(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) And now, from the secret hidden bunker in the Rocky Mountains, it's time for MBTV on the radio and your host, Michael Bain. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Baby, gonna make my butter melt. I mean, come on, that's gotta be a great title there, right? That is from Kyle Cox, you've heard him here before. He is a musician and out of Nashville originally from Texas, with a real fascination with 40s and 50s jazz, which is why you've heard it here before, because I have a real fascination with 40s and 50s jazz. So, hey, I'm Michael Bain, this is MBTV on the radio in our 20th year of our award-winning podcast, brought to you this week by MTM case guard and of course, Hunter's HD Gold shooting glasses. And wow, you know, some days you eat the bear, some day the bear eat you, and as most of you know, from my constant whining on the podcast, this artist has been a bear. (laughs) We got hailstorms, we got fires, we got a sick doggy. It's okay right now. We have all these other, like, couple of legal issues that we want, but you still gotta deal with them. And so, we're sitting there, my sweetie and I are like, okay, let's take a deep breath. Okay, we're past the worst of the stress, we think. So, the well-pump dies, of course. (laughs) Oh, yeah, well, actually, it's only money, right? But anyhow, anyhow, beyond that, you know, I haven't really been doing, you know, a lot beyond, like, patterning, buckshot things that I really needed to do on house guns and make sure they're set up and working and sighted in. I just started working with the Springfield Armory Prodigy and the Prodigy that has been fueled by Ed Brown, and I'll have that on the, on triggered for, like, let's see, this is dead Monday, too. I'll have this for triggered next week. And you can check it out. It's a great little gun, great little gun to shoot. I have been enjoying it. I also noted that my friend Kevin Creighton, who I mention a lot on this show, is showing his, by the way, thesis 9mm 1911 that he'll be carrying for the next year. I'll give you the link to that. I showed you mine first, right? I think mine's cooler than Kevin's, but, you know, what are you going to say? Basically, his overhaul was done by Dave Fink. Mine was done by Ed Brown. Both of them are, you know, Ed Brown's shop. Both of them are absolutely superb gunsmiths. Using British shield sites, red dot sites on them, again, lightweight commander, round-butted Ed Brown cut on it. And his, the newer shield mine is the older shield, and I'll get to Scotland before you. He's using Wilson magazines. I'm using Ed Brown by, you know, Ed Brown's a sponsor. And the other thing is, is they work all the time, so it's really hard to argue with that. But, anyway, I'll link you up to that article. You kind of check that out. But we're, we're sort of like what I think of as a summer doldrums on gun stuff, because, you know, we're, we're, guns don't sell super gut deluxe in the summer. Yeah, it's kind of one of the truisms of the market. And then as you head toward hunting season, toward hunting season, toward fall, toward, when people start thinking about like, wow, let's go out and get out. Let's go do some stuff and, you know, let's get, you know, it's not 146 degrees in the shade. So I might want to go out and shoot a competition of some sort. You see a lot of companies beginning to like release their new stuff. There's stuff that they're going to be showing at NASTW a little bit later this year. And of course, at the SHOT Show in January. But so, so we're kind of a doldrum, if you will. The shooting that I have been doing with a handgun, I've been out doing some 22 shooting. Because as you know, looking forward to the rimfire challenge, world championships, rimfire challenge, how can you talk? How kind of you to let me come? Maybe if I practice a little bit more, I can learn to talk, right? But in any case, in any case, looking forward to the rimfire challenge shooting association, world championships in Alabama in October. Looking forward to having as many of you guys there as I can. And it will definitely be fun. We'll have a good time. But I hadn't shot 20, especially 22 pistol for a while. And, you know, it is kind of like bicycling, right? You do pick it up pretty quickly. It's not, it's not like, oh my God, I can't figure out how these things work. But, just kind of dialing it in, you know, dialing it in. I've been shooting the, the Volkwortzen more than kind of any of the other 20. It's the six inch version of the Volkwortzen Black Mambo, which is their competition upper, mounted on a Mark IV-2245 frame that they have done a complete accurizing with, with the various and century Volkwortzen parts. I have old school Seymour mounted on it. I believe