Well I'm poor, I'm broke, I'm livin' free, I ain't got a nickel or dime I'm just livin' life in Tennessee, and I'm tryin' to see more down time Can't you see that Cherokee River, flowin' on cold and wide? Can't you see me runnin' forever, tryin' to catch a steamboat on time? And now, from the secret hidden bunker in the Rocky Mountains, it's time for MBTV on the radio, and your host, Michael Bain I ain't got a nickel or dime, I'm just livin' life in Tennessee, and I'm tryin' to catch a steamboat on time Can't you see me runnin' forever, tryin' to catch a steamboat on time? How's about a little bit of bluegrass to start today? That's a group called Unknown River from down in Orlando where there are, in fact, there in Central Florida is a lot, a lot of unknown rivers And the name of the song is "Poor, Broke and Living Free" which pretty much describes our situation here, that's a secret hidden bunker in the Rocky Mountains I'm Michael Bain, this is MBTV on the radio, our award-winning podcast now in its 20th year Brought to you this week is always by hunters, HD Gold, they change so you don't have to And MTM case guard, makers of the finest plastic boxes in the whole wide world So, I wanted before we first talk about how the world has become weir than anyone else could even imagine Boy, we had like a hell of a storm over the weekend, it just came kinda out of space, it was a hail storm So they're pictures of a spinning vortex dropping down Now, tornadoes are very, very rare up here in the mountains, but they're not impossible And this was basically a very small cell, thunderstorm cell, and unfortunately it actually had a bullseye directly on us And when it hit, it hit absolutely screaming, one of the reasons I think it was a vortex The wind was clearly swirling, it wasn't coming from any one direction, it was swirling And just huge droughts of rain and worse for us for our garden Some of the damage we took to the property was hail, big hail, quarter-size hail, first starts out little hail, which you see a lot here Usually we don't get huge hail here either, that happens farther out on the plains where the storm has a chance to build And those little hail particles get shipped up into the storm and layers of ice go on them Well, this puppy had about quarter-size hail at its biggest Marble-size hail for the most piece driven by winds, they set up to 60 miles an hour plus So, my sweetie and I spent yesterday sorting through the garden Which has definitely seen better days, our grapevines, for our great big parrots, our Tumka cause and grape parrot We have a big outdoor flight that they just love And over the years we've cultivated a grape arbor over it, so it stays cool for them all the time They like grapes, they'll be happy to pick up a grape, pick a grape off the vine Or they'll take a chunk of grapevine and chew it, which some parrot authorities say is a very calming thing for a parrot But we had apple trees that were just heavy with apples, we trimmed them back last year And didn't get much of a crop, so we were getting a really big crop this year And grapes and apples pretty much ended up on the ground, we still have some left But it took a hit, we had a cherry tree that we'd been half done harvesting We were now finished harvesting The grape arbor, it stripped most of the leaves off of it Some of the vegetables just got wiped It's a hail storm Everything got broken, all the outdoor lights got broken I thought we might lose a window, but luckily that held Some of the other people in the path of this particular storm locally did lose windows From the size of the hail So if you want to have a scary 30 minutes, a hail storm that's pounding down like that That'll do it, that'll do it It's one of the reasons I have such a gigantic respect for farmers, my god Here it's kind of a hobby garden, we grow a lot, we eat what we grow, it's really great But it's not life and death, yet anyway But we also have my sweetie work very hard on her flower garden, which is just beautiful I mean once again, high desert isn't exactly known as an ideal place for gardening You know, it ain't no place you're going to do a classic English garden But she's worked for a decade building it up and just The day before the storm, the garden was spectacular The day after the storm, the garden is gone Not the plants weren't wiped, but certainly all the blossoms, all the blooms And everything were So we're hopeful, you know, they're tough and we're hoping we'll kind of nurse them back A little bit over the next few months or so I mean, not to complain, but boy, that was a surprise I also thought it was an interesting reminder to me That sometimes there is such a thing as like an act of god on that end And it's like, well, what can you do to prepare yourself for, you know, a hail storm Once in a ten year hail storm Huh, not much, not much to be sure Had, you know, had we had any coverage over any of the plants, you know, any plastic or even glass I'm pretty sure the hail storm would cut a swath Luckily our roof