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Beautiful day here across Michigan and at least on this end here we had those clouds come through down but their frigates spread out more and at varying altitudes kind of three different altitudes of clouds levels of clouds so kind of you know a nice day able to get some more work done outside all the electrical is run for one project and heading towards the next step so just keep mooring wood hammering nails where running screws doors in oh that's gonna be exciting uh... it is of course uh... weapons wednesday for everybody out there dot it's been for today all right did everything but that they you guys it is the uh... i do believe it is dot dot dot we've gone through the magazine and there it is the weapons wednesday thank you mark right just didn't put a number on it again for everybody a reminder that uh... with all the fun things that are going on right now all Investing in arms, investing in technology is especially critical right now, but knowing how to reload and adding to the inventory, once you've gotten to a certain level of preparedness, then you can start to expand out very, very quickly. Interesting little piece here. I'm going to play this. Yeah, I'm not. The first one you plan on doing... Okay, hold on a second here. I'll see what I can do to get us back. We got you. where we belong on the state's editing against whether the technology is not cooperating i was gonna play a little sound bite here let me see if i can get it up and uh... interestingly enough is talking about the zombie pocky clips and uh... course the walking dead diseases reference but that's not really what it's about and uh... important is again guys we need to be working to uh... support each other you know kind of good we'll bring each other uh... certain level of protection through mutual cooperation. Tactical is what's local, strategic is our over goal, our overview. Where do we want to be? What do we want to do? Why are we trying to do it? And there's a very defined line here. Everybody does talk about the world being divided. Well, there are some people we need to be divided from. That's why our country's in the situation it's in. We really, really, really, really, really need to. We've got creatures out there that are just as twilight zone as the day is long and we need to probably, well of course deportation is the word, that's one of the more polite ways to deal with the problem. So for everybody out there I would say that if we're going to be dealing with a situation the way that it is, we're not going to go mollist or Trotsky or Stalin on anybody, okay? We don't need to. We've got more than ample tools to isolate the problems and eject them from the country. The socialists need to go. They just need to be gone. It's going to be a mess for some people because they just love the idea that they just get buckets and buckets of goodies from you and me at gunpoint. But that's not how it's going to work after a while. In fact, just reverse. The guns are going to be probably turned around and it's going to be to the ship, the bus, the plane. You should go, we're not going to hurt you, but don't come back. Then we will. And that'll settle it real quick. It's a separation that's needed. It's obvious because of the situation we see with the country. And we're going to have to maintain our force of arms and our force to implement, you know, appropriately what needs to be done. So, can't emphasize that enough. Anyway, um, yeah. Baby foxes, yes they're cute, but that's not what I'm looking for. I always thought when stuff pops up, I was like, no, that's not what I'm looking for. He's pretty and they're cute and they're live. It's a real neat live video of them running around, but I need. Anyway, tell you what, Don, let's do this because guys, we are looking at visions. Oh, by the way, B-17 is going by right now again. Just passed over the house. Wait a minute, I'm hearing some whistling too. Actually, they've been flying around all day. I don't know if it's a shakedown for operation or you know, they're training some new pilots. Yankee Air Force here has a B-17. Oh, yeah, if Trump and Flint, they might have it. But they came out of the west earlier and I don't know where they're going now, but they're obviously staying in the air quite a bit this afternoon. So it's kind of a neat sight and low altitude. So you get a chance to actually see that the ball turrets lowered, everything's where it should be, guys. Impressive sight. Remember the Scott. The skies used to be full of them. Not around here. Now the skies around here used to be full of... We had liberators here. That was the mission. Again, there he goes. He's making a big wide long bank there for everybody. Find everybody again. We don't know what you're going to see floating around in the aerospace because some people have enough money to actually put some juice, go juice in them and get them off the ground. I was thinking about that when they were going by the first time is they don't quite shake them down gory guys like they did 60 years ago because well it was 60 years ago when they were built plus right not to mention 70. We do airframes then yeah yeah that's the point. Let's fly it flat and steady and let's not get too crazy on the throttle and we'll keep her in the air and we won't have to worry about trying to figure out how they did a ditch you know the other thing is they're not jumping into the air with bomb loads and full tanks of fuel which would probably be a bad hard thing to do on a sixty-year-old