(music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) And now, from the secret hidden bunker in the Rocky Mountains, it's time for MBTV on the radio and your host, Michael Bay. (music) (music) (music) (music) You know, that really kind of reminds me of New York in 1972. Better days than these, better days than these. That's Danny Jalali, a New York girl. I was torn between New York girl, which is kind of like really, you know, just a straight out punk, right? And he had a 2019 single release called "I Bring the Slime." And with a title like that, you know, I could re-title this entire podcast, right? Anyway, I'm Michael Bay, just MBTV on the radio. Now in our 20th year, our award-winning podcast, and brought to you this week by Hunter's HD Gold, the best shooting glasses in the entire world, and I should know, and my favorite big plastic box manufacturer, MTM case guard, which has made my life far, far better than it was. But I want to start this week, okay? I'm going to probably do this from now until November. So get used to it. I think of this as a public service announcement. And so I want to say this is a public service announcement. If the Harris Walls ticket is elected, they are going to take the guns. It doesn't matter what they say now. Both Harris and Walls are wildly anti-gun, have called for the confiscation to Gus. Oh, no, not confiscation. You know, a mandatory buyback. You can't buy back something you never had. So public service announcement, if Harris Walls is elected, they will come for the guns. I suspect they'll come with, you know, it won't be like, like, you know, some of the post-apok fiction you've seen. It'll be a lot, a lot more officious. Like you'll get a nice letter from the IRS. It says, it's come to our attention that you own a number of guns that are presently classed as assault weapons. Please make a righteous for us to pick these guns up at your earliest possible convenience, or we'll send you to jail for 10 years. Something like that. But anyway, doesn't matter how little you like Trump. It doesn't matter that you think Trump is a bad man. None of those things matter anymore. Get over it. If Harris and Walls are elected, they will take the guns. So that's, that's the end of my public service announcement. I'll maybe make a separate recording of it and plug it in my own advertising cycle, right? So, okay, what else, what else might we want to talk about this week? Actually, I've finally got some time out on the range. And I should, it's my fault. It's my fault, okay? I, I, I have a range. No, it's not as if I got a drive for hours, but between, between the weird weather, between, you know, all wine, cry, excuse. I've got an excuse T-shirt. All these excuses are on it. But I finally got out to the range. I, I've been working with the Rossi series of 38, 357 double action revolvers. And the reason I've been working with them is I like them a lot. I just like them a lot. They're fun to shoot. You know, you've got the six inch one, the RM 66. You got the four inch target model. You have the three inch model and, and the three inch and the six inch, you've gotten a lot of work over, over the months here. The three inches become sort of a packing gun on the property here loaded with double, double tap snake shot. They're revolutionary new snake shot and 70. Oh, was it 70 grand bullet in it around the actual shot? I'd have to look that up. Don't, you know, a 450 pound bullet inside all buckshot, whatever. But yeah, it's, it's got a lot of use around here and it's kind of a packing gun that, that for eliminating pest and occasionally they're pest and occasionally they get eliminated. And I just really like the six inch. I mean, you know, very much, you know, not quite a K frame, you know, somewhere between K frame and L frame, if we talk in Smith and Wesson language. But it was a fun gun to shoot. Trigger pull is heavy, but smooth. Single action trigger pull is pretty good, but you know, almost kind of never use that. And I thought, boy, I'd really like a, you know, number one, I'd like the grips on it, the rubber grips on it that it came with were actually pretty good. You know, they weren't obnoxious or anything like that. But it just didn't quite, you know, I wasn't a hundred percent with it. I wanted a little bit larger grip. And so there's a company that actually makes grips for Rossi revolvers. It's called Lock LOK grips. I think you can also get them on the Rossi website for revolvers. But they make GTN grips two sizes and I wanted a little bit larger size for the, the RM 66 for the six inch version. And I got it in fetching blue and black GTN. It's really comfortable grip. I like the grip. In terms of fit, I did a little fitting and I took the cowards way out. I know, you know, I should dump JB weld and I fitted revolver grips