(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (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) Okay, Kino's dad is a little bit of coyote. (upbeat music) From the English.org is from which is one of the middle and carnations of the London-based producer and host, lots of cool stuff that you guys don't like. (upbeat music) Or, I like that kind of big orchestral sound. I'm Michael Bain. This is MBTV on the radio now in our 20th year award winning podcast brought to you this week by Hunter's HD Gold and MTM case guard. My favorite big plastic box manufacturer. And first, before you go any further, I have a public service announcement. If Kamala Harris is elected, she is going to take your guns. If you let her take your guns, they're going to do things to you that you really won't like, and you probably would have used your guns to stop them from doing. So, let's just start the show that way. If you have any questions about that, you need to go somewhere and get some psychiatric help because it's obvious, you know, she hasn't changed your values. Okay. Jumping right into it on one other thing, I want to mention the passing of Ed Brown, a great legendary gunsmith, Ed Brown, last September 15th. I knew Ed, back in the old days, of course, I've worked for Ed Brown, his company here for a little bit, for about a year. And I'm happy to do it because Ed, I think he retired from his company when he turned 65, which was a few years back. But Ed always did incredible work, and I just wanted to mention here in passing. You know, he began his gunsmithing in like 1968, I believe. And, you know, did a lot of work on a lot of guns, and then came to a major realization that, you know, he'd been working as a CAD/CAM designer, CNC programmer. He was an expert there, and he said, "Boy, you know, the gun parts that I'm working with here, don't run to the kind of standards I see in modern manufacturing." And so Ed Brown began essentially re-engineering, back engineering, the 1911. You know, making sure all the parts were brought to modern standards and manufacturable on modern machinery. You know, that's really -- that sounds so simple, and it's not even remotely. Just his -- we all used his -- we all used his beaver tails, we all used his magwells. Great, great, great gunsmith. And like 2000, we talked about this before. Ed was a singularly brilliant idea. You know, he's building Ypsich race guns, or all his parts are being used Ypsich race guns. He goes, "Well, if people pay that much for guns to play with, what do you think they'd pay -- would they pay for the same quality parts in a carry gun?" And he came out with the Cobra Carry, which is one of the definitive, everyday carry guns ever made. We have one here in-house, we're going to shoot it a bunch on trigger before I send it back to the shop there. But anyway, his -- his loss is a great loss. To the gunsmithing world, to the 1911 world, to the practical shooting world. I'm honored to have known him, and damn, I wish I could have afforded his guns back then. But in any case, Ed Brown, rest in peace, my friend, rest in peace. Okay, let's move on to a little bit more on guns right now. So, anyhow, last week I had a pretty cool week. Marshall Holloway, my partner in All Things Internet. And I went to Cedar City, Utah, to visit the Rock Island Armory plant there. That's a plant. It just opened about a year ago. A Joe Montana came and cut the ribbon there, and opened up that plant. And I've had an invitation for a couple of shot shows to go visit, and finally got the timing worked out. And I was hugely impressed. You guys know that I've worked with Rock Island now for a long time. Both on shooting gallery and on my own Internet products, I'm triggered here on the website. And I've been to Manila, been to the Philippines twice. They're at the huge gigantic arms corps facility, Rock Island Armory facility. They're in the world where at one point they were the largest makers of 1911s in the entire world for a while there. And the interesting thing is the Cedar City factory is none of that. Right? It's small. I think they have a total of 17 employees. But it is a beautiful little factory. I mean, you guys know I'm kind of a factory nerd, right? From all that time I spent with RD Garwini, a consulting group, and going to factories and studying how things were made, it turned me into a complete factory nerd. And the Rock Island Armory factory in Cedar City is so cool. And one of the reasons it's so cool is the head of the factory. Lynn Gomez. Who is cool? When she is a Marine, was in the global war on terror back, you know, the first I guess a rocky invasion, was a drill instructor. So you best listen, really for sure. But has this incredible career, you know, comes out, goes into manufacturing and helps one, I think a travel type company, a travel, a trailer type company to get which, but opens seven factories for them. Besides, she wanted to go into healthcare, became in California, the head of a healthcare operation, and then retired, had land in Cedar City. And here's this woman with this incredibly diverse background. Not to mention being a Marine. And eventually ends