airframe. Cece jumps into the air with enough fuel to fly for like three hours and they'll do that as reserve if they're going to like do a forty minute tour that costs you two hundred dollars a seat for the twenty people that go on board. They do that at three-quarters throttle and no turbo. And no turbo. The turbo wastegates are wide open. Why? because the plane isn't carrying a workload. It's just like walking down the hall getting ready to go to work. And that's a big point right now, Mark. If VFEE or that B-17, I don't remember the name of a Yankee Air Force's B-17, but if it had to carry a workload today, I don't know if I'd even want to get in that airplane. Boy, oh boy, but they sure are. Good to see you in the air. Yep. And again, they don't have a B24, but they do have some variants, and we're the reason they have those variants. The only example of the B24 that they do have are the naval variants. And this is where they built the 24, by the way. They didn't build B17s here, guys. They flew some out of the state, but not here, per se. Here we are. Before we move away from that subject, let's draw at least one or two examples from that. There is a verse, you know, men write verses, women write poems, like Kipling wrote verses, he didn't write poems. I understand the difference immediately when I tell you. There is a verse. It's included, I think, in the Memphis Belt where it's described the memories of a ball turret gunner. They washed me out of the ball turret. Washed me out. He's like, he's gone now. He's like watching this happen. They washed me out of the ball turret with a hose. Now we could bring that to more modern times and talk about when the Huey landed, when they were bringing back wounded, before they threw, if they had enough time before they filled it up with fresh bodies going in and fresh boxes of ammunition, what did they do? They hosed the blood out. But now my point is here, and I got a little bit off subject, but whether you're riding in that ball turret or that tail or up there in the canopy, you know, the bombardier operates that nose gun when he's not, you know, doing the bomb run. I don't know if you knew that. But this isn't about flying an airplane. But in a way it is. But you know that ball turret gunner, that waist gunner, that tail gunner, he couldn't get up and run over there. That top turret gunner, generally the flight engineer, of a B-17 or a B-24, he couldn't go over there and hide behind the wingtip. They were at their station. That took a particular kind of person to do that. Much like it takes a particular kind of person to get in a tin can and go under a tin can, granted it's a little bit stronger than tin, and go underwater for a month. Not see sunlight for 10 weeks or something like that. That's a bit of psychology there that they kind of weed out the people who they don't think are going to be able to do that. being at your station and no place else to go. We've described it in different ways. It's been talked about like the guy, Mark Viscuitz, who comes a little more at home. It talks about the guy watching that Japanese plane falling, almost falling, because it's on fire, coming toward his ship. And he's looking and he's trying to figure out which rivet he can hide behind. Understand that. You know, he's talking about life and death here, and it's not coffin humor. He's looking at the most miniscule bit of cover. Which rivet can I hide behind? At least he has that opportunity to move a little bit. Maybe get the other side of a turret or a bulkhead or something. At your station, so to speak, and ain't no other place to go, that's a particular kind of person, isn't it? That's that guy that would be the rear guard when the hordes of whatever the op forces are coming over the hills and running up the streams like ants, and only they're coming upstream and the water is going downstream like ants. And that guy and someone else stays and well, they just stay at that station while everybody else just gets over there and flees who safety. That's just one, you know, there are examples of it. You know, there are, you can see pictures of quokies that will probably never be operated again. Because they were overheated to the bitter end and somebody stayed at that station and somebody kept loading up for him and somebody Kept pulling the trigger and while somebody over there still shooting at him, right now even he had the ability maybe that driver moved 50 yards or back behind a ridge and came out someplace different because while he was needed over there and for a while then that gunner and that guy running links together for him and slamming those cans around just to make sure those quad 50s don't go hungry to get a breath for a moment, like where are those German fighters, or man that kamikaze is going for a different ship. So sometimes you're right in the driver's seat, you're shackled right in and you ain't going no place else, but the whole dang thing is going that way and because of that, hey, we're going to whistle that tune over there in just a minute. Right? That's not, it's almost horrifying fascination. Think about that and you see some of the examples of history and some of the on-board films of some of those guys. And when you see some of the planes that have come back, as example, of D-17 with no canopy in the front, no windshields in front of the pilots, and they flew one of those pilots at least flew that plane home. I don't know if both pilot and co-pilot survived. We've talked about armoring up the driver. If only you've got one piece of body