June 3, 2021
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1h 3m
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2021
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Mark Koernke discussed ammunition pricing, availability, and strategic considerations for preparedness. He reviewed current deals on 7.62x39, 5.45x39, .22 LR, 12-gauge shotgun shells, and 40 S&W ammunition from AmmoMan.com, emphasizing that 7.62x39 remains the most affordable and reliable option. The show covered corrosive ammunition handling, cleaning protocols, and the importance of maintaining weapons long-term. Koernke also discussed sewing supplies, thread, buttons, and other consumables as preparedness items, and previewed upcoming optical devices (Axion monocular) available through the network. He encouraged listeners to find deals at estate sales and stressed the importance of building community networks for preparedness.
- 7.62x39 ammunition
- ammo pricing
- preparedness
- ak-47
- mini-30
- corrosive primers
- ballistic oil
- estate sales
- ammunition storage
- cleaning kits
- second amendment
- yugoslavian ammunition
- ruger firearms
- gun maintenance
- survival supplies
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constitution you know the right to bear arms because that the last form of defense against tyranny not to hunt to protect yourself from the police anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead anybody that wants to make me unarmed and helpless people that want to literally create the proven plan free zones with a suck on my machine politicians okay just get any blunt objects together all right get corners fashion in the head that seems to work keep together stay sharp and follow me the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his. 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've 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. The tyrant flavored 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 and home 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 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. 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 Republican, each God-given right. And pray to God, keep the torture freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now, as tyrants trampled, each God-given right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? The drums. I hear the drums, Lieutenant. Go to the sound of small arms fire and the drums will cover your flank and give you indirect sporting fire. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence for Port-Time, our corny. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. South, northeast, west, and southwest. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MGE.com, Liberty Tree Radio on satellite, MURON-EM and FM micro stations, CD base stations, and UltraNet. Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies East and West of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to all of our friends out there in Lower 49. including the great state ejection along with comas, the outline two state territories in the clock. It is 8 o' 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and the bottom of the state of Michigan. It is Thursday, it is the 3rd of June. It is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021, old earth calendar. Help me Spock, help me. That's really good. I'll see if you can do a Lincoln. Yeah, and 2021 Battle for the Republic, Dance of Swords. And it has been a beautiful day today. So let's get some rain tonight. We may or may not. It's of course the Michigan Peninsula. Throw the dice. We'll see what happens. But as it stands, kind of getting some of our spring weather and a little bit of heat, oh not much, but a little bit of heat starting out in the beginning of our summer here now. That's a good thing. Being Thursday, it's the other tea day when the government, the Mossad and other elements attack the American people in government-sponsored terrorist operations because they figure that Tuesday and Thursday are typically going to be at work. They prefer Tuesday, but they will use Thursday. Wednesday's not really good. And everybody goes, what? What do you mean? It's the middle of the week. Everybody would be like, no, no, the middle of the week is everybody thinks. I'm sorry, boss. I was feeling good when I left on Tuesday. And I think I should stay home today. And I'll call and let you know. And Bob, you got the boat ready. No, you know, my throat's feeling fine, but it's rasped. I might, no, I, oh God. Yeah, you see how that works? See, Wednesday you call off, but then you get right back into Thursday and then probably will stick around for Friday. On the other hand, you see Monday's not reliable because you may have a long weekend. Friday's not reliable because you may want a long weekend. But if government is going to bomb you or murder you in some form of government-sponsored terrorist operation, Tuesdays and Thursdays are the demographic days that they choose because they figure they got more of you at work. That is if you're wanting to work in this common area with a K, where you get paid more to stay home than you need to go work now. Go ahead, jump in there, call her. Here we got Tom. So on amelman.com, they got 22 long rifle Winchester USA 30 grain 36 grain CP HP 333 rounds for $79 you buy 4 for 75 and you save 5% Again, that's amaleman.com 22 long rifle Winchester USA 36 grain CP HP 333 rounds for $79 or you buy 4 for 75 and you save 5% And that's over at amoman.com right now? Yep, that's one of the deals they have. I'm on their email list. That was on their email thing. Again, it's amoman.com. It's 22 long rifle Winchester USA 36 grain. CP HP 333 rounds for $79 or you buy four for $75 and you save 5%. And as I'm looking at right now, as of right now, there's 1,455 in stock. Excellent. So again, for anybody who's looking for 22. Yes, I know what your price tag says on the stuff you bought 10 years ago. In fact, you're smiling right now if you bought it 10 or 15 or 20 years ago. You're sitting there going, ah, but you might still need some more 22 ammo or somebody else does. So that's the place to go today. AmmoMan.com. AmmoMan.com. And also there's a 12 gauge sterling 12-inch sterling 2-3-quarters double-eyed buck tour around for $155.00. That's not a bad price. Not right now. It's actually a pretty good price right now. How many pellets? Nine? That is an ammo man. That's an ammo man dot com. It doesn't say. Okay, well sometimes it, you know, at least a nine pellet Everything used to be 11, then you went up to 10, then you went to 9. I've seen somebody even have 8, which again, for doing the kind of work you're going to be doing in the future here, Buck is good to have around. Just something to think about. And again, for under a dollar a round for shot shells, they were actually, remember I was pushing, pointing out towards two things. 