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Mark Koernke and Donald Thatcher discussed weapons maintenance and customization, focusing extensively on the 1911 pistol platform, including frame and slide sourcing, parts interchangeability, and ammunition fabrication from surplus rifle cases. The hosts covered night vision equipment training protocols, barrel break-in procedures to improve accuracy and barrel life, and ammunition reloading techniques including color-coding spent cases for tracking and experimentation with different powder loads and bullet weights.
- 1911 pistol
- weapons wednesday
- ammunition reloading
- barrel break-in
- night vision training
- firearms maintenance
- parts interchangeability
- 45 acp
- john moses browning
- preparedness
- self-sufficiency
- surplus ammunition
- powder loads
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Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God-given right. And pray to God, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for once he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god-given rite, 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 fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? and this is the Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kornke. And I'm Donald Thatcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines at occupied territories, south, central, west, and southwest. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. You will also find us on AM & FM Microstations, CB Bay Stations, and ULTRA-Net Technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We are also on the Hallmark Network, 8 colonial states, solid, and many other states as we expand towards the Golden Spike Day when the O, the ULTRA-Net, and the Hallmark Net will be in place as a replacement, at least in basic form, for the Internet. Well, Don, today's date is... You guys, it is the 20th day of May. to K.T. Ordnance is one group that has the basic frame and slide. Another place to go and another option is also a circle. They have unfinished small frame and standard frame 45 blanks along with slide blanks. Either way, no matter which way you go, you can build a 1911. And you've got to remember the 1911 is much more forgiving when it comes to handworking because it was designed to be a little bit sloppy. It was designed to take mud, dirt, blood, body parts and everything else, shoved into it, and it was going to continue to work, and it would. So a standard 1911 frame, a standard 1911 slide, spare barrels are all over the place, firing print extractor, ejector, mainspring, mainspring, housing, and all the other fun stuff, safeties, grips, etc. That's all out there to be found in any flavor your little heart desires. So the 1911 can be made to your spec or can be made to traditional US military spec or Marine Corps, US Army or Marine Corps, depending upon your preference and also your wallet. Personally, I like building it from a lot of surplus parts because I know all the other parts will fit. There you go. Parts change ability is what wins. Right. We can keep it running when other things don't and we can always fabricate ammunition from other cases such as 30-06, 308. 8mm, you name it, anything that is a standard rifle case base dimension will work to be cut down as a 45 ACP case. If it is crushed or broken at the throat, that round, that empty case that has been used gets transferred over into the 45 ACP battery or 44 automag depending on how much case is left. So we never let anything go to waste. Now, One cool one cool thing about that Don is again you're you've had a chance to own them and you've owned a lot of different weapons But the 1911 there's a bit of an assurance there and carrying a weapon like that isn't there? Oh, you know You guys you handle guns and you hold things and you get become a problem as you say mark becomes stand and be you know I shoot this gun left-handed It's a standard interject that I shoot this gun left-handed second or whatnot is the motion in my left hand come familiar with it And you have as you point out of Dinky You can put lasers in the underneath. You can put big old flashlights underneath it. You could probably, if it's hard enough, find your mark, maybe launch your underneath system long enough that most anything you can do to a handgun, in particular, thought about creating a blow pad. Who was it? I don't know. Who was that? Mark, it's lost to me in history. But these are basic action. And that lever gun, because I would not want to catch one, and we've talked about loading them, I questioned you with the same. That lever gun, that mind look what was around when john mosas browning went over to that guy those people in the because you know he did the same thing there's a reason why this gun isn't called the brown contract though very user friend it is as you say my you get you hear the phrase there was about seventeen of them at the gun no it it might go into the local family it's a gun that you you know we can go on and on about one of john mosas browning i i did that common people had called me in john and people have sat in the room