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, speaking low to me. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free 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. Invist 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 attacks 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 trade it 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 will be brought. 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 what 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 and eat 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, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled 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? And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I am our Erky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines, and occupied territories, southwest, east, northeast, and west. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com Liberty Tree Radio on satellite and a myriad of technologies inside and outside the United States. Today's day, well first of all it's 5.06 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It is Weapons Wednesday, it is the 27th of October. It is the 13th year of open Fabian the Socialist and Soviet Socialist. Occupation of America with a K 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the Republic. The Dance of Swords. And you know it's funny we've had a breeze all day still got a little air but it's just gone still. And we're like in between we start out with blue skies clear horizon to horizon then the frigate clouds and the haze came in and And now a general miasma medium altitude, so it's gray, but it's still. So we're in between two fronts. Something is fighting and we can't see it. It's to the north to the south, wherever it is. But since the wind drift was from the north, I got to figure, well, again, north or south, not east or west. But it is pretty and it has been a beautiful month so far even with all the rain we've had but we've got classic fall rain. So just timing is everything. It's not in the days. I think some people got a little too comfortable in the with regard to some of the farming because we had so many clear days in a row and then we got the part we got the you know keeping the farmer out of the field rain squalls. And then a few days of clear again, but not enough to dry everything up. So if you did, if you push it hard and they did, the guys around here were running 24 hours nonstop grain trucks, loaded up, left every couple of hours, 24 hours nonstop day and night, all the way through the night. And again, smart thing to do because while it's dry enough, you can take everything out of the field. We've got to wait now. You might have to wait like with the corn. until we get a decent freeze. We get a little bit of a freeze, then you get back out there and you start pulling in what's left. But it looks like some beans got hit. A few here and there because we just were slow at going after the beans, they went after the corn. And so we've got a few 70-acre, 50-acre and 100-acre plots that I've seen. A few that were not taken in. That means they could be gone from old. By the way, before we go any farther, I want to say hi. One of our new micro-FM's at the bottom of the state of Michigan, not far from where we're sitting, but a county away. And I want to say hi again to Frank and Lois and 91.5 FM. So you guys have done a great job in your neighborhood, I understand, and everybody's listening in. So, yep, you guys just took over the network. How do you like that? And that's heard internationally. So again, 1.5 FM, keep it up. It is Weapons Wednesday. A few things to pay attention to. Number one, go to Guns and Gadgets. There's too much to cover. It's easier for you to just go watch it. That's what the channel is for. Guns and Gadgets. Go over to Guns and Gadgets. And Peru is what they have posted. Needless to say, in the federal end, they are continuing to push and move the gun control slash gun confiscation slash red flag laws, along with a bunch of other stuff, through the process. Well, they were just going to carve those right out, and no, that's not happening. So again, we'll wait and see, because remember, they don't have one piece of legislation. That's the most common mistake made. Whenever it comes to gun grabs, There are usually three or four of the exact same pieces of legislation with minor variance and a different number. So that that way you're looking at one while another may be passing. This has happened many times in the past, many, many, many. So much so that I can mention on the air because we have seen this before, okay? Another thing real quick, since I had an interesting conversation last night back and forth, it was on the AK right now, would you buy an AK right now? Well, I would if I had found a really reasonably priced one. And again, everybody, AKs have gone the same way that ARs have, and you have a lot of snobbery going on. Well, yours isn't the latest, mid-lap, 4000 with quadrifuradihiadine finish and chromate percolate Borax slash Boron slash cat PC smeared bolt carrier group or bolt group blah blah blah blah blah and it gets to the point where it's yes it was it's just like what we saw with competition shooting it's what we see with cars see this with everything rather than having fun and everybody accepting the idea that some people aren't going to buy your $800,000 Corvette, it's classic. And yeah, there are put 16 of them, but that's something I can't own. So I'm probably going to buy the one that I can afford and it's kind of in line what I probably wanted when I was a teenager. Now I'm older I got one well same is true of the a case There's a whole bunch of shooter grade a case work just fine I would point out that I want someone to oh well I want you to single out and all the pictures of the Taliban who just Ran the you know us military out of Afghanistan Only because of a communist Chinese general in an American uniform in charge of all the military along with the rest of the other swine that are betraying us littering uniform in the pentagram. Not everybody is, but in the pentagram. So anyway, if you look over there, you'll notice two things. Number one, and somebody actually made a comment, how is it after all these years those guys are still using those Chinese chess pouches? And if you'll notice, that seems to be like the most common bear For the regular line infantry, they might have a very sophisticated weapon because there are a few of them out there. And certainly they've captured a lot of pun- you know, like a lot of guns that they probably aren't that interested in. Too much junk on them, way too much for the performance you get out of them. And that's the attitude of the guys that have captured a lot of these M4s or the newer rifles still, and why they're showing up on the Reddit Revolution market being sold for $29.95 with tax license and dealer preparation and a new paint job. Okay, are there some like M16 rifles, M4s, or is this like, yeah, well, it's good money over there. Okay, it must be. Okay, so it shouldn't be a surprise. and it's going to somebody where they might more appreciate it because the rifle makes more sense for those people that want it. This is another thing to remember. The AK in its standard configuration is the most common thing you'll see for the light infantry in Afghanistan. And strangely enough, for the guys who won, and they did win, what happened? They won. They did win. Fact of the matter is that type 52, type 56, type 59 chest pouch, and there's a bunch of newer ones, is still the basic system that works well. The AKs could be Yugos, Russian, Chinese. Typically, again, they prefer the Euros. And don't forget, they could have gone to Peshwar, and they just may have a rifle that looks like All those AKs combined because it's a home built in a gunsmith shop up in the middle of the mountains in Peshawar. However we look at it, the basic AK, there's no picatinny rails on most of them. They got tired, conventional wood, no polymer. Some have a folding bad head, some don't. If they're Chinese, they do. If they're the others, they probably don't. And what about sites? They must have like red dot lasers, something. They look like they're using regular iron sites. Now there's a few that have bought some optics, but who won? Did the latest, greatest Picatinny rail, blah blah blah blah, win the war? Or did the other side? So just little heads up there. Oh, I know I stirred. I stirred the pot because it was a It's the same thing. We never lost in the field. And in fact, how did we lose? We got betrayed from behind. And then we lost. So we were very successful, even built up an army in Afghanistan of whatever questionable for you know, quality. And you can argue about that up and down until you know, the cows come home, but it comes down to, they got betrayed. They got betrayed from way behind out of Washington again, and we lost. This sounds like a like a couple decade late replay. Well actually like a four decade late replay. Wait a minute, actually be four and a half. Hell, wait a minute Vietnam was 75. Yeah, that's four and a half decades. The beginning of 75 was pretty well the roll-up. So yeah. So anyway, those AKs seem to work just fine. The biggest thing is finding one that fits your wallet. And also, you've got to be careful who made it. We still watch out for Century Arms International because they have Hugo of Warsaw, who seems to beat parts together with a hammer and on occasion can get the sights lined up, but half the time doesn't know how to do that, even though Century has been doing guns for, well, hell, since Vietnam War at least, if not before with another name. And isn't it amazing that they still have these contract guns that they do and they just can't get them right? Do you think that that's an accident? I don't think that's an accident. Actually with Century International Arms CIA, ooh, I'm sorry, Century Arms International, you know, old CIA slash rental revolution, you would think they'd pretty well figure out how to do that. You know, although they did some really bizarre set meets, again, looked like they were hammered together as far as the sites. and you can never really do much to fix them. Might as well go to optics and figure out how to make that happen. But with the AKs, there are a number of other manufactured kit guns made by several different companies, including a couple of American-made AKs. And oh, there's all kinds of