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Woo-hoo! That's what they need. That's truly what they need. Anyway, it is the 3rd of December 6th year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K2000 and 14 Old Earth Calendar or Mayan Crazy Town, Crazy Town Calendar. Now, let's get right back into weapons parts here. Now, I've mentioned these accoutrements on the accessories section. You've got the package deals. Stocks. Do you have a set of snow stocks yet for your rifle? Your AK for instance. Well, let's see. You can find some beaver board stocks separate. And let's see, a little bit of light gray, a little bit of white, and a little bit of pine green, or for that matter, long green. And I can make a really nice utility winter camouflage set. What did it cost me? Well, if I go the Zastava thumbhole stock, $2.50 for the base, you know, the pistol grip on the rear, because it's all one piece. I'm going to have to find somebody who's got some front wood cheap, because I'm going to take that and paint it up to match my rear of the weapon, and I've got more than half of the weapon broken up, designed, and camouflaged. That's pretty cool. And everything that I can do to break up the lines of the rifle are a good thing. Okay. Again, in a minute here I'm going to go right down the checklist, so to speak, for addressing what would Mark do right now. I'm a budget. I'm a new person. Some of you are new people out there listening. You're looking for a way to combat outfit for cold weather. Okay, because you're going to be in snow pretty soon here, but it's not going to all be snow and you better not be out in the middle of a field to begin with. Okay, so you're going to be broken up in the environment. You're going to see browns, tans, dark grays, light grays, You're going to be seeing still a lot of the different greens, but they're changing in shade as the winter hits, even though they're still green. Tussock grass down below green where it's covered up above brown with waves of snow that break up the environment. Well, take a look at the colors and take a look at, again, where do you want to be or where should you be if you're going to be trapped and make contact. So, I just want to bring it up as a brain teaser for a moment. I'm going to touch on something else here real quick too. It's not the only company, but they've got some pretty good buys right now. That's why I brought you over into those accessories, into the package deals. They've got a Polish PPX 43, the PPX 43. This is the Stalingrad gun, guys, if you're afraid not Stalingrad, slap mark of the microphone. This is the Leningrad AK. This was developed during the siege of Leningrad to, you know, based upon the machinery, resources, and to minimize production of materials. But it's still pretty much a peppish. It was just a brag thing to make everybody go raw about Leningrad. You know, the other siege where they, you know, yeah, eventually broke out, but it took them what, three years? Anyway, the Peppish 43 is an all-steel AK folding steel. And it is, of course, the folding stock. You recognize the design. It was eventually put on the AK-47 folders. Now why am I bringing this? Well, Mark, we can't have submachine guns. And you're right, we don't want to have submachine guns. But, and we don't need them. But in the future, we might actually decide that this is something we want. And 90% of the hardest work on building the gun is already done. Okay? uh... you get three magazine will first of all we get the basic kit you've got a complete lower receiver trade to include the pistol grip the trigger with a sire uh... you've got the magazine well that's the toughest part of the weapon other than the trunnion to build other other parts that are tough but those two have to be done right in order for the weapon to function uh... the whole review look at the picture go to uh... w w w dot center for systems dot com You end up with the whole lower group, the cut-upper receiver, there's no barrel, the bolt and mainspring, the rear section that has the folding stock, etc., etc. So everything basically, all the basic components are there. In addition, you get a sling, that's a plus, the mag pouch for three mags, and you get three mags. Now the whole thing goes for a whopping price of $50. Now immediately somebody is going to go, well Mark, there's no barrel and I can't get a receiver, I can't get an upper, I can't get the upper receiver. Well, you actually can build it down the road. And with no barrel, what do I do? Well, here's one of the things that we're looking at right now and somebody is building, even as I speak, 40 caliber barrels for these weapons. Oh, did I say that? 40 caliber? Mark, it's 7.62x25. Yeah. Have you checked the specs on the case base for the 40 cal? Have you checked the length of the 40 cal standard cartridge? Have you compared it to 7.62x25? You know, you can make these in the 9mm, which by the way, they do make a 9 or 7.62x25. Both are available. Okay. But we need to look at the idea that this would make a nice 40 caliber pistol kit. or at least making a new barrel for the pistols that are out there to experiment. Some of our people have a number of these that are the handgun version. Guess what? You make a new 40 caliber barrel, you de-pin the 9 or the 7.62x25 barrel that's in it. You insert the 40 caliber barrel and you do research on feed and progressive operation of the gun. That's what we're doing. So the cool thing is that once you've perfected this we will be seeing 40 caliber barrels on the market. What does that mean? Well now you're looking at a $50 40 caliber Smith & Wesson submachine gun kit. Now do not build, do not build, do not build. Did you hear what I just said? You do not build this right now. But look at what you get for $50. If you have one of the pistols already, which is