was undamaged, luckily our solar panels were undamaged Which is always a critical point there But anyway, that's what's going on in my world I did want to mention, and I think you'll find this fun On Saturday, before the storm My sweetie and I went to a cowboy match And a local cowboy match, a local club And it's one we'd shot at at this club for years and years and years Before we kind of dropped out of cowboy And ultimately dropped out of competition during the COVID years But so we decided we wanted to go, she said, you know, it'd be fun to shoot a cowboy match And sometimes, you know, when you say, when you haven't shot for a long time, you haven't competed for a long time You guys know that I have been a huge proponent of competition It's not a secret time, it's something I've talked about Pretty much constantly The main reason I have been over the years such a proponent of competition Is that, well, it's two points We talk about gun safety We talk about the rules, we talk about gun safety One of the huge advantages of competition Is that you're on the range with loaded guns under the supervision of range officers Who are watching you very carefully To make sure that you don't break any of those rules And that is a very handy thing to have So if you're shooting competition regularly or you spend some time in competition It helps you internalize the safety rules Because you're thinking about them kind of all the time there Because you're, again, you're there with loaded guns, you know? Some cases, multiple different kinds of loaded guns, and those things are very important The second thing is gun handling And I feel really, really strongly about this That the way you get better at gun handling Which is a fundamental skill, a critical skill Is repetition And I have friends who've never shot competition Who don't really care that much about competition But because they're in the training community Or the committed people who are constantly doing Repetition is over and over again I was thinking, if you were a few years back I thought, okay, I've been competing Yeah, I started completing a bullseye in like the late '70s You know, and then quickly transitioned As soon as I could, late '70s, early '80s To competition, to practical shooting, to IPSC, USBSA In the course of all those years How many times do you think I've drawn my gun? A hundred thousand, two hundred thousand A million, it's not impossible It's not impossible When I was seriously competing in USPSA It was not unusual to be fifty to a hundred thousand rounds a year In competition and practice You know, mostly what I did is I practiced I tried to make enough money to keep going And at the same time ran the reloading machine Pull the arm on that dillin' and loaded ammunition so I could shoot So it would certainly be, you know, not unusual to say For every round I fired in competition I probably drew the gun in dry fire in practice ten times Let's say ten, let's pick a low number So let's say I shot sixty thousand rounds in one year competition Which is about, you know, a low year competition And ten x that is six hundred thousand times I drew the gun out of the holster And, you know, think those numbers first feel real But on the other hand, you know, I dry practice a lot You know, I'm thinking like, okay, you know A good example is that if I'm changing a holster on an EDC And I've got, you know, an inside the waistband holster A new one, I might stand there in my office And draw that gun fifty times A hundred times Because repetition is what makes you better So, in a sense competition is a trick You know, competition is a trick because it makes you do those things That you need to do anyway You know, in the ten years I seriously shot cowboy action You know, I shot probably took one weekend a month off Shot three matches And essentially, you know, competitively shot competitively all the time Routinely dry-fired Yeah, I wanted to get dry-fired in every day I wanted to get the feel of the guns every day I wanted to draw from the holster every day And plus, each time I did those dry-fired repetitions It allowed me to practice my safety as well You know, that's the way it works Repetition is what builds, you know, gosh, what's John Hearn call it Automaticity You know, basically you're driving in how to do this How to do this with the guns And, you know, you see kind of, it's not a payoff But it's, it's, it's a few over a few years back I was walking the newster up the trail and it was a period of time when It was early in the year And so it was a little cool and it's still a little breezy at night So what I wasn't looking for was rattlesnakes Because I'm like, yeah, well, it's not rattlesnake season yet, you know? So there's no reason for me to go like, I've got to be watching For rattlesnakes every step that I take Because they're not out, they're still dined Which led me to almost step on a big prairie rattler Boy, was he pissed off But here's an interesting thing I did shoot him Even though he's on the trail, you