it's a six MOA dot or an eight MOA dot. I know when I was shooting, shooting 22 plates with it. I went, one of the things that's cool about the old, old Seymour style sights. Aside from the fact that oftentimes it seems like you need a battery pack on your back, you know, to keep the thing running. But, you could replace the, the diode for the dot. So, if you got like a two MOA and you said, man, no, I'm shooting plates. I want a bigger dot. You could go ahead and buy a different MOA dot, which I think is great. I mean, I wish there were more options like that. Because once again, something like Remfire Challenge, I will typically run a larger red dot or a larger dot. And that's because, you know, the targets are pretty big. Everything is based on speed. The last time I shot the Remfire Challenge World Championships, I was using a Holosun that had a dot and a donut in it. And, yeah, probably, I may still be there. I don't know. As you know, I'm going to use Magnum Research's rifle. One of their 22 rifles. That is in the works, even as we speak. I spoke with the guys at Magnum Research, and they said, yeah, you're in the queue. You know, the custom queue for rifles. So, I'm looking forward to shooting that. But, you know, I want the bigger dot because, you know, I don't really need a super precise dot. And, you know, the Volk courts and upper shoots great. It's got, it got a compensator on it, a muzzle brake on it there. That, that, make, you know, may do something. One of the great things it does is make noise and believe me, you know, when you're shooting a 22 and, you know, I've told this story about a zillion times because it's one of those things that weighs on me over all those years is that, you know, one of the best strings I ever had on a steel challenge match. Man, I just had a, I figure it's five to go or something. You know, shooting 22 rimfire and I had a blazing run on it. And I'm like, oh, okay. And we get done. I'm thinking like, hey, you know, man, that's pretty cool. And he goes, yeah, the range officer said it's a shame about those two 30 second penalties or whatever it was. Excuse me. He goes, yeah, yeah, you know, on two of those runs, it looks like, you know, the timer didn't pick it up or you didn't fire the last shot. And I'm like, you know, I went home from that point on and made sure that I have some sort of big muzzle brake on any 22 I shoot in competition because darn it. I want that timer to pick it up. Actually, it was probably, I was so fast. Yeah, probably, I don't know, exceeded the speed of light or some sort of, you know, galactic constant that caused the timer not to pick it up. But anyway, the man was a great gun. It's got the full courts and competition bolt in it. There are two competition bolts I like a lot, by the way, in 22 pistols. And that's from tandem cross and Volkorzmann. They build good stuff. They build good stuff. Volkorzmann bolt is coated with like, what's it? DLC diamond like coating, which makes it super slick. And you really want that because, you know, 22 dirty as all get out. Match 22 is perhaps dirtier than that. You know, all I want is the gun to run. You know, typically in a rifle where I don't have any trouble with it, I'll run subsonics, you know, because I don't want anything to happen. You know, that's part of the reason you have the big compensator on the rifle. Say I'm running a 900 foot per second 22, you know, out of a 16 and a half inch barrel or 16 inch barrel, it doesn't make much noise at all. But sort of the same on a pistol. But the Mamba weighs in with the Seymour on it, which is a little heavier. It's probably close to two and a quarter pounds, something like that. But it makes it stable, you know, for me. And secondly, with that 22.45, and you know, you've got the standard 1911 angle on it, it's a familiar gun to shoot. You know, it's a familiar gun to shoot. It's got enough heft that I feel good moving from target to target. And not so much heft that I'm going to swing past on one of the other targets. But, you know, I realize that when you go to the Riffard Challenge shooting association championships and you've got all these, you know, youtes boy, they got incredible fast twitch muscles. That's all I can tell you. That's all those video games, I guess, or whatever. But boy, oh boy. They can turn in some smoking times to the point that some of the people who are like great champions look at him and go, "Why are they doing that?" You know, like I said, sometimes I've been to Riffard Challenge matches that look like an episode of Mean Girls, you know. Everybody's talking about their shoes and their clothes and then they show up to shoot and they shoot exactly twice as fast as you. Ah, humbly experience, humbly experience, but it will be fun. It will be fun. Marshall's