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We have another FM100 that is going to be gifted to the valleys. I don't know when it's going out there, but we have a friend that has changed out to another set of transceivers, or forgive me, transmitters for the micro-epend stations. and will be shipping one out to Wyoming as a gift in exchange for something else useful that goes to your shoulder. So I guess everybody's happy, it's a clean trade, but it is in motion. They haven't shipped it yesterday or today, I believe it's going to go tomorrow or tonight, depending on who meets with either the FedEx guy or if they decide to go in the town to another location there's another drop point they can use so i don't know what's going on there yet they have boxed up everything it is ready to go guys uh... and that will match up to the other f m one hundred that was sent out there already in trade so very good uh... same equipment and i just an extension of the valley that we those radios are close by everywhere familiar with one you're familiar with the other whenever you can set systems up like this mate up systems so that everybody's copacetic with the equipment. There's no confusion from one machine to the next. I do this wherever I can if I know that somebody needs stuff. We've got a bunch of Dell equipment going to Henry that will be out there pretty soon. Everything goes well. In fact, flat screens, keyboards, I'm not excited about wireless mic or wireless forgive me Mike and keyboards But if Henry wants we can have them and then of course we've got RAM cards and a bunch of other stuff the RAM cards will be shot out as quick as we can those will go forward in a smaller package as quickly as possible so Guys you can help each other out. Well in addition that we got helping out people There are the great state of Colorado the recall state notice they put that behind everybody about thinking about as quick as they could and you don't know the whole story about the liberal screaming Mimi's that were attacking the petitioners and that we covered but nobody else did for obvious reasons although the broader so in the fair enough know they're not there much agreed to need to be shot word of the point where i'm petition that it's time to well-taken you the ammunition that you got the bought it for a purpose you know the main they start the screeching yap and you know kind of by that you think They're going to find out real quick, they've pressed the limit, and the rest is going to be history here pretty soon. So, with that being the case, be prepared. Also, left coast, we've got the great state of Jefferson, a lot of other friends out there on the rocky side, between the Pacific and the rocky. Turning back to the east, we sweep across the plains over the Mississippi land of the Smokies, where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium bring us the Golden Spike. Anyway, it is gray. Actually broken cloud cover. We're going to have some bright moon tonight even though we have cloud cover. Moon's been exceptional because solar activity has still been very high guys and because of that you're going to not have to run around with a flashlight tonight if you're smart. Just adapt and work accordingly. Now do we have Don with us? Yes we do. There we go, very good. And Don, what is the day today? What's it like up in your neck of the woods? And what's jumping off the wall there? Well it is the tenth day of December, the year of our Lord, 2014. It was a beautiful day for this time of year. We could be up to our waist in snow and it could be 20 degrees colder. Again, it's the 10th day of December, 2014. It was just a wonderful day here, but it's a particular day. With that in mind, I have an empty magazine in my 1911. Over here on the other hand, I've got a magazine. Magazine goes in the magazine, well you touch the slide release, now we got one in the chamber, we can tell everybody it is. Weapons Wednesday, the perimeter is secure and you know there's plenty more where that came from. We can now offer equal opportunity, coercive force. Shazam! And of course, on Weapons Wednesday, more magazines people. I won't debate about the seven or eight round issue, I know that's been going on for quite some time, but again, if you can get another round in the magazine, Yeah, one more is always better because that might be the one that got that last one. You didn't have to use your machete or your sword or your fighting knife on because he got within arm's reach. You mean like whack him upside the head with your Glock? Yeah. Wait a minute, I got a handle and the Glock's gone. Where'd the slide go? Oh man, he's not happy. I should have reached for my... I should have had the fighting knife from my other hand already, shouldn't I? Oh man, that would have been a good idea. So, trench knives, smash, smash, smash, hack, hack, hack, and wipe off on their clothing. I always hate that when you see, even in some of the samurai movies, to do some of the latest ones, Don, I don't know if you've noticed this, they're really well done. I mean, obviously still have great masters that are doing a lot of the work, and they're having a great time doing it, and they're having a fun job hacking and chopping, but no samurai would ever put a blade with any blood back into the scabbard. No, always remember that. Yeah, because you see blood is made up with what what's in the blood that might not be conducive to carbon steel. Oh All kinds of stuff, but no all time. Yeah Yeah, it would not be good especially since in a you're also have a rainy damp environment it gets wet and sticky and re you know liquefies and Then it's on that really nice hammered blade you've got there with your little temper wave and although you would not be a happy samurai to pull the blade out and find something that you really didn't want to see you know what I mean, so Doesn't mean you can't do maintenance, but the idea is that that's what the bad guy's clothing is for. And it could still be a very stylized action. I would say it'd be cooler if they, you know, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then, of course, you flick the blade. Everybody has seen that. You flick the blade, and that gets rid of pretty much most of the fluid. But in the latest movies, Don, which are very much like 300, Only in this case just reversed. The blood stays with the sword. It's really cool. There's all kinds of packing and splashing. There's more graphic, not slow-mo even, still full speed. But the problem is that they've got some of the blood staying on the blade and then he flicks, but they're still ooh, gore on the blade and then he does the classic full turn and bring the blade in, controlling with the left hand to the scabbard. Now the thumb is