with JB weld. But this was such a close fit anyway. I realized that if I just used a piece of the ubiquitous duct tape on the back strap and on the front strap of the revolver, the thin the grips would fit tightly and fit well. And they did. I mean, it's a really cool looking revolver. I like the blue back grips. The other thing I did is I really wanted to put a dot on it. I sort of in my head think this would be a fun gun to shoot some of the local icore matches with. So the International Congress, a revolver enthusiast, you know, I've shot those a bunch. But I thought, well, okay. So I talked to John Allchin and did some measurements on the gun. And John sent me a set of grip, essentially the Smith and Wesson K-frame type mounts, but maybe a few modifications. And then I went to my local gun store, which is Liberty Firearms. Liberty Farms is a country club. You know, it's a beautiful place and it's got great ranges and big store. It's all together a really neat place. I've been a member. I was, I think, a charter member, if I remember correctly. He's been around a while. And one of the reasons is I, you know, we have winter and I have filmed there at Liberty Firearms. They've been very gracious about allowing us to film there. And also they have, you know, a hundred yard range with a television camera on the hundred yard target. And up to a 50, God help us. But, you know, a lot of times I've sighted in rifles there. Because it's, you know, less distraction, less wind, anything like that is just a range. And I'll go in and sight in a rifle at a hundred yards, get a good solid hundred yards. And then take it outside and work it off sticks, blah, blah. But they also have a gunsmith, a really pretty good gunsmith there. Justin, who did the drilling and tapping of the Rossi's top strap and did a great job. Yeah, so got that that sight mount fitted and then used a Burris Fastfire 4 because I kind of like the circle dot. And I've used a Fastfire 4 a lot. I had an early model that had some issues, Burris took care of that. And now there's rock solid as all the other Fastfires that Burris has made over the years. But it makes for a good sight picture and, you know, sighted it in. I was using 130 grain arms core full metal jacket, which I've always found to be a very accurate bullet, all things considered. And it showed to be the same way I, you know, sighted in on steel till I got a group, which wasn't very much. I had to twist a little. And then spent the rest of the afternoon at 10 and 12 yard, 10 and 12, 10, 15 yard plates all the way out to 15 working the plates. And like I said, heavier trigger pull than I would like. But on the other hand, one of the things I've always said, and I really need to pay attention to the things that I say, right? Is that it's easier to adopt you to the gun than the gun to you. So not wanting to ship this thing out for a trigger job right at this instant. You know, we're getting closer to the November dates for the Pat Rogers Memorial Revolver Roundup at gun sight. And, you know, my intent is to bring all three of the Rossis there, obviously. I work with, work with Taurus for years and years under revolvers and I've been to Rossi in Brazil. And I thought those people were just super deluxe, you know. So I want to bring the three Rossi revolvers I've been working with. The three inch, the four inch has been tuned by Dave Fink, Master Gunsmith there at gun sight. And then this, the six inch with the red dot on it and the bigger grips, you know, all in all, I'm liking all of them. I want you guys to have a chance to shoot them, you know. And we can make that happen there. So yeah, it was fun. I did a lot of one shot draws as well, which is, boy, I'm sloppy. But I'm using right now, I'm using a speed B's, which is actually made by CompTac. They're K frame six inch revolver holster. Speed B's obviously does two and a half tons of revolver stuff. And I have several of their holsters that have used them extensively. So I've been kind of trying to get myself into frame of mind working off the belt with this Rossi. And what I need to do and what I'm going to build into is I need to dry fire because after dry firing a while, you know, all in all, it'll settle in for me. And that's always been my observation with any trigger pull. You know, it's not necessarily that it's not necessary that the trigger pull be super light. I mean, Ed McGivren, the great revolver master Ed Givren was using what amounts to stock trigger pull to set records that have stood until Jerry Michilik appeared. So it's a matter to me of putting in the dry fire time with it. And now I've got the grip that I want. I've got a holster that works really, really well. So I will be motoring forward with this, you know, and practicing shooting with this. And my inclination is when we