Help you out. Well again, so that's in the Lubbock area, right? Yes, just south of Lubbock literally. It's straight down slide where it starts to turn into I'm not sure if they're doing cotton or what out there because I know that you start going that area you've got Cotton a little wheat and but there there's a point where it turns into peanuts, right? Well, that's a cycle, too. Remember, cotton peanuts. And then you do something in like a rye grass or like actually rye wheat. Well, rye, not rye wheat, but rye. And that helps to build the soil back. And there's a whole, they have a cycle. I don't know what they're doing with their fertilizers now, because they can cut part of that, too, which is a cheat. But oh, well, that happens. So again, that would be worthwhile. One of the other things about the freeze-dried technology is again you are still going to need consistent power. Don't forget that. Obviously, you're going to run machinery, so you have to make that part of your math formula for future activities. Having the energy, the capacity to operate the equipment as needed. That should be a high priority because food processing, next to your food processing is really where we need to be focusing now. If you've built up an inventory, fantastic, but you need to be ready when things run out, where will you go? What are you going to do? And so prior prepper planning prevents piss poor performance. We need to have production capacity in place now in preparation for that moment in time, because it's not an if, it's just a when that's going to happen. So remember that, not an if, just a when. Anyway, oh my goodness, we're at the bottom. Let's do this real quick. You are listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org. Ed, I'll tell you what, if you could, let's pull up. The latest guns and gadgets first of all then we'll do a few songs here We gotta go through our music request list. I got a case stay up on that you guys have been sending more downrange I got a couple of letters yesterday to appreciate that from Marge in Arizona and also Danny in South Dakota So we got your mail. Thank you. We appreciate that And again, for everybody, Guns N Gadgets is over on YouTube. Take the time, go over there, check out, see what they've got, what he's got posted, but also make a point of giving him a thumbs up and passing on, if he can, share the videos that are produced. That changes the numbers and that's all. Again, cost nothing. It's free. All you have to do is spend a little bit of time. And we appreciate it if you can pitch in. We don't get anything from Guns and Gadgets for that just in case. And it is... ... on Liberty Tree Radio. That was Guns and Gadgets on YouTube. Please take the time to go over, subscribe and give a thumbs up as you can. Now, Mike and the Mechanics, silent running for our friends in South Dakota. We didn't forget you. Mike and the Mechanics. Silent running somebody said in the letter mark you haven't played that song in a while and can you play it? So I said yes, yes, we can but I was talking to the wall because it's a letter done You know for everybody out there it is Friday We're headed in the weekend with the height of Camp Emory camp Emerson new camp stuff that can't play the north the ogema ranges Nagi hitchem wolf and Fox And also Fort Benning, Michigan. We got a lot of activity up in Fort Benning, Michigan this weekend. It is fantastic and yes Somebody, I was talking about Fort Hood. We're thinking about naming one of the other facilities that's the unnamed Fort Hood. So we're going to have a Fort Hood, Michigan. That's going to be cool. And again, big buildup. Explain something a little bit here about a really cool kit. We started working on decades ago and we've developed it to the point where it's a package off-the-shelf science. It's so simple it's ridiculous for how for shelters and housing or for shelters and especially for covering supplies. Here the music will be back. The mechanics right here on Liberty Tree Radio. the again silent running album, title Craig, silent running, Mike and the Mechanics. That was the mid-length version. There's three versions. They've got the full length with the extension, which is long, and demi-instrumental. Then you've got the version you just heard. Then you've got the shortcut version that was done when people have heard the song so much. And on radio, what they do is they have a shortcut version so that you can get it in there and fit more of what people have already heard. And they usually hear it and they get satisfied, but they may be hearing it as background music. So they don't necessarily pay attention to the fact there's another minute or a minute and a quarter or a minute and a half shaved off the song. I did this all the time back in the day, guys. And that's why it's actually collectible. I have a collection here. I've mentioned this many times through this year. I bought a collection and I've been editing. I have to sit down for, oh, half an hour at a time and I have to plug the CD in. And I've been listening. And one of the things that I've gotten a big collection of are what are promo CDs. And these are not for resale. They have... or repeat of the song multiple times, but they have all three versions. They have the long full play with maybe an additional instrumental. They have the mid-play, which is the one you typically would hear 99% of the time on any radio. And even typically was on the album, but the long play might be on the last part of a flip on the albums on the OBLPs. And then you have the short version for, okay, you got to punch a bunch of these in because you're promoting our record. And it goes to the radio station and they would flip a whole bunch of the compressed versions to get all of their obligations in with the network or with the record affiliate that they've got a contract with. So it's kind of cool, and I've got one of a kind of stuff that I have, it's been 50 years since I've heard it, and what's really fascinating is I have a vast collection of live concert from pigeonhole locations, the old hole-in-the-wall bars and such that used to be all over the country. There's still some out there, but nothing like there used to be. And several locations are right here in Michigan and were classic. In fact, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, there was a hole in the wall bar that was multi-tiered. It went up because it was crammed into a stupid little business. I don't know how they held a fire. They got over the fire code. Maybe they bribed somebody or somebody in the city, you know, owned it. But it actually was opened up for three stories. So you were looking down and everybody from Bob Seger to Three Dog Night to Pink Floyd to anybody you can imagine would show up there