September 12, 2018
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2h 5m
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2018
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Mark Koernke discussed firearms, ammunition, and preparedness throughout this episode. The show featured extensive discussion of AR-15 barrel sales at Classic Firearms, including 16-inch, 20-inch, and 24-inch options at historically low prices, with callers sharing tips on building dedicated long-range rifles affordably. A Vietnam War veteran who served as a US Air Force dog handler called in to discuss the GAU-5A carbine, its specifications, performance, and how Troy Industries now manufactures a modern version. The conversation covered weapon maintenance, magazine capacity, sling configurations, and comparisons between Vietnam-era and contemporary firearms.
- ar-15
- classic firearms
- barrel sales
- gau-5a
- vietnam war
- dog handler
- long-range rifle
- preparedness
- ammunition
- weapons wednesday
- troy industries
- carbine
- 5.56
- flash suppressor
- rifle maintenance
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That's libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Join Mark and Todd for Weapons Wednesday where you'll learn how to use everything from your bare hands to your average AR-15. The 12th gauge autoloader? Sure. The 45 Longslide? Yeah, with laser siding. You betcha. The Uzi 9mm? Yes sir. The Faze Plasma rifle in a 40 watt range. What are you, crazy? Wrong. Okay, he'll talk about that too. So whatever question you have, about whatever weapon you have, call Mark and Don on Weapons Wednesday. And remember, your mind is your first best weapon. The Guardian. Guns and ammunition. A family-owned business located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country. Let us help you find the right shotgun or rifle for you. Or if you're looking for a pistol or concealed carry, we have a nice selection of compact and subcompact pistols for that too. Check out our website at www.libertiesguardian.com. That website again is www.libertiesguardian.com. Go to the website and check out our selection today. I had a dream the other night that I wouldn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to 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 dock so their children will be born. 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 or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll 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 and each God-given right, and pray to God, freedom burning bright, as I awoke he'd vanished in the mist from 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 and 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? Is this still the land of the f- Alaska forces, it's towards number three, guys. Just like that, like Ika, how's that sound? We understand the pedicum involved there, there, the clouds in general anyway. 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You may ride a good lead speed, you may no stir the master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn to back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And the leader jot a start Glad you make but little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle, we'll prove no trifle For like quote unquote 50,000 round, 200,000. You're looking at simple, there's spring there, you have to talk to the Indian slaves that made them, or Vietnamese slaves. For training it was one man you take care of the SKS, and lo and behold, for more than a few, go along with it. When he sees sick, you know you're in. At the last round, all metal, standing on top of these arms, these types of training aids, a bit. Well then, A, I say there is some. One of the low end Platt Airsoft Air and Dapupu, any outs that I made, then I would have, well not Macroft. But what's Rick's simple spring-loaded ones that cost the metal ones made by and the other resting is that the line the sights up the night of early coming in everything out there that's goofy price to 200 at the Moors you can get just something to think about upon deals Oh 1911s right now. There's a nice set of these for $93 a piece or the mid gray and all the way across see that people don't have she's always intermembered thing for an hour then you perfecting technique the whole nine yards operational Put it in the around number round little co2 can like you had for the older BB guns to read. See, all of these special warfare people, they don't want to tell you, but you'll notice, they don't want you to be on greater force, wrecking our technique, get back on whatever you gotta do, going to train. Or, if you want something with guns, you know, there's another one and you repeat the process. I'm gonna want to buy more shells right away because I will warn everybody as to how it works. I have them listed in stock. Get them with wooden stocks, standard plastic stock, standard field grade is about $109 for around $160. And even the S-Sump. contract HK's up for a gun in the field with it actually if you were going out to free fight with you