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Episode Date: June 9, 2026

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Welcome to the Gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dane D. What's up, everybody? It's Dane from the Gun Metal Armory. Decided to go live just to have a little bit of fun tonight. I don't have a ton of time. So, I figured I'd go live, give you guys some information. I want to go over something real quick here, though, guys.

Last week, we went over some more, or not last week, last week was Thanksgiving. A week before last, we went over some more World War II information and the various different things that you would do for night fighting and some of the other interesting things that come out of the World War II Resistance group training and the spy school training that they did back then. We're going to go over some more of that today, but I want to talk real quick first about modern day caches. Okay. Now, if you are a student of history like I am, you remember a book group or a publisher, rather, I guess is a better way to put it, a publisher that was called the Paladin Press. I don't know if you all remember them, but it was called Paladin Press. Okay. And they put out a lot of books. I believe they even had the anarchist cookbook out for a while as well. So that kind of gives you an idea. of who these people are. They're not around anymore, sadly, but they had some specific information.

They also had some very basic information. They had stuff on farming and building homes and retreats and all kinds of good stuff, you know? So some of my favorite books from them were from a guy named Ragnar Benson. Some of you guys out there may know exactly who I'm talking about. some of you might not but

Ragnar Benson is one of those iconic writers if you know who he is okay one of the quotes from his book says a retreat is a place you go to live not die setting up a retreat is for the most part

practicing the art of the possible it's a matter of wisely and shrewdly identifying what you have available and turning it into something usable. Fight if you must, but try your utmost to orchestrate events so that the confrontation is absolutely the remedy of last resort.

Very, very interesting. In other words, you know, a lot of retreaters and, you know, some preppers, not all, but some preppers may have this, you know, quasi-romantic notion of, you know, you know, their last stand at the alamo at the retreat, you know, we fall back to the retreat and we survive as long as we can and then, you know, it's all over from there, bro. No, that is not at all what we're trying to do.

Not even close, right? So a retreat is a place you go to live, not to die, right? So one of the things he talks about in here and I think a lot of preppers forget about this stuff is caches, okay? But the thing I don't think that people forget about it, people don't forget about caches, what they forget about is the reality of caches, okay? So in some of his books,

he talked about how retreaters can easily become targets of a hostile group, any kind of group, okay? But he, when this guy, when Ragnar Benson was rolling through Africa, he saw people that were prepared get targeted constantly. So what he would do to actually make sure that that didn't happen to the people that he was around is he would set up these cachets. Now, he would also set up retreats. And he said that their retreats were attacked a lot.

And not because they were smart or they were comfortable shelters, not because they were well stocked with essential goods. but they were attacked because, if I remember correctly here, they were attacked because they were symbols of resistance. They were symbols of defiance that, you know, of course, might have some stuff that people want in them as well, but in his time in Africa, these retreats, these sanctuaries, if you will, were symbols of the resistance, okay?

So keep in mind, you've got all these, you know, red states out here and you've got all these various different areas that might be looked at as a symbol of the quote unquote resistance. Okay. So keep that in mind, okay? Number one. Number two, keep in mind about how cachets really work. Okay. So a lot of people also have a very romantic notion of cachets.

It's my resupply on my way to kick some. more but or my resupply on my way to get to my retreat where I can, you know, have my almo, right, or whatever, dude. But caches aren't at all what you think they are or maybe, maybe you do have a good idea of them. But I do want to give a little bit of insight into at least what Ragnar Benson believes that they are and knows from experience. Now, he talks about in his book, his book called Live Off the Land in the City or the Country, he actually explains his strategy for cashing items, okay? He says that one of the important elements of his cashing strategy involves burying several 20 centimeter waterproof tubes containing basic supplies, such as ammo and guns,

meds, and food, right? So on and so forth, okay? He said a very, a very, basic, a simple basic stock of those items might prove to be invaluable if you lose your retreat to occupation or a disaster or any number of a million other possibilities. Okay. So if all you have is those cachets, then, you know, God love you, man. At least you have something because a lot of people won't. All right. So he says that the supplies that he's cashed in tubes around the country can only provide a makeshift existence.

