. The history channel appears as far as I can tell to be about 24-7 of pawn shop, which is It's certainly cheap to produce, I'm sure. But for all practical purposes, if you haven't seen that program, it's sort of like the collectibles' roadshow, but more beady-eyed. Because both participants are, this isn't an expert saying, hey, look, this is what you have. It's like, this is what I think you have, and I'm going to try to negotiate you down to a fraction of the value. So, that's kind of disappointing to watch everybody behaving like Cazars. In that particular program, the most likable character isn't very and the rest are much less. So, I find that whole thing just kind of dismaying and the percentage of it that is either a pawn shop or it's spin-off pickers is quite It's quite sad. I don't see any of the military history. I don't see any of the neat cathedrals, the architecture, any of the historical mysteries type things. All of that stuff seems to have vanished. I don't know whether to interpret this as a financial collapse of the mass media or whether there is a program at work. The best you could put on it is, well, there's a certain amount of appreciation of past Americana and they praise things as being made solidly in the past and so on and so forth. But the subtext in that seems quite corrosive, it is very much, if you think about it, it's a bone panicking type program. There's absolutely nothing forward looking. There's nothing current. The Discovery Program, how it's made, appears to have vanished completely. I'm not sure what happened to all of this stuff. I remember back in the 80s, once upon a time our idea of Nirvana was an entire pizza and cable television because you just couldn't watch all of the cool things out there. Now there's hard to find one thing worth watching. It seems to have changed in the last year or so. It's been a while since I've been up late at night. with the television running. It seems to me that there is a full court press here going and we are instituting a subliminal psychological attack on the public, throwing them into the all the good stuff was made in the past type mindset and at the same time removing all of the we can do stuff. type messages. Have you seen that pattern? Do you agree, disagree? What are your thoughts? Well, the money... People are donating money. A lot of those shows require donations, in that case, donations. Well, the other part about this, they're rewriting history right now, too. One of the things we've said before If you watch World at War and you see what they voiced it over about 10 years ago, it was all angled towards and angsting towards the feudal resist and those stupid Japanese, they were suicidal, like they were bombers, like they were suicide bombers. Everything that was re-engineered in the Orwell sense. They don't mention that a fairly small country held its own to a large degree for a long time over a large area of the Pacific. Yeah, exactly. But the thing is that the angle was that they were trying to be snide about the conflict with the Arabs like what was going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. What they did is they completely used a totally different author's voice, different narrator's voice. totally changed the construction and subject of each of the videos that they were showing which they'd also re-engineered to a degree. That's an example of some of the things I think we can anticipate that they're having a big problem because they had at one point or another in the last 20 years they've had one seesawing angle or another that they've put all of the verbiage of whatever they're doing into in terms of a direction. I think right now, as much as anything, like you said, there are a couple of things. Number one, rerun heaven, selling to other people, limiting it and marketing it to different parts of an industry. In this case, the big thing is, we're like Netflix. Go to Netflix and check out their repertoire right now. It's interesting, the stuff that's showing up is all the antique and older movies and videos. Some of them we wouldn't consider antique, but come on, if the movie is made in the 60s or 50s, it's more than 50 years old now. But it's interesting, even the newer stuff, like they've got documentary subject sections, well they're selling that stuff and they only market it to them for so long and then they wheel it back out of the portfolio, which is one of the other things they probably are doing to try and find ways, like you said, there's combinations, scratch funds, you know, drag, you know, put money together. I've noticed something on that note, just exactly what you're saying. Let me point something out. Have you watched any sci-fi recently, like most recent stuff done? I have watched some of the science fiction new movies because I try to get a spring dad from the old folks' place from time to time and we go out to the actual movie theaters and so on. A bunch of this is severely twisted. Recently, for instance, I can say, well, I kind of like Lucy. That was just a straight up story and that was kind of nicely done. We mentioned Elysium back when it was current. That was nothing but an hour and a half or two hours of propaganda in favor of open borders for illegals. I did want to mention, and I haven't quite gotten around to it before, the latest Transformers movies was kind of weird, in that it had some subtexts mixed in. I hope it's not too much of a spoiler but it starts out being pretty straightforward, Transformers movie, you know the Transformers vs. the evil Transformers and so on and so forth. But there's an interesting subtext in that the villain in the first part of the movie is a corporate bugger who then turns over a new leaf and becomes a wonderful fellow and an ally of the good guys. It's pro-corporate propaganda and it's also pro-Chinese propaganda. They keep flipping back and forth between US and China and every time anything happens in China, the Chinese government always does a sensible, reasonable thing, whatever it is that needs to be done and so on. There's an awful lot of pro-corporate and pro-Chinese propaganda threads in that particular movie, the Transformers movie. Now here's the other side. Surprise! Surprise! It did very well in China. Yeah, exactly. The latest movie of Liam Neeson's, I understand, did very poorly at the box office after it came out that he considers the Second Amendment a problem. Alright, while he's busy doing shoot-up movies where he's the specialist, this is the Sylvester Stallone stupidity schizophrenia. I hate guns! Give me another machine gun! I have to shoot someone! D'ahhhhhh! Julian! You know, that kind of