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Denial and ridicule, I love the comical, it's really quite comical, the ridicule part, it's like really? Well, you know what, I don't even have to look at Hillary, just look at Bill. Food death warmed over and twice as pale, man, I tell you, the sinuses are collapsed, it looks like his brain's been eaten by something, God knows what that is, leaking out of his ears and out of his rear end too, parked on the rock level now. and you notice how people are like, well I can see it on television and he doesn't look good in the pictures, it's like yes, but here's the other complaint about Bill, he smells like death warmed over. They're trying to be quote unquote polite about it, but it's like nah, whatever he's got, it's kind of leaving a rotten effect across the board and who knows, I mean really it's like question mark, he was going to pedophile island and all the other fun stuff, so. Bill, throw him over that wall he'll stick. Yeah, so will she sir. Yeah, I know. He's worried about that one too. So, you know, wash the wall when your done or burn it. Take your pick. I think I'd burn it. Anyway, uh... Real quick here at Weapons Wednesday, a reminder again, AR-15. Well, here's one of the quickest solutions, get an AR-15, end of the process, come up with a good rifle, end up with a good product, and you're working with a fellow patriot. Zaina.US. Zaina.US. Zaina. That's V-A-M-N-A. Zaina.US. AR-15, complete build, plumb crazy lower, everything ready to go, carry handle, it's detachable. So you can put whatever you want on the flat top if you want to, but it comes with a carry handle. With a magazine, it's a ready-to-shoot gun out of the box. What's really neat is it's being built by fellow patriots and people who are patriotic of like mind and are in our camp. I can't see why you're not dealing with them. Okay, it's just that simple. Why would you be going to a stranger? Well, I got another rifle for $500! It's like, yes, I'm sure you did. From somebody that, we don't know their background. There's no way that you do. If you do, that's great. But... Here again, if it's somebody who's just in the business and they're just as quick to turn on you and, you know, flip flop, you just don't know. Unless you really need to do some background on a lot of the people you're doing business with. I don't see that happening with Luca and I sure as hell don't see that happening with the people at Pump Crazy. They've been doing some really cool work for a long time, continuing to do R&D and developing premium product. A lot of guys have been carrying these now. And remember a few years back, first mentioned these when they were in the second generation brand new. There have been changes made to reinforce and beef up and even strengthen to a greater degree the design and they've been pretty successful. So there's your rifle. As far as ammunition goes, I've looked at I think nine flavors of .223, not all of them cheap. at amoman.com at least nine specific good quantities say bulk cases of ammunition everything from wolf to PMC to federal so it's a personal flavor thing but I will remind everybody again if you're going to be doing an AR-15 purchase go with ball ammunition initially because it's what everybody can eat if you've got a styrofoam or if you have a Beretta, no, 223. If you have a Sega, 223. If you have a Mini-14 and 223. If you have any weapon, a Kel-Tec in 223. Ball ammunition, if somebody says something calls out for ammo, if you're using a standard ball round, guess what? Everybody else can use it too because that's the center punch. That's the center point for all of these weapons. Built for ball ammunition initially, especially if they're a military arm. Now, other specialized rounds, personal flavor choice. But step one, get at least a case or as much ammunition as you can in ball ammunition. Now, we had a discussion and somebody called in, one of our long time listeners, and mentioned, well Mark, you know, you're talking 22 mags or 20 mags. Well, we're talking about purchasing 20 to 22 mags right off the bat. You need at least 20 mags. 22 would be the standard combat load. How you configure that is a personal flavor choice. And yes, each mag weighs about a pound, so you're looking or more. So you're looking at more than 23, 24, 25 pounds. I would point out that that basically is the weight. 24 to 29 is the weight of a loaded 30 caliber ammo can. 22 to 24, 26 pounds depending on what it is you've loaded into that 30 caliber ammo can. In this case you're distributing it around the body and in carry bags or again magazine bandolier slash magazine carry shoulder pouches. There's a number of those. Most prolific right now are the Molly 3 Pocket, but there are others. And you can even put some others together. There's some really inexpensive German, and also lightweight by the way, striated nylon, double mag slab pouches. If you've got the HK91, FAL, or the M14, and you're using the 20 round mags, you take four of those, make yourself up a center board, light as possible. It's got to be, again, a piece of polymer, a piece of plastic, or even a piece of strapping. and you hook up the two mag pouches on one side and two mag pouches on the other. If you don't know about these German ones, they have a MOLLE-type back strap. So they can be hooked up in a number of different ways to a fixture, and then you put a carry strap on that from any number of different things. And lightest and cheapest is what you want. It's got to be able to handle the weight, but you want to lighten everything up for the very reason that there was a discussion about little markets like twenty-eight, nine pounds of magazines. Yes it is. Combat Lotus, you know, again, ammunition and all of your consumables in that category, pyrotechnics, etc., are your core primary weight considerations. Water should be right behind that. And the reason, well, you know, of course you need water, you're turning me out because you're telling me to carry all these mags. Don't worry, pew, pew, pew, or