cool, then you get three mags right off the bat. For $50, well that's what? $15 a piece? And the reason I say this, because I would calculate that the pouch is there, plus you get a sling. And by the way, the sling will work on those pistols, because what they did is they took the submachine gun kit and made it a short barrel the way the subgun barrel would be. and welded the folding stock so it can't turn. Now a lot of people I'm sure would get tempted to undo that folding stock. Don't you dare think about that right now. Just look at it, understand what needs to be done, and have Mr. Dremel tool ready so that when things start up, then you open that thing up and you open up and man can turn the folding stock whenever you need to use it. See how that works? But don't do that now. Why cause heartburn or trouble for yourself? No, no, no. But know how to do it. Okay, but the next step, and for these kits, 90% of what needs to be done is already done to include even basic specs for the weapon. Now let me point something out. Immediately when people are looking at this kit they're going, wow, this Polish PA-43, the out-upper receiver, you only get the back of the receiver, part of the middle, part of the, you get the trunnion area and then you get the end where the front sight is. If you go to www.apexgunparts.com you can get the whole front shroud which includes the front part, the front sight, all in one piece. Wait a minute, that's the part that's missing from this. And then you can go to another company and they cut the kits differently with the company that they have. And you see the parts that are missing here? Amazingly enough, they are in the other kits. So all the dimensions and all of the design components necessary to accomplish the mission are then there. Wait a minute, that means that you wouldn't have to guess because everybody always goes, well, how would I know what the specs need to be for this? Well, how about because you have all the overlapping parts by about an inch and a half to three inches? Oh, wow, that kind of saves you a lot of hassle. In fact, if you're a good welder, It wouldn't be a big deal down the road to decide where to cut and you make up a jig, you line up everything and you overlap the material on the outside with excess metal 4130 or 4140 chromoly. You don't worry about the inside and you'll try to clean it up too much on the inside except face it so there's no interference for the bolt, in other words make it smooth. When you weld it you've got welding rod that's superior to the metal that you're actually welding that's easily done And that's where you spend your money on the welding rod Okay, next again face your plates on the outside. They can be fairly smooth. They don't have to be very thick, but they create reinforcing track So that the receiver that is put back together down the road not now down the road down the road down the road Well, you've got a complete PetPish 43 upper and I guess it does what the original gun would do, but you're not going to do that. You are not going to do that. You are not going to do that now. Right. Now I need to see discipline on this. This is long term for, you know, long sight. The cool thing is this thing could be built in 9mm, 7.62x25, or it could be rebuilt as a pistol in .40 caliber. Think about it. Down the road. The 40 caliber solution will be in hand and the specs for the barrels. In other words, we can make them different lengths. Even to make the carbine length barrel with a 40 caliber, we have to determine ballistics to see what the optimal length for a barrel for this particular device would be. That is a research project for the R&D people and they're going to figure it out. But 40 caliber would be a cool solution for this kit. Anyway, that's a sidebar. Just why would Mark be talking about these? Guys, you get a whole lot of junk for very little money. I know that $50 doesn't just sprout on trees, but you can't build the lower part of that weapon for $50. Not to that quality and standard. And it's Polish. And the Polish, in the Warsaw Pact, the checks in the poles were the top end. That was the top end of manufacturing very good quality controls exceptional very good metallurgy Etc etc etc and since most these things hardly have any wear by comparison Gonna be around for a long time Okay, so again comparable to the idea of the sten gun I get my drift now Prefer us a thick stock, but the folding stocks are cheaper by half so again It is a solution Also, it's a pattern. It allows you to look at something if nothing else and go, hmm, this is how they did this. And if you have a pattern, you can take readings off it with a mic, you can spec it out, and you can figure out how to make it work in another way with something else you're designing. But you have a pattern in front of you of something that already worked. You know it did. They made hundreds of thousands, now they made millions of them overall, but the Poles made, I don't know how many of these guns. Just as an example, the Russians, millions. They made millions. The Chinese, we don't know. We don't. I mean, the Peppish, it was all over China, still is, you know, in different services. It hasn't been relegated completely. No firearm ever is when you have an army the size of China's. But, again, it's been everywhere on the planet where the Warsaw Pact and everywhere on the planet where the Communists were. The design itself is sound, but again, you're going to have to figure out the dimensions and to do that you need to do the math. Somebody's already got all the parts laying around, you just have to be patient. Kind of like that, 57, 58, 59 automobile. Remember Johnny Cash? Be patient, look around, cross-reference and act accordingly. Now let's go back to winter kit. What would I do if right now I was a poor man and I am a poor