...own a gun, permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press. And you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children can be put. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage the faith to stand with pride. And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, preserve our great Republic in each God-given right, and pray to God to torture freedom bright as Iowoc he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample, each God given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, well, the land of the free? You know, nothing major but nothing minor either if I let it sit. Anyway, for everybody out there, good afternoon. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Hornke. And I'm Don Detcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines at occupied territories west, central, southeast, and east. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, IndianaFreedomTalkerRadio.com, and we are on AM&FM Microstations, CBE Baystations, and UltraNet. Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to our friends in the Aleutians and the Bering Straits. Jefferson, anyway. uh... little bit of clock over rolling in on brother have cloud cover this time of day we get a call the overlay we might keep some of the heat we got but when that label gone is dropping down already in temperature and towards sundown mister pretty fun yeah dot was like in your neck of the was what's the date today please was jump off the wall there it is a fifteen stay of march with the height of march rupana but your bar more two thousand seventeen so none of that matters does it but uh... Beautiful, wonderful day. Sun shining, intermittent clouds, a lot of blue sky though, and bright. The snowpack is reducing. Hooray. But it is that strike down the middle of the week and without further delay, I bet you thought I was going to say some French word, without further delay, I'll tell you that 1911 in one hand with an empty magazine well and a full magazine in the other hand and we just solved that problem and the empty chamber problem too. Man, that's a hot gun. But it's mine. Let's not argue about it. Hey, it is a weapons Wednesday. The perimeter needs some attention. And if you keep pulling the lever on that reloader, you can say along with me as I pop off this magazine with this bullet that's getting shorter and I really need to shoot this bullet. There's plenty more where that came from. And as a matter of fact, a couple things I thought would be cute for you, Don. Well, before we go any farther, I've got to bring this up because you haven't been around for very long. Hey, I found the car. I found one. I found one. 1972 Pinto. Oh yeah, yep. With a V8 351 Cleveland under the hood. This thing is so grossly overbuilt that it totally, it's mutant pinto, let's put it this way. Rebuilt 2V 351 Cleveland, DOAE block board 40 over and Magnaflux, a new flat top piston's crank has been Magnaflux and polished. New hydraulic flat tappet cam. 284M, 284EX and 0.538 over 0.538 plus. Lift and duration, duration in that order. Yeah, exactly. Rebuilt the two V-heads with the three angle valve grind and stock valve sizing. Holley Street, the Dominator intake. Holley carb system. Let's see, four speed top loader with her shifter. That's what I had in my Dodge Duster by the way. New 11 inch Mustang 2 front brake kit, new hydraulic clutch master and slave cylinders, new Cadillac El Dorado rear disc brakes, new Mustang 2 front rack, new Lakewood traction bars, custom Ford 9 inch and Detroit locker, 3.89 gears, all parts new, 95% of roll cage, senior gentleman owned the car before and took out the bar. going across the driver's side for ease of accessing the car and getting in and out. New front shocks and springs. Mickey Thompson, leaving long tube headers and dual magniflow exhaust. And Mickey Thompson's street radials, 275s, for the rear. BF Goodrich radials in the front. Yeah, that's not really a regular pin-o anymore. That's almost a five-pinto. That's a monster pinto. God help you if you hit something. But then again, it had more weight to begin with. It's kind of funny. The Pinto's head, as regular body weight, were heavier than the average mid-sized car across the fleet right now. It's funny because it's a small car, but it was made under old earth technology rules and on top of that they beefed this thing up. Remember the Mustang 2 is nothing more than a Pinto glorified guys. So when you hear those Mustang 2 parts put in there, that's because that was the beefed up suspension, beefed up drivetrain, beefed up steering, etc. Everything that they put in the rack as far as what they added. That's the place to go when you're building a pin-o-up to make it, you know, create the illusion it's a pin-o-up when it's not. In this case, it's a much higher sitting pin-toe to begin with, okay? It's a lot more work been done to this. This is typical of the kind of car my neighbor across the street built in the early 70s. He was with Ford Research. To get that 351 under the hood, you had to carve out that firewall and the fender well. Yeah, it's like you're going to put headers on it. What's the thing if you're not going to put headers on it? And when you change plugs, you lift the engine. Because you can't get to the plugs when you drop the engine inside that 351 Cleveland guys. When you drop it inside that engine compartment, you carved out the back firewall. That gave you enough room for the rear of the engine to sit there. You had to re-box it. OK, well, I helped do that. I helped with that particular job because I was a little smaller than the guy that was trying to do it. So I get up under there after we pull the seeds and pull the dash out and everything. I get up underneath there to get the rest of that work done when we tin-knocked everything back in. But it's available and it's blue and it's a beast and it's more than a sleeper car. I don't know what the hell it sounds like. He says, well, it doesn't sound too loud, but it's like, nah, it's loud. See, that's my only problem with that is I'd have to silence it because I don't, I understand the reasoning, but I like the idea that you can't know where I went once I went. Yeah, oh exactly. Once you're out of sight, which way did he go? The cops would just stop the car, you know, shut