supposed to wipe the blade. Now that is a trick. Problem with that is you have to do immediate maintenance. Whoever you are, if you're an owner of any of those blades, you're immediately doing maintenance, which you would anyway. I mean you're not abusing that which you worship. Get my drift. But just a little case in point there. You don't put a blade that's got gore and blood on it back in the scabbard because the blood and gore will still be there every time you put the blade back in the scabbard, no matter how many times you clean it. Plus let's put it this way a lot of people use their utility knives as utility knives Yeah, think about that one. Yeah. Yeah, you listen to me I kind of point pointed out to somebody well you saw the frontiers when he carried one blade, right? Yeah, he used the blade to kill Indians, right? Yeah and bear yeah and his dinners Wasn't it all through his cook knife at the end of the day and his dinner? Yeah, so Samurai source costs a hundred thousand dollars Oh yeah. Oh yeah, of course. They look at the sword like it is the spirit of their ancestors. When there's blood on it, you don't want to put the spirit of your ancestors back in its home with unwelcome guests. Right. Exactly. There's a whole theology, there's a whole application here of concept in mind with regard to the sword and how it's handled. One of the things that I've run into a few more recently, we're going to see a few more in the next wave where a lot of the last of the World War II vets are passing away. But back in the 80s and early 90s, you had a wave there where a lot of grandpas or dads passed the stuff on to their children or their wives inherited everything and they didn't care for their stuff. Apparently, they obviously had to maybe cover bills. Who knows what the excuse was. Some of it just had to do with that they didn't care. There were a lot of items hanging around. Plus, it did help to take care of the family. what seem like you said uh... there's two that we discovered one was worth forty seven thousand dollars and that had been sitting you know of course in the custody of a guy who had fought the end world war two went into the occupation of japan and this particular blade had been surrendered to him at the end of the war in forty c early forty six there were several surrenders that took place in you know anytime that they uh... had a particular activity the japanese wanted a ceremony but they wanted a ceremony because they want to know what sort of went That's what people don't realize. Yes, there is a ceremonial process to surrender, but one of the things that they would do is on rice paper they would write their family's information, take off the guards, roll the paper around the hilts, and then the major, the primary shank of the grip itself. Think about that. Just the steel. Wrap it around the steel. put the grips back on, put everything back in place, put all the ray caps and everything, and then relays it. And that way, somewhere where it could be found, the family line and the name would be there, along with perhaps even a village, a city, or a location for the family. And we had that, but what was interesting about this particular one is that while it was a surrender Japanese sword, the officer who received the surrender was a Western Provincial Chinese officer. It was part of the ceremony where they brought these officers forward that had fought the war for like 14 years. That's why they did this. These guys had fought the war against Japan and were the beginners of World War II. When you didn't know what World War II was, they didn't even have it numbered. So they surrendered to him. He of course wrote down the information apparently because at the request of the surrendering officer But the dialect was so alien. It's like there's it's it's from a far western niche of China and it is a very unique crossover dialect that is not like anything from the eastern Chinese estates. So what was fascinating is we had to find somebody to translate first what was there? And eventually they tracked down and contacted the family through one of these sword the sword and meeting over in Southfield, Michigan off 96, one of the hotels. The guy was there and when we talked to him, we'd known him on and off for probably 20 years. While I was there, he had two swords. He'd already paid $120,000 for them. And he said, I paid $100,000 for the one blade and trust me, it's worth a lot more than that. And the family at the other end is willing to pay probably five times that if I'd had to go there. To recover that spirit of their ancestors? Yeah, sure. And people don't realize again, those are not just junk. And by the way, other than the World War II NCO blades, which even now are still commanding a price, because guys, that's 60 years ago in their history, okay? If it looks not too fancy, Don't think it's junk. I've repeated this many times about two types of blades. Number one, the US fighting knives that don't look like US fighting knives. It's because they are from the early stages of World War II when we were desperate. And the men who built them though were knife masters. Many of you, if you get a grandpa say, oh I carried this knife in World War II and it looks like it might be a handmade knife and it was a homemade knife. Well, you're right on both cases. The problem is that knife may be worth more than a rack of AKs. Okay, so I'm just warning you on this. When you go through yard sale and you see a leather scabbard, looks like a military type scabbard. It's got a military pattern to it. And the metal is, for instance, for the hilts, will in many cases be like flat gray. It's a pop metal alloy that they use during the war. Doesn't rust, doesn't oxidize, it just turns flat. It was a perfect metal for knife makers, still used in hunting knives through the 50s and 60s and even the early 70s. Several different alloys were used, but there is steel composite with, I think zinc is part of that, a similar composition to brass. But if the blade is between 5 and 7 inches long, and it has a blood chip, it has a blood groove. at the top of the blade where it has an indentation okay that is typically see on the k bar knives in some cases it may not have that but the spec was for it to have that that's the giveaway but that night is not some piece of junk or a decoupled that upon a destroyer or something no uh... could have machine shops on ships and guys builder nights now it was probably an early war knife it's one of maybe only five or six hundred mate now the japanese blades The reason a blade might be tired, guys, is because it's been around for four or five hundred years. Exactly. And the older the blade, well, you figure out the value. Yeah. Old, old blades, you guys, some families can