man, I am not going to go out and spend top dollar on anything. I'm sorry, that's just how it's going to work. Okay, I have to do this. Bargain basement. Number one, I got an AK. Now whatever your AK or AR design is, guys, you can find inexpensive add-on accoutrements, you know, in the other words stock kits. They are not worn out, they are ugly. With the plastic that is used on the AR, if you keep wearing it long enough it gets kind of a dirty, almost like it has a brown and white patima to the outside where you have polished the plastic down. And the chip, of course, is polished over and over again with cleaning and handling and wear and tear. Well, with your ARs, a thick stock, A2 is more likely than an A1. They think an A1 is collectible now, so there used to be a drug on the market for like a couple dollars a piece. Now they want stupid price for the M16A1 parts, but the A2 parts are a drug on the market. I would pick up a cheap AR-15 buttstock, set up four, obviously the four grips, and a pistol grip for, you know, you can get those for a dollar or two a piece for field grade. Now, then go get yourself some Dura-Cote or get yourself some regular house paint, you know, whatever kind you want. They make all kinds of military flat grades now. And again, I would go with a white, a little bit of gray, and a little bit of green. The green, I would go medium. I wouldn't go too dark. I'd go soft, medium. And the reason is that would allow you to, again, it doesn't jump out, but it's still going to be enough to break up and disrupt the basic color scheme in the field. So my rifle is basically tinted out as far as the stocks go. Now, still I got this all black weapon, but changing the paint back and forth from one season to the next is, that's a personal thing. That's one of the reasons I like these color receivers that are showing up. I've told you before, Earth Brown would be a good choice, or the OD Green. You add the whites with the gray and green break up on a green receiver set, or on a brown receiver set, and that's going to look pretty good. So whatever your base color is for your general colors, you can paint your weapon, your overall weapon, into your green pattern. I would still go with a medium, not a really dark dark. You're trying to get away from the black to begin with. I would go with a standard green pattern with a whole set of stocks and everything, then take your parts off, paint your winter pattern on the other parts, put that on the weapon system, and your weapon is basically covered. You might want to do a snow camo cover for your optics. That's something we've addressed before. That can be like a little, basically, a napkin that goes over the system basically but doesn't cover the optical end, either the collection or the receiver for your eye. One way or another the basic system though can be covered up and can be neutralized you can even ghillie it up a little bit with whatever you want to do so that it's a little less you know less obvious make it look like a little bit of burlap sewn to your snow camel material it'll look like a little bit of leaf or whatever don't go extreme don't have to go real brushy so it looks like you're trying to create another cousin it sitting on top of the rifle but a little bit of breakup goes a long way think about that Next, combat kit. Well, ACU is a real cheap snow camouflage base uniform. I don't like ACU 99.9% of the time. But I will tell you that both ACU or the urban woodland camel, the urban gray, are two good patterns for base coloration for field use in the winter. Certainly the Browns, if you've got any of the Moss or the Oaks and all the others, there's so many commercial variants that you really don't bother to list them all. And those are of course a lot more expensive. But ACU, I can find ACU tops and bottoms cheap. I can find used ACU field jackets cheap. I can find ACU used and kind of tattered helmet cover cheap. Remember that I'm still going to carry snow camo outerwear. But most of the time, again, you don't have solid white. We're not typically going to try to avoid solid white if we can. But it's purely matter what you pick up off the market. However, the base colors. Remember that when you move stuff, when you open up your snow gear and you ventilate, what you're wearing underneath is going to be seen. If it is extreme contrast, in other words you've got that really dark, dark uniform or you're using OD green, OD green is good and any camouflage is still better than blaze orange. But remember that those softer colors create that bedded effect that you see in the field. Look at the pictures right now that some of our guys are posting when they're driving around the country. Look across the fields of Montana right now. Look at the Dakotas. Take a look at what you know what's going to happen this year in your part of the country if it's snow. So if you're going to get snow, it's not going to be solid in many cases. This is why we're going to break up or we're going to use colors that complement that breakup. Okay. The other thing is if I get stuck and I don't, I decided to shuck the outer snow gear because it's just a little too much white. Those undergarment grays or the color pattern that I've chosen is going to work in the environment. Because I'm still going to end up with breakup of muddy brown, grays, I'm going to end up with rock, gravel, which again, think ACU. What does it look like? It doesn't work in a lot of places, but it actually can work well as a winter camouflage uniform, or at least a winter compliment uniform. The reason I bring it up is because it is cheap. I can go to rap4.com. If I got my uniforms, I found uniforms, got pants cheap or reasonably priced cheap or used at the yard sales. I'm running into ACU at the resale shops now. Not as much as Woodland, but I'm seeing it and it's