June 14, 2023
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Mark Koernke discussed weapons, ammunition, and preparedness on Weapons Wednesday, June 14, 2023. He covered surplus ammunition availability (7.62x39, 5.56, 308), magazine procurement strategies, revolver options (Colt Python, Smith & Wesson Model 10), and the importance of training with Airsoft. The show included a caller discussing delayed firearm purchases and de facto waiting periods, commentary on San Francisco's proposed gun ban, and personal anecdotes about experimental firearms projects including a cast aluminum 1911 frame and a 50-caliber spotting rifle.
- weapons wednesday
- 7.62x39 ammunition
- ar-15
- ak-47
- magazines
- colt python
- smith wesson model 10
- revolver
- airsoft training
- san francisco gun ban
- second amendment
- surplus ammunition
- preparedness
- atf
- firearm regulations
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She's never made it as far as a car before When she slammed that Chevy door This beat, begging, dawg, sitting there Begging and pleading Through the mist with a f*** His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed He took off his three-cornered hat And speaking low to me he said We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny
For future generations this legacy we gave in this the land of the free brave The freedoms we secured for you. We hoped you'd always keep the tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep Your freedom is 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 sin, 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 family farms. 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. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children?
to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic in each God given right, and pray to God, your freedom burning bright. As I awoke he 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 to 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? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Kirk.
One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories south, north, southeast, and west. When you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org,
And we're on satellite, so how do all of our merchant marine operators out there, no matter where you are on the planet, we are everywhere there, also in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. It is Wednesday. It is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 14th of June. It is the 15th year of open, obvious, and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet.
Socialist Occupation of America with a K 2023, Old Earth Calendar 2023, Battle for the Republic, The Dance of Swords. Let the dance continue. We will. And we're going to make sure the music is playing. It is weapons, Wednesday. A couple things here real quick. Again, go over to classic firearms. Check out some of the goodies that they have laying over there right now. They did get a few ammunition deals in. Too numerous to mention, but for specific arms,
Definitely, you're going to want to go check that out. By the way, there is a little spat of copper plated, 7.62x39. I don't know where it came from. Mostly, it seems to have been repacked loose, which is kind of interesting. I don't see that very often nowadays. I mean, granted, it's certainly as likely as not to happen. But for everybody out there, again,
If you check the different locations, I do recommend that you peruse the battlefield, so to speak, and look to see where the best price is because I think that there's more than a few out there. This is the latest gasp from foreign fields. A lot of that's being eaten up in the Middle Eastern wars, and it's also stuff that's being eaten up in Ukraine, needless to say. 762 by 39, 545.
In fact, anything that will put a bullet down range is pretty much in service. This is also true in the Syrian war, which is something we need to keep reminding you of. This is where sometimes in the render revolution market, stuff pops up because there is a great deal, but also they wanted to buy something else that's higher up the feeding chain, and they need capital. So what they do is they sell the older munitions or materials and equipment, weapons systems included,
And this allows them to buy up from the iron mongers slash the rental revolution crews out there that are constantly trying to improve and obviously build up their market. They need to move things. For the longest time, AKs have been a very, very much glut thing on the market in our bargain basement. All the numbers you see that are really high in America throughout the window,
In the rental revolution market, the AK-47 and the AR-15, M16 mother, the great mother, the M16A1 and also some M16A2s and a bunch of M4s, not just the stuff from Afghanistan. We're talking way before that. A lot of the stuff has been in the rental revolution market and in a glut.
And because of this, the M16A1 was a giveaway rifle. It was as cheap, if not cheaper, than the AK in some markets, depending upon how many times it had gone in the circle back into combat, because there are a lot of weapons that they just keep refinishing them and putting them in the box and selling them to somebody. And if you need a lot of weapons, you're not going to cry too much about it, which is what typically happens.
The present point, this is a 7.62x39 ammo, looks to work, it's nothing surprising. Whether it's Yugo, Chinese, or something else. It could be one of the Eastern European end of the Cold War inventories. There is still some Romanian stuff that's popping out there, not much. Same is true if you'll notice we had that Florian Bulgarian and Hungarian material.
Well, that's because they were doing the same thing I was just mentioning a moment ago. They're trying to upgrade and so they need, they're taking material capital and converting it into digits to buy the latest and the greatest whiz bangs, you know, super pooper that's out there that everybody just read the latest article about or somebody just got bribed in the government to buy. Usually it's the later, not the former.
As the prostitutes get their pay off, the governments have to scrounge up the cash based upon professional evaluation that, needless to say, sticks the taxpayer there with the next big bill. Not necessarily getting a better product and having less of them, which is not a good thing, okay, as you find out. Somebody drops enough bombs on your ordinance depots. If you don't have a lot of backups, you ain't going very far, very fast.
One of the only good things to say is that while on the one hand the crazy town case gun grabbers wanted to perform one action or other against people, because of the way that they have tailored everything, we've put more weapons into the field in greater quantity but also tactically dispersed. And this is especially critical. You can't drop a bomb anywhere and stop America from being armed. There's nothing you're going to do. It just isn't going to work.
You can't drop it on an ordinance depot where we're authorized to go sign out our weapons from the communist regime in California or the communist regime in Denver or the communist regime in Washington. It doesn't mean they don't want that, but it doesn't exist yet. National Guard Armouries, let me tell you something about National Guard Armouries. They're crap. I mean, that is planet crap food. Everybody goes, well, you want to take a National Guard film on the blank, really?
As in, you want to take them for what we're... No, there's no... You have typically... Let me drive this home for you guys that have AR-15s. You... If you're an AR-15 owner right now, your weapon is in far better mechanical and physical condition than most anything you would see on the shelf coming from Uncle Samlstein, okay? Uncle Samlstein has been ripping your ass off for a very long time.
They destroyed a lot of equipment intentionally. They're eating up a lot of equipment. That's not an accident either. Right now by shooting it overseas, trying to disarm the population, at least the preponderance of the military. So that if it doesn't go along with orders, those latest prop proposals to bring in foreign cops and foreign troops to work in police departments and state police and sheriff's departments. Well, that's why they're doing that because they can't count on.
So, as I've said a million times, first of all, this is one of the other reasons the AR-15 is a great weapon for you to be stockpiling, putting on the shelf, just keep putting parts away, is because what personnel that are military are going to be totally cognizant with only a handful of weapons. Very few military personnel have any great expertise in a wide range of weapons. They're great at whatever they've got.
Typically because they've at least had some allowance to handle it, but not as much as you'd think. You've handled your AR-15 far more than they've ever got a chance to touch an M16. Well, I'm in the field, and yeah, as soon as you come back out of the field, what will they do? Into the armory it goes.
It gets locked up behind the you know the individual corridor safes and you know then the oh that's right the hallway gets locked and then there's a lock for the door to the You know vestibule for the arsenal and then there's a lock for the outer It's all designed to delay you from getting into whatever is inside by the way. Oh, and if they're really consistent The weapons are not in one piece nor do they have magazines in them like you see in all the BS movies throw that out the window
So here's the thing you might want to buy a whole bunch of AR-15 M16 pattern bolts Because one of the most common tricks is to take the bolts out of all the firearms and technically deactivating them under the logic that nobody would have more bolt. Oh, wait a minute We could have all the bolts we want bolt carrier groups for the air and their M4 M16 knockoff, right? Well, what's really great is they drop right into any government model rifle but
This would be a last thought or option because, again, they don't have that much. There's very little of anything that would be of value in most of the, for instance, National Guard armouries, reserve armouries, and even in the active armouries.
They are minimal in that respect. They have enough weapons to issue out to a full array of personnel if the unit were fleshed out. But typically most of these units are not. So they do have a certain number of hangar queens that really never had their triggers pulled in decades. They're inventoried, they check them. Hopefully somebody cleaned them up at one time or another, but they're lazy as sin about that, so I wouldn't expect it.
They may have been rebuilt a couple of times because the government's had a number of different rebuild projects for the M16, M4, and most recent variants. So there are a couple of rebuild stamps, or at least one maybe, on each of the weapons that's in there. In other words, they're not brand new rifles. How new is the rifle you have right now in your AR-15? And did you custom build it? How many parts you have on your rifle that are far superior to government contract?
You do realize you actually have a better weapon and that is typically the case with the American people plus your optics or whatever you choose your Magazines or whatever you choose ammunition whatever you choose just one segment of our population has Virtual superiority at the individual level to the entire US military just with the number of air 15s We have an m16 type rifles that we have that have been built privately seriously
Your enemy is, you know, the regime who want to use the police state and the military on the population. They keep yapping now that they want to go grab your guns door to door, which is good. I think they need to flap that yap a lot more. I think they need to even try it. But the fact is that we have superiority at the individual level and with each tier there are other weapons that are added. But we have comparable weapons and inventory.
So for a police state operation, they are looking good. Now when they go to and shift to waging war against the American people, bringing in more publicly their foreign assets, foreign troops, which they've already done in the past, they brought them in, trained them, then they had to shut up about it and get you all to go brain fart stupid about not remembering, even though, wow, the new services in the 90s gave you all kinds of programs talking about the Wunderbar
trade and exchange programs and Chicago and St. Louis and even good old Detroit here had foreign forces come in as part of the sister city sister state sister county program and Fed and of course paid for by the federal government to internationalize the United States for occupation.
People saw through it, they got beat down, so they backed off and waited. Well, we're full circle, they're headed right back there now. We're actually at the antithesis of two parts, the absolute opposite of where we were, let's just think, how about 2001? This is the year 2023. Did you see the government honoring the American flag at the White House the other day? Although they didn't, they pissed on the American flag. Did you see all the queers and petos and Satanists?
right there in front of the outhouse with the chief pedo sniffer meat puppet, you know, doing the bonito muslinie slash Stalin slash Lenin in a wave, etc. and telling all of those pedo queers that they're braver than that soldier who went to war, saved many, many, many people, fellow soldiers perhaps.
Came back with a body part missing. Why that guy is nothing because good old the petal sniffer meat puppet Biden said this last weekend that the petal queers that the Pufte cross-dressing nutcase sycophants are far braver than anybody else in the country. Did you know that? Now Obama's speech, lipped by Biden, I'm sure would say that.
Since good old Obama is married to that obsolete piece of farm machinery, good old Mikey Satoro, Mike Obama, which by the way, a little hint on something. Anybody remember when Mikey was on Ellen DeGeneres' program?
Remember when he, she, it was doing that dancing and while they were doing that dancing something was poking out up front under that dress that it was wearing? Now you can see why there's a reason for that tuck slip that they put into all those target clothes, right? That's right! Oh, you forgot! Remember?
Anybody remember that? Where every time, you know, Mikey was moving around, there was a certain dangly part that kept poking against the clothing, because apparently it was free wheeling time for the other queer, I mean, for whatever that is. Yeah, the little bumpy thing that wasn't all that small, so it's like, maybe it was getting excited about being near the lesbian, uh, what, degenerate?
Let's see, you got a queer guy, you got a lesbian female. Oh, it's like I've always joked. I joked about that 30 years ago. Where would this all go? Yeah, that kind of scenario right there. But in this case, of course, normally Mikey is swapping spit with Barry Satoro slash Obama slash... Barack! Yeah, well, Barack. And still is, with others too. Because after all, they're guys. So anyway.
A couple things here about also magazines. I will remind you that if you're looking for drop mags for breakout kits, over at CenterFireSystems.com for your AKs. You got that 7.62x39 ammo you're looking at there. Over at CenterFireSystems.com, they have five polymer mags, smoke colored,
for $20, $19 and whatever pennies, so I'll say $20. They've been out there for quite some time. Nope, they're not great. They are serviceable. But they're not great. However, if you're going to set up what we call drop kits, remember, they're at $4 a magazine, you won't cry about just dropping the mag straight down once you've used it.
Breakout kits are designed for defensive operations when you're burning ammunition or if you're in a battlefield pocket where you have to work as a unit or if you are going to carry additional magazines for you know as part of your defense against what might be either prepared or hasty ambush then the drop bags are shoot them and drop them. You don't worry about trying to save them.
There are castaways to begin with. If you do win, either way or if you're in position, you'll figure out what works and what doesn't. You'll recover what you can later. But you don't care. If you can't get them, you don't care. And the advantage of the breakout mags is you're going to consume those first and try to retain as many of your best quality mags as possible.
Well, those mags are good. Well, actually I've seen them and they're really not that bad. They're just, again, if you loaded them with 30 rounds and you load them the weapon, it goes bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang
It's quack-and-duck time with your AK or your AR. Your AR rifles are the same way. You've got to have something you need, magazines that are not normally used. They're going to be used for very specific purposes. They're cheap enough you can afford to do this. But they will work more often than just one time, if otherwise you're going to use them. Another point that I would buy, why I would buy the $4 magazines? Training. But they might malfunction. Wow, really? Is that bad?
Let's say that, okay, let's talk about training. You know, we actually have blank out rounds that are used, you'll see this. Try not to show much of real training anymore. What is a blank out round for? Well, when your weapon is operating somewhere, the trainer has inserted a dud round. It's not really a dud round, it's a snap cap. Usually it's got a rubber baby buggy bumper instead of a primer.
It is not loaded, it cannot pop the bullet into the tube or anything like that. What it does is it stops the action, stops the system, forces the shooter to respond automatically, not react, not just knee-jerk, react, I'm panicked, but respond through training to clear the weapon and proceed with the action. Oh!