know, since, I want to make it a point I don't shoot rattlesnakes on this trail If you're on the house platform, if you're around the house If you want to come in, have a cup of tea, you're going to die, right? But if you want to live on my property, by all means, live on my property You know, I'll help you move into the rocks where the rock rats live But the point I wanted to make Was the first time I became aware that the gun was in my hand Was when I saw the sights move on to the rattlesnake Everything happened very, is it I-W-B? Drew quickly sights on the rattlesnake Verified the sight, shoots the snake in the head, boom Actually, I think I shot him in the coils because I didn't want him to strike Second shot took his head off But, essentially, when faced with a threat, I didn't have to think Oh, let me think about the five steps to the draw, right? I first established a solid grip while the gun is in the holster Okay, we don't have to go there if we are constantly drawing the gun You know, and one of the advantages to me of competition, especially when it comes to the draw Is, I know this is a shock to all you people out there, but boy, sometimes you can just grip the gun wrong Sometimes you can screw your draw up so freakin' bad that you're in awe And one of the advantages of competition is when that happens, oftentimes, you get a genuinely crappy score So it gives you a chance to go back and go, "What did I do?" Well, you know, I didn't grab the gun, I didn't have a full solid firing grip At the point, I pulled the gun out And as a consequence, I did not have the control of that gun that I needed to do well on the targets Huh, so once again, learning lessons, learning lessons, learning lessons And I, you know, I won't even argue competition with, there are people who tell me a great lesson Competition be bad, well, it's not Everything is what you take from it, and we go back to Bruce Lee, right? We always end up coming back to Bruce Lee, absorb what is useful Yeah, and take what you want from training, from competition, from whatever, and make it uniquely your own So to a large extent, it doesn't matter what competition you do You know, we go back to the early days of IDPA, when Billy Wilson called me up and said, "Hey!" The last story you've heard a million times, Bill Wilson called me up and said, "Hey, I need you to send me 35 bucks, and I'm not cool, for what?" A magazine, what? And he goes, "No, you idiot, we're starting a new shooting sport, and you're ground floor." I said, "Okay, yeah, sure." So, you know, I worked with myself, Tom Judd, formed the first big IDPA club in the West, still in existence You can actually search some of that stuff on the internet, on us founding clubs here in Colorado, working on the IDPA safety officer program Because I was really quick to go, Billy didn't like the idea of, you know, there's always a period of time when USPSA safety officers really had a wrong mental attitude for what they were doing For better or for worse, that certainly, I don't think is the case anymore, but yeah, I was painting the butt And Bill was very adamant that he didn't want safety officer, he didn't want range Nazis there Yeah, I was myself and I believe in Ken Hackathorne, went back to him and said, "Dude, we gotta have safety standards, we gotta take these people through what we expect them to do, or it's going to be dangerous" And Bill agreed, and we did, you know, I taught classes out here, out west with Tom Judd, Ken Hackathorne taught them In the east, and you know, initially it was like, this is more real than USPSA, and it's not Anywhere where they're keeping score is a competition, and a competition is never a reality The person who told me that was Jim Serrillo, who probably knew about as much or more about shooting reality as anybody since, I don't know, you know, Wild Bill Hickock You know, Jim Serrillo's experience was during a period of time where he shot people in New York City's stakeout squad, super dangerous duty But Jim said, you know, I loved competition, and he did, he absolutely loved competition He goes, "But, I have no illusions that competition is the real world, that I am learning to be a gunfighter by standing here on the line, buzzer goes off and I shoot through" He goes, "But what I am learning" And again, Jim said this to me, "Well, Roush, one of the founders of IDPA, one of the founders, USPSA, founders of National Tactical Invitational, I mean, a seminal person in the practical shooting sports is in the United States" He goes, "Hey, we're not teaching you strategy to use on the street, what competition is forcing you to do is to become increasingly competent in running a gun" And in a situation where your life may be on the line, do you think it might be useful to you to know how to run a gun real good? That you have incorporated a certain level of automaticity, you don't have to think about the five steps of the draw, or what's not there like, "Oh gosh, I can't remember" I thought it was maybe a video that said, "Here are