been there and I paid $1.75 to $3 for brand new shirts. Usually, people want more for the pants. The pants are harder to get, but $4 or $5 for the pants is as low as $3. In good sizes. Most soldiers are not big or older Americans, but you can find the stuff out there. There is a solution. You can also order it. If you look around, there are several different uniform companies that have the stuff. Now, headgear, if at all possible, a helmet cover, obviously. In ACU, that works out just fine. And remember, I can also ghillie that up with some white and some brown as needed with a little bit of extra net hanging. That's what the camouflage band is for on your helmet, remember that? And you can make one that's in the gray and brown. so that it doesn't jump out and create a line on your helmet that becomes a shoot me I'm here target. You want to make sure that you don't have extreme contrast and those kind of flat lines kind of point to where that melon is even if it has ACU or snow camo on it. So something to think about there. Next, web gear, ACU web gear. They have two ACU assault vests, $20 a piece. $20 per vest that will fit your AK mag pouches. They also have them for AR, etc. They are variable geometry mag pouches. They have several different mag pouches on and other utility pouches. and typically a holster for $20 you can't beat it and besides it's a limited seasonal period of activity. I'm not going to spend $500 on something I'm only going to use for three months. You see what I mean? This is the other reason to go to clearance and close outs. Clearance and close outs. Clearance and close outs. Desert works really well. Three-colored desert for this season, like right now, is a better choice than say the dark woodland camel range. Although maybe if woodland's what you got, it's what you're on with. Okay, and I've told you to buy woodland because it's cheap. Don't change on that. But woodland is still the drug on the market price-wise. I can get more woodland tops, bottoms, and field jackets for the dollar spent than I can in any other pattern that's out there right now. So, if you're going to commit to Woodland, that's fine. Then you've got to commit to that outer snow layer and more aggressively because you are going to have to be prepared for the change out in the season. The big thing is, again, your basic combat gear is understood. You can match up ACU backpacks from airsoft-club.com. They have some ACU there that's cheap. Instead of ACU if you don't like it you can go with multi cam. Right now that's coming out in the airsoft items fairly cheap and that's good color range and it does have a little snags of white in it if you pay attention or at least headed towards the white range in color. It was hoped that that would do more to be a universal pattern. If you want to go that way that's fine. I'm just looking at wallet. Now snow camo. Well here's the point. If you pay attention the Swedish and some Swiss is cheaper right now than anything else that's out there. Let me give you a little hint. The Swedes and the Norwegians are pretty big boys. So if you're looking for big, pay attention. You'll typically find that the average stuff sent to you that would be Swedish or Norwegian is going to be bigger and consistently has been. Right now in the surplus industry I've been looking at the sizing and the stuff that's been coming in has been pretty good from certain companies. They're the suppliers for Sportsman's Guide, KeepShooting.com and places like that. So it's reflected right now that you'll see some items for as little as five, six dollars a piece. Since the Snowwall hasn't hit yet, not all the prices have gone to winter price range. The summer gear is coming down right now in price and that's typically when I buy it. The winter gear I've been buying like two months ago and three months ago. You know, in the middle of summer when it's hot and nobody's thinking about it. Oh yeah, that's how that works. Yes, that's how it works. So anyway, the Swedish and the Norwegian are solid white. If you're looking To change that up from solid white, unless it's a real, real high-end nylon, you won't be able to do much of that other than the spray paint. And there are some that are like that because they're more water repellent. It was their way of coming up with a water repellent solution. We're another layer for the outside layer so it's not clinging to your gear and showing colors through underneath. That was the logic behind that. If it's a polyester cotton blend, more with a little higher cotton blend to the snow camo, which is typically the case with about 80% of what's out there, here's a trick. Two things. Either spray paint and you do a series of irregular frond patterns or line patterns. And don't get right into the cloth back away and lift your hand up when you stroke away through it so that you get that fading effect on your darker colors. Again, medium, long green, grays, and if you want to, a brown. Those colors are an option. You might notice with the German snow camouflage, though in the newer ones you don't see as much of this, there was actually a lavender and also brown only for the pine frond. You know, you've got the German snow camel that has the pine frond in it. Well, the new ones are all green, but originally it was a mix. And that wasn't an accident because, again, you think that you're seeing green. You like to just imagine the most average image you've seen in, what are postcards, things of that nature. In reality, though, there are many hues and shades to the different foliage that's out there. And both the brown and that lavender gray worked very well as a disruptor in the field, and especially works well at night. Oh, that's right, nighttime camouflage too. So, as it is, you can simulate what the Germans do. Have you seen the German snow camo? That's