Not a Martian in them, see? But men. Men who've learned the way how. May even be in our time. Gee, imagine having one of them lovely things with the tea tray wide and free. We turn it on Martians, we turn it on men. We bring everybody down on their knees. That's your plan. You, me, you morons. We don't know world. I see. Hey, hey, what's the matter? What's going on? Not to your world, stranger. After parting with the artilleryman, I came at last to the Holland Tunnel, entered that silent tube, anxious to know the fate of the great city on the other side of the Hudson. Cautiously, I came out of the tunnel and made my way up Canal Street. I reached 14th Street, and there again were black powder and several bodies and an evil, ominous smell from the grating of the cellars of some of the houses. I warmed it up through the 30s and 40s, stood alone on Times Square. We have a lean dog running down 7th Avenue with a piece of dark brown meat in his jaws and a pack of starving mongrels as he was. Made a wide circle around me as though he feared I might prove a fresh competitor. Walked up Broadway in the direction of that strange powder, that silent shop windows displaying their mute wares to empty sidewalks. The Capitol Theater, silent, dark. That's the shooting gallery where a row of empty guns faces an arrested line of wooden ducks. near Columbus Circle. I noticed models of 1939 motor cars in the showrooms facing empty streets. At the top of the General Motors building, I watched a flock of black birds circling in the sky. Suddenly, I caught sight of the hood of a Martian machine, standing somewhere in Central Park, bleeding in the late afternoon sun. An insane idea. I rushed recklessly across Columbus Circle and into the park. I climbed a small hill above the pond at 60th Street. From there I could see standing in a silent row along the mall, nineteen of those great metal titans, their cowls empty, their steel arms hanging listlessly by their sides, tucked in vain for the monsters that inhabit those machines. Suddenly my eyes were attracted to the immense flock of blackbirds that hover directly below me. They circled to the ground, and there before my eyes, stark and silent, They were the Martians with the hungry birds pecking and tearing brown shreds of flesh. And they're dead bodies. Later, when their bodies were examined in laboratories, it was found that they were killed by the putrefactive and diseased bacteria against which their systems were unprepared. Plain after all, man's defenses had failed by the humblest thing that God has wisdom put upon this earth. Before the cylinder fell, there was... general persuasion that through all the deep space, whole life existed beyond the petty surface of our minute sphere. Now we see further. Him and wonderful is the vision I've conjured up in my mind of life spreading slowly from this little seedbed of the solar system throughout the inanimate vastness of sidereal space. A remote dream. Maybe, maybe that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve. To them and not to us, the future ordained breath. Strange it now seems to sit in my peaceful study, Princeton, writing down this last chapter of the record. We garnered a deserted farm and grove as new. Strange to watch children playing in the streets. Strange to see young people strolling on the green weather new spring grass, yields the last black scars of a bruiser. Strange to watch the sightseers Enter the museum where the dissembled parts of a Martian machine are kept on public view. Strange when I recall the time when I first saw it. Bright and clean cut under the dawn of that last great day. This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen. Out of character to assure you that the War of the Worlds has no further significance than of the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying boo. Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween. Tonight the Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations Coast to Coast has brought you the War of the World by H.G. Wells. The 17th in its weekly series of dramatic broadcasts featuring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air. Next week we present a dramatization of three famous short stories. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Preserve our great republic and eat God-given right. And pray to God, as I will keep vanished and the misfortunes came. His words were true, they're not free. We have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the fan to the free Mark Kornke. All of our brothers and territories west central southeast and south. Listening to us on comindianafreedomtalkradio.com and we're on AM and FM micro stations, CB Bay stations, along with Alaska. Later in the day, wanted to rain earlier, didn't do it all day until about, oh maybe 3 o'clock, 3.30ish and then finally got a little spittering and it stopped again like it wants to but it's just sure. So flick on the road if we just get a little bit of rain those oils up and that makes for exciting stopping on the intersections where all those cars have sat and dripped. Oh it's slippery there