A lot of people think that these caches are something way more than they are, but they're not. All it does is give you a makeshift existence. And he says, unlike more than 90% of people planning to survive in emergency, I have actually had some experience living this way. and it's miserable. It's a precarious existence. If I'm uncertain whether I can make it, what chance does the deskbound city dweller living off a hand-to-mouth existence

out of limited supplies in his cache have? Right? So what chance does a desk-bound city dweller, what chance do they have of living a hand-to-mouth existence? You know, that's the whole thing. whole point, right? A guy like Ragnar Benson or a guy with experience, special

forces, you know, someone with survival experience, whatever the case may be, if these guys are going to have it tough, what chance does the average person have? Not a lot. Okay?

He goes on to talk about the answer is basically that cashing is only a stopgap measure. that's all it is all right almost all of what it will take to survive has to be at your retreat okay basically it's like a rocket ship hurtling through space there's no way to go back and resupply everything required for life must be at your retreat um not necessarily in luxurious abundance

but it needs to be there all right you need to prioritize your needs for a post-collapsed economy. So what do you think you're going to need, right? Well, those things have to be prioritized by where you are, where you are located. Are you in Phoenix, Arizona? Are you in Tyler, Texas? Are you in Miami, Florida? Are you in Fresno, California?

Are you in Louisville, Kentucky? I don't know. There's a million different cities. and a lot of different environments that you have to think about when you're planning this stuff. Okay. So depending on the environment you're in, that is going to dictate a lot of what you need to cash a for your rocket ship, for your lifeboat, okay? And everything, again, like you said, everything you need to survive has to be there.

Okay. Water, ways to procure water, ways to store water, ways to purify water. ways to purify water okay food ways to freaking uh uh preserve food you know and especially ways to grow food and that's not just rakes and shovels and seeds dude that's fertilizer that's various types of soil additives that's other types of seeds okay there's so many little things that go into this guys little seed starting containers okay i don't mean to overwhelm you please don't take it that way What I mean to do is tell you you need to start and you need to do it soon. Okay?

Anyways, I just want to give you guys a real quick rundown on that stuff on casheng and how difficult it is for a season professional, let alone someone like an average person. Okay? All right. So let's get into the World War II stuff here, guys. Last time when we left off, we were talking about various types of fieldcraft and combat movies. We talked about night movement. We talked about the types of clothing you might want to wear and what works best at night time, night work, timing, defense, things of that nature when you're doing anything at night. Okay. So, but when we left off, we were talking about crossing any large swath of land. Okay. Now, we talked about the difference between crossing, as a large bunch of people and crossing one at a time. We also talked about crossing a road.

So crossing across a road of any sort. And how you want to cross that, if you want the road to be covered by fire, if you're worried about the road being ambushed, and so on, okay? Now, one thing that we didn't really go into was how to cross a wall. Okay. Now, crossing over a wall, you think, oh, that's pretty simple. You just go over it, you know, or whatever, right? Well, there are some ways that, you know, during World War II, they talked about various different ways that you would want to cross these walls. Okay. Now, I'm sure a lot of this stuff you may have seen. Some of you may not have seen this. Okay. Now, they talk about there's a major, major danger for skylining when you're crossing over.

various different walls, okay? Skylining, for those of you guys that don't know, is when you can basically silhouette yourself against the sky, okay? You've silhouetted yourself against the sky, making yourself very easy to see. Imagine yourself standing in front of a blue sky up on a mountain, and I can see the outline of your body very, very easily, okay? That's skylining, okay? Works the same at night works the same during the day. Okay, you're very, very easy to see. All right. Now, crossing over walls, especially if the enemy is down below on the street or wherever they happen to be, there is a major danger of skylining. Okay. And sitting or standing on the wall has to be avoided at all costs. Sitting or standing on the wall must be avoided. All right.

Now, for ordinary walls, they say to either throw one leg across the wall, lie on top of the wall flat, and then roll over, keeping as low as possible. Okay? I'm sure you guys can imagine that in your head. Okay. So you jump up, you grab it with your arms underneath your armpits, you throw one leg up onto the wall, pull yourself up, keeping yourself flat to the wall and flat to the top of it. up and over onto your midsection, you know, like in your midline, right? And then you just roll off to the other side. Okay. Now make sure when you roll off, you're not rolling off backwards and fall down on your butt. No, you want to kind of roll to where your right leg, if you throw your right leg over first,

to where your right leg slides down and touches the ground first as you're coming off the other side. Okay. The other way they say is to, quote, dive onto the wall and just roll. roll over it. That is something that is not as easy to explain, and I would definitely suggest you look that up online and find out exactly what they're talking about. That's a little bit more difficult to explain. However, they say for high walls, some of the methods taught in physical training are best used, or use a ladder, right? Duh. Use a ladder or a rope with a grappling hook. hook. Now, yes, there were ladders with grappling hooks. I was like, wait, really? There were? No, I'm just kidding. I'm well aware of it. Okay. Back then, of course, they had grappling hooks.