armor, one vest, where does it go? One person keeps you in the plane. Yes. These thoughts don't just talk about somebody in the air. They don't just speak of B-17 or a B-24. Thoughts are common to a fighting man, aren't they? They are common to the soldier. They're what the tools he rides in or carries on his back to battle. Mark, I yield to you, sir. And again, one of the most important things here, in the situation we're facing, somebody actually has reposted A couple of the different poems, I think, from the Trenching of the World Report dot com and somebody just sent me another post from some of the stuff that we actually, most people don't realize, it's gone full circle back from the 90s. Maybe they do, maybe they, you know, kept keeping the inventory, you know, alive, so to speak. I've got them sitting here, I haven't read them, but, you know, there's a point at which you realize, if you go too far, that you should have stopped everything way back there around the corner. and you all knew it was coming around the bend but you decided to wait and be reasonable and wait and be rea... well, like I've said, what we're seeing right now in the United States, look what compromise has done for us. What do you think? How's compromise working for you guys? I think we're going to have to deal with this. staying at your station and you know there's many terms you've heard, bite the bullet kids, bite the bullet or in other words you know, stay the course. Oh yup. Yeah, stand, you know man the guns, stay the course, we have no choice. Well we're going to get into a conflict and we need to be mentally prepared for it and it's half the battle. It really is. The other side doesn't have, the other side is when you're an oppressor You're typically a thief slash a criminal slash a crook, you know, you write down the shopping list of you know what they're about across the board the opposition in this case us we're fighting for a spare very specific cause and we can relate to we can understand and Have to commit to we really don't have any choice. We know where we're headed here with the situation. So The most important thing is that A, we understand our reason for fighting, not just complaining about things either. We know what our goals are. This is why I've tried to plant as many seeds like this as possible. We have an ambition. We have a purpose in life. It's not just for the fun of it, okay? So again, the other side, well, they're kind of in the mercenary slash criminal mindset. Criminals don't fight very well. Oh, people go, yeah, but you want to recruit, no, no, no, criminals, the real criminal mind, the wicked mind doesn't fight well. No matter what anybody comes up with. And they try desperately to use propaganda to alter your mind on that, you know, to make you believe that, oh my God, how can we face it? Well, it's real easy. You put a bullet in them. Put a bat in them, put a bullet in them, knock them out with, you know, indirect fire, set off that specialized device you put together and left along the road, whatever it is you got to do. But guess what? They're not making it. In fact, they're going to lose badly. And they're terrified that their minions are actually going to have to face that. So they isolate them from any reality whatsoever. On our side, hey, we're going to have to take risks. And we are risking our lives, but if they have their way, don't worry. They're going to take yours. That really is in the agenda. That's in the list of things to do. So your attitude should be pretty straight forward right from the get go. Anyway, uh, yeah, I know. Um, tell you what I'm gonna do. Before we go any farther again, yes, I know, uh, night vision technology, Don, we're at the bottom of the hour almost. We're looking at a flat top AR. And somebody was saying, Mark, you were talking about getting an AR today. Well, we've been talking about getting ARs. Oh, and we all pick another weapon, don't worry for next weapons Wednesday. And we'll go right through the whole process, you know, if we can, where to find it, what would be best choice. But for a lot of the people out there, the egalitarian gladius of this day is going to be the AR-15. The flat top is real common. They've moved to that across the board as religiously as back when the AR-15 first came out and it had the carrying handle. We've gone from the high elevation carrying handle on the high post front sight to a complete flat top rig which accommodates you picking the direction you want to go. But it means you're spending more money on the technology. Or at least you have to spend a little more because you have to pick a direction. You really do have to commit to something. There's all kinds of beautiful optics out there. There's inexpensive optics that work well. There's a number of different choices, but we still have to switch over to, oh, that's right, the evening hours. And during the evening hours, Don, if we have that AR, we want to make sure that it's able to do its job and do it well. Well, what can we put on the roof of that? It says, MinnerMedia Cartridge, 223. What would be in the price range for somebody who wants to, say, put a decent first generation green screen on the roof? Or if you have more than one upper receiver, and it'll say you can switch out from a green screen to a thermal? Go ahead and go through the process, because we're going to drop it on an AR-15 with a 16-inch barrel, please. Well someone called me the other day and saying, hey I could go over here and I think it was a Yukon or something. I can get this Yukon first generation