and what's funny is they always had a Gnome de Guerre for the different each band had its own Gnome de Guerre would use so people come in there sitting there goes that looks like it looks like a Pink Floyd band man now we're not talking a big place we're talking a place where literally if you stand on the second tier they hold out each of the floors in the middle So it was like a big globe amphitheater is what it was like on the inside. But everything was painted flat black, everything was subdued, and you'd look down on the band on the stage. And everybody you could think of showed up in that little hole in the wall at one time or another in a year. I ran into a place like that out in Arizona off Fort Wigacha the same way. Sat down and lo and behold we had Fleetwood Mac out of the blue. They're like... It looks like Fleetwood Mac. Everybody's sitting there because we're just going something new in the evening on a Friday. And usually there'd be a live band there and it was free. So it was like, okay, and all of a sudden it's like, that looks like, that girl looks a lot like Stevie Nicks. Yeah, yeah, look at the drummer, man. He looks all psychedelic now too, dude. Is that who I think it is? And of course on the marquee they didn't have Fleetwood Mac. They had some off-the-wall name that was made up. But as soon as everybody started to see who it was, and again, once they started playing, there was no doubt. But it was obvious if you paid any attention to the artist. And people were running over to the telephone, didn't have cell phones back then, and they're calling their buddies, dude, get everybody over here, man. We want Max over here live. And it'd be like, whoa, no way. Yes way. Okay, so that's how it used to be. And a lot of the stuff was recorded because whoever owned the place was smart enough to have decent recording technology. A lot of that was unreal to real. In this case, the collection I captured was from a guy who, one of the things that he was doing is preserving by creating a CD library of all of the reel-to-reel, cassette, and all the other stuff that we, you know, even records, some are even custom-cut records. There used to be private record machines you could buy just like tape recorders. Several of our people had them. That's how they were able to get, you know, in the old days before you had all the internet and everything else. And before cassettes, et cetera, guys, people used to cut records of speakers. And if you might, you might run into them once in a while, there'll be a burgundy colored vinyl. If you ever see a burgundy colored vinyl record, it literally will be burgundy. Well, that's not a plumb. It's burgundy. It's the best way to describe it. Full-sized LP, 33 and a third, and those albums are all custom. If you ever run into those, they are worth money because you might have something here that no one else has. Dead cold serious. You want to make money? You want to buy the next AR-15 for free? Or so to speak, somebody else paid for it? This is the kind of stuff you need to be cognizant of. So if you see any of these burgundy albums, they were typically cut in-house. In many cases, they were cut either at speakeasies or hole-in-the-walls like we're talking about. Or they were done in private session. And they were done for courtesy or for promotional purposes. In many cases somebody wanted, hey, you know, you guys are here. Could you play some music for me? Well, sure, Bob. I could do that. Hold on. Let me get the machine set up. And they had a platter cutter right there. And they were privately owned. This is stuff you can buy, put in your house the size of a stereo system about a chin high stereo system is what they look like. Again, old 50s to 60s to very early 70s. Didn't see much done in the 70s, but they were out there. So just a heads up on that. We're at the top and hopefully that makes our friends in South Dakota feel better. Mike and the mechanics aren't running. We are at the top of the hour here. God bless our Republic. Death to the new order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march. We'll pay a night. Ooh-rah. Kick him to slats, beat him down hard. When they try to get back up, kick him in the head. Make sure they never get up again. We're going to war in 24, and we will win. And to do that, we've got to get rid of them. Anyway, we'll be back. Go grab a cup of coffee. Run, use the bathroom. It is the end of the first hour. It is Friday on Liberty Tree Radio. We'll be back. 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? Should children, both sons of the Republic, arise? Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God given right. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for once, his words were true. But we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each 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? He called out from the grave. And we are back. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, before I go any farther, oh, this is some special coffee Nancy made. Smell, amount to taste. 50% of the coffee rolled around on the tongue. It is, of course, 50% of the espresso. Very fine, espresso. And, of course, a very high grade of creamer. that one of our friends produces down the road with the cows by the way he owns the farm he owns the dairy and of course I had to have some of this because he just dropped them by so taste cafe au lait mou mou vain mou deux traip good afternoon ladies and gentlemen this is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report I'm Mark Carkey one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories North East West and South ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org, and we are on satellite. Want to say hi to all our merchant marine operators out there. Know where your lifeboats are. Remember, the backstabbing Israelis are going to do something really wicked here pretty soon, if they haven't already, and they're just covering it up and waiting to throw it out there on the carpet. So pay attention and be safe. And we thank you again for your work. We're in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. It is Friday! Oh, it has been a beautiful Friday, and I'm inside. And it's a beautiful Friday, and I could be getting more done, but we have to do this. So guess what? If you get a chance, get back outside. My peace defense. The beautiful spring air, we had first the air from the north. Now we have some coming off Lake Erie, and it's clean. where the air has been scrubbed. And now today, a beautiful bright day. It is, of course, Cinco Di Amo Day. This is the day when the señoras, the señorita, the señoras, all of you will go to the gun shop and you will buy a pistola, or perhaps a rifle, or perhaps a shakar. But if you do, because it is Cinco Di Amo Day. Today is the day when you must buy ammunition. And if you are not celebrating it, there is something wrong with you. For today is payday, perhaps. Take some of your centavos, pesos, euros, maybe American gringo dollars and buy all the ammunition you can get your hands on. So anyway, it is Cinco di Amo de Hachintao. So, and again that means it's the 10th of May. It is the 16th year of open, obvious, and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K2024 old earth calendar. Give her an ole' she's got, Captain. 