the 14 steps to a successful draw, it's like good grief" I fell asleep on seven, but you learn step at a time, step at a time, step at a time, you learn that way, but you get better through the endless repetition of correctly drawing the gun of correctly operating the trigger, spend some time with Rob Latham, the great one, my good friend Rob Latham And he'll tell you a lot about operating a trigger And a lot of it is stuff that you might not realize when you say, "Well, I'm just going to go a little slower" Rob has a different definition of slow, which is you do everything as fast as you can until your finger touches the trigger and you begin that take up, then things slow down, we'll be right back Ready to revolutionize the world of sports shooting? 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Oh, yeah, three gun, and she shot three gun for, I don't know, seven, eight years You know, and one of the clubs we shot at was really well known for their weird quirky shooting positions So like, okay, it's only a 200-yard shot with your AR, but you have to lie on a pile of truck tires that keeps moving Okay, and not put your feet on the ground, so I mean, you know, within the various sports, say three gun Part of the challenge, and in PRS certainly, in NRL 22, like when you're shooting off a ladder, you're shooting off a tank trap You're shooting off a fill in the blank, an overturned bucket The challenge is to figure out how to shoot well under adverse conditions Huh, so if you think about that That is another advantage to competition, to long gun competition, to three gun, to NRL Hunter, PRS, NRL 22 Any sort of competition that part of what they do is say, "Hey, you know what?" All you got to do is make a 100-yard shot with your AR on those five plates But in order to get to that shot, you're going to have to open the door of that junk car You're going to have to jump in, you're going to have to slide across the seat You're going to have to safely slip your gun out the passenger side window Figure out how you're going to get a hold on those five targets and engage them Huh, once again, it comes back to, "Do you think those skills might be useful to you ever in the real world?" And it's funny, on my first trip to Africa, which I think is 2013 I really shot, he's on my wall now, he kind of lives here forever A really, really spectacular kudu bull And in order to get into a position, he was in the middle of his, kind of an open field But right in the middle, there were like three trees and three kudus And as near as he could tell, nobody could see him, it was shady and everything like that I spent a bunch of time crawling through thorn or hands and knees And finally got to an open point where I had a clear, mostly broadside view at the kudu And the pH said, he goes, "Well, you know, I don't know if you can do this or not" But maybe if you were able to slip the rifle back and you're lying partly on your side And you've got the rifle rested on a branch of a thorn bush That's maybe eight inches off the ground, you'll have some kind of support I'm like, "Oh yeah, cool, I've already seen that popped into it" Pull a shot, kudu fell down He goes, "Oh, you didn't seem to have any trouble getting a position on an odd shot" Three gun, three gun, three gun You know, every time I went to a match, every time I went to a match Some hellish match director had a really good idea on what an awkward shot was That's how you had to learn how to shoot an awkward shot Once again, do you think that might be useful to you at some point in the future Or if, say you're going hunting, if you're going to shoot a bunny in your backyard It may not be the open shot that you think it's going to be In fact, it almost never is But yeah, I saw that happen pretty much repeatedly Is what kind of shot do I have? And can I make that shot? And the other thing is that I like about competition Is the dirty hairy line from Magnum Force, right? A man's got to know his limitations And what that means, you know, what that means to you Is it you got to know how you shoot? Huh, because if you're presented with a situation, say a life and death situation You need to know whether you can make that shot or not Because somebody's life might depend on it I know we all shoot incredibly well, you know? We are all like Rudolph Valentino combined with Clark Gable As we woo women into bed or woo members of the other sex into bed We all know how to do these things We're all great, just massive hunters, we can do anything Yeah, well, how much do you practice it? That's pretty much going to tell you what you need to know Competition allows you a platform To judge how well you can shoot in specific and different combinations You know, it's when you're a kid and you start shooting when you're a kid You know, and put up a bullseye target And the first time you hit that bullseye, you're like, "Wow!" And you show it to everybody, you're like, "I hit the bullseye!" Did you see, I hit the bullseye! The other 47 shots looked like somebody had