comments. I've looked at most of it in a typical political hack stuff where Somebody's trying to promote one business over the other. The quality of the product is reasonable. It's just not Cadillac. It's a Pontiac. It's supposed to be a Pontiac. It was never intended to be a Cadillac. Still a GM product. In other words, still an AK-47. It's just not with all the latest bells and whistles that if you don't have the AK just wouldn't work. Oh, wait a minute. That's not true. Way before all these other Tinkertoy things that were put on the guns were attached over here, The AK-47, how many of those were made in their standard configuration? How many? Yeah, okay, just a heads up on that one. So the big thing is, again, basic combat load, obviously you can trick whatever web gear you want because, you know, MOLLE gear, there's all kinds of AK pouches available there. There's a number of the Cold War pouches available so that you can actually attach that to all of your TA gear that's like Cold War American or British or whatever, you know, or French. The neat thing is that, again, ammunition is still available to a degree and what's interesting is that they've obviously slipped sideways. Preview partisan, PPU, it looks like it's picking up the slack on the better grade of 762x39. Oh, and also they're bringing in more the 545x39 through PPU. problem. It may have gone up a little bit of price and that is going to happen because they know they can ask a little more for it. But it is Boxer Prime, Bouncorossi, Gita-Neiled, and that's simply what it costs for. Boxer Prime, Gita-Neiled, you know, modern ammunition. So the big thing here again is picking out what it is first of all it's going to work for you budget-wise. And then magazines. And right now there are a whole bunch of Bulgarian surplus bags that have come in I picked up, I think, what I got them for, it was a deal when Centuri, not Centuri, when Centerfire Systems was down at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Chute for the last round. They had AK mags for $4 apiece and of course they sold out pretty quick, but they did have a large quantity in preparation for the sale. So there are little lumps of the AK mags like that laying around and again as I mentioned the surplus Bulgarian Are excellent there's nothing wrong with Bulgarian the Polish are excellent I remember we had those Polish mags came in for about five dollars should have bought another hundred of those but as it is The Bulgarian standard AK mag Matches up with a premium series of guns that they brought in The first Bulgarians actually would be the best. Unfortunately, they're now considered classic. And you know what classic means? Stupid price. Unopinium price. But the reason they command such a high price is because when Bulgaria brought in the first of its semi-automatic rifles, guys, you got to understand that they had a better barrel than anybody else building an AK. In fact, the barrel plant was classified. They wouldn't even let visitors in to see what they were doing to build their barrels. Now, the quality of the barrels was so high that the Russians bought a big quantity of them and put them on their AKs. The argument is that they kept Bulgaria happy by doing this, but then they were trying to metallurgically backtrack how Bulgaria made such an accurate, tight, clean barrel. for such a reasonable price and whether or not they caught up with them or whether or not they, you know, industrially spied on Bulgaria to get into where they wanted to see what they were doing, well, that's history I don't know about. But the interesting thing is that the Bulgarian AKs held up and held their own against everybody else out there in a light rifle. The one thing that they, we do know too, is that those particular barrels are good probably for close to 100,000 rounds. And like the FN FAL barrels, the L1A, what was it, L1A2? L1A1. The first model that was put into African service and was a contract gun actually had a high mileage barrel on it. It was designed to do 80,000 to 100,000 rounds. Well, that's not good for FN if you're trying to sell more FALs. So the problem they had was twofold. Number one, if they didn't like the people they were selling them to, they wanted something with a little less durability. But it was too late, Kat was out of the bag on that one, and the first batches that went into Africa are still haunting them to this day because the rifles had such a durable level of performance. They were reliable. and they haven't lost that much of their, you know, if any accuracy for as many thousand rounds, they probably have punched through them. It's more likely that they got busted or broken, run over or shot than anything. And that is one of the reasons that again, everybody needs to be paying attention when you see stuff waddling around, especially like the older kits. There are still some of the old kits laying around in places where you see them at gun shows. Do a little research and understand that the barrel in that kit may be worth more than the whole kit, all the kit combined. All the other parts in the kit. Now it typically is anyway because barrels don't come with most of the kits anymore. They chop them up because that's what the Bat Baggage Command that they do. Okay? But on top of that, like the Bulgarian kits, there were a number of the Bulgarian high-end barrels that came in. Unfortunately, then they started chopping and lopping them, just like everything else. So whatever's in here is all that's in here of that series. Now are the newer Bulgarian rifles comparable? Quality is good, but and I don't know if they changed out their contract barrels to something else for export because again if you build it real good you don't have, you know people don't have to buy as much. If they don't have to buy as much, not selling as much. So this is the problem with again building a really high quality durable arm It makes for a happy customer to a degree, but makes for an unhappy salesperson because they're not lined back up to buy more. You want to balance that, which is what everybody tries to do, where performance is good, but not excessive, so that that way you'll come back and buy another AK or another AR or another HK from me, because that's what they're in the business of doing. Okay? So when you hit these little niches where something like that is available or an opportunity like that, then it's always a good idea to take advantage of that. So do a little history research, you'll see what I'm talking about. And again with the Bulgarians, once in a while, I think we've run into one of the Bulgarian AKs like that. Samaoto, first model to come in and got that for like $575, which really is a steal for the gun anyway, it was virtually new in the box. came with a couple extra magazines and is typical of the variant that I just discussed that we were talking about. So you really really really want to pay attention there because sometimes there's a whole bunch of little gems, not as sophisticated. It doesn't have all those other cool, you know, 14 picatinny rails, you know, extra heavy plastic with, you know, again, bure dura fire diocine finish for the metal, etc, etc, etc, etc. But the thing about the basic AK, if you do pick it up, the next rule is, our intent extractor, ejector, as with all the other firearms, understand that your weapon may have peculiarities or uniqueness. You need to find out what parts inventory makes sense and mates to the gun that you're embracing. And don't forget cleaning kits and all the other accoutrements to go along with it. With regard to the mags, there are 40 rounders, in fact, somebody, I think, CBNN Investments, they may already be off sale on these, but they had 40 round, AKA 47, 762x39, right, full magazines, for, it was $7.99, so $8 a piece, which is not bad. You don't need a bunch of them, and originally those were made for the RPK. But if you aren't going to use a drum or maybe you're deciding it's you know the card find the drum that you think would work for you at The very least a couple of these 40 round stick mags. You don't have to have a bunch of them in place of your 30 when you're Traveling we've talked about this many many times our policy is if you're traveling put a drum in the in the gun that you're not planning on making contact. But remember that if somebody has set up an ambush, you want volume fire. These 40 round mags can serve the same purpose. If you don't want to carry a drum, carry one or two of the 40 round stick magazines. And carry that in the weapon. I know it's only 10 more rounds, but 10 more rounds may count for putting a bullet in somebody's hind end where you need to, especially with suppression fire. Because when you're in two-forty rounds of mode, Go ahead, Carl. 240 rounds is more than a 75 round drum. Yeah, exactly. And that is another option, you know, consideration. There's a couple different ways you can carry them. A lot of your AK mag pouches actually have an extension flap if they're MOLLE, and there's a number of different companies that do this, so they actually can hold a 40 round mag. So just a heads up on that. It depends on which company you're buying from and you need to always get an example or a sample. Look to see if it's what you want and it might actually have the feature we're talking about. So that makes a big difference too. Another thing is again price. There's a whole bunch of 40 rounders out there and at $8 apiece if they still have them, I don't care if they're East German or Russian or Bulgarian or Chinese, it doesn't make any difference. They all work. And remember, these were supposed to be for the squad gunner. He's got to do a lot of full-auto fire nonstop. That's his mission in life. So the 40 rounders, typically, if they're military issues specifically, they're supposed to work. In fact, they really need to work well because the automatic rifleman is supposed to be constantly, constantly constantly laying down suppression fire. Think about that. So I'm not as leery of a 40 unless maybe it's an aftermarket mag and that's about it. And even there, depending on the company, most of them have figured out how to do it right. Another thing about the AKs, again, very user friendly. I guess if you don't want to clean your gun, if you really want to do that, well, I don't clean my gun, you could actually get away with that with the AK quite nicely. It's not really my first choice of ways to abuse a weapon, but you know what? The