say, this blade killed this man on X date, and 200 years before it, this blade killed this man on this date. Honest to God. Yep, there's an entire recorded history of the lineage of a blade. You'll hear that term on occasion. So if you run into anything like that, just because it's a tired, older sword, now you've got to confirm it's not a copy or anything, and there's some ways to do that. Don't go by the Suba. The Suba could be replaced over and over again and typically would if it was a fighting blade. In many cases it may have what we call a ceremonial cut or a ceremonial or a presentation Suba. All of the swords could be disassembled and reassembled easily. Oh yeah. And so they could refit and repair. The ray skin would be replaced on a regular basis because again it was designed to offer grip. It was organic. There were a number of different issues there with the sea spirit and all the other stuff tied into it. Every component has both its history and its element in the mystique of the blade. And every component is supposed to, like you're saying Don, give the blade its character. There are established standards that were built into the blade manufacture. A lot of the older blades were not even used in combat, but they were carried by senior or line officers. What they would do is put them in what is a carrying sheet, typically bamboo. Typically, again, solid wood. They are actually, when you pull it apart, a lot of people call these hidden blades. But that's not really what most of us were. It was a carrier. It was designed so that you could transport the blade. Still use it. I mean, if you had to, you could grab the hilt and you could still chop somebody with it because the hilt cover was designed to affix to the sword so that it would be safe and it would lock everything in place. But when they wanted to go to a particular ceremony, a promotion, or if you were going before a senior officer, carrying a blade with a name was like walking into the room with a Medal of Honor. Yeah, think that way you know you always see about a man you go you know the guy with the metal bar It's true could walk anywhere He wants and pretty well take whatever he wants promotion why unless you're Joe Fos trying to get onto an airplane. Yeah, exactly Yeah, yeah Pieces of trash well, that's TSA in there filth anyway Hey before we move away from this you guys your father's got that sword your grandfather's got that sword brought back from the Pacific If it looks like it's got a bakelite or a plastic handle, it is mass produced for the new samurai. What we would call here in America the 90-day wonder, you know, the shaken bake lieutenant. You get my drift there? Because they wanted to build up a lot of warrior spirit and, well, you're a samurai now, even if all of your family cured leather for as far back as we can remember. You're a samurai now. Because you were smart enough about fifth of the way up in your class you're gonna be an officer, too Here take this sword or bake a light handle the grip. It'll be long It'll look like a samurai sword But that's a that's a mass-produced model if you're if you get that sword out of out of your grandfather's closet or he says Or in the will go here or go there and the handle the grip is elaborate It is built with cloth and bow with what appears to be metal threads. Now you're looking at something that was built, it wasn't built for just your average samurai or your 90-day wonder. It's right there. And it's a good choice, a good combination. It's still a good choice if you say, well what can I pick out of it because it's been 60 years since the war ended, guys. Oh yeah, it's not like they're worthless. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, it is a benchmark in history all its own for modern era. Many collectors still will pick them up because, again, it's part of the history of the sword. In other words, if you were collecting swords for the sake of demonstration and or art, because actually there are whole classes on the samurai sword as an art, which it is. To build the way the tradition were built and then to build up the masters and the skill levels, the techniques, is something that took virtually decades and then centuries. There were changes in development and perfection in the technique based upon experience by individuals who became creative. It's like any industry. Then there are different lengths of blades. There are blades that were horse blades. Basically, it would be the way to describe them. Don't describe them that way to the Japanese. They were a different class of weapons for different types of fighting. Go ahead. Do you guys remember that David Carradine movie where he's the hitman and he has the girl... Right, Kill Bill. Yeah, okay. Well, you know, when she goes and she has that blade made, is that for real? Are those Japanese sword makers, I mean, they take like, you know, five or six months to make one blade and they're like a million dollars. Yeah, it's like my brother with pool cues. That's called over Mark to the son of the son of a blade maker in Japan. That's where you're going to get the big big dollars for a brand new sword. Honest to God. One of the things to remember about that is that for the longest time remember it was illegal to have the sword. Yes. Because we kind of beat them. There was a whole policy there that MacArthur implemented with regard to again control. It's still illegal to have a sword in Japan, their culture to defend them from other interests or other political applications. Can you hear me? It's still illegal to have a sword in Japan. Unless you're a government official with a special permit. You can't own a sword. Think about that. The honor of the family. That's what they were doing. See, that doesn't create happy camper ship either because, well, again, we don't look at it that way. They do, but it also can create some long-term animosity that won't be forgotten. There's things to remember. Be aware and pay attention. There are many different windows to the house that you are facing. Not all of them are open, many are shuttered. While there may be a smile, that does not mean they are happy. They are just putting up with you. Basic rule. A couple things. While we were talking about this, hey, for hacking and chopping rules, thanks guys. In the chat room, Cabela is right now. This is not a bad price for a combination like this. A sawback machete. These are made by SOG. And their SOG Tactical, one of their tactical Tomahawks, the set for $50, which is not bad at all because these are forged steel, they're not cheap by any stretch of imagination, they will take a beating. The Tomahawk usually being the price here at about $29 to $35 a unit. Price it out, that's the cheapest I've seen them. And I'm