They had rope, no problem. They had ladders with grapples on. They had, you know, all kinds of different stuff back in the day. They even had ropes that were tied to grappling hook setups that could be fired. Some people might think of that as a fairly new thing that's used by the Coast Guard or Swiftwater Rescue or something like that. It is very old. In fact, the Rangers in World War II that were on the various different beaches in France, you know, like Normandy, so on and so forth, they use grappling hook launching boats, you know, these boats that could fire the grappling hook up onto the cliff that they needed to climb up. Okay. So this was not uncommon. common back then at all. Okay, so there are other methods. Now, before I go into that,

keep in mind that even in modern times, okay, we have various different types of systems like this. We still have grappling hooks. I myself have a few of them. I think they're really cool, and I love the engineering behind them. Okay. Various different types of rope can be used. We know a lot more about rappelling and static lines and various different types of climbing as well as repelling, ascent, descent, so on and so forth. Okay. That's come a long, long, long way. Now, if you want to know more about that, my first suggestion to you would be to go to a wall climbing gym. Okay. You're going to get a very good primer on all of that stuff to begin with there at that wall climbing gym because you're just going to learn a lot about it there. Okay. So check that out first.

in my opinion, if you want to learn more about that stuff. But special forces groups, Coast Guard, you know, boat rating teams, Bortak, groups like that, they don't use, generally, don't use a grappling hook and a rope anymore. They don't, you know, swing it in a circle and fling it up onto the boat anymore, okay? Or under the cliff or whatever. A lot of them nowadays use basically like a long, extendable pole with either fold down ladder steps or some kind of a hook with a you know expandable or breakdownable telescoping ladder that not the kind of ladder you would

think where it looks like a bunch of T's connected together that the letter T connected together it looks more like a bunch of letter H is connected together okay but they're very, very small. Okay, these things can break down and put into a backpack without a problem, depending on the length. So, in fact, I've even seen multiple different ways to make them yourself, okay? If you want to know what these things look like, or if you want to get one for yourself, look up tactical boarding ladder, okay?

Boarding meaning like boarding a ship, okay? Tactical boarding ladder, tactical boarding ladder, tactical, ladders, things of that nature, you will find them. Okay. The other thing you might want to look up is like a firefighters room escape system. Okay. They have escape systems that firefighters use to escape from a two-story building, three-story building, and so on. It basically consists of a rope system that attaches to your rigors belt. I don't know if you guys have seen any of the rope-rigging systems, rope riggers, but they have these belts that have a buckle, you know, the buckle part that attaches to the belt in the front, they have a D loop on those or a kind of an A loop, right,

that you can now clip right into and they're very, very useful, that or they have a separate loop that's off to the side that you can use in an emergency. I myself have used the various different ones that I have multiple times, and they are amazing. Trust me on that, okay? But the firefighter's escape system. There's also a tactical escape system that pretty much the same thing. It consists of a small hook that you would put into the corner of a window.

Again, look this up online, you'll understand it much, much better. But it consists of a hook that goes into the corner of a window. You basically clip in to that rope that's inside this little bag. I should have said that. The whole system comes in a small bag,

okay, that you could clip to your leg or clip to your belt or whatever, keep it with you. Okay. Anyways, so the hook comes out. You hook into the corner of a window, the window frame. Okay, you hook right into there. And then you let that line out, clip in, and bam, you go out that window, dude. It's pretty much that simple, okay?

A little bit more to it, but if you look it up online, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Okay. Firefighters escape system. Tactical escape systems. One of the best companies for making these tactical ladders and these tactical escape systems, is a company called Yates. Okay? Y-A-T-E-S, Yates. Okay, so look up Yates.