guys. Jumping off the wall. What's happening? I'm here next to the woods please. Hey it is the 23rd day of March. You're of our lord 2016 and well we've got it. a couple inches of snow on the ground here, Mark. It's sticking to the sides of the trees because the winter wind is blowing it semi-horizontally across the landscape. I know that's not a good phrase to put together, but it is the 23rd day of March 2016. A wonderful, wonderful day if you enjoy the snow. We've talked about the advantages and disadvantages advantage of that natural wonder, that particular day of the week, that strike down the middle of the week on a paper calendar. So with P11 in one hand with an empty magazine well and a full magazine in the other hand, we're going to insert the magazine and the magazine well, touch that slide release and we can tell you there's a One in the chamber now. We can death-sock. Condition one gun. That's a hot gun, but I can prove to you it's mine. But we can also tell you it is weapons Wednesday. The perimeter needs some attention, and as I top off this magazine, we'll tell you that there's plenty more where that came from. Oh, equal opportunity course. It forced Ebbe, of course, with practice, practice, practice. His proficiency, continue to dump the rounds on target repeatedly with, uh, abandoned and reliably placed rounds, of course, the solution to most of your problems. In other words, accuracy over volume fire. Hit it once, you don't have to shoot it seven more times. Got a magazine left that way. Another thing to underscore it. Well don't you want to find- No, no, he's over there screaming where I can't hear him. It's okay. I'd like you to, I'd like to keep it that way. You can stay over there. But I'm gonna go after some more of his buddies, because they just haven't heard a message yet. Help him. Real quick is, weapons Wednesday discussing with the mold.com and creating a striated camouflage. in purely through the whole body of the receiver, which is really neat. Camouflage effect that you see when it first came out was not in black. It was actually in camouflage. Oh, there were three. OD green black in camouflage. The black came out technically, it was parallel with the grid both at the same time. It's like there was nylon 66. They offered it in the earth brown and the you know, the diamond black. Then they did the camouflage in that same kind of camel that they used on the AR7. And we threw the design and you know the colors splash out at different points and it creates a good disruptive pattern. It's not really predictable, which is neat. That's what you want in a camouflage. You don't want like a repetitive pattern over and over again. That becomes a pattern unto itself. If you can break that up and you make it totally inane, no it's not pleasing to the eye. It's natural slash the dice fall. That's really what you want from a camouflage whenever possible. Does not need to be pretty, it just needs to be functional in the field. Okay? Mold questions about that. As far as I know they're only doing in 223 right now. But I could be wrong, they actually showing on the boxes, I mean actually showing on the calibers, you know, sizes that, you know, packaging is already prepped for it but apparently they're not on production yet for the their model. So as soon as we get information on that then the will be building those too, but so far I've seen three camouflage variants all of them more in the sign flash range, but half the battle, guys. The interesting thing about that is even right now we're gonna start going back in the other direction with colors here in Michigan and the Alpine Flauge will work exceptionally well during that cycle, during this upcoming, you know, early to middle spring cycle. The reason you get a lot of unique coloring, plus you've got all the greens in there, the lush greens or like shall we say stab you in the eye greens, up to your ability to focus on objects. Most people don't realize that it is the extreme light dark element camouflages that act them work so well because you have to be selective what you first need is a focus on. After your mind settles on that the problem is that there's another dominant alternate color so rather than the pluses of warm fuzzy compatibility your mind has to register initially one or the other, one or the other. But whichever way you go, up in such a way that it does not produce a silhouette or a signature that immediately draws attention. The real confusing thing, Mark, is if your mind tries to melt them both together, it just shows depth. Mm-hmm. Interestingly, one of the other ambush, of course I've always mentioned uniform, you know, an uniform, which is the old airborne uniform the checks had, and it was not an office uniform. We go, what the hell? Well, literally, on me or walk right up to us without having a realization because they can't orient it doesn't, I didn't believe that uniform work he goes until the first time you walked into the, you know, towards the tree line off the road and you were 15 feet away and I turned to say something to somebody else and turned back and couldn't find him. Same is