usually the one everybody wants because it looks cool. And it's also a little pricier. It's not as expensive as it has been. If I don't want to make my own, I would point out you can go to Centerfire. Here we go, back to Centerfire. Well, Centerfire has some combo ideas. And they've got surplus. If you go to their surplus gear section for clothing, go to military surplus and go to clothing, the first category, you will find that they have and have been carrying for quite some time a combo package. They have the German, uh oh, maybe they're already out of those this year again, I wouldn't be surprised, let's find out, they have the German snow camouflage poncho and the Swiss alpine poncho. available as a set and even as I told you about this you may have to slap mark in the microphone because they might have finally sold out of those and I would not be surprised because you guys have been buying a lot of them so let's go back to page two page one I'll see you on page two right away you're gonna have to punish me for bringing this up well they do have the Alpine fly Poncho is still in stock, but they appear not to have been able to restock the snow camo. Now, I'll check with them tomorrow to see if they have them, but if they're out, it's probably because Sturm is out because they buy them from the same wholesaler that I buy them from. Okay? They're only a couple of companies that usually get them in good quantity. Anyway, the Snow Poncho is a cool solution because it does cover everything, and the reason it's longer in the back than the front when you put it on, guys, is because it's supposed to go over your backpack. Oh, that's why it's about a good, oh, a foot longer in the back of the overlap than the front overlap for the front flap on that square poncho that's snow camo. That's because it goes over your backpack and then you tie the sides and lace everything in place and away you go. Ah, that way everything's covered and you don't have to have a separate backpack cover. Oh, I see. So anyway, there is some method to the madness of design. If you want to make a copy, though, of that pine frond, because again, like I just said, I just went to Centerfire, looks like it's gone, kids. Well, you can make your own. You got white bed sheets from the resale store. They're high cotton, polyester blend cloth. They are fairly good quality. You can get a number, in fact they are basically the same weight as the snow camo you were buying from the Germans. Okay, from the Germans. Now you take that cloth and you lay it out on a 4x8 sheet of plywood, that bedspread you got there, that bed sheet. Once you've got that ready and laid out, you go get yourself some medium green Rit Dye. Now, the other thing you need to do while you're at the store is get yourself a decent little 1 inch or 3 quarter inch paintbrush. You want something with natural fiber. Now, you're also going to get yourself a little paint cup that can be a bowl or whatever you want to use. Then we're going to mix up the Rit dye as kind of like a, shall we say, a thin paint solution. Now we're going to get our natural fiber brush wet. We're going to let it soak. Preferably let it soak overnight. Now when you're done letting it soak and you're ready to get everything laid out on the board and you've got packs in the corner so the cloth can't bind or anything on you, then you wring out the brush, the 3-quarter or one inch wide paintbrush. Shake it out. There you go. Shake it out some more. Now rub it off on a piece of, you know, like newspaper or rub it off on a piece of a paper grocery sack. There, that'll get a little more moisture out of it. Then we're going to stir up and we're going to dip into after we've dried that brush a little bit. We still want it damp because we want those individual natural fibers to kind of irregularly spray out away from each other. They'll spread a little bit, right? They'll kind of bind to each other and spot and they create all these little V points on the brush. We're going to dip our paintbrush into the Rit Dye. We're going to pick a spot randomly on our gear, on our piece of white cloth. We're going to look at a center point, pick it, and we're going to lay the brush down. And as we pull it away for about 10 inches to 12 inches, we're going to lift the brush and let it wisp across the cloth at the end. Now, if you get good at that, a little bit of practice, Look at the German pattern of camouflage. Look at what they've done and look at what you just did. Duplicate it, kids. Using brown-rit dye or green-rit dye or whatever color you want. I wouldn't use orange or red. You know what I mean? You can come up with a pretty accurate simulation of that German pattern. You can go with a wider frond or a narrower frond, purely a matter of choice. But the brush needs to be natural material because you want to get that little binding together so it gets that wispiness. When you lift the brush, you've got to actually work the brush with your hand. Drag it across the cloth, lift it up a little bit, you'll get that pine frond effect just like you see done at the factory with the German Camel. Notice I'm using the Rit Die. Now I want the Rit Die to be mixed rich. I don't want it thin. I want it rich. Now there's a reason for that. Even if I let the stuff set and dry and do everything I'm supposed to, we have typically found that, and you've seen this too, when you do tie dyeing or writ dye, it's going to fade. You can set it, and there's all these lemon juice tricks. You can use whatever trick you want for setting the color. That's a good thing. But let it be a little rich. Look at how dark the pattern is actually on the German camouflage, the German snow camo. And remember that though as you use it, it's going to wear. Now that's not a problem because amazingly enough as people have found out, as it fades in a little bit, it actually works very well. And you get varying effects of how the dye is set and how the dye washes out a little bit from nature, you know, weather, and from rewashing it if you put it into the washer. So just something to think about there. Now the quickie alternate solution is to do what we call what Houtari called, Conkey Flage. Many years ago we had a whole bunch of American snow camels, and this is why we did this by the way. And a lot of guys wore the snow camels with their tread heads or their cooks or their maintenance people. And so these buggers, there's a percentage I got about 80% that were pristine, virtually brand new American snow camels. but 20% were used in one form or another. 