everything off. listen and then go chase you down. Not to mention when you're beating up the guy next to you, you're not calling the cop around the corner. Right. You know, that kind of thing. So anyway, I thought you... I was rolling up Telegraph in my car and there was this Mustang doing a burnout in the Sanoco station at five mile and Telegraph. I rolled into the parking lot of that gas station and trolled him out to Telegraph Southbound and we were sitting at the light. When a Pinto pulled up next to me, a station wagon Pinto with big fat tires and all of the good things probably that you just mentioned. Yeah, and had the room. That's why they did Pinto wagons first, by the way. Just for everybody listening. The wagon gave you more room. Yeah. My attention turned from the stock Mustang to the bad boy next to me. And when the light turned green, I put a whipping on him too. Well, the thing about it is, yeah, everybody goes, well, it's a Cleveland. Well, hell, I know. You know, first of all, The Windsor was more popular in common simply because of price guys. Yeah, but that Cleveland with the canted valve like the big body. Oh yeah! It was a porcupine motor. It was a higher revving, freer breathing motor. Right, that's why the Cleveland is the one you want, but most of us could not afford a Cleveland engine even back in the day because everybody wanted them. It's like an SS Chevelle. Well, that would be nice, but they're too expensive. And by the way, the upkeep is horrible. SS Chevelle's are pretty easy to... Other than just a few things in the dash that are, you know, you have to change out the whole dash. SS Chevelle's are pretty easy to... Yeah, to build. Yeah, to build. Everything's available for those. There were no identifiers in the serial numbers or anything. Yeah. I thought you would enjoy that. The Megadeth Pinto, the one that will come up behind you, drive over you and then keep right on going. One of the reasons the wagon was so popular is because you had more weight in the rear end guys. He came across a 30 over 427 with 560 lift and 312 degrees of duration. Well, for everybody, again, just a reminder, there's little gems out there like that laying around. Of course, again, they've got to be fed and they've got to be maintained. So spare parts, spare parts, spare parts. By the way, the guy has a pile of spare parts of the car, too. So just for the whole package. Not that I'd be able to, you know, cash in all my pop bottles in the world, but I'm just curious. Oh, he wants $10,000 for it. Oh. The end is worth that. Yeah, but you know, here's the thing. You know what? It's like those 440s we used to buy for $250 in the junkyard, right? Mm-hmm. You know, well... Go price one now, $8,000. So you've figured the engine by itself. If I go to buy a 440 block, remember that's what I said, I would never own one were it not for the camper that we bought, guys, that I thought had a GM engine in it. Turns out it's got a 440 Chrysler in it. I own a 440 now finally. I never expected to in my life. The motor is worth more than the camper driving down the road. I hate to say it out loud. No, it's true. That's exactly what they're doing. I've noticed more of these are showing up with the engine missing because if you want a big block GM, which by the way are also expensive, if you want a 450, 4, You go buy one of these mobile homes, there's only 38,000 miles on it guys for maybe four or five thousand dollars and pull the engine which is worth eight thousand dollars. Go buy go try to buy a big block that's complete with no mileage out and see what your pricing is right you see I got it I got it go you're gonna take off anyway when we come back to 8 o'clock hour We'll continue that send them to the hospital thought line okay exactly and again for everybody out there down your number for night vision the web page before you go Please pay the web page yd to e.us. That's Yankee Delta Tango Oscar echo dot us. You know us us If you want to reduce the prices over there, give me a call. The number is 231-796-8458. Thank you, Mark. I have to exit. Thank you. God bless you. We'll see you at 8. Well anyway, JGSales.com, JGSales.com. Two things that they have that are one of the best, they're two of the best prices in the country right now. One is Ruger P89 semi-auto pistols. These are American made Ruger pistols. Says they're law enforcement trade-ins. I think they're maybe foreign law enforcement or Israeli. The only reason I say that is because not many of your American comp shops go with the land you're doing base. That's a Euro thing, or that's a, again, South American too, but more probably these are Israeli guns, because Ruger's soul junk to the Israelis, gold stuff. These are a good gun. I have no problem with it. In fact, if you were looking to build a brace of 9mm pistols that you want, I've mentioned anything else. That $200 mark, if you can keep it $200 or less, high points, you can buy more for less still, brand new. But if you're going to say, oh, you want to do the high point, well, how about a Ruger P89? These are good cash guns guys. In other words, you can put this thing, you know, put this pistol, you know, refinish it because what it needs to do is probably be painted. That's what I would do. I just paint it. But for $200 a piece, there's some automatic, you know, semi-automatic 4.5 inch barrel, nothing to write home about, that's standard. Blued finish, fair condition, used LE trade-ins. Now I'll read what it says right here. Ruger P89 semi-auto pistol in 9 millimeter caliber. LE trade-in featuring a safety or decock 4.5 inch barrel with a serviceable bore and mechanical condition and one magazine. The exterior finish shows heavy use and often most of the blue may be worn off. There may be scratches and areas of patina. Mag capacity and grip style may vary. That tells me you're getting a foreign contract more so than US. Overall, fair condition used in used. A great project gun if you want to try painting or refinishing the pistol. Personally, I wouldn't go any fancy finishing. I wouldn't even go blowing. I just dust it up the rest of the way, cover up the critical parts you don't want to paint on, and I do a paint job on it. Then I'd oil the snot out of it. I'd grease it up, clean it up. They're basic 9mm pistols. Mechanically, they're sound. They're just not pretty. Pretty doesn't count for Jack squat, as far as I'm concerned. It's a toolbox gun. A lot of guys buy these and do exactly what I just said. You have good guys working in Detroit. They've got a pistol usually in every toolbox that they've got. They've got a shop. There's a tool. There's a gun in every toolbox in their garage. They just don't have to go somewhere to reach for something. They just reach in the toolbox. If they know that somebody's kind of walked in on them and have the hand in the toolbox and look to see who it is. Oh, somebody that really shouldn't be there. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. OK. In this case, if you're looking for a brace of five pistols, this is serviceable. There's lots of P89. Actually, utility Ruger mags. They're either going to be aftermarket, which I'd buy a pile of. And there's Ruger Standard, also police trade in, a number of different companies. Check out, for instance, CDNN Investments. Go check out e-circoinc.com. They had some of these pistols also not long ago. And I noticed they didn't restock. Well, JG Sales did pick some up. and I don't know if this is the C. They do a lot of trading. JG Sales is a routing station for a lot of cop shops. So they could be American guns. This is likely as not. They are American made guns. I just don't see departments usually running pistols this hard. You'll see this overseas or like with the Israelis, they don't take care of any of their junk. You just figure that the abuse and abuse and abuse and their logic is you and I, the American taxpayer, are going to buy the asshats more. So the Israelis screw stuff up and then, well, they get us to pick up another pile for them for nothing. That's just how the parasites are. So if they are, I don't have a problem with that, I just don't know who they've been shot with them, but they are a decent handgun. They're a comfortable rigger. The P-89 is a very comfortable gun to shoot if you haven't fired it before. serviceable enough double and single action. What else do we have that's exciting about these that needs to be pointed out? I can't see anything else that's jumping off. It's very straightforward. That's the one item. $200 apiece. $199.95. I'll throw the nickel in. There you go. Now the other thing that they have and it's right on the front page guys body armor. Well, you guys do not have body armor mostly because you don't want to spend five six seven hundred dollars on body armor. Well, they have a plate carrier system through one of the companies there that is pretty common out and about nowadays that is grade their level three body armor plates soft and a regular plate carrier using molly molly system and And, uh, full wrap around, they got them in brown and they have them in black. Actually tan, they say, but I don't know that tan is leaning more towards coyote brown, so you figure out what tan or coyote is nowadays. I can't be sure. Anyway, either way, the brown slash coyote or slash tan versus the black is a personal flavor choice thing. Myself, I'd go with the tan simply because it's more of a utility, tactical color. Blacks jumps out in a lot of places, guys. Of course, if it's covered with Molly camo pouches, who will know? But the brown would be a better choice for that, too, because it'll blend in with everything else you got in Woodland, DCU, whatever you got. Anyway, it's $150 a vest. Their plate carrier vest with two soft ballistic panels level 3a2964QR series by visum, V-I-S-M black or tan $150 of vest. You can't beat that. It's a good price. Okay, so you're looking for an inexpensive handgun to carry as a hand cannon because you, you know, wanted American, but you didn't want to carry a high point, you say. Well, there's a Ruger P-89. for $200. And there's your body armor. And by the way, since it's a plate carrier, the only thing I'd be curious about is these normally can be used for carrying hard plate, right? They have two soft plates at a proper dimension. What I mentioned before, I will say again, buy just the front hard plate when you can afford to, slip it in in front of or behind that soft Kevlar. You're pretty much a threat level armadillo up front. And the one nice thing about the soft armor, remember it works like a buddy backing to distribute the shock of whatever strike does hit you if it's going to stop the bullet. Personally, I put the soft armor behind. And it's like football padding, guys. Think about it. The rifle, your rifle shell splats up against whatever it is you're wearing in the metal. The Kevlar absorbs the energy and distributes over a wider area. So that you don't feel quite that focused bud when the time comes. See how that works? Plus, just in case it was trying to work its way through, that threat level 3 armor might offer just enough protection to prevent it from getting through to the soft, chewy U. So, you are what we're trying to prevent being perforated. So the price is right. $150 for a threat level 3A, that's a good vest. These are tactical outer vests, these are not undercover vests, these are outer vests, Mollie strapping on them the whole nine yards, $150, and the Rugers are on the same page, right on the front page as a matter of fact too. Now, one other thing, since some people have been saying, well the price on the HK mags is starting to slide up. Yeah, I've seen that, and some of the companies that were carrying the HK mags that came from Mars, the source in Georgia, Well, they're starting to creep up in price. So the C308 and Setme 20-round surplus 308 magazines are $2.95 a piece if you buy 50 or more at a time from JG Sales. Look right there on the front page. Now your HK or PTR knockoff may or may not be able to use these mags, so here's what I recommend. If you're going to order, say, that body armor and you've got a PTR 91, order one of those mags for $5, test it in your rifle to see if it works. If it locks up and if it goes to pulls in and out of that magazine well without any great or excessive energy, in other words it slides in and out just fine, then you could invest in a quantity of those for your particular rifle because depending upon the year that was made, Further back, they went tighter tolerances based on the idea that the HK mag was going to be the mag and HK just wanted those out there. Both