true with Sergeant Ellsworth and the only thing you could find with him was the beret that he was wearing because he was wearing a black beret. Took time to find the beret and once you found the beret you could go, oh, there's a human underneath that, under the bottle cap. What did they find? Well, only enough I could take 40, 50, up to 100 men and put squad formations. I usually did this when I was larger formations and tried to help them understand camouflage does work. Most important is, again, your concept, you know, a close perception as opposed to motion. And the check airborne camo was especially good at creating visual disruption in motion. That's something that really bothered people because initially at a distance, usually anywhere from half a mile to a third of a mile out, they knew that they could see something moving. And this is putting 10 men in column and putting a whole platoon in one area and a whole platoon in another, each one moving in traditional tactical column. Some in the tree line intentionally, you know, I would freeze them. I'd give them a radio signal while I'm talking to the class. And I would have the, I would be situated so that the rest of the order of the field, the battlefield, was behind me. So the class was looking at me. Now what happened is, the distraction, because, Don, you know how that is, you're trying to listen, but wait a minute, something over there. The problem is, you could, I'm watching the expressions on their face. I'm the audience, guys. And as I'm explaining the use of the different technologies and the camouflage and how things work, how these systems work, being towards us, actually moving towards a position. And eventually, first there's this like, complaining that there is motion. Then there was this like, you couldn't figure out what they were looking at. You could see that they're trying to like, then they change, they only change their perspective, turn their head and look back, looking back, now you know the head. And then you follow, you light, dark contrast. concept. Now another uniform that works really well, although it is kind of pleasing, is the BGS border guard uniform from the Cold War. The BGS, you know, in Dosekin, Medium Green and Russet are not in the normal configuration you'd expect, similar to some of the camouflages that were used by the, you know, Germans in World War II, but it was a free-lodge on its own, and it works exceptionally well. Problem? It's unique. There aren't a whole lot of people making it. One or two of the airsoft companies and air paintball companies were making the camouflage for a bit, but I've not seen it actually restocked. I don't know if there's anybody with it on the shelf, but if I can find it, I would grab it. Playing more on that a bit, but just the idea again, that's another contrasting uniform, but it's in actually what are very workable colors for all our uniform, and the Germans have some very unique powder. Does it have to be outside in the woods and under the oxides, yeah? Yeah. Unique to come out more recently, real tree type designs work. My biggest problem is that they put them, and that's actually designed to defeat the camouflage against people. That's what that's about. Everybody understands that's why they put that, well, they don't want your trademark, Martin. No, it has to do with them being able to put a man-made object into what otherwise is an absolute ambush camouflage. You know, like real oak, real tree. All of those, they do work exceptionally well. So well that they had to put a telltale in them. Pay attention to it. Now you can eliminate that to a degree. And by the way, Mr. Colored Sharpie Magic Markers are your friend. You don't want to put a big black mark there, guys. What you do is you take the different image that you have there and turn it into something like the other parts of the camouflage and make note. You made that all disappear, which is a happy thing. Happy, happy, happy. And Sharpie is So you can do some interesting flaring and painting yourself. Just a heads up, it's a solution but it's also something you should think about. Remember, everybody's using optics nowadays wherever they can. Don't you think somebody is, if they're told to look for, and they have been, you're looking for something like that? That would be the telltale. something you suspect, you start looking, you scan in, you, oh, well I don't know, nature doesn't spell out cabelas very often, but I guess maybe they do. Maybe there's a cabela tree out here somewhere. A thousand monkeys and a typewriter in a hundred years, yes. Yeah, exactly. So just again, with operations especially, because we're switching into, we're going into green again. We'll have some green, we certainly have pine trees, but we have more of the greys, the gray browns, the russets, the savannah tans, let's say the Snow White which is leaving. So the process here is the evolution back into the green patterns. There's a lot of different digital that's out there that has been made overseas that actually works quite well here. You got to be careful with some of it is that remember the bad guys