AK was designed for, you know, the average potato farmer who really doesn't have much clue about what to do with the weapon other than point-and-click. And because of that, this is a very, very successful design. Another thing is the gas system, needless to say, for maintenance and cleaning is very simple. The gun is very forgiving because of its tolerances. And so there isn't a whole lot you can really do to hurt the gun. I've seen them drop from a couple of stories. I've seen everything you can imagine done to an AK at one point or another by an accident or by intent. And the weapon just keeps functioning. It may look terrible, maybe ding, scratch, hell sometimes even bent a little bit. But again, because of the nature of the design, it just keeps running like a singer sewing machine. And there are even a few parts you can lose, you're not your first choice, things do, but you can drop a few parts or, you know, not replace something real quick. And amazingly enough, the gun works, or it continues to function quite nicely, as a matter of fact. It's amazing how well it works. So if you are looking at an AK and you're looking seriously, at the very least, well, we'll go to this way. If you don't like it, hang on to it and go buy another gun. Isn't that exciting? Look, excuse to buy another weapon. But if you're going to go the AK route, I just go the basic model for now. Find what floats your boat and makes you feel good. This is America. You can have a Pontiac or a Cadillac and nobody is going to get... I'm not going to look down on you. But there are some Nimrods that will. Okay. We can live with that too by the way. Oh my god. Oh, let's see. They're trying to they're trying to shame me with a corona beer virus scam or a face mask that didn't work I don't think you're gonna shame me about the guns I have I bought the guns for a reason. Yeah, you know what I mean? So anyway again, the AK is a good choice I know the SKS is out there and that in fact right now the SKS is still running About $400 to $449 a piece. I don't know if the ones that are $400 are even in stock. Again, Midwest, let's see, CDNN may even have some SKS's right now. Yes, they do. I think they did. Classic firearms, certainly. And same with the AKs. Now, a lot of the AKs are going to have more of the bells and whistles, but go take a look at that price. Okay, it's like you're tagging over $1,000 a unit if you keep it up. Again, the basic model will do just fine. Go ahead, color, jump in there. For those who want to do something a little bit more with their SKS, if they just have the plane factory made over at CDN and Sports, you can get the rear receiver cover with a cast in block and a picatinny rail and a lighted 4x30 sight for 50 bucks. You can also get a bipod that mounts to the bayonet lug for 10 bucks. And it's flat rate shipping over there. So for $70, you've got yourself a bipod and a nice little 4x30 scope to go right on the back of the weapon. Now you'll have to fit that cover just like every other receiver cover you get for the SKS, you've got to do a little bit of adjustment to make sure that it fits your weapon correctly. They make the tabs that lock in the front, they make them a little bit longer just because there's tolerances difference between the Yugoslavian and the Russian and the Chinese and everything. So it's a custom fit for your weapon. And I'm just chamfering at the bit, see what mine do when I get them here. Over. Exactly. Well, one of the things about the SKS All the accoutrements right now are actually quite reasonably priced. And what's interesting is, I don't know what country, in fact, let me do it this way. If any of you have bought any of the SKS's that have come in within the last three months or so, or four, maybe a little farther back, take the time and go over your rifle and find the import mark. I am curious who actually had these weapons. And the reason I bring this up is because these aren't Chinese. They're Chinese made and they are Chinese weapons. But we've not been getting anything from communist China for a long time. But understand that China gave away tens of millions of SKS's. In fact, most of the African nations have the SKS in their national flag. If you haven't noticed, go take a look at national flags. Now, eventually some of them may have changed to the AK-47 because then they got a ton of AKs given to them for free, but most of them kept the SKS. They can't afford to change the flag. It costs too much money anyway. A lot of them just left it the way it is, but when they were first revolutionized, they were being sponsored by the Chinese, and the Chinese would drop millions of SKS's. They had so many of them that handing them out as party favors was not a problem. And so somebody has let go of a pile of SKS's that they were able to bring back in. China doesn't want to give you any of those. They don't really want to do that directly. But this could be Vietnam. And you know what's really funny about that one? That these are Vietnamese. That's not likely, but it's possible. If you're listening in Europe, Vietnam vet, if though, you know, think about this, everybody wanted an SKS after the war, after Vietnam, because it was the kind of gun that we shoot at them during the war, right? Well, think about this. If these SKS's are from Vietnam, then it's very likely that they may have been the guns shooting at you. You want to think about that one. So if you were looking for something that kind of matches your interest in terms of your personal history, first of all, let's check this out, guys. Somewhere on the guns, there is going to be an import stamp with the information on who this came from, what country was it imported from. And if it's not right on the base of the barrel around where the gas system is upfront, That's where they were micro stamping for the longest time. Micro stamp too, it's very small. You may have to break out of a looking glass, a magnifying glass, to actually properly read what's there. However, they've been getting smart because collectors were kind of complaining that there's this distortion. In other words, it's not what would be on the field. Stamping out where everybody could see it. So here's what you might have to do. You may have to take off the front hand guards and look around on the bottom of the barrel or on the top or just below the gas system because I could take the gas tube off, stamp it, put everything back together. But they're somewhere on the gun and it has to be on the barrel or the receiver. The information on point of origin is on that weapon. It's that simple. So I would be curious and if it's Vietnam or if it's Indonesia or if it was Malaysia. because several different countries in the Pacific got big allotments of SKS's that they also, they both either got gifted or they purchased. And then they purchased a whole ton of AK's also, so they were copacetic for ammunition. And this is something that still hasn't been answered. I have not had the time, if you can, and you got one of those SKS's most recently from JG Sales or Classic or whoever, Atlantic Firearms, et cetera. then take the time and if you could go over your gun. It's not real obvious on most of them that we've heard. Everybody looking on the outside of the weapon, it's not been jumping out at them. It could be on the receiver itself and sometimes it might be just so uniform because they've done a better job of stamping these. It used to be they were kind of like crude and rude and that didn't help the quality, you know, the value of the weapon. Usually people complained about that. So they may have done a really good job and you may have been looking at it but just passed it by thinking, ah, it's a couple of inventory lines for the rifle. But in reality, that may be the import dock right there. And I'd like to hear more about that from any of you who picked up the gun. So just a heads up there. Anyway, I know we're late, but Edward, it is a little past the bottom of the hour. Guys, for everybody out there, we have a traditional weapons Wednesday, bottom of the hour break. And if this is your rifle, there is only one like it. Well, there are many like it, but this one is yours. So for everybody, again, a reminder, take care of the weapon you got. It'll take care of you. All the rifles in our hands will prove no dry bone. You may ride a good lead speed, you may know it's a turn of master. You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster when you meet our mountain boys. And your leader John Stark, glad you make what little noise you know always hits the mark. All the rifles, all the rifles in our hands will prove no dry bone. I need no grave at home, I can cross the brine of water, that giddy must come like, well, it's a do the slaughter, but if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun. If sentence figure hold a buck through, the quicker it will be done. Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands will prove no to rifle, oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle, in our hands will prove no to rifle. And again, thank you, Edward. I appreciate that. And for all of us out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. And if you have any other comments or questions, jump in there. As a matter of fact, a reminder too that the SKS is out there for an average about $450. They have been a little less. They have been a little more. And there are different qualities, you know, quality of product as far as, you know, scratch, dented stock, damaged stocks, etc. Pay attention. And a damage stock is not a big deal. There's a ton of other stocks, including Polymer stocks, out there to replace the standard stock, if you choose to do so. Right now they're reasonably priced again because for a while there was a dry spell, quite a dry spell, for the SKS, but there was a ton of extra stuff laying around. That's changed a little bit because of the interest and where we are in the system right now. So it's cool. Again, if you're going to commit to the SKS, remember it also 20 inch barrel, meaning although it is a carbine, not a battle rifle. It is a carbine or two weapons in this category that are rated by governments as such. The SKS carbine fits the one niche and the M1 carbine the other. They are weapons, stand-alone, specific designs. Both of them. And they are a carbine system. They are a short-stroke, short-action weapon, not in the full main battle rifle caliber. Although traditionally carbines