teacher that I had. I only I went I went through the seventh grade I went to the seventh grade I left home when I was 10 years old because I was hungry. I used to work in the summer I go to school in the winter but I had this one teacher it was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincent, Indiana. To me this was the greatest teacher a real sage of my time anyhow. He had such wisdom. And we were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day. And he walked over, this little old teacher, Mr. Laswell was his name. Mr. Laswell, he says, I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester. And it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word? I, me, an individual, a committee of one, pledge, dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity, allegiance, my love and my devotion, to the flag, our standard, O glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect. Because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job. United. That means that we have all come together. States. Individual communities that have united into 48 great states. 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose. All divided with imaginary boundaries yet united to a common purpose. And that's love for country. and to the Republic, Republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people, and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people, for which it stands. One nation, one nation, meaning so blessed, my God, indivisible, incapable of being divided. with liberty, which is freedom, the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation and justice. The principle or qualities of dealing fairly with others, which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer? And that would be eliminated from schools too. 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'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, harass 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. 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 in each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torture freedom burning bright. As Iowoc, 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 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? Amazing how words written by a man who served in the middle and end of Vietnam An Arizona Highway Patrolman who is what 27 years old time now almost 30 years ago and by the way 30 years ago, but before that 20 plus years before that is when the poem was written and when the poem was written it was totally relevant and when visitor from the past as you know it was put into the audio track it was completely relevant then And today it is totally, absolutely beyond a shadow without on the money. If there's a single thing that you should share with people who have never heard anything in the Patriot Movement, I would ask that you take the time, make a really good copy of this, put it in your phone, put it over on your social media, and repeat, repeat, repeat. 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We had all of our rebroadcasters over in Eastern Europe. We have a whole bunch of them there. In fact, I know we've got Romanian listeners right now. And we appreciate you guys tuning in and carrying us and sharing with others. It is Weapons Wednesday! Phase Plasma Rifle and 40 W, OZ, 9-minute with a copy, possible shotgun. Yeah buddy, well we got the Phase Plasma Rifles in 30, 25 W I think. They haven't got the new ones yet. And of course that means it is the 3rd of November. It is the 13th year of open, obvious, and near-faced Fabian socialist. We need to kill every one of those bastards. And Soviet socialist. And we need to kill every one of those bastards. Occupation of America with a K 2021, old earth calendar, 2021 battle for the Republic. The dance of swords. And a couple things. Weapons, which weapons? Wednesday. Banettes. Guys, if you've ever studied bayonets, of course there's many different ways that bayonets are used. They're not just used for poke-poke. You know, the tip of the bayonet is important, very important, because obviously penetration and then, you know, through the corpse, you know, that you're going to make with the bayonet thrust is, you know, obviously a desirable component of bayonet. skill, but there are a lot of other parts of understanding the bayonet. Certainly it's a work knife, it's a fighting knife in most countries. Originally, of course, in the cruciform spike, it was useful but still again had some limitations. But the tri-point or tri-blade, sometimes more eccentric, on some bayonets than others back in the day. It was designed to open up a gaping hole in a person and keep it there. That's why it was a tri-point blade. It would shear open the flesh and the meat and even get to an organ hopefully and maybe the target just stopped moving and that's all she wrote. However, bayonet skill and the technique of the bayonet dictated that typically you weren't going to get one nice neat first and only thrust in, kind of like boxing. You know, I hit him the first time, first round, and that was it. It was supposed to be a nine round box of match, but you know how that goes. I usually knock them down first punch, one punch every time. You know, that doesn't happen. It's very, very, very rare. If it does, it's either because the guy's paid to fall down or... Like you were very lucky, okay? That one, one in a million shot to the glass jaw. In this case, the big thing is that the different techniques of bayonet use are reflected in how the bayonets for a respective weapon are made, or bayonet. It depends on development over the years. Now the first and foremost is understanding the primary blade location. Is it up? Or is it down when it is affixed to the bayonet? In other words, if I were to hold the rifle horizontally. Top is north, okay, or 12 o'clock. Bottom, obviously, is 6 o'clock. Well, not all countries put the blade, or the primary blade, on the 6 o'clock station. In fact, it kind of tells you about the psyche of the country depending on how they first and foremost station the primary blade, the cutting edge. Now when you put it on the top it means that you have a different philosophy of how you begin the use of the bayonet when it's affixed to the rifle. I mean think about it, if you have the bayonet primary blade on the top at 12 o'clock you can't start high and you know cross thrust or you know again parry or whatever from a high station and in fact the checks and the fins and there's a few other countries start with the blade and the Germans have gone back and forth by the way with a primary edge on the top at 12 o'clock because they believe in what is called a low station start or a low station Ready position, what does that mean? Well, you've seen many people, you know, prepare a bad ass and they fix bad ass and it's like ready bad ass, ready bad ass, you know, click, click, click, click. And then take position and of course, there was initially might be a standing position or whatever, you know, just paying attention to the rifle at rest beside you. And then take up arms, ready, post. And when you hear ready post, The posture that they are constantly trained to take based on where that blade is, with a conventional, it typically again is high point left for the blade or high point not center but off center and to the left. What I mean by that is the barrel is up and about a 45 degree angle and is ready to be used, the weapon is ready to be used a number of different ways. But remember, the blade is the primary first reason when you get, you know, for any old pawning force, when you get into that type of hand-to-hand combat, well, again, close-quarter combat, but with weapon without ammunition. Might have ammo, but you've decided you're going to save some because you might be low. Or you're close, again, so close that the blade and the butt of the weapon and the bridge of the weapon itself can actually do as much damage as a bullet can. And it's safer because, well, depending on how close quarter you are with all the rest of your buddies, you don't really want to shoot somebody and then shoot two, three, four, five of your friends. Yeah, that's how it works. I've told you many times, the movies, when you see an eight millimeter mouse around, hit a person. If there's three people behind that person, they're all going to get shot with that person. Always remember that. Depending on where the bullet hits. So you see sometimes it just makes more sense where it is precautionary if you're in close quarter, you know, an urban environment is typical. The high station is because of high port carry also, which is typically once a bandit is fixed, is the normal station, you know, keeps the blade up and out of the way so you're not poking, you know, an ally. However, with the blade at, you know, with the blade is at the six o'clock mark, the primary below, that makes sense. But if you station the blade, you know, the primary blade at the 12 o'clock mark at the top mark, you start with the weapon being held low. Now, I would point out something. I've joked about this, but I don't joke because it's what I consider. You know, muzzle draggers, you know, that's the big thing nowadays. Everybody has to have the finger off the trigger and the barrel tactically pointed down and at an angle typically at the low seven o'clock or six o'clock mark, you know, six, seven or eight, but away from everybody else. Well, think about this. That is where automatically these individuals that have the countries, that have the blade stationed at the 12 o'clock mark, that's where their weapons typically would be in ready position in close tactical motion. Now, it's a total different philosophy, but I will point something out. If you're talking about first thrust, harm, or injury, when you're carrying the weapon in that particular station, which, again, if you were looking at me, it would be to your right and low, if I attack you, understand the first thing that I'm trying to do is gut you. Now granted with a bayonet, you're trying to do that anyway. There are several really wicked wounds that you could create that incapacitate or at least slow down dramatically your weapon. Forgive me, your opponent. But in the low station, you're implying from the get-go and creating an interesting psychological quandary because nobody wants to get their crotch ripped open. Nobody wants to get their bowels, let's just say slashed open and having them spill out in front of them and having to use one arm to hold them in place while trying to fend off an enemy with the other. And that is the intent of that technique. So understand, you know, well, that's a real wicked mind. The checks are real wicked bastards. Yeah, so are the Finns. Oh my God. Well, don't worry. Few of the countries have done this. The Germans have too. And by the way, several South American countries use the same technique. And it is, again, a philosophy, you know, all bet right from the get-go, if you