Yates systems. They have some of the best ones out there, okay? Don't get me wrong. They're freaking expensive, but they're really cool to have if you need them. But, you know, if there's something you're not going to use, don't waste your money. Get more food, get more water,

get more ammunition, or whatever you think you're going to need to use. use. Okay. All right. So back to the methods of crossing over walls. Took a little bit of a thing, a little detour there to explain some of this stuff to you guys, the modern day systems. Okay. So other methods of crossing walls. They talk about using creeper vines, okay? Overhanging trees, fruit tree wires, right? Staples, outletted bricks, crevices. They also talk about making a pile of logs or boxes until your hands can reach the top of the fence or the wall. Okay. They also talk about improvising ladders using garden seats, trellis work, old bedsteads, maybe gates, doors. Anything that you can do to be able to get over top of that wall or that fence, okay? But at the very end, they say that one of the best things to do is just to avoid high walls altogether.

Stay away from them if you can because of the danger of silhouetting yourself in the first place. So the other thing I would recommend if you're going to use a chair or if you're going to use a bunch of logs stacked up or anything of that nature. ideally if you carry some paracord with you or any kind of cordage or maybe some tubular nylon or something like that, something that you might carry with you for various tasks and purposes. Because if you have a bugout bag or you have any kind of bag or backpack or anything like that with you or a bunch of a bunch of gear, you know, plate carrier or anything like that, it is not super comfortable to try to jump over a wall wearing all that stuff. okay so what you want to use is some kind of small carabiner or hook attach that to some paracord or tubular nylon and you know ideally clip that to your stuff take off you know your backpack clip that to it and then you go over the wall and then you pull your gear over the wall with you okay or you get up on top of the wall pull your gear up to yourself and then throw it down the other side but again

that will silhouette you like a mug. Okay. So again, best to avoid the wall if you can't. Now, the other consideration there is if you use logs or chairs or anything like that

to get over the wall, it's going to be very obvious to any kind of enemy force that is pursuing you. So what you might want to consider doing is setting up something that will make it to where

it's not so obvious that that's the wall you went over, such as putting some of your paracord, not wrapping it around the logs or the chair or something like that, but maybe putting it under it. So once you jump over the wall, you pull that paracord and it knocks down all those logs. Granted, it's not perfect, not by any means. But it will still throw things off for a little bit, like, well, maybe that way, maybe that way. I don't know for sure. Or if you really want to get crazy, you can leave a note that says, I definitely didn't go that way and an arrow pointing upward. But, you know, you never know, never know, never know who you're going to be up against, right? All right, so, water. What about water? How are we crossing water? Right? Rivers. Now, when the stream is

deep and it's slow moving, they say to try to find a fjord, okay? A good point to cross is generally going to be at a bend. There's often gravel at the bottom and firm ground on both banks. Also, they say it's difficult for people to see you around a bend, okay, when you're in that kind of an area. They also talk about the things that we've seen in movies before, using driftwood or floating vegetation to camouflage your head as you move across that river or that body of water, right? So, if you swim, try to land amongst rushes or cat tails or anything else, maybe beneath an overhanging tree, something that will camouflage the fact that you've gotten to the other side of that body of water. Okay. Ensure that the bank is not too steep to climb. That's another thing that people often forget about.

Or they kind of cross and they get up to the bank and it's too high up to get to. to or something like that. So definitely, definitely, definitely need to be thinking about those things. All right? You need to observe your area for this, okay? They say for a swiftly flowing stream, they say to cross in the shallows where the water flows over pebbles, rocks, etc. A small, rapid, but never above a waterfall.

You never want to cross above a waterfall. Okay. So, avoid large boulders. Never jump onto rocks over which water is flowing. That's going to take your feet right out from under you. Okay, we talked about this before, right? So a rope is a great advantage and a good safety precaution if you can get a hold of one, or if you have one with you, someone's took it across, whatever. If you can swim, start higher up than the point at which you aim to land and swim diagonally across,

allowing the current to carry you down. This is going to minimize the... amount of energy you use and also make it a little bit easier on you because you're not going to be making nearly as much noise. This is a good thing, especially if you're trying to operate at night and move slowly and quietly, right? All right. So the final thing I think we'll talk about today is going to be crossing barbed wire, right? Barb wire. Everybody loves barbed wire. Or concertina wire or whatever. I don't know, whatever you want to call it. Okay. There are a couple different types, so don't think that they're the same thing because they're definitely not.