So this is one thing to consider is with training magazines on the range. Now I'm going to tell you right now, am I just going to do that with some person who has no experience? Hell no. Well, what I do is if I were to initiate that action with a person, each individual shooter has a coach, a trainer.
the coach and trainer are observing the shooter and know because they've been informed of what's going to happen. Now eventually this is something that everyone has to have in their mind with regard to dealing with what has been drilled and drilled and drilled which is immediate action. An immediate action drill.
So rather than wear out my $40, $35, $25, $20 top of the line AK mags, or just old military mags that now command a stupid crazy price, I use up the $4 mags because I'm not going to cry when something happens to it. But I'm also not going to wear down the other mags that I'm keeping at zero point for when things get serious.
This is why a lot of different things that are out there are useful provided you put them into a particular Again a niche, you know what they're useful for First of all, I'm gonna say this though any magazines a good mag No matter what it is you collect every magazine get your hands on you go to a yard sale or an estate sale There's a pile of mags here if they're like one of them one of the estates sale three dollars apiece for Smith and Wesson magazines
Smith & Wesson factory stainless steel magazines, $3 apiece. Trust me, those all got bought. Every last one of them. Was there a gun with them? Nope. But there were a lot of magazines. Did anybody in the team maybe even have that weapon? Nope. The mags are worth $30, $35, $40 apiece. And for $3 apiece, everybody was happy. The individuals selling them thought they were happy with what they got for them.
We're happy to pay that and probably could have made a deal but it's like don't argue, make them happy. And look what else we found later with all the other things that it turns out once you bought those they said, oh yeah, well by the way we got this. Really? Oh, well those are coming with us too. So again, more mags are always better. Don't forget you also need cash mags, magazines you can afford to stash in cash without crying about, I can't afford that.
So having supplemental magazines in any cash is a really good idea. And by the way, again, what are you gonna use them for? To get the next best weapon out of my enemy's claws after I've killed him. Strip the enemy dead. Right? So, again, solutions. We're at the bottom of the hour! It's Weapons Wednesday! Before we go any farther, we have a traditional bottom of the hour break. In any moment,
Any moment. I know it's going to be there because we're at the bottom of the hour. And for everybody, again, it is Weapons Wednesday. You're listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com and also LibertyTreeRadio.org. You could be listening on a thousand other technologies out there. There are ways, I shouldn't say, there aren't that many technologies, but there are quite a few.
I was at church, there's a friend of my son that was there, and we were about to pray for him and I said, praying! And he goes, this is my rifle! And I'm like, turn out and he goes, I've watched it about a dozen times. Thanks, good to you. This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this is mine.
My rifle is useless without me and I am useless without my rifle. I always remember that. You know that is so absolutely true. I think the funniest thing I ever heard was from years ago because it depends on the school that you're with. There's the no sling and sling school. There's the stack your rifle and what the hell is your rifle doing over there in the stack school? There are two totally different groups.
When I was thinking about this, we were watching a bunch of old, we got a bunch of VHS tapes in, we were just plugging in movies while we were doing other stuff, sorting all the stuff I tell you about. And one of them was a John Wayne movie, and I think it was San Fajita, okay? And he goes, you're gonna sleep with that rifle, and I thought about that, it's like, when the hell wouldn't you be sleeping with your rifle? Oh, oh, that's right, yeah, yeah, stack weapons, you know?
But depending on the group, the unit that you were training with and attached to guys, you always slept with your rifle had to be in touch with you. You didn't make any difference, the knee, the leg, your torso, your arm, ideally with your hands having some kind of direct control, one or the other. But you did not, the weapon never got stacked somewhere, never got, you know, put into an armory somewhere. Hell no. What's your purpose for being there?
That's why when I saw these images from Afghanistan where they showed this rifle rack outside of what is a obviously a tactical situation Where you have a command the CP or an LP of some kind little op because it's it's got open sides It's got overhead bunker cover But the rifle rack is outside and and paces away from all the individuals inside the working station
I was like, what the hell is that crap? Oh, what's the way we do it? Yeah, well, of course, gee, let's see. Not going to do me a whole lot of good if Haji'ul Hamad decides that he's going to go ape crazy and was able to patty foot his way right up to your position or at least get through most of it.
So that would never fly. I mean and the rack had like nine maybe ten weapons I could count and the rack went off to the left in the foreground while the rest of it was showing you the whole area where the troops were operating and it's like That one I hope that pistols Which again, what's the purpose of your handgun? Oh to fight your way to the rifle that should have been with you Always remember that why are you carrying the handgun? Well, you might be carrying the handgun because you
It was given to you by somebody else because you were a bare butt and they could stand there in a towel and I just don't like seeing somebody not contributing to the fight. So here you go. There you go. There's a 1911 or here's an Astra. Tell you what, point it that way, pull the trigger. Okay, that's all you got to do. Remember, very simple. There's no safety. Don't worry about the safety. It's not on. It will never be on. The safety ain't going to be on. If I hand it to you, it's ready to shoot.
Probably because we're not having the casual conversation we're having now. It's like you know here point aim bang And bang bang we go so again we are oh We're at the bottom of the hour, and we should be hearing the bottom of the hour weapons Wednesday break But and if I stop ping and I well I guess I can't radio guys. I gotta keep this up
Anyway, other equipment and ideas. Real quick shoulder holsters and or carrying systems. Now I just mentioned the slings and I know that the more recent academy conclusion is that you want multi-point slings and you're able to let go of the weapon and operate and do other things.
And it is good because you're keeping the weapon up off the ground. And you know what's really funny is you're in a group that A, you're never going to surrender or release your weapon from your personal custody or contact. And B, you don't have a sling. You don't carry a sling. If you pay attention, you'll see and you can identify this in a lot of any historical images of units in the field, say from Vietnam on. If you pay attention, look at the sling rings.
You may notice that a bunch of those guys, the sling rings, are actually electrical taped over. Why'd they do that? Just silence them. Even the little, everything on a weapon that can loosen up will loosen up. And what happens is that little sling ring doesn't seem like it'd be very much, but as it, why weebawobble sideways a little bit and finally loosens up because the quality of the metal that makes up the ring isn't that great.
It's good enough that it can take a lot of stress, but what happens, it makes little tick tick sounds when you're moving. So the first thing you do is to silence the metal contact on the old M16A1 buttstock area sling ring. You electrical tape that and then you go up to the other end because you don't want the weeble wobbles and you electric tape that. If you pay attention, you've probably seen a lot of the individuals with their equipment
squared away this way, it's just most people weren't thinking about it. But now when you start looking at images, you'll notice, oh, hey, there's two different groups of people standing there. Now, in some cases, the individual didn't care. And so the individual was a personal flavor choice, depending on probably as much as anything, the background experience of the individual with the unit that they'd been serving with before in whatever capacity. So again, just a heads up there.
The one issue, and I know we have quick releases and everything else, we've got quick releases on everything nowadays, but the one thing about the multi-station slings is that the quick release may or may not be quick enough depending on how you get hung up.
and or will retard your motion enough that well it might be rather embarrassing. I would remind you again one of the reasons that this no-sling policy came into play although I know it was around in World War I, I know it was in World War II, I've talked to vets and served with guys in different eras going back to the guys that were in World War I and in World War I that that manosian was in place along with sound discipline which everything made a difference you already had no man's land slash dark side of the moon.
But any unnatural sound, everybody was on pinter hooks waiting for whoever was going to be sneaky Pete through the battlefield. So any sound would draw fire. And this is also why, again, we get into Vietnam, the other consideration is rainforest.
Everything that you have attached to your weapon is going to drag on you. And I pointed this out before, it's, you know, when you're walking through foliage, it's not like you're working in, you know, as an urban cop in Iraq, which is basically all that our military was doing. You know, well, but combat, military police on a massive scale, but that's all they were. Occupying a country so the Israelis could steal everything they could. Art, treasure, gold, and money, and we got screwed.
Needless to say, Halliburton did everything on its part to screw the rest of the way and steal everything else it could. So, would that be in the case? You're in Vietnam or you're in a natural environment, though in any kind of tangle foot, every kind of hanging vine, grapevine, which you would find here in Michigan, everything will hook itself to you and your weapon. And this is something that you need to experiment with when you put your gear together.
and understand that that's another reason that the equipment for the Vietnam era was tailored the way it was. This is an interesting point is, you know, we all were taught the same thing to carry the compass pouch in the upper left quadrant, flip it up, flip it down, doesn't make any difference, whichever was the SOP for the unit. But that little piece of equipment right there was a real bear on just being annoying.
You move through the field you try to drag yourself around you crawl doesn't mean what it is It will something will find a way to hook on nothing but that little square piece with one little Alice keeper Now I've talked about this many times its weapons Wednesday This is true of something as simple as the flash hiders Why did they change from the pickle fork flash hider in Vietnam? To the box flash hider that everybody's familiar with with the a1
It's real simple. The very thing we were just talking about, that little pitchfork up front would hook on everything. Now everybody goes, well that's not that big a deal. Right, right. You're walking along, you've got to go, say, two or three miles across country. And everything is going to be triple canopy. It's going to be all kinds of dense woods. It doesn't have to be triple. If you were in Michigan, it would be the same way.
If I got to go cross country and you're moving through, you're not going to get to use trails. Trails will get you killed. Trails are where the ambushes are. Trails are where the movie traps are, which is why point of the compass and land navigation is so critical. So you move through the area and your rifle and snags on a piece of branch and yeah, you either shake it free or you got to reach forward, control the weapon and get rid of the junk in your flash rider.
Happens again, okay, that's not good. Happens the fifth time, I'm getting really annoyed. You're not even the first half mile. And again, and again, and again, and it just becomes stinking frustrating. So when they got feedback from the troops, one of the things they pointed out is that they understood that the Pickle Fork Flash Hider was supposed to be a wire cutter.
Everybody goes, what? Yeah, it was like the European policy. In fact, the Italians did a variation on Sota, the Belgians, with other weapons where what you do is you get the wire inside that pickle fork, you pull the trigger, and the bullet cuts the wire. You didn't know that, right? You were taught that. No, you weren't taught that because most of the people probably listening, except for you guys are older vets, wouldn't know that because you never experienced it.
But that's the reason the pickle fork was in there was was designed into it to become part of the you know Mattel 7 works in a door does everything rifle Now your HKs if you have depending which flash hider you have you might notice that on your HK How many of that G3s HK 91's PTRs if they're earlier and they're all parts kit gun or factory parts gun from the original leftovers Look at the end of your flash hider
What is at the 12 o'clock and the 6 o'clock location? If you look, now by the way, clear the weapon, drop the magazine. Clear the weapon, drop the magazine, drop the magazine, clear the weapon, whatever you do. Let's just make sure we keep the chamber empty, right, before we do this. But if you look straight down on the end of your muzzle, you don't have to look at it by looking down the barrel and taking a chance. If you look at it on the end, you'll notice there's two little half moon divots.
12 o'clock and 6 o'clock. What do you think those are for? They aren't good for the attachment tool, although they can be used with a tool. One of the many purposes, just like the Belgian FN variant on this, which actually has the open pickle forks, the bayonet does by the way, was so that you could hook and again press against the wire, which would be under stress, and bang!
The bullet will cut the wire. Now it's a random bullet moving down range, so let's keep it pointed towards the enemy. Well, that's not very quiet. Well, the logic was it's not probably a quiet situation. And the din of the battlefield with everybody contributing at one point or another, you've come across an obstacle or something that needs to be cleared. And wire cutters mean that you have to drop your weapon, handle the tool, whatever. So the logic was, well, for the price of a handful of cartridges,
Chances are you get through the obstacle a lot faster. Now the idea was interesting. It actually was, it worked, okay. In fact, of all the armies that worked it well, the Greeks did. They used the technique. And they actually trained quite heavily using it for breaching of field obstacles as part of their SOP, started their part of their SOP at one time. So anyway, just that one stupid little item was changed. Why? Because the troops asked to have it changed.
It's one of the few times where the military listened to the personnel in the field about what kind of problems we got and how can we fix them. And the flash hunter was the first thing that was changed, the list of things to change. So pretty interesting in and of itself. Something just so stupid simple as that, as small as that. Now guys, consider all the rest of your gear is the same way.
And this is why you need to be thinking ahead. Cross straps or extra straps need to be extra strapping. I know some people say cut it off. I don't go along with that because you never know when you're going to have something bigger to carry and where you're going to have to bulk stuff out. So what you do is roll those straps up and give yourself enough generous variance so that you can open and close whatever container system or quick release system you're using.
roll the other roll the rest of the strapping up and duct tape it or Again electrical tape. I know most people don't like to use duct tape, but you know what? Why have you seen good Chinese duct tape? Talk about planet crapoo It used to be we'd worry about duct tape because it was made by 3m or another American company And if you used it bugger wouldn't come off
But in this day and age, you're trying to China sport crapoo. Hey, there's all kinds of camouflage duct tape Just don't go crazy with it make a little band of it lock the strap in there you go You could do that, but electrical tape is what's been preferred. So take your pick You know, it's dealer's choice on that one. As long as this Chinese duct tape, it'll be crappy Well, the adhesive won't work that well. You'll probably end up having to replace it anyway. Okay
But you can get in camouflage. You can get in woodland, tiger stripe, atax, brown, green, loam, all kinds of colors. So that's pretty cool. Or you can go psychedelic bone colors and stuff like that. Yeah, get yourself shot. But anyway, other ideas or considerations here with regard to the whole idea of Sling No Sling is hanger systems, which by the way are kind of like a single point. Nobody really is
I talked about those in a while. They became popular in the early 70s. It was an idea that you actually had a hanger point attached to your web gear rather than as a separate suspension strap. This allowed you to hook the weapon for a moment to do some hands-free stuff without having to worry about dropping the weapon in muck mire or whatever else might be happening. This will be attached to you.