not sure, there are several models they make, so I'm not sure which model this is. I'm looking at a picture right now along with the sawback machete. Again, a good combination. The machete is 16 rather than 18. I'm going to double check that here. 15. That's the Tomahawk. Forgive me, guys. I'm reading as I go. Blade length is 13 inches. I'm going to say more like it's a really long mowie. Not actually it would be a short machete still. It's almost heading towards buoy length. Sawback, high carbon steel. I've seen how they build these things. It's crude, rude, and they're not samurai swords, but they are working blades. Which is when I mentioned that there's things that are showy and they still serve pretty well, but you have to calculate their wear and tear. When you start looking at industrial grade, You're looking at just simply worrying about the quality of the steel being consistent a good heavy shank stock and again Make sure that when you temper your temper, right that way that blade stays and those that sawback works So we've addressed this before mark and soon as you mentioned that so gee I've talked about this I have a folder a knife, you know a folding knife in my pocket When it opens, it has that little nub on each side so you can open it with your thumb in the left hand or right hand. When you flick this open, it is as sturdy as it seemingly any straight bladed knife. We've brought up this comparison before. I would call this SOG. I can't remember. I can't find a particular part number for it. But I would tell you this is a better fighting knife as a folder than the buck knife that a lot of you guys carry. And somebody just gasp, I know it. You're demeaning that American-made buck knife? Well, you know, if you're holding that knife in your hand and you grip it like you want to just stick it right through somebody's skull, that buck knife, if you're holding it in a particular way, might just fold up on you and cut you. but this SOG folder, it has that notch that runs out to the side, it has a little slide block, and it is again a far better fighting knife than your average American Buck knife. I hate to say it out loud. But if you got it, we've talked about, you know, solid shank knives, like, you know, your K-Bark, and we've talked about folders. And wow, folders can, you know, just fit right in a pocket and seemingly be nothing at all. It's an old Chinese thing about the sharpness of a blade. But it's not so much the sharpness, it's the thought that the blade can be hidden. In a folder you can just put right in your pocket. Half the length, but just as effective. When stowed, half the length means that it's a lot less difficult, it's a lot more difficult, less likely to be detected, a lot less likely to be noticed until it's needed. Yep. Best way to describe it. Real quick, theocrat in the chairroom, I saw that Walmart on the Tomahawks, he said I saw the same or a SOG Tomahawk for $20 there and they had a machete and let's see, found the same hawk had a different SOG machete for $20. So, let's see how they see you here. Ok, Kukri, Machete, that's the Kukri, yes. Actually, we talked about this before and a lot of you guys have bought the Kukri, the SOG Kukri blades, Kukri Machete's. That's the pitch forward blade. When you get into the Machete class, you're getting into the sacrifice blade length. In fact, for years, there was one company, somebody else mentioned Pakistani blades here. Don't Pakistani blades are nothing to sneeze at as far as the big, heavy, crude weapons they produce, guys. because the steel is not pretty but again it is a working blade and most not everyone but most the higher percentage actually did a good job of tempering all the shank typically will be anywhere from mole heck through an eighth to a quarter of an inch thick For the longest time, there were these nice project bowies that were coming out of Pakistan. You guys might remember them. Big, round, heavy with a neural bump at the end of the grip, you know, prevent sliding. And then a brass, you know, protective set of hilts. And then a solid blade. It was a full tang. And these things were heavy, but they were $5 apiece forever. Now you can't find them. I think part of this is the punishment on Pakistan thing because we've been up and down and back and forth and our latest prostitute over the Middle East is Turkey. They're the horror boys of the day. So they can do anything they want, but Pakistan is being punished now because we've used and abused them as much as we can and raped them for all we can do. While still, of course, reminding everybody they do have nukes. Anyway, those Pakistani blades, when they did that, they also, of course, brought in Kukri blades that were working blades from the Himalayas or from Pakistan. In addition to the standard blade with the two smaller working blades, they did offer a sacrifice kukri, or basically, you know, it's a sword kukri. Well, guys, it's for taking the head of the cow. And if you haven't seen that, a person who really knows what they're doing and the blade is properly pitched as far as, you know, sharpened, one-stroke cow head off. Yeah. It's a mobile guillotine. This is with a downstroke, obviously. How weirdly they would be, they were just interesting because the guy brought them in cheap. The guy was the importer. I know who he was. I haven't seen him in quite some time, so I don't know if he's alive. He may have been gone now. When he was bringing them in, the larger kukri swords were going for as little as $35-36 a piece. They were a nice piece of metal. They were built in the same spec. Most of the time they came even with a sheath. For the price, they were pretty reasonable. At one point they had been down to $18-20. Then they went back up and crept up on the jobber end. $5 a piece for those Bowie's a lot of guys took those and made those kit this kit knives They would take that much metal and with all the extra we material they had to work with and they made some Phenomenal custom blades that you wouldn't even recognize some the original $5 knife But here's the thing the original $5 knife was more than enough as a true Bowie type fighting blade Let's not forget what Bowie built the knife for and most of the other variations of the day. If you look at how American martial arts worked in the 1600s and 1700s and into the 1800s, before the advent of, and even after the revolver came into service, the pistol and the fighting knife were virtually side by side. They were not typically carried in opposite locations. And the idea was that you were literally thinking as you were moving and you chose the weapon that made most sense for your strong arm. See how that works? Now you still had your tomahawk, your working knife or fighting knife or