go the revolver around up, I'm, you know, I'm not there the whole time. I don't necessarily, you know, I just kind of drop in and out of the classes just like I'm going to drop in and out of your dinner on Friday night. But I'm inclined to use the six inch with the dot just because it would be interesting, you know, some of the drills there. I'm looking forward to doing them, but yeah, with six inch with the dot. Not sure what I'm going to do on ammo. I'll probably go down that arms core path. I did sign, you know, I have a pending agreement with ammo to go, by the way. I'll hook you up with the links on everything we talk about here, the links. But I'm doing so many different projects. I found myself like, wow, I, you know, I have ammo, but boy, am I, am I going through it? But yeah, yeah. Oh, and I do. I do want to mention this before before we go on to the next thing, which we will after the commercial. Justin at Liberty Farms is also working with me on the modernization, the updating of the Ruger Precision Rifle, where the primary update, you know, I got that rifle in 308, it was kind of an advanced production rifle. And so, you know, I got it 308 because I'm used to 3A because I had a lot of 308 match around. But really, you know, you know, the world kind of moved on that 665 creed more. And then what I wanted, because I think it's a really kind of neat cartridge is, you know, the 6 millimeter creed more, which was quote unquote invented by my friend John Snow at outdoor life to show how you create a wildcat cartridge. In this case, you just neck down a 65, which is basically a neck down 308. And then, you know, you, you, you know, you have a new cartridge. And the, the 6 millimeter creed more did catch on. One of the reasons I went with the 6 millimeter creed more instead of some of the more high zoot, a long range precision cartridge that you see out there is the ammunition manufacturers have all taken the 6 millimeter creed more. To heart, same way they took the 6, 5 creed more to heart. And lots of ammo out there. You know, so I have, I think I have Hornety ELDX match and also I believe nozzler match for the, I think 100 grain for the 6 millimeter creed more. So I'm really looking forward to getting that gun built. Timney Trigger, Proof Barrel, interesting custom made 4-inch kind of ARCA, ARCA rail on it, that there were a lot of 4-ins for, you know, hand guards for Ruger Precision Gen 1 rifles until, you know, Gen 2 Gen 3 rifles came out. And the, the, you know, the Gen 1's kind of got sidelined. And a lot of the products that were being made for the Gen 1's kind of dried up because, again, you know, there weren't a ton of market out there to sell them into. And the 2's and 3's had basically covered, Ruger's 2's and 3's have covered some of that ground. So anyway, when we come back, you know, there are a couple of things I want to talk about. What's good? What's bad? What's best? I think I'm going to touch on that again because it's kind of a disease. We'll be right back. [music] Ready to revolutionize the world of sports shooting? Introducing the RIA 5.0 sporting pistol, made right here on American soil at RIA USA. The 5.0 features a patented RVS recoil system that maximizes barrel mass and linear movement to give you super soft recoil. Combined with a smooth trigger pull with no stacking, you'll be more accurate on target, faster. The RIA 5.0 all new all American. See more at armscore.com. And as always, from a pals at MTM case guard, MTM believes that a great day at the range we're out hunting starts with having the right equipment. 1968 family-owned MTM case guard dedicated itself to fulfilling those needs. From shooting tables to ammo storage, MTM has you covered. Believe me, the last few weeks, I've wanted to crawl into the largest MTM box and then just close the lid behind me so no one would actually know where I was. Anyway, [laughs] Something I kind of like to touch on again because it's something, this is a hobby horse. As you know, the podcast is often like a long string of Michael Bain hobby horses, which is as it should be. [laughs] But one of the ones that really kind of weighs on me more than anything else is confusing, subjective, and objective. Remember, we used to talk about that in terms of risk management. We wanted to know subjective and objective risk. You know, subjective risk risk that you have some control over and that splits out into real and imagined, right? You know, if you're a diver, when you first start diving, you see your real risk as a shark. In fact, your real risk is nitrogen and stupidity. The shark is not going to eat you. But then it comes down to subjective objective, subjective things you can change. But, you know, talking about it in a broader term, subjective versus objective. Subjective is what you think, okay? In