companies, PTR and there's another Pakistani company that brought in a bunch of HKs. They typically will take the set me mags, but test it. The way to do that, buy one mag. You're not going to be out anything other than again $5 for research and development. And by the way, if you want to tune the mag just a hair, you could tune that mag up so that we take a little off. I hate doing that. You don't do anything to change your weapons well. You dress the mags, they cost $2, $3, $4, $5. Your weapon cost $1,000 or $900 or $800. Guess which one I'm not going to cobble on. Never cobble on the gun. Always cobble on the magazine. It's the cheap part, okay? Just a basic rule there. Again, they are $295 a piece, you buy 50 or more. They are $395 a piece if you buy 10. They are on the front page of the Set Me 20 round mag. They will certainly work in the C308 which is the latest example from Hugo of Warsaw, you know, C Century International Arms. You know, they always, you know, they do up and down work. That's what, who knows what they are doing right now. It's supposed to be a better, a little better quality with the 308's they've built, but who knows. Can you trust them? Here's the wind blows. Anyway, these mags are military mags. They are steel mags. They work just fine. And for a 295 a piece, basically $3 again. That's not a bad price for a 20 round steel military magazine in .308. So that's another solution if you're looking for more mags for your PTR. But again, test it first. Get a sample. If you're going to buy something, remember the other thing that JG Sales has a big pile of is that 6.5 by 55 Swedish ammunition, 4,800 rounds of wooden bullet training slash buying camo for $96. The shipping will cost more than the ammo does, from the actual cost of the ammo. That's about it for JG sales. They do have a quantity of the SKS's, the Yugo SKS's, the Type 5966. Instead of the grenade launcher, they've got a long psionics type flash hider that they've attached and it's cool. Basically what it makes it look like, the end of it looks like the old Kar-15 flash hider, the way they built it. And for those of you who are like, oh, what a grenade, don't trip my gun. Well, me, I do. I don't care. Doesn't make any difference to me. And bad guys aren't going to like your rifle no matter what's on the end of it. Doesn't make any difference. But in this case, if you're looking for a flash hider, it is a nice one. I mean, it works. It's pretty cool, I think. And it's a neat solution for everybody out there looking for a way to break up that bulbous burn at the end of the tube. Remember you are going to see that as a star cluster from the front. It has little jets, venturis and then it is gone. In fact there is a nice little brand new SKS rifle question mark. There is a video there by MAC. Check it out and it gives you a little perspective on how that SKS works. 20 inch barrel, remember with the extended flash hider, makes for a nice little package and yes it still has a folding bayonet. So, there we go, JGSales.com. Hey, go check them out, see what they have on hand, and we'll go from there. Now, if somebody was asking me about the SKS's, and I said they just mentioned them, at www.centerfiresystems.com, they finally got the American, or, well, actually they're probably China support made, I can't say they're American made, let's see if they still have them in stock. Center Fire Systems has the chest pouches in stock in OD green and in Woodland Camel. Now they might have sold out of the Woodland Camel ones. I do not know yet. Hold on. Let's see if we can find out here. Webgear. Let's see if they have a clothing. Gun gear. Magazine model. This model doesn't have any filter by product. Oh, I hate it. They've changed their web page again. Oh, that is worthless when they do this. It's a waste of our lifetime. Anyway. That will take forever to find, but maybe we can track it down. Oh, 50,000 pages and now they've screwed up the way that they search. Yeah, it's more wasting of our time by changing up the page. Whoever told them that's a great marketing solution, no, it pisses a lot of people off and turns them off to the product line. Anyway, they may still have them in stock. Check it out. It's the 10 Pocket SKS Chest Pouch. But it also works well with the 20 round AR-15 mags. For those of you who bought a lot of those thermal mags, we have hundreds of those loaded up with literally hundreds. Loaded up with the 20 round thermal mags when we told you to get them for like $1 something a piece years ago. Remember that? The good old days, not that long ago. Anyway, they're loaded up with the 20 round air 15 mags and they work just fine. But if you're looking for an SCAS solution that's new, these 10 pocket OD green or woodland camo chest rigs are at CenterFireSystems.com. They had both in stock earlier this last week. I do not know if they're, they were going through a lot of them. I do know that. And they have sold out a couple times. But they say recently restocked. If they have them and you got the SKS, what you do is use them as ammunition bandoliers. If you can't find those, and again, you may just still prefer to do what we did years before that, over at MajorSurplus.com. They have SKS chest pouches for a pretty good price. In fact, not bad at all. They're OD green, they're Chinese made, toggle closer. And we treat those as bandoliers. In other words, you load up your stripper clips, load the stripper clips up into the chest pouches, load the chest pouches into your 20 millimeter cans, and just keep repeating that over and over again. Time comes to issue ammunition out. Remember, you put three stripper clips in each pocket. Well, that's 30 rounds. So if you have an AK, you hand the guy the chest rig, it has the stripper clips. You have an AK stripper clip loader guide, you know that right? Chikom made. You clamp that onto the top, you slide that on the top of the mag, take one of your stripper clips, put it into the guide, push it down, you got one third of your mag loaded. You take another one, repeat. You take that third one in the pocket, repeat. Now your 30 round AK mags are loaded a lot faster. Now the advantage is that matter which gun I hand it off to, either way, 10 rounds in a stripper clip is a hell of a lot easier to handle than a handful of chiclets. Loose