fighting blade, and probably a pistol. And the pistol was, well hey, if he's farther out than say 10 feet, a bullet in him before he gets too close, there's one. And now we're in tomahawk and fighting knife range. And if he really wanted to, if he felt he had the inclination, Tomahawk could go down range and get planted in somebody too real quick. Before it got to close in hand work. But that fighting knife was right there first. And a girthy, heavy, slap you, hit you, cut you blade is what that was all about. And the weight was there because, hey guys, like a beating baton. Oh yeah. That kukuri, the swelling of the front, the widening of the blade and then the narrowing back down, it is as if it is a miniature scimitar, like a one-handed scimitar. Have you ever picked up a scimitar, the Middle Eastern sword that gets bigger toward the end, instead of being parallel or actually tapering down like a European sword would? It'll actually get bigger. It'll look like, well, there's a pumpkin, not a pumpkin. There's a squash on the end of that sword. When you pick up one of those and bear it in front of you as if straight to your enemy, the weight seems to be pulling you to battle. It really truly does. Not to mention, once you get there, that weight can be awful handy. For the aforementioned slashing and hacking. exactly and of course now they are showing that the walmart uh... specialty knives there's a picture here uh... the bad that the mission of the machete the uh... yes the machines there that's a little more expensive than uh... well it now reasonable depending which model there is a uh... the uh... the tomahawk for about twenty eight seventy six kinda like what i said about price range it very depending on selling it but they do have a really nice Actually, it's the sawback crew crew that they came up with. And this is an SOG blade. All these SOG blades are pure tactical blades. They are black. You want change of color? Mr. Spray Paint is your friend. Okay, that's all you need to do there. But I've had a lot of people that really, really sought these out and have been using the snot out of them. And guys, they haven't had any blades chip or brake. They haven't had any problems with them. The only thing is just, eventually they'll wear out. Nobody so far has worn one out. A lot of guys that carry these use them as working blades for defoliating, hacking and chopping. In other words, they've been experimenting with them. They want to see what they can do with them. We try to abuse stuff to destruction. That way we've got a better idea of how does it work. So far, with most all of these things, you'll wear down the finish. Obviously, you're going to have to re-sharpen things if you're really working with the stuff. Needless to say some of the people that are a little more into the project are practicing with meat now if you've seen any of the YouTube videos That's been the challenge and I think even SOG several the ads that they have that's what they're using is a hanging cow or hanging pig and They're demonstrating what the ability of that blade is So there's no guessing I wonder what that would do to a arm. Oh watch this I wonder what that do to like a rib cage. Well watch this cat in the background there anyway uh... who's still trying to always good to know your capabilities I've always had a difficult time sharpening mine. You know, you buy the block and you apply the block to each side of the blade and there's a rough side to the block and then a fine side. And you're sitting there like seemingly for hours trying to get this knife sharpened. And you want the thing sharp right now. So you go out and buy this stupid little cross metal thing that you put the knife in and just slide it and it just shaves off the metal for you. And it's just like a cheap way to sharpen your knife. I've never gotten to hang out doing it correctly like everybody else, you know, where you use a nice block, you know. The sharpener is nice. Well, a block in oil or a block in mineral oil, first rule. I mean, you can use spit, you can use fluid, you know, a little water, whatever you got. And that's been traditional. The big thing is even the stones are bearing in quality. Just because it's a sharpening stone doesn't mean it should be a finished stone. That's the other problem. The reason for the different grit is to first of all deal with particular issues that may be applied either where the front of the blade or the face of the blade is worn down so you have to readjust or re-trim the bevel to the point. And then after you've done a coarse cut to take back metal and bring the pitch of the blade to proper angle, Then your final dress, your light grit is designed to bring that final edge and to bring down any burr or surfaces that are necessary so that you create a uniform and polished surface. You have addressed the biggest problem that most people find or never discover when they're trying to sharpen a knife mark, the angle. Now, a lot of people will build a round edge and if you look at it under like 10 or 20 power, you'll actually see that round edge. because they don't hold that blade as they're moving the blade away from them or moving the blade toward them depending on your habit and practice. It's always good to move the blade away from you. Here's a good way to start. You're going to lay that blade 90 degrees across the block. You're going to start toward the hilt. You're not going to start up on the square part of the hilt. You don't want to sharpen that. You're going to start where the blade just starts to get sharp. Take your thumb and lay it at the edge of the blade, the top of the blade, and on the block. And draw that knife forward a few times. What you're doing is you're not allowing the angle of attack to the abrasive to change. It takes a little bit of practice. Some people will sharpen a knife in the same hand. They'll turn it and draw it back toward them and turn it and draw it away. Try to move it to the other hand and gauge that same angle with your thumb being the rest and your thumb just gliding across the top of that stone. Now that's going to get you a pretty good, I'm steady with my angle, that's going to get you a pretty good cutting edge on that blade. When you start to turn across the curve of the tip of the blade, you're going to want to rotate that like you're kind of drawing a circle with the hilt of the knife. You want to replicate that with your other hand. Someone who can sharpen a blade both ways in one hand is a very articulate person. And to sharpen a blade, to learn to sharpen a blade in both hands is going to give you a sharper blade quicker. Another thing to mention before we move away from this you guys, you can sharpen a blade and sharpen a blade and, man, them