were chopped down or shortened down standard rifles, and typically the only difference was the barrel length. In this case, they were carbine-specific, built designs. And the SKS, very successful. The M1 carbine, very successful. It's not as readily available. And now, M1 carbines, you know, the World War II models, $1,000 apiece, etc., and more. Right now, Royal Tigers asking a lot more. So, the SKS is now still the most affordable of the two reasonably priced light rifles in their category that have been available for decades and decades, okay? And again, we'll be serving for a very long time. Once you have that SKS, unless you do something really stupid to it, there's not a whole lot that can go wrong with it. Like the AK, it is a very reliable and durable weapon system, which is why it was really a great investment when the Chinese were foolish enough to let us acquire them. We always laugh about that one. $56 apiece in accounting. times 20 or 30 or 40 or 100. So anyway, next, as far as other things going on in the firearm circles that is interesting with regard to arms, the Kel-Tec has a number of different weapons that they brought out. Now, Kel-Tec is kind of specialized. However, their SU-16 rifle is still A reasonable competitor against the AR-15. It's not as cheap in many ways because of the commonality of the AR-15 rifle. But the SU-16 series of guns, starting out with the basic one, they get more expensive with all the doodads they added. But the basic rifle, the basic Kel-Tec 5.56 gun was an excellent solution for somebody who needed a gun for a helicopter, aircraft. the cook, the bottle washer, something to be stuck off to the side but if you need it you got it. And it does have in its original configuration a folding collapsible stock that carries an extra 30 round AR15 Meg. Now it'll carry a 20 if you have to but it's designed to hold the 30. In addition to that, the magazine will hold whatever you want to install. So between the two, you technically had 60 rounds of ammunition on your person at any given time, making it very serviceable and very useful. Now, Kel-Tec, another thing, remember it's American made, but if I were to invest in the Kel-Tec right off the bat, call the company or get a hold of them however you want to, firing pin, extractor, and ejector. Although ideally, to be quite honest, the entire bolt group would be a good choice. And the reason is because all those parts would all be where they're supposed to be. And you could have that in a package form. One nice thing about Kel-Tex is that again, interchangeability of parts is 100%. So you drop the bolt, you reinstall a new one. If there was an extractor problem, you couldn't figure out what was going on. and immediately the gun is back in the service online and ready to go. Boom, boom. So it is not a bad choice. It is a little more expensive than the average AR, but less expensive than any of the upper end or mid grade AR-15s and or 8Ks that are out there. And again, a lot of fun to shoot. Very, very comfortable. in a 5.56, in that respect it is very reminiscent of the Mini-14, the SU-16 by Kel-Tec. It is very reminiscent of the Mini-14 in terms of its felt performance. I bring this up because there's not a whole lot in the field in rifles right now that isn't, you know, either it's the AR-15 and you can find a good price to AR-15. an AK but in .223 any of the more unique calibers it's a little pricey and otherwise there's not a whole lot out there in a .223 where you can just reach over grab it and you got yourself a decent off-the-rack rifle that's reasonably priced. If it's a SIG, if it's a Steyr, you know going down the shopping list it's over a thousand dollars. And if you're having to outfit more than one person, oh, well again, America is a great place. Guns are for buying, not for selling. But if you're trying to outfit a group of people, and you're trying to do it in the shortest period of time with the money available, well, again, most of the weapons I mentioned are on the upper end of the scale. You're just not going to do that. And right now, important, get on the table with the tools you need and then you can also always upgrade. Again, America is, well, guns are for buying, not for selling. So if you want to collect something else a little more unique, add to the inventory or guns are better. Okay. With regard to Kel-Tec, a couple of their rifles, and this is something I think I've mentioned before, are very reminiscent of some of the other original Bushmaster, not Bushmaster AR-15. Original Bushmaster designs. And I've always wondered if Kel-Tec, because it is basically in the same stomping ground as old Bushmaster, the Rent and Revolution district of Florida, you know what I mean? Hallea, Florida was always notorious for having a lot of unique spook and coop type operations. And for that reason, the innovative weapons or the more unique firearms came from that part of the country, not from the usual gun corridor of the United States, a little farther up north and to the east. And that's not an accident. Florida has a lot of skilled labor at that time back in the day, 50s, 60s and 70s, that were either Cuban nationals, or foreign nationals who were defectors and because they were they were kind of recruited into the spook and coop field and because of that they congregated down in what at the time was a remote country called Florida. Back in the 50s and 60s most of Florida was either A, Orange groves or B, Palmetto, A.F., swamp and alligators, okay? After all where'd they put Disneyland? In the middle of the Orange groves. They had to knock down a whole bunch of orange groves to do what they did. As a matter of fact, what's interesting about that is that the other end of course, the alligators were kind of handy when it came to all the kind of things that they were doing down in Florida. Pop, pop, boom, boom. But Kel-Tec has kind of taken over or has dominated and become really a ringleader. that particular sphere of ordinance development and it was almost always attached to the clandestine warfare operations industry. When the Bushmaster rifle came out years ago, the original Bushmaster, as I mentioned many times you could buy two and a half Bushmaster rifles for the price of one AR-15. Well if you're outputting a small army in the middle of Balochistan, And you wanted to make sure that it was nondescript by being able to outfit basically what, five people for the price of two. You know, when you look at the price of the AR-15 and the fact that the AR-15 could be tracked right back to the US, I mean, not that the Bushmaster couldn't either, but the Bushmaster would be sold to anybody. South American armies had it. It ended up in Africa to a degree. Even some European countries bought it for research and development because it was such an innovative and inexpensive design. And to be quite honest, in today's situation, we've gone more and more grossly overcomplicated rather than, you know, kiss, keep it simple, stupid. If you ever get a chance, go take a look at the innards of a Bushmaster rifle. They are even less sophisticated in many ways than the AR-15. Now the AR-15 is really grossly over complicated, but it has a lot of micro parts. Bushmaster did not. And in fact, so it kind of took the philosophy of the AK combined with available off-the-shelf parts from the AR-15, and the rest is history, as they say. Okay? So just a heads up on that one. Pay attention. And again, the Bushmaster was a fun rifle to shoot too, and very reliable. Go ahead, call her, jump in. Hey, this is Carl in Virginia. How can I see how much did the bush master? Well, actually not much The advantage it was a side charging. Well, forgive me when the when the rifle first came out. It was a top ejecting rifle Charging handle was on the top In addition to that it used AR 15 magazines it used all critical AR 15 parts the bolt extractor, ejector, and other critical high-use components were all M16. But the gas system itself leaned towards the AK. And what's interesting is it had more of a... Well, it almost had like a poor man's galeel look to it. In that, again, no fancy curves or turns. Everything was right angle. It was a straight plumbing fixture in that respect. but it was a very, very useful rifle and it was about the same weight as a standard M16. They did originally start out with a fixed wooden stock. They also made a tubular stock much like the Velma A-caves. Eventually they made from that, they also made the Bushmaster pistol, which we've talked about many times, and that was basically a submachine gun bullpup type thing, slash big pistol. In the civilian model it was semi, in the military for market it was semi and full auto. So the Bushmaster had a lot of big advantages. Magazine well was just like the magazine well on the M16. Straight bucket and it locked in obviously the same way that the AR did because it was using AR mags. So it was a very easy cross-learnable gun. for people who may have been carrying the M16. It was in fact really not a big deal for the AK operators either. It was aluminum receiver, but it was a flat slab receiver, dual system, dual top bottom. And no great finish. It was an anodized, almost like a bluing type finish, but they also had a flat black. Both of them were successful in that they weren't a high gloss, they were subdued, they weren't designed to reflect. But they did a good job in finishing, there weren't a whole lot of tool marks on the unit. It didn't have any burring or snag marks or anything that you'd typically see with some of the cheaper weapons still. So it really did exactly what it was supposed to do. It was the Pontiac Chevy in the AR rifle category. Otherwise, and again, we could build it right now. It would lend itself towards a wartime production weapon in America. And in several ways it would be much easier than the AR, and in some ways, to be quite honest, it was done in both aluminum and steel for test purposes, so there's no reason that the receiver couldn't be done in steel rather than alloy. And that in itself would have brought the weight up a little bit. I've always said this before, I'd love to have somebody build a bunch of stainless steel AR-15 upper lowers. I'd buy them. I'd put them together. I don't care if there's an extra pound of weight. I'm not going to add all the other junk that's on the other newer rifles. I want basically what Stoner came up with only with everything working properly without the government