know free fall with everybody else you make them work. We got a cop. Yes Mark I'd like to jump in here real quick please. I'm related spec to tell you about. Go sell on barrel inch AR-15 $7 and they also have the 20 inch AR-15 barrel on sale for $80 right now. Both that is. The cheapest I have ever seen their 20 inch just a few dollars cheaper about three years ago on a one day Thanksgiving sale and after that I've never seen it that cheap. For the both of these are threaded muzzles and the one that they had just a little bit cheaper years ago was a barrel that came in without a threaded muzzle. They also have, if someone's into the 6.5 Grendel, they have those in a 16 inch barrel for $50 right now and then they have a 300 Blackout. $77 right now in 16 inch. That's also a heavy-duty barrel. Right. 23 Wilds to everything. The M4 barrels for $60, you know, that's in the cargo row. Yeah, yeah. And that's a price for that. The only time I've ever really seen barrels cheaper than this was like I said on like a one-day Thanksgiving or Christmas sale. One time they had some barrels that came in that got for a different gas, gas block. Right. But other than that, this is seen all year on these barrels and I just wanted to let you know about it. down in Florida when they went out, terrible to deal with, but guarantees the most important thing is can you, and he's good about because you want more stuff you want to pick up. And this is one thing too Mark I'd like to add to this. Now classic firearms does get a good price for shipping and handling so a lot of times you can almost, if you buy two barrels, you offset shipping and handling a little bit in your favor. And so buying two barrels at a time from classic firearms is in your favor instead of buying just one because of shipping and handling. But also sometimes you need to go when you're at classic firearms, you need to go through some of their AR-15 accessory list because sometimes they have like AR-15 hand guards really cheap. And they also sometimes have like flash suppressors really cheap for like in the $8 range. So you know sometimes you can go there and when you're going to buy a barrel or you know buy a couple barrels if a person afford to. That way you can kind of play the shipping game but at the same time you can pick up a few other little items there that can go in the box. It won't really mess the shipping up but you can kind of play that shipping low cost sale item thing because once in a while he'll get flash or get the hand guards, he'll get the gas tubes. He's even had at times some of those UTG stock. Yes. He's had them fairly inexpensive and you know if you're going to have to play the shipping game to save that extra 10 or 20 dollars, you just take 10 or 20 dollars and buy what else you need while you're there to kind of offset that shipping. If you want a beast gun you were talking about the again, A4 on the bear. Well can you imagine taking a night vision scope or a thermal scope and setting on that setting up a dedicated rifle? Oh yeah. Uniforms. That's the kind of barrel that these NRA shooters that go to these NRA matches where they do those 600 yard shoots. That right there is the kind of barrel, similar to the barrel they're using. And when you're looking at a lesser end, you're gonna have a full ink gas, you're on lower, you know, more work there because guess what? You two work this. And you gotta realize, Mark, you know, you're talking, uh, compared, if you're going by the prices, the classic firearms has 16 inch barrel 60, uh, $57. You're looking at roughly $60 difference between a 16 inch barrel and a 24 inch barrel. Difference in the handguard, so literally, what, maybe $100 difference in the prices of the material. You can now have a dedicated long range rifle. Well, this is what we've said, you cherry pick. Thank you. When I got to looking at some of those barrels, because when I look at ARs, I don't look at 16 inch barrels necessarily. I look at the 20s and 24s. Yeah, yeah. When you're talking less than $100 for a 20 inch barrel, and you're talking just a little over $100 for a 24 inch barrel that's got all the fancy hoodie and crap on it, and when you realize what that is, no, that's a steal. And right now there's people that's got AR-15s that they could slip a different handguard, carol in, and for literally $200 could upgrade to a dedicated long-range rifle. A tech here in the unpaid, this is one I wish to be very serious. Yeah, remember, you don't even have Buy a whole new rifle, guys. You can build another upper. And you can find Blem. Here's the thing about look for Blem's wherever you can. Said before, paint it. Whatever it is you gotta do to fill in that little rack full length, it's again gotta crunch the sun's liberty. All need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items and much more. Do you own a firearm? Mainmilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because mainmilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at mainmilitary.com. That's main, like the state, military.com. From behind enemy