stainless steel blades, it's almost, you want to put them on a wheel first, but then you leave big ugly marks. But you know what, you work on that stone and work on that stone and work on that stone. Put it under the 10 or 20 power, or if you can, 100 power. And then you'll understand why before that barber puts that steel to your neck, puts that sharp steel to your neck, he runs it up and down that razor strap, doesn't he? Because believe it or not, that leather is polishing, sharpening that blade even. Yep. I just never, it takes a lot of sharpener and I... Correctly, I mean, you know, you can't just if you've never done it, you can't just take a block and start sharpening the knife I mean it takes practice right, right But again, it goes back over to the steady hand it goes back over to uniformity and one thing you'll see Some dive knives are like this some Japanese tanto fighting knives are like this But you'll see one side of the blade is perfect is exactly a single plane It is flat One side of the blade, it at the hilt is a thick triangle. As it closes toward the sharp side, it turns down to create the sharpness. You don't want to sharpen a knife like that on the flat side. All of your draw on the stone is going to be toward, not away from, toward the top of the knife and on the side that's already machined sharp. You don't want to turn that over and try to sharpen that knife by sharpening the flat side. I can bring up a dive knife that is exactly configured like that. It's within arm's reach. It's always good to have little friends within arm's reach. That's how that knife is built. In fact, I was looking, one of the guys posted a buoy while we were talking, that's basically that finished buoy for about $20 some dollars. Some of the guys in the chatroom can look at that. It's where people went with the $5 buoy when they finished it. Bud-K has a bunch of inexpensive blades that are working blades. I've tested a bunch of them. The Hibben line of blades typically are real working knives. Typically they are also kind of shiny. They are cool and that they are great. If you wanted to find a blade that uses a ceremony blade for your unit, we talked about this. Some units have done this. By the way, Bud K. will engrave knives. We've got a guy that would do that with a certain fighting blade that one of the militia that's carries, and they're the only ones that has the knife, it's custom built. One of our guys up there below where Don is, actually by a couple of counties, that's what he does, is knives. I have one of his blades, it's been quite a few years. He actually built a couple for the radio network so that we could Put them in the drawings and a couple of you guys listening at least have one of the five inch and one of the eight inch blades that he did which are again unique and Custom designed, but they're still in the Bowie type blade There's one that they have that's around $19 now that's close or actually it's more than that $21 That's not much but it's the design is back and see this as wonky the original $5 Pakistani line knives are wonky they just have a big round hilt that you know even I've got good sized hands and I'm like a super big hands and Yeah, I've got just enough hand to reach around to the smaller hand. It was a little you know, like just not quite little little girthy, but they built these things intentionally for that purpose. And they marketed them very well. So they're out there hanging around. Somebody's got a room full of them somewhere, some company, and they're collecting dust, and eventually they'll open the door and be discovered again. The other thing about blades, especially to have a lot of other blades around it, doesn't have to be very fancy, guys. Again, just needs to be a cutting blade that you're familiar with. An idea that I try to promote like with scopes, by three or four of the same scope that are cheaper. You've got one scope and if it goes bad, guess what? When you put the next one on, is there any guessing about what it does? If you damage something in the field, well the same to think about with having extra knives like Don, like with a folder knife. If you place a series of knives around your person having a similar design or the same family line of knife is a good idea because you're already muscle-memoried to it. You're already thinking about how does this work. And there's no reduction in time response by thinking about how to make something else go into battle, so to speak. What do I have to do to make this work? Wait a minute, which one is this? And granted, you'll learn your system after a while. You'll understand what's where. But by picking up a whole bucket of the same knife or a similar knife and using those in the station, both in your fighting gear, your personal carry, and in places where you stash weapons just in case you need one, that's why I've been looking for a cheap blade that's a full shaft like the Bowie we're talking about. But even a little more of a... that's why the machete just fits so well into this. A cleaving blade that I can leave laying around. Not too long, not too short. But if I'm in a situation where somebody thinks they're going to try and take you unaware, in somewhere in the room or two places in the room, there's at the very least that weapon. And it needs to be reasonably priced. It's not going to fight the next 10 years of battle. It's not going to be a novel blade that will become historically famous like in Braveheart. It's the working blade that usually got forged back down to something else when it got too dull or too bent or too broken because it was a working blade. For every one master's blade out there, there were many others that were done by lesser people that were for the rank and file or working blades. It's not uncommon. A lot of your metal that you have in Europe goes back as scrap through God knows how many years. Now of course it went in and out and back and forth and through battles, you know, extraordinary. But it never got wasted. That's the kind of thing we're looking at here. A blade that is working, that's useful, simple. You can make them if you have to. I mean, give me some bar stock and a grinder. and I can make a beast sword or be beast blade that will start the job. An automotive leaf spring. Oh yeah, well the Philippines, you just perked the years of every Filipino's listening. Automotive, I know how to do that. And they do, I mean guys, that's steel. See, it doesn't have to be the latest, you know, high chrome or you know, either magnetic or non-magnetic stainless. Carbon steel just requires maintenance. And like the caller was asking about sharpening, then you have to treat your knife like you do your rifle. Wait a minute. You have to treat your knife exactly the