December 28, 2016
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Mark Koernke discussed various rifle and firearm designs on Weapons Wednesday, December 28, 2016, focusing on practical considerations for armed defense and battlefield scenarios. He analyzed the SIG 223 light rifle, Beretta carbines, High Point carbines in various calibers, the Steyr AUG bullpup, and single-shot rifles, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and reliability over exotic platforms. Koernke extensively covered ammunition loading techniques for creating subsonic rounds using heavier bullets in standard calibers like .223, and discussed tactical rifle employment emphasizing accurate single-shot placement over volume of fire, using the fictional character Mr. Dolby as an example of disciplined marksmanship in urban warfare scenarios.
- sig 223 light rifle
- ar-15
- steyr aug
- high point carbine
- beretta
- .223 remington
- 5.56 nato
- single-shot rifle
- subsonic ammunition
- tactical rifle
- urban warfare
- marksmanship
- battlefield pickup
- trapdoor springfield
- preparedness
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Dill the land of the free harassment from the regime We're just malfeasance on the part of technology and not our from our end but the regime is so good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report, Ivar Korky. Loser to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on 3radio.4mg.com, Indiana Freedom Talk. radio dot com and we're on a m f m micro stations c b bay stations and ultra net hallmark and golden spike technologies east and west of the mississippi along with alaska good afternoon to our friends in the great state of jefferson and with all the work that they're doing to get the job done spreading those two dollar bills those two dollar jefferson bills everywhere across the great state of Jefferson doing away with California and plugging in the right kind of people with the right kind of job freeing up America and embracing our liberty that's what the great state of Jefferson all about congratulations keep up the good work anyway Let's see a couple things. What's weapons Wednesday by the way? Let's not forget to benchmark the date. Sunset right now, gray and mostly clear through the day. We've got a little bit of a haze. I'm hoping we'll actually get a little cloud cover to come in. That would keep a little bit of the heat we've got. On the edge of freezing and for that reason being a little muddy if you keep walking in the same spots over and over again and working outside you can't help that sometimes. It is Weapons Wednesday, it is the 28th of December. It is the 8th year of Open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a KA 2016, calendar, 2016 year of battle, year of... and I'll tell you what, just looking at some of the solutions and issues, technology, etc. There's a couple weapons we don't talk much about, but there's a reason for it. It's really as much as anything, it's just cost. The SIG 223 light rifles, beautiful firearm. Seriously, I handled it years ago when it first came in with one of the full auto, you know, Class III FFLs, and the guys said, hey, check this out. And it was new in the package, so to speak, kind of brand new, not long in the tooth at all. And it was just one of those, it was like a baby FAL in many ways, shorter barrel though, it doesn't have the longer barrel, which I think if they built it, it would really make it a phenomenal, you know, short to middle range placement rifle. It's expensive, it's so god-awful expensive, it's like, well, I'm not thinking about that one. If available in semi-auto, I think it would still be because it's, you know, a SIG rifle, oh, that's god-awful expensive, and I'm not thinking about that one. Now picking it up on the battlefield, oh I'd grab it a heartbeat. I wouldn't have any problem carrying it if I had to and certainly would probably keep it as a reserve rifle like many others and hand them out to the troops without any problem. The big thing is parts and assemblies. And while the SIG rifle is a phenomenal weapon, it is actually, it's amazing although again it's taken from several different firearms. The basic package is lightweight, good center of balance, better than most I personally think, and it's a comfortable weapon to shoot. It's a very, very comfortable firearm comparable to the Air 15. It's in the chipmunk cartridge. It's in 223-556. So it's standard for ammunition. It's NATO standard for magazines. It is a SIG system. There are three variants, most of them you and I will never touch until we kill one of the enemy invaders who will be carrying the SIGs or they'll be showing them out to some of the secret police here that are already here. And so you are going to be pulling them off corpses. They are pretty dominant in secret police and globalist units. You'll notice a lot of the pictures of like the support for... you'll see that the secret police characters that are the globalist, ring-knocker, parasite slash, you know, Satan worshippers. They're carrying SIGs. They're carrying SIG rifles, light rifles. Line them with a short barrel, again, for close, close, close quarters, fine. Once you get it to start spreading out into the countryside, bit of an issue there. And so again, yeah, it might throw it in a backpack. Certainly we pick them up off every corpse. But some of the considerations, for instance, has a direct contact charging handle, which is really nice. In other words, it's fixed to the bolt