One point sling, yeah, it was not really a sling then, it was just a hanger, is all it is. The idea was promoted by, I guess, one of the ranger units years ago. The idea was probably a holdover from the Korean War. And it was something that had been done then because carbine was a big weapon at the time. And no sling rifles. The schools were divided back then the same way. No different from Vietnam.
So, other things, we're all, we got a little bit of time here. Another thing real quick, I mentioned those pistol magazines. Well, I mentioned pistol magazines. Over at CDNN Sports, you may want to check to see about some of the deals they've got. There's some magazine bundles over there right now. And also over at CenterFireSystems.com. I already mentioned them because of the AK mags, but there are some other package deals that they have. I think we got Father's Day coming up.
So, for Papa's Day, they must have, you know, they've got some ideas. It looks like there's going to be a bunch of other things added. Again, I would take the time and go through the inventory. Also, beware, something I've noticed. There's a bunch of propaganda about 380 Auto. Okay?
It's rather fascinating because it's kind of like oh, this is nowadays if you do videos it's like the latest magazine and gun article in guns and ammo or something And it's those 380 stop. Let's stop anybody. Is it the stopping power you need? It's like, okay Wait a minute back up here. The 380 Auto has been carried specifically by a whole lot of different countries including the United States more than a few times It was more than successful in its for its purpose it originally of course in Europe is called 9 millimeters Kurtz
It is, well, some people say anemic by comparison, 9mm Parabellum, but 9mm Parabellum was supposed to be an ultra hot round for the SMGs. But for pocket pistols and personal defense, .380 was considered to be a good choice. And one of the reasons the Europeans liked it and of all cartridges, .32 ACP,
is police in Europe did not want to shoot the guy they weren't shooting at when they were shooting at someone.
What? Well 380 and 32 if you shoot somebody you're planning on shooting the bullet doesn't typically ice pick through and Hit the person behind the person you were shooting at or maybe you know half a block down the road You know burrow into somebody else like a 9 millimeter wheel or actually go through one two or three city blocks Worth of stuff which we've had happen in Detroit
So, the 380 for friendly areas of activity probably is a very good choice. I know that everybody loves Dirty Harry, we all do, but as I said many times, better a good solid hit where you want it and also not shooting people you didn't want to shoot. Now, why would I bring that up? Well, this is the age of litigation on top of everything else.
So the argument here about how, well you need a, you know, you're 380 years and isn't gonna work for you. If I have to shoot somebody who's crazy town wielding a knife, if ButcherDiphen has already chopped that other person up and has turned at me with the frothing mouth and the crazy eyes, I would like to have someone blow his head clean off the shoulders, you know, Dirty Harry.
However, that's probably not what I'm going to carry. And there's another reason I'm unfortunately castrated and lobotomized in most cities to a limit is because A, I don't want to have to worry about hitting somebody else that's friendly. And B, you are going to be castrated, lobotomized, and persecuted if you do defend yourself. So you're minimizing the have to.
In fact, you're minimizing possible collateral damage. It's like, why do you use number eight or eight and a half or nine shot for home defense? Because it's gonna tear the snot out of whoever you shot, but it's gonna stay right in the room or right in the house. It's not going anywhere, which is kind of nice, because you don't hit the neighbors with whatever it is you're using. Now, it doesn't mean I'm telling you, you can't use all the other guns you got. Oh, hell no.
But I will say something I've mentioned a million times for 30 years on the air and many more times in training with training people. Watch your backstop. You know what your backstop is. See, let me give you an example. Holland. What? Holland? Yeah, Operation Market Garden. Have you ever studied the battlefield of Holland during Operation Market Garden?
Not many Dutch people died in the streets in that conflict or died in their homes and they were died randomly wherever they just happened to be. Not because they were shot by the Germans, although again, could have been a German shooting you. Problem is the real estate is as flat as a pancake. The only good thing is a lot of it was bricks, so that slowed down penetration on a lot of stuff.
But when you're using 8mm and 30-06 guys, you'd be shooting at somebody in front of a house in one location, bullet a go right through, go through the next house, go through a person, go through the next wall, go out that, hit a person in the street. Bodies were randomly laying everywhere in Arnheim. If you see actual pictures, not the movie, the movie's, what is it, Bridge Too Far? Is a good movie in representing the battle. But...
The battlefield is much more with the exception of a few times of the show of stacking bodies It's much more a cooth Than it should be it's kind of like when they show you the norm and the invasion The Dutch weren't shot by just the Germans the British were using 303 end fields and we're using an m1 Garand and 30-06
If you were moving around, that lateral fire threw a fence, threw a wall out to the other direction. This is another reason they used to have, again, when you used an air raid siren because of overhead bombing, the air raid siren wasn't so much to protect you from the bombing, though certainly it was a good idea to take cover. But remember, whether your air force and your army were throwing crap into the air, and what goes up will come down.
So until you heard the all clear and the all clear was not based on, oh the jerry plains are all gone. No, it was the last of the flack crap is finally settling down and landing on your roof or in your backyard or straight through your car. Just because you set a shell up didn't mean it exploded. You got a 70 pound shell that went up and it came back down.
Which is why he wanted overhead cover. It's not so much from the bombs It's from well the bombs and go ahead and fill in the blank Where were they shooting up the aircraft with or at each other within the air? And even some of the aircraft coming down the same is true with urban warfare Now I will tell you again. I prefer grossly overpowered cartridges, which is why the out six is my friend But understand the issues and some of the things need to be taken into consideration. This is why sandbagging
This is why I love brick structures. This is why you add additional materials to reduce bullet perforation slash penetration. And it's all stuff you need to be thinking about for in the future. But right now, these 380 Auto articles that are out there, there's been a bunch of them. And what is they're trying to ridicule so that, well, you'll drop your 380 Auto. If you got a 380 Auto, keep it. It's paid for.
Save up some more money buy another gun guns are for buying not for selling and that little 380 pocket pistol actually is designed for exactly I just said it's nice that you those little pocket pistols were out of the way Most of them are smooth. You know they were slick sided so that they don't hang up on stuff It's why they call them a pocket pistol and easily drawn now if you have a few other little modifiers very easily drawn
And again, you're putting the bullets on target, hits count, misses down. So I've told you before, aim low, go slow. Start with the crotch and dump the whole mag. If you don't think that round's hot enough, hey, aim for the crotch. Keep pulling trigger until you stop. Mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag, mag
So, again, I will point this out also. I know the first thing that everybody says is turn to a specialized round. You know, in other words, a hollow point or a soft point. You can do that. One of the solutions for all the smaller calibers and even the standard calibers, I might remind you of the first real big super expanding hollow point was Superbell. Now, there were other companies, but Superbell is the one everybody remembers because they took the market.
The problem with supervel is they wanted to get as much expansion as possible out of every round. So unfortunately, most every gun that could, you know, if you wanted to try and use a supervel in any of your semi-automatic pistols, you had to throw out the pistol.
Had to polish the feed wrap and throat the chamber so that the round would seat more efficiently it would be picked up because that big but hollow point was almost a straight tube not quite but almost and You could have malfunctions and loading which did happen with certain pistols So there's an advantage to having the expansion capability, but you lose the ability if it doesn't do any good if the round doesn't load
Which is why I, my friend, Mr. Ball-Rout is still your best choice and nowhere to put the bullet. And again, aim low, go slow, hits, count, misses, don't. Better to hit him and keep hitting him. Trust me, you blow their gonads out, I don't care who you are. I don't care who you claim to be. You take two, three rounds into the crotch and blows the weenie point off and plus one of the oysters, maybe two. All in the world has just changed.
The world has just changed. Okay? And that's the thing that you want to, we want to make sure we strike fear into the enemy progressively as we fight. Aim low, go slow. By the way, the enemy is, if you get hit in that area, there's so many points of damage that it's most likely your aggressor is not going to survive.
And again, enough shock trauma. Well, they might respond. They might, but I'm going to follow up. Maybe I can still bring the barrel up. And now that I got their attention and got them pretty well locked into location, bang. Now they can't dodge. You really don't feel like it. Then you put the last bullet where you want to. But 380, 32, 25. If anything, you think they'd be whining about 25. Because 25 is still out there. But instead, they're really targeting 380 auto.
almost like they wanted to say I'm waiting for whenever I see this to a degree I'm expecting some kind of sacrifice move when the next gun grab thing comes. Well, how about if you let you take the Saturday Night Special guns like the 380s and the 32s they just want to take the Saturday Night Special handguns. Oh, okay. Yeah, go ahead and screw those guys. I don't have one. Go ahead and screw them.
Don't forget there's method to some of the madness not everybody that's out there in gun circles is for the firearms owner In fact just like HK. He don't like you HK hates the American gun owner if they can strip you of every gun you got HD do it 15 minutes ago
They're a police state, cop oriented operation and that's the center of the universe. Well wait Mark, you just said PTR 91, you guys love those. Yes I do. And if I can find more, I'll grab them. But the fact of the matter is that it's not because HK provided them to us, is it?
It's an HK pattern rifle, but it was PTR, which is an American company which bought a Portuguese factory that made that rifle happen. And one of the reasons it's most affordable is because in the render revolution market, all the spare parts were giveaway. So it's that perfect storm where we virtually rebuilt the G3 HK91 inventory in the United States from all of the leftover parts, from all the HKs that everybody else got rid of.
Isn't that amazing? And we put those MBRs back in line and now they're with us. And we know how to use rifles. So makes it a very valuable tool in the toolbox, but not because of HK. HK has done everything to make guns that we can't have. And then produces guns you can't get parts for that were made for the American market. We made these special old civilian versions of something, sometimes not even civilian versions, just a gun.
And after they built it, you couldn't even buy magazines. Spent $1,400 on a light rifle and you can't get a magazine for it or a bolt gun. You can't get a magazine for it or even some of their little carbine pistols that were kind of lookalikes. Guess what? They built a civilianized copy in a totally alien plastic color. Remember those came out in the 80s? Totally alien to everything. And you know what? They're totally alien.
Can't get parts can't get magazines if you bought it and paid that top dollar for the HK What it's great to sell to a collector. It's all good for her You got one sell to a collector mark doesn't normally say that about guns does he yeah? No, it still doesn't mean this only guns. Oh many guns a producer good when we capture them. We will use them
But we'll try to keep them together because they're not going to spare parts anywhere. Anyway, we're at the top. For everybody out there, we're going to hear the music in a minute. It is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon. But if you don't take care of your hind end, you can have all the at-the-air-old chant your mantra, go to the center of your universe, fox. It won't do you a darn bit of good when you're dead. So you need to be physically prepared to fight. Anyway, again, we should be hearing the music. We are at the top.
I hope I'm hooked up. You never know. Well, you are listening to us on Liberty, excuse me, oh wow, libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org. It is Wednesday. By the way, real quick weather report, bottom of Michigan, partly cloudy, temperature hot but not unbearable, lots of sunshine. I got a nice sunburn out there working on technology today all day.
Stayed outside all day So for everybody again pay attention the bugaboos are out if you're gonna be training this next weekend We have a combination of now warm. We're in the summer Bring the bug net mosquito bars make sure you got your bug repellent whatever you're gonna plan on doing better Make sure that you walk it over and put it in your backpack with your equipment. That's going out for the weekend serious
Halfway there, you're gonna all gotta have to go buy some more. How about instead use the inventory you got, use it up, and still maybe buy some more because you're gonna need it. That'll work out well for you. Anyway, make sure. And I'll tell you what we're gonna do here in the meantime, is just to be safe, since it'll be here. I'm gonna have dinner with him.
A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The 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 a number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize family farms 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 put. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?
Oh, 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 torch of freedom bright. As I awoke, he 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? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the afternoon in Pellegence Report. I am R. Kornke.
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libertytreeradio.org and we're on satellite and we'll say hi to our merchant raid operators out there. It is weapons Wednesday. It is the 14th of June. We're almost halfway through the month. This is the end of the second full week of June. So you'll put in gardening in all kinds of fun stuff today. In fact, overlapping with overlapping and tactically painting stuff. You know, paint your eyes all on its own. All you gotta do is get it on something.
then on to other projects. So a busy, busy 14th of June, 15th year of open, obvious and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2023 old earth calendar, 2023 battle for the Republic, the dance of swords. And again, a beautiful day outside. It's partly cloudy, 50 50 with pregnant little clouds. It looked like they want to rain on us, but not
typical for this time of year in Michigan and the kind of Michigan I grew up with back in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s and in fact rainy summary thing of course every once in a while we're in the Great Lakes we better expect that back assume the worst you won't be disappointed we never are
So, it is Weapons Wednesday. A couple of the things here real quick. You know, we mentioned the HKs, and yes, if you can get a PTR in any one by one. If you do, start buying mags, there's still a certain quantity of surplus mags out there, but there have been enough PTRs built that there are about five or six companies making their own HK91 7.62x51 NATO magazines.