gun sight, one power or one and a half power for $400 or $450. How much do you want for that digital... when we talked for a while? Oh, telling him because he kept, oh I want to buy from you, I want to buy from you. If you want to see better in deeper darkness, you would be better off buying that Yukon. Because we've talked about, and I bring that to you because as an example of, we can still find first generation gun sites out there, no matter what the brand name. Sometimes they'll say, Made in Israel, that's a lie. Generally, it's to the plastic body. Some sight of the gun store, it's new, you can still have a warranty on it. They're worth $400, $450 now. You guys, I was, you remember, we were moving them out the door at $359 or something. The digital entry level now is like $450, $460. You can use it into the darkness. One of the advantages it has, oh, it might even shut itself off as self-defense. So the digital, it would be good for training. It would be good in particular places like encampment, when you can to controlled areas of light as long as everything is good behind me and I'm not backlit, I can look out there into that lane of light and over there and whatnot. It doesn't have to be a lot of light. A lot of light is even good for your eye. The digital has its place and it can even be used to field it into real world and up today, but it's not going to work in the real low light compared even to first generation. that caller, I want to buy from you. I just want to get one of these from you. He ended up, by my advice, buying that green screen that he could find, that first generation green screen. My biggest supplier doesn't use generation anymore. One of the reasons why is because there's a first generation tube in every second, third, and fourth generation green screen. Digital, we can put a digital on the flat top now. Some people, if you've got the larger cranium, bigger head, You might have a little trouble bringing your eye to right behind. You might have to run a half inch or an inch spacer that grabs that rail and has a rail on top and then you thumb-screw down the digital gun sight onto that rail. You'd have to be a pretty big guy because a lot of people take that .223 gun and they carry it with the butt way up high on their shoulder and you just have to lean your head over a little bit. leaning your head forward and moving it down to get to that. The other point to be made is you're not looking at a cone of light like you're looking at a daylight scope, so your eye doesn't have to be in the perfect place for eye relief. It can be as long as you're looking into that scope, you're not doing bad because you're only looking at a two-dimensional image. So the relationship between the apparent target on the screen there and the reticle are hardly going to change at all. That mind, if you were to Bolt that digital onto the onto a flat top you're gonna be able to gain that I can get my eye behind that the kid the big guy You might have to put a spacer there if you're jump up to second generation I've got a four power second generation guns like the night arrow and four power I do not know unto this day where the two powers went if someone bought them all I haven't seen them great amount quantities and catalogs here Most people that you see them having they're burning up their stock. I don't know where the two powers went Maybe they just don't build them anymore. At any rate, there's the four power, that's the entry level gun sight in green screen now. You'll see it there on the website, you know the website, ydtoe.us. See it there I think for $1399, we can do a lot better than that, but I can't advertise for less than that. But if you give me a call, my number is 231-796-58. Again, 231-796-8458. we can talk about a better price on that second generation gun sight. Now the height from the mount screw on to the top of that flat top to the center of the eye, the green is a little bit taller. So even the bigger man is going to be able to get an eye behind this. And if not, you might rail that ring that raises the device up a half inch or an inch, but most everybody can get behind that even on a flat top. And I would say I just gave the phone number out and if you're calling and you get the machine right now, leave me a message. I'll get back with you in a little while. There's only one line that comes into the compound and tunnel network here that they know about, so I'd like to keep it that way. Leave me a message if that's you. That permanently attached carry handle? Well, either one of those devices would be easily attainable by a small person or a large person. And the thought... Well, my head is way up here in the air, we've addressed that because again, you're not looking through a daylight scope. You don't need to have your eye in just the right place for the, you know, to have... when I pull the trigger because well, you know, all of that parallax and stuff has moved right out and everything else and here we go and pull the trigger and bang, you have to worry about that when you're looking at a television screen. If you were to mount either of that, either of those devices, those being plural or the second generation gun sight, carry handle you would find it easy to get a uh... but my head is up in the air the gun hardly recalls at all and I would rather your eye be real close to that rubber boot that's stocked if you wanted where you have a cheek weld it really will concern you with you know smaller groups but when you're looking at a television it doesn't make that much difference