were looking at any kind of close-border combat, psychologically it is something that works quite well. And the technique allows for Still the same use of the buck stock the bridge of the weapon itself the body of the weapon to be used as a you know Like for instance a push-up brace when you want to just simply reach out crossbar somebody and turn their teeth into chiclets There's all kinds of again techniques or combination used and the basic combinations are still the same with Whichever ban it whichever Bennett fixture you use however you mount it The other consideration is the back strap and while I've been mentioning that primary blade, most every bayonet has a back strap cutting edge and this allows for again counter stroke or at least some form of slash damage to be done and needless to say it also offers additional penetration when it comes to a thrust strike with the tip of the bayonet. The back strap is not necessarily as well sharpened as the primary plate. There are countries that have different philosophies. America is one of them, by the way. You may have owned an M1 Grand Bannette, not the original, although the original M1 Grand is a 1903 Springfield Bannette. And yes, it does have an extensive sharpened or at least edged, though not precisely edged, back strap that is quite efficient. On the original sword vannettes, which were quite long, the idea behind it is that you actually did have both a close quarter hand-to-hand combat device, a utility tool that could be used even for chopping to a degree and on other conditions. Most important is it gave you lots of pointiness out beyond the regular length of your shorter weapon than what was considered standard. in the generation of rifles before 1900 and before say even 1880. Take a look at the length of the average firearm and rifle versus a carbine. Now what do I mean by carbine? Well let me point something out there. You know, things that you call rifles today, yeah, let me give you a good example of one you probably all have, a lot of you do anyway, own one. It's a K98 Mauser. Well, what does the K stand for? Oh, Karabiner, yeah. It was the Karabiner. It was the short rifle by comparison by. So the full rifle is a Gewehr. You do know that, yeah. The G98, a Gewehr 98. Oh Mark, I have a rifle. No, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9. You all have the Karabiner, the Karabiner, short rifle, which was because of that. The philosophy was you needed a longer bayonet to make up for the shoulder rifle I gave you. And if you want to compare notes, go look at the Gewehr 98s of World War I and the K98s of the later stage of the war and into World War II. You will notice that the M1903 Springfield is a Mauser type design only highly, highly, highly refined. But it is of comparable length to the standard CAR 98 and there is no Gewehr version of the 1903 Springfield rifle that has a comparable length barrel. They were built in the pattern you see, but improved with, or I should say changed as philosophy of how the rifle should be built changed. But barrel length stayed the same. And basically it would be the carabiner or the K or CAR 98 standard rifle length or carbine length. Because of that the bayonets were longer initially but then it was decided wait a minute you know what there's more than a frightful there to work with the bayonet philosophy drops back to first 12 inches and then basically the seven or eight inch standard that you see although with the K98s a 10 inch blade was pretty consistent across the board though there's variations in both directions. All of these are important to understand because, again, remember, there are different philosophies that tie into all of these different weapons systems. And it is national-centric. Example is looking at the Japanese Arasaka rifle, truly in the Gewehr category rather than in the car type. Although, progressively as World War II developed, they remember that Japan was in war as of the early 30s. Their World War II starts in about 1932-33. Yours starts in 1941 for America. So in that time, all of the original philosophies of the long rifle and the use of manual combat, of close quarter combat mechanical, are applied overlapping from a couple of other different ideas, but remember one of the things that they really pushed was the Sub-Moratic Code and of course Bushfield. And the idea that the spirit of the bayonet was an extension of the warrior. Now they also had a design policy that was very unique to their culture. And they did keep a couple of features that not everybody held on to. The blade breaker bad-et, blade breaker pommel, or not pommel, forgive me, guard. You have that little curl. It's a stacking mechanism to a degree as an option. There's a couple techniques. You have a stacking loop on most rifles. Most of you don't even know what it's for. But the Vanette model that we're talking about would allow for the same technique with quicker dispatch or disassembly of the tripod or quad pot or five pot of rifles that you might have stacked together. So these ideas changed from one decade to the next over what more than a hundred years? Go ahead, color. Just a question. My first facility is stacking the swivel on a surplus inland garand that my dad bought. And I was wondering, how many rifles can you stack up like that? I mean, you understand it. Well, in theory, you could have a whole squad piled up, I guess. I mean, there was a couple different techniques. You can daisy chain hook them. But typically, a fire team of five men. Three would be optimal, a tripod. But there are different, you know, again the idea was, if you think about it guys, why would you do that? Well, it's kind of like, you look at your rifle as artillery. At the time when the Springfield, and by the time I get to the Grand, it's like 30, 40 years later, when the Springfield came out, all of these weapons were considered to be superiority precision tools that had changed the battlefield. The logic behind all these weapons, they always cost money, is the buttstock can stay in the mud, but the barrel is kept up and clean, and in this way there's no having to lean a weapon into a rack. It was the poor man's in the field rifle rack, so to speak, with that little lug set there the way it was. Like I said, you could hook them round, round, round, round, and like link them. But you had, everybody had to pay attention, you all had to work together. 3 to 5 typically would be the match. If you look at garrison imageries in photos, you know like where you are, if you look at garrison, oh yeah garrison too. But in the field you'll see a lot of encampments and you can count if you pay attention you'll see how many rifles are actually stacked together like that and it varies. The biggest problem is the more you have, the more, you know, again, you do have short support. If you pull one rifle from a larger stack, the rest are self-supporting for a bit, but at a given point you have to have more people participating in holding the weapons, taking them, you know, taking them to arms. So typically you coordinated it so that nobody's rifle hit the mud. Thank you. I always wondered how many. Thank you. Yeah, the big thing here again was practicing. This was something that actually was as critical in the order of arms as the bayonet drill. Learning to stack arms properly as part of a, you might call it, technique and parade. was something that was actually extensively covered in drill manuals for a very, very long time. And it is still part, oh no, I can't say that it is still. But traditionally, see, I was in a, I was with a competition rifle guard. And one of the things that you do is stack rifles. And stacking rifles is a multi-point technique, and everything is step by step by step. And it's part of the, again, show demonstration of precision. So, and the stacking swivel, of course, if you're doing, and in fact it's kind of like a golf bag. If you're doing precision, what you would, you basically motion work with a rifle, it was not uncommon to take the stacking lug off and a few others, you know, a few other items. Your normal drill rifle, although the M14 is what you see, and I was trained with both, I worked with the M14. But the primary weapon for all competition and all traditional drill at the time was the 1903 Springfield when I was in service. And the 03 Springfield, in fact, 03 Atrey, Smith Coronas were typically what were piled like cordwood, were readily available in good numbers. And even to this day, I'm pretty sure a lot of the drill teams are still using the 1903 Springfield in its welded form. It's a pity. You'd cry if you saw what they did. However, because again, the 1903 Springfield is long in the tail lights, the M14 of the Garand, of course, came into play more heavily. Now the Garand is always, all these rifles I mentioned, the M14, the Garand. And the Springfield have all been used for drill, especially for custom parade drill work. If you've ever done a waterfall or if you've done any of the unique team drill actions where you have a choreography with a rifle, you've got to remember, guys, the M16 is not conducive to that. It's got too many right angles. To do what you want to do, for instance, with a full waterfall, you have to have line and surfaces that allow for the weapon to roll over your hands and cascade, for instance, off your both your shoulder, your forearm, and your elbow at some time. So the lines have to match the body and M16 and the AK don't do that. So you don't see anybody doing, you know, precision parade work with an AK-47 or an M16 or a scar or a bullpup gun. It just doesn't work. And that's why a lot of those older weapons, if you look at all these different countries, when they either do old guard type, you know, burial ceremonies or whatever, but the color guard has precision rifle teams, you'll see an archaic weapon by comparison to what the army, what that army actually carries, because that weapon is conducive to being used as basically a drill baton. And that's what it is. You're taking a 9 pound rifle and you're doing things that most people are terrified of. And in many cases with bayonet fixed. If you've ever seen a cascading waterfall, look it up, okay, and drill. I've done that many times. And if you've ever seen the passing of the, you know, where you actually do a transfer of the rifle, what you basically do is the man in front throws the weapon over his shoulder and the weapon tumbles. systematically and the last man in position of a squad actually the rifle should rotate and fall right into his position and in fact if you properly push the weapon into station it orbits it pivots on itself orbits back and literally is in port position for the man to reach up into the air control it basically is a catcher to football team But control the weapon, bring it to port arms and proceed through the motion of whatever the action is, whatever it is you're doing. And it can be any number of different right turns, left