So you do have a couple options, but I recommend those military mags simply because those are the people who built the gun. They built it for the German military initially. One neat thing about German stuff, especially goodness-ware, is that it is dated. It's serial numbered and dated. There's bad, by the time they're done after World War II, they're as bad as the British.
as far as being in-retentive control freaks with serial numbers and identification. So even your magazines are dated. So if you have an actual HK with all the stuff that came in, you could collect magazines literally built to the same year and make up a complete collection of everything. Web gear, magazines, cleaning kits, everything that would be dated to the rifle if you're patient. If you look around long enough, it's out there.
And another thing to remember, they're both aluminum and steel. The aluminum were built to lighten up particular combat loads. But remember, the policy was traditionally that the basic combat load was four magazines and one in the weapon.
So that was the basic utility combat load, web gear loadout for most of the early to middle days of the Bundeswehr. Now does that mean that the average soldier probably just carried five magazines? No. Very quickly everybody would be accumulating whatever you could and adding more to bread bags or additional mag pouches or whatever. But if you look at the basic German web gear for the period, post World War II to the 70s,
You'll notice that in the basic suspension gear, before they went to their large format German specific tactical gear, that the mag pouches, you typically have them in the standard hanger configuration that you see with the K98, only instead of three pockets with so many stripper clips per pocket, depending on which year it was made and what service it was for.
You had two single magazine pockets. These pouches are still available from Sportsman's Guide. Everybody's got some. Royal Tiger Imports still carries all of the original, both in the striated nylon and also in the rubberized cast magazine pouches.
Each pocket holds one. What are those good for? Well, I mentioned before one of the things that I've done with a couple of rigs, and in fact I was just working on them yesterday, but I've got to broach another box to get more of the mag pouches out, is to take the side-by-side single mag pouches and use them vertically up the suspenders on the older type M-1.
1956 TA56 Web Gear. If TA58 works really well too, the TA58 Brit, all of these are very serviceable systems, but you can modify them. And once you have all these other foreign national pieces of equipment available, and we're not bound by authorized equipment tables or anything like that,
You can come up with a lot of different ways to carry additional magazines that keep them close to the body, allow for minimal additional girth, which is nothing I always have taken into consideration. Still want to be able to get close to the ground, but one way or another you can access those additional mag pouches, depending on how you have to lay or how you have to drop down, and they're readily available. So you carry the magazine pouches in the normal stations on the belt, but you add a couple of those, basically like the
airborne rigs that you saw the German paratroopers and some British paratroopers use it had the same idea. The suspenders actually had an add-on series of pockets that were done in a yoke. So they hung around the neck and then you bound them, tied them to your web gear, and it gave you that much more additional, that many more stripper clips of 8mm or 303 British, depending on who you were.
Anyway, ideas and these mags are, the mags that are out there, none of them are, there's none of them that are not serviceable. I would point out that most of these mags have never been shot. They've never been used. They were literally, in many cases, up until where the company that just got hold of them had to unpack them. Most of the magazines that the importers brought in were virtually still in
five mag blister pockets or in 10 mag bundles. It depends on what year they were packed for the Germans. I've seen every variation. There's one that's eight. I don't know why. But it's, you know, some are white paper, some are foil wrapped, some are oil paper wrapped. All of them are good. All of them work and are serviceable. I mean, so again, the only thing there is do you like a certain year, a certain date? Now,
If you're trying to line it up, needless to say, the aluminum mags are one of the ways to go. If you are not concerned with that, the steel is preferred, my attitude, steel is preferred. You can fix the steel. You can't fix the aluminum. What? Well, you can heliarch it. Ah, let me tell you a little story about the German military and HK. And it's not a story, it is a fact.
Years ago, HK mags weren't really outrageously expensive because we could still get them from Europe. Guys are smuggling them back with their military surplus junk when they were coming out of service. And one of the guys bought an HK and we thought, oh, we got a damaged magazine. Well, we can fix that. We'll just take it over to the shop. We're going to heliarch it. So we hooked everything up. We touched the contacts.
and pulled the trigger, so to speak, and the magazine eroded like it was hit, like a sugar cube hit with water. In other words, rather than adding material and sealing up this little crack that was on the edge of the aluminum magazine, because there weren't any back then like you have now, it literally disintegrated before our eyes, almost like it was made out of magnesium or something. Well, it might as well have been, because here's the problem.
After a certain year, and forgive me, I believe, 64, 60, oh no, 65, 66, the Germans, when they were making their HK aluminum mags, changed material intentionally, and it turns out that they actually did it so that the magazines couldn't be repaired. What?
Well, HK is a bastard and they do market to other countries. So if they sell you a bunch of aluminum mags because they're lighter and they're the latest and you don't know that you can't fix them because they didn't tell you that they changed the aluminum that they were using for folding up the magazines to make the mags, then you would end up with a little bit of a surprise if you're in that third world country that barely could feed its people but armed its military with G3 assault rifles.
The people in the know put the finger to the side of the nose would expect to buy steel magazines Those who were looking to try and impress somebody went with the aluminum and it actually forced them to repurchase from HK well and by the time this actually got into really became an issue Here's what's funny by the time they did that HK had done enough contract work that they had other manufacturers building HK G3s
Pakistan was one of them. Pakistan wasn't an asshat the way the Germans were, so all of their magazines were affixable. Even their aluminum ones, they went with the original spec for material, and lo and behold, they could be tanked back out or they could be heliarked. But the German ones, oh, if you had the German ones, you were screwed.
That doesn't mean you're screwed now. I mean, after all, when you're getting the mags as cheap as you are, you don't really complain about that. You just, you live with it. You probably didn't know what I just told you about anyway, okay? And I will point out that the earlier mags don't have this problem in the aluminum. It's in the later aluminum model mags that they did this, and they did it for marketing purposes. HK, why did they do this? Because they hate you. Yeah, that's why.
So anyway, just a heads up, but otherwise buy all the mags you can. If you got a PTR 91 or if you do have an HK or maybe one of the Pakistani models. I just mentioned Pakistan. There are a bunch of semi-automatic Pakistani manufacturer HK 91 slash G3 knockoffs that are in the US. They're semi-only. Some came in during the, of all times, came in when they had the
the first part of the weapons man, the quote-unquote assault weapons man. So these rifles have the thumb hole stock system, etc. on them. Now, don't poo-poo that, the rifles work fine, and by the way, they're heavy. Well, the neat thing is it makes for a good placement shooter rifle. So, I wouldn't even change the weapon or try to take the stock off or reconfigure the gun. I wouldn't even bother. I would instead dress the gun up a little bit more and add a significant bipod, a decent bipod.
and build the weapon up as a marksman slash placement shooter rather than as just the regular infantry rifle. That's basically how we dealt with the rifles of the Pakistani HKs when we run into them. And there are quite a few, more than I expected actually out there. So anyway, just ideas, not just complaining about the problems, buy more mags, and then when you're done, buy more mags, and when you're done again, buy more mags. Look for the best price, cheapest price, you'll never lose a penny.
because everybody forgets or thinks, well I got two or three mags, that's enough. When that happens down the road, you're gonna have to correct that malfeasance. Now of course that's a toss of the coin. Maybe the person who still thinks they only need two or three mags is a person who probably won't be around for very long. Not because they got themselves shot, but because they'll probably run. Just something to think about there. They weren't highly motivated to begin with, son.
So again, providing them with more mags might not be a good thing since they figure well, if they two mags or three mags and then turn and meet feet. Okay, well then you don't need more than two or three mags. You are still fighting, you'll be six hedgerows over before everybody realizes you're gone. So again, the idea is to spare for your friendlies and for people you expect to be able to hold their own when the time comes. That's what you're doing. Also, again,
There is a recall and there is a warning sheet out on the Turkish 308 ammunition We mentioned this whole month ago, but we really have to reinforce it that that notification is so out there There's people have not heard about it. You may want to go do a quick search. They do have the lot numbers identified and Again, this was a Turkish import not old old ammo, but rather relatively new manufacturer probably built for the
invasion occupation era of Iraq. I would point out that when we were over there in Iraq, when US forces were busy destroying the culture of Iraq so that they could walk away with rubble behind them, that's what the government of course intended, the Israelis intended to do. It wasn't our government. It was the Israelis and the Israelis that run Washington.
But anyway, if you pay attention, and I've pointed this out many times, we had 7.62x51 NATO coming from every country but the US. We had some, Lake City, but for the most part, any given unit or any vehicle, you could count British, Portuguese, Yugoslavian, Pakistani, 7.62x51 NATO in the cans on the roofs of like the Strikers. It would be a complete hodgepodge mix.
Now most of the ammo was again belt-fed for the rooftop ammunition for the coax guns or whatever and the security weapons. But that's why the Turks who of course were more than willing to sell ammunition, in fact if they bollocks it up they don't really care. And everybody will cover everybody's ass in wartime. So the only thing I have not seen is the head stamp on this ammunition.
But I would be rather fascinated if the ammunition turns out to be later Iraqi contract production. It was supposed to go to, you know, the quote-unquote occupation or American forces and the occupation group. And it maybe wasn't a boo-boo. The world being the way it is, just something to think about there. That happens a lot. More than you might think. So, this is something to think about because at a given point, in fact, preview partisan was cranking out tons.
ammunition for us for use in Iraq especially in the last you know several years and PPU was able to upgrade quite dramatically off of US tax dollars that way. We paid it we didn't pay an arm and leg actually got it for a better price. You might also recall because of that because PPU was then able to improve production that's why we have all this M230 out 6 ball ammo from preview partisan.
They perfected all of their machinery and they have built up a massive skill base that was you know labors that already were very experienced but they focused on NATO and American Standard Ammunition and they rarely took the market. The only country that's really cranking out good quantities of M230 out 6 ball is Yugoslavia slash Serbia really with PPU.
And you can buy it is factory fresh It's about as new as you're gonna get which means we try not to shoot the PPU ammo We shoot the older stuff that we have and the PPU ammo is now top end of the calendar Retain it because it will be good for the longest period of time in theory on the shelf. We'll see what happens. So anyway Next see also
A couple of different 5.56 ideas coming out here shortly. I understand. I guess they're holdovers from the SHOT Show, but one of them is another AK-AR combo. What? Yeah, taking the best. Kind of like another manufacturer's Daewoo rifle. Taking the best features from the AK and the AR and combining them.
But this rifle has kind of been out there and then disappeared again and out there. Apparently I saw a little blurb. It may be out into the market. Now the interesting thing about this is this also is supposed to be a multi-caliber change-out rifle using so that you can use AR or AK mags. The variable geometry. There's a couple of rifles like this about what, eight years ago that came out.
They didn't catch on, partially it's probably because of the cost, as much as anything, but if you recall, you could change out the magazine well. Now I think the issue is also, you've got to torque down the lock points dramatically to make sure things don't loosen up, because that is an issue when you've got a part that comes off and another part that goes on. However, the idea was sound, and as a...
a prepper weapon or as a personal defense weapon covering the inventory of equipment that we have in the United States, it would kind of cover at least a couple of bases. If you could do 7.62x39 and 5.56 in the same rifle. Now you can do that with an AR-15 anyway. Pop, pop two pins, take that upper receiver off, put the other on.
There have been some arguments that the 7.62x39 extractor issue is still not completely settled on the AR-15 variants. If that is the case, you know the rule, just to be safe, you make sure you just buy lots of extractors to ensure that if one fails, the other one's ready to go. Now, the other consideration with that, if I were a tool and die or a machine man, and we do that,
would be to get the part and build it out of a much higher grade of material. In other words, you know, you spend money that you normally wouldn't. Guys, if you're willing to, you can build unbreakable parts. The only problem is the material that you need, and again, there's still some tempering involved, but the material you need, it's not unobtanium, but the prices are outrageous.
for the quality of the material that you would prefer to use. And again, guns have to be affordable. So they go with the standards in terms of both material and Rockwell, in terms of hardness, to get the job done. But it could be done. That's something else at the sidebar. We've had this discussion for decades on the air here. And it has been done with certain firearms. Let me give an example. We actually produce a
Brazilian Mauser firing pin CNC. Why? Well because we've got a ton of those Brazilian Mausers that came out. It's like the Argentine Mauser. The Argentine. The Argentine Mauser is bad for breaking extractors depending upon what your extractors were produced. So what happened? Well four different manufacturers started building brand new
extractors for the Argentine Mauser. It's a big ass extractor. Don't think this is a little extractor claw like you see on your AR-15. But the interesting thing is that the quality of the product is such that once you replace it, you never have to replace it again. And the companies that did the original work were actually
regular commercial interests that because the rifle was so dominant the Argentine Mauser is now kinda it's pricey anyway but again it used to be a $19.95 weapon through the mail or less depending on who you bought it from and again because of that there are a lot of them out there most of the Argentine Mauser inventory I won't say every last one but boy by God we bought a lot of them
America did, picked up most of the old inventory. So that's another rifle floating around that strangely enough, you could actually keep running for a while. Still can't. But we can also build the parts. There's nothing in a Mauser that's that complicated. It's actually quite grossly over-engineered, which is a good thing, the Model 98. But also clunky and monkey for parts. Anybody with some halfway decent skill can mimic pretty much every part that's on the rifle.