go up to third generation now you've passed beyond and this wouldn't be a bad gun sight for an available semi-automatic uh... I've got an entry level thermal but well it's Half again the price of the first generation gun sight, rather I'm sorry, the second generation night arrow at four power I just mentioned. But it's a third, I'm not trying to play with numbers here, if I figure right off about the paperwork in front of me and everything, it's a third the price of that third generation gun sight I was just going to mention. So I have to layer in the prices that way. There's a thermal gun sight out there that would work real good on top of your .223 and it's going to come in at less than $2000. And often enough you could put it on top of your .50. Again, that's entry level. It has a small lens and it has a smaller screen to look at when you think about, think of looking at something like a round image like your daylight device, round image like your green screen. Bring a piece of thermal up, be it a viewer or a gun sight. Most every one of them, it's like you're looking at an envelope tangle. The rest of the screen is black. There's no round big field of vision in there. Well thermal, the way you can upgrade thermal is to go with a bigger front lens, gather more information farther away, or you could double up on your pixels on the screen that you're looking at, and then that allows you to discern because, well, you've got a lot more pixels there to represent something with. Now when you get to the top of the thermals, well that 4 with a 5x50 magnification can recognize a human being at 1500 meters. I'm not telling you that that's merry or that's myrtle. But you will know that that's a human being at 1500 meters. That's real good on top of a 223 if you're working in the woods, if you're working in areas that, well, you know, your sight lines are 150, 250 yards or up if you want to know the price, give me a call. My number is 231. Sub it at your door for us. And hey Mark, I meant to say, hey Don, got a question for you please. Yeah, okay. Jump in here. Go ahead. Yeah, great, cool. remember what model it is that you might know by the time and the amount of money that I spent for it, but I bought it. Green was just wondering, would I be able to use that in front of a regular scope? There's not a lot of magnification on it. It's probably two or three or four power. So if you put that in front of a regular scope, now it's going to be kind of awkward and long and make the gun feel more like a scimitar, front heavy. Right. But if you've got the layout, the hardware, just try it and see, you know, do you get a clear picture? Put the gun on your buddy's shoulder and, you know, on the dark night and the light and the device is turned on and walk over three quarters to the front, you know, the classic Hollywood, this is a cool car angle and look at the light that's on your face. Well, the reason I was... Because I bring that up because there's going to be light on your face from the device and generally there's no rubber boot on any daylight gun sites are there. So that's the caveat there, right? But if you're looking, if you have the hardware laid out, I mean some rails, some guns come with rails as long as your arm on top of them now. You know, so if you can do that, give it a try and keep us informed. Yeah, I was just curious, I was just thinking, you know, That way I could just keep the same scope. Right, it's not a bad idea. And there are platforms that offer that. I can put something in front of or behind your ACOG or your Trigicon. There are devices I can hang onto the front or the back. I really don't recommend hanging on the back of your existing daylight scope. Because when you hang it on the back, you really have to address the gun completely different when you put like three or four inches onto the back of your existing scope. Right. So now, men, that where your eye used to be when you were laying down, you see where I'm going with that, right? So that would be something you would have a scope mounted at, a scope dedicated to that. You'd thumb screw off the mount and bring the other mount. But then again, if you're going to go that way, why not just dedicate a piece of thermal, right? Well I'm just trying to make it... Well I understand. Well I've got a Primary Arms 5 power and that would be my primary optic on most firearms that I have and I thought I'd stick it on there and then see if I could put the night scope and I thought that would be pretty cool because then I could use it that way. Yeah you'd have a 5 power device looking at a 4 power device. Well, I'm not so worried about the... Right, you probably come up to somewhere around, you know, what is that figure, 220 power? 