other words, we have a word for that that we actually used to use in the English language, which was amazingly opinion. When I say, "I think that," what I'm saying to you is that, in my opinion, this is what the situation is. In my opinion, this product is. In my opinion, I think that. Now, you know, it's fair for you to say, "Well, why do you think that, dude?" Well, I think that because, you know, I bought one of those cars and, you know, in the first three weeks, it costs me more than the car to keep it running. So, you know, I don't have any objective facts for you. I don't have, you know, the objective fact was the car broke down. The question is, is it a one-off or do they all break down? I mean, again, you know, sometimes in the world, there you goes. And no matter who buys the Hugo, the Hugo going to fall apart, right? I once had a Renault 59, Renault Dauphin, easily one of the worst cars ever made, made by paper mache by the French. But whether it's the worst car, if I say it's, in my opinion, it's the worst car ever made. I think that it's the worst car ever made. What is that? It's my opinion. My opinion may be filtered through a lot of things. You know, when we come to firearms, the field of firearms, the field of self-defense, something I've been in for, you know, a long time, 40 years, 50 years, and been lucky to be able to do a lot of things, my opinion may have some weight, or it may not. Or it may not. You know, I'm going to give you an example that this is, you know, I look on the Internet, don't we all? And, you know, there is, what appears to be a huge growth in the idea of retro firearms, for example, can you get an AR-15 that looks exactly like this one, you know, the M16 in Vietnam? Or, you know, that's a big deal. It's a big deal. A lot of people really like doing it. I have friends that are like, you know, I'm working on this retro AR that's like, did, did, did, did, I was like, okay. But honestly, that bores me to screaming tears. I have no, I don't understand, it's a case where I don't understand the process, right? Would you, and, you know, part of it has to do with your age or this or that or the other. But it's, it's, it's a good point for me to say, I think that retro ARs are breathtakingly stupid. And then people go, you know, retro ARs are breathtakingly stupid in this space. Why, why is that? Well, Michael Bain says so. That's not good enough. There's actually nothing wrong with building collecting replica firearms. You know, and it doesn't matter if it's a replica from the Civil War. It doesn't matter if it's, if it's a replica from early English flintlock muskets or it's a replica of an AR as used in, I don't know, Magnum PI. Nothing wrong with that at all. It's perfectly normal activity. It doesn't happen to be one that I participate in. Does that make sense, right? It doesn't mean that it's like sinful or anything. It just means that, hey, you know, that's, that's kind of not the area that I'm really strong in. So I wish we could all come to that agreement on that that everybody has an opinion. And when you see something that says the best X, huh, that means someone's opinion is that this is the best X. It might mean several someone's opinion. We talked to all the guys we hang around with at the bar on Friday evening and all of them agreed that X. The group of opinions is still just an opinion. Better, best, things I would never buy again, things I'm, you need to buy immediately because of the best. And it seems like that's actually kind of growing. I mean, I would have brought this up except for the last few weeks, every time I turn around, it's like, these are the best dah. Says who? It's kind of like saying this is the best tasting scotch. I'm a fan of scotch and in fact last weekend, I was so lucky. So lucky that my sweetheart was a designated driver because she thinks scotch tastes like peat flavored lighter fluid. But I went to the Scottish Festival in Estes Park, Colorado, up the canyon from us and took their master's scotch tasting. So I got a chance to do a lot of tasting with the McCallum and their brands, which don't come easy. I was it Highland Park, their wonderful Highland Park 18 year. But, you know, when you say this is the best scotch, say, okay, this is it. How about this? Highland Highland Park 18 at a couple hundred dollars a bottle is the greatest scotch in the whole. It's really the best. It's the greatest. It's the best. There's nothing like it. And here's the problem. Scotch represents a very broad encompassing amount of liquor and very, very different types of liquor are not yet. It's all scotch, but depending on how it's aged, we go on and on and on and on. So for one person Highland Park 18, which is a spectacular scotch, maybe the best scotch in the world. Not if you like peat. You know, as my sweetie