125%! She'll blow up any minute! Of course, I'm lying. We actually can go 150, but that's okay. It makes everybody think, what did he say in the movie? I'm a miracle worker. Bloody hell. So anyway, yeah, that means it is the 16th year of Open Alvious and In your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. Absolutely. Make no mistake about it, with what you saw yesterday and today in Congress, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. I cannot emphasize that enough. 2024, Battle for the Republic, the dance of swords, of course. So, what a beautiful day. Let's see, songs. I was trying to think of some new stuff we could put out there. Taking the old the seas. Slow down, you're shooting too fast. You gotta make your ammo last. Kicking up the cobblestones Shooting the commies and feeling in the notch and groovy Especially if you have a K98 Mauser if you have one of those beautiful Swiss MK or M31s Guess what? You know notch and groove get it want to bring that up because you don't need to put optics on those rifles But if you do yeah, they're even more of a thick they will the performance will of course be fantastic But there's a ton of these K-43s, or forgive me, the 31s coming in right now. And you're going all the way back to the earlier model and variants that are pre-1898 and OFSL all the way through to the post-World War I models and variants, which they produced all through, actually, I think, what, up to, I think up to the 40s at least, maybe the, and I'm probably wrong, closer to the 50s. The Schmidt-Rubin straight pulls in whatever variant are heavier than SIN. He thought he was going to say something really great there for him. No, they're heavier than SIN. They really are. They're a beast rifle to carry. They are built like a brick doghouse. Most everything Swiss made during that, you know, the philosophy was they were going to pass it off to the next generation. Well, they did. And this stuff is just phenomenally engineered. The metallurgy was fantastic. There are stripper clips. Now most people don't realize this. I was buying them years ago and nobody thought about it because nobody wanted them. I used to go to the different wholesalers and they would always have cases, boxes of loose Schmidt-Rubin stripper clips. They're a little different. They were non-strategic material. They didn't make them out of metal. They do make a metal stripper clip and you can buy them with the stripper clip guides, but there is a non-strategic material guide stripper clip that was an ammo carrier mechanism and they were pennies. They weren't even pennies. I think I get 10 for, you know, like five cents at one time. So we piled them up because he's, well, we got some ribbons. I just don't have any, but somebody does. They'll take them. I took them with a bunch of other stuff. And, well, now there's so many of these Schmidt Rubens out there that, and because as you've seen, those stripper clips and Mann-Lincher stripper clips and everything have gone stupid price, you can make money hand over fist on the accoutrements. I mean, hand over fist. But, if you're going to buy one of those Schmidt Rubens, there are still a few niches, a few holes, places where those stripper clips are actually cheap. And most people don't even realize they're there. Like I've said, a lot of these companies buy arms and ammunition and pieces and parts. And some of the stuff they get when they buy out a gun shop or a store are things they don't really normally carry. They're not interested in. They have a lot of them. They're going to throw them out. They've got a good price on them. They sell a few. They can pay for all. And then everything else is profit. Well, now those things have become goofy profit. OK? This is like World War II stuff. Now Vietnam stuff is going the same way so and again it's far enough in the tail lights we'd expect that the Schmidt Rubens one really cool thing about them if you get a chance to take a look at the rifle if one of your friends has one and you should familiarize yourself with the Schmidt Rubens straight pull rifle because there are a lot of them out there. Now they're in 7.5 swifts. which is a 30 caliber load. Basically, its counterpart is a 7.62x51 NATO. There was a period of time when one company, and it was a precision machining company, so they did really good work, were actually re-chambering the Schmidt Rubens from the 7.5 to other cases. and because the quality of the barrel is so phenomenal, the only thing you had to watch is that I believe that there was a short period when they were doing a stellite type liner for the barrels. If you're familiar with that, guys, you're not machining that. That was a very rare item and these were Marksman's guns. There's a special whole history on those that they cropped up back in the early 80s. as surplus, but they're out there and it's more likely you'll probably see one of those nowadays. But 7.5 Swiss is out there as surplus a little bit and it's typically, everybody considers it match great ammunition, rightly so because the ammunition is, the Swiss don't do anything cheap. And the quality of their ammunition is phenomenal, okay. However, I would not shoot the military ball ammo. Once again, Mark will tell you to save it. You may want to grab a box, sandbag the gun, and find out where it prints with that ammunition so you can understand and relate to it. But if I was doing any regular shooting with a Schmidt Rubin for training, to give people some live fire experience, I go to aimsurplus.com and pick up PPU 7.5 Swiss. It's as cheap as anything else out there that PPU makes. They do offer it both in ball and I have seen it in softpoint. It's again an excellent solution. You shoot for a particular rifle, make sure you reload for that rifle and it's a lot easier to reload. Take the brass, mark the box for that rifle and keep shooting it out of that weapon and you'll get more life out of the reloaded brass. First rule, more shooting, less cost. Okay. The Schmidt Rubens though, take a look at the muzzle crown. Now this is something I've talked about a lot because most of your K98 Mausers, be they the Czech, Polish or German, and of course there's Spanish out there, a lot of Spanish. Right now there's some