up as the head of Rock Island Armory's Cedar City factory. Interestingly enough, this is kind of a small thing, but I think it is really kind of an interesting thing. There, they refer to their factory as RIA, RIA USA, to give it a little bit of differentiation from Rock Island. And what I like about it is to me, it represents a little bit of the cutting edge of manufacturing and how manufacturing should work. For example, there's a, they do a lot more there, like 17 people and a bunch of really smart machines than I thought. I knew that the new 5.0 and the 5.0e were being made there in Utah. But completely made, put together a symbol there, everything. And what I didn't realize is that small plant, it also handles VRF 14, which you talked about here a lot recently. I think I'm going to do something with triggered on it. That is they're not a shotgun, shotgun. They're 14-inch barrel, 26-inch overall length firearm. And it's interesting. You know, metal work is done there in Cedar City. I believe that the plastic trigger group comes from Turkey. And it's a really good example of how manufacturing does work. You know, you do the things you do best and then work to put everything together under the control of, again, a marine, that works. What's interesting is the way quality controls, I can, you know, I can give you lectures on quality control and modern manufacturing, right? Quality control used to be, and how do I know this used to be? Because I used to be the quality control guy at Hunter Fan in Memphis for about three months. And what happened was that every day, hundreds of thousands of parts, where they would park these skids just with like, you know, five foot tall, five foot square bins. They would park these skids right outside my quality control office, where I had a micrometer and a couple other little measuring jigs and things like that. And then I would walk out and do a representative sample of the, like say, 5,000 motor shafts that were parked outside my QC office. I would go out and close my eyes and go any, many, many more and take five. Let's say five, seven motor shafts out. And then I would meticulously measure them. And if they were to spec, then I approved the other 4,500, 4,995 shafts sitting in the bin. And I'd go on to the next of them. I'd go on to the next item and I would control it. And so I sit there and did that all day long, day in, day out, day in, day out. Now here's the catch, right? You know, let's say one day I had a whole bunch of, I don't know, motor spindles come in and they sucked. They looked like they were carved by beavers. They couldn't even get close to the spec. Well, you know, if Michael, teenage Michael, 20 year old, whatever I was, but if Michael said, they're out of spec, guys. Yeah, I drew a sample and then I drew a second sample and both of those were out of spec. I'm rejecting 5,000 parts. Well, I often got a visit from the Union shop steward, who called me many fascinating names. And like, you're tying up this year. Yeah, I'm like, well then learn how to make the damn parts right the first time. That's how QC was. I can tell you one horrible QC story, right? Where, you know, one day the company was going out of strike, I was not in Union employee, and I'm like, okay, I don't care. I'm working in there in my little office and a guy comes in, he closes the door behind him, say, I need to explain something to you, son. Don't call me son. When I was a little irritating things to me. I said, so don't call me son, but why would you like to explain? He goes, if you reject another load, we're going to go out on strike. And if you would reject a load, reject a load and we don't get as much stuff as we expected. And we talked it over and we're going to kill you. So, well, that was my first death threat, by the way. Fascinating, exciting. And I said, gosh, I'm scared. I mean, he'll make wet myself. I don't know. I was terrified, not really, but I was really pissed off. So, as soon as he left, I went out and I pulled five motor shafts and I took a flat file and I flat-filed the end of them until they were wily out of spec. And then I pulled the second sample and I flat-filed the end of them until they were wily out of spec and they called the son of a bitch back in, said, I just rejected this skit because you're going to die. I don't think so. I don't think so, sir. But, anyhow, I didn't know. Sorry, spoiler alert, didn't die, okay? But I did muck up the factory and told my supervisors the next person that threatens me pays freight. So, the next time I came to work, I came to work with Ruger Blackhawk 357 under my shirt. Well, those were different times, different times than these. But in any case, that's the dumbest way in the world to do quality control. Because, like, one doofus, me, could reject everything. I could stop the factory there and say, what's that? Well, that's not really good because if I rejected that load of 5,000 motor shafts or whatever, motor spindles, motor shafts, you know, probably only 10% were bad. Well, yeah, but you got, you know, but it tied everything up and then they had to go back and do the whole thing again. What if, this is amazing, this