There isn't any reason they can't be done and with CNC work you can crank out as many as we need Just something that a project that other people have proposed Anyway, I tell you what we're doing We are at the bottom and I do not want to go any farther until we do the bottom of the hour weapon. They break This is my rifle There are many like it, but this one is mine My rifle is my best. It is my life shoots me before God
When you hear the red notes, what mind you man this fills In our valleys there's danger, and there's danger in our hills Oh, here you're not the singing of the view of the wild and free But soon you'll know the ringing of the rifle from the trees Oh, the rifle, oh, the rifle In our hands will prove no dry foam
You may ride a goodly speed, you may know it's a turn to master Your forward marks with speed, but you'll learn the back much faster When you meet our mountain boys And the leader just starts Glad you make what little noise and always hits the mark Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands we'll prove no strife
Personal arms for them.
master every one of them. You have total control and total access and if you fail, it's your own fault, nobody else's. You have the ability to perfect all of the expertise necessary to become top grade shooter and part of a militia element capable of resisting any and effectively defeating any force on the planet.
We have we don't have to ask permission for our weapons the perverts the queers the petals The Satanists are all demanding that you lock everything of course they are Wow, what a surprise who would have expected that you get you to castrate and lobotomize yourself What a surprise I would never have expected and they want to see how many Americans are actually such shallow hells that they would go along with it so Now we'll be slap them on that one and get you know get on with the you know proper mission
When it comes to training, again, remember Airsoft, they're attacking Airsoft again as far as trying to regulate it or regulate it out of existence. I will remind you that the whole concept of Airsoft began with the US military in the early 70s. In fact, it overlaps in the Vietnam War. They were looking for additional
supplemental training aids. It was a big push coming out of the Cold War, not out, but in the middle of the Cold War. Now the Germans went one direction. They went with shortened range training facilities and simulator model training facilities. You might have done this if you were in Germany, if you were a tanker. They had a series of 3D, before video games, guys, we had to make models. And they actually had little model city operations and you sat in a tank
observing through your vision block, but you were actually moving over a model, a diorama, a massive diorama. With live fire, the Germans also perfected plastic projectiles. Now, you've probably seen these. They popped up over at UNAMO about, what, four or five years ago, finally, again.
The base of the case is actually standard. The bottom end of the case was a metal base for the extractor and for the primer. But from about 1 1 8th of an inch beyond, only for about 1 1 8th of an inch was it metal. The rest of the case was plastic, actually a milky looking plastic. You've seen it in blue. You've seen it in the same cream white color as a milk carton.
They also gave it kind of a gray tint also, not just white, but there was a gray. I mean, obviously gray. Now, they're all collectors items, by the way. If you're a cartridge collector, you probably already know this anyway, there are certain specific dates. Early production is, of course, most interested by collectors because you want first of. But the idea behind this is that a very minimal charge using a standard primer
would activate the powder charge. It would propel this lightweight ball round plastic bullet down range and it would cut paper. Now basically you were working in what was called a thousand inch range or you would call it a 25 yard range. The idea is that all targets were scaled to appropriate range based upon using
the 25 yard range indoors. Now this meant that all of your battle rifles, all of your squad guns could actually be used in indoor ranges. In outdoor was very safe, didn't have to worry about street projectiles going down range and visiting the urban areas. That was one solution. Well the military had several others, of course our government has more money and brains always, but what's interesting is that Airsoft was perfected for the military.
Unfortunately, as you can see, because the basic action does shoot a projectile down range, it ejects a little plastic pellet, the military solution to controlling this was to put it in the arsenal in the armory with everything else. That killed the program because
The logic was if you're going to go through all the trouble of calling the police, informing the MPs, unlocking the main doors, getting into the inner chambers, calling to confirm that everything is secure, and then finally going from one locked door to the next, and then bringing out only what was requested and signing it out and inspecting it the same way you would a regular weapon except it was an airsoft gun.
They just kept them parked in the on the armory. Nobody wanted to pull them out. If you're going to do that, you might as well take your regular rifle out and give some time with it because otherwise you didn't get enough. That was the attitude. So anyway, what's interesting is the argument is that the program kind of faded. Well, it didn't. It would continue to be developed and all the while that they've been telling you that, oh, airsoft is useless. The government agencies
Many different government agencies have been using a more advanced version of Airsoft cartridge type gun live simulators and basically a splat and play kind of like mini mini paintball but with real firearms with conversion kits
But in between, they actually were using just basically the Aerosoft projector systems and they did it quite effectively. Used it for air traffic, or forgive me, for air police control slash air marshal work, you know, practicing in airplanes. You don't have to have bullets flying around in a training environment, but you did get a chance to have realistic, you know, again, you aim, you pull the trigger, you get a result.
You find out if you did it right, you did it wrong. That's why it's a training aid. So I cannot emphasize enough that if you have an AR-15, a 1911, a Beretta 92, the Glock, Smith & Wesson, doesn't make any difference. Even the car pistols. Car contracts a certain airsoft company to make car airsoft lookalikes. Most everybody does. HK does. All of them do.
So you can actually find, if not the exact model, one so close you won't know the difference because it might be one plus or minus the model you bought in terms of longer barrel, shorter barrel. But you can buy the basic Airsoft, which means you can train every day. Right now while you're listening to the program, you can be sitting there with a handful of loaded magazines, and even if you're sitting here, you can be sitting at a table.
You could be standing while you're listening, because obviously you don't need to have, I mean, depends on how you're listening to us, what you got, earmuffs or whatever. But guess what? No noise and took, took, took, took, took, and you could actually be practicing while you're listening right now. And taking seriously your performance. Reinforcing, reinforcing, reinforcing, reinforcing all the basics. So I highly recommend Airsoft in general. Needless to say, it's also good to help you to familiarize with other weapons you probably wouldn't buy.
MP5 is not going to be your first choice of weapons, but there's a ton of them out there. You'll be stripping them off enemy dead. There are even MP7s, and in fact the Maru MP7s, you'll never own an MP7. HK will never let those be handed over to the peasants here in America. But guess what? You can get an all metal and plastic proper simulator
to the MP7. In fact, there are several different models. Some are relatively cheap. Some are very expensive because some of these companies that make these Airsoft guns virtually laying on the table. You can't tell the difference between them and the actual firearm. The quality is that high. The Japanese take their Airsoft very seriously. That's why I mentioned always the Maru company. I don't know if they're still in business. I think them pretty sure they are. But a lot of good quality equipment is laying around out there.
Well, the advantage is, again, with certain weapons, this is what we've been doing for quite some time, is it gives you muscle memory and a visual familiarization with the weapon. There are many other weapons that are represented in Airsoft. M60 machine gun, Browning, BAR, Thompson, Barrett, and all of them, you can purely matter what you want to spend.
So you could actually create a training aid, a familiarization training aid for classroom environment that allows people to see, understand scale and basic performance of the weapon because you can give a class in each firearm. And you don't have to worry about anybody in any way, shape or form possibly harming themselves. Not to be your first concern because people are in your class you better have some accountability for.
But remember, any time you could increase the safety factor, there's kind of a handy solution here. And Airsoft allows you to train a lot more people in a shorter period of time and bring them up to a higher level of performance very, very, very quickly. And they on their own can reinforce that. Go ahead, caller, jump in there, please. Yeah, that's text, Mike. Yeah, hey, I just was going to go back to the surplus. A couple you didn't mention was
South African was coming in and Nigerian. I found that Nigerian was probably the more accurate and God I wish I wouldn't have shot it all. But it was extremely accurate. The other thing I wanted to say was that according to what you were saying, they're hoping with all these new laws and everything that the Americans will
will mess up their pants trying to get their guns turned in. If you look at the arm brace deal, it looks like they're not really going to worry about it too much. I mean, there's not a whole lot of arm braces being turned in. No, and even they're neither turned in nor actually papered. I don't even have confidence in their claim about how many people
signed up to register their rifles. Okay, I know that a certain number of people would be stupid enough to do that, but we're dealing with people who are commercial liars. They're back faggots, FBI, they're commercial liars. It's demonstrated before you just in the conversations that senators and congressmen are having with these word twisters.
So in reality, what they don't want anybody to hear is that pretty much everybody's decided, well, why don't you just come and take it? Let's just see what happens. You may have come out, because they've been coming out to try and see one of the other reasons that they came out, you know, a text message, you've probably seen these videos. We're here to check on you because, uh, uh, one of these pistol braces and they get nothing but attitude.
And they're realizing this, that's feedback that goes back to the management. Now, these aren't your average person that are also giving them the negative feedback. Normally these are people that in fact usually deal with quote unquote law enforcement and other situations. Or with the military and their attitude is, you know what, I'm not gonna talk to you, I don't have anything to say to you, I'm gonna just piss off, eat feces and go back to where you came from.
But the fact that they came out was to try and intimidate number one, number two, to test the waters. Nobody would run up and go, oh my God, the Batpag could shoot him. You're taking these right now. Oh my God, you can have them. Go ahead, take them. First of all, I'm not going to tell you I got them anywhere I ever had them. That's a mistake right from the get-go. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know where you got the idea that I had them.
You know what, if I did I probably sold them because I don't really think much about them. Not anything I'm really, it was not my high pecking order list of things to be concerned over. So I have no idea. Now remember they're planning on thinking they're going to come back. It's not an if, it's just a when. And that's why like I said, what's going to happen here is people are going to say enough. And we just got to be ready to back them up when they say enough. Whoever does it says enough, we got to make sure that we pitch in.
And wherever we are, most people are probably not going to go somewhere else to pitch in. They'll just stay right where they are. Because we all know who's who in the zoo. So I don't see that. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah. And another thing I was going to say is that one of the deals that they want in their new gun laws was the waiting period, like the five day or 10 day waiting period. Well, I mean, they didn't get it in their last bill, or in a lot of states or not.
passing it, but they're doing it in what they call de facto. I just, if you remember the the K and E from Brownells, the polymer lower, I went ahead and bought one of those and I went ahead and bought it and had it sent to my local LFS and it seems like I got delayed and there was no reason for me to be delayed. I filled out all the paperwork, did everything right.
And it seems like this is pretty constant across the board. They're doing a five-day waiting period just by delaying you. Well, remember how they originally established this BS with the supposed, oh, it's never going to be an infringement, InstaCheck. If in so many hours they didn't respond, then you automatically got it, because otherwise they have no justification.
There's a reason the original argument was that, well, no, they'll use this as a de facto way to extend and retard the purchase of the firearm indefinitely. And we know that they have been doing this several years ago. We had a guy right here in Dexter, Michigan. I'll point this out. In fact, he's right there at the barber shop. Well, he's not now. Actually, he's gone now. But not dead. He's not doing that job anymore. He's on to other things.
But he said, yeah, he came, he went down to Cabela's and wanted to buy a bolt, both action rifle guys, we're not talking an AR, we're not talking an SKS, we're talking a bolt action rifle. And they denied the InstaCheck and they said, oh, it's delayed. So the next day he called down, he said, hey, is that thing done yet? And the guy was at the desk, was the kid that, well, younger guy that dealt with his issues.
with filling out the paper, he said, hey, let me tell you something. I'm not supposed to tell you, but you know why they blocked your sale? They've denied it. Because you're from Dexter. And he goes, what? He goes, yeah, they denied your sale because you are from Dexter, Michigan. Oh, what does that have to do with anything? Well, Marx and Dexter, Michigan. Yeah, guys. Now, by the way, that person was not affiliated with me.
But it's interesting that they actually had told me he said listen I'm telling you right now if they said that his weapon is denied because he is from Dexter, Michigan Now whatever other political hack, you know nonsense they might have had in their file We're not talking about a person with any criminal record. We're not talking about a person He doesn't have any background and he's as old as I am Okay
But they just arbitrarily because of location Denied him and that's not when this latest cycle that's been more than a few years ago now In fact, it's been five going on six years now. What does that tell you? You see so well just imagine that was with the berries a Toro slash that click basically in power back then
and leaving and Trump coming in, Trump coming in in the process and guess what? Now it wasn't Trump, it was the Batfaggots before they were doing that to him. But that doesn't mean the Batfaggots were in there under Trump, pretty different. We know they weren't, they were exactly the same. So yeah, you're absolutely right. I guarantee that they're just intentionally retarding it. First of all,
None of this garbage is supposed to exist in the first place Remember we were promised back in 1967 68 that nothing like this would ever happen. They lied Like they're not after your guns. Did you know that guys? They're not really after your guns except in Denver where they want to confiscate every gun in Colorado Every gun they want to ban all guns. Don't worry. They're not being arbitrary. They're just bad everything
Which to me it's like yeah you go ahead I think the move in California cater communists just need to have their ass shot anyway along with whatever communists you've got there in Colorado And the same is true for the rest of the country We've waited we forgive us should have shot their ass at 94 95 and been done with it And I'm serious about that we had the ability we should have just pulled the trigger We'd be through with all this you know we did we'd have cleaned the house out be done now We're still gonna have to do it. We have more than the ability to
We have the capability, but it's not only everybody goes a little older now. Yeah, well congratulations So were the guys who fought the American war for independence. They were actually an older bunch too Everybody seems to forget what Washington said about his troops. My army is made up of old men and young boys Yeah, ones who stuck around Congratulations get over it work with it
Anyway, we're almost to the top here. One more thing. Let's see, I mentioned, I didn't. JgSales.com, JgSales.com. Guys, go down to JGSales. It's like I'm going to Arizona. They're in Arizona, by the way. But go down. Go over to your internet link and punch in JGSales.com. When you go there,
Go over to the accoutrements accessories. There's a subsection in there which is military surplus. You want to go through there and look to see what deals he made recently. Now, the gentleman has been doing business for a very long time. In addition to the surplus, you're also going to want to go take a look at the inventory of trade-in police material. There's a bunch of interesting holsters.
that he had listed. I don't know what the total is, but these are really useful for a lot of you guys. For instance, M&P holsters, Glock holsters, tons of Glock holsters now. And a bleed of Sig, since we know Sig's been around forever, like Sig P226. Hey, it's been the government mass shooter weapon of choice for how long? Well, almost forever.