said, the first time we pulled in at the Talisker distillery on the Island Sky in Scotland, she goes, wow, it smells like somebody burned off a peat feel. And, you know, some I really love Talisker. Talisker is my favorite type of scotch. I've tasted a lot of different kinds of scotch. So is it good for me to say Talisker is my favorite kind of scotch? Why? Well, I like, I like the peated flavor of it. It doesn't go too far like a fro. Is it the best scotch in the world? For me. But again, it's an opinion. And, and I think we get lost on this. I think we do get lost. I see like in the last two, three weeks, I've seen some amazing like fights on the Internet. He said it was the best, but it was like to do. They said it was the best. It was like only you were in a position to decide what's the best for you. When we get down and, and, you know, this is just the truth. And it's something we talked about for years on the best offense before that on shooting gallery. We talked about it here. Every single decision we make in self-defense and concealed carry in our training is at some level or other, a compromise. We are balancing the use of resource. We are like saying, okay, I'm going to spend my resource doing this, not that. I'm going to spend my resource money as opposed to time buying this, not that. So when an article says, are these the best five carry guns? I can tell you what, you don't need to read the article. The answer is no. Why? Because of the word best, someone's opinion. Is this the best carry gun for you? Well, maybe. Yeah, maybe so. But your criteria are individual. The criteria that you would use to select a carry gun, to select a knife that you might have you every day, to select your medical kit, these are specific subjective criteria only to you. Now, in terms of experts, God help us all. In terms of experts, yeah, okay. Experts are useful, but only if you understand what the limitations are. Experts have opinions. And the other thing is, and, you know, this is, it's the case with me, you know, I'm not saying, oh my God, this is something that never ever happens in the entire world. No, the fact is, is experts are really good at delivering their opinions oftentimes. Funny story, I mean, I'm in Rob Pinkis' instructor cert class. Intuitive defensive shooting. And, you know, I make a shot on the range, duh, duh, duh, duh. And then Rob says, stop. Now, Michael, I want you to articulate exactly why you shot in the sequence you did. And I said, sure. And I spent the next 10 minutes running down my thought processes. And finally, Rob goes, oh God, Michael, stop it. Just ignore Michael. Michael does this for a living. If you ask Michael to justify what he does, he can do it 10 different ways from Sunday because he's done it 10 different ways from Sunday. You probably can't. Some of you can't, I know. So if you do it better than me, some of the, you know, an instructor like Ken Hackathorn, it's an instructor like Dave Spalding, a instructor like Eric Gelhaus, an instructor like Lou Gosnell. I mean, come on. These are, but the thing is, is they have reasons for doing what they do. I have reasons for doing what I do. I can articulate what those reasons are. But those reasons might not be the same for you. And again, I mean, the classic thing here that I come back and dwell on is I am not capable of telling you how to deal with children around guns. I can give you what other people say. Mr. Pink is says, you know, Ken Campbell says. But I don't have any kids. Yeah, and my deal with dealing with a cat, a dog, and three birds, I don't have to deal with them on that way, except for the cat. The cat's always trying to get a knife to smuggle somewhere. I don't trust him one bit, but I don't have what I think of as real world-grounded experience in going through the training of children with firearms, young people with firearms. I don't have it. You know, again, I can give you ballpark stuff, but I don't have that kind of, you know, this is what I think USPSA competition is like. I only shot it for a cut in a decade or so. Yeah, so I know. I know internally what that's like. What's it like to disassemble a Glock? I've disassembled a Glock a couple of thousand times. Glock armor classes. I have a pretty good idea of saying, what's it like to just assemble a Glock? I can pretty much tell you, right? But if you say, what's it like to teach an 11-year-old about guns? I don't know. That also applies to other things. We're talking to a guy years ago. This is a long time ago, but they're talking about, wow, you know, be great if we could do some, you know, entry, entries, like into a house, like police entry, stack outside, do that. And I said, honestly, I said, I'm not a cop. I never was a cop. So I can tell you a lot of theories about how to stack an inner room. I knew those, but you got to understand that never once have I stacked an inner room with sawing with a gun on the other side of it. You know, if you want to know how to enter a room, you need to reach out to a Lugaznale or a Dave Spalding or Eric Gelhouse, you know, and say, hey, you know, I would really like some instruction on how to stack an inner room, which way I go. Yeah, people who have been there and done that as opposed to people who have read about people who'd been there and done that. Those are important distinctions. 