Spanish surplus showing up because that's coming from the Ethiopian hordes. The cache is there. Most of the Mauser types use what is a ball crown. Now what do I mean by that? Well if you're looking at it from the side, it looks like, if you look at the barrel, get up close, it looks like from the side like half a donut. In other words, cut half a donut, put that on the end of a tube, and that's what the crown looks like on the typical Mauser rifle. And the crown, or the half of the donut is cut on the inside circle there. That's where the rifling ends. Now what happens with most rifles no matter how hard you try and one of the reasons that people go off at all rifle It's not shooting. Well, you don't know anything about gunsmithing or you don't think about the guns So you're you know thinking that because it's got an issue that you can't fix it. You can back set your Crown and it very very quickly and bring and tighten that barrel right back up with whatever rifling is left in it Now, rifling is the other half of the formula, but a lot of the Euro guns, especially the K98s, have very deep lands and grooves. The Polish Mausers especially were good for that. Along with the Czechs, they were all competing against the K98 Mauser in Germany for marketing overseas. Well, the Schmidt Rubens weren't really marketer overseas. They were just making them for themselves. But if you look, they did a canted crown, and there's a reason for that, to reduce the possibility of wear and tear on the crown with cleaning of the weapon, because that's really, it's not the bullets that get you, it is the repeated cleaning which is necessary and was traditionally necessary for the last hundred years because of corrosive ammunition. Now because of this, most of these countries made crown protectors and they're still out there, you can still find them. Your SKS carbine and AK if you got the Chinese or if you got the Romanian cleaning kit for the SKS or the Bulgarian. Have you looked to see how that cleaning kit works? You have a crown protector. Part of your cleaning kit, that little module, when you click, take it apart, remember part of it's the handle, but part of it, if you'll notice, there's a hole and it's dimpled in a particular way. And you actually have a little set of claws. And if you look, you can take that little cap that's only about, what, maybe an inch long? Or maybe not even 3-quarters of an inch. You have to double measure it again. But anyway, you put that on the end of the muzzle. You click it into place to the site. Congratulations. You now have a ramrod guide that takes the abuse. instead of the crown of your rifle. Have you ever used that when you've cleaned your weapon? Well here's a little hint. You should. Now, they make a variety and I believe, and I was slightly in the microphone, I could be wrong, I think that over at JGSales.com if you've got the Spanish Mausers or the M95 Steyr Straitpoles, which are Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, or anything like that, there are a number of guides out there. They're wood handled. They actually look like a screwdriver handle, a very nice wooden screwdriver handle. They have a shaft hole in the middle. They also have a knuckle slash a lock point at the other end, and this goes over the muzzle of the rifle. Once that little notch is parallel with the The front sight, you just turn it sideways and that locks it onto the rifle. Very simple. And most important is that the metals that were typically used are also softer, non-aggressive metals for the guides. So the cleaning rod, of course, the guide should be taking the abuse if it were to wear out. It's a penny item. It's a trinket item. The barrel is a significant component of the weapon, right? So you don't want to wear that down. So heads up, again, these are simple little tools that were built for most all the firearms out there. JG sales, the one that they have I think will fit the M95 but it'll also fit a lot of the other earlier mousers. Pre-98s especially, so you might want to experiment if you've got a bunch of Model 91s, Model 93s, Model 95s, etc., etc., etc. You might want to check that out because again a lot of the Spanish M1916s are coming out right now that are basically a Model 93 and the neat thing about these is that again they're not looking too shabby but let's protect them because they are as old as they are and they have seen some miles sometimes. You can of course fix the crown if you have to experiment, but you might not have to so let's protect it so it doesn't wear down. Go ahead, call or jump in there, please. Hey Mark, it's John from Kentucky. I use a, I think it's a 243 case cut in half in a 30 caliber. The neck fits right into the barrel, you know, and then the ramrod goes to the center of it. Over. Exactly. Because again, the brass, it will wear out, but the brass is not going to be abusive to the barrel. It's going to absorb and prevent any chafing or wear on the muzzle crown. And again, the price is right, what you're doing. And you can create them. Remember, just experiment with whatever case out there fits, break out your drill index and match up accordingly for the hole for your ram rod, for your cleaning rod. Forgive me. Go ahead. I just cut the case in half. I sacrifice one case. It's the cheapest and easiest. Put two on your cleaning box and forget about it. I'm out. Yep, exactly. Thank you. Again, well, improvise, adapt, and overcome. Good solution. I think one of the big things here again is the Swiss rifles actually do come with them in their kit and you might notice the for $10, this is, they're still a steal. Right now you can get the Swiss Army cleaning kits. They are, they have a black handle. It's actually a plastic handle. They're a very well constructed cleaning kit. They're built for 30 caliber because, oh, that's right. The Schmidt Rubens are 30 caliber. So you can get a phenomenal cleaning kit that you wouldn't just use on the 30 caliber, you know, the K31s, but you can use it on all the rest of your 30 caliber weapons. So there's all kinds of neat solutions out there. All of them work. All of them are good. So take advantage of them while you can. And again, that's a simple solution there. The big thing is that when the brass wears out, take that piece of brass, throw it over into your scrap pile. Don't ever throw it away. And find yourself another piece, modify accordingly, and you're back in business. And so again, repeat, repeat, repeat. The one thing I brought the the other thing about the Stires is everybody has been asking me about this. So, you know, what do you think about them? They're heavy I mean, I'm gonna tell you if you haven't picked up a That's the first thing everybody says when they've you know ordered one. I've noticed this. Oh, we're