will be wearing it. Make sure that you have it with regard to equipment wherever possible. You know, friendly and unfriendly fire are pretty much the same. And you know, friendly fire is There is no such thing as friendly fire, if it's pointed at you. Well, I got a couple things I'd like to touch on, and you mentioned optics. And you guys, we offer night vision digital and green screen and thermal and, you know, the digital stuff. Man, you can do some pretty cool things with that. You can use your computer and the newer stuff is going to be able to range and you can change parameters with your computer and, well, the newer stuff will have GPS in it and you can turn it off with your computer and all kinds of things. You know, you can turn off the GPS and oh, the new Thors will have GPS in a compass and they'll be able to range. Someone just began, we were talking about the ability that the Thor has in some areas like ranging, built right in and a while ago there was a $5,000 or $7,000 function in scopes up in that range. And this person also brought up the, there's another scope out there on the find us on the internet you guys. It's the tracking point. Feel cool, Sculptman. It's for you and we've talked about ability to you determine your opponent's speed if you have like a compass and you can range and figure out that triangle by figuring out the other portion and how far did he go in that time frame and determine his speed. That's a cool thing. But sometimes you can't do that before the target is out of your field of view, you know. Guess what? That's such a cool device thing in the reticle. When you touch a button and button again and it'll give you that first shot hit. That's way cool. This is really neat. It has the ability to go over to night vision also. If you buy it from the guy, he'll tell you the gun to go underneath it. That's really cool. And off with the computer too. And you can turn his island off from a good long ways away. and he gave the ability so the cop turned his device on and off from a real long, far away, we're commenting on this on the internet. It's a brand new device, you guys, the tracking point. It has some real cool things, like again, you know, the ability to hit something moving at a good distance with the first shot. It can figure faster than many people's brains can. Cops have also figured that, well, I guess, know what they did to this guy or what this guy was thinking, Mark, when he figured that, well, I'll just let the cops know that if you want, you can turn my stuff off. You can turn the gun off and you can turn the, you can turn the gun off and the cops can turn the optics off. But it's a real wonderful deal for a thousand dollars, Mark. And, you know, I don't, this isn't the comic hour right now. This is, this is a real device, you guys. We've addressed this in a number of ways. Can you say, you know, smart gun? You really want to do it that way? No, there's a... What would you put there? Like a... strategy, huh? Just let the cops shut your gun off. And then shut the optics off too. I feel safer already. Now, we've talked about batteries and we've talked about the need for batteries. Hey you guys, I offer night vision and every piece of night vision needs a battery and I'm not downplaying batteries and whatnot. just as an example. The company I sourced all of my green screen from and now my thermal from, they've got a digital spotting scope coming up to 40 or 60 power or something. And I guess it's supposed to be able to range for you and all kinds of things. And before the digital stuff isn't gonna work into the real low light that even first generation used to. And then you're gonna wanna turn on the illuminator on your first gen. Well, the digital, you're gonna wanna turn it on even before that. If you are stuck, take that daylight, a good one, it'll gather light right down into real low light until well you're, it'll gather more light than your eyes. It's gonna gather a lot of light. You turn it down to its lowest magnification so a lot of that light comes through the ocular side and you can look around into the dark beyond your natural eyes ability. Not much longer, but longer into the dark. Or see sooner, that with a good, you can do that with a good quality glass. You can do that with a good rifle scope too or a good pair of binoculars. See beyond your natural into low light, not into complete darkness because of the big front lenses that gather all of that light. Now, it used to be, but when you look at the digital scope, it's what I would call, well, you can range with it and to estimate range. and we've urged you to learn to use the ranging devices you have now, like either laser or optical, line up the images, or, you know, pace it off to do all these things now and to become very familiar with them. The point that you call out a range, it might be different, the difference, cutting it down the middle, and that's your range from the team, and then you range with your laser or range with your optical device to confirm. And by the time you've been doing this for a while, well, it gets to the point where you'll call a range