system to actually allow for direct application of energy to the bolt. The one thing about the Air 15 with that charging handle is applying energy when it's needed if you have a jam malfunction or just a stretch case or a case that's a little too tight going in. Which is why, again, for the GOES-INCOMPART we built that forward assist that wasn't on the rifle before on the Air 15. And as a footnote, we typically don't beat the snout out of a rifle. If something's malfunctioned, we don't try to beat it shut, but we do with the M16. That's just a given. I'm just pointing out that immediately I know there's toes curling and I'm just stating the fact that with good machinery you don't beat on it. And you don't beat something into place. The problems with the philosophy of the forward assist on the M16 and AR-15 is that if you are jamming it in, do you know what's in front of the cartridge? Do you know that there isn't something there that you really don't want to beat that cartridge into place? But because you may not be able to extract it, the only option you have is in the hopes, the bare-bone hopes, that the weapon isn't plugged or there isn't a barrel issue with a bullet, you know, with that large symbol in front of you, a chunk of pebble, god knows what. When you pull the trigger, oh yeah, the action works for the last time. Okay, it doesn't necessarily gonna hurt you, but it's gonna be hurting the weapon to the point where you better be looking around on the ground for another battlefield pickup. know what I mean, or switching first out to your handgun immediately. Immediately to action drill, drop the wreckage, and you know, pick up, pull out or extract your personal firearm and be ready to fight. Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourself. Remember that famous line from We Were Soldiers. Well, the SIG has direct contact. The stock system is pretty stable. In fact, I was impressed with that because it has a positive lock system, which is There are two ways to do that with a post pin which is a positive taper. Now what we mean by a positive taper is the two contact surfaces are slightly beveled and no matter how they wear, they wear into each other. Now this is done either with a pin, and again a slight bevel to the retaining slot that the pin slides down into. It's usually spring-loaded, so it's in the positive lock position until you pull the pin back and then pivot the folding stock. The other system, which you find very dominant on the Valmé rifles, is a double wedge. It's also very popular with most any other country that's figured out by far, and that was a good idea. So the double wedge system is where two angles, basically with one angle surface, the high angle surface of the triangles, face each other and they wear to each other. There's no possibility of that stock loosening up. unless it's a fixture issue to the weapon itself and if that happens you either tighten it up or you find out why it's wobbling, if it's busted, cracked or bent, you get it off, fix it or replace it. Take your pick. Fix or replace, but when we know it's going to have to be done. But the wearing system itself is sensible, it's very intelligent. Take a look at the Velmae. Most of the Velmae rifles from the 72 and 74 and 76 on those particular models. We'll have a folding stock or typically have a folding stock although it's really kind of camouflage You wouldn't really expect it. You don't feel it because the stock is so stable By the very nature of the superior design that the fins came up with okay darn those fins They are crafty little butters supreme warriors give me the opportunity anyway Just an idea there that there's a couple other weapons out because somebody asked me mark. Why don't you talk about these well? I can The Sig and the Beretta guns. Now the Beretta's of course go into a different direction when you get the latest model of Beretta and you're not going to see much of any of them in the civilian guys. And if you do, Beretta wants an arm and a leg for those. So it's one of those, man, I can buy three, four, or five AR-15s for the price of one of those. So why don't I buy three, four, or five of those AR-15s and arm five people up to shoot the guy with the Beretta and then I take the Beretta. Oh yeah, that works that way, doesn't it? And so, see, there's where the problem is, is that yes, there are these really cool weapons, and you don't want to get me started on HK. I mean, HK, bye! Because they hate you! Okay? But the Italians, you don't see much of anything. I mean, we do have the Beretta Model 92, but we don't see much of anything else from The Italians, there is a Beretta carbine out there, you've seen it probably by now, a 9mm, to get into the carbine family. But once again, when they got into it, did they make it really affordable or useful? Because the price is what kills it. Okay, if you're going to buy a 9mm carbine, it better be about half the price of my .223 rifle, if at all possible. It shouldn't be as expensive. But you see, that's where the problem is. It's like, well, it's cheap to build, but boy, we'll just see what we can gouge the Americans for. It should not be that way at all. The very nature of the engineering, minimized engineering requirements with a light rifle based on a pistol cartridge means that it should be about where a high point runs in price. And high points have crept up progressively. This started out at $127 a piece, remember? Which makes sense and was actually pretty reasonable. But