30 caliber carbine ammo, I was thinking about it before the program started. And shotgun shells. The 30 cal, at least you could get it, and it was holding its original price from two years ago. And so you'd buy the hell out of the carbine ammo, even if you didn't have one. You could then turn around right now, sell it for a little bit of a profit, and be happy, and pay for other ammo you got. Or, if you got a carbine, you just sit there and use it, okay, when the time comes. But the shot shells have gone right back, you know, right off, not back up. They've gone up to where everything else is. And now in this case, that's actually one of the better prices for double that buck that's in stock right now. And it says Sterling is now Sterling. I'm just I'm curious is that's the manufacturer, right? Sterling brand or is it Sterling? Yeah, you know, certainly. Yeah, it's Sterling. I'm 12-gauge Sterling. I'm guessing that it looks like it's... It might be English. I was going to say, it might be English. In fact, traditionally, that usually kind of settles with them as far as that name seems to be popular. It's in British pound Sterling or Sterling Silver. Yeah. Just heads up on that one, but that's not a problem the Brits make good ammunition and probably if it was buckshot It was being made for the government to kill you know Brits. It's like a Chinese ammo. What do you buy the Chinese ammo? Well, they're gonna make it work, right? Because they plan on using it to kill their own people and also kill us So if you get surplus ammo that type it'll work Also, at amomand.com again. 762x39 Wolf Military Classic, $124,000 for $370. So, $0.37 around, which is a good price. That's a reasonable price for that. And that includes shipping, right? That's flat rate. Pre-shipping, yeah. Anything over $100 is pre-shipping. Yeah, so again, that's not a bad deal with 37 cents around 7.62x39 still the most affordable round of everything out there You know for bang for the buck I'd scratch up a 7.62x39 rifle somewhere. I wish someone would make a bolt gun in a classic You know Mauser design or at least Mauser lines doesn't have to be a Mauser action as much others they could choose from But it would that would sell It's just one of those things where there's so much in the ammunition. It's still the most affordable out there It's kind of like we know some 62 by 39 has become the 3030 of the you know the global Market and my reality is kind of about the same performance not far off So put some 60 by 39 and a nice little turn bolt gun that's cheap would be really really nice to have go ahead call or jump in there, please Yeah Ruger does, in their American line, does make a bolt gun in that caliber 7.60x39. And you can get it two ways with their regular rotary mag or you can get it with their Mini 30 mags, which the Mini 30 is a Mini 14 that shoots 7.60x39. But those mags would be a little bit hard to find, I think. Well, I'll tell you, one of the places to look right now at magazines, thank you for bringing that up, Gunpartscorp.com. Go over to their close outs right now, clearance and close out section. They always put something different up there. And they've actually had some Ruger and also some, like I said, oh, let's see, what was the other ones? Paraordinates, there are a couple of paraordinates. Mags and also several Steyr. and also even one or two Glottemaks. So you never know what's going to be in their clearance section. They do a rotation on that. So heads up. But that's one of the nice things about Ruger is they're pretty well, they've got spare parts inventory. They're good for backing up their guns. Never complained about the service from Ruger. Just the old guy that was in charge, the man who was owning it. He hated all of you gun owners. If you weren't a money bag, if you were a money bag, oh, he loved you. But if you weren't a money bag, he didn't like you very much. And especially when it came to his magazines. So, you know, you like the product, but you don't necessarily like the person. But he's gone, and they loosened up on everything. So Ruger is actually selling more of the actual factory, you know, Mini 30 and 556 standard Mini 14 magazines. They would not do that in the past. I was a Ruger distributor and you know it was an insult because of listening to all the garbage. You know they sounded like you were listening to handgun control incorporated when you hear what they were saying. And it was like really? So you people are selling guns to who then? Well it turns out Ruger was selling their Mini-14 GB to any 10 plate half ass dictator on the planet. It didn't even matter how many people they were murdering. But he wouldn't sell the mag that he sold to that dictator. He wouldn't sell you that 30 round magazine. That was one of those things that really bit because a lot of those guns ended up in Africa and South America And in the hands of people who really really really many cases ended up not liking the US a whole lot No, but they took our money of course as they always do I've got another good source for magazines. Go ahead magazine warehouse Dot-com and when you do find those Ruger magazines you don't pay so much money for the markets gonna make your head spin but magazine warehouse dot-com magazine