shot a shotgun at the target And there were still only 35 hits on it I mean, but you thought, you know, we tend to see our abilities in a best case That's sort of how humans think You know, "Can I do X?" "Yeah, well, yeah, how do you know? Do it once?" Huh, if you do it once, is that sufficient? Let's go back to those draws, one draw after the other A hundred draws, a thousand draws, 50,000 draws Let's go back to the shots you shoot In a sense, exactly the same way, you shoot in long gun, whatever The most important learning shots for me in NRL22 Were the shots on my own range Where I could do it again, and again, and again, okay, did that work? Now, how do I orient this bag when I land in such a way that it makes it work? Alright, let me try it that way, let me try it that way again, let me, you know, let me walk around and come back and do the same thing, does it work? Perfect practice makes perfect, as you know So, not just practice makes perfect, 'cause I see a lot of people practice from, "Holy crap!" If I'm taking a hostage by aliens or something, please don't call those people to come get, you know, please, I don't know, I think I'd rather stay with the aliens, but... That's the importance of competition, so you've heard that from me before, but it's sort of interesting, it's sort of interesting I see more and more that there's, you know, kind of people crazy Well, you know, competition is stupid, whoa, competition leaves scars, what doesn't? You know, my father teaching me to shoot exactly wrong left scars that it took me years, years and a lot of hours at gun sight to get over That's just the truth of it, I wish it wasn't so, but that's the truth You know, it was instilled in me when I was a little kid, this is how you shoot, except it's not There's a reason that I'm the guy that tracked the wounded deer and then had to put them down and haul them out of the hauler, as it were, where they fell, but... And rest is so, rest is so, you know, it was a good man and he loved to shoot, he just didn't do it all that well But we always imagine ourselves as being to perform at our highest possible level on demand And that is virtually never true, it may be true if you happen to be going to France for the Olympics It's certainly true if you're Lanny Barnes, who is, of course, Lanny, a sister Tracy, gosh, twin sister Tracy or, you know, Olympic biathletes Lanny is... I've never seen, actually, anybody shoot like Lanny And I love Lanny to death, and we're really good friends We've traveled in Europe together, and we're really good friends And, you know, she said, "Oh, did you look at my practice video?" She's like rolling on a ball, shooting a plate rack 20 yards away I'm like, "Ah, yes, sweetheart, the likelihood of me rolling on a ball is somewhere between nil and not nil But Lanny, you know, Lanny will jump up huge stairs and shoot Because she is a once-in-a-generation or a generational athlete At a level we can all only imagine Kim Rody You know, Kim Rody, the great shotgun Olympian, like five Olympic medals One of the very few people who've ever won five Olympic medals Kim ain't from this earth You know, Kim and I've laughed about that a lot, which is story I've told before, I'll tell it again Because I like it Kim and I were driving around in LA, we were doing some event together And she was talking about how she really feels good, you know, that she can focus in And, you know, on a clay pigeon, see writing on it, there's writing on clay pigeons Who knew? She goes, "Well, you can see that, right, it's spinning, you see, and that's how you know you're focused And while you're, I can't see that" And she goes, "Pull over, we're in LA traffic, we pull over" And she goes, "Four" I forget, three blocks, four blocks, five blocks down Somewhere, way to hell down there She goes, "There's a blue sign and an arrow on it that points right" She goes, "Tell me what that sign says" To which I replied, "There's a blue sign" You know, um Kimmy is just exceptional, Lanny's exceptional I've been so lucky, you know, to have so many good friends who are, you know, oh gosh You know, Todd Jarrett, who I spent so much time with over the years You know, we've already mentioned TGO, Rob Latham, a great one You know, I've been lucky to spend time with people kind of at that level You know, I'm looking forward, in fact, later this year, to going and spending a day or two with John McLean This factory shooter for Rock Island, I thought that John's great I want to spend that time with John, you know, other people like, you know, Three Gun Legend Patrick Kelly I'm honored to have him as a friend Because casual advice from people like Patrick, or casual advice from John McLean Should be noted as something that's written on a marble tablet and handed down It's great to be around exceptional people until you realize that you're not one of them But, uh, once again, it's such a mental game And it's something that I paid attention to, especially, you know, for my time in high-risk sports Things like, we'll have