10% to maybe 15% would wash out really clean. But that last 5% they just looked like they were cook whites. That's how greasy they were still. They were greased up. You couldn't get it out completely. I washed them more than a few times and used the most industrial wash that I could to get it done. And then what I did is if the same procedure I described, put it out on boards, but I used spray paint instead and I used it to cover the multiple sims of the grease stains that were on the snow camo. The patterns that I chose using rust brown primer and gray primer ended up being a pretty decent and very effective field snow camouflage pattern. It's in some of the videos that were put out there by Hutari years ago some of the first videos that you see the snow operation the winter operation videos. So if you check it out, the guy's jokingly, you know, say, well, what kind of pattern is this? Oh, this is something that Nancy came up with and Nancy put together for you. And so they decided to call it conciflage. And to be quite honest, we're very proud of conciflage. It works quite well. So there is another solution. You can do that with, actually, here's the thing. Lab coats. You can use, how about, cook's whites for the pants, for snow camo. Get the oversized pants kids. You wear a 33 by the 36's or the 38's. It's got to go over your gear and you still got to be able to bend your knees. So if you look around you'll find lab coats. You may even find some other snow camo and again if it's tired you may find that you want to make a poncho. Well, there's the bed sheets and there's your spray paint option or you can go the Rit Dye method it's up to you. I've used both. They've both been successful. The important thing is do not make a pattern. To a degree, close your eyes, move your hand and spray randomly. You will find again, as long as you think trees and bark and stem and shadow, that you'll do pretty well. But don't try to create a pattern. The human eyes will collect and lock onto a regimented and repeated pattern that is fairly large. So again, you want to randomize it. Leave it a little more white in some area, a little less in others, etc., etc., personal choice. Now, again, depending on where you are, your base camels can be in a number of different options. The Swiss Alpine Flage works in some areas. It works in some, not so well in others. Let's not forget that they make a lightweight Swiss Alpine Flage, and some of our Georgia units really like it because what's the color of the soil down there in Georgia? And a lot of it's exposed. If you've ever driven through Georgia, have you noticed that that red soil peaks through in a lot of places? That alpine flage actually works quite well in a Georgia pine forest, kids. Like it would in the Swiss Alps. Oh, yeah! Okay, so just little ideas there again. And the reason I bring it up is because the Swiss Alpine Flage is out there. You can find helmet covers, you can find, and it gets a crossover transition uniform. We're into the season where the Alpine Flage, especially in the late part of fall, into the early part of winter, works exceptionally well when you have leaf cover. We have Sumac, Grapevine, and a whole bunch of other junk. The other thing to remember is that the coats that they make that are in the older Alpine Flage pattern cut coat, the coats, the field jackets were also the web gear guys. All the pockets have slip pockets inside them. There's like 11 pockets on the field jacket. It's designed to carry your canteen, your gear, your magazines. Your pockets are your magazine pouches. Oh, you didn't look that closely at the alpine flage rigs? You might want to take a look at them again. The heavier herringbone twill coat pattern that has the stainless steel bucklers on it. There's a small backpack that has two chambers on the outside, one main chamber in the middle. It's all part of an integrated LBE that actually is your uniform. So there's another solution and again as cheap as the Swiss Alpine Flauge is you can afford to actually put a kit together for a little or nothing and you've got the poncho, you've got a top, you've got a bottom, you can buy the coats, you can also buy the bib pants and helmet covers and patrol hats are available in the pattern. So you can completely square away, you can put a complete Swiss Alpine Flauge system together. Remember, again, it's going to vary depending on where you are. But the other thing is, as I pointed out, is cost-effectiveness. Is it cheap enough? Does it work? If it works in your area, if it works and it's stupid, then it's not stupid. See how that is? Now another thing is again, other camouflage items and gear, I would remind you, mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com. Take the time, check them out, and if you go to main military, he still has the Swedish trigger finger mittens, guys. They're brand new. I believe it's three pairs for $9. There is a little bit of price if you buy the larger quantity still, but it still comes to about $3.33 or about $3.00 a pair. But those are brand new mittens in the wrapper. They're in a plastic seal