lines and occupied territories, Liberty Tree Radio is asking for your help. Keep hosts like Mark, Dom, Spike, B.C. Joe from the Carolinas and Ed the AK-47 on the air by donating to LTR's end of the year bill. Many hands make for light work, so go to libertytreeradio.4mg.com to help keep LTR in this fight. That's libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Join Mark and Todd for Weapons Wednesday where you'll learn how to use everything from your bare hands to your average AR-15. The 12th gauge autoloader? Sure. The 45 Longslide, yeah, with laser siding. You betcha. The Uzi 9mm? Yes sir. I used the Plasma rifle in the 41 range. What are you, crazy? Wrong. Okay, they'll talk about that too. So whatever question you have, about whatever weapon you have, call Mark and Don on Weapons Wednesday. And remember, your mind is your first best weapon. The British Guardian. Guns and ammunition. A family-owned business located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country. Let us help you find the right shotgun or rifle for you. Or if you're looking for a pistol or concealed carry, we have a nice selection of compact and subcompact pistols for that too. Check out our website at www.libertiesguardian.com. That website again is www.libertiesguardian.com. Go to the website and check out our selection today. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free, of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to 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 a safe number and 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 and dead. 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 may be your leaders and 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 or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll 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 Republican each God given right and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke he'd 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, dill the land of the free? Add four more barrels to a 20, I can bring this subject. Cause we're working on a video with Don Rhett, either with existing fat thermal, no matter what you do, but something that, on a shorty cam, but a longer silencer, now most of the burr thumb in caps down almost any of the whatsoever from the Visib good choice. Planning on using this as a house, and if you think you need something better, you know the neat part? Two is better than one, three is better than Beavers, you don't even have to build the whole gun in this lower search around. The odd rifle length gas A-side A-frame on That gun, I'll eat flavor for at the moment. Fork one model on the end of this, who cares? I'll screw the other one on whenever I want. Do you think that basket one? They were pissing it when people made copy. Are more of like a by the lower strip. They had the long long-bend since they were machinists working for Ford. PM, what they did with the, uh, a rich actual silencer end of the war. Because forward, left in the, the, uh, strike, when you're looking at errors or any kind of device you put out with a bullet. But everything has, you know, different ways, like with, you know, match guns, that even they get ticked and nicked every once in a while. One nice thing about that flash hider on the end, that there's less light, anything's gonna handle trajectory and performance of the bag by the gas. One step you're used to carrying, there's a couple of these that I built years ago that are in the help of, you know, we were just gonna build them through the woods, don't ya? All I'm seeing that out is when I hated these barrels when they machine the barrel, that takes, it has one internal step, the gas system. This, in many ways, this is a very simple barrel finger leverage, you know, but, no. The 24 inches are there too. That's what we were talking about. The long range tack, dragging out woodchucks. Oh yes. And... From your mission, Barney, he hit me with 600 breezels. I'd lined up a disco belt, your curly feet. That's where I long to be. The Darwin army came to visit me. Was in the early hours. With Saracens and Saladins and ferret armored cars. The thought that had me cornered, would I give them all a fright? With the armor piercing. I'm in Indiana. I was a dog handler in Vietnam and I carried that, they called it the GAU-5AA. And I was just listening to you talk about it. And boy, you write out about that flash suppressor. And the Troy Industries makes that gun now. They want $1,200 for it. And I ordered one a while back and managed that thing actually at 2,300 yards, no problem. It even has an original GAU-5A grip on it, pistol grip, from whatever was salvaged from Vietnam. You know, they had authenticity. But it's in a 5.56 now instead of a .223. Great gun. Do you carry where you were and anything in the field? Middle war and early war? So, industries. They're out of Massachusetts, so they make a lot of stuff. The GAU-5A, it doesn't have a full of a sip, which is what I like about it because ours over there didn't. And if you look at it, the only difference is the