time doing triathlons, you know? What's my fastest time on a bicycle on a 15-mile course? And, you know, if I'm going to, you know, when I was looking at a 15-mile course And I would say, how long is it going to take me to smoke this course? And in my head, I quickly go to the fastest I've ever ridden a bicycle on a 15-mile loop Oh, yeah! But that doesn't take into account the temperature, it doesn't take into account the nature of the surface Am I riding gravel? Am I riding asphalt? In one case in Florida was I riding sand? All those things change, but we default to our best conceivable performance This is the way we do it, because this is the way we've done it And that is simply not true It's good to think about that, oftentimes, you know, I'll do something and do something poorly In a training or something and say, I have better in me You know, I know I have better in me, I know I have done better I need to see what particular flaw has surfaced that is causing me to perform in what amounts to a sub-optimal level If that makes sense, that's useful But when you say, can you do that, yeah, hell yeah I could do that, I did that once, we'll be right back Introducing the all-new Taurus G3C With key new features and enhanced customization potential for shooters and everyday carry practitioners of all ages and abilities To learn more, talk to your local dealer today And by the way, speaking of odd things I haven't seen before, I got an interesting box in the mail Which I love getting boxes in the mail, it's always great getting interesting boxes in the mail In this case, this particular interesting box was from Steiner And you guys know, in a lot of ways, I'm kind of Steiner's not a sponsor I wish they were, but they're not I've always been kind of a Steiner fanboy, right? And I've been to Steiner in Germany and been to the factory They're pistol-optic, I think it's just superb, they're scopes, they're like, oh please, yes But I got an interesting box from Steiner, and I haven't even opened the box yet I decided to read the label though, at least I can do that And it's a Steiner pistol-mounted laser and training system, which I think is fascinating Essentially Steiner got together with Mantis X Mantis X is a training system, it fits on your gun I've used it for years To me, one of the most useful things for using the Mantis system Is refining my trigger pull Because the Mantis system is absolutely unforgiving You pull the trigger wrong, you're not hitting So I mean, in terms of, we go back to this, to watch this I swing my arms and hit my microphone We go back to this training drive-fire training I have an Ipsy course on my wall in my office Targets from Ben Stoker, the smaller sized targets And I practice on it, just pepper poppers and hostage targets And the great thing to me is if I combine that with the Mantis system and dry fire You know, it's telling me what's wrong with my trigger It's telling me what I'm doing wrong At the same time I'm able to practice on my shooting So I thought it was interesting that Steiner is introducing I may be speaking out of turn, if I am, I'm sorry But it's called the Torx TRX Steiner's been doing some pistol-mounted lasers But this pistol-mounted laser includes the Mantis system inherent in it So you link that by Bluetooth to your phone or to whatever to the app And then you can also, in addition to having a functioning, aiming laser on your gun You also have the Mantis system that allows you to use it as a training tool And you can do it either live fire or dry fire Which I think is really kind of neat Just a quick read of the press release It's a micro-laser system designed to fit any pistol with a picker We've a rail, four to the trigger guard, five-watt green laser Duty-grade, anodized housing, typical of anything built by Steiner, over-built by Steiner Water-resistant to take hard use And the second face of it is the Mantis system It's driven by the Mantis app via Bluetooth connectivity to your mobile device It's a really great training system In fact, I think pretty much everybody that I know uses the Mantis training system Because it just works so darn well But anyway, I'll link you up to that It's an MSRP-359 dollars Which again, it's two separate things It's a laser and it's a Mantis system So that's a pretty reasonable price within that time frame But I'm interested in actually opening the box And I'll pop it onto a gun and let's see how things rock and roll But you know, I wanted to finish up here talking about cowboy shooting Because I started out that way and you notice I drifted aimlessly Into other directions, which is If you've been listening to this podcast for a long time, you know, it happens But, you know, it was fun You know, forget the outfits in the hand, I live in Colorado, I have hats and boots anyway If you go down to the general store in the little town that I live in Everybody looks like they're dressed for a cowboy match, except what they're dressed for Is pushing cattle around or working their range But it was