Zastava ZPAP92 AK Pistol

Shortly before the election I ordered a Zastava ZPAP92 Kalashnikov pistol from a Gunbroker seller and had it shipped to a local FFL to handle the transfer. I decided to pull the trigger on it (sorry) because if Harris had won, she'd be more able to mess with acquiring such a gun down the road since POTUS has more leeway to affect imports than domestically produced firearms.

As we now know, the American people resoundingly rejected her flavor of Marxism, so I now consider it a celebratory purchase.

The gun is essentially a "pistol" version of a "Krink," chambered for 7.62x39 with a 10" barrel.

This ZPAP is fitted with "Serbian red" wood furniture and an SB Tactical TF1913 brace attached to a Picatinny rail attached to the rear trunnion.

It came with a single 30 round polymer magazine with metal reinforced locking lugs. Like other mags from the former Yugoslavia it has a bolt hold-open follower, which I'm not really a fan of. Most of my shooting with the gun so far was with Hungarian 20 round "tanker" mags.

A nice feature is that the safety selector has a notch in it for use as a bolt hold-open. It's a little awkward to use but simple and works.

The receiver cover is hinged at the front, with a two-leaf open rear sight graduated for 200M and 400M mounted to it. There's a short section of Picatinny rail mounted between the rear sight and the hinge.

The front sight base has left hand 26mm thread, instead of the more common 24.5mm threads. It's fitted with a Krink-style booster.

Because the short barrel has a lot of blast I also picked up a Midwest Industries Blast Can, which is designed to redirect blast and flash downrange.

Yesterday I put 80 rounds of Vympel 7.62x39 through the gun for a basic function check. As expected it ran perfectly, but shot about 8" low at 15 yards. I used the front sight adjustment tool from an AK cleaning kit to raise the point of impact, but I will do a final zero at 50 yards.

I also tried both the Krink booster and the Blast Can to see if there was any difference from the shooter's perspective. I didn't notice much of a difference. I'll try them side by side again but for now I have the booster on the gun.

The Vympel ammo has corrosive primers so I wanted to do a basic cleaning before packing up. So, I hosed everything down with DRNCH (pronounced "dirnch"), which is imported by Zastava USA from Serbia. It's a CLP type aerosol cleaner with a mild smell. I don't know if it's specifically rated to clean corrosive primer residue, but if that residue is saturated with oil it won't be able to absorb atmospheric moisture to cause rust. I'll do a thorough cleaning today.

So why a Krink? Because:

The bag is a Sarma assault pack, which is a knock-off of a Maxpedition bag.

Going forward I need to zero it at 50 yards and put some kind of a dot sight on it, and run a pile of ammo through it.

Prvi Partisan Stars and Stripes 12 Gauge 00 Buckshot

Yesterday I patterned some Prvi Partisan Stars and Strips 12 gauge 2.75" 9-pellet 00 buckshot. It's made for Prvi in Italy by Cheddite. I shot them through my Mossberg 500 Mariner pump action shotgun, which has an 18" cylinder bore barrel with a bead sight. It also wears a Magpul SGA buttstock setup for my short length of pull.

With the factory bead the gun shot a little high, so last week I added a Hi Viz clamp on fiber optic front sight that clamps onto the barrel. It has a notch at the front that mates with the factory bead and keeps it from rotating. It just clamps onto the barrel but is tight enough that I have no concern it will come loose.

Aside from better visibility, the Hi Viz bead lowered the point of impact so that it coincides with my point of aim out to at least 20 yards.

Anyway, here are the patterns with the Prvi buckshot.

5 yards:

10 yards:

Two rounds at 20 yards:

The shells I normally keep loaded in the Mossberg for home defense are Federal reduced recoil 2.75" 00 buckshot in Flitecontrol wads. At about 12 yards that ammo patterns about what the Prvi did at 5 yards, and at 25 yards will keep all 9 pellets on a paper dinner plate.

While the Federal Flitecontrol patterns much tighter than the Prvi, it's a lot more expensive which may be important for people on lower incomes. Regardless of cost, the Prvi patterns well enough for inside the home engagements. A 10 yard (30 feet) shot would be a long shot inside most homes.