boom, boom, boom. you're gonna get lighter real fast and then you're gonna A, wonder where the hell all the mags went and B, why is it I don't have more ammunition? Oh, God, I thought I had 22 rounds. You did have 22 mags, sir. You burned at least two of those mag pouches like in the last, what, five, ten minutes. I watched it. See how that works? So again, if you're using the .223 rifle, there's all kinds of pouches that are available right now that are ultra lightweight but still pretty durable and remember, they're kind of throwaway. You're going to carry them out and you're going to use up what's in them and then they're probably going to get lost here. You're going to be emptying them out and you need to be able to just toss the pouch to the side or be able to stow it, cache it, whatever you're going to do and get on with business. So something to think about there is magazine weight, magazine ammunition weight first and of course don't forget the weight of your weapon. is all part of the big overview math formula and there are layers to what you will add progressively. A, water, B, calories. I mean by calories, food. Very limited food, concentrated food, most calories, most nutrients for the smallest, smallest package possible. That should be your priority there. But the focus today is build an AR or buy an AR. I would prefer 20 inch. People said, well, what would you buy right now? And that was the question over and over again. Well, I'd buy a 20 inch barrel air if I could. But the problem has been, A, they're creeping price wise up and they shouldn't. There's tons of A2 widget stuff all over the place still. But yet, they're trying to charge really close to almost $100 more for a 20 inch barrel and sometimes even higher. Of course, some of those are match barrels or heavy bowl barrels. So that's why I appreciate that part. You don't have to tell me about that. But it kind of makes me scratch my head because it's not the dominant choice. I mean, there's a lot in surplus. There's there's been lots of 20 inch barrels laying around. Well, of course, maybe they've already built them and everybody's already bought them. I maybe I don't think so. But the 16 inch they're charging as much as they were when you were looking at the 20 inch gun and then charging you more now for the 20 inch gun. That's kind of like getting the 10 ounce bag of potato chips used to be the 16 but paying the same amount. You're kind of getting skimped on that. Here's the reason I brought this up earlier today and I'm going to do it again right now. is people been asking, what would you buy now? Okay, well, two or three years ago, guys, we were talking about the Sega rifles, remember? Why? Because the Sagas were quite affordable. In fact, it's really closer to four or five years now. It doesn't seem like it, but it's 2016. The Sega rifles were down below $200. Magazines were reasonably priced. And depending on the rifle, you actually ended up with a pretty decent package. All of them are good packages. It's a matter of price of mags, as we've said many, many times. Other weapons have become available or notable for a bit. The nagot rifles at $60 and $70 and $80 apiece under $100, great. Now the nagots are a beautiful firearm. They are. And people are paying $300 and $400 for them now. Have you noticed? $267 for a nagot. Well, this is where we now shift to the idea that if I'm looking at a high-part rifle, when I could pile the nagots up for five or six or seven of them for the price of one, Remington rifle or one Savage or one whatever, you go the Nagats because you can put more and more people with guns in the field. But now when you're looking at .262-70, it is a good, strong rifle and they're a very accurate weapon. Still a good choice, lots of surplus ammo. But you can buy a Stevens or a Savage or any number of other Marlin for instance, even bolt-action guns that are tactical guns for under $269. And in .308 or .30-06 or even in .223, I was just looking at one today for $229. So for that price, I'd be leaning towards the American modern bolt-action rifle right now. Well, we've gone to the point where the AKs are sliding up in the scale too. Part of that is consumption overseas. They've got a war going on. Availability and cost of living, all the other things that hit the market with Europe. Romanian AKs, remember, were the big thing there. The Washers were big for a while. They're pretty well dried up. When we last saw them, you saw a big pile. Those anywhere for a good price. So now what's right now in the market or in the niches are American Arms, which I said years ago, guys, you'll always be able to get an AR-15. It's the other rifles that while they're cheap you buy them because you're not going to lose a penny. Well, for all you guys who bought those SAGAs three, four years ago, what would they cost you now to buy? So what can you market them out at? So you actually have invested, been well armed, well equipped, you're probably not going to want to get rid of that AK, I wouldn't, guns are for buying, not for selling, but in theory you could take any one of the weapons that we recommended when you got them for $160 to $150, turn around and dump them for a whole hell of a lot more than that, and buy your AR-15 outright. Hell, in some cases you could probably find and trade for an AR-15 outright. personal flavor choice there. Well, right now because of that as it pointed out, building from scratch or building something up to get online and get on the table quick, the AR-15 is the solution for the time being. It's caught up with itself again. There's many variations. So many that when you go to Palmetto State Armory, something we've brought up many, many times. When you go to Palmetto State Armory, as a matter of fact, for Jefferson P, yep, his lowers from, is a pump crazy, exactly. A lot of guys have these. The rifles are affordable enough that there's no reason for you not to have an AR now. But also remember, it's how many people are you going to run into out there that are individuals that that's all they've ever known. That's what they were trained with. Okay, so the advantage of putting the ARs up and online is that you can again You can put more people in the battle faster, turn them around quicker. Do I have to teach him anything? No, he was trained in the M16 in the Air Force, or the M16 in the Navy, or the Coast Guard, or whatever. It's the weapon of this era. Not pump shotguns that can handle quick, and the AK is a user-friendly potato gun, so don't make any mistake about it, and the SKS. I love the SKS. 20-inch barrel. If I had an AK or an SKS sitting there, the guys would be jumping on the AKs, I'd grab the SKS for personal purposes, because I know what its potential is. It's got a few more inches of barrel. The cartridge is a mid-weight cartridge, just like the 223, but it's got a little more umph, and I think I can put the bullet where it needs to, so the S-Cast would work for me. And I know how to make it function well, and I'm familiar with it. Other people, maybe not so much. And other people grab the AK just out of policy, it's a magazine-fed weapon! Have you used it much? No! Do you know how to make it function? We'll figure it out, yep, I'm sure you will. While you carry that for me until you drop dead, then I'll have an AK anyway to carry. And my SKS-TIL, how's that sound? Well, I deserve the AK, and you get the SKS. Yeah, you're right. That'll work out just fine by me. Okay? So here we are building an AR right now. Well, here's the thing. PalmettoStateArmory.com has got a lot of kits. And this is an example where I say that they've caught up with themselves, okay? There's a lot of different designs. Are any particular ones jumping out at me? No, unless it's a 20 inch barrel kit. That's about the only thing I'm looking for right now. Otherwise, mid guard, short guard, standard guard, M4, I don't really care. Either one, any one would be fine. Stainless barrels, I like over the standard only because stainless has caught up with itself too and stainless is pretty well where you want it to be. So I have a problem in the pecking order, the stainless would probably be preferred over going with a standard carbon barrel. Now that varies depending upon also, you know, key issue here is, uh... well, what weight barrel? That's the only thing, in other words, the military step barrel was goofy. It always was goofy. And then when I finally sat down and forced people to ask people, why did we make the military M16A2 barrel the way we did? Well, because don't you know that soldiers use their rifles as crowbars? And I'm thinking, The only way that would be possible is if the Sergeant has not been paying attention to what his troops are doing because the first time that somebody uses their rifle as a crowbar, they're going to probably find their rifle stuck up their arse sideways. Hello? Okay, and there's a real hold on caller, and there's a reason for this. The, uh, item itself, especially, I mean, first of all, the weapon's only seven pounds. What the hell? You're trying to use the seven pound rifle as a crowbar. And for what? Firing with it! It doesn't have a sharp pointy end on it. You know, a flat end with a pry point, does it? So the whole argument behind this was fascinating to me in that how about we teach our soldiers that our precision rifles are not tools to be used for hammering nails or prying nails or boards apart. What do you say? Oh yeah, that would make sense. Do you think? So the very argument for not putting it would really come down to is you're chinsing out. The government's notorious for chinsing on us and that's what they do. So they chinsed out rather than giving us a full weight, you know, mid-heavy barrel. They stepped it up and garbage it out. Wherever you can see it, it's heavy where you can see it and it's lightened up where you can't. Why? It was never truly reinforced anyway. I tell you what, let's go ahead. Call her, who do we have? Yeah, let's see again. they're going, this current regime and the liberals that are infiltrating everything, they'll probably be teaching the recruits to use a rifle as a crowbar before long because, you know, I read an article the other day that a lot of these recruits coming in don't have any bad habits to brush. They've never held a firearm and it's driving those riddance nuts. My question is, painless steel barrels, when the time comes to Eventually, yeah, it depends on what you use. Now you see, now that's a good point. Years ago when we'd paint up gun parts, we used engine paint. Oh, okay. That's been traditional, but you know what? I've got to agree with my, one of my nephews, he might even be listening right now, he's been overseas. Krylon's used on everything. I mean, it's just, you know, real quick and then they're, you know, they're burning the guns up, AKs or ARs, and Paint's going to flake off a little bit, but you know what, even with the engine paint, if you're heavily using that weapon, you know, engines usually sit there and stare at you. They don't get beat up by truck corners and, you know, jumping the back of the Jeep or dropping on the floor. The engine sits there in the engine compartment, so it doesn't get bumpy chippy a lot. Pretty much any paint application, no matter what military paint, like the British Enfields, you know, I always joke about that. I've thought about cleaning off some of the Enfields that were painted, and I learned not to. just put another coat of paint on it. They already got 15 or 20. The rust can't get to them. The oxygen can't get to them so they can't rust. Yeah, I guess a barbecue or fireplace paint would probably be the thing to use. Yeah, well the standard engine paint or barbecue, yeah, the flat paint. Anything that's a flat paint. It's going to go flat when it starts to get heated up anyway. It's not going to really shine. But we want it flat. We want the longevity out of it. The engine paint works just fine. What we typically did is we put them in the oven. One guy would have a 220 outlet hooked up to the back porch. We'd have an old oven back there and we'd oven bake all of