interference, which is what happened why the M16 had the problems it did in Vietnam. because of government committee of monkeys failures. So it would be an interesting weapon to put into service. It wouldn't be a big deal. We could even make it so we could use AK mags instead of AR mags. If you had a bunch of AK mags, you'd go with AK. If you had AR mags, you'd go AR. It wouldn't be a big deal to go either way with it. I'm surprised somebody hasn't reintroduced the Bushmaster. Finally, Brownell compatible with the AR-15 lower. That was interesting, I have nothing but good things. But right now the big trend in German Boombasphere drops HKG36 because... Well you know the problem there is remember the first of the big, mostly polymer weapons were the Steyr Augs. And the Aug came into service with a whole lot of bells and whistles because it looks like a... it does look like a Starship Trooper gun. But the problem is, when the Aussies bought it, and a couple other countries have had the same problem, is in full-auto mode it melts. It has 10-seating overheat, and if it retains that heat, if you continue to sustain fire, then you start to damage the receiver group. And I guarantee the G36 has the same problem. In fact, to be quite honest, I think the SCAR would have similar issues. But there's, you know, again, the religious followings of, you know, the different weapons dictates, especially in the modern age, that you can't say anything bad about them or, you know, perhaps correct a trend. In semi-auto, I don't, they don't really have as much of a problem. But like you said, once they start to heat up, a combination of stamped parts and polymer components dictates that distortion is very likely. One of the advantages of milled parts is especially since you're going to end up, either way you're going to end up tempering. But there are a number of different techniques you can use in tempering to pull and draw the molecules together so that the heat actually is dissipating in a particular direction and when the time comes when you're using the part. And that can be a big advantage. Of course there's subzero techniques that are used, all kinds of stuff has been used to increase accuracy, eliminate distortion of components. But to a degree some weapons just, it's accepted. Example, if you have a short barrel submachine gun and it's a pattern gun to begin with, you really don't care if you actually have parts alter significantly, you know, point of impact if it was supposed to be a beaten zone weapon. But if you're trying to hit something at range and you're trying to sustain contact with targets at range, that's not really a good thing. And that's something that has been a discussion for years with, you know, all of the MBRs, main battle rifles, as they developed and how they came about, what transpired with them. One of the interesting things is again that they've also gone to the well basically they've acknowledged that AK was was probably the way to go or at least for a part of what they did and again all the main battle rifles operated off of the same concept for you know how many years and immediately we had to shift and alter you know the path because the modern space age was here and the rest is history it's all political trending. And half of it faces lines that are in it. And of course, the Daewoo rifle was the best of both worlds. I'm sorry, repeat call? You said, you were saying the Daewoo. Yeah, the Daewoo rifle was the best of both. That's why we can't get it. But as Carl said, Carl would be like, wow, you don't look what they're going to. You know what's interesting, guys, is the one of the finest weapons that you would get, if you could get a chance to shoot, would be a Daewoo right now. And I know most people go, what? The Korean gun! Yeah. I had plenty of time to operate them. We tried to break them. I mean, we tried to break them. And when I say that, understand I had the opportunity to put thousands and thousands around, abuse the gun in as many ways as you could imagine. And amazingly enough, the JWU's did not malfunction, they didn't jam. They never stopped functioning, they're firing. And we just figured, well, there's nothing we can do to stop them. So we started treating them nicely. But you know what? We can't get them. Why? Well, because if Korea's an ally, we don't buy from allies, we buy from our enemies. God bless our Republic. Yes, the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. And we are on the march both day and night. And I've still got a massive number of robins. And I'm fascinated because usually they unask the AO and head for the South. Guys, they migrate, but we have the mega-death robins. They got the new breed from this year, but the other ones are big plump and look like they'd be tasty. There's a mark anyway, he's gonna be squab anyway, we'll see what happens Maybe we get a little bit of a deep cold now run like health in the south. We'll be back in a few minutes here Go grab a cup of coffee or go use the bathroom second RV and tell report coming up in the other night that well I didn't understand a figure walked him 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. 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 trade it 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 will be buried. 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 what 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 to 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. 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It is the 27th of October. It is the... Yes, he's taken off. Perfect. It is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a gay 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the Republic the dance of sorts. Let the battle begin. Well, it already has. Real quick, what would Stoner do? What would Stoner do? W.W.S.D. What would Stoner do? There's a project over to YouTube. These guys are really kind of fun. It's a combination of several different individuals who are gun gurus right now. One of them, of course, is the gentleman from Forgotten Weapons. He's done a really good job. I like it when he covers guns made in El Bonilla. Everybody that, you know where El Bonia is, right? You shouldn't know where that country is. Well, if you don't, don't worry about it. But every once in a while, he covers weapons that came from the nation state of El Bonia. Several people do actually that are associated with each other now. It's kind of a tongue in cheek thing. And in the process, though, what would Stoner do? Looking at the original rifle as intended by Stoner. and the crew that developed the original AR-15 rifle. And then looking at what's, you know, what become overly complicated and grossly over complicated, even more grossly over complicated where it really shouldn't be. And or where things have changed that, you know, could have been improved, but instead they went the other way and dis-improved, you know, pattern. with the AR-15. The interesting thing is some of the stuff that they've come up with is really unique and reasonably priced. That was one of the other things as I mentioned with the Bushmaster, back when I was Outfitting a lot of different people. Let me give an example. People were outfitting boats depending on where they were going. They were arming small yachts. Here in Michigan, we have the Great Inland Seas, but they're connected by the St. Lawrence. And so a big deal still is on a, you know, to a degree, but not as much because there's not as much money there as it used to be, but there's money out there. I, you know, somebody asked, okay, I want to go from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, and then we're going to be cruising different places. I said, well, first, you need to check to see about whatever restrictions there are, depending on where you're going, for having arms on board. Now, the thing is, if you're going into international waters, you can be armed, and it's just when you go into a port, there are restrictions about how your weapons need to be under control. So you need to make sure that you conform to those international slash or national regulations that may be imposed upon certain harborages and anchorages because there's a number of different things that can go wrong. And you don't want to be stuck with your memory gland and a rotisserie there, so to speak, into the old wringer. So as it is, again, with the Bush master is if somebody was trying to outfit the well, you know, another The boat ship whatever, you know yacht with enough weapons to help it say the crew and any any compliment usually about 10 weapons at the time It was a matter of you know again distance. Where were you going? What were you doing? If you're gonna be on the Atlantic stainless is really handy and at the time They had just come out with the stainless Mosbergs. I don't even know if they're making those anymore, but at the time they had the stainless Mosbergs and also, needless to say, the AMT family of rifles, of pistols, not rifles. And then stainless steel mini 14s. along with a number of other stainless guns that could be easily accessed, including if need be a bolt gun if you felt you wanted to reach out a little bit and touch somebody. You've got to remember it's no matter how calm those C's are, you know, and whether or not you don't know how to run, fire with the roll, okay? But you can outfit a unit with a couple of AMT 45s or Smith and Wesson model 65s or 66s. maybe some J frames if you wanted you could down keep it down to the smaller gun and then one or two or even three of the trench guns in the stainless and I guess the rest in many fourteens and maybe a long gun which you take along because depending on where you're going in Africa big game or at least mid game shooting is still part of the game getting ticket if you anchored somewhere and you're in a country and they had game available, yes, you were able to get a gaming license and shoot for eating. I can't actually call it a camp license just like they did here in Michigan. I don't know if they still do them here or not. I don't really care about Michigan. But anyway, the interesting thing is that a percentage of the interest was in the Mini-14 and all stainless. But I had several people that said, well I want more rifles but I don't want to spend as much and that's where the Bushmaster came into play. At different times I would purchase or I would actually order six or seven of the Bushmaster rifles and the selling