turns. First of all, it's going to be a straight line action. But as soon as you discharge the weapon and release it, then in many cases, one of the neat little tricks is to do a left face or right face. And you're marching in motion in the process. So I've done all of that actually. Competition I think, well we came out in regionals I think, top two, one time or another. We ended up in a competition where unit teams from a hundred different formations would come together. It's a lot of fun, a lot of work. I mean, it's again, repetition, repetition, repetition. And if you make a mistake with six-band hip and a nine-pound rifle that you just threw backwards over your shoulder, I've seen a guy, Shishkebab, this man. And you know, to his credit, okay, you go, why would you do that? Completely ignore the injury, control the weapon and proceed. And if you, or if you drop the weapon, You ignore the weapon and you proceed as if you are holding the weapon and follow through on the action ignoring any distraction which includes the loss of the firearm. That's a credit. That's where the person has proper focus and it actually will earn you, well, won't earn you many points, but it'll earn you a certain amount of points for continuing with the action despite failure to take total control of the weapon. All kinds of fun stuff that's involved with it. But anyway The stacking log will be removed with a lot of those situations along with any other distraction type I can't grant out drying down the bolt on the rifle But that that would be kind of handy too because it kind of gets it's spagged every once in a while I don't care if it's the old three Springfield with a grand or the 14 But still got to look like the rifle it represents so we can't do that another thing about the Stacking lug is that it was also used for air defense technique. That sounds weird, but no it's not. If you had a wire, now you think about this. If you had a wire or something nearby, the idea was that you hooked that wire like on a top of a fence. If you had an aircraft coming to stabilize the gun, if you didn't have anything else, you certainly could fire off-band. But the idea is you take the stacking block, hook it to the wire, and crouch down accordingly and using the fence for support, you sustain fire as part of the air defense envelope using your infantry weapon. And that technique came in with the World War I with the Springfield, but was taught into World War II, and I'm sure Korea, maybe by Korea they were ignoring it, but... I mean still comes down to the basic rule was if you can put a bullet down range and fire back at the enemy you did it and especially with their defense because every bullet counts and You know the idea is if you had a hundred men putting 30 out of 6 rounds down range with a grand It was a significant amount of firepower to offer at least some some hurt if you hit and The more stable the platform and the more you focus on techniques for following the target advancing or leading the target, it's very likely you're going to put bullets on the target. But remember, air defense is throwing junk. You don't have to hit. Guys, the idea is to throw so much garbage up there, somebody tags them. Now the only problem is what goes up must come down, so you always have to take into consideration that you might want to, you know, pay attention to where your arc of control, arc of fire is because Well, it's come back. Okay, that's just the other rule. It's true gravity sucks anyway Well, I'll tell you what we got it. We're gonna be a little more religious although we're a little We're already a little late here Edward if you could our traditional weapons Wednesday bottom of the hour break and For everybody out there it is weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon. All right. Well, I don't want to My right without my right Before God, my right You may ride a good lead speed, you may not turn a master You forward march with speed, but you'll learn the back-switch faster When you meet our mountain boys And the leader John Stark Glad to make what's a little noise And always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove Noah's rifle I need no graves at home, I can cross the brine of water. A giddy must come like bullets to the floor. But if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun. If sentence figure hold the butt 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. Thank you, Edward. And we are back and in our hands we'll prove no trifle be it at close range or at extreme range and all target points in between. Anyway, I think I've covered enough on the bayonet. The basics can be found out there but it is a good idea to actually have a bayonet for each weapon that you can mount a bayonet on. Now some are ridiculous, for instance, I'm going to warn you right now. The number five jungle car being for a little while about 30 years ago 25 years ago There were a flurry of the bandits that came in they've been anywhere from 75 to 175 dollars for decades and Some as high as 300 because different companies made the British number five jungle carbine vanette and all of them were hard to get and the scabbard by itself is worth more than the band it is Because the scabbards are even harder to find So I wouldn't recommend going out and spending two, three, four hundred dollars on a jungle car being banned at. Now for a little while they were down to fifteen dollars apiece for some really tired ones that came in from India because India had tons of jungle car being banned. You may run into one of those. If you do, grab them. They're worth a lot more than fifteen dollars now, trust me. Even the aftermarket ones they made post-World War II were worth a lot more money because again, There are fewer of the bayonets out there than there are of the rifles. On the other hand, the number four Mark I Enfield takes the spike bayonet, kind of like going with throwback. Most people say it was good for a 10-stake. Well, they also made the Mark V and Mark VI. Well, actually, it's Mark V, Mark VI, and Mark III. Probably the Mark III, forgive me. The Mark III is the number four Enfield bayonet, number four Mark I Enfield bayonet, with a full blade, a Bowie blade, just like the Jungle Kirby. And it actually was cheap also because a pile of them came in from India. Right now, I haven't seen them for a while, they probably want stupid price for them. But there are spike bayonets available for as little as about five, six dollars apiece right now. Go to check, go check apexgunparts.com and go check Sarco and a few of the other companies out there including KeepShooting.com. They may have them also. Otherwise, certain infield banettes that are standard are also ridiculous as with Mauser banettes. Why? Well, World War I is way back there 100 years ago plus and a big bunch of really cool banettes were made during that period for the Mauser, but They're not 15 and 20 dollar items like they were for decades. They're a lot more stupid expensive now. So a standard K98 bayonet, even an aftermarket would be fine. If the aftermarket's cheaper, you also are probably your better way to go, you won't cry about it. I have a bayonet for every smelly SMLE, Mauser, FN49, Hakim rifle, every weapon that we have that's in the inventory that I've collected over the last 40, 50 years, I've got a bayonet for. And if it was put into a cache, the bayonet is with the weapon in the cache. This includes the frog. which is the hanger for the gear, the scabbard, although in some cases I had to make scabbards, so I made them out of nylon strapping, just like a lot of the other ones were made later on during Vietnam. The real neat thing is that there are always a certain number of surplus banettes out there and about, but the next step has been China Sport. And while it was really big, when they first came out, they were more expensive and, you know, pricey. The reproduction manettes are actually at mid price range right now. They've gone down a little bit because there aren't as many people that can afford to be World War II reenactors. You just can't afford the weapons anymore. Okay, when they were affordable, it was fun. When it becomes, you know, the price of your first newborn son, uh, no, I don't think so. And a lot of people just kind of look at it and go, oh, it's cool, but no, I can't afford that. So, what's happened is they really overbuilt on World War II reproduction equipment, which is good. A lot of it, a lot of the designs are excellent, okay? But this means that 1903 Springfield or Grand Bannettes are cheap. You can get copies of the M16 Bannette that are cheap. And you can carry them and you won't cry. They're serviceable enough. They work. The blades aren't just going to break on you. But the big thing is that you can rough house them and keep them on your gear and you're not going to worry about that $300 or $500 bayonet, which is crazy anyway. Carrying that in the field right now. Down the road we go to war, nobody's going to worry about it because collectability isn't really going to be an issue if you don't live, so you'll probably use it for what it was intended. But right now, too expensive, okay, for some of the items we're talking about. But you can find most. And the Mauser, there is like the AK of today. There were so many K98s made and most of the Mauser K98 model bayonets are rifles, be it the Polish 29, the Czech version, the German or any of the export rifles. They typically use the same basic bayonet. And what's really cool about that is I love the Czech 12 o'clock blade models. They were Parkerized, they had a hardwood grip. Steel scabbard of course which can use as a weapon by itself But what's really nice about them is that again? They were cheap used to be very cheap and they would fit the Polish the Czech or the standard German Mauser Each of these countries wasn't stupid while they were competing against each other to sell guns to other countries They also understood the value of maybe acquiring enemy stockpiles of the time came so Pretty much the basic components were the same and were fully interchangeable whenever possible not everything but most everything and important components especially so They're out there and they're out there if you look around one of the yard sales, especially I've run into in fact I've got a box of bayonets right now that I didn't need to touch because they were greased You know, they were they were stored but I haven't even gone through all of them. There's probably I think about 12 of the older Mauser Bannettes. This includes Chilean, Brazilian, a couple of German, pre-World War II, and I think there's even a couple of Dutch carbine. Those are actually kind of scarce. But in addition, there's one or two AK Bannettes, a PZ Bannette for the PZ 58, etc. Those are the kind of neat things that pop up all the time out of collections because well they were cheap back only a few decades ago. All this stuff was cheap at some point a few decades