warehouse dot-com over Well, this gets back to remember wheel and I know I want to say I told you so guys But remember your go two years ago five years ago ten years ago and ain't the razor. It's the blades And there are windows when all this stuff was very reasonably priced. Especially the magazines. Somebody goes, well, what are the more than three magazines? Well, because four is better than three. Or wait a minute, 10 is better than three. Because when you're trying to ask permission to reload a magazine while the other guy still has lots of loaded magazines, he's probably not going to be fair and wait for you to reload. OK? It's just not going to happen. So, more magazines are better, but also anything with guns is an investment. There's a girl I ran into at one of the estate sales when she had a carbine and she was looking for magazines. Actually, there were some mini 30 mags there. I don't think they were a little more expensive, but it's the idea that she was complaining about the price. And again, she had the gun for a couple of years, but she hadn't taken it seriously until, well, this last several months. And now all of a sudden it's like, oh, maybe I should have actually been doing something. Well, if she two years ago if she bought those and one carbine mags, they'd have been half the price they are now and you could have bought pile of them from Korea brand new. So again, put them on the shelf, let them collect just like wine and you can sell two or three of them and pay for everything else you kept easily. On the other hand, the problem is we've always said I can't buy any from this price anymore. I can't come off any of them, which is what everybody always does. Okay. So, you still save money, because at least you got what you need. Go ahead, anything else for me over there, please. Oh, the Ruger American Boat Auction is very accurate in that 7.62 round. Oh, it would be a nice little naildriver. The problem, like you said, there's only a handful of companies that have done anything with it, and I don't see why. It is, since it is the most affordable ammunition to shoot right now, and really it's always been cheap, it's never been expensive, not really, except maybe years ago before the big China surge, we used to pay $3 around for brass case ammunition coming out of Canada. They would bring it in, import it from Canada, and of course it was all over the planet by the billions of rounds. But back in the 70s, the only place you could find any Warsaw fat stuff where you could buy it, newer Michigan's or close to Canada, is guys would bring import small quantities across on their FFL and then they'd market it at the gun shows. And of course if you had an SKS or an AK you brought back from the war, Well, you're always looking for ammunition because most guys never brought any ammo or hardly any ammo back. And the same is true with a 7.62x54R. The big jump is when the Chinese were allowed to wash the country with everything the way they did. Everybody started smiling and very quietly bought pallets of ammo and now those real AKs that they have are ready for the war. So that's kind of cool. The other one would be nice as a 5.45x39 to side by side with it for the same reason. Nice shooter, comfortable. The Steyer made a gun for the East German border guards to shoot people trying to leave the East German police state. And a nice little gun. Really crude though. Go ahead, jump in there, Collard. I remember those neat little bolt actions. I sold a few years ago in 545. Yeah, well in this... Yeah, the ones that were made for East Germany were done in the classic, you know, Eastern Bloc crude. You know, they were just not quite, you know, they remember there was any walnut stock, the finish was lacquered, but they were a Steyr rifle with a 545 chambering made by Steyr on the other side of the iron curtain on the non-communist side. Oops. And they built it and made it just fine for the people shooting people on the fence. That's kind of fascinating, isn't it? So anyway, the Ruger gun, the neat thing, I'd still probably go with the Mini-14, the Mini-30 type mags, Mini-14 knockoff. If there was an adapter, if they have something like that, it would really be cool. Their rotaries are very reliable. They perfected those decades ago. Remember when they came up with several different guns, not the least of which is Ruger 10-22. And so in the 7.62x39, I assume it's what, a three shot, four shot? Any idea? River does like to keep the capacity down if it's a sporting gun, because after all, that's another way to continue the anti-gun slash gun control agenda quietly. Oh, you only need three rounds. No, I believe that. No, you only need three rounds. I believe that's correct on the count on those both actions. Now let me just to reiterate here, I believe the best deal in the country and there ain't a lot of it around and it's only going to be around for so long in that caliber, the caliber 7.62 by 39 and it's in cases of the Yugo, I believe that comes up 1260. Count on that. They are arabrass case. They are bird and prime. It is corrosive shooting corrosive ammo ain't a problem you get ballist all German ballist all that the Kaiser had made in the 1800s This stuff is off the chart if you think that Gibbs is incredible this ballist all will do things Wood, leather, it can be used on your skin for healing. And what you want to do for corrosive, on that ballistol it comes in spray, blah blah blah, get the pure, get the pure liquid, I think it's 16 ounces for around $20. And for the cleaning of corrosive, am I on? Excuse me. You're gonna turn that water base. You're gonna go one part ballistol to nine parts water. Okay? And what I do is I put it in small glass jars with a lid and anything that I dip in there, blah blah blah, within three hours any kind of residue that comes up is floated up to the top and you skim that off. But what that does is that turns into a water base and it will clean corrosive Unbelievable what what could be you know, what did they do with all the corrosive bernan prime demo out of Europe over? Well, the