feature was, well you can either have like two AR-15s or you can have five of the Bushmaster rifles and you have the same magazines, you have all the same ammunition, spare parts of the same, etc. Almost always they pick the Bushmaster. The big advantage is obvious, just quantity. If you had to have a number of rifles, if you wanted a brace of guns on different decks, different pario at two different points on the ship, you could afford to do that and you could even afford to cast them over the side. See, that was another thing that people were thinking about is if I get into trouble, maybe the rifle should just go to Davy Jones. Well, it was a thousand dollar rifle and of course you want reliability, so that's the other thing I always, anybody would always argue. Well, it's reliable, but you got to figure in a bike the bullet part of the pod. But the Bushmaster made it affordable to buy a larger number of weapons, put them on the rack, make sure that they were secured. and you could put more firepower downrange if you ever needed it. And that was something that made the Bushmaster, it had a niche actually, for your armaments in locations where you wanted a number of handout rifles. So it was a good gun in that respect. Now somebody would ask about, well what about reliability in terms of performance? The rifles did well. And the big change is that the rifles went from the big change for all of them is that the rifle was built also with the side charging handle. It was on the right side of the weapon. The ejection port point was on the right side of the weapon also. And these weapons worked. However, it did not fare well for all of the pistols that were made. And that's where it did. That's what bit the company. When they switched from the top feed and they were still producing the Bushmaster pistol, the counterpart to the rifle, the pistol was remember a bullpup design and they were still using the standard Bushmaster receiver for everything, for the rifle and for the pistol. When they went to the side feed for some reason, it just did not want to work the way it should. And this is because of a number of different issues. The other thing that happened there It eradicated what was a really convenient feature on the pistol which was, uh, M-indexterous performance. With the top feed ejection, if you wanted to lay the Bushmaster pistol in your right hand, then ejection was often to your right, and a little though actually, to about, you know, out to the right and down. If you held it in your left hand and tried to perform all the other actions with your right that you wanted to, the ejection was out and a little up, but still out, up and then down again. Obviously gravity sucks. But this meant that the brass cleared you completely. You didn't have to worry about getting a little hairy shortcase in your shirt and giving a special, you know, tit scar or something from the hot spent tapes. And this became an issue, of course, with a lot of other weapons that have the top ejection especially. Now, strangely enough, the top ejection in the rifle, it performed well. Okay, so just a heads up on that. It was, again, a real unique feature in fact, in that respect, it was very reminiscent of a Winchester. Okay, think about that. Now, I'm sure that if you think about the Winchester, and you're old enough, you know that, ah, but Mark, you couldn't really mount an optic on the Winchester via pre-64s, right? Yeah, that's true because the ejection was up and over your shoulder. Well, the same is true with the Bushmaster rifle. So it wasn't really intended for optics. In its original design, it was supposed to fit the same niche as the M16A1. And that meant a brush rifle, minimal contact parts, streamlined, which it was, and, you know, universal for component parts, which we've already covered. Okay. A very successful design. It worked really, really well. I'll tell you what I'm going to do here. I've got to have Nancy take over, but I wanted to touch on a few things. Guys, we're in the food prep here right now, and I'm even looking at a whole bunch of crab apples we've got to process. But, you know, we're at the end of the season, there are many different things that are going to be still addressed here right now. Walnuts are still coming in. Oh, God, got walnuts everywhere. In fact, there goes a squirrel in one right now, almost. Anyway, I'm going to have Nancy take over here for a bit and again we've got a bunch of other stuff coming up. But food preparation, especially this time of year, is something that all of you need to be getting ready for. The other consideration is this. Eventually when we get into conflict, guys, we're going to be running out of whatever it is we have in the way of all of our regular ration cans and pouches and whatever. Well, eventually you're going to be switching over to what we can produce in the house for what are basically pack and travel foods. And that's another thing Nancy will be covering here and things that you can actually pull from the existing inventory. So here we got Nancy and I'll be back in a bit. Good evening. This is Nancy, of course, talking about things that can be prepped and of course, thrive for carrying in your pack packs. in the field, of course, right now it's deer season. So there's always deer jerky that can be made. With that, she was talking about the apple, the crab apples. And the apples that you have can be pressed for cider, can be pressed for juice, made into juices and jellies and all kinds of yummy good things to put on bread or even taken and used into pies. It's a season for it. Apples, pumpkins, we're actually looking at getting the first freeze of the year here coming up shortly. So, you know, it's time to get those pumpkins in and get them stored so they can be used. One of the ways they can be used is to make pumpkin, what I call pumpkin jerky. In the stories, they'll call them pumpkin chips, where you can get dried slivers of pumpkin. that have been spiced either in a sweet way with cinnamon and sugar, or it can be done with other herbs and spices to make it a more savory thing that you can put in your mouth and rehydrate and munch on as you're out in the woods. But very good things to have on hand. Of course, hickory nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, the whole nut family is out there and ready to harvest. And you want to get them before the squirrels and chipmunks do. Right now we have robins here that are really, really late that are enjoying the tiny crab apples. And I let them have that. That thing is just crazy production on that this year. And the birds are just loving that. That and juniper berries. That's something a lot of people don't know about. Juniper berries, a lot of people say, I got a lot of juniper berries. Oh, you can make some gin. Yeah, well, maybe. But it makes great tea and wonderful astringents too. So it has a lot of medicinal uses as well. There are pine needles. There's so much out there that can be gathered and used either medicinally or in foodstuffs. It's out there for us to to harvest right now even yet and even after harvest is done you get into the winter months you have those wonderful fruit citrus fruits that are available in the winter. I always look for the mark and look in the markdown sections. I just got a big bag of lemons another big bag of limes and the Clementine oranges. Now the Clementine oranges, I'm going to slice them and dry those in the dehydrator. They are beautiful. If you like to make cakes and add them to your baking, this is a way to use them as a garnish for such a natural, good tasting, really pretty garnish. to take a slice of a clementine orange and dry that and put it because it looks like a stained glass honestly when you get done with it and very tasty. Yeah I did a test batch last spring at the very end of the season and yeah it disappeared very quickly. I have no idea how long it would last. because it tastes, it looked and tastes so good the family went right through it. Even toward the end of strawberry season here for our everbearing strawberries, I was able to get two gallons of strawberries for one quart packages very inexpensively from the grocer in their markdown section. No mold. You want to go over and make sure that it's still good. If it's overripe, typically you're going to have a little more flavor. It's going to be very juicy, a little messy. But if you're drying it, who cares? You're going to rehydrate it or throw it in with your breakfast cereal, either with oats to give it oatmeal a better flavor or throw it into baking again. Since you do an oatmeal strawberry nut cookie or bar or cake that is going to enhance the flavor and change things up a little bit, that food fatigue can get to you really quickly. And a handful of dried strawberries into a batch of cookies or breakfast bars or cake is going to really change the game. for everyone and change things up to it. It's a good thing to eat. Something to think about. The black walnuts, now they are a lot more pungent in flavor than your regular English walnuts. And those, you don't need as much because they have such a strong flavor to them. But it is a unique flavor. It's very good. I can see that in a banana nut bread in place of regular walnuts. Just use probably between a third to half as much of the black walnuts as you would the regular walnuts because the flavor is so strong. It's going to permeate the cake. And hopefully it's something, a place that you like because it's one of those things that, again, it's a personal preference. And it does. It is a strong flavor. Like many things, you know, it's what you're brought up with and what you get used to. And it's something you can develop a flavor for, but it can a little bit at a time or a little bit goes a long, long way as it is with some of the spices. You don't want to go overboard on things like cloves, cinnamon, typically everybody, you know, it's It's hard to really overdo cinnamon in baking because if that flavor just kind of infuses then everyone is accustomed to that flavor. This is a different thing altogether. It's more pungent and it's not out there. It's not readily available. It's one of the nuts that are actually quite expensive to find. There's a guy I guess locally over in the Manchester area here in Michigan that purchases them by the pound and it's lucrative to collect and turn around and sell them. So if you're looking for a place, if you've got an excess of them, turn it into a