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. Okay, should I lay down the axe handle now and stop beating that dead horse? Well, okay, as long as you promise me, you're listening to this, as long as you promise me that you're not going to read something that says, what is the best axe? And you go like, whoa. You know, I have to get different ammunition because I'm not carrying the best. Well, 60 days ago, there were three articles that said this was the best, but this one changed and this is the best. You know, why? Because we sell articles. It's what we do, you know, and it's all tied up in all of us. And this, I'm going to say this is consistent across, you know, whatever field you're writing in, if you're in, you know, writing as a journalist and a commercial journalist, you're writing articles and there's kind of a difference. Commercial journalist is people like me, what I did for a long time, give Michael the money and Michael will write about eggs. Well, what does Michael know about asparagus? Give Michael the money and Michael will find out a lot about asparagus by the time he sits down to write, you know, and within the gun world culture that tends to be the case is commercial writers. And the other thing is it is the pay is cheap. You know, I remember I had been away from guns a bit and I just finished doing over the edge and I had my first advanced copies of it and I reached out to a friend of mine who was running a major, major, major gun magazine. And I said, hey, dude, you know, I'm done with the book. The book's going to be coming out and man, I really miss shooting. Yeah, I'm already getting back into ipsec shooting. And I said, boy, you know, he goes, would you write for me? I said, yeah, yeah, sure. I'd love that sort of part of the reason is that I enjoyed writing for you before. I'd like to write for you. And he goes, what kind of rates are you seeing now? So I have a $2,000 minimum, which is what you got from big magazines and per article. So maybe it's the 3,000 word article, 2,000 bucks, right? It's expensive. There's a long silence over the phone, a long silence over the phone. You know, the money is even less there than it was then, if you think about it. With the internet offering so many quote unquote opportunities for people to publish, you know, you know, you can be a publisher tomorrow. Newt the Beagle, you know, I really feel like she should have her own like small publishing empire. But more markets drives down the cost. And it drives down the cost because you got to sell a lot of articles to live. The late Frank James was a dear friend of mine, a dear friend of mine. And you probably remember this story is literally the way Frank and I met. I was writing, I think I was mostly writing for like American hand gunner. And I'm, you know, I can't quite rid the timeframe. But I know I was living in Tampa and I get a call. And it's like, I pick it up and says, and this is actually how Frank was. God love him. He goes, Hello, Mr. Bain. My name is Frank James and I am a bean farmer. Okay, Mr. James. Yes. And I want to be a writer. Okay, Mr. James, he goes, Can you make me a writer? Said, I can help you. But you know, one of the things I've said before, I've said this to journalism classes and God, they hate me for it. Writing, the ability to string together words, coherent ideas and a cohesive string is not something you learn. It's something that comes with your package is like, you know, I watch some of my friends draw. There's beautiful drawings. If you give me a pencil and tell me to draw a person, it's a stick figure. It's a head stick to the whole package. I don't have that package. I didn't get the art upgrade. I got the writing upgrade. You know, it's by the time I got to junior high school, I knew if they had an essay question. Boom. I'm done and I set the class, you know, set the standard. But, but Frank says, Can you help me? And he said, send me something you wrote. He said to me and I thought, I'll call him back. He said, Oh, hell, you can write. But, you know, now it's time to refine stuff. Let's talk about English grammar. Let's talk about spelling. Let's talk about punctuation. Let's talk about leads. Let's talk about narratives. Let's talk about the classic narrative curve, all that kind of stuff. But