fun, my sweetie and I went, the club is a local club I gotta look here, Wildcat Ridge They used to shoot in a junkyard, now they have kind of a whole range But it was really fun, people that I knew were there and They tend to use really big targets really up close Which is okay when, you know, when you're coming out, you're starting out Remember, cowboy's a speed game And it's funny Well, it wasn't that funny But, you know, I short stroked The trigger on my Ruger Vercaros I decided I'm going to stick to 38 until I know what I'm doing Back to when I know what I'm doing But, you know, I short stroked the trigger a couple of times And then you get to click it all the way around Click, click, click, click, bang You know, and that's because I've been shooting a lot of double action revolver And they work differently than single action revolvers And my finger doesn't know that yet So, but on the other hand, I didn't miss anything I got a pen, it's a really nice pen It's this clean match, and cowboy clean match means you didn't miss anything And it also means you're not going fast enough But I was always very much at the opinion of coming from the old school Is at first you got to know how to hit stuff And only then can you really speed up So, you know, I went through the match, I shot my 1873 Once again, gosh, where's it from? I think it was from Simmeron You know, Texas brush popper from Simmeron As rebuilt by Ken Griner, who has rebuilt most of my guns And also my shotgun, which I love I shoot a double barrel shotgun, it's a Browning BSS And I got it as new in the box It wasn't the deluxe Browning BSS It was kind of the very lowest in Browning, double barrel shotgun And a friend of mine happened to go to a Cabela's in Ding Dong, nowhere walks into the Cabela's gun room In the box there is a, it's not shiny because it's not the good finish or anything There is as new in the box Browning BSS 12 gauge And he calls me up immediately and he goes 650 It's done So he bought that shotgun and I got it back here And I took it to the gunsmith I'm a carer who did the cutting But it might have been Griner, might have got Griner to do it But before I went, some guy was looking at it, we were talking about it at his shop And I had taken it in and was showing it off actually And a guy goes, wow, what a great gun You know, what you're going to do with it is I'm going to whack the barrels off And use it in Cabela's actually shooting and he goes, what did you pay for it? So it's six and a half and he goes to double it Don't cut it So come on dude, I mean guns are made to shoot, right? Guns are made to shoot And I've shot the hell out of it, it is truly It is the Abrams tank of double barrel shotguns You know, you've got a love of Browning BSS The bead fell off in the first match And I've never had a bead on it for like, I don't know, seven or eight years And I never noticed the difference, it's not like, you know, I'm not shooting clay pigeons in a distance flying away But I do love that shotgun So it was fun, it was fun to shoot a clean match My sweetie shot a clean match beat the crap out of me on speed She had one blistering stage And she hadn't shot a cowboy gun in four years, five years She's so cool Anyway, I'm Michael Baines, this is MBTV On the radio, our weekly podcast Brought to you by Hunter's HD Gold and MTM case guard I want to say again, I will be at the rimfire world championships in Alabama in October And I would love for you to join me there, I will buy you a beer Because you can make it to the NRA show You come to the rimfire world championships and I will buy you a beer And as of right now, I'm going to be giving away a gun It's going to be a really nice gun Gun that you can't get But I'll be giving it away, so I'd love to have you there So anyway, you know, this is a song, we've played this song recently before But I like it so much, I decided to play it again Marshall McFaren, it's the Price family Two marks in a Sydney And this is a Honky Tonk song, and I thought I'd play it for you Because I feel kind of Honky Tonky And I feel really great that we didn't talk about politics this week I got a lot of incredibly good comments on last week's podcast Sometimes you just, you know, wears you down So anyhow, let's go Honky Tonk in And remember, until next week These are scary damn times Period Scariest times in our lifetime May be among the scariest times for our country Alright, quick changing note, being really serious here And that means you guys be armed Be situationally aware and be careful out there Another saw that's for dancers in the discolates Another hopeful sunset And a heartbroken sunrise What am I looking for? Right after the night What do I want to see? And every old other's eyes A little taste of peace In the cheap wild A little tenderness Hiding in the neon light At another home we talk Another lonely night One more hour Tryna make it right Another saw that's for dancers in the discolates Another hopeful sunset And a heartbroken sunrise A little tenderness [BLANK_AUDIO]