profit. The trees themselves, the wood, if you have them on your property and you have a good-sized tree, they are excellent wood for furniture. So, you know, don't just cut them down. I was trying to tell the lady online the other day, I've got this awful tree. Just keep dropping these walnuts. I'm going to have it. She's going to pay $1,000 to have somebody remove it instead of having a company come and remove it for her and pay her for the wood. My goodness, you know, she could easily have $1,000 to $2,000 in a tree, depending on the size. the tree and it's it's goofy what what some people will do and so it's like okay this is where you go this is what you do and you know these people will take it down for you and pay you and make sure that it doesn't come back but that's another issue altogether but black walnuts are a good source it can be a money-making venture for you if you have a money or property they they can do damage and understand that don't plant anything under them. Because with a leaf strap, nothing's going to grow there. It's something about this tree that you're not going to plant a garden under them or around them, not flowers, not vegetables. Very high in tanic acid. Yes. They're loaded with tanic acid, yes. You have the same thing, but oaks are not as bad. I've got a question. I've got a question. Go ahead. I've been taking care of one here since it sprouted, and it's about almost a foot around now. And I cut off all the lower branches early on, so I got a nice big straight log. How the heck do you get the husks off of that thing? It's not it's a weird button to try and rip those things off in there Do you have to wait till they start to rot or do you wait for them to dry out? I don't quite get it When they start to get soft you can you can drive over them with your car actually to kind of break them out of that husk it is messy as can be the Inside of that husk is that that lovely black brown substance, you can actually take that and use that for a dye. It works really good for a really dark brown dye. And it used to be used for that all the time. So all of it would be used. But it will stain you, and it will not come on. I understand that. It's one of those permanent dye things. Yeah, if you get it on your clothes, forget it. You want to do this. If you're going to do it by hand, you're going to definitely want to wear something you don't care about. Same for shoes. My mom used to get our old tennis shoes on and have us kids walk across them on a cement slab, or the old barn used to sit on the property. and you should put them out there and have us walk across them and then get the, you know, good old Playtex rubber gloves on and shell them that way. There's another man, the old corn sheller. And there's probably not a lot of people out there that know what I'm talking about. You take a dry ear of corn, pass it through, and it would take the kernels off the cob, and the cob would go out one end, and the kernels would drop down below. You can put them in there, and it will take that husk off too. I've got one sitting up in storage right now that I need to bring out, because it would be perfect for doing this. I was like, okay. I had it all fixed up. It was my grandfather's. And I told my brother about it. Yeah, yeah, I want that. And then he looked at it and said, I don't remember this. So he didn't take it. So I was like, that's fine. And now I've got all these walnuts. And yeah, I'm going to be processing them probably through that. I'm going to grab that real quick and bring it down and process our mini bucket of walnuts. But I want to keep them. I may sell the rest because it's lucrative to do so. So that's a good thing. I'll be happy with that. I'm on the slide. Thanks. That's OK. That's cool. Yeah, getting the hot sauce can be a messy job. But for those that like that flavor, It's a good thing. I mean, I've seen it where once in a while I'll see it as an ice cream flavor, a black walnut vanilla ice cream. And again, I think sometimes they put too much in trying to get that flavor all through there. But yeah, because it is really strong and it's something that it's It's an acquired taste. I'll put it that way. It's kind of like pickled eggplant. It's one of those things you're going to love or you're going to hate. There's very little in between. But no, the other thing that I was saying is I've got this juniper tree that is just loaded with berries this year. I cannot believe how many berries are on this tree. I remember mowing by it, saying, oh, it's got quite a few berries on there. And then come this fall, it's no longer a green tree. It's blue with berries. And the birds are absolutely loving it. But juniper berries are excellent. They're actually kind of sweet. I was surprised. I just thought they would be kind of a tiny tasting thing. I never really explored that until this fall. And it's interesting that it is as sweet as it is. But it will definitely make a good juice. And I'll be making tinctures from that, definitely, as I get to tell there and pick some more. We picked some and dried some for tea, for Tere and I. So, eh, a bit about a gallon. So we get that going and try that because juniper berry tea is supposed to be very good for you as well. Lots of vitamin C and D in the berries. Again, these are things that we can take advantage of right now to provide for our families. and whether it be picking up nuts and selling them. The hickory nuts, I know they've got to be up in price as well, but they're a little tougher because of the hardness of the wood. The nut shells are hard to crack as well. A little tougher to get those nut meats out, but it's a good one. And that's a good one to bake with. It's not as pungent. It has a unique flavor, but it's not I'd say it's oily, but it's not like a walnut. It's similar in flavor. It's kind of in between a walnut and a pecan in flavor, between that sweet flavor of the pecan and that walnut paste. So again, it's good for baking. And if you're not allergic to tree nuts, it's a good thing to do. Those are the kind of things that we're looking at right now. Two tea berries. Tea berries are what many people know as wintergreen mint. The tea berries are ready to pick right now. And they're wonderful. You know when you go through those little glossy, looks like a little miniature, magnoligily. But they only grow like four to six inches tall. And they have those lovely red berries on them. If you want to get the extract off that from the tea berries and from the leaves, you can pick those and make some wonderful, wonderful wintergreen extract from that, just using some vodka. and putting it in there and letting it steep for a couple of months and then pour off the oil that rises to the top. It is absolutely wonderful. You will love that. Yeah, they used to make tea berry gum, didn't they? I remember that when I was a very young kid and we went and we hiked the Appalachian Trail. We used to find them up there and chew on the berries. I remember that. And one of those beemans, the same company that made beemans made the tea berry. So it was, yeah, and that's, it makes a good tea. That's for sure. It was named after a tea berry because the berries make a great tea. And it also, that wintergreen flavor for adding into your candies. And for Christmas, it's beautiful. And if you wanted to dry some, just on the fish, because you've got these lovely green glossy leaves and that little red berry that's on there. You can't mistake it because the smell of it. You touch it, crush that leaf, and you know you've got wintergreen. You just crush it underfoot, and you walk through an area, and that's all you can smell. It's a wonderful smelling plant in most of the mints. It's not as invasive as a lot of the other mints. And it has a totally different look to the leaf. I said it's small oval and glossy with bright red berries that are similar in size and shape to a wild rosehip. But they grow closer to that. And again, the scent is something that you can't mistake. So you don't have to worry about is it or isn't it? You just pick it up and crush it. Oh yeah, that's it. And you know what to look for from that point and in that area to pick it. It takes a little bit to make an extract. So you're going to want to pick probably a gallon bag full out to steep into vodka in order to get that extract out if you want to make an extract. But yeah, you can save the leaves and berries and hold them back, fry them, and pop those in with your tea. It's amazing. It's really good. It's very soothing for the cold and flu season for anybody with a sore throat or just something to add to tea, just a relaxing factor, or even into the bath. You know, you've got sore muscles. Pop a few leaves into the bathtub. And since alone, it's going to help you to relax the oils themselves. It will help as well, kind of like a eucalyptus. So it's all good. You can't go wrong with it, that's for sure. Oh goodness. Right now, I've got stuff for oranges, limes, mandarin oranges, all ready to be made up into marmalades. pumpkins that are ready to be processed, and some pumpkin chips and pumpkin butter, apples that need to be turned into cider, and of course dried apples for turning into pies later on so that we have them ready to go. If you want to either add water to it and make stewed apples or put it into pie and rehydrate. make pies with it or add to other baked goods, be it bread, cookies, cakes, pancakes. Pardon? This is Tom. When you dehydrate, what do you use? I've been told when my dad dehydrated, we use lemon juice. Do you use that or do you use something else? I use lemon juice. You can get fruit fresh. But it's so expensive, why not just go to the Dollar Tree and get a quart jar of real lemon juice and use that. If you don't have the lemon juice, then lime. It all works. What it is is the citric acid in it. And that's all that fruit fresh is, is a dried version of citric acid, just to keep it from turning brown. And then I just, I get a little bottle and I just squeeze a little on just enough to coat it, cover it and let it go. I did a bunch of apple frost the other day from Arcanine. Just had, I had apple, I've never seen this before, but apple kind of explodes from the inside. It just cracked from the moisture that it held inside. So I was like, okay, I've got to use this one up and, you know, did three or four more with it. And we had, apple sauce with ice cream after dinner. Plenty, plenty there to go on. I think I've got some