same way you have to treat your M16. You have to clean it. You've got to keep it oiled. You better. See, stainless blades have allowed us to be a little lazy. Not much, but a little. You still got to clean it off and check it every once in a while. And usually you don't let anything get on it. So we'll have chrome boards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they all have that chrome bore. It's all the way through, stainless. With the carbon blades, the only thing to remember, it's like park rising. Park rising was designed. The phosphate finish was to reduce the surfaces exposure to oxygen, the metal, the carbon steel, and to prevent it from breaking down on you and becoming nothing but flaky pieces of iron trying to go back to nature. That's the only thing that's a consideration You've got to take care of your blades and you can't ignore them when they're sitting on the shelf if they're if you're using carbon steel So I just just reminder now some steals will take a certain amount of abuse better than others and that's a matter of composition and again up and down the spectrum with how steel was built But you're still it's it's a shame to let a good blade go to waste So you don't need to keep an eye on them. You need to trim them The other thing is to do a little brush up maintenance on them too because dirt collects moisture. Moisture means rust. Always remember that. And it's like everything else in your battery or weapons system. It's designed to keep you alive. Now there are some really cool little blade combinations that are at Bud-K in their traditional Bowie section. They've got a couple of knives that are subdued but also again full shaft. One of the most important things is some kind of hilt. Now I know they're streamlined. Northern European like with the Finns and the Norwegians and the Swedes, what we call a fishing knife, they call a fighting knife. And most sailors do. They're a seafaring population and of course in a unique condition. But blade designs suit certain needs with regard to, for instance, streamlining because if in the old days you were carrying a particular type of blade, you don't want anything to snag or catch. Typically, you were doing rigging. You were working rope. That knife was a working tool to keep the ship alive. You knew how to braid, you knew how to bond, you knew how to splice, and you knew how to knot. If some piece of rope wasn't working right for you or something was failing, you knew how to fix it. The blade was part of that toolkit and it was always carried on your person. That's why you'll see that the ocean going blades typically are a clean line. They don't really have a hilt to protect, basically a knuckle protector, guys. If in the really cool movies you play fencing with a knife, you ever thought what happens if that blade rakes across your blade and gets down to where the soft, chewy stuff is? You might only be able to count to nine and a half. Yeah, exactly. That's why you'll notice on the rapiers and many of the other fans during the one you see on the The musketeers you'll notice that those basket hilts became very popular Oh, yeah, and there's a reason something Don just mentioned a man without fingers or a hand Can't fight with a sword. That's right So there's a lot of people learn that we all learn to you know as a policy and I have to agree with this You don't worry about stabbing them up front start taking digits off and or take the hand off That way and with no hands cannot fight you with a knife mark that the strategy here. Let's let's example this Because you 50 caliber gunners know what we're talking about, but maybe you don't realize it You're trying to keep your enemy at the greatest distance possible so that he can do the least amount of harm to you. And you bleed him to death. If I touch the top of his hand with my blade and rake that blade from the base of his thumb to the top of his knuckle of his little finger, he will drop his knife. He will drop his knife. He will have no physical ability to hold onto that. You've cut the pips and the dips. and he is no longer in the fight with that hand. Remember anatomy guys. It's a good idea to study anatomy. Remember especially if you think you're going to go into close order combat or if you're going to place a bullet on a target. Like I said, somebody that's got two legs if all of a sudden one like Bambi when you're in deer season this last few weeks. Remember when you shot Bambi what it looked like when you were done with that 0.6 170 grain hollow point round you hit him with? or that soft point Winchester bullet you just lobbed into him. Didn't look too good, did it? Well, with knife fighting think the same way. Again, the idea is to incapacitate and bleed out, with the very least incapacitate and keep the aggressor at range until such time as you can close with a better cut. And that's one of the things to remember. That's why, see, Hollywood is showing you one way. Reality is another and there's a reason that they teach bad technique to everybody with and reinforce it with movies Consider that it's like we've talked about with the homie shoot. You know what I mean? Yo, I'm gonna put my pistol on the side of mama blaze Well, you'll be blazing in a minute, you know, hold still it's gonna hurt a lot. Bop bop bop bop. Well, hey, man Why do you even waste three rounds? Bop bop. There we go Be still twitching then put a third round and you got more targets out there And what's this hot stuff falling in my t-shirt? Yeah Again, the common sense here, a lot of the work that we're doing right now, and we've gone from long range rifles, this is what's interesting, just in our one conversation. 50 caliber rifle is my first choice. I'm going to be quite honest, I want to hit them so far out and I'll shoot them from behind. I don't want them to see what's coming. I want them to be totally stunned and amazed and not even give warning to anybody. And by the time the first one's hit, I'm already shooting the second one and the ours. See how that works? At maximum range. Now, with each weapon system that I have, I have to understand how to use it best for the sake of survivability. And that's how you need to be thinking with every weapon you've got, with your handgun. It's like I just said, I know everybody talks about three round hits. Well, my .45 was built because we decided that why don't we try one round hits? In other words, Filling a guy full of 38 caliber automatic cartridges and that's what we were using. 