ammunition is a handful of chiclets. Instead, 10 rounds times 3 is 30 rounds. It'll handle the AK mag or the SKS extended mags if you got them. On the other hand, if you've got a standard SKS, well, you take that stripper clip, put it right in the guide on top of the rifle, and knock. There you go. Again, you're loaded right away. Don't throw that scrip a clip away pocket it. We'll use them again later. But the idea is to combat load your equipment now in preparation for what's coming and always have the stuff ready that way. We have done hundreds of 20 millimeter cans like that. Hundreds? It's because the bat faggots popped something. Doesn't mean they got even a tiff of what's pointed at them. Let's see what else we got here. There's a bunch of other stuff at Centerfire. I did not see anything jumping out at me today. They do have some trade ins on the .40 Cal Smiths, we talked about that. But that Ruger, 9mm now for .200 is the Katsmeow for an American pistol with standard magazines that are reasonably priced. So you can actually afford to put a few guns on the shelf if you needed a number of them. If you were going to do a brace of five for your 510 program to have a handgun, not a bad choice. Pile those Rugers, all kinds of holsters for it. The UM-84 holster will work just fine. I mentioned before, do a search. I have found the UM-84 holsters for as little as $6 apiece from several of the different surplus companies that are, you know, got a pile of them where they went to the government auctions and they bought a pallet or something. It depends on where you go, but don't just buy stuff in one place. Search around and that UM-84 holster will work just fine. It's got both flap or you can take the flap off. Not many people do that anymore. Pretty much they lift it the way it was with the flap intact. But you've got a number of different combinations with the UM-84, the way it was built. Typically, again, Bianchi built it originally, but there are like seven or eight government contractors, all the same holster, it doesn't make any difference. It may be an OD, maybe in tan, maybe in black. It depends on where it came from and who had it, what special group of special people were overseas killing irregular people who were reckless abandon for the Israelis. because that's all we're doing over there in the Middle East. We're just killing people for the Israelis so they can steal stuff. That's the only reason we're there. Anyway, let's see, next. That's about it for Centerfire now. Another thing real quick, Optics. There have been a number of different companies that look like they're having a tough time here at the end of this year, the beginning of this year, mostly because they're being cut off from their Chinese suppliers or their original ones. If you pay attention, there are a number of different companies. I mentioned CDN and Investments. They've got some pretty good buys on very low key, simple, straightforward middle rifle scopes. $30, $40 a unit. Go check out their sales right now if you go to www.cdnninvestments.com. They're not the only ones. Check out their email specials and go to their optics in the optics section. I didn't look to see what they had left there They do have a number of rifles and pistols bump in the sale right now, but their prices vary in the Unique and interesting they do a few odds and ends kits and bolt carriers and they do have the beta mags for $100 apiece which they've been lingering at that you know price up and down for the last year but in the optics a number of different scopes out there and for as little as, well actually right here, Amesport, 3-9x40 camo scope. Nothing to write home about, but more serviceable enough, $40 a unit. You can drop that on any of these crude and rude guns you're putting together and it's more than serviceable enough. They do have a number of other scopes. Take a look at some of their sale items there, take a look at some of their discounts. They definitely are working with some pretty decent technology. Company-wise, they're either Bosra or they're China Sport North, China Sport South, China Sport West, whatever the fake name is they're using right now. They are serviceable. We have beat the snot out of some of these, and I'm happy with them. One of the interesting things is the experiment see some of the heavier stuff, the bigger heavier stuff that's supposed to ride on a 50, whether or not it will ride on a 50. So that's the next research project going on right now to see what we can find that is a little more reasonably priced and we'll deal with the problem as needed. They've got a BEC 6-24 power by 44 illuminated mill dot reticle scope, $60, regular prices supposedly $100, but for $60 you're looking at a Pretty nice little sniper package. Again, this gives you the ability to reach out with that, even that AR and, you know, count freckles and put the bullet on whichever freckle you choose. Well, that's a bit of a big scope for an AR, you know, .223. No, no, it's not. As a matter of fact, as long as you understand, no, I don't plan on getting to close the distance. I don't want to be 25 yards away from anybody with these guns. I don't want to be that close ever. I want to be so far back I don't hear them screaming die. Always remember that. You want maximum range, heavy, heavy, heavy whenever possible. But if you're using the .223s as part of a .223 weapon, you drop a scope on a .223 and use it as a placement rifle in your team because we all decide just go .223 or a .762 by .39. There's nothing you can't do with this scope. It is more scope, much more scope than the gun needs. No, it's just the kind of scope you might apply for, again, the marksman's post. No, you're not going to get real wide field of view. It's going to be very narrow, very focused, very fixed. With a team spotter, it becomes a placement shooter. See that guy behind the saw? Put a bullet in his eyeball. That's the whole idea. I don't want to mess his gun up. I'm going to take it from his steaming, warm corpse. But I want what he's got. Well, put the bullet where you want it to be and don't spray and pray. Close the distance, close the distance, I'll piss on you. Put a bullet in this crotch and dump every one of those idiots that's standing out right in the open. And