kind of heavy Well, yeah, they're an infantry rifle Remember they weren't concentrating on volume fire But you can get a great deal of volume fire going with a straight pull gun once you get used to it And what we say by straight pull, guys, you just grab the charging, you grab the bolt handle, pull straight to the rear. Once you've pulled it all the way to the rear, jam it forward with significant force. Next round is picked up, aim, boom. The Steyr straight pull works the same way and right now there are a bunch of Steyr straight pulls in the full Gewehr or long rifle. over at Royal Tiger imports. Now that's a totally different weapon from the, that's the Austro-Hungarian M95. That rifle had a number of developments just like the Schmidt-Rueben and it stayed in service for about the same period of time. In fact, even up until just a little bit ago, the reason you're seeing some of these that look like they've been in an arsenal, not in the desert in Ethiopia, or I should say the dry popcorn fart era of Ethiopia, is because there are still caches of these things around in Europe and they've been, you know, putting them out there. And actually, I think it's the Rent-A-Revolution companies. Up until the A90s, or actually back in the 90s, the Rent-A-Revolution companies were selling the Styrostrate Bowls to African natives to defend themselves from the other tribes who bought AKs. Or they just bought the Stires because it was, they bought them because they were cheap. They probably got them for about anywhere from $3 to $7 a gun over-the-counter retail. But which is a big chunk of money for people who are dirt poor in Africa. But they also could get ammunition where not all ammunition was available for more modern guns. So the Stire, the ammunition all coming in stripper clips, was purchased in big quantity and it was used as a local or tribal defense gun for quite some time. Still hanging around out there. Problem, they do require stripper clips if you want to use the mag. So when they lost the stripper clips, if they weren't paying attention, it's a single shot rifle. Other things about the Swiss Schmidt Ruben, it will reach comfortably with iron sights 1,000 yards. Comparatively speaking, it's as good as a many match grade Springfield that you're going to run into, or a match grade M1A or M1 Garand, as an average rifle. The performance on these things have been fantastic because, first of all, they were well maintained by the population. They have a deep, they have had a deep Ordnance Support System for the Civilian Marksmanship End, which is what everybody is a part of. Everybody's supposed to be in the militia in Switzerland. And so these guns actually have been well maintained as either cash guns that were hidden away by the population. They're given to the people by the government. They're told to hide them so we can't find them. Oh, you thought that they hit him from the government because the government is going to confiscate him. No, the government gave him to him and told him we better not be able to find these easily because when the other side shows up, they're going to want to try and steal them from us. So let's make sure we've got all the guns out where we need them, which is what they did. So that's why these things have never really fully been withdrawn. And you still see videos of a lot of the Swiss shooting the Schmitts on the range, the Schmitt Rubens on the range on a regular basis. with the younger adults firing and operating newer weapons that they've been issued. But usually if you see them on the range, they have a Schmidt, a .22 of some kind, and again the Isuette rifle that they have to qualify with. If not more, I mean they're doing the same thing we do. What I, some of you, would you carry it if you, you know, to keep you alive? Well, yeah, I'm going to tell you right now, the Schmidt-Rueben rifles that are out there, I'm sure I could probably take it, like I said, like the M14 to about 700 yards of the iron sights comfortably, 750, and the rifle's fully capable of it. I have not seen a bad one yet. I've not seen an abused Schmidt-Rueben. I've seen abused everything else but because these all were held by the pasty-faced white people of Switzerland, you know, the white people took care of what they had and maintained it. It's just that simple. And so what you're seeing coming out are decent. Now, it's a bastard caliber. I'm going to say it's an orphan caliber. You're not going to find anybody carrying 7.5 Swiss. Nobody. But if you're an American Defense Force and you also like to collect guns, it's an effective weapon. You just need to buy dyes. Make sure you buy all the brass that can be reloaded you can. Go to AIM surplus, buy PPU, and buy a lot of it. But also watch for the Swiss 7.5 ammunition that pops out here and there and buy a case or two of it at a time. Usually a case. It's in the black milk carton cardboard containers. They're heavily waxed. It has a black outer coating or it's just a black outer coloring for the cardboard. It is very waterproof. We're very well packed, quite intricate. And again, in most cases also was in a transport can. Mostly when it got here, they dumped the transport can and sold it separately. You know, people trying to make as much money off whatever was imported. And so the transport cans, you can find them, the proper can for that ammunition in the bricks that it's made in. But it's few and far between, and it's not collectible. I mean, they are considering it collectible. That's the problem. So it's not worth it if you're paying an ungodly amount. You can make it work, make that ammunition work with other cans. So I just go with a can that's closer to the mark and be done with it if you're going to think about putting it in separate ammo cans, which you should, by the way. We're at the bottom of the hour. Okay, we had two people. We already took care of the Dakotas. So for everybody out there, you're listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, LibertyTreeRadio.org. We're headed in the weekend. I want to say hi to Camp Emory, Camp Emerson, New Camp Stasa, Camp Wayland North, where all the work was done earlier this year and it's paying off. Let's see, the Ogama Range is Naga-Hitcham, and especially Naga-Hitcham is busy this weekend, Fox-Wolf, and new Fort Benning, Michigan, along with the Rustics, but the Rustics are going to start changing names here pretty soon. They aren't just dots on the map. And I was going to talk about temporary or cheap structure construction that you can do anywhere. Actually, you can make it a kit. More on that in a minute, because I got to make sure I put that out this hour. Anyway, Ed, if you could, let's see what was the first request here that we had. We covered the one, so we got the