going to be there. My friend Marshall Holloway will be there filming for us. And you'll be able to see it on trigger. It will show you some of the championships and some of the super deluxe-y fast type runs and things like that. And we haven't exactly decided how I'm doing it. I'm working with Pete Swinson, who's a head of a great guy, head of Riffard Challenge Shooting Association. Just a great guy. He's done an amazing, amazing job with the organization. And he and I were talking how we're going to do it, but as I mentioned recently, I'm going to be giving away a gun. My company Flying Dragon Limited is going to be giving away a gun. It'll be a Ruger Mark 4 done by Turnbull Restoration. In fact, done by Doug Turnbull many, many years ago. And so to me, it's a beautiful gun. It's kind of, yeah, it's been around. But on the other hand, Turnbull no longer is it Turnbull Restoration. So there ain't going to be no more. So I'm looking for, we're trying to decide how to give it away. I didn't want to just set it on the prize table. Probably it'll be like you pay a buck or two to get in the drawing. And then all the money goes to youth shooting programs for our challenge and stuff. So anyway, I'm looking forward to this. It's a really nice gun, beautiful color-cased gun. So I'm looking forward to giving it away. And I know you're looking forward to winning it, right? So yeah, how do I make sure that I'm the guy that gets that? I wish I knew. I'm not the guy that buys lottery tickets. I can tell you that. And actually, I'm fairly lucky. I'm the guy that walks past a slot machine in Vegas. And then somebody says, go ahead and put in, you know, I've got an extra pull left. And end up winning, I don't know, a hundred bucks or something like that. I've never won like a car or, you know, a chorus line dancer. But, you know, in terms of small stuff that works out well, like, yeah. But I just can't bring myself to do it. And, you know, it all goes back to when I played poker with my family. You know, my family is a big poker family. My mother and father had a poker game where they would bring in suckers. They had a friend of theirs, bring in suckers, so the suburban house. You know, the idea of the sucker is going to really nail the suburban housewife and husband and stuff. And in fact, my mother and father fleeced crap out of them. That's why, you know, I've got deep roots. But anyway, you know, when we would play poker ostensibly for fun, my grandfather Roscoe, my grandfather Roscoe from Mississippi routinely would take my entire allowance, which wasn't much. And I first, I thought, well, I mean, this is for fun, right? This is for fun. So give me back my bucket of quarter. And he goes, ain't no fun in poker, boy. It's real. Hang on. We'll be right back. Ready to revolutionize the world of sports shooting? Introducing the RIA 5.0 sporting pistol made right here on American soil at RIA USA. 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One thing I did want to mention too is, gosh, what U.S. versus Morgan last week. Federal district judge dismissed a machine gun possession charge against a Kansas man finding that the federal machine gun ban unconstitutional under the Second Amendment don't start cheering it, right? That will be appealed by the feds to the Tenth Circuit which will have probably fainting spells, you know. They will actually like roll over on their desk or something like that. And if they don't reverse, then the government appeals to the Supreme Court. If you've been following the Supreme Court for a long time, you know that the Supreme Court has never had a problem with the 1934 Firearms Act or the 1986 Act. You know, they've never had a problem with that. So, you are not going to get to buy the machine gun of your dreams. Oh, stuff like that ain't going to happen. It is kind of bridged too far stuff. I'm y'all for it. If you recall, what, like three years ago? The NRA convention three years ago, I was stopped by a protester. I walked out of the building and I got stopped by like several protesters but one particularly loudmouth woman who appeared to be a woman but I didn't ask her pronouns. So, again, once again, you know, I don't know. I'm not going to go there. But, you know, she said, so she yells. She goes, they got all their phones going, everything. You think everybody should be able to own a gun? Yeah, yeah. Kind of I do. I do. She goes, I was, you guess you think everybody should own a machine gun? He said, yeah, yeah. Actually, I do. I'm sorry. You can't get him at the 7/11. And she goes, so you'd be supportive of people owning like, you know, a nuclear weapon? I said, you know, a low yield. Yeah. You know, maybe a neutron bomb, something like that. But, again, if you're asking me if I think people should own exactly the same