as they became popular, they started to ratchet the price up and the sales prices gone up. Still, they're 1 half, at least, if not less than a half, actually about, oh, what would you say? 2 fifths, the cost of an AR. So you can actually get about 2 and 1 half of the high points for the price of one AR. And so there again, that does make sense, mathematically because of materials. uh... and you're not having to work as much into the design because it doesn't have to take that much of the of much abuse with a pitiful cartridge i don't care what this will cartridge would be three five seven sieg forty caliber smith and wesson uh... ten millimeter in fact you don't see how if anybody has anything i'd have to issue look at that uh... there are a few guns were proposed but i don't know if they were finished for instance ten millimeter certainly there in forty caliber smith and wesson the other ten millimeter They're in 357 SIG. You'll find a number of guns, but those are typically pricier if they're in 357 SIG. 9mm, 45 ACP. And even, in fact, High Point right now, for instance, a Wyze company, is now offering a High Point carbine in 380 Auto. which is really cool to lighter little lighter gun certainly uh... again every little white three eighty well any question has been that common will review of the white three eighty all because there's a lot of three out there and a lot of people who have a single cartridge but wanted another little light rifle don't want a second caliber laying around a lot of people are just doing the buying these guns for defense guns and i understand the three eighty concept i'd like to see A changeout barrel system so they could go to say 32 Auto, 380 Auto and Makarov because they should be able to do that. And if you take a look, remember 32 ACP automatic Colt pistol is a semi-rimmed case. So the base diameters are close enough for extractor purposes and other issues that With 32 and 380 you can almost use the same mag if you design the feed lips properly and do what is called a candid taper for retention purposes for the way that the feed lips are built on the top of the magazine. This candid taper allows for shifting back and forth between the two calibers if you want from 32 to 380 auto. Now this has been done before by the way. And I would point out that though typically browning for instance, their Model 1910, their Model 1922 pistols, they're really the same. The 1922 just has another inch and a half worth of barrel. Barrel shroud that comes off where the normal barrel nut normally would. And they made the same gun longer. In both cases, the guns are available in .32 and .380 Auto. No significant change, no change in the frame. No change in basic design. Barrel change, extractor stays the same. And they did make magazines specific, but in a pinch, I've carried the Model 1922 and used it and shot it a lot. And using it in both .32 and .380 comfortably, and if need be, using one mag over the other for, again, reloads. They've got to dump some mags down range. You want to have to shoot, so I want to fire a few rounds. Both mags can be pressed into service for either caliber, .32 or .380 Auto. Colts, the 1906 pocket pistol comparable and again offered in the two basic calibers and also in a 35 Remington pistol load that became obsolescent almost as quickly as it came out. It lasted maybe a couple of decades and then seemed to just fade into non-existence real quick. Again, there are some other calibers from the early part of the 1900s that were compatible, comparable but compatible with the small frames and the pocket pistol category, defense pistol category that actually were giving everybody a run for their money. How and why they died, it's kind of like the three dominant calibers. It's almost like everybody just agreed, let's make these disappear. 30 Remington and 32 Remington both had comparable performance to the .308 or the 7mm Mauser cartridge. And while the .30 caliber Remington rifle and .32 caliber Remington rifle were monster out there in force, go get an old catalog for any company. Sears Roebuck, Savage Corporation, take your pick, Savage rifle. Any of these companies, 30 Remington was listed even if it wasn't a flagship cartridge for their company. It was typically offered back during that period of time. Now both those 32 and 30 calibers were also big cop shop guns for prison use and police departments and enforcement. There was a general agreement just to let them lie, let them fade. And the performance of the cartridge was reasonable. In fact, it's kind of full swing because we have 7mm Mauser, 7mm Assault, .308 NATO, and the .30 caliber Remington performed well within the specs of all three of those rounds. Yet it just... So there are some things that are fascinating about the fickleness of shooters. Mostly they're having to do with rumor or having to do with very specific politics. And I believe that's what happened with those particular calibers or any of the police type calibers that were, you know, smacked down later on. Again in favor of others where they were pushing and pushing a particular part of the industry and favoring certain manufacturers Anyway, uh, whoa Fascinating some of the stuff that you guys are throwing at me right now and I would point out we have got some ear candy We need to also throw into the mix today Beyond that the Steyr AUG another kind of really cool design A Star Wars blaster, it looks like something should be in a sci-fi movie. It is actually a really well