ago, not so much now, but you can find them. Another thing is don't grind on them a whole lot. They've got a decent blade. You don't need to have a razor blade for bayonet work. In fact you want a little bit of a You want them a little course that way again remember we're trying to open up a wound channel and make it so somebody doesn't want to fight you anymore. And so useful useful tools they are. I just want to double check make sure our time is good. Okay next another thing, Banette's I think I said I think we've touched on that enough for the moment you got a basic understanding and you'll figure it out. Another thing is, another component of the rifle, the sling. Now, I have been with instructors who had the philosophy of the sling, what is that? We don't put those on our rifles, okay? Depending upon the institution or organization you might be with in the military, At different times, each of the different schools have had different thoughts on the use of the bayonet in combat. The advantage of the sling is to tighten up and support long range rifle marksmanship. The disadvantage of the sling is like everything else, remember I told you this before, we put so much junk in our rifles, they snag on everything. If we actually have to go in the field with a clunk of junk M4 with all the garbage on it, guys, you're fighting it constantly. The big thing about most weapons was slickifying, you know, sleeking them out so that they were streamlined. Pretty fast to bring into action, little or no snag points. Well, the idea that the sling, well it does a couple of things also that the philosophy of the instructor slash unit guru, say the overall organization, you know, came to play in that the sling made for a lazy rifle carrier, you had a tendency to use it for what it was intended, throw it over your shoulder and let it hang. Whereas the aggressive fighting policy and posture that they were trying to develop was weapon constantly at the ready. Your mind works in such a way that your weapon is always at the ready, always prepared to fight, and for that reason it should be under the control of your hands, not hanging from your shoulder. At some point the weapon always touches your body. You know where it is and it always, always, always, always has to be within close proximity of the reach of the left or the right hand to be brought into combat quickly. In other words, grab the pistol grip, bring the weapon up, and start to engage with whatever ad hoc posture you need to take and configuration of control the rifle to get into service as quickly as possible. Beat the other guy to putting a bullet down right. And for that reason, the sling, well the sling rings that we were talking about, like the stacking swivel would be taped, you would do that anyway if you were going into the field. I had mentioned that, forgive me. We mentioned the stacking swivel. In a combat situation, that's one of the things that usually would get taped. You take electrical tape or you know, friction tape. Fritchen tape was supposed to be a no-no. But I've seen it as often as not, and I don't know a thousand different pieces of equipment that I've come across or found that was stored or used by a unit. So while electrical tape was a preferred system, anything and everything that would quiet that thing was used, and that's the purpose of it, to eliminate noise. Remember, it's a rubber baby buggy bumper when you put the tape on it. It's not going to rattle or clink, clink, clink. The sling rings were treated the same way with a unit that was part of the no sling philosophy. The sling ring was taped so that it wouldn't rattle or move around or make contact with something and tick. Even a tick at night, metal on something, metal on plastic, metal on metal, sound travels extremely well at night. and small little objects like that have a tendency to find a way to make contact with something else and click or tick or tap or rattle and it draws attention and probably enemy fire. With the philosophy of no sling, obviously control of a weapon with both hands is optimal without the use of what is the The fourth point of control, which is the sling. Remember, you always have three points of control with a rifle if you're properly stationed with either the prone or standing or kneeling. Take your pick. And the idea is that you create a human tripod under the weapon with regard to how you fix and control the weapon. The sling is eradicated from the formula for the sake of speed. And again, efficiency in streamlining the rifle, things that don't snag. The weapon itself is sleek. If you look at the carbine, the Grand, even the M1A, the M14, or the original M16A1 rifle, E1 and A1. Guys, I've mentioned this a million times. By the time we get to the M16, we go to the jungles of Vietnam. One, what makes the difference in the model of the rifle one of the most significant and most common and in fact it's also used to kind of date the gun and make the movie if you watch a movie to make the movie feel more realistic. The Pickle 4 slash Wire Cutter Flash Hider. Now that's a very small item but just to give you an idea about drag and I can't emphasize this enough if you're going through a lot of foliage. If something snags once, it's, yeah, wow, that was inconvenient. Snags a second time a little bit later, that's not good. But, well, it happens. Snags five, six, ten times, it becomes annoying. It also drags on you. You're tired, you're constantly awake. You've been awake for a day. Something eventually, everything takes energy from you. Something as simple as the open-faced flash hider was considered such an annoyance and an inconvenience. The benefit was supposed to be that it was again a wire cutter. You take the wire, hook it up very quickly. In fact, the technique was for bridging obstacles if you're going through a defensive depth. Several of the countries use a similar technique. Either they use a pickle fork, Or like the HK91, they have the two half-moon divots on the face of the basket flash hider. The purpose behind that is so that you can line a piece of wire up, hook it with that, or line it in place very quickly, pull the trigger, and cut the wire with a bullet. However, they weren't doing that much in Vietnam, they decided. And the annoyance of that open face with just a couple of tines, okay, a handful of tines, was so bad that they created the closed-face flash hider. That's an example of streamlining. Well, the rest of the gun, if you look at the M16 and its original design, it was a slick, streamlined firearm. Think about it. Look at the gun. Look at how it was built. So at the time, when they started to develop different ideas about how to use that rifle in especially a tropical or a dense forest environment, the different schools of philosophy started to pop out and one of them had to do with the sling. And there are other ideas too that were put to the test and they fell to the wayside. But the contest to this day is still out there and most would say, oh no, you need the sling or I wouldn't care without a sling, why do I need to hold the gun constantly? I should be able to grasp. Well, that's the whole point is an aggressive commander The idea was to maintain aggressive posture constantly. You're not in contact, you're not in contact, and you'll be able to realt rest, but the weapon is still unencumbered and ready to be brought into action at any moment. So that was the purpose behind the no-sling policy that many units embraced. Or in many cases, the army at Stalkenbray for a period of time, they wrote it into the instructions and then wrote it out of the instructions, like hip fire. Guys, you do understand hip fire became the norm in Vietnam. You don't think so? Go look at the press announcement. You might find them on YouTube where a new technique, we're not putting it to the shoulder anymore. We're hanging it from the hip and spraying prey. Oh, I didn't call it spray and prey, but that's what everybody eventually did call it. Instead of accuracy, which I still wouldn't do, I would not hip fire. I don't care what they try to preach. Because if I want to just generally fire towards something, I can do the same thing from hip fire from the shoulder by just bringing it up to the shoulder and aiming and aligning over the top of the sights. And I'd still hit more than I would with hip fire. I understand natural point fire. I understand how it works. But the idea is I'm only carrying so much ammo and I've got to try and put targets down if I don't put them down Then guess what they're going to be very angry with me and when I run out of ammo They might be given the opportunity to do horrific things to me that I don't want to see happen So it'd be who me to hit what I'm shooting at and this is why the spray and pray you know reconnaissance by fire You've heard me use that term Basically, again, that technique does make sense, but under certain conditions. If you watch We Were Soldiers, remember the movie? He doesn't explain it. They don't explain. He makes fun. Well, this is innovative. Guys, they show you what Reconnaissance by Fire was about. Everybody fire three rounds at something. Everybody pick a target, you know, what they're trying to do. Everybody fire. That's called Reconnaissance by Fire. They showed it in the movie, okay? But here again hip fire as opposed to bringing it just to your shoulder Lining it up and doing what is an assault fire. That's what the a K with with the Russian technique was with the a K and the logic was you keep more rounds into the target use a three round burst but about but about okay, and then or five and You pattern onto the target, but something is more likely to hit because you can see and confirm line and point of contact. Also get a chance maybe to see the target go down. Which means you don't waste any more ammunition in that direction. You put him down, you can see that you got a good hit. Well, time to change targets rather than waste more ammo on the dead or the dying. Anyway, we're almost to the top. This hour is dying. And for all of you out there, again, I want to say thank you for the donations that we've had come in. I appreciate that from our listeners. You can go to www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Then go to the donate key and donate at your discretion. 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Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... libertytreeradio.4mg.com, Liberty Tree Radio on satellite, and a myriad of technologies both inside and outside the United States. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 3rd of November. My goodness, this week is going by. It's not taking the long at all. Well, actually it's been a long 72 hours since this month began. Trust me on that one. But it is, of course, Weapons Wednesday. It is 5.05, headed to 5.06, almost p.m., Eastern Standard Time. It is the 13th year of open Fabian, socialist and Soviet socialist occupation. America with a K 2021 old earth calendar 2021 battle for the Republic the dance of swords yeah there's a couple things real quick man it's something that somebody I mentioned here while we just had this short break yeah some minutes don't have a scabbard most do but not all the nagat they never made a scabbard for the nagat rifle the way to make one for that take nylon strapping Fold it over, make a loop on one end so you can hang it from a belt if you want to, but there's another reason for that. Then take and make, you know, fold the strap over to the length of the blade, sew everything together, double X stitch the base and the sides a couple places in addition to your regular multi stitching. And what you do is put an M1910 hanger on the top and you can slide that onto an atlas pack. You can put it on your belt if you want to, a little bit long, but you can. And you could, on your regular cartridge belt, pistol belt, whatever you got. And you could carry it as you would any other bayonet. Now, it's really more convenient to carry that on the side of an Alice Pack like you do your machete. On either side, you have flip points, and you can tape that into place, or you can actually hook it up to the hangers. that are on the side of the Alice Pack for the M1910 system. Yeah, if you notice there's grommets, that's for the M1910 hang. Okay? And then you're ready to go. What you do is reach over your right shoulder, grab the left or right, depending on where you want to station it. Station over your left shoulder so you reach back and grab it like it's an antenna. You know, the top of it, the socket. pull it out of the scabbard, mount it to the end of the rifle, and kill Ching-Li. At your discretion, you feel you want to pokey-stabby something. When moving prisoners, pokey-stabby things are always handy to have. Okay? It's that simple. Anyway, it is Weapons Wednesday. And another thing, Apex Gun Parts, you know I'm going to mention them because they do get PPU ammo in and they did get some more in this last week. A mix, I don't know what all they have left and I don't know what they may have had come in today because it is Wednesday, so they've had three days, three business days for more inventory to show up as is always the case. I do recommend PPU because it is Boxer Prime Non-corrosive Heat and Eel and very high standards for ammunition. They're actually very well built and they made a name for themselves. Another thing, if you have the grand, which does have a title, if you have a grand, there is a bunch of this Turkish 30-06 ND clip ammunition in bandoliers that's coming to the country. It is available right now and less than a dollar around, a pipe out 90 cents around. Which, well, that seems high. Well, no, it's in d-clips and it's in band leers and the d-clips cost money by themselves. So you actually would have to figure that into the math formula nowadays. But anyway, there's a different batch or block of these things that have popped up. Classic firearms may still have some. I believe CenterFireSystems.com has some. Also, I believe even keep shooting. They get ammunition once in a while. They do bayonets and other things too. I don't know how much ammunition they have if they have any right now, but if you go look, keepshooting.com, and then any of the other ammunition companies that are out there, if they do surplus, they probably have got some of this Turkish stuff in because it really is very enticing. And again, the bad liers, you'll notice they look a little crude, which bad liers are supposed to be. They're supposed to be throw away. So the bad liers that are there are coarse cotton for the M1 Garand D-clip, the standard D-clip. And again, take advantage of it while you can. More ammo for your Garand, the right ammo is a good idea. Now, I mentioned PPU before that. PPU is making contract brand new super fresh 30.06 for the Garand. You may recall a couple of times we've come across this where it specifically even states for M1 rifle. So it was completely engineered around working, making the rifle work, and again, non corrosive, boxer, prime, heat, annealed. It's everything your Garand wants to digest. Yum, yum, yum, yum. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Okay. You know what that last thing is, right? So anyway, the Turkish ammunition is also 8mm. There's a ton of other Turk ammo in 9mm. It's really weird stuff that's unique but not weird bad. It's like, wow, that's a cool combination. I've mentioned it before, the 9mm with the steel cases but drenched in chrome. nickel and with a brass jacket rather than a copper jacket for the bullet. It's really kind of an interesting combination. The brass should be just as wicked as a copper when it comes to a bullet being made. So it works both ways and the brass you would think could be pricier, but copper is high on the other end. So maybe brass has become more, you know, has become more affordable or reasonable in terms of price range for the moment. That varies up and down and since everybody's buying middle grade metals for a number of different things Copper is on that high list copper has gone up a little bit in price on the market on and off here for the last year so Especially with everybody headed towards war. So just something to think about there. That's why the brass bullet man's coming up brass jack anyway Next thing to touch on and we were talking about it yesterday. We've brought up air 15 air 10 meg A lot of people always ask me, what do you pay those 20 round AR-15 mags for? And you know, I mentioned this many times, I do. I actually have, I've got 20 round mags I've carried for probably, what, 35, almost, well, 40 years. I mean, I am 64, oh, 24, oh, hell yeah. Probably closer to 42, 43 years. I've got 20 round AR-15 mags that are Colton. And again, don't forget action arms that are actually Vietnam era issued. Hundreds of them. Am I going to get rid of them? Because they're 30 rounders. Oh hell no. Are you crazy? They're paid for, number one. They were almost free actually because we got them by the sea ration case when they were throwing them away. When the army went to the 30 round mag, all the arsenals, the armories like at Fort Benning, The Arsehole armories at Fort Benning boxed up all the 20-rounds and the patrol would throw them away so they threw them all out in the dumpster. Guess what? Do you think they stayed in the dumpster? Literally they filled them up, put them in sea rashing cases, making them much easier to move. Okay? So we have thousands and thousands and thousands of them, dude. I mean, we actually were worried because we didn't think we had enough pickup trucks to move all that stuff. And that's back when I was a lot younger. But anyway, Why the 20 rounders? Well, it does allow you to get a little lower. They're not obsolete and if you're good at changing mags, paying attention to your weapon, they're not really an inconvenience at all. Also, somebody says, I need more mags and you got a bunch of 20 rounders when they were cheap, which they used to be. Or if they're the thermal mag, you know, remember the thermal mags? How many of you bought those when they were under a dollar apiece? Do you remember that when I told you buy them by the case? Thermal makes an ugly. I mean it's an ugly. See, the ugliest day I've ever 15 meg, I think it's made. It looks like, what the hell is that? But it works flawlessly. They were made for law enforcement, not for you peasants. And when the 20 rounders came out, these cop shops bought a bunch of them. But not all of them. They cranked out many, many, many, many of them. And a lot of them are marked for law enforcement only because they were made during the magazine ban, remember? And the thermal 20 rounders were very popular with a lot of these pocket guns that were being built, basically you call them pistols now, for cop shops, for cops to carry in their lap so they could hose you down and play, you know, like, you know, South American police state. Michigan State Police used HKs though. You don't know that. They used 223-HKs in a hack down model that they bought from the Germans rather than buying an American gun. But that's typical for Michigan State Police. More money than brains. They're globalists. The lodge buddies have been told that they all got to suck up to the UN. So foreign weapons are a better choice for them than they think anyway. But a lot of the cop shops were carrying these micro ARs with the 9 inch, 9 1 by half inch made by Colt mostly at the time and they weren't the only ones but Colt really knocked those out. And with a little 20 round magazine they actually were good stash cups and they were not hard to use inside a car. So usually they'd run into these cops and they'd put two or three mags in the armrest area on the door. or in the little pockets of the base of the door, have them all lined up with mags. Then when they felt that they were threatened by you peasants in whatever way, they might have the gun laying in their lap. And they're logic is they were just going to pop the barrel out the window and spray everybody in the neighborhood. You, me, cats, dogs, everybody. And the 20 rounders were easier to use inside the vehicle. So they were preferred. At least they were supposedly, but everybody said, no, I need more firepower still. So, it went back to 30 rounders and all these 20 rounders started to pile up. So the next wave is where we pick those up like the thermolds for nothing, I mean for pennies. And they're now about $5 a magazine. You can still get them, but they're now about $5 a unit, our price and what we were paying for them for. So if you did buy that case of them, Okay, looks like we lost Mark there for a second guys. Try to reconnect and get him back. We will be right back, or maybe he's back already before I was able to... Yep, there we go. We got you back, Mark. There we go, what happened? Literally, just a second ago we lost you. Just completely lost your signal or whatever so that's fascinating no actually I'm static and I haven't even hardly been moving so it's yeah It's the system. It's the 21st century guys You know and the word crap who is attached to everything No, it really pisses me. Well. It doesn't I mean not really no I mean, it was so I sound excited like this isn't surprising And so again, you can be standing here, nobody's doing anything and they just get the switch. So we can expect that. But it's because we're kind of touching on a subject where, no, you need big bags or whatnot. Well, actually, I don't know if they worry about me saying anything about that. But the neat thing about this with the 20 rounders is they're still relatively cheaper. Sometimes you get them for nothing because people have them at yard sales. estate sales, things like that. And the 20s are just not the great, you know, shining, you know, cashola item for everybody. Oh, this has got to be a 40 rounder or a drum. What about a clock? It's not a clock. Wait a minute. What the hell? So anyway, the AR1520 rounders, I'll just end this. Why do I care? Because they were cheap to begin with, and they were cheap the second wave. And they're convenient to carry. I will point this out. If I were carrying a gun, an AR, I certainly can carry 30 rounders in a lot of pockets. But let me tell you something. 