bag, both a shell and the liners. And you can't beat the price. Basically, you're getting the whole system for what you'd pay for the liners nowadays. Now, they do have some spare wool liners, US. that are a little cheaper and that's again available through Maine Military. Now I've pretty well topped about and rounded out my cold weather gear. I didn't buy any snow shoes, I didn't buy any skis. That's your problem in your area. I've been finding cross-country skis for free. I've been grabbing every pair that I can. Children's, women's, you know, or should say small person, mid person, big person. And in fact I've just got about 20 pairs of ski poles for free. It didn't cost me anything other than going and picking them up. You know what? I can outfit an entire ski patrol top to bottom now. Yeah, that's kind of cool, isn't it? And by the way, you're going to see that in some of the up and coming videos here. The new ones are going to be releasing. We're working on that right now, as a matter of fact. We don't have any snow on the ground here, so I can't do that for you. I ain't going to break the snow skis out for grass. It doesn't work that way. Next, another thing, I brought up UNAMMO.com. We're going to shift because it is Weapons Wednesday. I was just trying to get the soldier together and outfit him for the combat operations to carry the weapon. Okay? Now, go to www.unamo.com. Again, that's UNAMMO.com. Take the time, plug in there. uh... w w w u n m o dot com guys i don't know if it's even there i got it from match grade lopu uh... three thirty eight will pull out all it is silly bill it you know solar bill o and uh... it is well understand is the best price in the country which is probably what's gone i have not looked at the if it's still in stock it's right there between the fifty caliber rifle ammo and the other goodies And if you check the scroll, which is what I'm doing right now, just to see if I can find it. And oops, right away, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means Mark's going a little too fast. Anyway, the reason I brought this up is there are some 50-caliber AMAX ammo that is available through UNAMMO.com and the 338 Lapua. Now, there was only about 200 rounds of the Lapua available. But if you're a Lapua shooter, if that's what you got is a 338, any place where you can find it for a better price, needless to say, you're going to, oh, we got more in. Cool, he's got a source. He only had four cases the other day. He's got 10 cases back in stock. There's only 100 rounds per case. And it's $299 per case of 100 rounds. That sounds pricey, but this is a big buck, 338 Lapua rounds. So you're talking more expensive. For the guys that are shooting it, this is a Celler Bello match grade. Let's see, it's a 338, 250 grain OT match bullet. Here's a definite alternative to the $4 and $5 price per round for Lapua ammunition. S&B, obviously like it says, we know the quality. S&B is good work. The guys do great, great ammo. I wouldn't even think twice about loading any of my weapons. However, the other thing they've got is the A-Max round. I'm going to mention that first. They have three... Oh, actually they had 200 rounds of that. They're down to 150 rounds. Somebody already bought a box. It's expensive, but this is the A-Max Match King round, okay? $249 for 50 rounds. Yes, that's pricey by comparison to the cheaper stuff on the same page, but it's supposed to be. If you're looking at extreme precision to maximum range, this is a solution. The other things that they've gotten in include True Incendiary, 100 rounds for $350, that's $3.50 a case. That's not bad for 50 caliber ammunition at all guys. And they do have 50 cal ammo that's cheaper. They do have some CHI-COM for $250 for 100 rounds. They have some tracer for 290 if you're looking for ball or if you're looking for special cartridge, you know special production they have both Okay, so if take the time check it out go to UN ammo comm scroll through there They do have some belted M250 caliber in the links. Go for it. 2013 head stamp. It's in the M250 belted link. It is four rounds ball, one round tracer. And there are 100 rounds, 100 cartridges per can. and the price is $360 for belted ammunition. That's $3.60 a round. You get one tracer every fifth round the way it's supposed to be. It's on the Lynx. That's a plus and it's linked. So if you got an M250 caliber semi-auto or if you got a 50 you took home sometime in the last several years over the last couple decades, hey, there's some belted ammo to throw into the can to the rack. Now there's one other thing there in the 50 I will mention, it's a special load. The spotter round, the spotter tracer, is used in the M106 recoilless rifle and it's a shorter case. The shorter 50 caliber case was designed to mimic exactly the performance of the 106 recoilless rifle round when it was launched. The spotter rounds are again a spot trace. These will activate and create a signature identifier. In other words, they pop and smoke. Well, there's a reason. They're an incendiary and they're a very special incendiary. Okay? They make a noise. In fact, I'll read what it says here because I've fired the 106 more than a few times. They have a primer in the front of the projectile. When it impacts a hard surface, it ignites a bright flash and a bang and a puff of smoke. Not to mention they trace out red to the target. These are put together from pulled spotter tracer projectiles, extremely rare, and built in once fired American brass. Custom loaded by a well respected ammunition manufacturer in Phoenix. I've known those guys for 30 years. that has been open since 1964. They are red and yellow tipped, comes in 100 round cardboard box, very limited quantity on hand. If unfamiliar, go to YouTube and type in spotter tracer 50 caliber BMG. Now these were designed so what