thought out, it's another, again, the Star AUG, the AUG. Australia adopted the gun, had problems with it in full auto mode because of heating up the plastic. But it kept in its original configuration with original intent as a rifleman's weapon, and not just spraying and praying. The gun for a bullpup has a couple of really neat solutions and then progressive solutions that were built into it. uh... to give it reasonable accuracy small package uh... there are three bullpups that basically meet that criteria for actually doing what they were supposed to do in performing in a comparable fashion to the uh... long rifle or conventional rifle design that would be their counterparts and by the battlefield in the august one of them the problem is price and how they even offered different stocks to change out cuz remember the integrated stock system for the magazine well You can buy a complete stock changeout if you have one of the earlier Augs. It takes the Aug proprietary mag. It doesn't use an AR-15 mag. And your Aug can then use AR-15 mags. But the stock changeout is a chunk of change by itself because it is a Polymer stock frame system. And that is most of the weapon. Good gun. Again, it's going to be found in limited use, but the Aussies are agreeing to play police state in the UN against America. They've already been here a couple of times. and the August come along with them. So you are going to pick it up on the battlefield. It's not that you necessarily are going to carry it. If you're lucky, you might have bought it back when it first came into the country and was reasonably priced as a semi-auto gun. But after that, ooh, now, we kind of go around the world towards the Chinese and the Japanese. Oh, go ahead. Call or jump in there, please. More so than ever you can. In the past there was more of an issue. This is why the, again, certain guns were specific chambered for the 223 Remington case. The spec variance is minor. The issues would be from weapon to weapon. Example, if you have the Mini-14, I would say I've shot so many Mini-14s with standard ball-aiming issue, even though it specifically says, you know, 223 ammo. Well, nobody could afford 223 ammo at $7 a box when you could buy 5.6 MO for $2 a box back in the day. So we fired a lot of the 223 and so I guess you would say research and development by direct application. One of the most important things is that the industry has seen the issue and how it's been asked and addressed just like you're asking right now. And as a safety precaution, they have leaned towards spec'ing both cartridges closer together. 556 reconfigured at the throat and typically if you'll notice there's line spec changes with the cartridge like a cellar below. See it's interesting because they have such a massive market of the odd man out military rifles. They were selling a lot of ammunition to South America to the countries that bought Rookers Mini-14 in the GB model. and they didn't differentiate. They simply bought 5.56 ammo, fed it to the .223 spec, and it just consumed it like there's no tomorrow. The issue is the possibility of feed issues. If the weapon's worn in, the other thing I've noticed is, again, your weapon is progressively going to wear to spec, or wear an open up, actually. And then it's in, basically, with a military acceptable specification for chamber dimension. No problem, it's a like one of the Mossbergs or the Savages, the little... Oh, no, not a problem at all. No, in fact, those are... I have... That's one of the... Thank you for bringing that up, because we had a conversation on that last night. It's being strangely here, because we were talking about two in the morning. Those are some of the nicest little guns that I think have been made in the last 30 years, because they made them in .223, 7x39, and of course, which is a good cartridge. The big thing is the military calibers. And the .223 slash the .556, these are single barrel for anybody who's not familiar with them. Ivar's Johnson, bicycle gun. But with some major improvements and changes in the stock, the canth of the stock has been improved. It has to be with the rifle anyway. Nature difference between shotgun and rifle and how they feel when they tug to the shoulder. To redistribute that, you change the comb and you change the angle of the stock and all of that. Those guns are actually an excellent solution for individual placement sniper rifle work. I love the design and I like them when they offered them like five barrel links when they first came out and the longest one is the one I always wanted but never could track down. I think it was like 24 or 26 inches in a .223 and they also had it in a .308 also. I shouldn't leave that out. It's a .308 7.62x39. and they were going to make it. I don't know, maybe you know this. They 545x39, they were going to crank it out in the AK-74 round too. But I never heard any more about that. To be interesting is if you got the 223, I've never done this, but I assume that they offered packages. I would think that you can change the barrel and go from one caliber to the next just like any other top So you could have a .223 barrel, a .308 barrel, a .762 by a .39 barrel, and then they added .243 and they did, before they did them all military calibers, they did those in the Swift cartridges, .243 Win, and oh, what was the other one? Oh, .222, another Shorty cartridge, not a fireball, that goes way back. But there was another cartridge that they did and I thought it was interesting because they