20 rounders will fit in every pocket in your pants and your shirt. They don't weigh as much by a few rounds, but you can carry anywhere from seven to 10 magazines on your person and nobody notices. We used to do this with carbines the same way except for each AR-15 mag you carry two M1 carbine 15 round mags. And you can put two in each pocket, two in your back pocket like a wallet, put one in the shirt pocket, put one in each field jacket pocket. And you were carrying all this firepower and nobody had a clue. Nobody even realized you had that, you know, the weapons fit nicely under the coat. depending on what you were wearing or even if you're just carrying it. Well, you just go to 15 round mag. Of course you also had 15 rounders on the mag pouch on the stock. So that means you're carrying 45 rounds on the gun all the time. And you still have all the fire power. With the AR-15, it's the same thing. With the 20 round mags, lots of ammunition, lots of available fire power, but not really obvious. So it's not obtrusive. There's something to think about there. And the thermal bags are actually very lightweight, very, very, very lightweight, making them even more conducive. You're still going to have to load the ammo. And the ammo is going to be the weight that's there no matter what. I mean, you're not going to change the cartridge. It's going to weigh the same no matter how many 20 rounds or whatever you put in there. But the magazine, lightweight and small, makes it very portable. Let's see. Next. Another thing about the other small magazine capacity mechanisms out there. Well, British Enfield, and I don't linger on this a lot, but I do have a lot of you out there that have them. I do. We all do. Right now over at ApexGunParts.com, ApexGunParts.com, they have British Enfield magazines, and they have magazine holds, if you want to put another one together, if you know where to piece parts. The advantage is for about $8 you can get a hole, I think right now, for the SMLE slash number 1 mark 3 Enfield. And I bought them, they're decent, they're greased. They're actually, I don't see where the problem was because the ones that I got didn't have any dents and didn't have any bends in the feed lips. So other than the fact you still need a magazine spring and follower, You can find those. In fact, we're actually working at building them right now. The followers, because there are so many of the mags, and we can turn those into very serviceable mags for pennies because we can lost wax cast followers or you can stamp them one or the other or plastic mold them. But it's one of those things that can be done. Now also, let's see, gunpartscorp.com. has a quantity of British Enfield mags. No, don't go, there's nothing, there are bigger than 10 round mags, but there's no real reason for it. 10 rounds is enough, that's two five round stripper clips, crack, crack, loaded into the magazine from the top, you know, from the receiver of the weapon. And that's plenty of firepower for a bolt action gun. You don't really need, trench mags were made, but you don't really need to worry about that. As is, the basic mag is enough and spare mags are cool. So just something to think about there. It's quick to change out of British Enfield mag, but originally the idea was you had the one mag and it had lots and lots and lots of stripper clips because the magazine, you know, guide up above allows you to mount the stripper clip right on the receiver and you load the rounds, five rounds, and then you throw that stripper clip off to the side. That's what they used to do. We would now, we pocket it. And take another stripper clip, do the same thing and your gun is loaded again. Congratulations, you're ready to fight. Infield mags are out there. Another interesting thing is, and this is funny, the Mattson bolt action rifle parts have shown up. The Mattson was the last bolt action rifle, new manufacturer to go into service with any army and it came into service in the 50s. Now, the Mattson rifle is a really cool gun. I mean, typically they're brand new. They never were issued. They were out of the box. It was like they just came from the factory. Painted, finished, typically, although there was a park-riest model because it would build whatever Mattson would build whatever, or I should say the contractor because it was an extension gun. The Mattson bolt-action rifle was marketed to South America, so it was made in a 7mm Mauser. Ouch. It was made an 8mm Bowser and it was made in 30.06 and there were a lot of them made in 30.06. And I'm making it a very, a very tempting gun and a very reasonably priced gun way back even into the, you know, the 70s. Okay. We bought a lot of them. However, you probably never shot a Madsen bolt-action rifle. Now, there's a whole science to engineering a stock so that it takes the recoil and the felt energy rides it over the shooter so to speak. In other words the idea is that the stock is supposed to transfer... There we go. Anyway, sorry about that. I don't think it's not Edward's fault. Edward didn't touch anything and I didn't either. It just clicked. And so the world the way it is. Anyway, the Mattson rifle, rifle stocks are designed to take and transfer the recoil and the energy in such a way that It extends out the energy against your shoulder and preferably brings it up because of muzzle-cline combined with the pivoting of the rifle stock off of the shoulder itself. I'm going to tell you something. If you've never shot a Madsen, and I'm not trying to scare you, but it is the most uncomfortable 30-06 or 7mm Mauser you will ever shoot, I don't know whose body it was meant for, but by God, it wasn't human. The rifle looks good. I mean it really does look at the stocks look like they're often FN 49 But the angle of approach the comb everything how it's set up and by the way They also put a rubber recoil pad on the buttstock as standard military issue and the rifle is still lightly punishing Okay. In other words. Wow, I felt that I mean, I felt a little, I mean, this this feel like the rifle was trying to punch me. Okay. And for whatever reason, don't ask me. I mean, after all the guys who were designing this blasted thing were supposed to be gun engineer. Now you can build a stock that that will deliver all of the energy straight to your shoulder and just bust you up. And that's a fact. There's a video out there and people were laughing all those stupid Arabs. Some gun maker in one of the Arab states built this big ass buffalo elephant gun, you know, with, it's a bolt action, right? I want you to look at the stock. He intentionally made the stock straight in line. And everybody, no matter who picked up the gun, it was supposed to be a funny video. And a bunch of asshats, probably Jewish mafia, you know, did the, they edited it and go, wow, look at these stupid Arabs, they don't know how to shoot a gun, they're dumb, those stupid, decent, I'm good at that one. Yeah, well, the thing is, guys, it was a comedy clip in that the engineer, the guy who built the gun, knew exactly what he was doing. And so he took like basically I think it was a .358 caliber rifle, maybe it was a .400, and big beefy, Mauser type action, oh you know a Model 20 or whatever, I don't know. But the stock is chunky, but if you look, it's straight. And the stock does not pitch. It comes almost straight off the back of the rifle. There's a grip, you know, a pistol grip type, C type grip. It's not a pistol grip, forgive me, but it's a C-type grip like you see on a Springfield. And that's typical for most sporting rifles. So when you put the weapon to your shoulder, no matter who you are, it will hurt you. It will punish you, okay? Well, that's kind of what happens with the Matson. Okay, and by the way, it does take a Mauser bayonet, really cool, standard Mauser K98. They were smart. It was built after World War II. There was tons of surplus. And they were trying to sell a bolt-action rifle Right a decade after World War two when everybody had tons of cheap surplus laying around So while the gun did sell to South America because they wanted new weapons It didn't sell as well as they thought it was going to but the gun was out there in circulation very quickly or semi-automatic weapons became even more readily available and So the Madsen was relegated to reserve and you know also was put out on the Rinner Revolution market and sold and up in the American market and in the gun collector's circle. But it is a punishing rifle, even with a rubber butt plate that's about an inch, inch and a quarter thick. It's a beautiful gun, it really is. It's beautifully appointed stock in linseed oil. It's finally finished. It's a walnut stock, might be birch wood, but it's European northern birch wood, which is a good strong stock, by the way. In addition to that, all parts are well finished. There's no machine marks on it. When they built it, they knew what they were doing. Maybe with a tiny person, actually I'm lying, but it would hurt a tiny person. Maybe with a different person's body. I don't think South Americans are built that much differently from us up here. I've known a lot of people from Ecuador. I used to go to school, a lot of people from Ecuador, Venezuela, et cetera. And other than the fact that they're a little stocky, chunky and shorter than we are. They built the same as any other human being. So it was an interesting idea and it was a really good grab. It used to be a $65 to $100 gun. And in 30-06, that was a steal for a brand new gun out of the box. But few and far between and I'm sure the collector's value is much higher and if they are pristine, higher still. But it is another one of those unique weapons where There are several features that are quite useful and if you do see them at a gun show or if you I should say the state sale Yeah, they'd be worth picking up I'd put it to my shoulder and use it just because it's abusive doesn't mean I can't hit somebody with it It just makes me wonder about Wow Well, who would the who just you know, what were they thinking when they built this? And everybody has shot it said the same thing people that I know that have shotguns for years had never fired a Madsen and then I put it to like hey try this and I'm smiling they put it to their shoulder and they take up a standard marksmanship, you know, pose, lead into the weapon a little bit, pull the trigger and go that was, that was, that hurt. So there are unique weapons out there that just make you scratch your head, okay? It's just like many, many other things in life. So another thing about this is, again, we probably can see or will see some of these pop out. in impossible cycles of surplus still in a few more years