Indeed, at typical inside the home range, the wider patterning Prvi buckshot may cause more severe wounds to an assailant than Flitecontrol, due to the more dispersed wound channels.

The 5 and 10 yard patterns also demonstrate the necessity for aiming a shotgun, in contrast to the myth of pointing it in the general direction of a threat.

How to Report Election Fraud

If we work together, we can make this election too big to rig!

Virtually all of us have the tools to report election interference, voter intimidation, and illegal voting in near real-time: smartphones with Internet access and the X (Twitter) service. If we use them, it will be much more difficult for the Democrats to steal this election.

Unlike 2020, we have a major platform on which to report election shenanigans, thanks to

@elonmusk

. We saw the effectiveness of this earlier this week when polls in Bucks County, PA were shut down early during early voting. Because it got reported on X, a lawsuit was filed and the court issued an order to extend early voting through Friday, November 1st. That got us a couple more days of early voting!

We also have a better ground game due to people like

@ScottPresler

in Pennsylvania. Scott worked his ass off getting voters registered and mainly due to him, Bucks and Luzerne Counties flipped from blue to red. He's also taken to task misbehaving county boards of electors.

Additionally, the RNC is now chaired by

@LaraLeaTrump

, not Rona (Romney) McDaniel.

First, join the X Election Integrity Community:

https://x.com/i/communities/1848518910653415584

If you see any irregularities at your polling place do your best to gather evidence:

• Take pictures and or video.
• If there's a vehicle involved, e.g., dropping off boxes of ballots, get a picture of the license plate.
• Report your findings to the X Election Integrity Community.
• Tag
  @ScottPresler
  (if you're in PA),
  @GOP
  ,
  @RobertKennedyJr
  ,
  @realDonaldTrump
  ,
  @TuckerCarlson
  ,
  @LaraLeaTrump
  and any other large pro-Trump account on X.
• Report what you've see to your state's Department of State or elections commission. Here are links for the swing states:
• PA:
  https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/vote.html
• NC:
  https://www.ncsbe.gov/about-elections/election-security/investigations-division
• MI:
  https://www.michigan.gov/sos/report-fraud
• WI:
  https://elections.wi.gov/elections/election-security-integrity/election-complaints-concerns
• NV:
  https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections/election-information/report-potential-election-law-violation
• GA:
  https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline

Please repost this for a wider audience.

Let's go!

#election

#electionfraud

#CitizenJournalists

50% off Anker SOLIX C1000 Portable Power Station

 If you are in need of a portable power station with a built-in inverter, this Anker unit is 50% off today at Amazon.

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Revising Our Vehicle Bags

The last couple of days I've been putting together/revising get home bags/bugout bag to keep in all four of our vehicles, because of the state of the country and potential for post-election unrest.

The bags are more urban/suburban focused than "head for the hills." My wife works in the city, one daughter commutes about 30 miles to a suburban college, the other daughter works a couple miles away but sometimes goes on short road trips, and I work about 25 miles away. We are in SE Pennsylvania near Philadelphia.

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I already had the bags. Mine is a 5.11 Rush 12 (https://amzn.to/47SU17Q), one is a Maxpedition Falcon II (https://amzn.to/47QTUcR), one is an older REI Trail 25, and the last one is an older Nike daypack. 

I already had a lot of the contents in my accumulation of camping gear. Some of these are on the way and should arrive in the next few days. The bag in my truck will have some variances but I wanted to ensure the girls all have some basic survival gear.