is what I learned from Artie Garuit, this is what we learned from the Japanese. What if quality control happened right there at the machine? Gosh! Because, you know, sometimes machines get hanky, get weird, get possessed by evil spirits, parts in them where? And so the thing is, is, okay, if the guy at the machine is checking the quality, or there's a quality checker working right with that guy right at the machine, and all of a sudden three parts come out out of spec, you go, whoa, stop, what the hell happened? We need to see what caused these three parts, these three parts to be manufactured out of spec. And now let's fix it and move on. Now here's the interesting part of that. In, in my scenario where Michael is sitting in a little box with a micrometer, all 5,000 parts in the bin that I rejected were scrapped, or had to go to rework, all of them. In the way I just described it, only the three parts that popped out, the guy goes, whoa, got three parts out of spec. Stop the machine, stop the machine, let's work, let's fix this. Only three parts were lost, not to mention the time, you know, the cost associated with rework, all those things. So anyway, that's kind of factory nerd kind of stuff, is that quality should take place at the spot, where the part is manufactured, where the spot part is assembled, all of those things is where quality needs to live. And of course at Cedar City, that's exactly how it works. You know, if the person running the machine sees a problem, he or she can say, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop the machine. We've got to clear this up. 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From shooting tables to ammo storage, MTM has you covered in waterproof too. Okay, why is it important to have the engineers on the floor? Once again, because the engineers can then communicate with the machine guy. And the machine guy says, "I got three parts here that out of spec." And the engineer says, "Huh, what changed? What happened?" Well, here's what happened. And all of a sudden, there's this synchronicity that's able to take place. They can fix stuff. That's pretty much exactly how it worked in Sam Colt's time. You know, one of the guys working on the machines could walk around and go, "You know what, hey, it's not working, Sam." And Sam would go, "Get somebody over there to fix it right now." It's only as we got larger and put in place the concepts of mass production. That we lost sight of what the best way to manufacture was. And so much so within the firearms industry, I see that coming back. And I see the Rock Island Army factory, the Ria USA factory in Cedar City, to be a perfect example of that. You do what you do best. You're making the metal parts. You're assembling them there with parts that have been shipped into units that are better made in a place that makes those units, say the trigger units, plastic trigger units that fit into the VRF, say the VRF, VRF 14. I think it's really cool, right? You know, I'm also was interested in seeing and saw, you know, the continued growth and the continued commitment to the 5.0 platform, which to me, you know, I said, "Shot Show two years ago, so a lot of people said this." The most interesting, the most fascinating gun to come out of shot two years ago. And then this year shot, the improved version came. A pretty substantially improved version. And now there's additional other versions. There's kind of a hunting version, the ghost gun. And it is really neat from the 5.0 platform. And there's also, interestingly enough, there's the 5.0 and the 5.0. 5.0 has all the enhancements on it, and that puts the price tag close to $2,000. The 5.0 alone doesn't. It's roughly $9.95, something like that. Originally, the first original cost on the 5.0's, it will come cut for an optic, you know, just one plate, as opposed to a selection of plates, things like that. And it makes, to me, the 5.0 a heck of a buy. And the 5.0, you know, I've told you before, I think it's a heck of a pistol. Have a lot of rounds through them. I think they're very, very good guns. Coming up, there'll be a carry version of the 5.0 platform, which is something to look forward to. Really, really neat. I don't know when I'm going to be able to see that, but I know it is in the works there. Once again, in the Cedar City factory, 100% American made. And another big change is coming to the factory, is that the one line of the Rock Island 1911s, the Tech Ultra series will be moving from the Philippines to Cedar City, Utah. Tech Ultra, of course, have all the bells and whistles that you can expect. A top-end 1911, while at the same time maintaining, you know, they're really, really aggressive pricing. So you're going to see, initially, full-size 1911 single-stack Tech Ultra, the larger capacity, 45 Tech Ultra, the 9-millimeter Tech Ultra, which I think is 17 rounds in free states, 10 rounds here in slave states. And, and this will just make you so happy. A full-size 10-millimeter Tech Ultra. And here's another thing that's going to make you wicked happy, right? It's going to be the larger capacity. I think it's a capacity of 14. That's all right, that's just 