pop, pop, boom, pop, pop, boom, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop May or may not want to use the illumination. That's an option there and it varies depending on the threat situation on the battlefield, though, remember that. But an I cup on the rear, an extended dust shield on the front, and a light shield on the front, and a cone, basically just a toilet paper tube, guys, although it's metal or plastic, depending who made it. This particular scope, we've used this with a 20 inch barrel AR, you know, A2 for the longest time. And again, using it as the in-rifle team marksman's rifle. If you've got a five man fireteam, one man at least carrying one of these. Now, that changes the dynamic about how you're going to incorporate how myopic that rifleman is. But here again, if we're hunting and culling, in other words, we're hunting them, and we should be, hunting them harder than they're hunting us, these marksman's rifles, especially the .223 set up with this configured pattern optic, is going to be, shall we say, a harvester. And it's really, again, also a 6.5, like the Grendel Round, the 300 Blackout. We use it with .223. We just go the heaviest bullet you want to load or whatever it is you want to go in a heavy standard military projectile and then find out where it prints and run with it. The idea here again is I can also use it to survey because the other part about this, guys, remember we want to separate the marksman, their base marksman, the .308, .30-06. Hey, they might even have a half-inch gun. We have half-inch guns to counter theirs. But the idea is to hunt down and find both their shooter and spotter immediately, put all fires on them. Well, the idea behind these bigger scopes is to do just that. First, to identify the threat. Where would the marksman be behind the fire maneuver unit that's going to be the idiots that do the CLOSANT? Cool! We know that there's going to be a bunch of fools exposed. Their assumption is that that rifle marksman or the team that they have to the rear, maybe two, is supposed to suppress and make us all feel really bad except that we're hunting that team first. Always remember that. Biggest heaviest. If I put out sixes and throw a weight on it, I'd prefer. If I put a half inch gun on them, better still. I would point out that again, though, many people don't want to commit to different cartridges. They have a limit with regard to resources. They also have good confidence in the 223. Fine. This, you know, again, prints that gun to its maximum range or its intermediate range with finesse, which is something to take into consideration. I've always laughed and said, is that a big scoop? Just a two-three-three gun? Yeah, well, look, it is like a varmint rifle, okay? It's a varmint rifle, magazine-fed in the semi-auto, and we're looking for their varmints. And then of course you turn on individual targets, put bullets on, you know, put bullet where you want to print it and guess what? It'll do just like any other AR will. A lot of the newer scopes still, beyond this particular one for about $60, which is at the highest end optics. Oh hell, guys, if you want to spend, you can spend twice what you spent on your rifle and optics. Easily, easily. It's like anything else, whatever money you think you want to spend, fine. My idea behind this is that I need feel-grade acceptable, and I want a little more, but I want a little more out of the optics. A scope like this you buy three of for one rifle. One's on the gun, one's on backup, and the other one is somewhere on standby. You can even carry it still in your backpack. But the idea is that in the field, if you beat it, bust it, break it, damage it, You don't have to re-learn a scope, a system. All you do is trade out the oneless damage, put it in your pack, it's spare parts, take the other one out, re-zero, needless to say, and then you're right back on riding the horse the same way you were before. This is why again, is it affordable? Can you afford to have two or three of these? When you're running in the field, it's not all the planned activity, it's the unplanned activity. It's the running into the tree in the middle of the night. And if you run into that tree with that $3,000 scope and you hear it go, your heart sinks because the wallet, you hear the wallet shrivel in your pocket if you're even carrying a wallet in the field. But if you do that in training, oh, you hear the crying and the moaning. Whereas on the other hand with a field standard scope or something like this that's more affordable, yep, I didn't like losing 60, 70, 80, or $100. But I'm not crying as much about it. I'll now remember to be a little more cautious and to protect my optics, but it should have been anyway. Sometimes you just can't help it. Things get shot. Stuff gets stepped on. Things get broken. Having an affordable change-out system is especially critical to being able to get the job done. So, spares and more spares. Also, it's a pretty decent little package. There are a number of different companies. Like I said, Bossra. In this case, it's BEC, but oh hell, what were the other ones? Well, for that matter, even Well, I won't say TASCO because TASCO is up and down. But there's not any number of different companies that are out there producing a comparable scope in that price range. But this is actually a pretty good price. I brought it up. I saw it yesterday. I was going to mention it, but we're not on Weapons Wednesday so we can dwell on it a little bit. And that's at CDN and Investments. You may find a variation on the scope. Notice I'm just saying pattern of scope. If you like this idea, you might experiment with this one for $60. If you think somebody's going to go, oh, I didn't know what he was talking about. He was this. Go ride with whatever that character says. Seriously, I don't want to hear any argument about this. I'm just giving you a basic concept so you get an idea of why we do this. How do we apply it in the inventory? What do we do with it? How do we put it into the team? Now I would point out when you have scopes that reach out and count freckles, remember as I said spotters or your other rifle team have to be observing for you so that you don't get caught unawares. This is another reason a rifleman like this or this type of gunner is put in the middle of the team. Not necessarily as the point