• Canteen / water bottle (2 Swiss surplus with cups, a French surplus canteen with cup, and a stainless 40 oz. Klean Kanteen with cup.) The bottles are filled halfway.
• Fire making kit (matches and a Bic lighter.)
• Coghlan's 36-hour Survival candle (https://amzn.to/3Y7oUSB) One of these can warm a small space like the inside of a car a few degrees to take the edge off. They come with a book of matches inside the tin.
• Bandana and/or USGI triangular bandage .
• Headlamp + spare batteries (https://amzn.to/4dC2o95)
• Mossy Oak Multitool (https://amzn.to/4dFd5rb) I'm impressed with these for the price.
• Silcock key for opening spigots on commercial buildings. (https://amzn.to/3TSPcpa)
• Flat pack duct tape. (https://amzn.to/3zIbXp5)
• About 50' #36 bank line (https://amzn.to/4823RUT) I prefer this to 550 cord because it's much thinner so you can pack a lot more for the same volume.
• AMK .3 Med Kit (https://amzn.to/4gLW8OR) (This is in addition to each car's FAK.)
• Water filter (https://amzn.to/3YcNXDG) These can thread onto a standard plastic water bottle or use the included dirty water bag.
• Long aluminum spoon (https://amzn.to/3zHNosl) (When I was in the Civil Air Patrol in the 80s, my WW2/Korea/Vietnam vet mentors beat it into to me to ALWAYS have a spoon. Also, sporks suck unless the spoon and fork are on opposite ends of the utensil.)
• Lifeboat rations (https://amzn.to/3BvNXGl)
• Work gloves
• Space blanket (https://amzn.to/3Ukmfmv)
• Mylar survival poncho (https://amzn.to/3XUndGR)
• Aluminum cookset (https://amzn.to/47V0qiM)
• Ziplock with instant coffee, chicken boullion, tea bags, and Gatorade powder
• Esbit stove and fuel (https://amzn.to/3zNDEwM).
• Hexamine fuel tablets for the Esbit stoves (https://amzn.to/4emGs2R). These also make GREAT fire starters.
• Socks in a Ziplock.
• We all wear glasses, so some Zeiss lens wipes in a Ziplock. (https://amzn.to/3XSpJgW)

Each vehicle has a blanket and a spare hoodie or coat, and a knit cap. I also want the girls to keep spare boots in their trunks. Each vehicle will also have a 6-pack of bottled water.

All vehicles have a Noco Boost Plus GB40 Jump Packs (https://amzn.to/3ZRJjw8) in case of a dead battery. The Nocos are in hard cases (https://amzn.to/3zMOgf8). They also provide USB out, so I'm including a multi-plug charger cable (https://amzn.to/4ePGv7d).

Is this a comprehensive, end-of-world survival kit? Of course not. The idea behind these is that if any of us are stuck away from home and need to hoof it we have some basic supplies for a day or two of walking.

Yom HaBiperim and the Threat of Supply Chain Attacks

First of all, "Yom HaBiperim" is one of the funniest things I've read in the past 24 hours. Mad props to @RUOC90177786 on X for coining that one.

On a more serious note, Israel's amazing strike on Hez'balless yesterday should give everyone in security field pause. It demonstrates that if you don't own and control your entire supply chain you are incredibly vulnerable to attack. This applies to pretty much everything that security breaches can impact. It's not just an issue for NGO terrorist organizations, in the age of globalization it's also a major vulnerability for nation states that depend on a vast array of items from other countries. E.g., IT assets, software, or munitions.

The pager attack was a respin of Project Eldest Son. This was an operation during the Vietnam War in which various types of small arms ammunition were modified to explode when a Communist soldier attempted to fire his gun. It was done by replacing one cartridge in a box of ammo with one that was loaded with C4 high explosive, instead of smokeless gunpowder. This caused pressure in excess of what the gun was designed to handle and it would then explode in the user's hands.

Further back, the British did this in the 1890s and 1930s against tribes they were fighting.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Eldest_Son

Even when buying equipment from supposedly reliable vendors, the problem of counterfeit products is severe enough that even Cisco has a web page about it. See https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/legal/brand-protection/identify-counterfeit-products.html

If I was a nation state, I'd look at augmenting IP-addressable hardware with a chip that periodically phones home to a controller, or maybe even sniff network packets for things of interest. It wouldn't have to be a computer or router. It could be a network printer, webcam, or any other device connected to a network. IoT devices in particular are notably insecure out of the box which allows millions of them to be coopted into botnets.

But it's not just network and telco gear.

In the past 10 years or so, China has flooded the world with dirt cheap handheld VHF/UHF transceivers. The Baofeng UV-5R is the most well know of these. They've seen use in Ukraine, Syria, and are extremely popular in the US amongst various groups ranging from Antifa to right-wing militias. They're also popular with ham radio operators. Heck, I have three within arm's reach right now.