thing. And it's the same with Liam Neeson. But of course, you gotta remember, as far as he's concerned, he's a chosen party. He has money. So he would have a gun when you don't. To dispatch those peasants that might touch his robes. But all these characters have voiced that garbage, making a buck off it, left, right, up and down, and then turn around and yap that kind of nonsense. Of course, where are they going to live? I found it very amusing that the movie pretty well tanked after it came out that he apparently considers American stupid for considering our Second Amendment to be important. Meanwhile, Go ahead. Godzilla did pretty good. That was a pretty neat sci-fi. Well, the reason I bring this up is another subject, and it has to do with CG. Now, you know, we've always talked about this technology-wise, but let me point something out. Most all these movies we're talking about, even Elysium, there were two or three others that came out about the same time. Great ground devastation, CG, and cool, like a whole city street, like a one-time cruise movie where he's flying over earth at different points and the baseball stadium is somewhat washed up with sand. And of course, somehow, however, the whole of the world got covered with this sand that came out of nowhere and seems to cover everything and becomes earthy, dirty stuff. It's like when they talk about like, oh, come on, well, is it where the water, everything covered the earth and only Mount Everest is exposed. It's like, well, where did all this water come from? Oh, don't ask that question. Well, the interesting thing about it is though it's looking down. Now, let me give you an example. Watch, because now with digital and you have flat screen TV's guys, go watch an episode of Farscape or watch an episode of Voyager, Star Trek Voyager. Then we'll look at, and now then I want you to switch over to some of the movies if they have any space imagery in them at all and look at how downer and or how lackluster they are. It's interesting that, like you were talking about, they went out of money or something. It's interesting to me that if you look at it, the dynamic and the richness of both the color spectrum, which is uplifting by itself and actually attracts your attention. If you pay attention to the angle on every other one of these latest ones that have been done, I don't care. The Whatcoma College Choice, oh come on, it's based on the book. It's a battle sci-fi piece. You mean the Ender's Game series? Ender's Game, yes. Ender's Game. What's interesting about that is it's got a really cool ship imagery, but even there, The CG is like 20% back from what you would find on Star Trek Voyager I mean compare the quality and consider the one as an epic movie. There was a lot of comment about this with like when the third Star Wars, the new Star Wars came out. You have that really super dynamic battle scene. I consider that acceptable because the thing is so convoluted with so much motion that no matter how they do it they're going to compromise through the grief technically. What do you think about CG? Well yeah, see yeah, computer graphics. But my point is it's the quality of computer graphics. look at, and Star Trek Voyager guys was done in what year? I'm serious, go back and look at the quality of the detail and how they perfected the, where they went with the detail. This is like everything else that I'm noticing. We're seeing a fog. We're supposed to be going the other way. But there's two things. There's a fogging of detail, number one, and number two is, again, to create high or low, to create dark and, you know, drag and weezer and ominous. across the board, that's the norm. Whereas on the other hand, the dynamic imagery of space is what you'll find even though it's also designed to be intentionally alien. I mean even aliens did try to do that, not aliens, alien. Think about the imagery of alien when they show you the space scenes. There are some interesting, you know, it's stark, it's supposed to be barren in terms of space in that they're isolated, they're out on their own, they're out at the far point. and they're coming back home. Remember that was the whole theme of alien. But even there, there is some imagery that is kind of like, wow that catches your eye. That's really cool. And it has that, you can take it both ways because it was of course, you got to remember they got that subliminal soundtrack going with all the grating fingernails on the chalkboard to make you worry. Here we go. I think Ed wants to get on with things. Oh, we're at the top already BK. Yeah. Well, I'm waiting. If you're not familiar, this is On the Drift. Mark. Do we need a minute? Yeah, um, I want to talk to you about a welder I got. I could let you have it. You want to, um, you know. Well, I'll tell you what, um, hold on a second here. If Ed can turn the sound down for just a minute. Go ahead, caller. Go ahead. Quick. Yeah, I got my dad had an old welder and well I need to find a good home for it It's been sitting in his garage while sitting outside for a couple years after he passed away. It's an old German made welder 1956 and I thought somebody could get it running maybe you could and if you want it You got some people could pick it up for you or if you wanted to pick it up Oh, uh, did you? Well, where are you located? Uh, I'm outside of Toledo. I'll tell you what, you know what Toledo Express is at? Yep. Yeah, well that's where I'm at, so. Okay, uh, I'll tell you what, you know our phone number here? Um, no, I don't have your phone number there. I left a message on your donate number, but uh, You know, okay. Well, okay. Well, we'll get it then I will get it now. I'll get back to you. How's that sound? Don't get rid of it. We'll take care of it. Yes, he will go to a good home. Is it a MiG? MiG welder? Yeah, yeah, I believe it's uh, but it's an OB. Yeah, so Thanks for Sticks If it's 1956, it's probably a stick welder, it's probably AC only, and it's a little bit crude and rude, and it'll still work with the right kind of sticks. Oh, hell yes it will. Yeah, in fact, it's easier to find material and support for it. Actually, well, no, but you have to be specific about the sticks for it, but it'll still work. Oh, no, it is for us here. Remember, we got lots of old junk laying around. That's my point. Remember, we collect old. That's what Captain M is for, remember? Yeah. Our friend here, well, BK knows who we're talking about. Okay, we gotta go guys. I'll get back to you. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. You got my number, don't you? Yeah, we do. I just have to pull it, that's all. 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