you did guys is you fired the spotter cartridge, the .50 caliber semi-auto spotter rifle, and when you saw the PUNK on target you immediately hit the second trigger and fired the primary weapon. PINK! POW! BOOM! That BOOM! was the 106 round going off and going down range on target. The cool thing is if there's a soft skin thing out there and you hit it of any kind, this is going to do some major creative damage. It's still a 50 caliber rod. This is a full 50 caliber system. The neat thing is, part of the load is a Willy Pete slash white phosphorus. Just a little hint there. The spotter filament is a very unique component, which means it is very nice, very useful to have on board when the time comes. just something to think about there. If you've got incendiaries pre-deployed and you want to use those as part of, say, a mine system, then a pre-laid .50 caliber gun can do some major damage from a long ways away. Well, they might be thinking one thing's going to happen, but something else takes place instead. Pop, boom, boom. Pop, pop, pop, boom. Just something to think about there. So that is one of the more unique loads. Definitely available, like I figured, again, spotter rounds, 50 caliber spotter rounds were disassembled. The spotter rifle cartridges are about 0.5 inch shorter than the standard 50. And we built a lot of 50 caliber single shot rifles using the spotter cartridge barrels years ago. Typically they could be cut. A lot of guys, what they did is They rounded out the cut barrels because they were usually cut in half and then they welded a long suppressor shroud to lengthen the barrel. They welded it right on so that there's nothing anybody could say. The first one that we built, we mounted on a tire rim. We did it all with crude welding guys. A single shot, 50 caliber spotter cartridge. The cool thing is that we took a truck axle and mounted it up on a pedestal. We welded that. The guy that was the welder said, what are we going to do for base? Well, what do you got in the heavy sheet and sheet metal? Oh, I've got some half inch steel here. There you go. Basically, we took a manhole cover piece of metal and welded the upright axle to that with the bolt points for the tire, for the wheel rim. Then we took the wheel rim that we built the gun on, mounted that onto the axle and that created a traverse mechanism. Our elevation was built in onto the tire itself, onto the rim. so that we could elevate as needed. The cool thing is that it gave us the ability with a simple steel shoulder stock made from a piece of pipe with a T and two more pieces of pipe. We could swing it around, aim, and even elevate like an artillery piece and drop the thing out to about 1,400 yards. Accuracy varied, but it was just a fun project where, okay, we got all these 106 spotter rifle parts. and we've got a bolt, let's see, we're going to have to change the way we mount the bolt only because it's going to be a manually operated, not a semi-automatic. What we basically ended up doing is making a semi-semi-automatic gun. It was a self-ejecting bolt gun. And all done from scrap parts bought out of the scrap bins from Uncle Samuel that we would get by the tons. It just happened there was a bunch of 106 parts that were cut up in there and everything we needed. The bolts weren't cut, but the barrels were. Eventually what we did is switch it out to in fact made one of them in .50 caliber using the basic parts that were available but going with a .50 caliber M2 barrel. Oh, that changed the performance of that basic configuration. A lot of work, not as fast as that Barrett you're carrying or that Zussman Ackerman or any of the others. But it made for a pretty good project gun to try to figure out what to do from crude and rude. And it worked. And still does. We didn't get rid of them. They're sitting in places. They're static defense guns for certain areas now where we can leave them in place and we're not going to cry. We paid for them 35 years ago. You know what I mean? 30 years ago we built them. 35 for the first, 30 years for the other one. A lot of fun when you're a younger person to play with the toys when you have an industrial society. Oh, there's the flame wrench. We know what the flame wrench is, right? Oxyacetylene torch, kids. It's the miracle tool. It does everything. It cuts and it reglues metal. It's amazing. Anyway, as a metal glue gun, the oxyacetylene is just fantastic when you know what you're doing. And the guys that taught me to work the torches, these are guys that, they worked back to World War II. A lot of them are gone now. Two of them are for sure. We learned a lot, Jeff, myself, and a whole gang of other people, and we're hopefully passing someone on to you. At least creative, crazy ideas, okay? Anyway, uh... Hey Dad, we are up at the top of the hour, but Craig will not be up live tonight. Very good. Okay, oh my goodness, we are at the top already. Guys, again, snow camo, be creative, but think on the cheap. You only need the snow camo for about one quarter of the year to maybe, you know, five months. And even there, it's never going to be solid white. So think the white base, a little bit of gray, a little bit of brown or green. and that'll break up the pattern and do it with parts or pieces like we said that are cheap because you can change them out, you're not going to cry if you lose them in the field and you have to abandon them, but you got them for the time that you need them and if you only use them that one time, they've paid for themselves. God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order, we shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on a run, we're in the march. We'll be back at 8 o'clock. Evening Intel report. It's Wednesday. Bye bye. And yes we are the sons, the sons of Mitzvah And yes we are the sons, the sons of Meregin I will speak