and said well done On Weapons Wednesday, why don't you talk about a weapon and take it apart on the air and tell people how to service it and whatnot. Well, that's pretty hard to do on the radio. It's a lot easier to do in a multimedia like audio-visual, just an audio. But after pondering on that for a good long time, it took me most of a year after these suggestions, down and look at that 1911 and think and ponder on it and ruminate on it and make the choice. So many of them out there. As far as sidearms in my book, I'm certain that if you look over at other variants, be coming up in every day after they've been selling on the hour. Mr. Browning, John Moses, Browning, we're back together on the air. I might do that again someday, but you guys, tell people when they buy night vision, try to take it out every night for at least 30 days running. This way, odds are most pulls of light from moon to no moon. The ergonomic things are how you work it, how you turn it on, how you turn it off, how you make it before you go into the dark. And you know, there's a reason why the Army does this. The Navy and the Air Force and the Marines and the Coast Guard too and even the Iraqi Army and these other armies across the world, they drill things into you for 30 and 60 and 90 days. And after you've been in for 20 years, they make you do the same things you were doing for the first 30 and 60, 90 days. Because 30 and 60 in particular, first 30 days, even thing that if you do something every day for 30, you kind of shuffle it and to use a different, you shuffle it down in the deck and it into your sub-cost. And you know what? You're thinking about all kinds of things in your subconscious, much like, you know, you don't know why the army does it, and something as mundane as, darn, I gotta do another 50. Come familiar. If you think, and, you know, this is weapons Wednesday, you guys, and here's another spring along this same line, Mark, and we've tried to touch on this one more than once, because we know, and we've brought you the numbers on how many guns, and we know, and as you pointed out, Mark, sometimes, and many times exceeding in the last six months, Americans have bought enough to private owners and this has happened in consecutive months for a good number now. So I would have to say and assume that there are a number of those people who have purchased guns, those guys who have owned guns for a while and know what's coming to that in mind if something's example. Person in that kind of situation, Mark, you know, people and there's even some old timers who are kind of guilty of this. I'm going to go out and buy a gun and I'm going to ammunition and maybe you take that gun and you take it out of the box. If you've done that, you have not built and now as you're more imperative for backing your gun, don't and If you do this with Bill and paying attention to what you're doing, all of a sudden you're going to find it. Man, I just shot five rounds through the gun and I just cleaned the gun, but look at them. It's less patches to bring the gun to clean this time. Now you've burnished the barrel to where you could go out and shoot from the barrel. You're creating a situation in internal ballistics to where you're not ripping, tearing the bullet as it leaves also. And you're not putting it's good to shoot jacketed bullets, maybe not even today. Break in that barrel for a number of reasons. increase your accuracy, it will increase your barrel life, three good reasons, not to mention, thank you very much. Well again with regard to fire forming, this is one of the oldest tricks in the book and for as long as cases have been made, fire forming through the chamber of a weapon or to a cylinder for a certain weapon has been a plus. It's been something that was very quickly learned. All of you can do this. Now here's another thing, to settle part of this, people are going, well it's a lot of work, okay. When you go to the range and everybody throws away their boxes, you can save them guys. And what you do is you take, what I do is for instance, I use a color-coding. I take an indelible marker and I can mark the base of the case with blue or black or red. You know, the sharpie markers. Now, I don't need a big mark, although sometimes we've actually just colored the whole base of the case so you cannot miss it. It doesn't have to be super heavy, all it has to be is a shade. Ideally, a lacquer enamel lacquer paint is perfect. That's actually what's used to seal the primers and things like that. What we're doing is we're color coding for loading. We can either do this so I can color code to ID for that pistol or rifle that I'm going to use it in. Or, I can also color code when I'm experimenting. As I mentioned in the past, we actually have different shot loads that we've put together if it's shotgun or different bullet weights with different powders. And what we'll do, or different powder loads, which is more common, we're using the same powder, but we may want to either upgrade, which means we're going to use a little more powder with each charge, or degrade the size of the charge to try and still get the same base.