The Baofeng is a software defined radio (SDR). That means that much of the RF signal processing that would traditionally be done with hardware is actually done by software running on the radio's chip. That means that within the limits of the hardware, functionality can be added or removed with a firmware update.

For example, until the FCC mandated that Baofeng remove the capability to transmit on FRS, GMRS, and MURS frequencies, the UV-5R could do so even though it is type accepted in the US only for ham frequencies. Baofeng modified the firmware to block transmission on these frequencies on new radios sold in the US, but this didn't affect existing radios.

The problem from the FCC's standpoint is that because of how that Baofeng implemented the frequency restriction, the radios can be unlocked so that they're capable of transmitting on the forbidden frequencies. A search on YouTube for "Baofeng unlock" gets you the info needed to do so. The actual unlock procedure takes about 10 seconds. I've confirmed it myself.

These radios can be programmed using a special USB cable that connect to a computer and a free, open-source software package called CHIRP. This is probably the most common and definitely easiest way to program in frequencies in the radio's memory channels.

Now imagine that the firmware has a backdoor in it that allows features to be modified or cause the radio to transmit, after receiving a specific RF signal over the air. For example, suppose you are fighting an opponent known to use Baofengs. You want to locate enemy fighters. Broadcast a signal that triggers any Baofeng receiving it to transmit a reply. Because it's an SDR you can write the firmware so that the radio's transmit light doesn't come on, so the user is none the wiser. The force that initiated the ping then uses direction finding equipment to locate the radios and then drone strikes their enemy.

I really don't think this is far-fetched.

Guns for Jews

On the eve of the Holocaust in 1939, the world Jewish population stood at about 16 - 17 million. By 1945, it was 10 - 11 million.

In 2024, it's at about 15.7 million. In 80 years we still haven't recovered the numbers lost due to the Nazis. 

We currently make up about 0.2% of the world's population and about 2.4% of the population in the United States.

Antisemitic trope is that the Jews control the world. Just going by the numbers this is laughable, smooth-brained thinking. Sure, we're prominent in many fields, but that's due to our culture which emphasizes learning and hard work. There are plenty of Jewish losers, too.

If the events of the past 11 months have taught us anything, we are a very small part of the world and that a vast number of people don't like us and don't want us defending ourselves. Thus, Israel must become independently able to defend itself. Likewise, Jews in the United States must embrace their Second Amendment rights so they can defend themselves against modern day Nazis, especially those being imported wholesale by the Democrats from assorted third world countries.

If you're a Jewish American looking to get equipped to defend yourself, check out my ebook "Guns For Jews" to help you get started. Get arms and training.

The 3-3-3 Radio Plan for SHTF Communications

I mentioned this in my post the other day but want to call it out for greater exposure.

As far as I know this originates in a 2013 post at the RadioMaster Reports blog.

Essentially, it's a basic communications plan explaining when, where, and how to use your radios in the event of an emergency where other forms of communication fail.

• Turn on your radio every 3 hours at the top of the hour local time.
• For a minimum of 3 minutes.
• On Channel 3 (whether it's CB, FRS, GMRS, or MURS).

That RadioMaster Post has reference cards you can download and print, or keep in the notes application on your phone.

Buytwowayradios.com sells a printout of the plan which is laminated, and also offers a PDF download version for free.

Disseminating this procedure among the people you plan to communicate with if the SHTF will go a long way to maximizing the value of your radios.

Hard Case for my Yaesu FT-187ND

Last week I took advantage of the most recent Harbor Freight Parking Lot Sale and picked up an Apache 3800 hard case to use with my Yaesu FT-817ND. The Apache case is a Pelican knock-off at around 1/3 the price. It's plenty good for my needs.

The label on the bottom of the case:

The pressure relief valve:

The case has two layers of pluck-to-fit foam. I have the radio and LDG tuner in the bottom:

I then created a tray using a thing piece of nylon, the top layer of foam, and some Gorilla tape, to hold various cables, some 550 cord and bank line, and a power cable.

This is not a self-contained go-box, since it doesn't include an antenna, power supply other than the small FT-817ND battery pack, and a tablet or laptop for digital modes. However, I can combine this with another box that will contain the other items. It's designed for vehicle-mobile operations, not manpack ops.