only country left I think that had any good quantity is where we're seeing it come from the you goes Remember there was a little bit of the 8 millimeter Mauser and I think some of the first Romanian 8, you know the 792 by 57 That steel case stuff originally was verdame primed, corrosive. Eventually it would just be verdame primed but non-corrosive as they developed their loads and switched over like everybody else did in Europe. The UGOs, as much as anything, stuck with it for reliability and long-term storage because the UGOs were pushing more than anything else. They were pushing the foreign market. And if you think about it, it's year 2021, they're getting this stuff either like from Serbia or from Croatia or Bosnia or Herzegovina. Take your pick. It may be a little farther east, but I doubt it. It's got to be probably from Serbia, most likely. But each of these countries were actually giving everybody in Europe a run for their money in the render revolution industry. And ammunition was a big, big, big chunk of that for Yugoslavia. And in fact, they put a dent in the Russian market, which kind of pissed off the Russians, but they didn't do much. And the reason is because the Russians would buy Yugoslavian ammo and finish weapons and Taiwanese under the table night vision and start problems up it just like we did anywhere without being able to be blamed for it. We did not do, did you find any Russian ammo there? No, it was all Yugoslavian stuff, but that doesn't mean anything. You could have bought it. Well, of course I could have bought it, but can you prove that I bought it? Well, no. And by the way, don't you use the same ammunition producers? which we did by the way. So yeah, that's why the 760 by 13 is still popping out of the inventory. God knows how much of it they got in mines and underground locations all across former Yugoslavia because they were a major producer. Remember when Saddam was in place, guys, he had a lot of T-72 tanks. But he also had a lot of Yugoslavian counterparts to the T-72 because it was streamlined in terms of electronics and it had a lot of extra bells and whistles that the regular Russian T-72 didn't have. Remember, Yugoslavia, much smaller country, but they actually were marketing a lot of significant weapons systems out there. And in 7.62x39, the ammunition market was, you know, the rent revolution market under the table was a big chunk of it was theirs. So we're seeing maybe the last gasp of that before, you know, anything else happens maybe in Europe because I can't see them releasing a whole lot more except that they're using this capital to make more ammo. or whatever, you know, 545 by 39 or 556, whichever they're choosing, their standard is on for whichever of their forces. So that's the reason the 760 by 39 is being allowed to be marketed because otherwise, good for pretty much an indefinite period on the shelf. I still have 1933 boxer prime, steel case, corrosive with a zinc bullet German ammunition. And I fired that for decades, 50 years almost now. Bought it back in the early 70s, tons of it. And what's interesting, I never had a misfire. Now nothing fancy storage wise, initially I didn't even use ammo cans. And then I put everything in ammo cans and spread it out all over the state. And I still probably got a couple thousand rounds of that stuff. 15 round boxes, on-stripper clips, you know, brown Mauser standard, you know, for the cartridge pocket. And it works every time. Now, if that was German production pre-World War II and it's still working, I got to figure Cold War or late post-Cold War, probably going to run just fine for quite some time. So that's one of the big advantages of the Mercuric primer over the standard fulminate male type or fulminated type primers that they're using right now. It has superior duration in terms of performance and again reliability. Go ahead color. This time again talking about the 545. 545 by 39 wolves, 60 great FMJ, 1000 rounds, $389.00. That's at amelman.com also. Again that's 39 cents around. Yes. Which is, that's actually slightly better than classic, and most important is it's free shipping. So whatever price you're seeing there, if anybody's got 545 by 39 or 762 by 39, that's a comparable price to others, but most important is that includes the shipping. When you're looking at ammo man, the price you see is the price you pay. That's it. You know, unless there's taxes. Yeah, oh yeah dump so some there's tax but still it's free shipping over $100 and for all you 40 S and 40 Smith and Weston 40 S&W PMC Brown to 165 grain FMJ FP 300 rounds for $205 Well, that's a little better price too That's actually the best I've seen on 40 Smith. Everybody else is a lot more right now So you can buy on that. It's going. So you can get that at amaleman.com so people should go over there and check out all the ammo because you'd be surprised just how much they have, just what all they have. Well, it's wide but it's not deep. I already, because I did talk to them, you know, what was it, Thursday or Friday. And I actually went right down through the list trying to see what we had that was available because we've got one of the other state units wants to do a big purchase. And it's when you start talking pallets of ammunition, they're like, well, we're not probably going to come off that much. And the reason is that if you've ever, if you see some of the videos, it's like Atlantic has been doing videos of their ammo shipments. Well, they do get what looks like a lot of ammo when you think about it. But when you really think about it, count how many pallets, okay, first of all, are in the garage, and then count how many cases are on a pallet. Now if a handful of people just buy one case, then it's not long before those pallets that are in that garage are gone. And it's not like they were stacking them up one pallet on top of the other. We're talking just one layer. In the past guys have stacked it to the ceiling and been trying to jam it in in corners. In other words, try to make every square foot count. But they're not doing that. So what they have, they've