but side of point, left or right. Point man should be a rifleman. Could be a rifleman Grenadier with a 203. Could be a rifleman Grenadier with a green... Oh, again, a number of other weapons options, too numerous to mention. But the idea is that that point man, of course, is a rifleman, slash rifle Grenadier. The man left or right is the reaching rifleman, and if the one that's to the left is a reaching rifleman, the other to the right should be a conventional rifleman. A regular, you know, again, M16, A2, A1, or an M4 knockoff gun, whatever it is he's carrying. Why? Well, again, he's working his eyes and ears. He's in the second tier of what is typically your arrowhead in motion, or your diamond in motion, depending on what your philosophy is. Now, by the way, it's also based on a five-man fireteam. Not a four-man shorty because the Army was trying to make it appear they have the same number of troops while shorting everybody, two men in a squad. The only reason we have an eight man squad is because we don't have enough troops. That's why the eight man squad scam is coming to play. So it's like the German army in World War II. Yeah, they have as many divisions as they had in 1942. Yeah, you do. But you made all the divisions smaller and had to make all of your squads smaller because you have fewer troops to work with. Yeah. So yeah, the Wehrmacht had so many divisions on the Russian front. But they didn't have the same number of troops on the Russian front. Well, that's the same scam with the rip-off artists and the Department of Defense with what they're doing, their BS-ers, with what they're doing with the eight-man squad scam. It has to do with the fact that while they've ripped off more and more and charged everybody more and more in tax dollars, we get less and less in the way of product. And the troops get screwed too. Okay? So, preferably a five man fire team gives you that extra additional fire power that you need, where you need it to include, remember, don't forget your squad automatic rifleman or your designated saw gunner, that AR-15 with the beta mag in it and two other beta mags or whatever you got for large capacity mags, backing those up. That guy's your volume fire. And then again, you have another rifleman. Don't forget there's a Grenadier in there. One of those other four is a Grenadier, preferably a 203. More 203s you capture, happier you'll be. Then it gives you mobile indirect fire with every fire team. That worked just fine. By the way, your rifle marksman with that big long scope, he can pick the target for that grenadier and walk him in. He sees more. He can see a lot more. He can confirm or validate the excuse for burning a 40 millimeter round on something because you don't just spray and pray with a Grenadier's gun, okay, with a Grenadier weapon. The Grenadier can only carry so many 40 millimeter rounds. Everybody should be carrying some to support him, but again, how many 40 millimeter rounds can you carry? All of this comes down to infantry fire maneuver, weight to mass, to again, weight to muscle potential. And this formula does not change. People can only carry so much, it's not a video game. OK? Next, since we're off in the old world, we've got about 10 minutes here, I want to touch on this too. We mentioned the half inch guns. Yeah, CDN, by the way. So Mark, they have some offerings on the .50 caliber guns. Yes, they do. They mostly have the, well, it's so cheap, we aren't going to post it. Too low to print. They've got Barrett Model 82A1s. Let's see, A1 Leopold Mark IV package and the 82A1CQ. Don't get the shorter barrel. If you're going to spend that kind of money, get the longer barrel. We don't need to go door to door with the gun. And if we do, I'm still going to hold you back enough because, hell, why do you have to be up next to the door? With that half inch gun, you go through the whole stinking floor and not even realize it. OK? So, little hint there, if you're going to spend that kind of money, you might as well get the extra few inches of barrel necessary to reach farther. I didn't buy the 50 caliber so I could be at point blank range. This is kind of the ass backwards mentality, but when you're trying to market guns, you're trying to figure out how else can I push this thing. So now we've got a CQB kind of close-quarter combat, 50 caliber. It's like, well, this is cool. OK. And as we've seen, McAuliffe is, or McCulloch, or McCulloch, or whatever. Wherever you want to pronounce his name and however he wants to is fine by me. Let's put it this way. Mr. McCulloch. I'm using the northern pronunciation of his name so everybody understands. He's already showed you can fire a Barrett like an AR-15. He's already done it. He's already put two turret bullets on each target, what, less than how many seconds? A couple of seconds. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So it can be done. That's cool. That's neat. But I didn't buy the 50 for that purpose necessarily. And probably you'll pick them up from the government sources when the battle starts. Because they bought all of those with your tax dollars. So instead, focus on long distance, reaching farther with more energy. That's why we bought the half inch cartridge. Not so we could shorten the barrel and lose energy. We want greater barrel length. We want greater range. We want to hit them so far out they won't even have a clue where the bullet came from. Right? Absolutely. Anyway, we are almost to the top. And yeah, CDN Investments, you'll see where they have it posted. One of the guys is saying, Mark, over here. OK. Over at Firearms. And then on the first page, they have three Barrett offerings. There's an example right there, 50 caliber available. And it's not the first best choice for somebody simply because of cost. And I would remind everybody, again, the half inch, 50 caliber uppers that are made to go on your AR lowers. Now, we know that a couple of different 50 caliber builders are now practicing with and are running to destruction the Polymer receivers. But here's what I asked of them. I said, well, how are they running so far? He said, so far we haven't done any damage to them. But they can only get out of the range so often. Some of these guys are a lot older now. Remember, we covered this last year. But so far having fired 50, 60, 70, or 