kind of resurrected the two. The Swift cartridges have kind of faded for a little bit, but everybody started to pick them up and do them in the small varmint cartridge guns and that's really where this is. It fits in that category and they offered it in the Swift cartridges like the 220 Swift, 2250. That was the other one, 22250. I was trying to think that. All I did was just remember the balance. Anyway, we have another voice. Go ahead. Any question there? Go ahead. What kind of gun do you want to talk about again, Mark? Well, what this is is the reinvention of the Stevens single-brake shotgun. They came out with these things, oh, I think in the middle of the 90s is where they started to show up in their first wave. And I know that in the odds they started to push them again, which really was a good idea. And they're in all the little rifle calibers, all the light rifle calibers, but they're a top-brake single-shot firearm. and they don't draw any attention because they're a good game-getter. They're a great cash gun with a picatinny rail on the roof or just using conventional sights if it's got the tapped heavy barrel and you can use a regular scope. It's not a big deal to change it out. It would be interesting if you put a rail on it, you could switch out from daylight optics to, for instance, Don's night vision without any problem. And for a single-play shooting, I don't want to fire more than once from one location if I'm doing the dirty, sneaky, you know, the sneaky Pete routine. It'll do just fine. It's what I call a Mr. Dolby gun. You know, I don't need to go pew, pew, pew a lot if I know what I'm doing because I aim, I squeeze, I hit, I move. On that Mini-14 that was mentioned earlier, I'd like to try and give an idea to the callers and the listeners of a way to because they're such a nuisance, defensive, and I don't trust anything that mounts a scope on the side of it, you know, to be stable for a long period. What I did is I went ahead, I had mine professionally drilled and tapped in that here area. And if you put a quick release, your scope, about losing your zero when you go to pull to clean the little bugger. The big thing there is again, some of the minis, the stainless models in the, in fact, they made them in a GB for commercial sales. a very limited production and those had those were julie tapped from the factory I remember I sold a bunch of those a matter of fact it was almost because remember I mentioned before I used to arm sailboats and cruisers who were going out to the Gulf and the Mini 14 was one of the few stainless guns you could buy well they actually offered it the GB package with everything on board ready to go oh that's great because the only experience with minis is the one I've got with you know you just had to use the B square mount and I like that idea at all. I just went ahead and mind drilled and tapped. I didn't know this stainless already came that way. It's up and down. Ruger was fickle about that because everybody wanted it in a particular... think about this, you may have seen the image. It would be a Ruger with a bulky, like a real large tube, Bushnell on the roof. It came with a Bushnell scope It was a game getter, not a game taker. It was a game getter and the package was actually pretty tight. They offered the tube and stainless. If it wasn't a stainless, it was in brushed crawl. So they were trying to turn it into a scout gun? Yeah, basically a very tight package, very low. Very low silhouette to the point where you really couldn't use the iron sights with the first model that they came out with. It was designed, it just looked chunky. It gave that effect of a chunky light rifle. And it looked like it had girth in the picture. You'd think it was a bigger weapon than it was. That was the whole idea. I also had that factory ghost ring taken out and had a factory V-Groove put on the rear. I never was a big fan of the ghost ring either. I heard another voice. Who do we have? Mike, I just saw If you, because you're talking like so many different calibers over time, would it be a good idea to say, for people that have a large enough militia that they would, you know, designate a few people to be machinists in that and to buy one of those, you know, from like Harbor Freight or whatever, one of those malke type lays that can, you know, not only do board work to drill barrels, but to machine receivers, things of that nature, and even a smaller one to work on resizing shells and things of that. And because the battlefield is forever changing, and you run across so many things you might run across when at a time comes 500 weapons, and I'll tell you what, on that note, I'll tell you one. One one's really good, although I'm pretty sure they're still here in Michigan, but I've got to double check. Smithy makes a combo tool machine that does everything. And they're at that expensive and they've gone into CNC, so you can actually do light to mid-production steel work with that. Now, let's go back to something. You've got the right idea. the single-shot rifle that our caller was talking about, because the driver was asking, what is that? The one advantage of that gun, which I always wondered why they never did this or pushed it in and out, somebody must have been thinking on the Matrix again, because when it finally came out, it was about the time everybody was talking about it, so maybe it went through the system as a rumor that was, hey, this would be cool. Well, they hit the right time and the gun is