All right. Okay. So you talk about double apron type barbed wire. Okay. When you're crossing barbed wire, when you're crossing razor wire, or when you're trying to get around it or through it, keep in mind that the way that those, the spikes and the tines that they stick out, in the modern day and age they're going to take DNA from those spikes okay they're they're they're going to leave your if you gag yourself you scratch yourself or puncture yourself with one that's going to leave DNA behind okay do your best not to leave any DNA behind okay when you're moving through any area and start practicing this now okay when you move through any area and start practicing this now okay when you move through any area. You need to be practicing L-N-T, which means leave no trace. Leave no trace. Okay? When you're camping, leave no trace. When you eat out at a restaurant, leave no trace. I mean, you know, obviously you need to leave some money or maybe a tip, but, you know, you understand what I'm trying to say here. Wherever you go, try your hardest to get in the habit of not leaving anything behind. Don't leave trash wherever you go. Throw it away. Don't leave your DNA out there. Okay?

Just something to keep in mind. Also, with barbed wire, it will catch every single freaking bit of clothing possible. So, please do your best not to leave your clothing really, really loose where it can get caught on something like that. That's a big. especially when it comes to that kind of stuff it is a big big biggie to not get your clothing caught on that because then it's like you know oh crap where the heck did half of my shirt go well who knows i think it's probably back there somewhere all right so let's move on to the next part here barbed wire barbed they say to cut lower strands with wire cuters and crawl through okay cut lower strands of the wire and crawl through.

Why on earth would you want to cut the lower strands and call through? Well, one really good reason is most centuries, most soldiers, are going to be looking at eye level, okay, unless something draws their eye lower. If the upper strands of barbed wire are not cut, they may see it, they may not, but... The upper strands, if those are cut, they will definitely see that because it's at their eye level, right? But if the lower ones are cut, maybe, maybe not. Okay?

Now, granted, they are going to come across it eventually. But buying yourself time is a big, big, important thing, especially if you're operating behind enemy lines. Okay? Now, if you're alone, they say, cut the barbed wire near pickets. the like the the pieces of wood that they attach

to the barb wire the pickets right cut the wire near those tickets and hold the long strands of wire

in the other hand if there are two of you one man grasps the wire and the other cuts between his hands

okay so you've got both your hands on the barb wire and your partner cuts right in between your hands. So the wire didn't go, you know, go flying one way or the other. Because a lot of times this wire is under tension. So that's why they say if you're by yourself,

you grab it with one hand near a picket, near that fence post. Because that fence post is the part that's going to secure the other side. You're going to hold the other side of the wire with your other hand as you cut. So there's no danger of that wire flipping back and hitting you or or something worse, okay? Now, they also say to cut close to the pickets to avoid noise. You want to cut closer to the fence to avoid making more noise.

Now, they say, is it possible to climb carefully through the wire, or it is possible to climb carefully through the wire, but avoid touching the upper wire with your pack or with your clothing? that again can leave stuff behind and tear off a piece of clothing or something else they say to throw your coat or your gunny sack or something else across or use some wire netting and climb over

they say one man to lie across while others crawl over him is another option but I personally think that's a pretty crappy option I don't think that's cool dude you know, what do I know? Then they talk about Danert wire. They say be careful manipulation. By careful manipulation, it is possible to crawl through by separating the coils.

If it's not, if it is not necessary to be silent, any of the methods of vaulting the wire that you're taught in physical training will do. And finally, be keenly aware of the possibility of the future. fence being what? Electrified. That's right. You do not want to get your butt shocked by an electric fence. That would not be cool, man. Not cool at all. So how do you know if it's an electric fence? Well, I can tell you just by looking at my own electric fence. You'll want to look for something like an insulator. You'll want to look for something that tells you, oh, That's an electric fence. Why?

Because the electric fence has to be insulated. So check the pickets, check the posts, and see if there's anything that is touching that wire that looks like an insulator. Okay, plastic pieces and so on. All right. All right, guys, that is going to pretty much do it for me tonight. I will see you guys again. We'll talk again on Saturday.

I'll be on with the Mistress of Metal. on her podcast, Draven Rock Homestead, named after Raven Rock Mountain Complex. We have the Draven Rock Homestead. She is setting up all kinds of cool stuff for that right now, guys. I'm seeing Rumble channels. I'm seeing YouTube. I'm seeing all kinds of services. I'm seeing video systems being set up.

I'm seeing all kinds of stuff, guys. I am blown away by what's. happening so stay tuned guys this is i've never seen her do anything like this before so i am very interested in what she's about to do here so all right guys i hope each and everyone you are doing great tonight and um y'all take care of yourselves okay we'll see you next time as we go deeper inside the gun metal armory good night everybody thank you for joining us we'll see you next time on the gunmetal armory thank you for listening to to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence.

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