weaponry as the military, yeah, I'm good with that. And she goes, cut. You know, I can actually rationalize it reasonably well. You know, I think what we all really, let's be honest, what we'd all really like is a Toyota Hilux, you know, with, I don't know, a 50 BMG, you know, mounted in it. Something simple like that, you know, even a surplus, a surplus squad, a squad automatic weapon. You're in a Toyota Hilux. To me, that's the quintessential ideal civilian weaponry and has promulgated revolutions around the world, you know, what do they call them, technicals? You know, hey, you can't get one in the United States, but you can't get a t-shirt with a picture of a technical on it. I'm not sure what that means, but, but, anyhow. A little surprised at the Democratic convention or, you know, or actually the first meeting in the American Communist Party last week, was it last week? I seems like a thousand years ago. I was surprised that there wasn't more violence than there was. I'm not sure why that is, but I think it's probably good for us. I don't think it allows us to really drop our guard. You know, once again, I feel really strongly in that as we move toward the election, which dear God, we have to win. And try not to get depressed at the polls because polls are fake. Come on, guys. Get with it, you know. If you recall, when I was in college, and that was like in, you know, we just discovered steam power television. But as I've said before, I took a class in statistical analysis, and my major professor in media was also a PhD in statistical analysis. The class was based on polling, understanding polling. And the way you got your grade in that class was at the end of the semester, you had to create a poll and distribute it and then tally it and come up with the results. And the catch was, is you had to give the professor the results that you were going to get before you distributed the poll. And once again, like I said, this is right about the time of steam powered television. And yeah, I got an A plus, right? I created a survey, gave the professor exactly what I expected to get from the survey, distributed it, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, yeah. And then amazingly, the results came back exactly the way I told the professor they would. That's a thousand years ago and primitive. So whenever you see a poll, the poll goes, Kamala Harris is 185 points ahead of Donald Trump, whoo, based on polling we did yesterday with one stupid son of a bitch who crossed the border illegally on Tuesday. I guess they never say that other part, but they're fake. Polls exist to demoralize or to pump people up. That's what they're for. Yeah, I'm saying to you guys, I look at the, you know, the real, was it dead at a real politics average of polls and, but I know for a fact that there are people far, far smarter than I am putting those polls together. So basically assume it's a lie. You know, secondly, a safe thing we can assume as we go toward the election is the American Communist Party, also known as the Democrats are going to cheat like freaking crazy. You know what? They're going to cheat at a level that you can't even breathe, you know, they got to cheat at a level that makes like new, you know, Las Vegas gambling cheaters look like, I don't know, ministers because they are garbage, you know, the Communist Party of America. Oh, hey, let's tax unrealized gains. What a good idea. You know, let's, let's put price caps on food and let's go after a big business. What a good idea. Anyway, as we move through this period of time, it is a dangerous, dangerous period of time because we're really, you know, we're not, you know, we're, it's as if you took us and dropped and we, if we were a fish, say, I don't know, that clown fish from the movie, right? Where's Dora? Um, whatever, but you dropped us in a new pool. We're not sure what's in that pool. We're not sure what the predators look like in that poll. We're not sure who's getting what marching orders. And I, and unsure, you know, the, the, the unsure-edness of it is what makes it so dangerous because we, uh, uh, once, once again, thanks to our normalcy bias, you know, we're always wanting to say, hey, you know, nothing has happened on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I don't think anything's going to happen on Friday either. Prove me wrong. Well, the universe has a way of doing that. But you know, our normalcy, our, our bias toward normalcy, our bias toward things happening today as indeed they, they happened for the last six weeks is very strong, is very strong. So you know, we, we, we got to watch for that. I, you know, I have traveled coming up over the next couple of months and yeah, I've told the people that I'm traveling to meet, um, it's traveling, pursuant to kind of how