got good. I mean, buy it while you can. And that's probably the best price for 40 Smith in the PMC load like that that we've seen in a while. It's not cheap, but it's still a few pennies better. And every penny you save means that many more boom booms you make when the time comes with the money that you spend on the ammo. That much more than that. Uh oh. Go ahead, Collie. Excuse me. Let me throw this in real quick. And thanks, Tom, for that good information. Now, Tom and everyone else on that 445 by 39 that's available through Amelman, that is none of your corrosive. That is all modern. I think there were three or four flavors there. That's going to be a modern non-corrosive on that. Over. Right, I'm the wolf. I need the wolf. All of that, you don't have to worry about. Even there though, here's the basic, we have to qualify that one even. Let's assume that, guys, oxidation is not good, carbon is not good for your weapon. So, we still want to clean the gun. Just because it's non-gaurosive doesn't mean we shouldn't be cleaning the weapon. That's where, again, progressive carbon fouling is eventually It's like you're shooting the rifle in mud, especially when you, like today, we have a little bit of humidity in the air. Well, that carbon, it's dry, really dry. It's ash. And what it does is it sucks in any moisture. Like what I said, it's like shooting in mud. The carbon is aggressive and again, resistant. It's crystalline. But then on top of that, you add moisture so it swells to a degree. The H2O bonds to the carbon molecule. And what happens is now it's like liquid emery cloth. So the other thing to remember about what you're doing when you leave a weapon heavily followed is you're wearing metal. First you're wearing finish, which is actually, remember, is an oxygen bearer. barrier. It's designed to keep moisture and, you know, again, H2O or oxygen in general away from the metal so that the metal doesn't pupsy dyes. But once you wear out the parts, then bare metal is there and you have to constantly do maintenance, which you should anyway, as we're discussing. But the more that you leave that carbon in place, the more gradual, like a little fingernail scratching, just so, oh, just delicately every time it moves. It's rubbing against the metal and it's wearing the parts. That's the other reason we want to keep the gun clean, as clean as possible. In fact, if we keep it cleaner sooner, most of the finish might actually be retained a little bit longer. It doesn't mean you won't wear it off. Come on, some of you guys remember what your weapons look like in basic training. If you were around the M16A1, oh dude, some of those didn't have any finish. I mean, maybe 80% gone, 20% still there. The 20% was in weird places while most of the rest of the fish was rubbed flat smooth and gone So just something to think about we don't want to see that happen again We're trying to stretch out the lifespan of every weapon we've got because we're going to need them for the long haul just especially critical With regard to the 545 by 39 somebody's asking me here about which one which would you prefer? I use the original or have a ton of the original 545 by 39, you know, premier round. The 60 grain works really well. But, and again, well, let's see, what is it running right about the same price. So it doesn't make any difference. It used to be the big deal was in the was at the N7 or RN7 round. The first model that came out, kind of that was available for the longest time in ham tins. If it's out there now, it's being pretty well at the same price as any of the other ball ammunition as far as it's not a deal. It's just whatever the average ambient price is. So now it's a matter of which do you prefer, what do you want for performance. A little heavier bullet, you will get out there a little better, a trail better at long range. Your AK-74 is not a long range sniper rifle, but... If you can put more bullets farther out, you can make them more nervous sooner and chances are they'll have to go to ground and then they have to treat it as a tactical movement situation which wastes energy and time. So that's a good thing. Other things. And again, easy to find. And they do keep a reliable inventory. If they got it, they got it. If they don't have it, they don't show it. So that's a good thing. Unless it just ran out. And you've got to be careful there. Let's see. Next. And again, we were talking about perishables and consumables. Pretty much in every category. Something that actually would have to parallel with this. If you girls or any of you guys are sewing, Guys needles are a commodity needles are in fact an extreme commodity I would point out that unless you go to an actual slight sewing shop How many brands of needles are you going to find on the shelf typically one maybe maybe maybe two? But in general needles thread Replacement stock and components for your your sewing machines. Have you got any sewing machines you want to bobbins? Even some of the minor spare parts should be invested in now. But sewing machine needles, not just conventional needles. If you're going to be looking at thread, take a look at, for instance, seat repair or industrial surplus seating thread. Now, you can garrot somebody with that stuff. It will not break. It will not give. It is about as durable and tough as you're going to get. The neat thing is it does come in colors. So you can actually, if you look in the surplus market, in the industrial surplus market, you will actually find some really interesting colors that are useful with the kind of work you're probably thinking about doing. Now, here's the only thing about using that really super tough thread that's used for, you know, can either putting, you know, pleather, you know, mock leather, vinyl. or leather together is that remember it's a much more aggressive material. And as we said, you could use it for a karate. Understand that it will also shear through materials if it's not properly constructed. And the material isn't dense enough. So you can literally be sewing something with that hand sewing and