100 rounds with a polymer lower attached to a 50 caliber upper, they've had nothing exotic happen to the lower. That's pretty darn good. So the 80% polymer lowers would be an option to bargain basement out a 50 caliber bolt action sniper rifle. It would be an option. It's something you should take into consideration. Consider this. You could build it and have two or three or four different ones on the shelf. And if one fails, you switch out to the other. For the price at $60, $70 apiece for the Polymer, you're not out of anything. And no, they're not going to catastrophically fail on you because all of the critical actions of the gun are in the upper. The manual closing system can't fail you. The only thing that can happen is you'll see that there is an issue where you might eventually end up with some fracturing or something along the lower and you'll identify that way before there's any failure. I don't see that happening right away and again for R&D, they're doing it for us right now. We should have some feedback hopefully I would think by the late spring because it takes so long for it to get out of the range. We'll be patient, we'll accept what they're doing, and then we'll go from there. Now, ferret. OK, I should say the little ferret 50s were one option. Most everybody that does 50s are right now doing a 50 caliber AR-15 upper. What optics would I put on it? Well, they mentioned that little Leopold scope, and Leopold, they build nice optics. They always have. But they're not the only company out there for a solution especially since you're trying to bargain basement at 50 So you may want to experiment with some of the other high-powered rifle scope options that are readily available and are reasonably priced So again, can we find something that a workforce that you know is is acceptable? Yeah Example again that 30 millimeter tube aim support 3 to 12 On the AR, that may take the abuse. We've got a couple people shooting them. They're running $150 apiece. They're not cheap, but they're not hyper-expensive. That's actually low-end entry for one of the heavier guns. And it's not the only, but the 3-12, well Mark, if it reached farther with it, wouldn't you want more of that .22 capability? Like say the .9-20, the .9-20. 22 or whatever or the 6-24 or the 6-22. Yeah, yeah. But for a serviceable starter or development scope, the 3-12 is utility enough for area fire, extreme area fire. Remember that if we start pressing 1200 yards, You're still getting good residual imagery off of that scope, but a lot of what you're going to be doing at that range is not necessarily individual infantry fire, but target fire on an area objective of some kind, like a vehicle, a piece of equipment, a building, whatever. It's going to vary depending upon your developed skill. This is something that we've had an issue with for years. You've got to get out on the range. You've got to find out what it will do. Up at the Ogama Ranges, we have 50 caliber days. We're going to have one coming up here. The first and the second of April. I believe on the first we're actually going to have the ferrets. and some of the Victor II APCs, the Light Recon APCs up there, and they're mounting a couple of different types of either magazine or belt-fed semi-auto guns. Now, with that kind of a platform, of course, you don't really get your shoulder behind the gun. You do with the Barrett, but it's fixture-mounted. The advantage there is that it helps to eliminate a lot of the defined recoil against the shooter. So, we also of course do line fire shooting with the 50's and we usually try to do a demonstration and somebody just asked is the doctor going to be up there. Zussman Ackerman has been really focusing out west. In fact, they were just out in Oklahoma here, although they've had a lot of weather out there. The doctor has been out there with a team because they're working on the B7B. a chain fed gun. They're actually perfecting some other ideas. I don't know what all they're doing yet, but they've been building guns out there, kit guns. They were helping everybody build from scratch. And again, the shoulder fired semi-autos and the Barrett's, any of the other 50 caliber bolt guns. The recoil is not extreme, first of all. When I mention this, I'm not talking about, oh my god, let's mount it on a vehicle, because it's so horrible you can't bear to shoot it. That's not the case. The idea is that a stabilizing platform like a pintle mount on a vehicle or truck roof roof mount, guys, if you've got a deuce and a half, you want to track down a pittle ring for your for the Browning 50 caliber. Why? Well, you mount that Barrett in the same fixture and you have a very stable, stable gun platform. No weeble wobble in any way, shape or form. Plus, Your felt recoil is reduced because, well, the steel takes up, the vehicle takes a certain amount of the absorption. Sounds weird, but it's a fact. Because the fixture, of course, that the gun's attached to is attached to the truck. Or attached to the APC, you're attached to the recount vehicle or the fast attack vehicle or whatever. I would point out that, again, we may or may not use optics if it's vehicle-mounted. Sometimes we switch out and just use iron sights because again it's more of an air defense or suppression gun. And there again, this is another issue that we haven't brought up, ain't the razor, it's the blades. If you invest in a Barrett, I want you to first go take a look at what the cost on the mags are because that has to be calculated into your purchase, you know, purchase agreement so to speak. You're going to need more than one mag, okay? What's the price of a Barrett mag right now? Oh my goodness, that's the price of the Horn Box of Ingenation. Yeah, I'll put Big Box of Ammo. So again, cost is an issue, you gotta calculate that in, and don't forget spare parts and support technology. Ammo? Ah, reasonably priced. There's lots of it out there. Go to UNAMMO.COM for your half inch ammo, for, you know, again, for range shooting and for familiarization. We're at the top. We're gonna go. Got Craig coming up from Forbidden Knowledge next. God bless the Republic. Yes, with a new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Emperor's on the run. We're in a march and we'll be back. More on Boom Toys. It's Weapons Wednesday. Bye-bye.