the painted parts. heat them up that way and then take them out and okay there you go we're all done and slap everything together and you look great. Steel kits that were tubular that you know usually I mean the British stuff was always painted and when it started looking It's rough, they just paint it again. The Germans did the same thing with like the G43, sniper rifle slash carbine slash cavare. Okay, the semi-automatic, that was a painted gun. Well, it makes sense because you got an existing primer coat anyway, so you just paint... Well, again, paint sheet. You know, 99 cents a can or more or less depending on where you are. You just put a little more on it. There we go, that scratch spot's gone. I would point out again, the armors trick though from the 70s and from Vietnam was fingernail polish. Fingernail polish, you can get it in all colors. And what's interesting, you can get it in green. But what they would do, they had an enamel and other than the fact that they put a different label on it, it was a fingernail polish bottle. and you might have carried a rifle where you're looking at it and you say, why the hell does this have this kind of purplish tint? And there's like these funny lines. It's like a weird line. Why is that there? Well, they got a gouge in the receiver. And so what they do is they take the lacquer paint and they just brush it right on where the nick is so it doesn't promote oxidation. It was a purple lavender fingernail polish. That's all it was. The Hydramatic I carried looked like it had little spider webs here and there because they've been carried, they've been rebuilt twice. The rebuild, the last rebuild was in 1975. It was a Hydramatic gun, probably produced in 69, 70, and it got over to Vietnam and it came back, it got rebuilt while it was in Vietnam because they didn't stamp the gun. The last rebuild was in 1975 and then I was rebuilt by my armory in 1977. Sounds like that might be where they got the idea for the muddy girl pattern. Yeah, well you see, well you know what's funny? Almost anything works. Hula shirts. Hula shirts make great camouflage. Don't get caught in an office with them. Everybody laughs at you. but you know the same thing is true with regard to breaking up the color anything is better than black in the woods. Oh yeah. You know that's the thing that black rifle for years you know people wondered what we were doing well you just messed up your gun because we just take paint and you know frolic up the you know the plastic parts a little bit and certainly the A-frame that's there's two things the barrel itself It's a psychological thing because at range it's the first thing everybody sees in a tank. Strangely enough you would think it's like, well there's a tank standing there. And it's like, no, everybody, when they did surveys they found what people noticed first was the main gun. Probably because they would kill you, okay. And barrels, you know, the end of a barrel it's the same way. The muzzle and the end of the barrel. If you can disrupt that in any way, that's why you see a lot of the guys taking burlap. and working that around and then working it through the A-frame. Well, with a tank you've got what, the equivalent of a telephone pole? Telephone pole and sideways, exactly. But it's still, you've got to remember at distance how big is it, you say? I mean, if it's a thousand yards away... You know, it's okay, but it still doesn't look natural for that telephone pole to be laying horizontal. That doesn't help either. Well, the same is true with your barrel standing in the field. In South Africa, it was repeated time and again that, you know, the first day, if you pay attention to the imagery from the South African wars with Northwest, you know, forgive me, Southwest Africa, you know, with the, what was left of the Congo, etc. or with Rhodesia. One of the things during debriefings with the guerrillas, they said, oh yeah, you guys are camouflaged out great, but those black rifles are like big black horizontal lines. So the next thing they did is they broke out the camel paint and they painted everything up the same color as their uniforms and equipment. And that eradicated the telltale identifier that they were looking for. Of course, they also made everybody look the same, all the whites had black face. So they couldn't pick out and just shoot the white people. They had to shoot at everybody. And they did, guys. I mean, if you take a look at the imagery, it worked. They were like, no, they don't know who to shoot. And they couldn't see because it was the, the FAL's a pretty good sized gun. And that was the dominant arm of the war in South African Rhodesia for the nationalist forces. So, lessons learned. I can show you, like I said, several of our training videos, the stainless barrels on the Mini-14s. I'll be more specific. If you look at the videos, take a look at two things that jump out during twilight. We have some phenomenal twilight footage. And the stainless steel barrel, at that point, it glows. The other thing are tan combat boots. I mean, like Desert Tan, slash Savannah Tan, the, you know, standard issue that everybody's been buying. At twilight, Take a look in, for instance, the, if you go to Liberty Tree Radio, take a look at our trading videos, take a look at the Battle for the Republic videos. There's a couple of different promo pieces there, and if you watch, there's the one where they're coming across the ambush scene. Well, the one guy, look at his boots, and then, wow, look at the barrel on that Mini-14. Isn't that fascinating? Check that out! And it'll give you a better feel for what we're talking about. Ideas! real quick before we go too far away from originally we were talking about with the kits there are a number of sales on kits right now and as you asked about this there are stainless steel barrels whoops well I just lost that hull nail that agitates the hell out of me some days and there we go a couple of the sale kits for about 400 have the stainless barrel one in seven twist mid-length hand guard etc etc