pull it right through the material, just literally like you would a karate around somebody's neck. It would go through the neck. In this case, for that reason, you kind of will balance that out. There's a whole bunch of other different military surplus threads. Sportsman's Guide has some. Coleman's has had some. And you can get it in the larger industrial 500 or 750 yard spools. I'm working off a green spool I bought a decade or more ago right now for repair on buttons and such, and also touch up pants when they have a... Well, stitch points that have come loose, you re-stitch, you know, re-hand stitch and put everything back together or if you're putting a button in place, this is actually the uniform, these are the uniform thread inventories that were used for constructing the uniform you're probably wearing. I've been there at the same time, the one uniform you're wearing right now, but the inventory and the stock and the quality has, you know, material hasn't changed. So that's another item, another category, sewing. We can make buttons, but it's kind of nice if you can get an inventory of buttons going. Whenever you're going to trash your shirt, break out the razor blade, cut the buttons off, put them in a jar. And then you got some more, do the same thing. Just keep adding them to the container. If you run into stuff where it's, again, those estate sales sometimes, you're just a bag of bones, so to speak. Grab them all, put them into a container where they can be sealed. Ideally, put them in a Ziploc bag, sort them. There's something to do in front of the TV. Sort them at least a little bit. And when you're done, the Ziploc bag everything, put them inside a larger Ziploc bag and put them in storage with everything else. So you have a reserve of material to work with that instantly is available off the shelf without you having to run around or improvise, adapt, and overcome. Doesn't mean you can't make buttons from scratch. Fastest, easiest way, mock handles, broom handles, and a saw. Then you break out the power drill, and you make your little holes for your stitch points, and you have a button. I'll bet it's as crude or sophisticated as you choose to make that button when the time comes, but it will work. So you can always fabricate a button. Toggles are another thing to work really well if you are trying to figure out what to use. If you're already committed to a system and the system has particular needs and needless to say, If it's something that's a, there's an attachment, this thread it or whatever, you're not gonna change out on things like that. If it's proprietary, you're going to need to acquire the proprietary components, whatever it is that's necessary. With regard to the thread, I think right now, let's see, Sportsman's Guide has some Italian surplus thread to have, I believe, in black, in survival slash emergency orange. And they did have some olive green. It's a lighter OD than the one you'd see on the American equipment. But when you use it for stitching stuff up, nobody cares. So just a matter of, do you need it? Is it available? Price is right? Jump on that. Also, I guess, heads up. We're looking at possibly doing another optical device. And for everybody out there, it is Axion, I believe it's an SA-3 and it's a monocular with an ultra bright conventional flashlight. I'll let you know. We're going to get a quote on the price here pretty soon, but they do have a number available. I guarantee that once they're done with them, they won't get them again, just like what happened with the rifle sights. They've got the best price in the country, the jobber, and the more I buy, the cheaper they are. So this is another way to benefit the network. So I will just give you a heads up that we may be putting that out there as an available resource pretty soon. Hopefully, maybe as soon as tomorrow. We'll see what happens. I still have to check the emails, and as soon as I'm off the program, I'll do that. And if they've responded, what I wanted to do is see about doing a quantity single purchase so that we'd have them on hand. But I'll let you know more. You guys will be able to look them up. Take a look at some of the videos on YouTube. There are some already out on the unit. The normal average price seems to be about as little as $49. But the ambient and middle price seems to be about $69 to $70. That's $30 shift. I mean, did I do the math right? I think I did. $49 versus, say, $79 or, well, Well, that's a chunk of change. But they're going to be a lot less than that. And these are brand new in the bubble. They're not something that's been reordered or has been returned. In addition to that, they may have one other optical device. It's going to be a conventional scope. It is supposed to be on Friday. Forgive me. It'll probably be Saturday or whatever. And they won't even be bothered with it until next week, not this week. However, once I know what model they have, we'll look to see if it's useful and what kind of price we can offer it at to make it sensible. Because I want to give you guys a good deal. And we're happy at our end. And it supports the network. That's the plan. So I'll let you know more about that one. But it's Axion. I want to say SA3, but you can slap me in the microphone. I may be off on that. And again, it's an eight power monocular handheld. with a under-mounted ultra-bright LED slash elimination spotlight. And again, it's one of those things that's unique and useful. Anyway, any other questions before we go any farther? Comment. Go ahead, jump in there. Well, this is Pluffy and that's just my opinion. I really wish nobody would pay that kind of price for 22 ammo. What was it, like $80 for 333 rounds? Just a little more than a year ago, I was buying that for like $10. If people would just refuse to buy it until it comes down to no more than half that, but I just wish people would refuse to buy it at that kind of price. That's my comment. Mm-hmm. Why no? Well, look at the 9mm. You know, you got to remember, I've paid as little as 4 cents around for 9mm. 5 cents around, 10 cents around. Chinese