Episode-2601- 6 Underrated Old School Rifle Cartridges

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Episode-2601- 6 Underrated Old School Rifle Cartridges [ 1:20:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I can hear some of you already, “hey Jack you big jerk, just read those bullet point below, three of em are pistol rounds”.  Simmer down there partner you will find examples of rifles firing all of them below.  And as we will discuss today, they are all in a way “different rounds” when fired from a rifle then when fired from your 4 inch wheel gun.

Anyway I have been thinking that we have not done a lot of stuff on guns lately.  If you are new to firearms or new to ballistics and components you may want to listen to yesterdays Rewind Episode here before this one.

The key here is new super duper rounds keep coming out all the time.  The way the gun magazines and blogs write about them you’d think deer now wear body armor and that our grandfathers were hunting with cap guns.  But I am here to tell you, the old, boring, strait body rounds are just as deadly as they have ever been.  They cost little to reload, are reliable as can be and they don’t beat you up on a full range day.  Okay the 45-70 can beat you up, but the key is, it doesn’t have to.

Today we discuss these old reliable rounds, what they are best for, some of the available guns that are still chambered for them, reloading for them and more.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Why bother with old school rounds when so many new ones are out there
  • The wisdom of deer hunting WWII vets, if it kills a deer, its all you need
  • What is a long range round anyway
  • The case for cast lead and why all these round do great with it
  • What makes these rounds great for reloading and learning to do it
  • Why some new hunting regulations are bringing these old rounds back in new/old guns
  • Before we get into these, many can be fired in shotguns with gun adapters (as 38spc, 44spc and 45LC)
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  • 6 Great Old Rounds and Rifles that Chamber them
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    • 22 hornet – Introduced 1930
      • Ruger 77/22
      • Savage 25
      • CZ-USA 527
    • 30-30 – 1895
      • Henry Lever Guns
      • Henry Single Shot
      • Marlin Lever Guns
      • Mossberg 464 Lever-Action
      • Ruger #1
      • H&R Handi Rifle
    • 357 Magnum – Introduced 1935
      • Marlin Lever Guns
      • Henry Lever Guns
      • Rossi Lever Guns
      • Henry Single Shot
      • Ruger 77/357
    • 44 Magnum – Introduced 1955
      • Marlin Lever Guns
      • Henry Lever Guns
      • Ruger 77/44
      • CVA Scout – Hunter
      • Traditions Outfitter G2
    • 45 Long Colt – Introduced 1872
      • Marlin Lever Guns
      • Henry Lever Guns
      • Rossi circuit judge
      • Taurus Thunderbolt – No longer made
      • NEF Survivor 45LC/410 Shot Shells
      • Taylor’s & Co. Inc 1892 Alaskan Take Down Lever Action – expensive
    • 45/70 – Introduced in 1873
      • Marlin Lever Guns
      • Henry Lever Guns
      • Winchester Lever Guns
      • NEF – Buffalo Classic – Ultra Hunter
      • CVA Hunter Single Shot
      • Henry Single Shot
      • Traditions Outfitter G2
    • Final Thoughts

 

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Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is one of my favorite kitchen tools, kitchen shears.  Here is the issue, my past recommendation was RedYetiWare Shears but they were discontinued, so I now have gone back to my old favorite, Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears.  These are great quality shears, excellent steel, very sharp and they hold and edge well.

Once you have a good quality pair of shears the next thing you want to look for is can you take them apart and do they stay together during regular use.  These do that and I am not sure why but so many others that come apart by design also come apart during use.  I mean it really isn’t that hard to make a pair that stays together during use but I guess Chinese chop shops can’t figure it out.

Fiskars makes great quality stuff and always has, while they manufacture some things in China, as many do, they maintain stiff quality controls and offer a lifetime guarantee on these shears.  And at under 13 bucks a pair a set belongs in your kitchen if you don’t already have great shears.

Let’t talk about the take apart feature though and why it is a must have for me.  I use my shears to do things like cut up veggies but I also use them to break down a chicken, these things will take a back bone out of a chicken as though it had a zipper.  So do you want chicken skank on your veggies?  I sure as heck don’t!  And to me the only way to be sure they are fully clean is to be able to take them apart.