things are going, you know? I, I'm hopeful we get to this election and the other thing I just want to mention and then I'll shut up about politics, um, I, I have gotten a lot on, on Facebook, not on X oddly enough, but a lot of posts on Facebook's of people who, who are, are on my friends list, which is, you know, it's not hard to get there. It's just, it's, it's kind of always stuck at 5,000. But, um, people fall off people come on, but people who have been, and they're like, well, you know, enough said Donald Trump got felonies against him, you know, what the hell is wrong with you clowns? Who you going to vote for? Who you going to vote for? Just to be clear, this is maybe the most clarified election ever in the history of the United States. It is a purely clarified election. Here's what you got. You can have your Republic if you can keep it or you can have the United States Soviet Socialist Republic. That's what's on the ballot. Enough said, you know, Trump talks ugly about women. Only two things are on the ballot. You have kids. You have grandkids. Why don't you give them the communist socialist America, US socialist states of America? Hey, that'll work out for them. Well, won't it? Let's see, end up in some sort of erger camp or in a box car. So when you people post that stuff, and I immediately unfriend you, and then people say, hey, Joe Bob says you, you unfriended him and you're an asshole. Yes, I am. I am. Absolutely. If you are too frickin stupid to understand what's on the ballot, and you still think you're voting for the prom king and queen? Not only should you not be allowed to have firearms, you probably shouldn't be allowed to have crayons because you'll eat them. You're that frickin stupid. And I get tired of seeing it. You know, if you know, I know any sane person doesn't post as much as they used to. But you know, X is better than FB for sure, I'm kind of amazed that my videos are still up on YouTube. I'm not quite sure how that happens, but you know, once again, they're all archived on MichaelBain.tv. Every video we've done is available to you on MichaelBain.tv and it's available to you free of charge. You also post simultaneously on to rumble as well as onto YouTube, but the politician stuff does kind of wire you down it. You know, because it I've never seen as specifically clear election is this one. And you still got people with their thumbs up their rectum acting like they're smart. You know, enough said, but Donald Trump, you know, what are you going to say? Mean tweets. Yeah, you know, if you vision your envision yourself as a part of the gun culture and you envision yourself as a part of this world we live in and you tell me why you're voting for Kamala Harris, go straight to hell. We need the need you nor watch you. Times up for this happy stuff, right? I'm sorry. I can't kind of worked up again because we go through periods of saying, well, really, you know, when you get down to a discussion and argument is so good and you see the other guys side and the other guys sees your side. When has that happened regarding gun issues? The answer is plus or minus never, never. We have like strong arguments, just like the debating club in high school. We can articulate our arguments. We listen to the other side. We try to understand their own feelings and their own reasoning and then we give ground and they bonus again every single time, Charlie Brown and the damn football every single time. If you want to go to a debating club, go back to junior college and sign up for one. There is no more debating club left here, kiddos. Again, I mean, my analogy of the cosmic ice cream shop is stands. The cosmic ice cream shop is down to two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. No butter pecan, no Reese's pieces special. You got one of two choices. Make those, but don't come back to me and say, well, you know, I really should have voted for Trump, even though I hate the son of a bitch, because now my kids just changed themselves into a raccoon furry. Yeah, yeah. Maybe you should have paid more attention as opposed to saying, yeah, enough said Donald Trump. Yeah, bad man. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't like him. Yeah. Another woman is part of the administration, wrecked the country. But hell, you know, it got people killed. The border is flooded where we have a country full of terrorists just waiting for something fun to do. So please, if you think you want to post something like that, by all means posted to yourself. 