16, capacity of 16, the Tech Ultra's on 10-millimeter. And, and this is, this is a cool part, all the Tech Ultra's that will be manufactured there in, in Cedar City will be optics-ready and well past time, as we well know. Once again, there, there, what, what Colt would call series 70s 1911s. They don't have the little trigger plunger sticking down there through that, that really was a waste of everyone's time. But they're just kind of straight out 1970s, or 70 series 1911s. So, as you know, I have, I have the SDS 9-millimeter, that the TSIS 9-millimeter 1911 has been cut for a dot site. And I also have, and I'll be able to show it to you, not, not, not this next week, week after I'm triggered. I have my own Tech Ultra, 10-millimeter Tech Ultra, single stack cut for a red dot site and fitted with excess backup sites. Because, and the frame is built out of Ed Brown parts, it is a wickedly cool little gun, ultimate, ultimate outside, or ultimate carry, back country carry gun in 10-millimeter. And so, anyway, I have two, those two Tech Ultra's, which will show you. And, and the other that I liked is I was talking to Lynn, right, head of the company, head of the factory there. And of course she answers to Lisa Tawassen, my tear friend Lisa Tawassen. And I mentioned that I've got this like eight shot commander length 10-millimeter Tech Ultra that I had tricked out. And then also we had the incredible Sean McShady cylinder and slide 10-millimeter, long slide, larger capacity Tech Ultra fitted with a frame mounted aim point. As a just a wicked good hunting pistol. And she goes, boy, I sure love to see that, boy, the engineers here would sure love to see that. So what I'm going to do is in the next couple of weeks, I'm going to box up my Tech Ultra's and send them out to her. And that way she can, you know, she can show them to the engineers, you know, show them how, you know, what I expect, how I put that gun together. I think it would not, I would not be surprised at all to see a dedicated hunting Tech Ultra 10-millimeter. And that would be really cool. You know, I think we'd all be really happy with that, especially, especially we already had it set up for optics. It's a neat factory. And, you know, again, I get into this because I like to see, you know, a lean factory. I like to see a factory where everything happens the way you think American manufacturing should run. And when it runs like that, when it runs well, you know, you walk through that factory and you go, wow, just wow. This is so cool. So, anyway, I will keep you up to taps on the Tech Ultra's and the increasing versions of the 50. I know we'll see one of the versions of the 50 with shot in 2025. Hopefully we'll see the first of the run of the Tech Ultra's coming out of Cedar City will be available to you at Rock Island Army Booth at Shacho. I'll be at the booth. We'll set up a time there at the booth and, you know, you can feel free to quiz me about the guns. And by then I'll have had a couple of them been able to shoot them a bunch. So that was really fun. And, you know, we should re-USA all the success in the world because I, to me, that's the way to do it. You know, that is so much the way to do it. And, you know, luckily enough, I have advertisers that I can kind of explain that to you. Like, we were talking about Ed Brown, of course, in his company, their ongoing company and their idea of fuel series, you know, sort of not full blown for $5,000 customs, but, but customize Ed Brown versions of, say, the Springfield Prodigy and one of the Smith and Wesson guns. And you end up with a really great gun at a price that's not going to bankrupt you. And I think those are some really, really important things. I like that. I like that a lot. You know, same thing with Stoker, you know, what do I like about Stoker? I like that it's a great gun for a reasonable price. You know, what do I like about Rossi? I think they're revolvers are maybe one of the best revolver values in the United States. Oh, gosh, you know, anyway, okay, okay, quick, quick, quick, another quick public service announcements before we continue talking about guns. Okay. Okay. Guys, and not guys, other. You need to stock up on ammunition now you, especially if you reload or you need to stock up on components now, especially primers. They're available and they're not through the ceiling. They're not cheap, but they're not through the ceiling. I say, and a lot of other people say that due to some changes in China on what they're willing to export to the United States, I think there is a very good chance that within, say, six months, we're going to be moving to an ammo crisis. Because we're just simply not going to be able to get ammunition worse to get components, certain gun powders, certain primers. Once again, remember, we've got wars going to have two major wars going on, the war in the Middle East, where the good guys are just bitch slapping the bad guys all over the sand in the Ukraine, where idiots are moving as fast as they can toward World War III. But those, those wars suck ammunition worldwide. It's global economy. They're worldwide suck ammunition. So you find yourself, you