because a lot of those kinds of weapons are still out there in reserve inventory in South America. It may be a while because they're not any richer than anybody else and the economy is bad so they're gonna keep what they got unless they feel they can cash it out you know cash in by cashing it out in America. So we'll see what happens. If that does take place, it's kind of like the wave of Thompson parts and Thompson drums that came in about, what, 10 years ago. Remember that? Auto ordnance, actual auto ordnance, 50 and 100 round drums. Where'd they come from? They came from South America. Well, Mark, those are like 70 years old. Yeah, and they were still using them. They had them in the service, they had them in the reserve. All of a sudden they figured, ah, we're going to finally sell out our 45s. So they dumped a bunch of Ballister Molina pistols out and they dumped a bunch of Thompson. The Thompsons were cut up, oh god, for kids. But all the accoutrements were brought in at the same time. And they were actually very reasonably priced, but they were also actual American manufacturers, which was the big selling feature. So don't say it can't happen, it might still. There's something out there in the next toilet flush. We'll see how it develops. I'll tell you what we'll do. Edward, for a change, let's do the bottom of the hour break. Traditional, it is... hmm... let's see, it is... 6.30... there we go. In our hands we'll prove no trifle You may ride a goodly speed, you may not turn a master You forward much with speed, but you'll learn the facts much faster When you meet our mountain boys And they'll lead their jobs to start Glad you'll make what little noise and always hit the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no trifle Alright, we are back. and fascinating the technology and how it is failing us. But otherwise, the other end of the technology brought you a few minutes worth of music there that's quite in the structural. This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this is mine. Also again, hit and what you are aiming at. Don't spray and pray. Hit. Hits count, misses don't. Aim low, go slow. Always remember, aim for the groin. If you pull up, you're going to go up into the torso, you're going to hit something. If you somehow drop a bullet low, well, taking a leg off is fine. If you hit the crotch or groin area, you blow out motor function, destroy lower organs dramatically, and incapacitate to the degree a target that otherwise might try to continue to aggressively approach you. Remember, you ride up with a burst into the target. Oh, go ahead, caller, who do we have? Tom, I said aim small, shoot small like on the Patriot. Right, exactly. In fact, aim for what you'll, aim for what you plan on hitting and then make really genuine effort to do so. So, anyway, oh by the way, up in the Great White North, is it white yet up there? Oh, it's been snowing on and off for the last few days. It's morning we woke up and there's a trace of snow on the ground, but it all mills off. It's been snowing on and off, so, kind of. It's trying right. It's trying. It's trying You know we got a couple days ago bottom of Michigan here. We got the snow snow squalls But it melted even as it touched the ground so you know nothing was gonna stick there's a war on the ground I can put a shovel in the ground anywhere We're casting cement just around the corner right now for other fortifications, like improvements and Guess what the cement mixture is running while I'm talking right now not too far from where I am and So I'm not complaining at all. We can continue right up until the snow flies But besides part of it is inside so it really is not going to make any difference. Everything is going to be covered You got a whole bunch of buildings over top of the cement that's going in Building structure I should say Anything else up there to report anything exciting? No, not really just wanted to put that in about a about what on the Patriot aim small shoots them all and Yeah, it's trying to and it's still trying to snow up here. So don't forget your cold weather gear Yeah, we've we bought that stuff for a reason make sure that your equipment is in Not around in you know prepped with your minute man kit whatever cold weather gear you've got Now you're going to be carrying it into the field because if we get into a shooting situation It's not going to stop Okay, if as as we s as things escalate, you know, you could if you got it with you You can set it somewhere, but if you don't have it, you can't pull it out of your heart You know, you can't pull it out of thin air. So Have your combat kit set up for full winter operations now. Another thing to remember is you're gonna get wet. This cycle season we've got, we've had lots of moisture. The Raisin River right now and the Huron, both of them are at, I won't say they're not at flood, but they're at peak. Okay, they're right where we would expect them to be this time of year with rain and snow. So, you know, the moisture is there. You get out in the field, it's mud. Okay, general mud is in charge right now. Now general mud will eventually surrender to general snow and ice. But right now it's cold wet and cold wet is especially dangerous. So you've got to make sure you have your spare gear and you want to make sure you have layers with you. You're not going in from the field. You're going to be staying in contact. So, you need to be ready to do so and make sure that you're squared away. If you get better than that, if you got cover, if you get in the side out of the weather, fantastic. That's a great improvement, but you don't count on that if you're going into the field as a combat. Assume the worst and you won't be disappointed and you also won't be surprised, which is especially critical. So anyway. Oh before you before you go any farther do want to remind everybody Craig for forbidden knowledge is coming up next after us So right at the top obviously we'd be going But I would remind you too and I want to keep emphasizing this had a discussion on money last night Mark I have not heard whether or not Craig will be live. He may not be because of family issues. Oh Okay. Well, so I'm waiting to hear back from him if he will or won't be but forbidden knowledge will still be up the next hour Okay Very good. Also, I would remind everybody again with Craig, he has copper one ounce rounds. Now you've heard all of what's going on with the economy. We are going to have to be the solution. Unlike 1932, we are going to be ready to A, have a money situation, a money solution, and show people how to work an economy without the Fed. Number two, when they try to foist their international banker crap on us, and since they already failed us, then we are not going to acquiesce to them and let them fiddle screw us again. And that means we need a monetary solution. We have it. We need to be prepared to implement it. And all of you need to be part of it. And we don't all have to be money bags, you just have to be part of working the system. The 1-ounce copper rounds are a consistent piece of currency. They are a true piece of alloidal currency. And so they're easily relatable and that makes them valuable. Okay? So again, go to Craig from Forbidden Knowledge and go over to his webpage. We actually have a link, remember, over at LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. Look over on the right side. There's a scroll point you can link up there. And he has a whole section on the page there covering the copper one ounce coins. Now, he's a really fine militia coin and I'm serious, if he still has any of those left, guys, when you get that, you're going to like it. It is a really well appointed coin. I highly recommend it. He also has a two trillion dollar coin which would make you a trillionaire in a heartbeat. That's kind of cool. That would also eliminate part of the national debt when the time comes. How do you like that? But in reality it's a one ounce copper round and one ounce copper rounds, one ounce silver rounds, one ounce gold rounds or ingots are going to be currency. They are going to be relatable. And we are going to explain to people how to make them relatable, how to work without the cashless society turds that have already ruined this country. Why would you even think that we're going to let these asshats who have done so much damage to this country and try to get you killed, and in fact said they want to kill you, and we brought AIDS in a needle to the population. We now have the AIDS epidemic in its next wave generated by the government. So that everybody has, every liberal, if we have, fortunately, that'll be most of what gets it, autoimmune deficiency syndrome. That's what they're contracting with the injections. That's what the injections are. So we have a big AIDS epidemic coming up. I suggest, you know, all your social media, you want to really muck with their head. Get a liberal, convince a liberal to get the AIDS shot now. Convince a liberal to get the aid shot. Now, don't you go near that thing, but the murder death kill shot slash aid shot. Let's get every liberal injected multiply and therefore gone from our presence now. Isn't that a wonderful thing? Get every Karen, every frothing at the mouth, face bra wearing Karen to get all as many of those murder death kill shots extras because they'll be healthier that way. Yeah, they'll have autoimmune deficiency syndrome. It's an award. It's a badge. And we want them to have that badge. We want as many of them gone as possible. Now remember, we'll turn them into zombies in the long run because I've told you what happens with autoimmune deficiency syndrome in stage 3 and stage 4. Go look it up. You'll go, ehhhhh. They really do look like zombies. And then they act like zombies. Crazy. So, again, solutions, not just complaining about the problems, you need to be ready with currencies in hand. And we need to understand money. We need to understand how to make money work. And therefore, we need to really emphasize embracing real currency. You guys don't have to help make that happen. One ounce copper rounds are part of that formula. Of course, lesser denominations are also useful. And denominations lesser means weight by weight, and also understand how to barter trade and exchange. in different currencies. Are you familiar with how to do that? Are you up to speed? Anybody in any third world country is more up to speed on understanding money than most all America, which has been so dumbed down to the idea of money and in fact it becomes so slavish in that respect so as to sell their birthright for Ebola beans. It's ridiculous. And that's literally nothing. Again, we got work to do. And again, Craig at Forbidden Knowledge, go over to www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. When you get there, look over on the right, there's a scroll, go down to Forbidden Knowledge. You'll find the link there with the subsection on the page for the copper, basically