and your spotter will call a range. And they might almost be the same thing as you've been doing it for a while. Because, well, there's other people out there doing it right now. You might not want to put that laser in the air, but because you've been doing it for a while, you're confident in that range is 940 yards. Now, I'd tell you, if you're shooting at something the size of a torso, the size of head and shoulders, because that's all that's above the vehicle or that's all that's above the parapet. And you have that range set for 940 yards on your 50, well, 1,000 yards and you shoot at that 940 yards, you just lower the gun ever so slightly and bring that 1,000 yard range and you're gonna miss that 940 yard target. Thank you little small target. This over and over ranging is important. Change for you unless you're using that device in the aforementioned way. You and your spotter, they look at a target and you say that's 620, 630 yards, I'll stand on that. He says it's 650. And then you get out the laser and it comes to 637, which is good. You know, you're both, that's both, as if you used either range, you'd have probably hit the target at the point where you're calling ranges and you're confirming it with your laser or with your visual lineup, you know, lineup, the image's device. You want to get to that point where you don't have to fall back on that device. You use that device as a crutch, as a bridge. You get to a better place with that. Well, how does that go Mark? That most powerful battlefield computer on a planet, that gray matter between your ears. Because well, when the battery's gone, Rangefinder isn't going to help you, is it? Many different ways, but you can do this with a whole bunch of other things that aren't necessarily, you know, just generally, uh, it leans over to or that particular little action. You don't want to, in the middle of, we're going to deploy over to there. You don't want to just run right into a place and start throwing lasers around. Lasers work like tracers, don't they? If someone else is, and we've talked about this even in the daylight, it would be good to, if things, people that can overwatch, it would be good to have them even pan a piece of first generation across the battlefield. Because, well, that first generation infrared laser, the human eye won't see. I talked about that too. You can get away, if you can get a device that you won't need batteries for, that's all the better. If you have a gun sight, a lit, redic vision, well, here's one thing to do. The gun, the scope, and bag. You know, so they can make sure the bolt is open and there's nothing in the chamber and you're looking right at the, you know, the scope. center of the target at 100 yards and you've got your lit reticle turned on and it's getting darker and darker and when it gets dark, man, you can still see that because it's good glass. And it's just not dark enough. You can't hardly see the target but you can still see it with your scope. And you bring the crosshair onto the center of the target and you confirm. and you confirm that there's nothing in the chamber and that, well, the bolt is open and you and your buddy with the night vision, you walk down to that hundred yards and you look back at that scope and you see that dot of a lit reticle. If it's because you're looking right through that scope, because light goes right through that scope, it's not like a night vision. This is why you'll see a number of Russian sniper scopes now that have a green reticle, because the green is almost invisible on a green screen. It hardly shows up at all. shows up like a dinky little campfire way over there. It brought this thought line to the hour before. You guys, gun sites like the Trigicon and others, you can set a night vision behind, same point there. For a reason, they have a night vision setting, and that is almost that when that's turned on, it's almost invisible to the human eye, that dinky little red glow, but it looks pretty good to the piece of night vision. before. But I would say before we move away from this subject, if you go over to the website, you'll see digital, you'll see green screen, you'll see thermal, and the thermal will be available here soon. It's being built to the extent that they don't want to just put it in 10 people's hands and then 3 people's and 7 people's. They'll satisfy a whole bunch of orders that date. While we're seeing this site on the internet and we're seeing the new thermal the thors on the internet well they've been sent out to a particular small group of people for that last bit of testing to find out any bugs that we overlooked maybe they'll be found in the field for why doesn't it do this or could it do that so that's what's going on now and that's why you're seeing some of the new devices on the internet and it's not like they haven't done that before if you go back many many years and you've been listening I when fourth generation first became available to the public you guys I was telling you about they They, my company source, sent me a fourth generation gun sight and we shot the snot out of that on top of a 50 until