mic and the mechanics out of the way. Let's do, I got three here, let's do, oh, you know what, I'm gonna do, this is one, somebody else mentioned this in random today, it's one of those Matrix things. It's an attitude song, okay? And you might recall the John Wayne movie, North to Alaska. Johnny Horton north to Alaska Ed if you could play that although that's for our friends way down in the south in the southwest Okay, probably heading up to Alaska or something. No, you just like the song. Okay. I appreciate that So north to Alaska Johnny Horton, you might recall the song was the theme for a John Wayne movie by the same title north to Alaska I'm pretty sure that was the name of it matter of fact And you are listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com Liberty Tree Radio dot o RG Don't forget also on six. We are back Johnny Horton. We're gonna do another Johnny Horton as a matter of fact This is gonna keep me happy to Johnny Horton We weren't sure who had done this originally because I pulled it out of another inventory Johnny Horton Gary Owen And guys, for all of you that are mechanized this weekend, we're pulling out all the stops, all the activity we've had around the state. Everybody figures, keep your best weapons close to you and make sure that they're squared away and ready to fight. So we are in battle mode this weekend for training. And that means all our mech heads will be out there. Some of you have been with the Gary Owen. So for everybody again, here we go. A fighting song live. Let's get to the chopper. Don't forget, we will be in fact in the southern Michigan. We have an Air Mobile unit that we'll be deploying this weekend and we are going to be working on our coordinated ground and air tech. in the Lenaway County area and also in Ohio. So we will be down that neck of the woods with a small ab section, should be three OH-58s, and we have one UH-1 that's going to be participating. Also a bunch of our little crotch rocket mosquito helicopters. And this will be of course in conjunction with some of the CMM units in Northern Ohio. So you guys, we're going to have to stop in. Don't worry, you're not that far away. We're going to be stopping in. I don't know what day, but we will be there because it's just fun. And also 18th, regimental combat team, Colonial Marine Militia Mechanize. You guys will be out there. That's Gary Owen. That's why the Gary Owen theme is, again, part of the repertoire for today. And the 18th, which are my guard, as a matter of fact. And I want to say thank you guys. I appreciate the The honor that you give me, been a while. But we are adding a few more vehicles to the inventory that we have dug out of mothballs. Remember there's a collection about a month and a half ago we found. Took time to get the rest of everything. We don't move stuff until we know for sure what we've got, you know, what happened to something. And it turned out with one of the vehicles we had a transmission issue that was locked up. That's why it was parked, which was not surprised. It's a tracked vehicle, which means it's, you know, you ever tried dragging a rock that weighs like, you know, 13 tons. You know, and so instead, how about we be smart? So the wrench heads all got in there. And it turns out that it was simply transmission follies that we see with vehicles of the type that were resurrecting. In this case, it's an assault. It's an odd man out because, and I can't even recall the nomenclature for the vehicle. There were a bunch of them in the southern part of the state. We have more than one of these that we have found. But it was an assault gun version of the chafee. Now, if they made these things, their serial numbers are not XM. The serial numbers are M's, which means that usually the government does this. So by a vehicle, they put a series of them into service and they call them an XM model. Sometimes like with trucks, it can be 500 of them and they're still experimental because they're going to tweak the design. So they put them into service and let us beat them to death and then they figure out what broke and then they change it and then they make it the M model. Well, it's interesting, these vehicles, which I've cracked the history down of, forgive me off the top of my head, they had an a main gun was a Hawitzer, typically they're there, but they were in the Chafee 105s, by the way, just to let you know, they're a 105 Hawitzer, but they were our answer to the Stungeschutz Hawitzer variant and its open hull. There are a lot of vehicles like this built during the middle end of the war. In this case, very nimble, very easy to work on. Later on, after the World War II, European countries developed the overhead cover and armor for them, so mimicking that is your best bet. In this case, for what we plan on using it for until it dies, whatever, The price was right. It's a gimme thing. We already have it. So anyway, we got that dragged out. You might see that this weekend. I don't know if the guys have rebuilt the trans. In this case, it's a Chrysler transmission. I don't know why, because I know that there have been others. I know a lot of those were Dodgems, and a lot of them were Ford. So apparently Chrysler, which is big here in southern Michigan, northern Ohio. back in the day. These were built here and, or at least the rebuild of the upper hull was done here, and these vehicles are still dotting on the map. We're still finding them. They run like a rape date. Once they're put together, everything's squared away. They are a phenomenal piece of equipment. They're actually pretty nimble and they're good for speed. So... Again, thank you to the guys and Double Plus Good. If I dig up another sanctuary of iron dinosaurs, we're pulling them into service, you know that. Now, real quick, I want to talk about something else here. And this is, of course, over the weekend, you can even experiment a little bit. As Ed knows, we built greenhouses. We started out doing a design that somebody else had been putting out on information bases like YouTube and it was like, interesting, but what can we do to make it better? And we did, we started playing with it. We originally the design called for using VisiQueen, what you do is you make a frame out of one inch PVC pipe. You take 10 foot pieces of PVC pipe, you use a normal joiner, a straight joiner is what was originally proposed, which works. And what you do is create ribs. every two feet you can make it as long as you want and every two feet may what you do is make another rib now the way to do this you either you can use say half inch or we used iron pipe you can use rerod or I should say reinforcing you know rebar you can buy it in sections which are actually just exactly what you want from any of the big box stores you go over to their