So the Sig P226, there's a bunch of accoutrements coming out for that and JG Sales is one of those crossroad surplus companies. They do a lot of trading and wheeling and dealing with police departments and they do have some good buys, especially for the Model 92. And people ask about the Model 92 before, go over to JGSales.com, see what they have left. The stuff's gonna move quick because he's not putting crazy prices on anything.
So, if you're looking for a decent holster, Buckheimer, Sierra, just watch everybody. It can be anybody. It can be anybody's company. And that's a matter of what the department purchased. Now, another thing, needless to say, if you want to round that out, go over to bowtash.com. And they're another company that does big trade-in police material.
And they do have a couple of really interesting large lots of magazines right now. If you have Jericho's, the Israeli made, Israeli military industries, IMI, the Jericho or CZ-75 pistols, they have a ton of regular factory magazines right now.
So you're probably going to want to go take a look at that and see what else might be in there. There were some, oh, actually it's a chunk of change. But if you're looking for Kevlar, if you're looking for vest inserts, vest replacement, or vest panels, if you go in there and look in the Lots section,
There are a couple of large blocks of used body armor available. Now, you've got to watch it. Some of it is already sold out. They should pull it from their post, but they don't. Because it's a one-time deal. I don't know why it sticks around. But anyway, in the scroll, I found two different lumps of body armor. And one of them was about $600 and some dollars. The other was $995. But you're talking a lot of body armor. OK, you're talking a lot of panels.
So if you're wanting to upgrade and or do some unique work example, let's say you wanted to armor up a car like we're talking about like the seats. Remember we've discussed this before, if you got somebody who knows how to sew, you can make some really nice wraparound armor panel hangers that would hang on the seat and allow you to mount anything you want in terms of layers of body armor.
and this is threat level two, but also there's some threat level three. The manufacturers are identified in the lot. And again, if you're doing maybe some unique replacement work, remember there's a lot of Polish, Czech, French, and Italian armor carriers in the assault rigs that you want additional panels. You're gonna need panels to fill that up. Well, take a look at that big pile of stuff that's sitting there. And if you're a unit that's gonna
do a bunch of this, that might be your solution sitting right there. Call Botash and ask, hey, what's in that batch? You know, if you have a conversation with them, don't just think, I can't talk to them. First of all, you're interested in buying a big block of something. So if you're gonna do that, you're spending your, as a customer, you're spending a chunk of change. So amazingly enough, they will talk to you. So find out what they have and see if it makes sense for you.
And that's Botash.com, Botash.com, and one more time, JGSales.com, JGSales.com. And JGSales also has revolver speed loaders. I always want to mention that because don't you get rid of your revolvers. Just buy more speed loaders. Lots more speed loaders, just like lots more mags and also ammunition.
Oh, on another note, Palmetto State Armory, Palmetto State Armory, they also have some die deals, reloading die deals. You're going to want to go check and see what's left. I don't know how much of what. One batch was RCBS, one leg of it. And the other, I believe, were Lee, but I'd have to double check that again. And that is over at...
Palmetto State Armory dot com. Palmetto State Armory dot com. Great company to deal with. Trying to get everybody armed. Let's make sure we make that happen. Palmetto State Armory dot com. Now we're almost to the top. We're gonna be just a minute here and we're gonna be hearing the music. For everybody out there, Craig from Forbidden Knowledge is coming up next. Don't forget Craig has copper rounds. Don't know what he has left, but I know he has some.
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Weapons Wednesday, it is the 14th of June. It is, of course, the third hour of the Intel Report. It is the 15th year of Open Obvious and In Your Face. Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K2023, Old Earth Calendar, 2023 Battle for the Republic, The Dance of Swords. Let the dance continue. We'll make sure that happens. We'll be playing music.
Overhead clear and probably going to be cool tonight, medium temperatures. Cloud coverage at the northeast and to the far, far, far, far south way out on the horizon. So it cleared up. We had intermittent cloud cover through most of the day, but still good and sunny and plenty of sunburn potential. For all of you out there, again, pay attention when you are out during the day. Break out that sombrero or that rice hat.
and use it. Oh yeah, actually I do. I have a couple of different rice hats here. The traditional Southeast Asian headgear. And actually, I've always watched for sombreros whenever I see them. Remember, when people have to make stuff by hand, let's remember something. They don't do anything more than they absolutely have to. So understand the very intelligent process of the design of the sombrero.
Okay, and the Serape by the way, both of those combined are all weather clothing. Something you should understand. And by the way, in both cases, the interesting thing is that moisture would be involved in keeping you cool. Why? Well, kind of like Navajo air conditioning, the wool Serape, when you get it wet, what happens, you put a little bit of water on it, just like when you put water on the
Wool sidewalls of a traditional Western canteen you ever notice how they got cloth on each side Well, that's wool. Why is that? Sorb's water retains it efficiently and the process of convection takes place which is a really amazing thing and The water is chilled by the process of convection With the serape, you know ponchos you want to call it that but it's a serape Do the same thing
You wet it down and the natural convection it pulls the heat from the body. Now with the sombrero, well, what's the purpose behind that large helm type center? Well, once again, who says you wear it dry? You don't talk much about that. It's a cooling system. Allows for more air circulation. Remember, what's the first rule if you understand out military operations, especially in a thermal environment?
90% of your body heat it leaves through the top of your head like a chimney of course naturally it's great for keeping the brain from freezing because the body you know all the heat goes up 98.6 but guess what look at some of these designs you realize there's method to the madness there in fact there is no madness simply method okay
So, these tools are useful, use them, especially when we can improvise, adapt, and overcome at our own pace. It is Weapons Wednesday, a couple things here also. I mentioned JGSales.com. JGSales does have speed loaders, but there is a couple other deals. There are a couple of other deals. One of our friends was looking for Beretta 92s. I don't know how long you're going to last or who these sources are. Usually it's one surplus jobber.
But there are some goodbyes, or were as of this morning, with regard to some Beretta 92 American police trade-ins apparently. So you might want to check JGSales.com and also go jump over to CDNN Sports. Now, here's the thing I would point out, classic firearms is another good one.
These people are all buying from the same source. So the one thing to remember is you do want to shop around because everybody has different reasons for whatever markup they dictate to the product. But some places are obviously paying attention to the other guy's price and so they will beat them. You want to go through all the inventory and look to see what makes the most sense. Remember about four years ago there was a ton of Beretta foreign imports.
Model 92s, but they were the euro pattern differences where the magazine release is located and Good guns so many people probably have them. There's nothing wrong with them in fact again Standard contract Berettas military issue or a police issue in some cases of the European but
And also, by the way, not just European, but could be from the Mediterranean anywhere. Italy and France sell a whole ton of stuff because the northern part of Africa. But it is no different from any of the others. That's one of their major markets for public and private sales, okay? But police shops and military, yeah, they do a lot of dickering and trading back and forth. And if they don't, they sell it out new and somebody else picks it up used because they come in with another deal.
But go look at classicfirearms.com, classicfirearms.com. One nice thing there is you go through the pistols real faster. With CDN and sports, a little more to dig out their page, but they do have some goodbyes. And then jgsales.com, but JG sales, very straightforward. You go to the pistol section, they have it all subdivided. You can see what's there. Also, don't forget to go look at their gunsmith specials.
Because some of the stuff they have there, it's not mechanically a problem, but may not look very pretty on the outside. This is also true of a bunch of the stuff that's over at CenterFireSystems.com. There are a ton of pistols. I do not know where they got them from. Some of them look like they were hit by, they were carried by a soldier who was close to one of the aliens in the movie Aliens when it got hit, right? Acid for blood, man.
But varying condition and varying prices, some quite extreme because the guns are a little more difficult to get, but there are some interesting and useful buys over there. But you got to go through a lot of images and they have many, many of these used turn-in handguns. Don't know where they came from, haven't had time to check.
So that's a worthwhile project too for someone if you're trying to round out and add more weapons of the same kind you may already have in your inventory to your units collection or for your personal collection. Something to think about. Also, somebody's asking me, you know, because they know I like the pythons and I have shot and I've owned a lot of pythons, cold pythons. Would you choose one of those today? Well, I would if it was reasonably priced, but...
Colt pythons have become just like you know classic corvettes or classic Porsches the problem is depending on what they call more classic The price is basically just not acceptable for what it is if you're a collector. I'm sure But these are guns that over-the-counter the Colt always commanded a higher price. I will say that yes, I would carry a python if you handed it to me to heartbeat a standard six inch weighted barrel
I've had brushed chrome, I've had chromed, I've had all the blue variants up to an 8 inch that I've used. Beautiful gun, by the way. Butter actions. But let me point something out, although here's the problem, that they're becoming too collectible now too. A trooper mark one.
a Colt Trooper Mark I. Now there's a Mark II and there's even a Mark III and I don't know if there's a Mark IV. I don't know. I didn't bother paying attention after that. But the Mark I is an excellent heavy barrel, heavy frame, classic Colt design, .357 Magnum typically, and the gun
is of comparable performance to the modern or the last model of pythons that are out there. And here's what's said, is that Colt Trooper Mark I was a production line gun. But the action, if you were to compare the action side by side to a new custom Smith, gun Smith tuned, and I mean Colt tuned, Python, the Trooper Mark I will typically outshine it.
So here's a consideration if you see a trooper mark one in the counter Over say it depends again. Oh, I'm not saying oh by the trooper. It's only $200 more than the Python Well, the pythons outrageous right now and the troopers more. No, don't do that That's not what I'm saying But if you can if you see a trooper mark one there you have to pull it out of the case and you look at it and Work the action and in fact do that Python trooper mark one side by side
You decide what might be more effective, especially if the trooper is like $200 less or even more. The trooper mark ones are not the sought after, but they are a cold, and there's only so many colds out there. But the trooper mark one will do everything that that Python will do. If it's typically, again, it's a mark one, it was made within a narrow window of time.
And they went on to the Mark II very quick, well not very quickly, but within a reasonable period of time and did upgrades and changes that were based upon customer interests and pressing the market the way that they did with the design. The Mark III's kind of level out, not a great step up over the Mark I and Mark II, purely mechanical changes that they decided would be better suited to production. But you will find that you can buy a Colt Trooper Mark I for a lot less on a Python.
And I know some people argue, well, it's not the same gun. No, actually, it's not true, because in many cases that trooper is going to be a better gun. I will tell you this, you used to buy them by the bucket, I mean, literally 15, 20 at a time for $65 apiece, as police traded, and sold a lot of them through a gun shop.
many many of them many many I go back to that well and dip as long as I could until they were all gone and I actually had them down when I bought 40 some pistols at one time got it down to $40 a gun I wish I'd kept half of them they're worth a hell of a lot more than that and they're worth more money than your dollar is in terms of banking investment okay so anyway the trooper mark wouldn't be good but Python sure and a heartbeat I know how to shoot it I know where it'll hit I know how to adjust everything for getting compensated accordingly
It's one of those guns that just hits eternal. There's no reason to not expect performance from the weapon. It's the shooter if there's a problem. Now, I won't say that with all Colts, because you know my epic story about the classic AR-15A2s that we had that were when the Italians had Colt. By God, we couldn't fix one of those guns. We couldn't fix with every spare part I had to change out in the tackle box.
And if you know my tackle box back in the day, it was a commercial industrial 5 tray with extra parts stacked on top of extra parts. And my God, the one we tuned up, but the other one just did not want to bite. They finally put it together well enough with replacement small parts, everything you can imagine, extractor, ejector.
everything had problems on the gun. And it's because the Italians took over, fired all of the Colt techs, or yeah, Colt techs, and then brought in off the street people that never put a gun together in their life. And it was a bad day for Colt. But, again, it still has the prancing pony on it. It was worth a chunk of change.
The other thing about the again the Python is there's plenty of leather out there So if you're looking at a revolver you can find actual police service leather Etc etc and this not outrageously priced. There's a glut of it. So that's cool Another one that is an odd man out in Smith and Wesson is the L frame. Nobody talks about anymore It was it was one of those let's do this by computer kind of like the 1990 91
Chevy pickup trucks. They were all done by computer with no proper testing. They had frame cracks immediately. They scratched the whole program, went back to traditional R&D with models and prototypes, real ones, and fixed the problem round about, well, with the next generation of trucks. Interestingly enough, there are a number of the options out there with the L-frame. They're still out there hanging around. If they've survived, they didn't have a problem.