junk coming in, not junk, Chinese ammunition, steel case, coming in for, you know, 5.5, 6 cents around. Right now, you're looking at the price of 9mm being what you would pay for a 30 out of 6 case. In fact, I was pointing at how many times, AIM surplus, 30 out of 6, 180 grain, hollow point, oh forgive me, jacket and soft point, for $16.40, 20 round bucks. Which do you think I'd rather shoot somebody with if I had so many dollars to spend and I could buy 30 out of 6 for the same or less than I can say a 9 millimeter? Which do you think I'm going to shoot you with? It's probably not going to be a 9mm. In a way, this is kind of funny because this is, I don't know, it's forcing people to do something that is really a good thing for our side. Because if it's become so expensive for these odd man out rounds, my 7.62x39 AK will get whatever the other guy has on his hip and the ammunition that goes with it. And I still shot the other guy dead for a whole lot less, didn't I? So it makes more sense to actually go the bigger heavier calibers, the larger chamberings with greater range and greater penetration and more hurt when it gets there. So this is bad for the bad guys. If for whatever reason they're thinking they're drying up the ammunition, you know, as far as ammunition inventory and pistol, there's two things that are going to happen here. Number one, people aren't shooting as much. That's okay. When somebody does shoot at you, they're probably going to be a lot more serious than just spraying and blazing away now simply because there's this constant frugality idea between the ears about, oh my god, every time I pull the trigger, it's a dollar. Now, hopefully it will do that because I'd rather everybody slow down and hit as opposed to like what the cops do where they dump three, four magazines and maybe hit somebody 11 times. So our side can do better than that. And what's really neat is what they've done to us is probably going to force that with all the thinking people. Now some people are never going to change. It's going to be, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, I'm empty. I need more ammo. Pull out your knife and just wait for them to get closer now. Can't you throw me a magazine? No, you were carrying 10 and they see you went through them in about a half a minute. And I don't see anybody drop into the ground and I don't think you're scaring them even, okay? So why don't you just pull your knife out and wait for them to get closer? And everybody else keeps firing. That's the attitude I have with certain situations. It's like, no, you just, I don't try to run, they'll shoot you. But if they get closer, stab them. Otherwise, the big problem here again is 22, well 22 is, okay, 22. is to 9 millimeter what everybody was saying 9 millimeter was to 5 5 6 only what 6 months ago a year ago right well and for what I can pay for 1 5 5 6 I could buy 3 9 millimeters or what I buy 1 9 millimeter for traditionally I was able to get 5 6 7 8 9 22 rimfire routes that isn't the case anymore So again, now the math has turned everybody towards and everybody needs to talk to anybody out there this way. If you're worried about the price coming back now, think about this. 762 by 39 is pretty well stayed with just a very short sine wave. In other words, it's on the up curve, but not by very much. Two years ago, AKM was going for, maybe we could find some for 19 cents around, maybe. But for the most part, in the 20, 25, 27 cent range, so it's only gone up by an additional $0.10 or a stage stable around there. We've seen it a little higher for a bit, and it all got sold. On the other hand, that same period, how many, like two years ago, how much 9 millimeter could you buy? How much 9 millimeter can you buy now? It still makes more sense if I have to carry a gun and shoot somebody who's trying to take away my rights, destroy the Bill of Rights, burn the country, peddle my kids, rape killed pillows and burn the family, destroy the country. It still makes more sense, and it's better for us in general if our people are buying the 7.62x39 rifle round as opposed to that little 9mm round. When the price is the way it is, it's the only thing that makes sense. So in this way we're going to finally kind of push people towards making sure they get that rifle they should have had. They will end up probably paying a little more for that AK, which by the way if they're careful they can still keep that price down. And it could also be a mini 30, mentioned earlier by you know Texmex. So if you do a mini 30 you just got to keep watching through the magazines. Ammunition is not a problem. That's just the thing. Ammunition is not a problem. 762x39, should have plenty of it. If you're lucky, one of the estate sales guy had a stainless steel Mini 14, or forgive me, Mini 30. It had 12 mags that were 30 rounders. He had four Ruger 20 rounders. They're all Ruger mags. and came with a Bushnell scope on the roof with a variable output, variable output scope, pretty good size, really for the rifle. And the gun went for like $400 with magazines, the gun itself, and the scope. Everything mounted, any gun case, of course. So there's stuff out there floating around, but you gotta catch it as it happens. And that's why again, I will point out these estate sales, try to get there when they open up. You never know what you're going to find there. Never. You never know. But always ask, hey, any guns in this estate sale? Well, as a matter of fact, over there in the other room there, go over to the other building. And there, oh, look what's on the table. So that's going to probably be the most likely way you get your best arrangement, your best deal at this point in time. And again, I don't see it getting any better. It's broad. It's just like what happened. with the recovery the last time we had the ammunition problem. We have a broad recovery going on in terms of, wow, a lot of unique stuff. If you'll notice a lot of the names you don't recognize. Or you haven't seen in a very, very long time. Like the Sterling shotgun ammo was mentioned earlier. Before things