These things have a great grade on Fakespot so you know the reviews are real and they get 4.5 stars with over 300 reviews.  The only complaints that are somewhat legitimate is that the hinge can develop rust.  This is because the screw that holds the hinge is made with carbon steel to reduce wear, so when you wash them put a drop or two of oil on the hinge screw and they will last damn near forever.  Any oil will do, I generally use olive or peanut oil because they are the two I cook with most often and so they are always at hand.

So if you don’t have a set of quality shears in your kitchen pick up a set of Fiskars 7in Take-Apart Shears at 12 bucks and change with free shipping they are a hell of a deal.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

 

 

Episode-128- TSP Rewind – Understanding Caliber, Millimeter, Gauges and Ballistics

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-855- Understanding Caliber, Millimeter, Gauges and Ballistics and was originally published on March 8th, 2012.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

When I stated I wanted to do some more shows on firearms topics I was flooded with emails by new shooters that all basically said some version of this…

“Jack can you do a very basics style show that explains what all these calibers and rounds mean. Sometimes when you are talking about a firearms subject I am fine then you start saying something like the 38 special is 35 caliber and I just don’t get it. Or that a 40 S&W is equivalent to a 10mm in a carbine. None of this makes sense, please help.”

The 30-06 is the Father and Grandfather of Many Rounds

The 30-06 is the Father and Grandfather of Many Rounds

Often I feel that those of us who grew up reading gun magazines and shooting our entire lives forget how long it took for us to actually “know what we know”. My hope today is to condense this stuff into an hour long show in a way that will make sense to newbie.

I also hope that those of you who know this stuff will gain a better understanding of how to explain it to others. Just because you know something doesn’t mean you know how to teach it.

One thing I can promise you is that even if you are brand new to shooting and ballistics after today you will likely want to pull your hair out the next time you hear some idiot behind the counter at a sporting goods store giving out advice.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Cartridge vs. case vs. bullets
  • What happens when you pull the trigger
  • Rim fire vs. center fire
  • What is a caliber
  • What is the difference between millimeters and calibers
  • What is a gauge
  • What are some common caliber to millimeter equivalencies
  • What actually does the killing when it comes to a gun shot wound
  • Power mythology – real numbers from real shootings
  • What is “sectional density”
  • What is “ballistic coefficient”
  • How “new” rounds usually come into existent
  • The effects of longer barrels on handgun rounds
  • Choosing a round is not as hard as people try to make it

 

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Barrina LED Grow Light 6 & 4 Packs – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Barrina LED Grow Light 6 Packs. I have been recommending the Kingbo Grow Lights for a few years now. I recommended them for starting seeds not growing out plants. They are great for that, thousands of them have been purchased for that purpose, I have not had any complaints.

They do have their limits though. Chiefly they need to be VERY close to the plants, if you do that they can even do a decent job growing plants to a decent size. Again though they are limited, as I have always said. I have been looking for a new light to start recommending for the same purpose (seed starting) yet with more power so you can fully grow with them as well.

It simply stands to reason that after three years time now tech should have gotten better and we should be able to get something better for about the same price. It looks like we can get something a LOT better for a LOT less which is frankly awesome.  I have been trialing these new lights for a few weeks now and I am blown away.  The bang for the buck is amazing.  I used them to build an indoor seed starting system based on Kratky Style Hydroponics (as seen in the videos below)  For that I used 2 six packs of the 2 foot lights.  These lights come in two options for length, and two options for quantity they are…

 

Clearly the options for 6 lights are a better price per watt and I really recommend you buy the larger quantity because it just makes sense.  On the 4 foot lights the extra two are only 10 bucks, consider that meaning one is basically free.  Yet I wanted to point out the lower quantities have been added by Barrina as some may just not need 6 total lights.  Personally I am using 3 lights per 2 foot of shelf depth and I am beyond happy with my results so far.

Compare that to the old Kingbo’s which are a single 45 watt light for 27.99 or (62 cents a watt), but it gets better. First the Kingbo’s are square, at about 1 foot square it takes 2 to light a 2 foot shelf and 4 to light a four foot shelf. The Barina’s are shaped like a T8 fixture, so you can use two of them to light a shelf of the same length. Meaning the 6 pack of either would fully light three shelves of equivalent length. (At two per shelf, keep in mind I am using three to a shelf in my system.) Next up they Barnia’s daisy chain link so you can have all 6 of them running on one timed outlet with out a bazillion cords to manage.  This is the timer I recommend for that.