know, you say, okay, well, gosh, there's lots of things like that. And gosh, you know, the size of the shooting market has grown incredibly, you're selling, go ahead, a couple hundred, a couple of million guns a month. And all of those guns require dot, dot, dot, wait for it, wait for it, ammunition. And then we're saying, I'm saying here, and you're saying on the internet, you're saying with all, you know, this great training economy that we have, we're saying, get out there and shoot, you've got to go shoot. We shoot more now than my father, who was a shooter his entire life, could imagine, except for World War II, of course, but, you know, we just routinely shoot more. You know, I was thinking this weekend, didn't shoot this weekend because I had to make pesto. It's kind of that chefy thing. And a bunch of other things that had to be done in the house where, you know, winter is coming here in the high country. And we find that it's in our best interest to be ready for winter, especially because we live off grid. You know, we also added some additional security, which I won't talk about. But it's here. And a lot of things that needed to be done to get the house ready to face winter, and to get the system ready to face winter, the off grid system. So a lot of things that had to be done here, but I'm like, man, I'm not shooting. I can't believe I haven't shot that much. Gosh. And they'll, you know, they will, you know, the only shot twice last week, right? Rightful's handguns. Ah, yeah. Okay. Well, but anyway, we shoot more. This iteration gun culture version 2.0 shoots a lot more than gun culture 1.0 ever did because gun culture 1.0 was buried in the hunting. Gosh, culture itself, that hunting culture. Like I said, my father, you know, every year would go out and buy a box of 20 rounds of 30-30. And oftentimes that box would last him for two and sometimes three hunting seasons. I'd like to see a box. It should last me through a hunting season. That's for sure. But we shoot more. We have commercial pressures, lots more guns out there. You know, lots more people buying ammunition. And we have the, the pressures of two wars that are going through ammunition at a rate that is staggering. So my public service announcement here is that you need to think about how much ammo and how many reloading components you've got. And then you need to think very hard about your credit card limits. Because you definitely want to go stock up. One thing that I said this before, before the last ammo shortage, and I got thank you letters from people. One thing you definitely, unconditionally, unqualified need to think about is practice, right? You want to have enough ammo to practice with. And one of the things that I strongly recommend as do many others, I mean, it's not like I'm a first to do this. I think I did the first video on it. Training with 22s, me and Tom Yost through Panneo Productions. But use 22s for training. The ammo is cheaper. The guns are generally less expensive. So if you focus on using 22s for training, it works. It's why so many of my friends who carry snub nose revolvers also have, say, a Ruger LCR in 22. Or one of the more expensive Smith & Wesson's in 22. Because you practice with those guns. And then transition over to the carry gun. You know, when I was carrying the LCP, I mean, to me, one of the great... I was carrying LCP 380, right? So I shot a lot with the LCP 2, 10 shot 22. I practiced a lot with that. And that translates over. And it translates over on a larger scale as well, right? We've talked about this before. Before I went to Africa to go Kate Buffalo hunting with 4570 lever gun. I'm Arlen. I spent thousands of 22 rounds through a Henry lever gun. And you know what it allowed me to do? It allowed me to practice all the different positions. I might be kneeling. I might be prone. I might be standing. I might have one knee raised. I might be leaning against a branch. I might be securing the gun on a branch or against one of our shooting position points. But it allows me to do all of that. And not have to get a bank loan. Hang on a second. Okay, no, taking my own advice. Knowing that I'm going to be shooting a bolt action rifle a little bit later this year on that hunting trip. One of the things that I did is I went to the gun safe. And fished out a bolt action Ruger American 22. And I've worked with, I've used it a lot as a training rifle. It's got a Burris 2-7 rimfire scope on it, which really works well since I'm using a 2-12 on the centerfire rifle on the 300 win mag. And I put it in a Boyd stock because that adds a little weight, makes it feel more like a real rifle. And for me as a training tool, it's really great. It's threaded. So sometimes one of the things I did with it in training before is I'd go out and shoot a little bit later in the evening. Obviously I have my own ranges. You know, I can shoot on my own ranges. But in those sense, even bothering the neighbors when I can just screw a can on. And shoot in and get practice in like kind of lower, worse light conditions, which is a very handy thing to have. So I'm a really big fan of practicing whatever you're doing with 22 caliber. And you