it, well, the action of the posing, the turret area that housed the night vision tube, until we rattled those screws loose. It was probably 2003 or 2004 right in there. I'd have to go back to my notes, but the company has sent us stuff. Right now the X-Sight, you're seeing them on the video out on the YouTube or whatever, those are devices that have been sent out to and you know other people in your mailbox soon. Now the Thor is the same way. The Thor is back ordered right now but the Thor will be coming online very quickly. If you're looking for a thermal gun sight you guys we've talked about this. A thermal gun sight for people talk about hey can you get me one of those it'll it'll hang on your head gear and it'll hang on your helmet it'll also go on the top of your your rifle behind that aforementioned ACOG or Trigicon. In second generation you guys that piece is right around 1998 or something like that. Just short of $2,000. 1995 or 1989 or something like that. Just short of $2,000. Group in that same box of, you know, as the money wise, got a thermal gun sight that will recognize a human at 340 meters, like 370 yards. Oh, that is a human being there. It'll still show you a horizon, you'll still see things beyond that, but they won't have the definition and they won't have a lot of heat detected in them. But again, if you want to move up there, write your mailbox for a dollar less than $2,000. See farther, we can go with bigger front lenses, we can go with a larger screen. Reach out to a human being and recognize, not that's Frank, but you know that that's a human being. 1,800 meters, that's just a jump three or four times away from for something that biddles 50 you guys, there's a pretty good option, right? That runs out with what is the current military shoulder fired weapons, like I believe they call it, and that's 1,800 meters, 1,800 meters of human recognition. I might be wrong about that remembrance there. It outperforms that raptor that I used to offer on the air mark for like 15K. Well, that's what it sold for, full price, and I'd offer it on the air for 11. I can understand why I never sold one, but we've got something that will perform in that for the mid fives now. If you're looking for thermal or if you're looking for entry level, the digital stuff or anything in between, give me a call. My number is 231-796. Something I'd like to point out, you guys. The cone heads came from there. That's right, if you're old enough to remember that. They're from France. France were shot up with automatic weapons. You know, the other sites that were shot up, they weren't shot up with just, you know, your average semi-auto. They were shot up with machine guns. You know, that, well, France has some of the most, what one might call, draconian gun laws in the world. Like Britain or, you know, we really don't want you to own a gun, and if you do, you're going to have to keep it. the gun club and you can't remove it from there and you can only hunt in this country if you're qualified to put the index finger under the tip of your nose and elevate it about an inch and a half. Talked about this. You know, it matters not, the semi-auto or a machine gun, if you're in a, and this exemplifies that. And I'm a little side bar there, even more and more they're calling any slide gun, autumn gun now, Mark. But in the semi-auto or if it's want to do such harm you're going to break the law. You might as well bring a machine gun in anyway. See how that works? And that's what they did. No one sitting at the bistro there or no one sitting in the open air cafe, no one sitting there standing outside of the soccer arena had any ability to respond or defend themselves. Because again, you know, you don't want to own a gun in France. If you own a gun in France, you are breaking gay law and we will send someone out to arrest you like we will for the terrorist. citizen and we know how to treat you. And then you go to Belgium and you hang out for three months. Yeah. Well, they don't trust anything. They're actually spewing out of their faces. But if we go by their story, it's like, hey, just go over to Brussels and some crackers. Hey, dude, no one's gonna bother you. You got plenty of help there. Brussels for employees. So who'd have thunk that? That has been a market, international market for centuries, far before diamonds. At any rate, you guys, to point out the fact open for anything, be it or other your buddies or your friends you know like the East or whatnot the Hercules New York I'm told mark it's just you can almost trip over them now what are you guys doing oh we're here to protect you and then shoot me while I'm reaching for my wallet okay then I'm told the Hercules teams you know the terror response teams that are pre-deployed how can they be response pre-deployed mark response teams known as Hercules standing around New York most most how does that go Oh, that's a CCR song, Down On The Corner. They're not from New York. I did invoke them anyway, Mark. Any special maintenance we should be looking at with a thermal if we could have one from you? Stand out in a lightning storm. As long as you