5 times 4? I guess. I'm just looking for the night vision capability. Right, right. Well, I was thinking out loud. Well, no, it's a good thought line. This has been some of the people have tried to develop even hand-held viewers into gun sights over the years. And along that line, you know what happens when you're... The reticle fails on your PBS2 or the reticle fails on your PBS4, literally it falls out and you're in the middle of something and there are notches in the front of those at the lens bore at 90 degrees all the way around. You string a string through those notches and you hold it there if you have to hold it there with spit. and you've got a reticle again right in the center, you have an aim point, now you have to figure out where your impact is. So there's a little tip there, but if you're setting up this way, you already have an aim point. In fact, you're going to have an aim point in both devices, which might become a bit confusing unless, men, by trial and error, you find that one is a zero at 140 yards and the other is a zero at 312. That would be interesting. It would, wouldn't it? Well, that prism five power scope that I have from Primary Arms has got a built-in bullet drop compensator and a range meter in it. But anyway, alright. Hey, if you've got a rail long enough, just run it up and let us know what happens. If you have to go out and spend tons of money because some of those long rails aren't cheap either. Yeah. You know, proper English and all. Yeah, you're right. The unit that I bought is kind of big and uh... But with that... Well, that's because it was a dedicated gun sight, right? I believe so. Yeah. It came with a plastic pouch and everything and... Yep. Well... Thank you. Well, no problem. And again, you're going in the right direction. Just if you continue along that line, let us know how that turns out for you. Yeah, I'll do that. Great. Again, people have been trying to do this for a long time. The problem with... Now, he's talking about a gun sight with another gun sight. A lot of people over the years have tried to turn... It's not a bad deal on your .22 or your .223, even when you start to move over to your .223 with a bolt gun, because that kind of holds more recoil, doesn't it? Now you're starting to, oh gee, it worked for me 14 or it worked for me 28 times and I just can't get it to turn on anymore. So again, you know, a dedicated, we talk about the right tool for the right job you guys. And if need be, if that's all you've got, it can happen. Sometimes it's funny how long something like that will last. I had a $49 Simmons camouflage looking 3 to 9 power. Man, I'd have been better off leaving that on top of that, my 50. Arbolite AR-50, I would have been better leaving that once that bolted slid those tubes onto those mounts onto the rail and bolted that tube down to it. That tube might have lived, it might still be alive today. That went 359 rounds, a $49 scope on top of that gun. It might have lived unto today had I not taken it off, taken it out of its bed by removing it from the caps. taking it out of the saddles and sliding those and putting something else on that was the latest and greatest because this company says, hey, Don, try this or that company says, shoot this until failure. And sometimes that failure comes pretty quick. And both, I'm sorry, one more moment, bolting that scope back on, you know, taking a scope on and off and setting it back in the saddles of individual amounts doesn't always poke any good over time. That's why we talk about mounts that are a solid piece underneath your daylight scope. You thumb screw it down to the rail on the gun once or twice and then that's all you have to do to remove it. You don't abuse the tube itself. Thank you. Thank you for your patience, caller. Who do we have? This is BK. Hey, how you doing? Hi, not too badly, having some adventures. When BC asked your question, you guys both kind of had a little mental glitch there. He was thinking of putting his optics behind the green screen. Remember that the image is on the green screen itself, it's not optically transmitted. and therefore you would need a microscope to view the green screen at great detail. He's thinking in terms of putting optics in front of the green screen device. If you put the optics behind the green screen device, you're not going to see anything. That's a mechanical fault line. I would say the night vision video was built with a digital camera immediately behind the green screen. Right, it's taking a picture of the green screen. But that doesn't magnify anything. He's trying to get a longer throw than a one and a half night vision device. There have been people who have had some success putting optics in front of a night vision device. They tend to be horrible cluges as you suggested. And sometimes it works. The benefit is that you get to actually watch what you're doing and see whether it functions. You don't have to. It's not like electronics where you put it together and use some sort of instrument to figure out whether things work. You can use your eyeball and see whether you're fiddle around and see if you can get some focus. But bear in mind that once that image hits any screen, digital or analog green screen, it's a flat image. So no further optics between your eye and that green screen are going to help you, Annie. Okay. Okay, later. Okay, keep your head low. And again, BK1's with Mark on Friday at 8 o'clock, doesn't he? Our devices though, that take care of the optics mechanically somehow, can be daylight gun sights. And even ATN, I believe, my main source, offers a night piece that daylight rifle scope twist on a night vision device right there. Purpose built, that's due as much as most daylight scopes. They carry almost like a revolver cylinder, that's how they carry the batteries, fits in. heavy barrel 223s. Led out of your buttstock. We'll see if it happens or not, but if it does, we'll make you aware of it and then you'll have a battery or green screen that you can recharge from a USB port. 100 to 150 times. This would be a lot better. Another, we've talked about these battery packs that are available now. You can see advertisements for them on television. Why, they'll start 15 or 20 cars without even a battery in the car. You just hook it up to the start even more. As far as, you know, how can we power this? And we've talked about solar two