got thin, did you see a lot of Sterling ammo around? No. All of a sudden, there's some available. Why? Because they're scraping the barrel anywhere they can find something that they can market, which is where we are with the ammunition that's being sold right now. Not a bad deal. Won't complain about it. But in that, hey, at least we're getting something. But it's all, it's like, you know, Rigel. OK, what was the other one I saw the other day? Rigel ammunition. I have no idea where that came from. Star which I'm assuming when it says star could be just a made-up company name here Doing star shotgun ammunition and again that was slug and buck nothing fancy just you know two loads slug and buck and They only had a limited quantity of the stuff and maybe the only stuff the company made or it was made under an odd banner by any of the regular Manufacturers and now it's done Now it's gone. It won't see it again That happens every time there's an available market list like this and not just with ammunition and guns, too. You've seen this in every other category of unique items. So it's one of the things that we just need to accept, try to tailor what it is that you're going to, you know, get the person into. For the time being, 7.62x39 is the most affordable and at least reliably available. It's not just affordability. It's the idea that if you know, if you've only got $400 to spend this week Okay, well we got you the rifle. We were lucky there. We got maybe $50 left over us now to buy a case I'll tell you what I'll go in with you and buy part of a case you get the $50 worth and then when's your next paycheck or when's the next money coming in? Well the next next two weeks out whoever we can find you can buy more 762 by 39. Well, you can actually do that But you can't do that with most any other chambering with any other caliber out there. Except maybe shotgun shells. So that makes this a useful, at this part of the life cycle, most useful solution in ammunition. Also, again, I can't emphasize enough cleaning. We talked about cleaning components earlier. Guys, cleaning kits are designed to wear out instead of the gun. Always remember that, oh, I got a cleaning kit. Yeah. The cleaning kit metallurgically and component wise, like the brushes, are intentionally designed to wear down before the bore wears out because you scrubbed it dirty. You scrubbed it to, you know, raw. It's just not going to happen. You don't have to worry about that. But because of that, and by the way, this includes, you know, jags, any of your cleaning tips, for instance, your patch tips. They are intentionally designed to be softer metal. If anything is going to be damaged, the $3 or $4 cleaning kit is expendable. The now $6, $7, $800, $900 or $1,200 rifle or shotgun or pistol is not. And it never has been. It's always been a sensible process. This is why when you see surplus cleaning kits cheap for a weapon system that you have, Like when the AK stuff was coming in originally, I told everybody, hey, buy 10 cleaning kits, put them on the shelf. You're not out anything, they only cost you 25 cents or a dollar or whatever, but you're going to use them if you're going to keep using that AK. And the AK, by the way, will last your whole lifetime. Not because you're going to be dead two years from now, okay? I don't know. It's because, again, it's built well enough that if you maintain it, would the, let's just say, More acceptable, sloppy tolerances of the AK, but not too sloppy. The weapon will continue to function flawlessly, and as long as you maintain it and continue to both clean it and lubricate and do it in proper PM, that weapon's going to serve you for as long as you need it. Technically, you shouldn't wear it out. And any parts that do wear out, one good thing, before that happens, you actually could purchase what you need, as we've talked about before, a firing pin extractor ejector. Hell, you can go so far as to buy a brand new barrel for it and have it on standby. AK barrels are actually still reasonably priced, not so much with everything else. So if you needed an in the light AK47 7.62x39 barrel for one of your rifles, you can still find AK barrels for about $80 apiece. And that's not bad, if not less. In fact, again, go to gunpartscorp.com. Go to apexgunparts.com. Check out Sarco, okay, E-Sarco, or it's E-Sarco, Inc.com, I think you can take the dash off. But look up Sarco, and go take a look at what they have in the way of barrels. The AK barrels are reasonably priced. Now some are more expensive than others. When I say in the white, this is a barrel that, what you're gonna do is tap off all of the attachments, all the components off of your existing barrel, and slide them onto the new barrel in the white, paint it, Pin it, we don't mount it and pin it and Congratulations, you now have yourself a rebuilt rebarrel day k-47 Not hard to do now remember there is pinned and there's also threaded and threaded is just as common small I'd say 5050 with the stuff floating out from the Warsaw Pact and stuff that came in from China So just something to think about there. Oh, we are at the top and for everybody out there guys Thursday is coming to an end and even as I speak I See cloud cover out there a little bit So, yeah, we're supposed to get some rain tonight. We'll see what happens. If any of you can, take the time and go over to libertytreeradio.4mg.com and peruse all of our links. We've got a lot of good friends out there. And if you can, take some time to listen in and support them. God bless our republic. Good to be a world order. The shelter of the Ale, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We are on the march for the day and night. We get out of the way for now for everybody out there keep building find one person and then help that person to achieve all of what's necessary to bring them up to combat effective strength That's your job. Everybody does that and double our numbers. Well, you do the math Anyway, let me get away for now Edward taking over more LTR coming up. We'll see you tomorrow, which would be Friday. God bless