leftover in the fridge. We'll probably finish that up after dinner tonight. So, it's saying, oh, this is something that is good, nice and warm, and have it with ice cream. And if you want to do a mock apple pie, I don't know, folks are old enough to remember mock apple pie was a graham cracker. your apples applesauce with the spice in it a scoop of ice cream or should say another another layer of of Graham cracker and then ice cream on top and that was mock apple pie and it was you know something that we just did and then there's a six and seven My mom used to put applesauce and pancakes. Do you do that, too? Yeah You can do that. I also think apples can just chop them up and put in it. Well, yeah, my mom does that too. She made applesauce pancakes one time. All mine was good. Yep. And you know what? Applesauce is a good thing to have on hand. I will remind you both of this. If you are baking, one of the things that we're going to run short on is cooking oil. And you can replace in baking, you can replace that cooking oil with applesauce. Instead of using a third cup of oil, you can use a third cup of applesauce. And it's mild enough in flavor if it's a larger volume, you're not even going to taste it in there. So it's something to keep in mind. It's one of those substitutes that you can do. Eggs, if you're short on eggs, two tablespoons of regular mayonnaise. I don't mean heaping tablespoons, but leveled tablespoons equals one egg. So if you don't have something, you don't necessarily have to run out to the store or do without. Take what you have on the shelf and use those substitutes. something that was readily done, goodness, throughout the Great Depression and during the war years of World War II. So something to keep in mind is you'll find those substitutes actually in the older cookbooks. I'm amazed at how many people are, you know, they're looking for the old recipes and having a tough time finding them. online, just even a bald blue book to follow. And it's like, well, it's online. Here you go. And www.ballbluebook.com. And it comes right up, and everything that you need is right there. It gives you the old as well as the new. And all of the rest are there. So these are things that you can do and have on hand. Some of the things you can do to change things up is kind of fun too. I had a bunch of raspberries last year and blackberries and had the opportunity of I've made a chocolate raspberry syrup instead of you know making more jam to add lots and lots and lots of jam on the shelf already. But the blackberry syrup It's made up very much like making your regular raspberry jam, except by adding a quarter cup of cocoa. And I like the dark chocolate. So I had the dark chocolate cocoa, the dark cocoa that Hershey makes. And I tell you what, that is so good just to drizzle that across either ice cream or across a pound cake. It takes something very plain and very simple and makes it very elegant and very delicious. It's a game changer for taking something very plain and making it far more appealing to people in general. But again, it's something that changes that whole food fatigue. You got something, you're just, you're tired, I don't want to see that anymore. Give me something different. And I think we've all done that. It's like nothing sounds good, nothing looks good. I just can't think of something that we really would like to, you know. We need a game changer. And it's one of those things. And it doesn't, you know, it only made up a quarter pint jars. And they do make them books. Just a little bit. So I made a bunch of little ones. I gave some away. And one of the things immediately, I think before I even really got everything cool, I had one jar. My son was dipping it out of the pot before I got him into jars and putting in his coffee. So it's a nice thing to have around. You can do the same thing with strawberries or cherries. And that's, you know, it's a ball-blue-book recipe for chocolate raspberry syrup. Elderberries, it's too late in the season to do that now, but elderberry syrup. And to dry elderberries for your tea. Very high source of vitamin C. It's really something that's very good to have. I can't, if the other thing with the elderberry tea, just a few dried elderberries in your tea and let that steep for four or five minutes and you have got something that's going to clear your respiratory system up. For those of you that are, it's cold and flu season, okay? I'm not even going to go to that other, you know, the whole COVID crap. That is, it will clear your respiratory system out. If you have the dried elderberries, and if you try to buy them at a health food store, better bring deep pockets. Because you're walking at $22 to $25. Try to announce. It is not funny. Oh my God. Yes, Tom. Hey, well then, uh, well then, uh, do the sciences too? Will it clear sciences up and stuff? Cause every... Oh yeah! ...my sciences is getting really bad. Will it clear the sciences up? The, the, the elderberry? The elderberry? Yeah. Elderberries in your tea. Absolutely. Make an elderberry tea up. Wow. And I learned that one from my chiropractor. I picked up, I think I dried three cups of elderberries for him and he was like, oh thank God I've got a summer cold and it's just like, ah. He took, he made one cup of elderberry tea up with those fresh berries that I had dried and it was gone. It's like wow, I forgot, I haven't had it in a while. Wow, thank you. So, you know, it was huge. It was huge for him. And that's how I learned about it, you know, talking to the doctors and people that are, you know, homeopathy, basically, that deal with this stuff all the time. You know, and that's a lot of the knowledge I have come from there. And of course, there are others, the, oh, gosh. Native American, North American Native Herb Biology book by Alma Smith is another one. If you don't have that book on the shelf, that's a Native American, North American native herb, book of herbs. That's by Alma Smith and that's, that is one thing that if you don't have herb book on the shelf, you really should because it will, Show you just it's a thick book folks. It's a good inch and a half two inches thick it has pictures of black and white pictures of the the herbs And berries that are out there these native remedies That the Native Americans have used for thousands of years They're out there that Mullen is another one Tom for respiratory disorders That's at the wild weed you've seen those fuzzy leaf Plants that come up. They have a tall spike flower come up in the center and the top gets a yellow That's Mullen take that and make a pee out of the leaves Get that and dry that in the summer. It is one of the best things you can do for a respiratory disorder. It really works. There's, oh, I'm trying to remember the name of it. I was just told this by a Native American lady dog. I'm trying to think. I think it was Soho. I'm gonna have to double check with her. the name of it again, but it's a common word. I hadn't heard of it, but it's something that grows locally and it grows in North America here, coast to coast. I'll have to get that and maybe have her up and talk about that on air sometime here in the future. Different Native American remedies that work especially in respiratory, and this time of year, in dealing with the goofiness in Washington and the different mandates and how things are not going the way they should. But what we can do in our homes to help keep our families well, to ward things off as well as, you know, nip things in the bud at the very beginning with natural remedies and you know that things we have control over things that we know work that you know people like Fauci have no control over ah crazy person Nancy yes yeah North yeah can you hear me now Yes, I can hear you. Yeah, was that North American herbs or what was the name of the book? It's it's a Native American Oh gosh, I'm trying to remember the exact name now now I'm throwing a blank It's a North American native herbs herbology by Alma Smith If you type in Alma Smith, you will probably come up with, do Alma Smith in Herbology, and it should pop up. Because it is in, everybody carries her book. Whole Foods carries it. And I know it's, oh gosh, the bookstores that are left open still carry it. It's something that's been out there for many years, many, many years. But it is a standard in herbology. And her name is Alma Smith, correct? Yes, Alma Smith, A-L-M-A Smith, S-M-I-T-H. Thank you, Nancy. You are welcome. I wish I had it right in front of me, but I don't. I've been moving stuff around and trying to redecorate and everything is a mess. I don't have my fingers on things right now that I should. You know, where I can just reach out and grab it. It's one of those things. Yeah, we've been doing a lot of renovating right now trying to get things squared away and making more room and trying to do a summer kitchen, summer slash canning kitchen where we can get everything squared away and do more without having the kitchen a total disaster all summer long. And that's kind of par for the norm. at my house starting with strawberries in the early season. Oh, the other thing to look for right now, if you have crocuses that are blooming in the fall, a lot of people are like, what? Crocuses bloom in the spring. Well, the ones that bloom in the fall are the ones that are a saffron. They are the ones that have the saffron stamen. So if you see Crocus is in the fall. It's not weird. Those are the ones you want for using saffron. That saffron is as precious as gold, literally. There's only three stamens per flower that can be harvested. And a little goes a long, long way. But if you're doing saffron rice, you'd only need one or two for an entire pot of rice. But you hit the price of it. Oh my god. I don't even know what the price of saffron is Generally last time I saw saffron in the store. I think there were four four strands of four same stamen And a little tube for eight dollars, so if you have it Definitely, you know you want to you want to keep it growing But harvest that and dry it and for God's sake, you know, put it away in a medicine bottle or something where nothing's going to happen to it and you've got it for you. Where? It's possibly ours. Oh my God. Didn't I realize that? As always, got to West of Republic. Get to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. As always. We're on the mark. We got him on the run. Stay in that. We'll be back in another hour with Mark with more of the intelligence reports.