years. Mark, are you... Yeah, things, again, to remember, if you're going to be getting into the night vision, is getting to recharging technology, get into rechargeable batteries, guys. The balance is that the rechargeables may not in the long haul, you know, hold as long a charge as a disposable. We've already done tests on this with everything, but not all the night vision technology. I haven't had a chance. We're not running it. We haven't run equipment that hard repeatedly over and over and over and over again. But radio is what we have. And it's pretty consistent across the board. You'll get for individual loading time. In other words, if I had to put batteries into something right now, how long will the thing run? Well, the alkali batteries actually run in service time for about probably twice as long as a rechargeable battery in many cases. Now there's better quality rechargeables and that's certainly something that has to be taken into consideration. If you're on a limited budget, again, using the alkali batteries for durability and for less distraction. In other words, wow, she's trying to power down, here we are, I'm right in the middle of something, I gotta change out the batteries or go without. If you're looking at first use, or use within a limited period of time, needless to say, you are with night vision and you're only gonna need it for so many hours of the day and then you're back to daylight operations. The alkalize might be a best toss-out choice. The big issue again is how many can you carry, how much material do you have in hand, you know, down, you know, looking down the road traveling, can you carry a recharging system out? Well, yes. In the past you had to have a wall someplace to plug something in. Today that's not a problem. Solar panels are flexible, mobile, and there's crank-up systems. I mean, they're so many different. clockwork charging systems we really haven't talked about as much because solar is the big thing but the clockwork chargers are pretty much a given you can buy those with a lot of the survival pack kits where you've got the radio and the weather you know channel and a flashlight and you know everything is built into one box and by the way it's a crank up system these originally started coming in with the with just what we call the African ghetto blasters which were the shortwave radios with a half hour crank system, you know, clockwork system, you cranked it up, and for half an hour that little generator on board, micro generator, did its job and put the power to the radio and gave you a signal, gave you something to listen to. Well, some ingenious people said, well, why don't we add other technology, why don't we change that out a bit? Well, they did and it worked. That is another option and again if you shop around you'll find that there are very narrow and specific systems built for the purpose but it varies. Again price varies too and also durability varies but either rechargeables, if you're tired and on a long end of use, the only thing to remember is try to mark and identify your strong and your weaker batteries and that's always the case. There's always one or two that are just not going to charge up as well out of say a pack of 10 or a bundle of 50. I.D. those. Separate your stronger batteries, use your lesser batteries together because by doing so, you've got a benchmark or a consistent benchmark for consumption, and then you've got a quick turnaround for reuse. And put you use the same tired kind of battery, so to speak. That's what we usually, the term we use. You take the tired battery and use a second tired battery so that you're not wasting those other power packs that will probably run through the night. and you can schedule this, you can time it, you can pace yourself with it especially. The more rechargeables you have, the more technology you have, the more you get to pick and choose. So you need to take that into consideration. Yeah, exactly. Well, Mark, some of them just don't work right at all. Yes, I know, that's China support. You're going to have to live with that. It's just how it works. But for the most part, rechargeables are a good thing. Put one in a unit that's been running for a piece of equipment that's been running for like four years non-stop. And I just now had to put a new rechargeable in with a little solar panel and everything attached to it. And that's pretty darn good. Battery, I just wanted to see and keep track of how long would this keep running. Battery is not completely gone. The battery is going to go into something else, like one of the LED lights or whatever. And I want to see how long it will run there before it dies. And it's kind of fun because, again, you have to keep, pay attention, you have to keep track of and pay attention to your technology. But you can get it to work for you. And with a night vision like anything else, it's going to need power. Obviously, if you commit to electronics, you've got to have the rest of the support system ready to run with it. Anyway, we're almost, oh, we are at the top, darn. Donny, Bill, stick around, you've got to go. Okay, we've got the music coming up. Guys, for everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. You're buying your first best weapon. Remember we get a lot of work to do so organize our equipment train as militia. Don't hesitate, don't wait. And remember, keep talking to people. Let them out of line LTR, let them out of line the micro effect and the freedom talk radio. Got a republic? Got a republic. 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