38 auto. Didn't do a whole lot of good. It just kept you busy. But the guy still closed and had enough energy left to kill you. So they looked at and evaluated the idea of making something bigger and rounder with not so much velocity but the ability to deliver the energy on the target. And that's where the 45 came from. Now then from this point forward everybody's tried to figure out how they can make it well it does leave you can get much more more but uh... the reason i argue standard ball simply because forty five round was designed to do exactly what everybody else is trying to mimic with you know expanding smaller cartridges you should be able to hit it and it should it should be of course you know again respond hit respond hit response you what you use fire if you see a crumple you've done your job if it starts to get back up put another bullet in it But don't spray seven rounds into the target, not when you especially like the situations we're describing now. Multiple threats? Yeah, you better to put seven rounds into seven targets. Hurt them all, make them all wonder am I still in the fight and in that instant you can escape with all. And or pack up and start reloading and still put more holes in them. Yep. Remember once you and again groin, groin, groin, groin. Now, one of these attacks has been anything where you've seen stormtroopers with shock armor. It's knuckle dragging you bangies with low IQs. Okay? And what's the one thing they consider really important in their life? Well, if they could catch you, they will rape you. Oh, so groin, groin, groin. When it becomes obvious that this is the world and how it works, Then it's another part of the if you can't make them think because you know through a classroom Well, the school of hard knocks will create a great deal of shall we say key education groin groin groin the other thing Motor function. I don't care. What kind of a knuckle dragger they are you blow out the hip you blow out veins you blow out their crotch their dingleberries are hanging on hanging by a thread and they're the hip bone is shattered and That 45 round ball round will do a fine job of that. Like a sledgehammer. Yes, and not only that deliver to what are really sensory centers, while that is a pleasure center, it then also becomes a pain center. That's what you have to inflict, as much pain. If that man had had any kind of other weapon, the guy that saved his wife, okay, there were six characters at least with hammers. Well, 45 beats Hammer. You know what I mean? Think about it. 45 beats Hammer. And it's the old story. Now let's ask that basic question that everybody's been talking about for years. I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Right? Well, this guy was a nice person and a pizza person and he got carried by 6, didn't he? Now he did a good deed. He stepped in to save his wife. Which were obligated that's what it works guys don't have to ask to think twice about it, but Thinking is a warrior especially since you're in a different class of people if you're listening to us You need to think right away about the idea if you're gonna wait in hurt them Even if you if you had to wait in to protect your wife like that you got to come at them Somebody's gonna get cut somebody gets stuck right off the bat Worst possible bloodiest, nastiest damage you can do if you had to do it with a hand-to-hand device of some kind. Why? Shock trauma to the enemy. They're thinking that it's going to be very one-sided. You're going to start generating casualties. And if all you could do is jump on one and rip his nose off with your teeth, like I said at the beginning of the program here, that's what you do. Why well that blood gushing from the nose and you with a wild face spitting his nose into somebody else's face and going at the next one You probably get a hammer out of the first attack by the way if you do yeah And one or two of them are gonna be in almost you know eyes gawking look what he just did the Lucius Yeah, that's the one you hit next because his defenses are completely down his shields are shut off pop pop you nasty grump monk monk right on the beener One funk and onto the next because that's enough to get the business going The shock strike in that way is, and again, the guy jumped in front of his wife and took the blows. Well, I don't know the scenario, and again, it's one of those last-minute things. You've got to be thinking, you grab anything. If all you could grab was a glass coffee cup sitting on the dash, that's better than going in bare-handed. You smack that into somebody hang on to that little ring if it's still holding up now There's a gaugy slashy piece of ceramics still in your hand. Maybe you might even be cut a little bit But you know what I can still take that stick that in somebody's face while I got my elbow around his head And I'll grind that into his face and his lips and his eyes you drag that across the jaw and down into the top of the throat Oh boy wonders just think about it the idea behind is let him go and let everybody see it. Whoa Good there. We go. That's a good start Now the other thing is this is the ladies that are listening. I'm going to tell you right now. This is not a movie if somebody's fighting everybody fights If you're if your back is to the wall Everybody fights you don't if you want to scream scream and a battle cry Do exactly the same thing anything you've got in that purse keys anything now claws? I don't care what it is, but you fight for your life I know it hurts. That's why, again, if the husband stepped in like that, hopefully the woman was able to get away. Maybe she thought, okay, we're going to get away. Well, he didn't get away. If that happened, that's acceptable. If there was a way to get back out of it or get off of the battlefield like Dom said, break contact and withdraw. You try to do that, but if you're stuck with your back to the wall you better start muscling up real quick You got to decide life or death fight or flight flight's done fight begins. Yep And that's one of the things that's hardest to get people to do our military had to do movies on this guys how to fight and Pointing out that when you're in a brawl there isn't any fair you're fighting for your life. What's your life worth? You see that's the part or your wife's law in this case. He was willing he obviously was willing to sacrifice his life for his you know the woman he loves Demonstrating you know again what a lot of people couldn't pile you know some people just couldn't possibly do but instead of becoming a casually it's how can I wait into this battle and be a victor and That's where what the other part about this I has big problem everybody's been a cast rated emasculated male for a long time with regard to even carrying knives in this country and that's the problem and So a bunch of fools show up with hammers and all of a sudden you're at a total disadvantage. Not even a pocket knife. Not even, yeah. And I've watched, I've talked a lot about it. Let alone a fighting boulder.