it's copper rope. and the copper vault, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, but everything that has to do with the copper one ounce rounds, the basic information is there. And another thing, if you're all militia, you all need one of those copper rounds, if nothing else, to make a great pass coin. They are really cool. And they are, again, a useful tool and a consistent instrument, okay? Something to think about there. Now another thing a lot of people Have been picking up war ammunition, but they have been a little more specialized recently with long-range routes And I had a lot of questions in fact I had to go through about 30 different emails and say that spikes on the subject of Specialized ammunition which to a degree. Yeah, but well, why don't you talk more about the really unique routes? Well, I will there and do there are some that are pretty unique that we've discussed here, but Most of the specialized rounds are also committed to specific weapons. And one of the things to remember, as I've said, if you are thinking about adopting a certain type of round for your, especially for defense pistol, you've got to get a box of the ammo and shoot it. And when I say shoot it, I mean, no, no, don't shoot one or two rounds. You need to fire up the whole box. You need to find out for sure. If that unique ground is going to be as reliable as it needs to be in the weapon that you've chosen, and it is a significant shift from one gun to the next. Steyer's, Sig's are very different in many ways from Ruger's and, I don't know, don't tell me just money, but Ruger's and for instance Smith and Wesson's. the design of the gun approach an angle from the magazine to the feed ramp into the chamber. Guys, that math formula right there with what I just mentioned means that a lot of rounds that you would think, well, man, it's the super duper buzzsaw cutter, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if it hang fires, if it, in other words, fails to feed, every third or fourth round in your weapon, simply because it wasn't really, you know, your weapon is unique. It's not unique just in the firearm, it's the design. That it may not function as well in your weapon. So if you have a defense round, you're going to commit to maybe buying a lot of. You need to test it in the weapons that you're planning on using that unique defense round in. The larger the hollow point, super bells were especially notorious for this. Supervel was the first company to do all the super engineering. They created a cart mouth. And what I mean by cart mouth is very large hollow point. They were typically very shallow conical on the front, you know, because they almost effect straight, not quite, but almost in some rounds. The problem is that in order for your gun to use it, if it was a .45, is you need to have it throwed and you needed to polish the ramps, do everything you normally do for a match shooting. to get the super-vells to work the way they're supposed to. Well, if you're going to do that, you actually were building a competition gun by the time you were done. But they also had issues with the 9mm super-vell, so they had to change that out. Progressively, they created a more standardized super-vell 9mm hollow point that just opened right up to about almost 50 calibers. It was a monster around the way it worked and all the energy stopped with the target. It did not pass to somewhere else. The interesting thing is they made a supervel made 32 ACP 380 Auto, 25 Automatic, 9mm 38 Super, 45 ACP, 44 Mag, 44 Special. And that company, that baseline company, is the idea bird for all the other stuff that you've seen since done by everybody else. Even though they may be totally new and never heard of Supervel, the ideas that have come out of that, or with all the different rounds that Supervel developed, are the foundation for that industry, that element of the ammunition industry today. Now, the only problem is that some people don't learn from lessons that other people have already experienced. And learn from the mistakes of others who won't live long enough to make them all yourself is not always embraced. And so again, also the person building around may be parking for a particular type of firearm or a particular class that is most common at the moment. Needless to say, I would assume that everybody is tuning for Glock. You know, with building for Glock, at least. Well, yes, it could be, I've got a SIG, it's a waterfall, better than Glockmark. I know, they probably are. But there aren't as many SIGs in everybody's hands as there are the egalitarian Glock. There are so many Glocks out there right now that the Glock magazine has influenced the light carby market. And we now have lots and lots of 9mm carbins that take what? Glock mags. They don't take SIG mags, they don't take Beretta mags. They take Glock bags. So the baseline for design is the Glock, which is again not a bad thing because of some of the issues with the good color. Hey, this is Todd down in Orlando. You were talking about currency and people should know their coins for barter and trade after the collapse of the fiat currencies. One of the things you can buy on eBay and people don't know, they're sitting by a big 10 pound bag of Lincoln pennies, not wheat pennies, but Lincoln pennies that were made before 1982 that are 100% copper. Unlike today's pennies, since 1982, 1983, which are mostly zinc with a copper wash. So right now, those pennies, in actuality, they're worth almost three cents. And the thing about those pennies is that Americans know what they are. Okay, so you could take those to wherever you're going. And people will look at them and go, yep, those are pennies. They're probably not counterfeit because of the cost involved in counterfeiting them. And they will be worth quite a bit more after shit hits the fan. So getting 20 or 30 pounds or maybe a big bucket full of pennies just to grab a handful before you go out. And you can spend them anywhere and people are not going to question what they are. Another thing is that remember, and I brought this up over and over again over the years, is very quickly the mind will adjust to the market and real copper will be appreciated over the zinc junk. I want to tell you something, the newer the penny right now, the shorter the lifespan, not just in service but its survivability in the environment. Have you seen any of these pennies that have been laying out in the parking lot? They haven't been brought over a lot, they've just been laying like in the gutter? Guys, they're literally disintegrating, blossoming into oxidation from the inside because the copper wash is so thin. And zinc is really great for oxidizing, especially once it has some catalyst to promote it. Oxygen being the first one, but if you get salt or anything else on it, oh, you might have acid for blood from an alien. So, but with a copper penny, I've got you, you can, you, you won't, we will not be digging up zinc pennies 40 years from now. You will be digging up copper pennies a hundred years from now. See the difference? Not even a year from, in fact, if you left in the weather, the zinc pennies will be dirt. So the one thing to remember is durability in currency. One of the big advantages of using gold, silver and copper. is their durability in service. And people are going to be made to understand that very quickly because people are going to have to start trading and exchanging. And if they're looking for any peaceful solution, which is really what cash is all about, you don't have to club somebody to get the next basket of food. You can actually trade and exchange. You should try to. It leaves fewer bodies laying around these things. But most important is everybody will very quickly relate because they'll either do that or they'll starve. They may try to be criminal for a bit, but criminal will get put down. We do have lots of ammunition. So, I mean, everybody does. So being polite is going to be necessary. And since being polite will be forced upon people, as is almost always the case. then what's going to happen is people are going to have to very quickly adapt and relate to the solutions which allow for a peaceable transaction. And personal currency allows for peaceable, civil, you know, slash reasonable transaction with consistent product line. One of the other advantage of the pennies for smaller denomination is it is a smaller component. Now guys, one thing everybody better start investing in, you better have a scale. Preferably a non-electric scale. Why? Because if you're going to go into any kind of trade or business, people are going to walk in with all kinds of currency and it's not necessarily going to be the face value that you're looking at. It will appearly be weight. And so you're going to have to be ready to do math and common core math won't make it. and you have to have the ability to confirm weights and measures. And so, not only for yourself, but for the person you're in contract with when you exchange. So investing in a small scale right now, nothing too fancy, would be a really good idea. So thank you for bringing it up because again, with copper, it's like we talked about trading in food, guys. If I have a bag of coffee from the Dollar Tree two years from now, I didn't open it up. Everybody knows there's six ounces of coffee that was manufactured in South America. It's not been repackaged. They can confirm and look at the package and feel confident with it. You're not cheating the customer because somebody else packaged it, which is especially critical, is a third party confirmation system or creates a reliability track. This is true of the coin the same way. You didn't do those coins. Uncle Samuel did. They had mints that did that. The one ounce coins are certified the same way and can be confirmed by weights and measures that they're actually an ounce of copper. So the one ounce coin is a larger denomination, you know, piece of currency just like anything else. The pennies are the trade or change makers. This is they always have that. But this is also true of silver nickels or silver dimes or silver quarters or whatever. They are the lesser increments so that you can do trade when you have a silver dollar or a one ounce coin sitting there. You have to have a structure and it's already there but we're going to have to embrace it. And that means that that bag of pennies would be kind of handy to have and then count it out and distribute it. so that you have it tactically reserved in places where you know where your wealth is. Because this is a matter of managing your own life exchange. Because you take time and trade it for a physical product. Anyway, we're at the top here. God bless our Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We're on the march. I'm going to get out of the way. Hopefully Craig is there, but if not, forbidden knowledge will be played. And when we get back one hour from now, we'll continue with the evening info report. God bless.