There were some frame crack issues with some of the first production run, it's like everything else. Once something happens, doesn't make any difference if the company fixes it or not, you'll have this echo of discussion about how terrible the gun is because of fill in the blank. Even if it was fixed, even if it was a fluke odd thing that happened. Well, here, let me give an example of reverse on that one though. Glock had every one of its pistols fail multiple times.
in a window that we all remember, well if you do if you're in shooting circles, and now everybody's supposed to forget that. And they do, because they keep buying Glocks. There's none of this, yeah, but the barrels blew up because it did. It was so bad that Guns N' Amo did an article on the subject because every kind of Glock imaginable had a barrel failure and nobody knew why and Glock never told anybody.
The end result they really had to know I personally have always believed that that was industrial sabotage I don't think it was mechanical engineering failure I think was industrial sabotage at the factory end which is why they don't want to talk about it But anyway that happens they were trying to knock lock down and Glock didn't get knocked down good It used to got Glocks all over the place and so while you may not like the pistol and I'm not excited about a Glock
But I'd still have a whole bunch of them. If I were, you know, a pilot or if I was, you know, in the military, if I was flying, I'd carry three of them. I don't know if they allow you to. The Patty waist politically correct, communist, you know, purple haired queers and three dollar bill of petals in charge now. Yeah, probably not. That would make sure that, you know, your castrate lobotomized and have to speak in tenor no matter what you do just to appease the rest of the woke created pooftos that are in the military now. So anyway,
The other thing about the L-frame, again, lots of speed loaders, a lot of other police stuff laying around out there for the L-frame, if you know, if you just were patient, look around. The L-frame is way back in the taillights. It was brought into service about the 80s, and it came and went real quick, as far as, again, because of that little embarrassment with some of the problems they had in certain frames. Otherwise, pretty decent gun. It was, again, to replace or was supposed to
bump out of the way the end frame which still is around so obviously it didn't do that and It was supposed to bring the best features of the end frame of the K frame together Smith and Wesson model 10 model 19 from one end Smith and Wesson model the highwind model 27 from the other direction For model 20 if isn't 38 if you don't remember that one. So anyway Revolvers yes Python. Oh, yeah, but I don't you'll have a spare one to hand out, but I would use it. Yes
It's a matter of can you find one that's you know fits your wallet now if you're listening mean you have unlimited resources you won't care So yeah buy one why not the guns are for buying after selling pythons are a cool cool firearm Now I mentioned another gun there and one of the most common K frames Smith lesson model 10 There are more parts right now for the Smith and lesson model 10 hanging around in all direction than probably any single gun out there from history in terms of revolvers
It behooves you to, as we've said before, pick up a Smith Model 10 or a Model 14 or a Model 19 and a 357 Magnum, and then accumulate one or two of these parts kits. Now, CenterFireSystems.com has a bunch of these kits. Some of them are not cheap, though. The other company, though, that has been starting to pick up on whatever this inventory is and where it's coming from is ApexGunParts.com.
ApexGunParts.com. Every once in a while they have some of the same collections of kits. In other words, they may or may not have a barrel. Side plate, internals, grips, every small spring, hammer, etc. See your trigger, blah, blah, blah, the whole nine yards. So you might want to look at Apex if you've got, for instance, a K-frame inventory.
Also, barrels are more readily available than you might think and I brought this up the other day. Well, now it's been two years. Over the last couple of years, JG Sales had a handful of frame only 38 special revolvers. And these were, as I asked them, they were from Canada. They had to actually toss a handful of them or reject them.
because they had done some goofy procedure to get the barrels off. As long as they took the barrels off, and I'm sure the Canadians destroyed the barrels, then everything was fine. Now, I will point out, those guns could be put into service very quickly, and it's purely a flavor choice about which barrel you want. Apex Gun Parts, GunPartsCorp.com, Sarco,
everyone that sells barrels and even some that don't normally sell barrels but have gun parts actually have Smith & Wesson Model 10 barrels on the shelf. And so the neat thing is you can go for a 2 inch, you can go to a 4, a 3 inch, you get a 2, 3, 4 inch, and a 5 3 quarter and a 6 inch. So take your pick. I'd say that's quite a selection. Is the Smith & Wesson Model 10 a viable gun? Hell yes.
Not a real exciting weapon, but it was the utility bread and butter police and security service gun and go to personal defense gun for a lot of people. Millions and millions and millions of people. The gun itself has been around for 100 years, the basic K frame, really with no changes, except for chambering. And there are, again, a number of different options. You will find some odd man out.
import K frame model pens that came in from South America, both model 10s and model 14s. They were made by Smith. They're in cowboy calibers, which is like you're going to go, wow, what the hell is this? Well, those are the old cowboy calibers that were real popular with police and law enforcement south of the border. And so 2520, one of the really odd ones for a lot of people nowadays.
but a very hot, almost like a little light rifle cartridge in a revolver, 2520. Also, they built a whole bunch of lever guns in 2520. What does it make that lever gun? It makes it a real assault rifle, like a real mag, large, tubular mag, large volume capacity firearm. And it was very common to find a revolver, not necessarily a Smith Model 10,
and a cowboy lever gun in 2520 or 3220 regularly carried by people because you could carry buckets of ammo. It's kind of like the argument between the difference of a .308 or a .30-06 and a .556. Same as a .45 long cold or .44 Smith & Wesson versus the .32-20. But the .32-20 was a hot, flat shooter. Now I'm not saying you're gonna put on into those, but a bunch of those came in
to the same companies I was just talking about several years ago because they brought this stuff in from South America. So they are floating around. So beware and always look carefully at the guns that you're thinking about buying. Now would that be a good purchase? Well if you're a collector, but again 25, 20, and 32, 20 are both odd man-owned cartridges. They're still out there. You can still buy them. Cowboy cartridges, I mentioned that. So you can buy those from
Most of the cowboy shooter programs, you know, they've got they'll be led which is what they were anyway mostly they will be obviously brass case but you know real rich brass case and They're gonna be expensive Because their cowboy cartridges not because they couldn't make them cheaper because their cowboy cartridges. We've watched this for quite a few years It's like well, that could be a lot cheaper couldn't it? Yeah, but it's special. It's not that special
So anyway, K-frames, yes. The other thing here too is a great gun to bury. Revolvers have, you know, or lend themselves towards effective storage. The big thing here is same rules apply with your revolver as it does with the automatic. Separate everything that you can in terms of obviously ammunition. You want to incorporate speed loaders. You can put together like I said a model 10 for as little as $160 right now.
And if they're still available, you can buy brand new Model 10 knockoffs from the Philippines in either a two inch or a four inch. My recommendation, K frame and a four inch whenever possible. Two inch only because nothing else is available. And it would be a good weapon to have because you don't lose the brass, you don't leave brass behind. You're collecting everything you can except the bullets. You put it in whatever you put it in. And that's a happy situation.
common sense, happy situation. Something to think about there. Well, we're at the bottom. Before we go any farther, first we have our traditional weapons Wednesday, bottom of the hour break, because it's that time. Didn't take very long to get there. Also, again, reminder, it is weapons Wednesday. If you get a chance, also go over to Center Fire and check out their clearance and specials right now.
They do have some surplus items they have not had before. Should have mentioned that sooner because there are some sizes that are pretty big. Good sizes. So for those of you looking for certain items, you might want to meander over to Centerfire Systems and look at their surplus and then take a look at that revolver inventory I was talking about. Now most of them, no, they're not affordable, but there are a few deals. You'll figure it out if you do peruse the internet, let your fingers do the walking through the internet pages.
And we are at the bottom, so we should be right there for the bottom of the hour, Weapons Wednesday break. I'm giving it a chance.
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No graves at home, I get frosted dry in water And yet he must come like well up to the slaughter But if we the job must do, then the sooner it is begun If vengeance figure hold the butt true, the quicker it will be done Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, push through, no derifle Hold the rifle, hold the rifle In our hands, push through, rifle
Thank you, Edward. And again, for everybody out there, it is Weapons Wednesday. Your mind is your first best weapon. But if you don't get physically involved, all the thoughts in the world won't make any difference. If they scoop your brain out with a small cartridge to the back of the head because you were incapable of defending yourself, you chose to go the higher ground.
Don't worry, you'll be wearing angel's wings, playing the harp and going to higher ground very quickly. If you try to play the passive thing against the Communists, they will murder you. And that is not in the list of things to do this week. So we're not going to cooperate with that one.
Anyway, oh, real quick, let's do this also. Edward, if we could, Guns and Gadgets, the latest video is about four hours old, I believe, and if we could, let's play that one. For everybody out there, Jared, of course, is re-situated in the new home. Looks great. It's obviously he's much happier, much more comfortable, in general, feels, I mean, safer and just plain happy. But not that he's happy with what we see going on, but...
Take the time to go over to Guns N Gadgets over on YouTube, subscribe and give them a thumbs up. We're not associated with this but it's obvious he's doing good work and we need to be supporting him accordingly.
Also, go back to the last... Another major city to ban the Second Amendment in their direct response to the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin decision by the Supreme Court. And they even said that, which puts them in a direct path of being sued. Before I jump into that, I want to thank the sponsor of the video, and that's Lear Capital. Inflation is killing our wallets at the pump in the grocery store. Interest rate hikes are killing our small businesses and the economy. Banks are failing. The dollar is failing.
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For this we're gonna go to the crazy crazy location called San Francisco where even though California was one of the states affected by the Bruin decision San Francisco is going to ban ban the Second Amendment a la New York which is being sued in five different cases And this one is very very similar to the New York one. So when New York loses
San Francisco's next. I guess they just want to spend taxpayer money defending themselves in court. But San Francisco would bar firearms from public spaces such as election facilities, hospitals, parks, places of worship, grocery stores, and restaurants under an ordinance proposed yesterday by Supervisor Catherine Stefani and the city attorney David Chiu... whatever.
Supervisor Stefani said the legislation was a response to last year's ruling by the Supreme Court that New York's requirement that gun owners show they need proper cause to carry concealed firearms was unconstitutional.
And it should be noted that California's good cause requirement was similar to the one struck down. And in San Francisco, authorities almost never issued concealed carry permits in the past, but after the High Court's ruling was struck down, the city received scores of applications from residents seeking such permits. Now let's get into the mind of the lunacy flanked by the city attorney and several members from gun safety advocacy groups, mom just...
Moms Demand Action and United Players, Stefani took aim at the controversial ruling, calling it a dangerous step backwards and a gross misinterpretation of the Constitution by a rogue Supreme Court. Didn't she learn from what Kathy Hochul's mouth got her into trouble with? Like, these people are just not intelligent.
She continued,
her constituents, the people in San Francisco, are tired of the local government going soft on crime. They're tired of being forced to be victims in their own city. They're tired of being overrun by people shitting on the sidewalks. And this, the once great San Francisco, is a hellhole.
Now what will the legislation do? It would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a thousand dollar fine, to carry concealed firearms in so-called sensitive spaces such as city buildings, hospitals, schools, churches, banks, playgrounds and parks, as well as private businesses whose owners banned firearms. Dramatically expanding the existing bans. Now San Francisco already prohibits the retail sale of guns and ammunition within city limits. The second amendment is banned.
in San Francisco. It prohibits the carrying of firearms by most people who are not law enforcement, and it bars concealed firearms at public gatherings, city property and schools.
Supervisor Stefani's idiotic legislation comes as state lawmakers are considering a similar bill, SB 2, and the legislative body is expected to vote on that bill later this year. Now, you want to know how dumb the city attorney is? He said the Second Amendment was never intended to trump other people from safely exercising their fundamental rights, their rights to vote in person, to peacefully worship, going to school.
actually the second amendment ensures those rights uh... and no law abiding gun owner has ever uh... stopped anybody from doing any of the above because they're not criminals
Check this out. Firearms were used in crimes 1807 times last year according to San Francisco PD. A significant rise from 2018 when that number stood at 1,319 incidents. Shooting incidents also significantly increased from 91 in 2018 to 159 last year, though the city's homicide rate about 6.9 per 100,000 residents is among the lowest in the nation's largest cities. And all of those increased crimes were committed by criminals.
Not one law-abiding citizen decided to go on a shooting spree because if they were law-abiding, they didn't do criminal acts. Maybe San Francisco should just go tough on crime instead of worrying about keeping all the people in San Francisco happy. Woo! And related to their permits, after the Supreme Court decision last year, San Francisco received about 200 applications from residents seeking permits to carry concealed firearms. And since then, San Francisco Sheriff's Office has approved applications from 23 people.
Of those, three San Franciscans have completed the required training and background checks and had a permit issued. They're just giving groups who will sue, who are going to sue them, all of the evidence they need. They just make it easy. Why don't they just write the damn briefs for them? San Francisco. Yeah. Well, what are you gonna say? I mean, Nancy Pelosi and crew, that's about right. Guys and gals, another major city looks to ban the Second Amendment in shocker. It's in California.
And shocker, I can already hear the printer going burr. Like they're going to get sued once they vote this in. Because they will. They'll vote this in. And San Francisco is going to be the next federal lawsuit, I am sure. Guys and gals, thank you for your time. I really appreciate you guys and gals watching. Thanks for joining me on the live stream last night. Please help me get this information out. You might not all live in San Francisco. I know most of you don't.
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It is a beautiful weapons Wednesday. We're heading to sunset though kind of a gray sunset tonight. It's just kind of not bright but uniform which is interesting. For all of you out there again, it being weapons Wednesday, a reminder to don't forget Palmetto State Army. I mentioned that they do have some reloading items you might want to take a look at and Palmetto does of course have their dagger pistol.