Personally for me, if I was looking at these kits right now, they're shallow. I talked to them. They don't have a big deep supply. They just put, as parts have come in, they've made the kits they had parts for. That's how they're doing this right now. That's why they do have an 18 inch barrel, but they don't have a 20 inch barrel kit. And the 18 inch is in 223 Wild and with a Nice Friday II frame rifle kit for $400. So there you go, two more inches of barrel and it's in 223 Wild. there's a solution but many different variations all because it's whatever's come in. It's just that simple. Whatever has been available for the moment, that's how they're doing it. And if they run out, well, they might build that kit again right away. It might take them a week or two weeks to put one blanket together, but they've got other variations. So I don't think they're too worried. One way or another, everything they've got will sell, you know, eventually. As the cheaper kits are no longer available, as we've seen several times, the more expensive kits get absorbed and go on down the road. So, that's a good thing. Are there a number of options in terms of specialty parts? Step one though, like I said earlier guys, a .223 rifle, AR-15, about $500 is what you're going to be paying. There you go. And Zana.US has got a complete rifle ready to roll. Magazines, 20-22 mags, at least, ideally 100. If you're buying an AR-15, there's no reason not to have 100 mags. And by the way, it's like, well, I already got 20 and okay, now good. Now your goal is to reach that 100 mark. Uh, in ammunition, a case. One of the reasons for the 100 count in mags, well, you're planning on fighting a war, right? You'll find out. I have carried on, well, here's the problem. Is, and again, Daddy Mark, okay? Daddy Mark as a squad leader or Daddy Mark as a platoon leader or Daddy Mark as a battalion leader, no matter what, you're still in the fight, you're still constantly in the field and there are habits. Well, you carry spares of everything for the people who didn't have brains enough to listen to what you said. Every once in a while you run into them. They don't have the socks, they don't have the gloves. Do you let them suffer? Yes. For as long as you have to, but not to the point where they're a casualty. Okay? Magazine's an ammunition. Well, it's not somebody else's fault if something gets blowed up, burned up, or knocked out. Maybe they got their rifle, maybe they're standing there bare-butt naked like my Uncle Bob, where all they got left are their boots and their clothes are singed right off them and they got their rifle in their hand. Congratulations, now what do you do? Well, everybody donate a mag and the guy's got somewhat of a battle load. Start searching corpses and everybody else that's wounded. Strip their equipment as much as you can from them. If they're wounded, you don't take everything because if they're walking wounded or if they're semi-functional, they may have to defend themselves. Their personal arms and ammunition, if they're awake and functional, stay with them. If they're a casualty that's knocked out, but because of, for instance, pain tellers. The weapons stay near them and their basic fighting load stays with them because we don't know how quickly they can be turned around. But beyond that, you might have to share. And that's the theme I keep emphasizing because it just happens. It's not all planned. You know, the best laid plans disappear the moment the first bullet leaves the muzzle. It's just that simple. And you don't know if the thickle finger of fate is going to point at you next. So be prepared for that. The other thing about the deep magazine and ammunition reserves is long-term engagement, in other words, long-term performance, or a whole group show up in your area that are friendlies, and between all of us, we can support and maintain that fighting unit without them having to wait for the truck coming from halfway down the state. In other words, we should have a massive, deep, tactical reserve across the whole of the country, and all of you can help to make that happen. Somebody just asked me, well Mark out of the Palmetto, which one would you buy right now? Okay, I'll tell you which one I'm buying. Let me look real quick. $3.99, $3.99, $3.99 with free shipping, that's a good one. I like that one. Oh, I'm just going by price. You wonder why? Because they've got pretty good confidence in their kits. Okay, we've built pretty much all of these at one time or another and the flavor of the day goes to, well, I might get that 18 inch 223 Wild in one seven because it's $400, but I could also go with, and I'd probably lean towards, the daily deal. PSA, 16 inch mid-length, 5.5680, 1 in 7 twist, A2 melanite freedom rifle kit, $400. Why? Because it's $400. I believe there's not one of these weapons that will not perform too radically different from one to the other if they've got a 16 inch barrel. It's purely a flavor choice. Do you like the Chevy Nova? Do you like the Gran Torino? Do you like the Gran Torino? Or do you like the Dodge Charger? Okay, because those cars were all about the same weight. One was a 318, one was a 351, the other one might have a 350 Chevy, all the same weight category. One might have a 360, that Dodge Charger might have a 360 under the hood. Don't forget that one. And those were all basically in the same weight range as far as performance too. I feel the same way about these ARs. You throw it at me, I'll guarantee I can make it work. I gotta get a feel for the particular pattern of the rifle because there's changes in the length of the foregrip. I'm not too concerned about that. But I have to feel it for a little bit, feel how she's, you know, find out where the sights are. After that, I'll make this weapon rock. And I don't care which one it is. So they're all pretty much the same gun. It's a personal flavor choice. They're offering enough kits that whatever flavor you like, and if you have to spend a little more or a little less, thumbs up and you can do just that. Personal choice