know, I remember talking about it in that Pantio video. God, a long time ago, myself and Tom Yost, my good friend Tom Yost, that yeah, any sport that you do, you can mimic the gun in 22 long rifle. And then you're going to get a lot more bang for your buck because all guns pretty much work the same. And so I think that's a good idea. And I also think that it tells you that we're, you know, we're looking around now. We're looking around about, there may be an ammo shortage. We may see a serious shortage of ammunition. Well, it makes sense then to lay in 22. You know, lay in extra 20. Don't think in terms of God. I mean, people hate hearing me say this because then you're encouraging people to hoard. You know, my definition of a hoarder is always been people who are smarter than you. But you're not going to bankrupt yourself buying 5,000 rounds of 22. Pick your favorite, you know. And that's really good because then you've got those and you can, you can on an ongoing basis, keep your practice up. Because that's important. You know, I encourage you to shoot a lot. And, and 22s make it easy to do that. It's one of the reasons that Ken Jorgensen laid Nelson Diamond and I created the Rimfire Challenge Shooting Association. Because we wanted to set up a fast, really challenging sport based on 22 rifle, 22 pistol. Boy has that been a success. And boy, I am hoping to see you guys there at the Rimfire Challenge Shooting Association World Championships, where I'm going to give away about a thousand bucks worth of dug, turnable, beautified Ruger Mark Force. So, hey, show up. Must be present to win. So that's, that's, once again, keep in mind, probably an ammunition shortage coming. You want to have ammunition for your carry, carry gun stack deep. What's stack deep? A thousand rounds, a thousand rounds, a nine millimeter, a thousand rounds, a 223. At least 250 rounds of, of whichever shotgun ammunition you use. You know, I have, I think, 500 rounds of, of the buckshot that I like. And then, you know, other ammo there. But, but a big thing there, big thing is focus on, on, when times get tight, focus on using a 22 as your training tool. Because it'll do it for you. It will, it will keep you sharp. Yeah, you know, there's, you know, I've, I've, I've been a big fan of a lot, a lot of the other type training, electronic training tools, specifically the Mantis. And a couple of other ones. But in the end, in the end, it's standing on the range and it goes bang. And even if it goes just a little bit, right? So, uh, maybe you heard it from me first and when all your friends are going like, do you have any ammo to lo me? You go like, ah, no, uh, 22s. Okay. And speaking of which, I have to do a big O shout out. Thank you to Justin Moon, uh, John Howard, all my friends. Um, at car arms, Magnum research, because they built me a rifle for the rimfire challenge world championships coming up. And it's a doozy. You know, for a long time, Magnum research has made 22 rifles. I used the 10, 22 magazines, of course. But their rifles are really, really super guns. I, I like it, um, I've got my, my bolt handle on the left side has got intended. So I don't have to, uh, to remove my strong hand to rack the bolt. Uh, really nice trigger group. The trigger group is in red. Uh, trigger group has, um, it's got a push button magazine release. So you just reach forward to the trigger group or trigger guard and push and it drops the magazine out. It's got an excellent bolt hold open device. It doesn't require two friends and a monkey to be able to work. Um, the barrel itself is, uh, tensioned carbon fiber. Also in red. And with one of their own muzzle brakes, which is, uh, it looked to me like a really good muzzle brake. I'll run it out and put some, and probably this afternoon run it out and put some rounds through it. Stick a dot side on it and go from there. But, uh, it just feels good. I like the way it feels. I like the way it fits. And, um, I am really looking forward to running it in the rimfire challenge shooting association. It's got a, it's got a pick rail on it. Uh, that's cast into the, uh, um, the receiver itself. So, um, I don't know. I'm not sure which dot will end up on it, but there will be a dot ending up on it. You know, I suspect if I can find the right mounting system, a hall sun 510, because I do like the window. And I do like the option of a dot and a donut. But, uh, I, you know, I just think it's a beautiful looking rifle. Uh, I can't wait to take it outside and see just exactly how it shoots. Um, you know, and it will be going with me to the world championship. So once again, thank you, Justin Moon, of course, the head of, of car arms, Magnum research. Thank you, my good friend, John Howard there, who kind of helped put all this together. And as always, uh, thank you, Sean Moon, uh, king bullet head for your inspiring music. And I, I, like I said, I, you know, I think if you're going to like shoot with music on your headphones, I think bullet head would be kind of the way to go with that. Um, I'll get you, obviously I'll get you this stuff up on, on triggered over the next couple of weeks. I have a couple of other rifles in