actually a good idea, but on top of everything else, it would be simpler to make. replacement barrels for if you couldn't if you didn't have them uh... building the barrel for that single barrel shampoo shotgun based receiver uh... like that would be a lot easier with any machinery that you had uh... you could take existing battlefield pickup barrels and modify them now the only thing that you have to end up with doing uh... grime or they actually have to come up with uh... barrel wraps and you probably, in fact even to deal with the front locking cam onto the receiver, onto the pivot point, it's going to pivot into the receiver the way it always does. But where it locks into place, all of that can be done as an add-on sleeve. You take an existing barrel cut it to whatever length it eradicates, for instance the gas port, you know, diverter. The other option is weld the puppy, but that's not your first best choice because you've got to watch that taking making soft points. You can anneal it. There's all kinds of tricks, but the idea is you can take battlefield pickup barrels off Rex and they could be modified within a reasonable amount of time to actually enhance or change out the gun that he's talking about. It would simply be a single shot But depending on what it is you've got out there that's dominant on the battlefield, you'd still be putting bullets down range. And for a lot of the shooters, to be quite honest, sharpshooters or, like I say, sneaky Pete's, while everybody else is blazing away on the battlefield, my argument is that anywhere from one-third to even half of your riflemen should be halted, controlled, and they should be doing single placement shots on targets. In fact, while the other group is keeping everybody busy, this is where your heavy rifles, your scout rifles, or even the light rifles, if properly employed. Mr. Dolby is a character from the Battle for the Republic series. And if you remember, his key weapon is a 43 Egyptian Remington Rolling Block. Mr. Dolby is a very patient man. Mr. Dolby's been killing people for a while. He had a couple wars to deal with. So Mr. Dolby doesn't move real fast, but when Mr. Dolby pulls the trigger, whatever's at the other end is either going to die or it's going to bleed and hurt so that it brings somebody else to their death too. And be incapacitated permanently. Right, exactly. The idea is that, you know, more important is can you put the bullet where you need to put the bullet? It's like anything else. Why are we focusing on accuracy? Well, I may not necessarily want to kill him. In other words, if you have a group of targets, especially, think about, and this is what I try to express about urban warfare. Urban warfare is a mealy that the enemy has not faced yet and they're terrified that their troops will face it because the attrition rate is so monstrous and the advantage is so much in the hand of us the defender but they don't want their troops to realize it until it's too late because they have to pump them up to still get them out there until the war really kicks off. Once the war really kicks off, the supposed excitement and rahaha about going out, it's not going out and attacking one person in their home cowering in their bedroom half awake when they bust through the door. When all of a sudden this becomes tit for tat killing, We're wicked. I have every trick in the book to pull and everybody is going to be hunting their sari hind end the same way and they will die by the droves until they finally figure out that standing in the middle of the road isn't going to do it. Trying to bully up everybody is just going to piss people off and also offer a great target that people are going to take advantage of. But I'm not going to kill them. I'm going to aim for their crotch, I'm going to blow a hole when I'm so big and the others are going to see that big hole in their buttcheek hanging from the back of their leg and their bumholes oozing poop and blood and they're just dying horribly. I want them to die horribly. I believe that is the most critical part about what we're going into here. Our enemy deserves to die horribly. Seriously? The psychological aspect, one good shooter worth his salt can hold down a whole damn platoon or a company. And when they don't know where that round is coming from, these guys are messing their drawers because they don't know where it's coming from and they don't know who's next. One of the other advantages of that single... A good metal break along with that blade and on the ear candy, I'm trying to get it all in here, on the ear candy... We definitely need more Tami Winette and George Jones because a large portion of our members are of a Southern attraction and I just got done listening to some classic Tami Winette and I think that people would really appreciate that. Whoa, somebody's breaking up and I got a lot of warble there guys. I don't know who it is. You might recognize it yourself. There we go. It cleaned up. Anyway, well the thing about it first of all real quick the other point about this single shot rifle issue Guys a closed action is easier to silence now. I have told you a million times you will not do this now Don't do this do not shorten the gun don't silence a weapon don't do a machine gun Don't you know shorten a barrel and a shotgun do not do not do not but Once all this kicks off, Wes, it's really nice about some of these bolt guns that were built with a threaded barrel for a flash hider. Well, where they really shine is where you