One of the things that years ago we experimented with was building frames for the 1911. I have talked about this before, but we started with infusion cast aluminum way before he had the 80% receivers. We basically did a poor man's lost wax cast 45 frames. Now, that's as crude as you can get. You could go pot metal, I guess.
But, back in the day, we had, well, the guy who used to run with his dad was a shop teacher. He was a World War II vet. I've mentioned many times he was a medic in World War II. He killed a lot of people and saved a lot of people. He killed a lot more people and saved some more. But, because of that, he had a lot of really cool experience and research.
and understanding because of dead gut and dentistry, but then I got an education and then of course became a teacher. And so we decided we'd apply some of the things he had mentioned that, well, they knew some experience would kind of work. So what we did is we put together a mold, classic standard mold. We had materials for free from all over the, well, we had a foundry just down the road on the south side of Ypsilanti.
which is where my friend lived and his family lived. And so we accumulated everything, got some really nice commercial frames, a whole nine yards, got some decent sand, did all the proper, you know, steps, took a regular 1911 frame and did a general casting of it with leaving a little extra meat around certain points intentionally, beefing up the design.
Amazingly enough, of course, when we were done, it was not an 80% casting, and we had to do all of the approximations for all of the different control points on the gun. And then we were kind of challenged how to divvid out the top horizontal plane of the frame. The rails were not a problem. That we actually just did with proper thickness files and we're very patient. We did the old Vietnamese, you know, bush armorers trick. And
It actually made it look pretty good. Finish was horrible. Finish was not the concern. We were into the R&D part of our lives. And what's interesting is, you know, I learned a long time ago, no, we don't hold the weapon, but we actually had it all finished. We had, you know, we didn't worry about really cleaning up the side plates. For instance, we had to open them up. Let me orient them cast that way. But we just went with a couple of pieces of
slab, punky plastic just to cover up the magazine well on either side of the frame. And the parts that we used were all hand-me-down military parts, nothing brand new, but serviceable. You go to a gun show you can buy everything for a 1911 back at that time for a whopping maybe $37. Yeah, 1911 parts are everywhere. Lava parts are everywhere.
Star parts were everywhere. So we had Star military, some of the 1911 knockoff military parts that were cheap, that were the correct dimensions, and pinned everything together, popped everything together. And then we're thinking, we're going to shoot it. And it's like, yeah, but I ain't going to put it in my face, or you know. So we, of course, broke out the rubber tires and clamps. We had a fascinating put together because we also had to tape the, we had the actual, had the grip safety in this.
And then we landured fired the gun and we're expecting, you know, first of all, we're hoping for, you know, performance that, you know, would be acceptable. And the first time we pulled the trigger, the gun discharged, it sounded a little clappy. In other words, it didn't quite sound like a regular 1911. But what was amazing is, yeah, while it slid out all those clamps that we put together, it actually held together in one piece. This gave us hope.
So the first thing you do is we stopped. We only loaded one round. We didn't load a magazine. And by the way, fit the magazine well in that gun took two days worth of experimental lapping. You don't file, you lap. And so many passes and you try the magazine and so many passes and you try the magazine and so many passes. And remember the front of the magazine well has to be rounded to match the front of that.
magazine, so that was all rat tail. We were very microfying rat tail. We went to, had to go to a steel company and, or a tool company in downtown Detroit. Oh boy. Well, it wasn't as bad back then. So, one round. Well, first rule we knew is take and look at it. What broke? Did anything crack? How does it still one piece? Well, amazingly enough, there weren't any fractures, didn't see any frame cracks, didn't see any cracks along the rails. Took the slide off it, looked at it, said okay.
So it's like, well now we need to try it with two rounds. We're gonna do this again, but we're gonna fire one and then two. And so we put it back into a little frame. Magazines in the magazine well this time, regular 1911 government mags, they were 40 cents a piece back then. And pulled the trigger a second time and then the third time, because this is round number three, and stopped. Do the same thing, very patiently, disconnect everything. This time it stayed where it's supposed to.
And we had learned a few lessons about how to lock it down. And we're looking at it. There's no cracks along the rails. There's no cracks in the back of the frame. And it's like, this is holding up pretty good for being pot aluminum. It's not pot metal, pot steel, aluminum. But it was no way, shape, or form, specially formed. We didn't have any electromagnets to pull the metal or anything like that to create a magnetic field or a transit field of any kind.
And so we figured, okay, this is it. We're gonna put seven rounds in this thing. Now, the first round seemed to work fine. Second round worked good. Third round, fourth round. Fifth round, sixth round. Something seemed weird. And on the seventh round, she kind of went. Now we thought about this. We actually realized what we'd done. There were some things we did wrong. We filed deeper than we should have. And the rails on the back of the weapon
cracked and and arced up a little bit locked up the gun. Doesn't mean we couldn't take it apart we did. So what did we learn from this? Well if we needed an Assassin's 45 we knew that this design would be good without modifying anything that we did for at least five, six, seven, eight rounds which is like well one magazine and drop the gun and run right? You know godfather routine.
But it was a lesson learned and that well wait a minute if this is where I've said before if we could do it in aluminum Why couldn't we do it in brass? We never to get around to that because about that time we got curious about a 50 caliber project And so we kind of shifted direction, and I've told you before you know the 50 caliber Recoilless or 50 the 106 Recoilless rifle had a 50 caliber spotter rifle We got all the parts for the gun
in pieces from a couple of different sources. I mean, there was junk piles of this stuff laying all over the place. We didn't know what it was. I asked one of the guys at one of the scrapyards, what is that? He goes, oh, it's a bunch of stuff. I bought steel from the Department of Defense. And I think they're 50 caliber, like, spotting rifles or something. It's like, really, it's like the only thing that was sad is they had taken the barrels and cut them in half.
That did not deter us because I just meant we were gonna have a short barrel since it was a relatively long barrel The barrel length was actually in about where they cut it He meant we had to clean it up to about 18 and a half inches, which isn't bad now the 50 caliber spotting rifle is a Short cartridge you actually remember they developed the physics to work the same so here we are this 45 caliber project and we could have carried on with it, but I
Again, did it work? Yeah, did it work perfectly? Well, we might have flawed something on the casting anyway. It could be any number of problems when you're doing aluminum. And for that matter, pop metal. So it could have just been that if we'd done a better job of consistent heating and all kinds of other preheating issues with the mold, probably going to come up with perfection. So that project is not really dead in my mind. It's just something we never went back to because
Back in the day, you could still find 45 frames aluminum from a number of different companies like Sarco for little or nothing, but the 50 caliber project. Ah, so now we had something nobody had to work on. And so what we did, took a eight lug tire rim and made that the foundation for mounting the receiver that we had to weld back together.
Now, we did not make this gun semi-auto. Originally it was, but again, with the way that they torched parts, we couldn't make it a semi-automatic gun. We could make it a cam-locking, manually operated gun. And so we went to work. By the time we were done, we used the wheel rim as the way to traverse the gun left and right.
An elevation we made took a little a little cheapie wasn't Chinese. There were no Chinese. It was a little Taiwanese Control for it was the controls for a table saw a really elaborate caver saw table saw and a very well built one by Taiwanese standards But they were it was a throwaway thing And so we made elevation for it and then we pieced everything together We put the receiver back of us cutting two spots put that all back together
And again, it was never full auto. It was always a semi or single shot. So there wasn't any restriction on this thing. It was just that government was doing it at that time. They were destroying certain things. They didn't depend on the facility. So anyway, we put this back together. Now, wait a minute. We got it in a rim. How do we get traversed? Well, we got it mounted on something. So we made an axle, took an axle, stripped a lot of the junk off it, took the brake head with the lugs, ran the obviously put the wheel on the
axle the way it was supposed to be mounted, made a big quad base for it. And then what we did is bolted it down in four stations. They didn't bother with all eight. We just used four lug nuts to hold the thing in place. Now what we had with a little bit of a handle to be welded to the side onto the wheel rim is a traverse and elevation, 50 caliber, 18 and a quarter inch barrel, or maybe 18 and a half.
50 caliber spotter rifle. Now, we figured we couldn't get a whole lot of range out of this thing, but everybody looked at it and said, what the hell is that? Oh, it's a 50 caliber gun. Nobody has a 50 caliber gun. Well, we have a 50 caliber gun. So anyway, then we had to scrounge ammo because we realized, wait a minute, this thing is in 50 caliber spotter. So we picked up, we had to go to all the gun shows and we watched all the grab boxes and gradually we put together about 20 rounds.
Here's the thing it was white phosphorus. We didn't think about that because it's a spotter round go look at the history of the recoil rifle spotter round So one of our friends or his dad has an old wreck car. Well wasn't wrecked He just wasn't working. Well, he was gonna take it to the junkyard and he said well Tell you what if you guys can hit that it was 300 yards out, you know what? Oh, well you could shoot some more and I'll even buy some more ammo for the thing if you let me shoot it
So we thought that would be really cool. So here we are. We take and have to pull the quad pot out of the back, the foundation and put the shaft in and mold everything together. Now we got this really cool looking swivel gun on a wheel rim. And he said, well, what are we going to, we're going to shoot you the car out there. And he said, you sure don't want to take the car. And he's going to, oh, it's going to get chopped up and scrapped. So don't worry about it. I drove it out there. Something happened to the engine and piss on it. I'm just going to take it away. We had more money back then.
Well, people do this all the time on movies and on YouTube, but this doesn't happen. So we thought, okay, let's aim for center of mass and see what happens with the iron sights that we kind of bolted, you know, we strapped to the body of the barrel. So we wheeled it around, we lock it down, line up the sights, load one round, one round loaded.
Aim, pull the trigger, round goes down range exactly the way it's supposed to. Of course, we fired one or two rounds just randomly and into a dirt pile. Well, it went down range and the bullet hit the fuel tank area of the car. Obviously, the car had gasoline in it still and I will remind you that this is a spotter, white phosphorus round.
Well, the ensuing fireball, an explosion, ripped the back end of the, what was it, I think it was a 67-68 Pontiac, ripped the back end off of the vehicle, blew a hole right through the trunk straight up, simply because of the fuel air mix, the tank wasn't full, I'm sure. And everybody stopped for a minute, and they're looking at the gun, and they look at the car, and of course, the dad there is thinking, hey man, it's kind of dry out there, I better go get some fire extinguishers.
So we end up checking all the way out there at 300 yards. Lo and behold, by that time the fire died down. And he looks at the car and looks at it and says, I don't think I'd be shooting this at anything out here real quick again. He goes, and he's like, well, the car's burned up. We could shoot it some more. And he goes, nah, what did you guys, and of course he was an old army guy, old army man. And he said, well, here's what it is. He thought it was a 50 caliber BMG. Didn't look to see what we were doing.
And he says, oh my god, you know, every one of those rounds is a puffer round. Every one of those is a burner. Has it ever made anything but? And he says, oh god, I should have thought this through. I got to be more careful with you guys sometimes. So one shot per test, the actual live fire test, did exactly what it was supposed to. And that was the end of our wasting that wonderful white phosphorus for anything other than what might be coming down the road someday.
Now, it was not one of those guns you're going to grab and run with because I think the total fixture would probably weight about 100 pounds. But, you know, if you're just patient and provide, adapt, and overcome, you'd be amazed what you can come up with. Of course, now that got me into other projects and other projects beyond that and the rest is history, as they say. But I've always thought
In fact, that's basically where the Sussman-Ackerman idea came from for the Sussman-Ackerman semi-auto rifles was the .50 caliber spotter rifle for the 106 Recoillas. That's what we came up with years ago. And the only difference is we took the AR-15, forgive me, AR-10 chain feed system and applied it to the round receiver that the spotting rifle basic design is made out of.
And guess what? You've got a chain-fed, semi-automatic, basically it's the Sten gun of the .50 caliber world, and shoulder-fired. Buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh. Kinda like, more like a Browning .19-19 than a Browning M.250 caliber. A little lighter.
still grossly over-engineered. The Zusman Ackerman B7B is probably one of the more affordable 50 caliber chain-fed guns anybody could build. And again, the premise, the basis for it, that really weird idea we had years ago, because we hadn't thought about these spotting rifles. They have spotting rifles in every recoil-less gun that's vehicle-mounted.
Most people don't even pay attention to it, but the bigger the gun, the the spotting rifle has to, the spotting cartridge has to match the ballistics of the anti-tank round that's in the gun. So, but it can't, it's not more powerful or less powerful. It has to be identical in terms of point of impact all the way out to the maximum range of the recoilless rifle. So effective if you can find them. Back when we were doing this, oh, there was recoilless fighter ammunition everywhere because the recoilless guns were going out of vogue.
and government surplus stuff like that back then. Today, old old way in hell. It just wouldn't happen, okay? But don't worry, we've got browning M250 caliber instead. And everybody's done a lot with that now, haven't they? Yes, they have. So, we're at the top almost, and for everybody out there, guys, it is going to be a very busy weekend coming up. Needless to say, of course, it is Father's Day, I think, because it's next weekend.
But in addition to that, we have, don't forget, the Colonial Marine Militia meetup taking place in, I believe it is, Eastern Tennessee. That's with the 2nd Division. And if you go to www.colonialmarinemalicia.4mg.com, there should be some follow-up on that. Again, www.colonialmarinemalicia.4mg.com.
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