hardware section we should say their raw material section or you can cut them, you can find scrap later on, which is what we do. And what you do is you map it out first by creating a rectangle the size that you want. Again, the idea behind this is you're creating a quonset hut. So what you want is an arc, basically a half circle. And the idea behind this is that you have a uniform material you can purchase anywhere, 10 foot pieces of PVC pipe. The joiners are minimal cost because it's a straight jointer originally. In addition to that, the VisiQueen was off the shelf and to keep the VisiQueen in place. Now this design is still not bad. You take one and a quarter inch PVC pipe, cut it into four inch or five inch sections, and then what you do is map out, you make a jig if you want, which is actually quite easy to do, and you cut about a fingers width, any finger will do, but about a fingers width, a little more or a little less, no not less, more. Actually you can do almost, one and a quarter you do actually, now one large thumb, let's do it that way. You cut that much out of it lengthwise, round the corners, after you cut the pipe, take a grinder and round them out, use a sander, round them out. And what you have are clips to hold the VisiQueen in place. So you can use canvas, you can use VisiQueen, and the one and a quarter PVC pipe internal dimension matches the one inch external. So when you clip it on, it locks into place, especially when it has a load, an additional material filling out the dimension when you clip these things together. Initially we did the VisiQueen. Later on, we started experimenting with other materials. I mean, after all, we want it kind of to be semi-permanent. The greenhouse is built this way. You also need about the four-foot mark or five-foot mark, five-foot even because that's halfway up the height of the PVC pipe on the inside. You need a crossbar. Now, the first thing that was recommended, and it actually is pretty cool, is cement. fascia bars that you use for screwing to cement to create a mock steel stud for installing drywall or whatever else you want in a basement or a cement surface area. You can use it for a lot of other projects. Now this is actually like a U-channel. And it was cheap, used to be cheap. It disappeared from the market for a while. I mean, when I see disappeared, people told me that the hardware never existed. And you could buy this material at any common hardware in the country. But newer people who had no clue about hardware and had no clue of history would tell you that, oh, you know, they never made anything like that. There's nothing available yet. Then I went to another part of the industry and found it was still there. Now, the steel channel is 10 foot long. You're going to need a couple of those for each side, but it varies depending upon what are you building. Now, if you want to make a longer greenhouse using these PVC pipe, they're cheap. Now, first question we have is, well, how do they hold up? Well, they actually hold up quite well. In fact, we had the first prototype up for two years, and the only thing that really took a meeting was the VisiQueen. Using other materials, this is the next step. Since you know that you have a 10-foot high PVC pipe, and let's say that I don't need a clear surface, but rather I'm trying to make a... How about a protective overhead shed to cover... How about small tractor or maybe a piece of equipment? You map out the same greenhouse format. You make it 10-foot long or make it 20-feet long. Wait a minute, Mark. Why didn't you just go somewhere in between? Here's why. And I'm abbreviating this. If you go to buy vinyl siding and you want to purchase vinyl siding, it comes in one box that it will cover one 10-foot height times a 10-foot length. Well, or whatever length you buy your vinyl siding in because you can get that in different lengths. So the interesting thing is, is since you know that every two feet you're going to put up a rib, you're going to put your crossbar on the inside, what's really great about this is you use all the same material used for vinyl siding finishing. You get a tractor edge for the base, you screw that in, a couple of screws per each of the PVC pipe, and now you have a guide. And then all you do is take one panel of vinyl siding out, Click it into place. Screw it into the PVC pipe across the whole length. In other words, from left to right. Grab it on the piece, click it into place. You know how quickly you can put this up? How durable is this? Well, by the way, now we do both sides. We get all the way to the top. What are we going to use for a cap? Well, amazingly enough, I found that what really works well as a cap are the corner guides. Now it doesn't have to be the same color and I try to find it resale points like let's see Habitat for Humanity, but I also look for throwouts or toss outs or returns from Menards, Lowe's, some have them, some don't so you figure out who does and who doesn't or look for odds and ends pieces from friends. Are you talking about dry all corner beads Mark? No, no, no. Or some other type of corner like this. Plastic vinyl side corner bead that's used all corners. And that becomes a natural crown for the building. Think about it. It's a peak. And it has two sides. And what you do is lay that down along the top, and everything comes right up to that 10-foot mark, locks right into where that other piece is overlapping, and you have yourself a small vinyl-sided PVC tube building that will hold up to a Michigan winter. How do we know this? Because we built them, we built it, and it did. Now, if you put your little guide bar on the inside just a little higher than four feet, in other words, you want it to the bottom rail of your two horizontal bars for support. are the lower part of it is at four feet, just at four feet, maybe a little higher than that much by maybe an eighth of an inch. You can then buy four by eight sheets of polyvinyl, take your pick, plastic, whatever, and screw that into the lower surface. It will arc and will cover efficiently and help to reinforce that outer arc. And you've got yourself one hell of a strong structure. But before you put that inner panel in, go buy yourself some inexpensive Styrofoam, cut it to fit within the two-foot distance, you know, less than two feet of the PVC pipe. Insert that. Now remember, you can buy that in 8-foot and 10-foot sections. So if you're smart, you might buy 10-foot sections, cut them the width between the two PVC pipe, slide them into place. You don't have to glue them or anything. And then take that inner panel, screw it into place, and you have a very rigid lower base that will handle weight because remember, we're in Michigan. We get snow. Now, did I leave the ends open? Well, yes, you