go to a lower velocity round, you go with a heavy... There's two things you do when you go to quiet. Go to a heavier bullet. This is why that 43 Egyptian is so devastating in that on the one hand, I can wheel back a 45-70 or a 43 Egyptian or any of those straight cases to the point where without a silencer and they don't need to modify the gun, none, but with a regular length barrel, 24 inches, 25 inches long, On a trap door Springfield, by the time we're done loading back the charge and going up to a 500 grain or 550 grain spear or ormity, it is a freight train going down range. There will be no muzzle flash. There will be little or no report from the gun. It's kind of like firing a 40 millimeter grenade launcher, okay? Only much more compact. And when it goes, poof, and it won't even do that, it sounds like, poof, that's what it sounds like. and it's not from the movies and it's not with a silencer and they can't do anything about it, it's knowing how to load your weapon. If you ratchet back the powder charge and bring up the bullet weight, every weapon you have, including the .223, can be a monster of, you know, again, quiet placement cartridge, you know, placement gun. That single shot, for instance, top break. Here's what I would do. I'd take that .223 case. And I'd properly full resize it the first time around. I'd go with a Magnum primer. I'd ratchet the charge back to whatever, depending on the powder I have to use, because I've still got to go with the hot. I'm going to have to go with the hot powder to match the case spec. But I can go, for instance, with a Spear or Hornady 100 grain projectile. Why? Well, I am not going to be worrying about this being an autoloader. I don't have to worry about any of the autoload specs. So now all of a sudden, I can treat that 223 like I would say a 6mm Lee cartridge or a 6.5 Carcano load or a 6.5 Swedish load pre-World War II. I can start working up into those spear pencil bullets. In fact, I probably in that 223 could wind up with either a 100 grain or 110 grain projectile round those soft point. And I wouldn't want to get shot with that beast. I'll tell you why, because number one, it's going to go down range very flat and straight. Now, there's a point where it's going to start to wobble, because again, this is where you have to balance out and do a little paper printing. But if you know what your devaluation point is, where you're going to start to see flight variance and then eccentricity in the center of mass, it's not going to wobble and roll all over the place in flight. But it is going to start to destabilize because it's around those projectiles. You're going to have a very different aerodynamic coefficient as it reaches its maximum velocity and then drops off because gravity sucks. All of this has to do with the gravity formula. But, if I know what my maximum range is for best performance, and I know that anywhere within that range I've got all the energy that I wanted out of that projectile, then I've got a silent round coming out of the end of the tube. I've got a good weight behind it for being a .223 rifle. I can still drag it up. And again, it's going to have no problem loading. I can feed the projectile a little deeper into the case. And I still have plenty of bullet because I'm individually feeding this thing. I've got plenty of step off up front so that I should have no problem loading that bullet with that projectile. I might even find I can get a little bigger bullet still. Now remember, I'm not going to go hypersonic with this load. just the reverse. I want to drop it down just below and when it hits all God. Now that soft point isn't going to be too critical and it's not going to mush your mouth the way it would with a hyper-ballistic package behind it like say that 22-250 I mentioned. Oh my God, that thing blows things into pieces. It wastes a lot of meat if you're trying to game get but it is a hell of a beast when it comes to splitting things apart. That 223 modified, in other words, this special low velocity heavy bullet configuration, when it gets to the other end, it's when that bullet tumbles that it's just going to be a horror. Because that pencil bullet will tumble. That's not a maybe. When that soft point starts to expand, but minimally expands to probably between, oh, 27 and 28 caliber, maybe 30th if you're lucky, that's all you'll get out of it. But what will happen is it's going to pitch into a bone or a meat and then it's going to go end over end over end and when it hits a bone or something that's solid, it's going to follow the path of least resistance, go up that arm or go down that leg or roll around that rib cage, come out the spine, come out your butt, come out your head. It may go in the front, but God knows where it's going after that one. That's a monster bullet. That's the kind of thing you want on the battlefield because you don't want your enemy coming off anything without suffering. So there's a consideration. And by the way, you didn't have to modify the gun, didn't have to put a pooper on the end to go like you see in Hollywood. They always want you to do that. That's part of this entrapment thing for the peacetime part. Now we go to war, oh you can put cans on everything. We would be putting cans on everything. We would be quining. In fact, it's so quick to make your head swim. But you know what? That would just be to soften and reduce the blow. of certain marksman's rifles that I don't want you to be exposed while my popcorn brigade is