here that I'm really excited about, uh, that I've been waiting for a long time. And, um, one of them is the project gun we've been talking about, uh, for so long. And that is the, uh, revamp of a Ruger Precision rifle and is now barreled in, uh, six millimeter creed more, uh, a proof barrel, six millimeter creed more great timmy trigger. Um, that's put together. I have a night for seven to 35 that goes on it. And, uh, the, the challenge is, you know, what I want to do with that gun that we talked about is I wanted to get that gun to a point. I'm like, Hey, I, uh, you know, I want to be more consistent a thousand yards. And, uh, that's the gun I want to do it with. Yeah, I talked it over with a Tim Fallon at FTW ranch down in Texas. And at some point, I don't know whether it's going to be this year or early next year, me and Martin will be going down. Me and Martin, me and Marshall will be going down to FTW ranch to, um, you know, kind of dial the world in with it to really get that gun settled in well. And, um, um, that's exciting. You know, it, it just feels so great. I'm looking forward to that. Another gun that I haven't here that I think I mentioned, but this has been kind of a mystery gun I wanted around and just, you know, couldn't get. That is an 1873 44 Magnum from Taylor and company. Now, I, you know, for the last, I don't know, six or seven years, I have seen the 44 Magnum 1873s advertise, but I've never seen them in the wild. You know, instead we, um, you know, I talked to everybody about them. They said, Yeah, it's just, there's, you know, the demand isn't, isn't necessarily there. They're hard to get. And they said, we'll keep our eyes open if we can pull one in from our distributor in Italy. And, and they did. So it's beautiful. It's in my favorite caliber. I'm thinking, well, I really would like to keep this gun. And then I look at the price tag and I, I actually blow up a paper bag and put my head between my legs and all those kinds of things. And it passes. Uh, but you know, I'm looking forward and ringing that gun out because I think it has potential being just a heck of a heck of a heck of a gun. Uh, gosh, what else is here? There is another gun coming. I'm really kind of excited about it. And I can't really talk about it yet. Uh, it's, it's not a new gun. It's a gun that's been on the market. I just haven't had, uh, uh, haven't had one in my hands and I'm looking forward to having one in my hands permanently. And, uh, you know, it may, it may initiate a change on this hunt and, uh, for the Neil Gay, Neil Guy down in Texas. So you never know, you never know, but that's what's going on here. Um, this week, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm focusing a little bit this week on, uh, shooting wise, my carry guns. Um, sick, sick, 365 XLs. Um, yeah, I just want to spend a day with them, shoot drills with them and do that. And then I'm going to shift over to the, uh, Rossi, six inch Rossi. Now with its red dot site and it's cool grips. I love that gun. And like I said, if you're going to be at the Pat Rogers Memorial revolver roundup, you'll get to see that gun. You'll get to shoot that gun. Uh, as well as my other Rossi's. So in any case, I'll, I'll swell, I'll swell that in as well here. And, um, again, I cannot speak enough about how dangerous the times are. That we are in. I cannot speak enough. They are lethally scary, dangerous times. Uh, one point I made on the internet, uh, this week to somebody who said like, Hey, you know, if you think about it and it's like, no, you think, you know, it's like the argument was over pocket carry versus this. And, you know, uh, printing concealed carry over, you know, always not printing. And, and you know, I just want to make this like real blunt, if I could. And that's that, uh, um, the purpose of all is to carry a gun every moment of every day. Every moment of every day. That's it. And, um, everything that makes you able to do that is good. So anyhow, we'll, we'll, maybe next week, we'll be doing a lot of self defense stuff. But again, my gigantic thanks to my friends at Taylor's. Um, you guys are great. I don't love you guys, as you know, uh, my friends at car arms, Magnum research. Uh, you guys are great too. Also, uh, North American arms for fixing one of my little North American arms carry everywhere guns. Um, we'll talk about that next week. And, uh, until then, maybe we'll go out with something like interesting. Um, Blackbird, a group I'm not familiar with. And the title of the song is "Jarnornos Valsignissani" whatever. And I got that wrong, but you'll like it. I'm Michael Bain. This is MBTV on the radio. Now in our 20th year, the oldest, longest running podcast on, on, uh, the internet. And, uh, you can find out everything you need to know here. We'll have all the links on Michael Bain.TV. We'll also have the triggered video there. I think coming up next is our trip to the, uh, Ria USA factory. You'll like it. Everything I talked about here, you can find. So, uh, gosh, check us out, check us out. And until next week, remember dangerous times, crazy people stay safe out there. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]