thing. And you have some other goodies to go along with. They got a PSA 16-inch mid-length for like $480 with free shipping. And it's got a few extra goodies, a little nicer buttstock, a little nicer pistol grip, a little more unique foregrip. But again, it's a flavor choice thing. I'm just looking for a gladeus. I'm looking for a standard utility infantry light rifle. and for $400 that'll do me just fine. If I could find one for a little less, I would. In fact, they had a kit for $349. Lasted, what, one day? It was there last night. It's gone now, I can see that. So, obviously again, cheapest of the most is, which is what a lot of people are doing. Now, what I put on there in the way of optics, I'll tell you what I'd probably do with that. I go over to copedistributing.com and or CDN and investments. They both have some nice sales right now for $40 to $60. or some inexpensive optics. I put some glass on top of the gun fast and then I can figure out what I want to do after that. If I don't like it, I'll keep the scope and put it on something else. But I'm going to get the gun up and online as quick as I can for a reasonable price and I got to have some beater technology to throw on it too. Now magazines, hey, whatever you love, I think you should love them more. If you like Magpul, go with it. Personally, myself, most all the mag companies have proven out. They haven't really done anything strange. And now we're past the magazine ban, so most of these companies have built up their employee expertise. They've got time on the machinery. We haven't heard about any significant blem failures or you know, bunch up issues or sharp edges or anything like that. That's where we were before the magazine ban in the 90s. And when they banned the magazines, they also cut off their nose despite their face. The US military had a massive problem with magazines. Remember that? Why? Well, because the people who made the military mags, the reason they can make them so cheap is because they can take the overproduction and sell it to us. Now, when all of a sudden they didn't have that market, the market to us is where they make money. The government contracts are all low bid, and when you do low bid, it just keeps your machinery running. You don't make hardly anything if you're a regular peasant. Now, I'm sure a Cheney company, they make 7-10 times, you know, what they're worth, and they rip us off left and right. But the average American magazine company had built-up expertise, they knew how to build a quality product that government expected, and we got the benefit of that. When that stopped, and the other companies tried to weenie boys, especially the OI boys, the gutter trash from overseas, tried to foist other stuff on us, the companies had never built mags before, they had no expertise, they did not have the skill of the machinery, and we had all kinds of problems, which we had to work at fixing. The most common was finish. and fit. Finish being the first problem. Stamped components were not cleaned up. They had sharp edges on them. The magazine followers inside the magazines would stick because they were galling the inside of the magazine. So what's the first thing you do? Well, you break out the Dremel tool or you break out the grinder and you take off those sharp edges. All of a sudden that follower worked a lot better and that magazine inside might have one or two burrs too, so you take the Dremel tool and you get rid of those spot weld blems where they didn't do an inner, you know, an inner clean where they usually normally have like a wheel brush that just is the size of the channel and it goes right in there and it takes all that off. But they don't do that when they're overseas or if there's somebody who's never built mags before. And so they had all kinds of other issues that had to be cleaned up and fixed. And by the way, it still costs us arm and leg for those mags. Well, right now, I have not heard, but if anybody does hear about anything, hey, get up here on the air, call in. and tell us about it but uh... right now pretty much all the mags are offered work and that's a that is a key issue right now all these companies have had time in production they've built up their expertise uh... even slowly old thermal thermal does always been reliable i've always talked about their never pretty but they always work and their mold to been cheap well now they've crept up to where they're right up there with most of the other common middle-range price magazines so Even lowly old thermold's got some notoriety now. Mostly because we all bought those up and changed the market, guys. Remember, most of those 20 round mags you got, which are nice convenient little cigarette pack size mag, those all say law enforcement only on them because originally those were built for during the magazine ban and you, you know, us peasants couldn't own those. And thermold was making all kinds of deals, you know, left and right, you know, to, you know, fill that market. They were the only ones with a mag that really would work because most of the others did. Go ahead. I'm on the I-24 right now in Tennessee and I'm on this highway a lot and I keep seeing this outpost armory billboard with this beautiful M1A on it. I'm sure it's really expensive but, Dan, that thing looks nice. That M1A got an outpost armory. Nice rifle. Probably about what? 2600? What do they want for it? I don't know. I haven't looked. I just see the billboard. My mouth starts watering. If it's one of their matched rifles, they're up around, what, 24 to 26, I think, for their upper grade rifle. They're good weapons. There's nothing wrong with them. Not at all. But that's the only thing. They look slick, and they are. Plus, they've added all the new. The guys that are working the parts for them are people that are actually newer, younger machinists, probably the business owners, but they have gone to, they've tried to maintain the mill spec and beyond. They've gone to actually try to maintain the competition specs that used to be the norm for the industry. And they've