can. However, what I did with our greenhouse is I took leftover 2x2s, that's a little heavier than the PVC pipe, but literally designing it after a quonset hut, a standard quonset hut, I took little throw out windows from a couple of campers that somebody got rid of and put out by the road, which have louvers, made a frame to fit those at one end. Made a frame for a standard size, biggest screen drawer I could find. And you got to make sure, remember, for height, it's got to be able to fit the space that you have with the arc of the roof, the arc of the PVC pipes. The neat thing about this is that you can use either a two by two, or you can use PVC pipe, but you have to be willing to calculate and cut your little tapers on either end. You want to cut little arcs into the pipe. You line them up, you screw it in place on either side, and by the way, what kind of screws? I use a pan self-tapping wide head sheet metal pan screw because it offers more reinforcing, it catches more. You don't need a washer, you can put washers on them. I try to use stainless. Why? Well, because I might want to take it apart. I don't want it to fall apart right away. Amazingly enough, we had one that we put up like this for two years, and what killed it was the tornado that hit us. And even then, one of the branches had come down and crushed it and damaged it. Now parts of it did get pulled away to Oz. But considering that it had been up for two full Michigan winters, this very simple design doesn't rust, doesn't corrode, doesn't break down. You don't even care. Okay, you know, for instance, if I wanted to get out of the weather, Michigan rain being what it is like we had the last couple days. The neat thing is that even with the ends open, this is a very efficient, simple design that allows you to put equipment, material, supplies out of sight, out of mind. Now, other tricks, what can you do? Well, number one, you can gravel the inside of the area so that you got, you know, again, a surface area. You want to kill off the grass if you can, scab it off, you know, and then fill with pea gravel or limestone or whatever you want. That's one solution. Or maybe one you want to keep. in place first, but then you can put, as you collect stuff that's being thrown away, you could use pallets and pallet the floor and then cover it with a plywood or whatever materials you have. And now you have a standoff from the ground, so you're not in contact with that. You have good drainage. Again, if you do it with materials you don't care about, if it is something that eventually gets tired, you just drag it all out, sort of burn it in the fire pile for the, you know, the campfire. and put another batch down. So this is a very simple building. This is what we're gonna be putting up at the new Fort Benning site. In fact, I've been shopping around and looking around and for instance, for $100 at one of the lumber companies here, they had five full cases of returned vinyl siding from a contract. They had the corrugated Eve panels, they have the guide panels and the corner panel, the corner slips, everything I was talking about to put, you know, put away, you know, a little project together like this, but any, I think, else can be done with it too, but it's $100 for everything. And you know what's really cool? It's in like grass green. It's in a grass green. It's not in just the regular pack colors, which really isn't a problem because the colonial gray green, you know, gray green or gray are actually great field colors and a lot of the vinyl siding colors that are out there that are factory standard, you know, red's not a really good choice. Barn red isn't really needed, but the other field grade field colors or earth colors are perfect for tactical deployment. Now, one of the things I did experiment with, I used the Colonial Blue, I used the Gray, and I used the medium-lome green siding from down the road, and I created a camouflage pattern using the vital siding. So it disrupted it because it wasn't a solid color. Now, the Colonial Blue is quite dark, almost an Air Force Midnight Blue. So, amazingly enough, it worked quite well in the overhead cover shaded areas because it complements the variance in color and sunlight through overhead tree top cover. So, just an idea. The Norwegians use a pattern similar to this where they actually were. I don't know, they're using another pattern right now, by the way. But for their coastal defense camouflage, they use the similar camouflage color range and it actually is quite successful. The thing is you just never see it in the United States. You never see any of it available. And they're even patenting all their new uniforms if you didn't know that. Norwe won't sell their present uniform to anyone. Somebody tried to make a copy and they went after them. Which should tell you something. So, say Norwe, you don't see very much because just all thousand come from there very much, okay? So anyway, ideas, and this is simple, two standard vinyl siding boxes, whatever size vinyl siding you get. See, you notice something here I try to do. I don't want to make any more cuts or do any special work than I have to. So the basic construction of this does not require any cutting. Even when I use the track panel, the U panels on the inside for the horizontal support, I don't cut them down. I overlap them and that creates a stronger ribbing. So even though they're eight foot, they're going to be actually only need say 10 foot or I need 12 foot or whatever. I don't cut them off. I actually overlap them and screw both of them right into the beam, into the one by PVC pipe. Anyway, ideas. We're going to get out of the way though because militia town hall is coming up next. More ideas are going to be presented here. God bless our Republic. Get to the New World Order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen the Empire is on the run. And we are on the march both day and night going to Botan to get glock mags for under seven dollars. Oh yes yes yes yes. By the way real quick, Vital Sighting, you got a buddy or a company or friend you know that does Vital Sighting, they almost always have a field full of the leftovers behind the barn. You go check to see what's there. You might find everything you need for free because he's a buddy. And they usually end up with so much that they start throwing it away. Hint, hint, hint. Don't let that happen. Anyway guys, we're gonna get out of the way for now. Edward's coming up. You guys, it's your program and we'll be back at 8 o'clock on the Ending Intel Report. God bless. Bye-bye. More great music. Your friends and family know. more values for what our great Republican each vanished in the middle to afraid to stand and fight stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave