December 21, 2016
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Mark Koernke discussed firearms maintenance, design philosophy, and wartime production efficiency, comparing crude but effective weapons like the Sten gun to modern platforms. He covered cylinder maintenance for revolvers, self-cleaning mechanisms in rifles, and the design trade-offs between the AR-15, M14, and Mosin-Nagant. Callers contributed technical insights on sand testing, lubricant applications, and improvised manufacturing. The show concluded with commentary on Syria, Aleppo, and alleged foreign military involvement in the conflict.
- firearms maintenance
- sten gun
- ar-15
- m14
- mosin-nagant
- revolver maintenance
- wartime production
- self-cleaning weapons
- lubricants
- aleppo
- syria
- isis
- preparedness
- second amendment
- militia
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are doing the stuff right now and they're backing ISIS. So right now you've got two different versions. You've got the controlled media. Well by the way, lied about the election so why would we not think they're lying about Aleppo? And really not just about Aleppo but about everything that's been going on in Syria, in Iraq and Syria because they're punking up Iraq the same way and Turkey is talking about stealing real estate which is what we told everybody. I told everybody that decades ago. The part of the scam here running in the long run is again they hate the Kurds. If everybody was smart, the Kurds were smart. They would take everybody out of Turkey they could and everybody out of Iran that they could. and consolidate the northern province that used to be part of Iraq and still technically is, but it would be Kurdistan. And if they focused their energy and got their act together, I could use another term, they would be phenomenal right now. What happened to all the discussion about the Kurds? Do you remember all the stuff right after the invasion of Iraq? They were going to put factories up here and businesses up there. And here's this spot out in the middle of nowhere. And we were giving money to all these shyster scammers who were, well, they weren't really. They were Kurds and they were married into somebody. Oh, they were married into the Jewish faction. And we handed buckets of money over to them and not a thing was done to improve the situation there. But all that money went down the road. Remember all those articles after the invasion of Iraq, Desert Dust Part II? Oh, this is current to stand. And boy, they're going to get it. We're going to do this. And we're going to do it. Well, did anybody do any follow up on that? What does that barren piece of real estate along that piece of river look like where there wasn't even a single piece of green growth? It doesn't look any different today than it was when it was the Weed and Rock-Stroon wasteland before. But boy, they suckered us out of a whole lot of money. Went on down the road to some bank in Haifa. Just a little heads up. Anyway, we're past the top here. We should be hearing the music. And of course, Down's going to take off. So again, Ron Paul, forgive me. Let me make sure I get the title right for everybody. Let's see if I've got the S it's getting real news from Aleppo with Vanessa B Lee B E E L E Y it's On from the trenches world report comm it's dated for today Posted by admin and it is a YouTube video so you can share it which by the way Even while we're talking down. I'm gonna do just that. We're sure boy. There we go. That's right And Dingo, and Dingo, and Zuko, and Ingo, and Pingo, and Bongo, and Facebook, and Google, and Google too, and Google why not, and all the other fun stuff. And Fweeter wasn't invited. Yeah, okay. And we should be hearing the music. I don't know if we have our engineer on standby. If need be, I can get you out of here, Don, by providing music myself. How's that sound? As a matter of fact, for everybody out there, as we have pointed out several times, Of course it is Christmas. Merry Christmas to all of our friends. I'm going to have a fun one here in a minute though because I'm going to challenge everybody. I'm going to play something while I tell you what it is. But it is a little drummer boy. That's obvious. But what's really kind of funny is who did this version. So everybody out there, God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march both. day and night. that phone number will help you reduce the prices over at the website ydtoe.us. We've talked about it a number of times. If you go over to the website ydtoe.us, pay no attention to the prices. Call Don. Now he's talking about himself in third person at 231-796-84. Very good. Merry Christmas, thank you sir. I'll tell you what, listen in and take off anywhere through the middle of this. Did you recognize this voice? The Little Drummer Boy, by the way. I didn't even know this version was available until I found it here today. Again, for sure. Okay, and other parts of the planet. In fact, we played a couple of other songs today as a matter of fact. Anyway, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm R. Korky. one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, north. Ladies and gentlemen you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com, and we are on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Hallmark and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi. along with Alaska. We need to make sure that everybody understands, you know, again, the $2 bill mission is to emphasize and keep awake and keep alive the great state of Jefferson. A lot of people want to get rid of... California, they really do. They want to get rid of it. They want to encapsulate it to a much smaller couple of counties and then kick them free but not leave them in the Union. And that is a great thing. If they do that, guys, think about it, how the country would change. We could compartmentalize and then deport to that area all the turds like in Austin, Minneapolis, St. Paul, the turds up here in Seattle, Tacoma. take your pick. And of course there are several locations in Oregon where they need to be rounded up, dragged down to the fence and then thrown over to the California side just to get rid of the filth and get them out of circulation away from us. It would be pretty cool. So again that would be a good thing. Today's date of course, well it's Weapons Wednesday, it's the 21st of December, it's the 8th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K, 2016, old earth calendar 2016, year of battle, year of storm. I'm going to be busy to say the least. Of course, we were talking about certain firearms in the last hour. Remember, actually, another request. That was CenterFireSystems.com. They have six HK-91 magazines, aluminum, military aluminum. Not aftermarket, military aluminum mags. for $9, which $1.50 a piece, good price right now. And again, aluminum or steel, I like steel, but you know what, I've used enough of the aluminum and I have 1,000 of them. I have probably closer to 2,000 of them to be quite honest. I really don't know what the count is right now. But the aluminum ones work just fine. I have used both. And the aluminum were, again, part of the process of wanting to build both standard steel because they know they'd be stuck with, again, production on it no matter what. And then trying to lighten the combat load, that was the purpose behind the aluminum. And they actually prioritized where the aluminum mags went to. There was a control system in the inventory for the German military. And the idea was to lighten up the combat load, give them greater projection and strength, allow them to carry more big, big mags, big slab 20 round mags, and they would be happy. Well, we think the same way. So these HK mags that really work well, we make a point of putting right into the inventory. And we plan on continuing to use them. And CenterFireSystems.com is where that's located. Bottom of the scroll, down at the bottom. There's a number of different items that show up, but it's $6 HK91 standard military mags for $9. That's $1.50 apiece. It's a hell of a good price, no matter how you look at it. In fact, even if you paid a little less later, it's a reasonable price. You can't cry about what you're getting. I don't see you getting cheaper unless you do buy well over $1,000. I know where to go to get them, but again, the idea is you're probably not going to purchase a thousand, so it's just not in the realm of probability. It doesn't mean it isn't in the possibility inventory, but the probability of you doing that is less likely. Anyway, another thing real quick on revolvers, I've mentioned speed loaders many times, but we have to really emphasize maintenance, unlike any of our firearms. I'm a maintenance phobe. Well, Mark, you talk about maintenance a lot. Yeah, I plan on surviving. I need your equipment to work just as well as mine does so that we all make it through together, because you're covering my back, and I'm covering yours, and it's a team effort, kids. With revolvers, remember that the individual cylinder clean is especially critical. Another thing is to watch for debris and gunk on the face of the hammer side of the cylinder channel where the cylinder rests. That's where your indexer comes up and moves the cylinder. A lot of times gunk starts to build up there. Now the good thing is because of the way the gun rests in the holster, unless you're carrying a jackass rig, which is a horizontal perpendicular to your body. Typically, with what we're talking about with a standard holster, the debris is not going to ride up against gravity. But when you're carrying something like this a lot, well, we kind of figure you're shucking and jiving and trying to hide just like the other guys have that you're shooting at, right? We're not all pop-up targets, right? Because of that, you need to do care and maintenance when you stop. Inspect your weapons real quick. You only do it once. You don't have to dwell on the subject. But you do need to, again, have a little brush handy. Now, I'll tell you what really works well for this. And I've used them for quite some time. Prison brushes for, especially temporary or what they call in the hole use, all that they give out is they're half brushes. They're designed so you can't turn them into a shank. sharpen one end by heating them up in hot water or in the microwave. See, they provide microwaves. You don't have to boil them in water like you used to. You can stick something like this in the microwave with some other items, and the toothbrush becomes like putty, and then you stretch it out. And you know the cool thing is that you can stab somebody with it, put it back in the microwave, heat it back up, and it'll go right back to its original form. Oh, you didn't know that? Oh, that's a mean little tool that a lot of them, well, the murder weapon or the stabbing assault weapon was never found. Yeah, there's a reason for that, son. Well, anyway, they make these little half toothbrushes. They're still a full-size head. They're cheap. You can get them for like a nickel or four cents or three cents a piece. More, you know, if you buy a full box, they're like a penny to three pennies a piece. And they're great because you can put those on a hanger on your gear. And when you stop, you do a quick look at your weapon because, let's say you've been in a little bit of excitement, you brush off your iron sights, you check your area around before you pull the bolt back, check the area around the bolt on your AR-15 or your AK, brush any gunk out before you move the action again. You probably got some junk in the weapon from that. If you got crud, dirt, mud, icy mud, or stuff you'll build up it just a little bit. Well you don't want any of that in your weapon. The same is true with looking at the handgun real quick. I don't care if it's some automatic or if it's a revolver. What you want to do is inspect real quick the sights and do a quick brush up on them, especially if you've had a holster and they actually have used it. And also again, check that cylinder channel face where the indexer and where the firing pin comes through on the back wall of the, you know, it's the front of the the hammer, but it's the back wall of the frame. When you consider that that whole area there's a cross-trap on top and you've got the trigger guard down below, the front of the frame is where the barrel is screwed in, guys. That's the front of the frame. So this back panel area, it can build up carbon, it can build up crud, ice, dirt, whatever. You want to open the cylinder. And if you need to be, if you get a chance, if you've got a little bit of time to think, about once a day at least, you need to pull the ammunition. Grab your cleanup rag or a piece of toilet paper or whatever you want to do. Brush off each one of the rounds. Do a quick pop on the cylinder itself when you can do maintenance. You know, just run a rod through each one with a piece of cotton cloth. to clean out the channel and that's just basic maintenance. I'm not talking about using lubricant, I'm talking about just cleaning and crud away from the gun. The more often you do that, the more likely it is you're not going to have any problems because two things happen. Number one, most of your firearms are self-cleaning. This is true. I mean, when any weapon has been looked at and developed, When you work the action, the garbage that's in the gun typically is scraped across and because gravity sucks is pushed along the base face of the bolt and it drops down through places like the trigger guard hole or other lower points that are receiver entry points for control switches like the safety, even the magazine well. If it goes down through the magazine well, even though there's a mag there, chances are the crud's going to keep going south. It's going to keep falling with gravity. The FN FAL is a flat surface gun as opposed to a round mill or around, again, the machine process being different. And it's actually like the AKA self-scraping, self-cleaning weapon system. This was actually part of the formula for the weapons design. It is talked about openly years ago in the original development of the gun. Now the AR really does something similar, but it's again different machining processes. You either use grinders and planers, or you're using lathes and mills. Okay, and in both cases you still use a mill. But remember you're looking at rounded surfaces, like the inside of the receiver of an AR-15 as opposed to the inside of the receiver of say an FAL or an AK. Now there's some that have both hemispheres and flat surfaces. Probably the best example of that is some of the, you know, again the dust cover and some of the individual components that make up part of the the bolt group. What I mean by hemisphere, it won't be a circle, it won't be circular, it'll actually be just like you know you've got a half moon rising or like a half of a moon or a sun rising over the horizon you get like part of. and that arc of course requires special machining processes whereas direct straight flat grinding cuts would be much more economical just not necessarily popular. I would point out that every gun I mentioned actually in their design base concept in other words when they sat down and said how will we make the ultimate Kalishnikov or how will we make the Fabrik Nationale du Gare FN FAL? Well, they actually looked at it and said, you know, right now we're going to do it this way, but down the road if we have to cut corners, we're not going to worry about grinding that surface off there or rounding it. We're not going to worry about necessarily buffing that particular part up because it's a non-critical surface area. So understand that there were plans for making every rifle that you owned, cruder and ruder. Seriously, and if you're not familiar with that, you need to do a little research. Even the AR-15, although it doesn't really have any... There's not a whole lot of accommodation for failure on finish on the AR, but a lot of external surface finish can be completely ignored. Usually a lot of the finish grind on the outside, which also takes a few, you know, what, tips of an ounce away. Irrelevant. The outer finish on the air upper and lower really is not critical at all. It could be as much as crude as is necessary, almost to the point where you could even ignore machining, except for contact surface areas where controls are. Example, the surface area right where the AR-15 safety switch is. Well, that area has to be flat and consistent. You can't have any burrs, spurs, or again, unique surfaces there. So typically it's gone over once with a, again, a finished plane cut. Yep, and that would be it. Beyond that, there would be no need for any additional. Even the safety kits that are put on a lot of your receivers, you've got the stopper station kits that are actually milled out of the, right on the surface of the receiver, those are not necessary. Those are not essential. Again, the idea here is that if you're trying to simplify for wartime production, where can you cut corners to get more guns out? And also not wear out machine tools that are expensive to replace when your factories and your munitions sites are being destroyed. When things are getting bombed or things are getting blewed up, stuff like that happens. We've got a caller. Who do we have? Oh, Mike, look at a lot like World War II for instance, look at a lot of the British Stens and the way they were just kind of like welded together, I mean they almost look like a caulking gun. They were even brazed. In fact, right now the latest wave of Sten guns that are coming in are brazed kits. And you know that that was quietly not talked about originally. But think about this, those guns that they're bringing in as kits, guys, those came from some place where they were using them. And they've been using them since when? What year is this? Mike, this is 2016, right? Yeah, the first 10 started to see service in 1942 although in fact 1941 they had the idea for the stand worked out and they actually did prototyping and they handed some out to the home guard and then very few got to the home guard they went to the troops that needed firearms and that would be the frontline troops first and like you said it looks like a caulk gun it really is as crude and rude as could be possible now there are other weapons like this but but in more sophisticated designs on the German side The G43 is an example of where you didn't need to finish it. Why waste the machinery? And if you look at a G43 or a K43, what basically people call sniper rifles, originally they were not designated just for sniper use. They were supposed to be the German equivalent to the Grand. They are not the only designs. There are about a dozen Germans with some automatic rifles leading up to that design that were put into service. Because they were at war, both weapons were made before the war and during, all of them went to combat. They got a chance to actually evaluate what do you think about it. The G43 and K43 are using a very unique locking cam system. But like the Bolt Carrier Group and the receiver, where they did not have to finish it, and these were in fusion cast iron. Forgive me, steel pieces, not iron. Wherever they didn't have to finish it, guys, it looks like dirt has the surface of, say, ground material. They left it just the way it was cast. And it was a successful design. It had some issues only because you had to change those cams out a little more often than they originally planned. But that's because of Germany's metallurgy issues with the middle and later war production. Otherwise, again, it doesn't have to be real fancy. Finish doesn't count for anything in the field in combat as far as pretty goes. Now, fit and finish where the working parts are? Yes. And the Sten, by the way, this is the other thing, the reason they don't want anybody to dwell on the Sten, even though it's been in movies and everything else, and even some stuff, especially from the 60s, there's some interesting things that were out there that actually covered the Sten. In fact, they focused on the Sten, and then they made those movies disappear, because again, the Sten only cost $2.75 during its peak production in World War II. And it worked pretty much every time you pulled the trigger. So a $2.75 submachine gun. And if you've ever lifted a Sten, it's not a punky sheet metal piece of gun. It's actually a B-FIF firearm by today's standards. And it worked. So yeah, there's an... The Sten also required minimal threading, minimal surface machining. Everything was designed so that it could be done in a garage by grandma or by grandma in her kitchen or with a minimal amount of machine tool expense. And so the trunnion, the barrel, and the bolt are all very, very limited in terms of finish. It's all straight cut. It's all straight tube design. All you do is thread it toward whatever the spec is for what I think 3 eighths of an inch for the trunnion. For the barrel, you've got the barrel ring. The barrels, in fact, at a certain point when they were getting really short and desperate, some of the barrels that were produced didn't even have rifling. They were to spec, but they basically ran a line down the inside of the barrel. Now very few of those survived because as soon as the British could upgrade, they'd got more materials, they had more machinery. They started to take the older barrels or change out parts. But they made the bolt for the stem gun out of brass, out of bronze, out of malleable iron. Now there's a big difference. When I say iron, don't think regular cast iron. malleable iron was used not only for weapons parts, but malleable iron was also used for tank pads, for track pads. So think about that. Iron? Yeah! And the crudity of the Sten gun was such that it was a thousandth of an inch crude for everything. You could be off by a thousandth of an inch on most all of the parts, and it didn't make any difference. That's saying something right there. And that's why they don't want to talk about it because, see Mike, one of the things I've discussed for years, combine two designs. Everybody go take a look, and I'm serious about this, do some research. I see some brain matter working here. They already did this with the Zussman semi-auto, the belt-fed one, the B7B. Go take a look at the crudest .50 caliber we probably ever made. It's the .50 caliber spotting rifle for the M106 recoilless rifle. There's a .50 caliber coaxial gun that runs parallel with the primary. And when the spotter, when the gunner would think his crosshairs were on, he would pull the trigger, and trigger one would activate the .50 and send an incendiary white phosphorus round downrange. And as soon as he saw the flash on the hull of the tank, he hit the second trigger, and boom, the second round, the 106 round, goes downrange and frags the tank. Now that design was semi-automatic and magazine fed. So if you don't think you can't make a crude and rude Sten gun kind of a big caliber or even a medium caliber gun, you could take the design that is the 106 spotting rifle, it is stamped and a crude, rude tube gun. Yet it was very accurate by the way. Well, you take that design and scale it down to .223 and you've got yourself, in fact, what you do for a magazine, use the AR-15 mag. All the parts you need that you need to improvise for the gun, folding stock for the AR-15, pistol grip from the AR-15, even the trigger assembly. It seems like all you'd really need is a metal brake Chinese outlays from Harbor Freight or something and you're in business. And the point is, I think what you were trying to make is, that's the whole point why they don't talk about it is because they don't want people to pick up on the fact that you don't need much enough and knock these out. very idea of how many they put in the field, those damn things work. They may be cruisers now off a thousandths of an inch, but at the end of the day, they work and gives people the idea that with the most rudimentary of even skills, equipment, and material, you can knock these things together all day long and you don't need maybe like a 20 year You know, tool and die guy to do it. Right. Well, most of the parts for the Sten gun were made by grandmas and women at home in their own house, in their own living room, or in their kitchen. A guy would show up with a box of metal. They would bring in a mandrel and a few tools like a hammer. And grandma's job was to take that piece of strap metal, a strap, S-T-R-A-P, strap metal, piece of metal already cut. The factory said, OK, we got this long stringy piece of metal. We make a strip, and we cut it every 3 and 1 half or 4 inches. OK, every 4 inches. We'll say 4. I haven't measured what the trigger guard is, because it can be any size you want. But the idea is that what they did is they had a steel plate with a couple of stirrup points in it that were like bend points. And Grandma would lay the piece of metal in that jig, take the hammer, and tap the parts around the jig. And then when she was done, take it and put it in the empty box. Take another one, put it in, put the strip in there, bend the two ends to the shape of the mandrel, take it out, put another one in. And then some guy would show up at the end of the day with a lorry or maybe a bicycle and with a little trailer behind it and go, hello, Mrs. Smitty-dah, what are you doing? If you've done your goods, yeah, I've got it right here. I've got a whole box full of them. Here you go. Thanks, madam. I'll be back tomorrow morning with some old goodies. Oh, it's OK. Would you like some pee? No, no. I've got a lot of pee right now. I had two cups at the other stops. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye. Ta-ta. And that's how they did everything. If you had a drill press in your garage, you were making gun parts. If you didn't have the tools, they made a tool for you and that's what you did. So this was crude and rude but it worked. And again, a similar process could be developed. Now why would we do that? Why do you want to do that early on in a war? Well it's real simple guys. There are other weapons that are going to take a lot more of your resources that are more complicated and you focus what resources you have on those projects. Hey Mark. I was doing some machining in the shop today and what I'm making right now is an old rasp file that what they would clean the horse's hopes with. And so anyways, because it's hardened, I didn't soften the metal. I added on a drill press, drill in the lanyard hole and because it's, you know, hard steel and it hasn't been annealed yet, the back end broke off. All I had to do was put it on the the portable bandsaw and I cut it out, it just a little hair and I got a beer bottle opener which I've been wanting anyways, a beer bottle opener at the back end of my knife and so that's my thinking outside the box thing for today and I got it in the deals right now so that's my machining thing I've done today. Very good. The good thing about that too is again remember if you are producing individual tooling and such and you have to, if you do have an error that takes place, it's not like doing tool and die that we were mentioning earlier. Tool and die is precision. You make a mistake, you go back to the crib, you pull another metal and you start from the beginning. The neat thing about being in the finished process is that you can improvise, adapt and overcome. The Russians basically, and well not that the British did the same thing, and to a degree we did, but we were more flush in raw materials. All of the Russian armaments were .30 caliber for a reason. A naga barrel or machine gun barrel is how long, guys? If a flaw took place in the process of the outer machining, do you know what they did with the barrel? They cut them down into three barrels and made three submachine gun peppy-ish barrels. If they had out of those three barrels, if one of them had another flaw, they took the same barrel and milled everything down to a Tokarev pistol barrel configuration or a Broomhandle bolo configuration. That's why all of their guns were .30 caliber guys. That way that man hours time. See, this is the thing about waste that I always look at. Example, think about this. Somebody grows a bunch of food in a location. and then they go through the process of first growing it. It takes weeks, months for that to happen. Then somebody goes out mechanically harvests it or physically harvests it. Then they box it up. Then they put it in some pretty boxes for you after they re-re-box it. Then they ship it out to a store. Then you get it and eat one and then throw the rest into the trash. Now granted, that's a part of the throwaway society they'd like to develop. But if you step back and think about what it is that's been produced, I don't care what it is if it's manufactured, what were the man hours tied into it? You don't think twice because you're flushing material right now. But when all of a sudden the push comes to shove and you're short those tools that you need, when something happens, you've got to have a plan for not wasting all the other hours that were already put into something. So, there are solutions. In fact, barrel production for instance. Okay, most of the barrels should have been 19.59 inches, but we got a few crown flaws at the last minute. So, you know what they used to do? They would literally mill down the end of the barrel. They would recrown it or do a set back, a back set crown inside the barrel and ship it right on down the road anyway. Why? Our men were training with .22 caliber rifles and didn't train with a rifle like that. In fact, before they got to it, they would be carrying wooden rifles because there wasn't enough ammunition to go around. When they did qualify, they were given .40 .22 caliber rounds, rim fire, to qualify and then go on to combat. How do I know this? That's what they did with my dad. He came in in .42 in World War II. and at Great Lakes Naval Station and with the Marines and the Navy and with the Air Force and with any of the personnel that were there, when it came to their small arms training, any training they did for drill, anything for practice, they did with a wooden rifle. And when they finally went out for qualification, no, they didn't have a Springfield or an old Enfield even. They had 22 caliber bolt action single shot rifles and their 40 rounds for qualification just to be able to say that they did it. they gave them a .22 caliber rifle to get the job done. Hey man. So you think about it there? Yeah go ahead caller, jump in there please. Yeah between an AR-15 and an AR-11 and a AR-11 which one do you think will jam quick and sand? Sand? Or you mean M1A1M14? Whatever, same kind. Well the Moss is pretty wonky, actually it has cleaning points but again I've used all of them. The M14 I haven't had a whole lot of problems with it in sand and I trained more probably in what was a sand or snow environment with that than anything. Well go ahead and get on YouTube and look up Sand Testing the AAR-15S-21S. Oh I've seen it. I know which one you saw. Yeah. You'll be amazed. Oh no, no. The problem I have with that is people have a tendency, let's just say, to be not as scientific and or they again selectively operated. Have you ever watched Forgotten Weapons? Yeah, I've seen some of the stuff they've done there too. And again, remember that the... Well, we've got to remember, they're still dealing with antiques, okay? I mean, everything we're using is an antique. Now, even our M14s are antiques. How it first came out in 1954. What year is it? I think that's the best design I ever made. It's easy to work on. I've torn it down to the last I think easiest gun to work on ever made. All three of the weapons you mentioned all have their advantages under their different conditions. The Moss rifle was an expeditionary rifle. Originally, you know, again, in the later model you see the repeat. The Moss, a bunch of them came in. That's why I've mentioned this gun several times on here, because I know there's a lot of them out there. And then whenever we run into the 7.5 ammo, about half of the guns that came in are 7.5. The other half were modified to .308. Both guns are good, but if you have a 7.5, don't worry about changing it out. Just buy all the ammo you can for it. We've got a couple guys with one of the militia units here that they're a couple of squads. They started up back in the 90s, and that's what they carry are Moss rifles. And I've only bought half of those for me, actually. So... You know, that round bolt in the AR-15 is less likely to have corners for stuff to jam. If you don't exhaust right out of the door, it clears the ball in the dirt right. I think I'm gonna stick with that. Well, again, the advantage with both, well, the MOS is the odd man out. The advantage of both is going to be spare parts, inventory. You can even go to a cruder and router with regard to components. There are cleaning, you know, self-cleaning solutions with regard to changes in design. The AR, one of the problems, well, okay, here's the thing. The AR was designed with the philosophy of keeping the dirt out by being a sealed system. It was not meant, and Stoner even stated uncategorically, it wasn't meant for the infantry, it was meant for the Air Force. And the logic is that the Air Force typically doesn't clean or historically has not maintained their weapons. When they did, the idea was that it was usually dirt and crud from outside getting in that caused the problems from sitting, not from combat use. And the AR-15 is a sealed system. So it's a really great idea with regard to that. What made the weapon a problem was when wrong powder was used, all the issues that came up with McNamara and his beam counters. It's got a lot of people killed. Those issues were eventually addressed because of not just Stoner but many of the proponents of the rifle who forced the military to improve its supply system and step up to the task of providing what was originally intended for the rifle. Now, still it's a problem. It defecates where it eats. It looks good on paper. It even looks good, but to a degree. But at a given point, because it is a closed system, it will carbon up. It's not an issue. It's just a lamp. You ever heard of a lubricant called Triflon? It smells like bananas. Yeah, it's fair enough forever. I've got a gallon of it just for the right of me here. I tried it out at M16. We were firing it with our light couple, about two, well, 2000. or it's been around for a while it's been around since the eight hundred eighty and that kind of i kept we kept three around that we're going on the start you before it's been in a couple in prison about our i think i can really start you the one started doing that but quickly back with it that it keep on going but i thought I want to say this but I'm going to tell everybody. Well hold on, before we part of that, I want to say this but I'm going to clarify it for everybody. Now that's one way to apply the lubricant and this is another way but it has to be done and used immediately. Do not, do not, do not lubricate ammunition. Do not. But, but, no, no, no, listen to what I'm saying. But, and I'm doing this intentionally so people will be like, Mark said to lubricate ammo. No I didn't. But I'm going to point out that when you get a weapon gunked up to the point where the carbon level is that high, that you're basically hoping to keep it muddy so that it keeps functioning. The trick is lubricate the ammunition on the front of the magazine. You know, the face of the magazine. You've got to get tight inside the chamber eventually. Well, but my point is that the lubricant, what it does is it moves with the violence of the weapon. You don't see it. But the micro action and motion distributes the lubricant through the system as the rounds are being loaded. But you don't want to do this, guys. If you do it, that ammunition has to be used. We used to do this with 45s and volume fire. If we'd have a .45 where we'd get a load of ammunition at Winchester or say Remington or whoever match ammunition, that was mostly Lake City. If we'd get a dirty batch of ammo, and it could happen even with factory military ammo, one of the tricks is you take whatever you got in the way of a good lubricant and you lubricate the rounds before you load them up into the pistol so there's no malfunction and you don't have an alibi. You can do this with the M16 the same way, even any of these weapons. I don't care what it is. Submachine guns, battle rifles, or pistols. But whatever you do, do not lubricate ammunition because you think it's going to make the weapon work better and leave it. What we're talking about is an emergency situation where your weapon starts malfunctioning every second round. And it's just you can't do anything to clean it up. Now everybody say we'll change guns. And to be quite honest, if you were at that point, there probably are a lot of other weapons laying around in the hands of other allies and enemy alike. And so it'd probably be a good idea to switch out to another weapon if it's carvined up that much. Once you get up around 2,000 rounds fired is where you start to see some real problems. We see a progression. We'll see a couple extra of those weapons to pile them up behind you. Right. Well, right in front of you. Like I said, my Uncle Lloyd, he's the guy I told you about. He was in China when the Chinese came across. He had five Garand's and three carbines in front of him. He told everybody who had listened when everybody talked about it, he goes, I used every one of those guns. By the time the gun would be malfunctioning or so hot it couldn't handle anymore because you'd fire them until they would burn through the gloves. They would lay that gun down and pick the next gun and line up. Every man was equipped like that. They were ready for the Chinese because they knew they were coming. A lot of places they weren't surprised. Like he told you, by the time the Garans, all five of his Garans got too hot to hold, he'd switch to the carbine and start going full auto because they were M2, M3 carbines. The reason why you got triflonded, it was like fired those guns and I always had to clean them at a certain amount of time. You know at this time I'm going to try this stuff because it just came out with brand new back in the 80s and I was like I'll try this, see what happens. The first thing to do with that again was a little expensive, a little tiny spray bomb. It's expensive no matter what but a lot of guys use it especially. And to that end I went out there you know. The big thing with the AR is if you're going to switch to a new lubricant or a different lubricant, and the tri-fon, there are several, there are some dry lubes out there. Take the bolt face, break the whole thing down, and clean the thing up completely, and then take it and apply it to the inner contact surfaces where normally you can't reach. Because if you're careful, you don't soak it. This is something that I've got to qualify for the listeners. We're talking about a light surface coat. But because you're creating that, you're sealing up the crystalline structure of the metal. All of those little contact areas will move more efficiently. And if the lubricant's there, the carbon is going to be more difficult for the carbon to displace it because it creates a double barrier along the point of surface adhesion where they make contact. If the lubricant is there in place, in very light coat, it's enough so that the carbon can't seep into or work in the area while it's in the combustion mode. Because it's still going to move. Eventually, the carbon's going to heat up whatever lubricant you've got, and it's going to push it. It's going to press it. So it's going to displace it and replace it. But it takes longer time for that to happen. Do you know what's really great about that? When you're done and you put them back together, sometimes you have lots of spares. Put them in your pocket, you'll need them later. You know that back there. Hey, one of these extras, don't worry about it. Just put them in your pocket. Don't worry. Hey, you didn't have to buy those, right? You're going to have them later. Doesn't work that way, does it? Parts are probably there for a reason, aren't they? Well, yeah, I guess so. It's kind of like when you put an engine together and you have your spare parts left over. Going something? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that engine started in turns for a few moments. Well, there's a couple of guys that were doing engineering improvements, they were in the Arkansas, I think, and they came up with a, what basically you can do, you can take many of these and start racing the mop. Okay, literally racing, you know, ball bearing races and such. You can literally replace it with micro races and I don't know that anybody has taken that to the extreme. The only thing is, remember it's like Scotty said, the more complicated the plumbing the easier it is to bollocks up the drain. But there's a lot of tweaking that was done with the M14 the same way where they went the other direction, hyper tolerances and with races and bearings. And it can be done. the Well that's an adhesion test. Great, that's what we're talking about. How much resistance are you seeing based upon, again, the level of final finish that's done? Because you can take it down to so many tens of thousands. I mean, by the time you're done, especially with bowls and arches, oh hell, what was the name of the company? There were two or three, and one of them's out of business here in Detroit now. Used to be down by Detroit ball bearing. And that was their forte, that was their niche. Detroit ball bearing I'm pretty sure is still, I think, I shouldn't say that. It was the, any ball bearing, any race, anything that was ever made, or any tool like that, any of the, all of the, Detroit ball bearing had it. Now if they're still in business, and I haven't really checked, one of my friends was here two days ago and I could have found out because he went to Detroit specifically for tools for the kind of projects we're talking about right now. And last thing I mentioned, he actually went to Detroit ball bearing. But they've got stuff, I mean I was looking for instance, we were building, we were building a, well let's just say we were working on a unique weapon system. I was like, we probably won't be able to get the original races, we won't be able to get any of the bearings, we'll have to have them built. And they went down and they had them on the shelf. And half of what we bought were from the period, from World War II. Half of what we bought were original inventory stock from World War II. It's the second time that happened. I was rebuilding a Bren gun carrier from the ground up. Actually, I recovered it up in the thumb area. We dragged it back down here. And I had to pull it apart. And the problem with the Bren gun carrier is it's open top like a half track. Well, that doesn't sound too bad, except remember that they have a steering gear system I've told you about before. All of the steering gear system have races. Well, if you leave the Bren gun open and uncovered and outside, it works like a bathtub. and all the places where all the working gears are and all the steering points are which are all adjustable and have thread stock you gotta go in and disassemble them and clean everything up and I every one of the races have been sitting in water outside for only about three years have been in a bar and some idiot dragged the thing back out so I figured okay bugger we're gonna have to spend some money on this we went down to Detroit bearing in every part we needed they had original issue on the shelf Every size race I needed 12 different races and I needed replacement bearings for tracks and for guides and every one of them I had on the shelf. So that kind of technology, as it was still in Detroit, whether or not it's been lost here recently, I don't know because I haven't checked. The audience of trailers. Yeah. Well, probably they might be in communist China by now. Well, it shouldn't be, but you know, and the other part about it is the last time that I ordered from many of the other companies, and this was interesting, when I was doing work on another Bren gun carrier and I didn't go to Detroit bearing, almost half of the bearings were either made in Bulgaria, the braces and the bearings are made in Bulgaria, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. and no two, even though they were the same size, were from the same country. And then the rest were Chinese, but the Chinese we didn't buy. You know, I know better than that. The Czech and the Romanian and the Bulgarian, they knew what they were doing because they were building armored vehicles. You know what I mean? So they had heavy machinery and they want to sell it, so they make it work. The Chinese, they just want to sell you more parts. And the Mexicans, they just laugh their ass off, drink beer, and you know, again, build crappy stuff. Anyway, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Anything else? We're almost at the top. Oh, yeah, actually you had that Ron Paul video that you seen there. I I scrolled to that and then I seen that they have some sort of break in. Didn't see that. Oh, is that on that video? Picture of some Syrian dude with the UN mic in front of him. Okay. I was on Paul one that you just mentioned and then I seen this guy and it said break in and I went back to the foreign agents captured in Aleppo. That's the It's like remember they were pissing them on about the command center that the Russians bragged and it turns out remember it was Israelis, Turks and Americans and the ISIS command. Yeah they were part of the command center. They were standing there bare ass naked to what they were. And this is the same situation except remember this is why they were pissing them on about Aleppo. Remember that it's really bad, you can't save face when you run and leave the minions behind that you created. So some of them had to be there to try and bolster beef up and keep the cattle from running like hell to the rear. Oh, and he's even immin' them. He's giving out their names. Right, I know that's what I'm saying. They got caught on the ground because they were supposed to hold the ISIS terrorists together. That's what this is all about. They were trying to keep them from, while they're withdrawing equipment or burning or destroying information, No matter how big or small an operation is, the bureaucrats, especially the Israelis and us, we're horrible for it. We have tons of information and documentation on the ground. It's kind of like what you see at the end of World War II, like the movie about Hitler in the bunker where they're throwing the stuff out of the windows and burning it in the court. It's not that bad, but it's pretty close. where they've got a lot of incriminating information. I mean, imagine if they were torturing people and slitting people's throats and chopping heads off. Don't you think they were taking a lot of video? Don't you think they were also selling that? They do all kinds of twisted stuff. They market that stuff. They've got people that are in the stuff films, pornography with rape and children, and government runs those things in operational situations like this. There's stuff that they'll probably capture that ain't no way in hell they're going to let anybody see here. The reason I bring that up, well, there's a lot more to it. This is a dirty, bad, wicked situation with a bunch of vile, wicked individuals that have pushed this garbage from the get-go. They're dirty as the day is long, we don't really need them around us, and it's another reason why we need an American war for independence to get rid of the asshats that are doing this. Because they were just trying to drag us into that thing. They have still been trying to drag us into it, guys. Anyway, we're at the top. Oh my goodness. Hell, this hour went fast. And by the way, again, do not, do not, do not, lubricate your ammo. I've told you this a million times, but in an emergency situation only, if your weapons are starting to malfunction dramatically, A, try to change the weapon. But there are a few tricks of the trade, which again would be last ditch and only emergency. Not any kind of regular practice, guys. You've got to maintain the weapons. You've also got to watch it. You can do harm. I've had a lot of M60s that we have destroyed, or we did destroy, but operators have destroyed because they didn't listen to my instructions. Okay? When I say destroyed, I had a guy walk up to me once and say, okay, I just could do with this. I said, well, you just hang on to it. And I heard the Sergeant Ellsworth, and we looked at each other, and he said, ain't no way in hell we can fix it. And there's a reason somebody didn't listen. And PM was not done, maintenance wasn't done, lubricant wasn't used. And the bulkface and the trunnion were pretty much a fused, you know, hammered piece of cherry red metal. Ooh, I hate that when that happens. God bless the republic! Yes, for the New World Order, we shall prevail. Ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We're out of March, and I think that's Nat Keko. And great for forbidden knowledge. Coming up next, we'll be back, 8 o'clock. God bless y'all. Merry Christmas. Be careful if you're heading out on the road. Bye-bye. the way. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit MaineMilitary.com. MaineMilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do you own a firearm? 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