one Troy makes, the barrel is three-quarters of an inch longer. And that's it. And that's ordered to satisfy ATF. Probably got one in eight of magazines for the other issue, and that issue's long gone and dead. was that they did exactly what they were supposed to do, that waffle. Yeah, you see all these war movies now. They all have that 30-round mag and none of us, we like to lay on the ground a little closer with that 20-round mag, you know. You get a little closer to the ground with that. Which has made a difference. It sure is. And you don't have time to dig a hole. Getting as close to the ground as you can get is the best solution. I've got to tell you, maintenance is critical and our weapons are always well maintained. The only difference on this Troy is over there we had regular M16 slings on ours and the Troy is made for that too. But there was a little caveat I didn't know. They used paracord, I guess the Army did. When they were in the bush, they used paracord to attach to their slings to where the buckles wouldn't rattle on the gun when it would be heard. And that's the way they saw Detroit. And they have a real wide rifle sling. It looked like it could sit on to an M60. You could sling an M60 with it. It's real wide. And that's the only difference. We had regular M16 slings on ours. No, I was a US Air Force dog handler. Yeah, variations on it, yeah. Yeah, it was an Air Force weapon. The twist on the barrel is 1-12, which I think is interesting, because... That's because the rifle is not... Exactly. That's what they said too. You're right, absolutely right on. Gradual arc of that little Kar-15. The interesting thing is, they actually proposed experimenting with it. Yeah, most people we engaged, we basically had to defend against separate teams and most of those guys would come in probably 30 yards before we would initially detect them. And we'd have a dog in the left hand and we'd have the car in the right hand and exactly right it was a submachine gun cause you, I would never find mine automatic cause The recoil was a little bit too uncontrollable, trying to fire it with one hand. So I fired almost like a pistol, like I said. I got it. Makes sense, like you said. That is a good dog. Yeah. The advantage of that, are you handling dogs? Yeah. Oh, well. Oh yeah, that was my partner. It might be an effort, effort of the war and you were just under pressure. Yeah, they were a one-man dog and if you went down, I hate to say it, but if you went down and if you had that age rendered to you, the first thing the military would do is they would kill that dog. You were told to crawl out somewhere and try to tie him off, but there was no way really to tie him off. And you know, you can imagine how vicious they could get when you teach a dog to overcome all fear of a man. And he's geared to just one man. You got like, you got an eating machine there. He's not gonna let anybody just walk up on him or the hammer. I mean, it's gonna be, it's just gonna be odd. And if you hurt the dog, you just get more mad, you know. You'd have to kill him, for sure. Right. That's one of the problems that, well, if they sent the dogs to Alaska, they wouldn't put them down. Special forces, prized seals, went over him because he had qualification. We didn't get permission to die. Not yet, son. A little more work to do. Well, you know, again, you, like you said, any of the what? Two 40 millimeter grenade left over when they left the end of... No, not yet. All we had was the M79 and some of the backup units had the canister, 40 mic mic grenades, automatic grenade launchers. They had those, but the dog howls all they carried was the KAR-15 and maybe a pistol if you wanted to carry one. 45 or 38. But that GAU 5A, that was the bread and butter there. You watch, once they pull the trigger after they operate the gun, most memory, magma GM product. You're talking about the carvings the other day I was listening to. I've been listening to you for a number of years. And I love your accuracy because you always get on with most of what you're saying. And you're talking about the carbine the other day and boy about the Oriental's liking those carbines and I just lasted 15 minutes. That wasn't true. They all wanted that carbine. It was. It's a good gun. I like it. Only 90 pounds? Yeah. Because that end what really screwed it up is that the whole baggage. And they were bringing stuff in and priced M3 grease. Everybody wearing black pajama? You know what? I saw US Special Forces walking around Camelot too. Yeah. Well, mostly the curfew guys, depending on what they were carrying. In this particular, who wants one? I mean, it's what the Vietnam War, World War II, and you wanted to be able to reload, reload, reload. Well, if you're the only one carrying ammo, they just put them in the air. And they did, they kept them, eventually picked them up. You already got mags, you already know how to shoot it. This friend in the Upper Peninsula, 150 to buy more guns. Good to need them all. That's wrench for doing that. 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