While the Kingbo’s are a fine light for what they are I can’t recommend them as a new purchase any longer.  Even running three lights to a shelf the way I am, the Barina’s cost 30 dollars per two foot shelf, vs. 56 for the Kingbo lights.  The growth I am getting with three to a shelf is amazing.  Some of my starts are damn well big enough to just eat at this point.

I coupled them with this great little mini greenhouse indoor shelf system and whether you want to do hydro or conventional starting for 30 bucks it is hard to beat the price on it.  But any shelf system will do.  I have a large 4 foot shelf in my outbuilding and I am thinking about getting a set of 4 foot lights and setting it up as well.  I will say if you get the mini green house and run 3 lights to a shelf like I am, you likely won’t want to close it up, it gets pretty warm in there running a total of 12 lights.

One hack on my system I want to do when the current run of starts is over is to get a big concrete mixing tray like this one here.  The shelf in my system fits perfectly into one, that way any leaks or condensation drip is caught and stays off the rug.

Here is my view on what these lights represent.  For the past 5 years LED lights have been getting better and better, especially high end commercial ones used for things like vertical farming.  That market is now globally a multi billion dollar market.  While these lights are not as good as those used in commercial operations, I feel like they are just about one tier below them, and likely as good as the best thing you could buy 2-3 years ago, for a fraction of the cost.  My seed starting system could be improved or modified to be a food production system, tune in to todays show (episode 2573) and I will discuss some ideas about that in the TspAz segment at the end of the show.

Anyway if you have Kingbo’s don’t get rid of them, use them for what they are good for, but if you are looking to expand, grow indoors, start seeds, etc. I say give the Barrina Lights a chance, they will save a ton of money and my results so far are exceptional.

P.S. – That indoor Mini Greenhouse is on a FREAKING HELL OF A DEAL RIGHT NOW FOR 29 bucks. You’d want the 2 foot lights with it, but man you can start a ton of seed with that set up for a total of 80 bucks. If you are doing hydro, you have three shelves and room for a sump tank at the dang bottom to boot. Damn it, now I have to get one of these things too! Don’t forget to get a timer to go with it! Let me add this thing is LIGHT DUTY, I wouldn’t even use it in direct sun, it will get too hot. I see this as a good item to start seeds with, not much more. Tune in today for more on this.  Also while I am using three lights per shelf, when I was using 2 the results were still quite good.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

Here are the two playlists showing to of my set ups, check the growth in these systems…

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Episode-2600- The Expert Council Show for 2-14-20

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Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on liberty, permaculture, cbd, guns, thermal scopes, lifestyle design, cars, investing, optimism and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments”. ~ Thomas Aquinas
  • Dealing with native vines while establishing a food forest – Geoff Lawton
  • Of CBD and your pets – Doc Kelly
  • The ins and outs of entry level thermal rifle scopes – J.R. Haley
  • Using straw vs. wood chips for food forest establishment – Nick Ferguson
  • The legs of the stool of happiness – Gary Collins
  • Does octane have any effect on engine over heating – Derek Bonpietro
  • A lighting round of 401Ks, retirement planing and income preservation – John Pugliano
  • Why 12 years of TSP has turned me into a perennial optimist – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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Come See Me at the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton Texas

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Hey guys and gals it has been quite a while since I have done any public appearances.  This year we have at least two planned.  I will be at PorcFest in New Hampshire this summer, but you don’t have to wait that long nor travel to the Northeast if you live in the south like I do.  On Feb. 15 and 16 I will be at the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton Texas, just north of the Austin area.

I will be speaking both days…

  • On the 15th I will be speaking on growing indoors with hydroponics, starting seeds with hydro and more
  • On the 16th I will be speaking about container gardens and wicking beds

 

Of course I won’t just be showing you how to build systems, I will be providing specific plant variety recommendations, techniques, tactics and more.  Like using layer based planting in even relatively small container gardens or scheduled succession planting in the new indoor home scale vertical farm I am building.

Hey and since Belton is only a couple hours south of me, I am bringing my new vertical farm to Belton with me!  Yes in addition to speaking I will have a booth and my new farm will be in the booth so you can see it, touch it and fully understand how it works.  This system will produce a continuous flow of food in your home, year round.  It will do with with a combination of some cut and come again harvest along with the ability to fully harvest 14 mature plants a week, and never run out, all with a work load of 5 minutes a day and 15 minutes one day a week.

No pests, no weather concerns, no nasty chemicals, just a system that pays for itself in 6 months and then gives you over 100 dollars in produce a month for about an 2 hours of effort.  Most of that effort is harvesting the food you want to eat that day, by the way.

Want more?  Okay it won’t just be me of course, Mother Earth News Fairs are amazing.  There are dozens of vendors and speakers and tons of things to learn about.   Here are some other speakers you can hear and meet….

  • Gary Collins – Well known member of our expert council.
  • Howard Garrett – You know the guy I am always talking about who is behind the awesome “Garrett Juice” in my fertility program.
  • Nick Burtner – Good friend of the TSP community and recurrent guest on TSP, graduate of Geoff Lawton’s Internship program.
  • Tradd Cotter – Prior TSP Guest who knows more about mushrooms than you can imagine.
  • John Moody – Been on our show many times, huge advocate for the Rogue Food Movement and Freedom in Farming
  • Jereme Zimmerman – Amazing brewer and two time TSP guest
  • Tons More!

 

I mean where else can you meet this many cool people, hang out with members of the TSP audience and community and learn about so many awesome topics?  So come on out to Belton and meet me and some other amazing folks.  Of course we will figure out some sort of TSP Get Together there as well.  Tickets start at only 20 bucks with lots of options, so sign up today and lets have a great weekend together in Belton!

Episode-127- TSP Rewind – Billy Joel’s Allentown – History Lesson, Prophecy or Both

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-819- Billy Joel’s Allentown – History Lesson, Prophecy or Both and was originally published on Jan 12, 2012.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Today we are going to do something completely different and look at the old Billy Joel hit from 1982, “Allentown”. My hope is after you hear today’s show you will fully understand what I mean when I say, “history, prophecy or both” in regard to the song.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What “closing the factories down” was actually like
  • Why unemployment was a national problem but worse in the coal and steel regions
  • What the song means when talks about “weekends at the Jersey shore”
  • The “restlessness” that was handed down
  • “Graduations hang on the wall” today they are college degrees vs. high school diplomas
  • The multiple broken promises that generation experienced
  • What “filling out forms, standing in lines” means to us today
  • What “hard to stay” is really all about
  • The true nature of the WWII generation post war prosperity
  • How “one word plastics” from the movie “The Graduate” relates to this song
  • What “the threw and American flag in our face” was all about
  • How the “flag in the face” relates to today
  • How this song is really about one of the massive shifts in the world
  • How this generation got caught in this shift
  • Some of the other massive shifts on the past 200 years
  • The real nature of the current shift

 

Lyrics of the Song Allentown

Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms, standing in line

Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers at the USO
Asked them to dance, danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it’s getting very hard to stay

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard, if we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke, chromium steel
And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
Something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well, I’m living here in Allentown
And it’s hard to keep a good man down
But I won’t be getting up today

And it’s getting very hard to stay
And we’re living here in Allentown

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Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set – Item of the Day

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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day the Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set.  Look strait out of the gate this is not really “the kit” for the big time gun enthusiast that tinkers often with many projects.  It won’t do everything  you will even need in drivers for guns, but it will do most, like 95%.

No what this kit is for is your range bag.  I can’t tell you how many times I have been at a range and a fellow shooter had some maintenance issue and no tools to fix the situation.  With this kit and a basic cleaning kit, a shell extractor and some lube if you can’t fix it at the range, you likely need a gun smith or to use your warranty if it is yet to expire.

driverkitbackThis is more than just a gun smith kit though.  Come on, 16 bucks for a good quality kit that has 48 different driver bits in it.  You know what I am going to say right.  Put one in the glove box of your vehicles.  Perhaps one in your Go Bag or BOB as well.

Does it have every torx bit, no but it has 7 and the one you are looking at pissed off because you expected it to be a Phillips bit likely will be one of those.  This is also a great gift to a young person who has finally be trusted to maintain his/her own firearms and frankly a good gift for anyone you need to get something for, not something spectacular just something.  You know what I mean.

Pick up one or a few of these and the first time you need it, you will feel like it just paid for itself.  Again this isn’t top quality on the level of say Forester or Grace USA (which I keep in my smithing box) but for 16 bucks it is extremely versatile and I have never had one fail me yet.  So give the Winchester 51 Piece Gunsmith Screwdriver Set a look and determine if it might be the right product for your range bag or other needs.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – Even if you don’t own a single firearm you should pick up one or two of these.  The ones in my boat and in my truck have both saved my butt a time or two.  Looking at a screw that needs turning and not having a simple tool with which to turn it suck.  Especially when it is either really hot or really cold outside and said screw is the one that can get you home.

Episode-2599- Kurt Dugger on Paraglider Adventures and the Dark Horse Lodge

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Kurt Dugger is a Former Infantry Marine turned paramotor pilot who decided to fly across the state of Tn to raise awareness and funds for The Darkhorse Lodge near Paris Tn.  Gretchen and Kirk Catherwood decided to start a retreat for combat veterans after losing their son (also a Marine) in Afghanistan.  To raise funds Kurt embarked on what he named, The Darkhorse450 an attempt by a low time pilot to cross TN using only a paramotor.

His paramotor is a roughly a lawn chair with a propeller suspended under a fabric paraglider wing. He didn’t make it all the way on his first attempt but it was a hell of an adventure. Kurt’s effort raised a little over $3000 during the attempt.  He did this because he feels the Darkhorse Lodge might be one of the best tools to prevent veteran suicide he’s ever seen.

It’s a group of 6 room cabins set back in the woods of TN. Guys can stay for free, build relationships with others and learn how to come home home again.   Kurt joins us today to discuss this worthy cause.

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Episode-126- TSP Rewind – Using Logical Methods and Function Stacking for Decision Making

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1707- Using Logical Methods and Function Stacking for Decision Making and was originally published on Jan 12, 2016.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Yesterday’s show ran a theme of a penny saved is a tax free penny earned and how that compounds when invested outside the systems of taxation. I love this sort of individual liberation thinking. Then today I answered a question about a stove I mentioned last week. You can read about that here on the Nine Mile Farm Blog.

The Most Powerful Computer in the World, but Only if Used.

The Most Powerful Computer in the World, but Only if Used.

The basic take away is often you can acquire multiple items instead of an “all in one item” in doing so you will reduce or keep your cost the same while gettting greater functionality, flexibility, performance and redundancy.

While some of this is common sense, it benefits us to look deeper than that. The reason is common sense is the application of knowledge. Most of us know it is common sense to use a Phillips screw driver on a Phillips screw, but if you didn’t know it existed, you would likely make best use of the most usable strait screw driver.

To apply common sense the knowledge in that situation must be sufficient for the question or problem. And at times we can ask ourselves questions to remind us of what we know or help us to see what we do not know, so we know how to research the additional required knowledge.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Why common sense isn’t so common
  • How common sense is applied
    • Evaluate the situation
    • Consider the things you know
    • Extrapolate what you don’t know based on knowledge and experience
    • Proceed accordingly
  • The question of a stove top vs. a stove top and oven and where it leads
  • My new quail aviary and how it stacks functions but uses multiple components
  • How to apply this thinking in your life
    • Think before you act
    • Do an elements analysis for most decisions
    • Find ways that one thing or action can be multiplied
  • How this leads to liberty
    • Small actions alone are not enough to win the fight
    • Properly assembled several small actions multiply their effect
    • Waiting for a law to change may result in being old and dead first
    • There is always a solution to almost any problem, people just get mentally lazy
    • The fact that most are mentally lazy is an advantage for those who are not
  • Every person is smart, but that is not enough
    • Give three people a tool kit, compare the results
    • It is about motivation, desire and application
    • What you don’t design and control will be provided for you
  • Final Thoughts

 

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