Frank had the gift. And so everything else was just sharpening the knife, you know? But you say that to, you know, as I've told you before, I mean, I know I'm redundant, redundant. Sometimes I'm redundant. I think maybe I'm redundant. But, you know, I once spoke to a really big writer's group, maybe 300 people in the room. And they had actually sent me a bound book of all of the people's articles and stuff that they'd written. And, you know, it was awful. It was wretched. Just wretched. Lots of, lots of essays about cats. But in any case, I spoke to them and told them the truth. I said, "You can the writer you can't." A commercial writer has to be able to write, has to be able to string thoughts together in a coherent sentence. Has to understand the concept of narrative, right? That's just the truth. So, you know, sometimes you have to understand that some things are, you know, it's not like they tell you now in elementary school. If you can be anything you want, including if you're a boy, a girl, that's not true. Anyway, that whole rant is rooted in the fact that commercial writers sell ideas and then turns those ideas into articles. Sometimes the editor has the ideas. Sometimes the magazine has a certain slant. But basically, you generate ideas. When I was a freelance writer, a professional freelance writer, I would generate tons of ideas. You know, sometimes like 10 a week, maybe send out 10, 15 proposals a month. If they all came back, yes, I couldn't do it. Didn't have the capacity to do it, although I would. But, you know, the easiest ideas to sell are the ones that somebody's done before. A really top New York writer, I mean, really top tier New York magazine writer once. We were at a bar in New York City. And he goes, you know, the easiest articles to sell. No, you know, let me take notes. But he goes, the easiest articles to sell are on topics that have already appeared in People magazine. Because editors then don't have to think that through. What's an interesting idea? They're like, no, I saw it last week. He's getting married for the fourth time and he's getting married to a cocker spaniel. And then the article becomes marriage to small dogs. Is it a trend? You know, unique ideas are harder to sell, duh. So that's why you find 9 millimeter versus 45. That's why you find every month a different, what's the best 9 millimeter round for you? That's why you find every month an article that says, are these the ultimate EDC guns? Because the ideas are simple and the editors go, yeah, yeah, I haven't seen an article like that in 60 days. Jump on it, dog. But anyway, I probably went too far yelling and screaming in that. But it's kind of the truth. For me, everything comes down to what you want the gun to do, right? There's really excellent article and shooting illustrated on why you don't rotate carry guns. That's interesting because I don't rotate them on a regular basis, but my job is to test them. So like my friends, we oftentimes say, well, what are you carrying this week? Well, I got this gun, XX gun. I want to carry it for a while because I really think it works as a carry gun, but until it's in a holster on my hip, no. I do kind of agree and let me just say this. It's a good article and I don't really disagree with it. I'm pretty strong about it. I want the guns in the same place. And for me, that's right about two, three o'clock, right? I've used appendix. I just don't care that much. And I didn't get faster. I mean, you know, the fine slicing for me was not worth the effort of the fact that I spent decades shooting practical pistol sports and that's where the gun is. So that's pretty easy. And it could be inside the waistband, it could be outside the waistband, or it could be in the pocket on my right hand pocket. Second gun's left hand pocket because that's what I've always trained for. So, you know, regardless of what I'm carrying, it tends to be in the same place. Now, I spent a lot of time with the revolvers. I spent a lot of time with Sim Automax, both 1911s and striker fired guns. If you're going to alternate between them, you got to practice with all of them. Whatever you're carrying. And I got this from Michael Janich in the best defense. You know, an early show in the best defense, Michael Janich said, "Everyone he knows carries a folding knife." And so then Janich went the next step and said, "So how many of you have a lock back fold or clipped in your pocket? How many of you who carry that train with it?" And the answer is five of Michael Janich's closest friends. Everybody else is like, "What?" Really? Well, you open it and then your stealthy knife jute, you know, dude. No, you're not. But if you carry something, you need to train with it. And that includes spray. I mean, that's one of the reasons I really like some of the classes that John