done a pretty good job. So that is a nice rifle. It's worth its dollar, let's put it that way. It's as well as weapons out of the box, it will tack drive right from the get go. You're gonna buy one, right? If they let me have it, if they let me have one, well you know how that story goes. Don't worry about it. Just look for other things that are liberty oriented, that's okay. But the, you know, it's a, well that gets back to again, how many ARs can I buy for the price of one M1A? How many people can I outfit? Now, there's the challenge there, if I get everybody trained on the M1 Gran, the M1A and FLHK91s, we have battlefield supremacy firearms. They go boom boom instead of pew pew. Big difference. We're talking light rifles right now. I know the, probably next weapons Wednesday I'll talk once again about, well if I were gonna do an M1A, how would I do it right now? It's pricey. It used to be we built M1A from scratch and we were buying the kits and you know how it is, $150 apiece. In fact, I have seven kits laid away that are the premium kits. $175 for each and they did sitting there waiting for the right receiver and they're also backup parts kits for the myriad of M1As that we built back in the 80s. The 80s was the big heyday for the M1As, late 80s especially and TRW kits were everywhere for a little bit and I tried to get everybody to buy them just to put them on the shelf and some people did. Same with those HK91 kits that came in in the Greenstock system that were the earlier Greenstock. Those have the barrels intact and they've got the HK barrels. They've got the proper barrel for the rifle. And again, there's some nice receivers that are available, but those are reserve parts. If we have to change out a rifle that's, you know, gonna get tired up, shot up, beat up somehow, we've got all the parts needed to switch it back and put it online quick. So That's the only reason those kits aren't built. But at this point in time, I know, and I always work, you keep talking down the AR. No, I'm not talking down the AR. And in fact, like I said, I had sat down Sunday night and I started thinking, how many ARs did I actually build? How many have I built in my lifetime? And I know I've built easily a thousand that I know of. I mean over a thousand, but we lost count. We just ignored it. He'd get to the point where it's... Hi Fred. Hi Ralph. Hi Mark. Hi Bob. Hi Dan. Hi Larry. And we'd all sit down. Everybody had their job. Go get a pizza because the kids, one of the guy's sons, ran a pizza parlor when they bring pizzas over and we would have a two-hour block of build ARs. And everybody would change jobs, but after a while I was like, no, we just want to get these out. So what we did is everybody had their niche and everybody did their part. And we just assembled and assembled and assembled, and we slide them, completed component next. And by the time we were done, we'd have a whole stack of AR-15s at the end of the night. We bought the kits for $125 a piece. They were all Colt kits or HR kits. And the receivers were between $1,000 and $1,000. $1.69 and $77 but the average price was about $77 a receiver for the lower. The upper, with or without a forward assist, depending upon the era, the kit still costs the same. And I could do them my sleep. In fact, it's one of those things where it's just I can understand, you know, I've worked in factory, I've worked in production. But in this case, the AR-15 is very friendly to build like this. Most people don't do that. Everybody does their own little thing, which is cool. I don't have a problem with that at all. But if everybody were to kind of get together, you can work off each other and you can cross-reference skills. And the big thing is that you build the confidence in yourself about going the next level, because after we did ARs, then we did M14s. Now, the advantage we had in the 80s is that when we were building M1As, we had guys coming out of service that had served with us, and they were all armorers. So three of the guys that helped us to build God knows how many M1As. One of the things that I helped to do is clean up cut receivers. We would take cut receivers and we would dress them, overlap, you know, identify the proper overlapping components. We built steel jigs, actually, forgive me, high chromium jigs that were built at both the General Motors plants and at the Ford plants here in Michigan at the tool and die shops. an ultimate precision. We'd lay the parts in, we would bring in the filler stock that was needed, although it typically wasn't. We'd join up the parts and my job was to gremble tool those parts to where they needed to be, grind more than they needed to be, and bevel them properly, and then the master welder would come in, and by the time they'd go between the master welder and the machinist, by the time they were done, and by the way, we would weld them, they would take them over to Ford Motor Company or to GM, to the machine shops, They would match up the tooling and the re-welds that we did, you could not identify. Then they'd go into the phosphate vats and be re-parkerized. Your industrial complex was doing for you what it needed to do and we had built tens of thousands of M1As. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands. I thought really that's just one part of what was being done. Guys in the factories like in Toledo, Detroit, in Flint, guys, they were doing this all the time. They were just asking, we trained other people to do it and then told them where to go. We didn't care who did it. We just wanted it done. ARs, ARs. Yeah, go ahead. I remember stock, the original AR for stock to me is the best stock, that stock. Give me the sandbag stock. Yeah, the sandbag, I called the sandbag. Or Armalite, whatever you want to say, but the original octagon, you know, it's a triangle. That was the sandbag stock. It took your hand perfectly. It's actually interesting, the only reason they changed out to the other style stock, the foregrip. I think it's still next to me, you can put pop on those. Oh yeah, you can buy original but they're stupid price because they're classic now. Remember always avoid when you see the word classic and it's original. That means you're going to pay 10 times what you should. But for the longest time you could get sandbag stocks for like 10 cents for $8 at Knob Creek. First time I ever felt one of those I had to buy that gun. I was like, this thing feels like a snap-on tool in my hand. It's just perfectly for us. Yeah, well, you always know what position is when you're hanging on to it. It's not rotating around. You're not looking, you're walking away one hand and hanging on to the stock. I mean, it just seems like that. I love it. I love that stock. It's tapered down, you know. It just seems to be the best grip for me. It just made me feel better at shooting. It's a muscle memory thing. In the darkness you would still know that the weapon is laterally pointed towards the target. Didn't they call that a Delta grip? Yeah, Delta, like a triangle. Right. Yeah. Well, yeah, but the sandbag grip is originally what everybody used to use as a term because that was his purpose. Yeah, he was. You lay it down. It's got a flat contact surface. That was why they did it. It stays upright. Yeah, exactly. You know where the 12 o'clock is. Think about it. Even in darkness, you would know where the 12 o'clock is without having to guess. Otherwise, with a round guard, you do have the two benchmark points where the clamshell comes together. But you know with the trick that most people did, they would extend their hand and have their index finger or their middle finger touching the front sight to confirm the 12 o'clock. When you were night firing. Now that was later when they started pushing the other grip. You can tell by your hand grip where you're at. Well, no, my point is that with the new one, you guys, this is the change. With the sandbag grip, the earlier Delta, as you're the Delta, the sandbag grip, it was flat. So you knew that if you had flat down, where's the site going to be? Up. When they went to the round site, the change in technique was to slide the hand forward to the end of the guard to touch the front site so that you could orient it for night fire. Yeah, and it's something to have those airports on the top there, the airports there for cooling on the barrel. Well, your ventilation points. Well, that's what you... But, you know, again, typically, again, you're wearing gloves. I mean, I've taken M16s and heated them up with three, four thousand rounds in a few minutes and taken the front leather gov'em wearing on my left hand and made it hard. Just literally cooked it. Cooked it to tough shoe leather because the barrel... And I've been needle barrels. I've watched barrels turn, you know, and needle like they've been, you know, they've been purple treated. You know what I mean? But the testimony is that I've never had him cook off, although I was burning so many rounds, I really wouldn't have known anyway. Seriously, burning out ammunition to the point where if the weapon was cooking off, it really didn't care and it wouldn't make any difference. Yeah, the Sun-Go Dog, you can start to see a glow, you can't see normally. You will see it at night. Yeah, well when it gets to that point, then you're going to peen that bolt. And like I said, I've seen guys destroy M60s that way, not so much M16. Amazingly enough, they typically hold a better under sustained heavy fire. But at some point you've got to cool them. And like I said, my Uncle Lloyd said best, when he was fighting the Chinese, they'd carry up to eight guns per man. And when a gun would get so hot, you're smart. When you start to feel it getting so hot, you couldn't touch it, drop it and pick up the next one. And just keep killing Chinese. Because don't worry, there's plenty of them to kill and you won't kill them all. And the same is true of the M16 or any of these weapons. You know, here's a little trick, and we're almost, we're off the top. Ed, let me get this in. Craig's coming up next. A little trick there on cooling. Guys, it works because we did this to make an aircraft gun. You take the bumper coolers, you know, the radiators where you have the copper line with the aluminum cross panels for irradiating heat. Cut that the length of your guard, slice it, and then what you do is you bring it around and clamp that in place and that makes a great cooling fin for an aircraft gun. It's a really neat way to take the front hand guard. It will slide right over the gas system from below the top because you've got a groove in it. Then you clamp that into place or knock that into place with a couple of knocks screws just to hold it tight to the barrel. And what that does is create radiating fins just like you have on a woodpecker, like a Japanese machine gunner, like on the old water-cooled guns where they have the same internal system. You just can't see it because they have a water jacket. But it's a trick that works really well. We use it with building up guns that we put on, you know, fixed, fixed guns we put on light aircraft. Put a 75 round drum or a beta drum and something like that. Use that as an aircraft gun, you know, like a ground gun. And it works really well. Because you can lighten up an AR down to about five pounds. You already know that. Ignition's gonna weigh no matter what. Anyway guys, we're at the top in the AR. Hey, it's a piece of junk. But it's a versatile piece of junk, sir. You're right about that. You sure as hell is. God bless the Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire's on the run. We're on the march, can't hide. And we're going to be gone for now, but Craig's coming up. Don't touch that dial. Craig, a little bit of knowledge. Guys, remember he's going to be at different gun shows and expos all this month and next, and all through the year. So, you want a medium, you can be a medium face to face. And by the way, how about you buy some stuff from him too? Y'all be good, we'll be back at 8 o'clock. Meanwhile, Ed and Craig take it over. 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