don't get struck by lightning, it's proof. In the night vision world, it's hard to get in the ox world to call something waterproof is to really put your neck on the block. People will say this is water resistant to 10 meters. There are a number of devices like that. That's what, 33 feet? There are sun sites that are water resistant to 50 meters. Getting close to the bokeh sport diver, someone breathing air. It's water resistant. They're not telling you. It's waterproof and we're, you know, like, well... If you're looking at maintenance, you want to keep it clean, you don't want to, you know, crud and, you know, blood, mud and gore to be, you know, collecting into control knobs or around the control button surfaces. You just get it just like a regular piece of day optics when you come to glass. You can rinse the glass off with water if need be, if it's just as, you know, if you pick it up out of a blowpipe and want it. Then when you remove the big stuff, you're going to want to treat that lens just like you would a daylight lens with a lens cloth. You've got it. No, and I hate to say that out loud, but you know, every device, and this is funny to me, Mark, because every device I sell that's a gun sight, they include the little black lens cloth in a plastic bag to protect it. But how long does that, how long does it take before that lens cloth picks up something that... Another hint, you guys, when you reach into that aperture, that opening of your daylight, or your night vision. You know how you wash a DVD disc if you've ever had, you don't wipe it back and forth in a linear, in any sort of straight line. You wipe that disc around the radius, you know, you'd like start in the center and just turn the cloth or whatever. That's how you want to wipe a lens also. You don't want to create straight lines across it. If you have a dinky little swirl in the lens, that's better than a hard straight line. But again, this goes back to the cleanest t-shirt we've got. Now, to avoid having to wipe the lens, a number of devices will have show covers. PVS7s and some other gun sites have little caps you can put over the lens that, well, even if you're out in the cold and man, you turn just right and breathe just right at the same time and all that breath up onto the inside, the ocular lenses, and they just fog right up. Well, you'd rather wipe those sacrificial lenses throughout the night, wipe them off and wipe them off, then wipe your lenses on your ocular side one time. See how that works? It's better to scrub on the sacrificial stuff, the covers, the protective covers, if you've still got them. But this leads over to something else we've done. This works in the daylight, in the cold. And it works at night because generally at night things cool down maybe to the extent that man your breath might fog up that lens. It's going to work, you know, in the winter time if you're deploying night vision too. You know when you lean onto that gun and you pull the gun up to your shoulder or you wiggle up to that gun and you it's like Ralph Crampton going to address the ball. When you start to say hello gun and you bring your cheek to that and you try to find that little cone of light that's a daylight scope and you get your pupil to right there or you get behind that night vision scope and the wind changes and you're breathing out and man that whole, that back lens just went to foggy. We've addressed this in a number of different ways. That's breath control unto itself, not breath control like I'm gonna take a breath in and I'm gonna just let half of it out real slow and about the time I get to head I'm gonna register right there and now I'm starting to squeeze. the trigger and I'm trying to tween heartbeats. I haven't done it yet but I'm still trying but you know. Control for your optics is a whole other venue of a different animal all unto itself because that could be your binoculars. Be a monocular. Just a telescope in the daytime. Spotting scope. And you know we've talked about mow wipe off that spotting. Wipe off your goggles or stop and wipe off that daylight motion, that waving of the hand, that motion of the elbow to bring everything up to there. Let's put it like this. You hope nobody else is looking right at you or right in your direction when you start doing things like that because as Mark talked in the front of the hour about camouflage, motion and shape. The bird that flies into frame when you're walking through the country or the leaf that rattles across the ground, your eye naturally moves, doesn't it? It's almost Subconsciously you can't even control it your eye moves naturally to it doesn't it? It's a self-defense thing It's a real good thing your great great great granddaddy's did it because well again It's a self-defense thing you might not be here if they did not do that all of a sudden just fog up that lens Bring something up to it to clean it well You're not practicing that good bro. Are you control when you're up to the gun is more than just I'm gonna You know just have that half half of a breath in me and that's just going to stay there until the round goes down range. Another