Murphy's class, in fact, that focus is on, here's how you use pepper spray. Here's the best way to use it. Here's some dummy stuff. Now we're going to practice using it. It's like, "Oh, yeah. How's that going to work?" If you carry it, you should practice with it. You should have a best case idea of best case. There I said it. Best case is different. How it's supposed to work. So if sometimes you carry your revolver, and I do, and sometimes you carry a semi-auto that might be in 1911, which has a very specific trigger, or a striker-fired gun such as the 6365 on my belt right now, you need to practice with all those things. Your body will remember, your body will get you to where you need it to go. You know, to me, don't exacerbate the differences. It's easy to say, "I'm going to exaggerate everything." But yeah, Jerry Mitchell had told me once, sitting in the living room of Jerry Mitchell's home in Louisiana, while Jerry's seeing their clicking, or a revolver frame. Click, click, click, pull the trigger, click, click. And he was, you know, Michael, shooting the double action revolver really gave me a better feel for the trigger on a semi-automatic. Believe me, if Jerry says it, it's probably been handed down on some kind of marble tablet on a very large mountain. And I think that's the case. Trigger control is trigger control. But like I said, if you say, "Okay, this week, I'm carrying a snub in my pocket." You've got to go out on the range and shoot the snub. Sorry. It's just important to do that. So I agree with that. If you're going to carry a differently difference, it throws me off a little if I carry in a difference. Sometimes I carry a chest holster, holster, chest holster, because I'm on a hike or something and I've got a pack. And there's a lot of straps, or a hydration system. There's just a lot of straps going around. And those straps sometimes make it awkward to go to my 3 o'clock or my 2 o'clock position for the gun. And in that case, oftentimes it's easier to carry the gun in a chest holster, center chest. But you have to practice with that too, because you have to remember what it's there. It's there. It's also handy because you always feel it, because it's like thump-thump. Writing is to your heart. But that's kind of the key thing is that as I hit the microphone, you know, form follows function, doesn't it? You know, it always does. Function, what is it I want the gun to do? Why do I have this big gun I want to carry? And the woods I've already got all this pack on, I got all this weight on. Why do I have this big heavy gun on? Because the woods may be full of creatures with big teeth that want to eat me. And I want to discourage them, that means I might not carry a 22. Why might I carry a 22? A Ruger LCP2 in my pocket. May well be that I'm just grilling barbecue outside of my own house. I know where the hardware is. It's only my neighbor's over. I just need something to buy me a minute or two to get to the heavy weaponry. And I'm not worried about a 22 LCP2 with federal punch. I'm cool. But I practice with that too. Sometimes I say, I just need to go drive some 22 rounds. You know, into close up target, practice, practice into that index card size target. Okay, Michael Stein, time to stop talking. Okay. All right. Anyhow, anyhow, this is somewhat helpful. I hope it changes the way a little bit. You look at when you look at an article on a gun magazine or on a gun website or even one of my articles and you glad I didn't say, "Man, I've seen that so many times before." Now you know why. Now you know why. Okay. Michael Bain, MBTV on the radio, 20 years old, brought to you by Hunter's HD Go. I find his shooting glasses made, MTM case guard, who have organized our lives and made us better. Everything we talk about here, you can find on my primary site, MichaelBain.tv. You can also find triggered there. This week on Triggered, we're talking a little bit about the Stoker, STR-9 Combat X, which I finally started shooting, working with, I really liked the gun a lot. It's a gun I've been waiting for since Shot Show. I'm really glad to get my hands on it now in shooting. But all the stuff at MichaelBain.tv is free. Lots of video, a thousand years worth of podcasts, a bunch of articles, golly gee. What else can you ask? So, I don't know. I thought maybe we could go out of here with an oldie but a goodie, Marabunto. Which is a movie about army hits. From a group called the Anacondas. And hey, remember, remember as lighthearted as I may be about some of this, these are the most dangerous times of our lives. It is scary town out there, kiddos. And that means that you need to be paying attention, you need to be armed. You need to be focused. And you need to make sure that you and your family stay safe out there. 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