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. I know what you're saying. Michael got up on the wrong side of the universe today. Okay. Oh, sorry. Oh, one good thing I'm really looking forward to coming up later in early winter, I think. Late fall, early winter. Because me and Marshall Holloway are going to FTW Ranch in Texas with my renovated Ruger Precision Riphone 6 millimeter Creedmoor. Yeah, I talked to Tim Fallon, runs the store down there. And I said, I really want to be able to ring it out, you know, with, you know, the great instructors at FTW, you know, dog and the guys. They're so good and they're, you know, yeah, I can run it here. And one of my neighbors who, you know, the noise on the other side of the mountain, lots of people shoot here, even though this is Colorado and even though we're, yes, a blue state, I'm in the red part of the blue state. My neighbor across the mountain, it has a range out to 1850. And you know, what I want to do is I want to be consistent out to a thousand yards. And I'm looking forward to doing that. So going down to FTW, the important thing to me is then, you know, then I've got these great instructors, these guys who live, eat, sleep and breathe, you know, long range, long range, shooting, long range, hunting, these guys watch me shoot and can say, okay, you know, Michael, couple of little pointers here. And what I've found is that, you know, when you're able to work with incredible instructors, then it changes everything because, because, you know, they can look at you and see what you're doing, even if you are not able to articulate that to them. In a sense, that's what I strive very hard to be as an instructor myself, you know, when I've worked with people and typically, you know, when I've worked as an adjunct instructor for friends, classes and stuff, you know, my focus is on people who are having some issues. So I want to be able to be there and say, look at them and say, look, let's try this little thing here, right here. And you know, it's harder, I think, you know, to, I guess, diagnostic training where you look, you know, it's one thing to have a class and you take everybody through. It's another to, like, be a gun site and do you have Eric Gellhouse or, you know, Lou Gosnell or any of the guys come up and, you know, say, hey, hey, Michael, why did you change that? And you go, I didn't realize I'd changed that, you know, it's, so that's why with, you know, with this six millimeter Creedmoor that is, you know, coming along, I would like to, you know, I'd like to shoot it here, get it and, you know, shoot it within my ranges here. And, you know, I, you know, one of my neighbors has an 18 inch plate of a thousand and work with it, but then I want to go to FTW and I want to refine it because I haven't been on the rifle for a couple of years, year and a half, seriously, I mean, I've shot rifle, but it hasn't been really, okay, let's focus and let's see what we're doing here and let's make sure we're doing everything right. So I'm looking forward to doing that and, you know, I totally love FTW range, even if it's cold, because it turns out, you know, sometimes you got to practice in the cold, but, you know, that's, that's something I'm really looking forward to and rifle should go together quickly once it comes apart. That's what I'm kind of waiting for access to the gunsmith. I think I mentioned it last week is I don't want to buy a barrel vice, my one use barrel vice and it's just, it's not worth it to me at this point when I can go to a gunsmith I know and see the work and say, look, would you mind pulling this barrel, you know, while you wait, boom, barrel vice will do it, but, anyhow, looking forward to that and hopefully this week, I mean, again, we're, you know, we're still working around drought conditions here. I mean, it rains a bunch, but it's still really dry and we're, you know, have to be really careful on, especially on long range stuff, you know, on my own range, yeah, I got a great big fire extinguisher and I've got, you know, really good steel targets that we shoot on and I'm not, you know, not expecting giant sparks off rocks, which, which happens sometimes out, we're shooting in public land, things like that. But, you know, shooting long distance, you know, you got to go down the valley and across the veil to get to the target. So we're all really sensitive about the weather here and the humidity and then the potential for fire, you know, but as part of the reasons I kind of default back to when I'm practicing myself with a rifle, I default back to 22s, you know, shooting lead, shooting subsonic lead against steel targets, not a really big issue. And I enjoy it and, you know, it reminds me how the rifle works, which hopefully, you know, that hopefully that'll be happening. This week looks good. I mean, last week, and like I said, it's been, oh gosh, stressful. How about that? And, you know, but that's okay, I mean, I think the funny thing to me is, you know, I have always thrived on stress. I have always run what amounted to a very, very, very stressful