doing their job. My regular AKs and ARs, you make lots of noise guys. You know what? In between all that, those quiet rifles, going left, right, up and down, but we commit to a greater number, hits count, misses don't. That's what we've got to be thinking. Hits count. And we've got to hit them hard and hurt them hard at the very beginning of any action. The idea that the very first bullet you put down range puts a target down, but not only that, immediate follow-up on a second, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. Every time they hear a rifle bark, especially when now there's a certain pitch, a tone you're looking for, you might hear that. But when you hear that, somebody got hit, because whoever's shooting that isn't going to pull the trigger until they're flat on the target. Not that the rest of you won't be trying to do the same thing, but the psychological effect of what is a very difficult, if not impossible object to return fire on. In fact, they won't even hear anything if you do it right. All they're going to know is that Ralph got hit. And if you do it right in a confusing situation, for instance in an urban warfare environment, guys, you're firing through neighborhoods. Mr. Dolby stands next to the one big oak tree in the neighborhood that just got ransacked. and they're in the next neighborhood. He looks between two houses and he sees one of the black uniformed punks step over to the side of a garage down through a breezeway and he's got a window shot which is what you want. You don't dance around trying to get the shot guys. You pick a channel of control and you stick to it and at a given point your enemy will walk into that channel. Now when he does that you have to make a decision. What do I think I want to do with this? Well He's not really paying attention. I put a bullet right in his butt cheek and blow his hip out. The bullet goes out the front and maybe takes his small intestine out a little ways with him. That 43 Egyptian. His buddies are going to come because they don't know where the hell it came from. He'll be moving a bit as he flops around. That channel is just like a shooting lane. In this case, the quick reload you drop with the Remington Guys, I learned with an Ithaca lever action how to hunt. Lever single shot. Remember those? Beautiful gun, pretty wood. You know, I had kind of a blondish oak to the wood, you know, the color. I learned to carry three shells between the fingers and one in the tube. And I never missed two or three rabbits. Now that's the same way that you operate a Remington, although again you have to be careful because again accuracy. If I fire and I'm doing my normal work, I'll fire and then I will leave that position and move to the next position. And while I'm moving I've reloaded and my second shooting position puts me so that, you know, again I have a vantage point and I'm not exposed. And then I fire my second round and then I don't get greedy. Time to leave. But if it's the Dolby ambush like we're talking about, the first guy that got shot, somebody will come to help him. And so you drop that round, you do not drop your brass, you pocket the brass, reload as quickly, it takes longer for me to describe it than for a man who knows what he's doing. Action closed, up to the site, and there's the next fool who's, boom, time to leave. That second shot is all you make. And even then, very rare. But you make it if you set the ambush up that way. It's a two-shot rifle ambush, guys. Go ahead, caller, jump in there. What kind of round was that lever action you're talking about? Well, okay, don't worry about it. The reason I picked the 43 Egyptian, it's that, well, my lever action? Mine was, no, no, I was using an Ithaca single-shot 20 gauge. Oh, 20 gauge, yeah. Yeah, in fact, it's still, I'm very comfortable. The whole thing is, I didn't know any better, but it is actually an abusive gun. It had a hard rubber recoil pad on it, not a rubber recoil pad. The comb is a little more, not as radical as it should be, so there's a little more, you know, you feel more as the shooter goes, okay? You feel more to your shoulder. I started working with an old Model 12 and it's like, wow, this is a 12 gauge, it doesn't feel that bad. What the hell? And I didn't know any better because it's the gun that I grew up with. For me it was, learn how to use it. And the Ithaca's, they're collector's items. Now it's a single shot, it looks like it has a lever action like a Winchester. But all it does is the brake release and it's a top brake single shot shotgun. So you keep your 2 and 3 round between your little finger and your middle finger and your ring finger. And brace the weapon, grip the action, case ejects, do your little finger first, keep your strong finger as your backup for your third shot. and close the action and as you're wheeling the action shut you bring the rifle, the stock of the shotgun up to your shoulder and to side line, line of sight and boom! An immediate reaction. And I know that's basically how the guys were working with the Trapdoor 70s and I didn't think about it until years later and I kicked myself in the butt because my brother told me back when Trapdoor Springfield was $6.50 a piece. $6.50 a piece. He said you should buy one every week. Listen to what I'm saying. to do that because I knew more than my older brother did, don't you know? 50 cents now can be brought into service and again, it's not going to be a possibility. 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