thing, and now that's the single shot, the smallest group, years ago about 2005 or so, the McMurdle shot what might still be the record group. So that went out in less than 40 seconds, five rounds from a bolt gun, less than 40 seconds. And you know what is the real wonder to me? that five shots in less than 40 seconds isn't unremarkable. They've been in such a dinky little group at a thousand yards. Well, that's a record. That's a remarkable thing unto itself, but they could have all been into pie plates at a thousand yards and been in half of that time. But you know the other thing that's amazing about that mark is that target had to go down. That guy had to mark that target. That guy had to put that target back up. Lyn had to take aim at that target as it came up the target and squeeze a trigger. And the whole process had to start over again. Lyn had no doubt had gone rebolted and the gun poised at the target coming up rising before the target had been marked. Run back up and you know when you're shooting dinky little groups like that, that guy marking the target, he caught, I don't remember what it's called when you put a patch on a target. on a patch already but you call that out that goes out on the PA so people know that that guy over there he's shooting pretty good and the shooter knows it too. You think oh why what's that about? He's verbally informed about it at the 50 caliber shoots so again you know there's a whole bunch of different angles to most everything we do isn't there? You guys we could run on in so many different ways but we are towards the top here in a little bit. I would remind everybody about, initially, is once you're in the groove, there are days where you just know you're going to hit. You just know that everything's perfect. Full story, you can feel it in the air. That sounds strange, but it's true. One of the things about this shooter gets into a cyclic process, basically, like with pill. It's ready on the left, ready on the right, ready on the firing line. Fires mark your lanes. That cadence, the target of you within that into the process, you know, breathing, muscle sets, skeletal set, in preparation for releasing the trigger, putting bullets down range. And there's a knock there, there's a notch, completely perfect in everything, and set all five rounds on top of each other in a six ring. Absolutely set, give a degree, and the nicest group of five you'll ever see on the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay, boom, but thank you, there's the control of the process with regard to the adrenaline rush and the, you know, the controlling of the body. Actually, there's not so much an adrenaline rush in this situation, but controlling even that aspect of your body's anticipation of the action, handling all of that energy. The rifleman, in his case, is rising. He is attentive to the point of impact. In the moment that the gun settles, he's hitting the site and it's going down. Here's the thing, at a thousand travel time, 2750 feet per second. That travel time is about 1.45, 1.47. Score, the target is reset. The target is withdrawn. You see how that works? Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. And it's a repetitive hit of that type. It's where you're just environmentally, you're just the... The other thing that you might see at a tournament for range, 50 caliber shoot, you've got 10 minutes to make that shot, to make those, that five round group. People might shoot in a 13 other people might shoot and you've got those seven that are waiting for the wind and they might not shoot for another two or three minutes and then they might try to crowd all those shots into the smallest time in order to get that same structure of wind that Mark just referenced. Only they were more patient. Instead of shooting in a five mile an hour wind they waited till a two mile an hour wind that just happened to hold longer or whatever. It's fortune, isn't it? It's luck. As you pointed out that you used that phrase earlier, roll of the dice. to a certain extent when you start talking about shooting at a thousand yards. Until the bottom of the hour mark and we're just about at the top, talk about Aunt Millie and the yard sales and the garage sales. Some of the things you might want to have on the list for Aunt Millie to pick up at the gale or the yard sale. And I would tell you that someone we both know picked up one of them, oh, eight military, who they walked. Well, they're resistant. So when we talk about yard sales and garage sales and the such, have the Aunt Millie or the Cousin Bill or whoever who does those relive, well you know like he's a yard sale junkie, him to look for some things and we'll talk about some of those things when we come back. Located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country. you find the right shotgun or rifle for you. Or if you're looking for a pistol or concealed carry, we have a nice selection of compact and subcompact pistols for that too. Check out our website at www.libertiesguardian.com. That website again is www.libertiesguardian.com. 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