situation just generally. You know, my favorite comment was Patrick Sweeney, of course, he writes extensively on firearms, writes for firearms news, writes great books on firearms as a good, good friend. He once said, you know, I had the work ethic of three rabid weasels. I always appreciated that from Patrick. But I do find as I get older, you know, I tell myself, well, I'm having a little harder time with stress. But on the other hand, you know, I have been marinated in stress for the last six weeks. One thing, you know, with all of the things I complain, you know, sadly about here, and we're doing okay. But you do get tired earlier. I will say that, you know, you can, you can manage the stress. But, you know, otherwise, otherwise, here's, you know, here's how stressful I've been. I found patterning buckshot was comforting. You know, I just say, oh, yeah, I'm going to take the eight seventy, I'm going to pattern this buckshot with that. Oh, I'm going to run this through through the VR 80. Oh, I'm going to run this through the, the Versamax, which for all ugly things that people have said about Versamax over the years, not the least of which that it was Remington's knockoff of, of Benelium four. It is the light shooting, semi auto shotgun or a shot. It just shoots so very light that you shoot and say, I really kind of enjoy shooting this thing. Even, you know, even with buckshot, even with slugs, it's just, it's a cake walk to shoot. It was sort of a shame, you know, when Remington, you know, Remington went bankrupt and that kind of whole line managed to vanish. I guess the V three line, which was always a sub line to the Versamax or updated version of the Versamax or whatever, I, I, that has survived and, you know, is presently being made by Remington. And you know, they have a tactical one, or I haven't seen a tactical one. If they do, I'll probably get one just kind of, kind of try it out and see how it sets with, with my own war horse of, of, of a, of a Versamax, but I don't know, I don't know, I, it's, it's such something that you, that is, that is so subjective, you know, I've had, people say to me, it's like, I mean, how can you say the Versamax shoots light? That thing beats the crap out of you. I have things that beat the crap out of me, but that's not one of them, you know, that's not one of them. You know, old school Browning, you know, they'll beat the crap out of you. So it tends to be a very subjective kind of function with it. But again, you know, example, I mean, I have a Benelli Nova pump gun that I used oftentimes in three gun competition when you're shooting heavy metal. So you're shooting, you got to do a 12 gauge pump and a 45 pistol and a 308 or above rifle, right? And go through a match with a Benelli Nova, you know, a match that includes Buckshot or includes a lot of slugs. And you'll understand the zen of having the crap pounded out of you. But still it's, it's not horrific, you know, it's, I think it may be a function of how much you shoot. I mean, it's how much, how much you feel that that recoil affects you. Yeah, I was out of like what we could go shooting shooting 308 and a heavy 308. But you know, I was thinking, oh, wow, it's been a while since I shot a 308. It's really not as much recoil as I remember. And it's just cause I shot a lot of rounds in 308. And as a consequence, when, you know, settle down behind the rifle and pull trigger, it's not that big a deal. So, I wish it was a magic secret I could tell you about getting past recoil. Part of it may be, you know, as you shoot heavier and heavier guns, it is true that then saying guns feel a lot less and go out and shoot a 650 Rigby bolt gun. And then, you know, when you come home and shoot your 50 BMG, you'll go, God, it's great. Man. It's great to shoot a gun that doesn't pound you like that 450 Rigby. As you know, 450 Rigby 460 Weatherby, a heavy bullet going fast, easily the most pounding I've ever taken from a rifle cartridge, even more so than a forebore. But anyhow, we kind of got to the end of the soup now. How about we close this out with some African music. Some African tribal orchestra called Calahari. That's because my friends, Andy and Sheila Larson are over there right now in Namibia. And I believe spending long nights in a blind, possibly looking for some kitty cats. But anyway, best of luck to both of you guys and boy, I sure wish I was there with you. I'm Michael Bain. This is MBTV on the radio. Our 20th year is a podcast. So we've been around so long. If I rant this week, you can be sure I won't rant next week. You can find links of everything we've talked about here at Michael Bain.tv along with our archives of the triggered videos that we've done and the podcast that we've done over the years. 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