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Handgun Radio 476 – What We Want To See At SHOT Show 2026!
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What does the host introduce in Handgun Radio 476?
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Hello, and welcome to Handgun Radio. I'm your host, Ryan Machad, Weird Beard and Company from the wild woods of Central Maine, and this is your home for all the news, information, and discussion in the handgunning world. This week, we talk what we want to see at SHOT Show 2026.
Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Week In Review segment?
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Visit us at patreon.com slash handgunradio. And I will not introduce all of you at the same time. Mr. Xander, how are you doing, sir? I actually have the day off for once.
You have the day off? You're not in the tractor. How does that work? My brother's feeding cows today. Gotcha. Feeding. How do you feed cows? Oh, as accurately as possible.
You don't know how to feed a cow. I don't have one.
No, mixing up batches of feed according to the various recipes. Batch sizes currently range anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 pounds. Actually, no, 11,000 pounds. Milk or beef calves? Milk for the vast majority.
So don't you want to have some sort of acetic acid, something? Is that it? Like in the feed?
Let's see here. Acetic acid. That sounds familiar. And I think we actually make sure we don't have that.
The silage should naturally produce probably more lactic acid than acetic.
Right, but there is an acid that I vaguely remember sounds like acetic. If there's too much of it, it's not good for their digestion. Fortunately, it evaporates quickly overnight, so if we pull the face off of the silage pile and let that sit overnight, then it'll be perfectly fine.
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Chapter 3: What are the main features of the Pietta Python Clone?
You want to have just the right amount for the cow, not too much, not too little.
I think it was in the episode where they were talking about how they use the orange peels from making orange juice. Okay. No, apparently the orange peels had something that makes good buttermilk or something. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not a farmer. I'm just saying what I listen to.
Okay, that's getting a bit deeper than the knowledge I have at the moment. I mostly deal with the more mechanical side of things and just follow the recipe as given. Okay. And it's cold there? Fairly cold. Lows down to the lower teens this past week. Right now it's nine degrees outside. Nine degrees. Well, if that's Celsius, that's not bad. That is not Celsius.
You can keep it then. Yeah, yeah.
Chapter 4: What double action old west clones are discussed?
Have you had any, I don't know, heat your house with, but have you noticed problems with oil deliveries? Because there is a big problem up here in Maine right now with number two fuel oil deliveries.
Um, we haven't had any trouble with that at the time. Fortunately, our diesel, not, not quite the same thing, uh, is not the same. Um, but, uh, uh, let's see here. Uh, mostly what we use for heat out here is propane.
If you go on the, well, I mean, up in the Northeast, where you would say probably 90% of homes are heated by number two fuel oil.
Um, yeah, I mean, I would definitely say in, in Maine, it's definitely more cause outside of the big cities, there's going to be no natural gas. There's actually quite a bit of natural gas around here just because like, well, at least this, this section of, you know, essentially inside of, you know, four 95, there's pretty heavy natural gas infrastructure.
So most of the, actually still a lot of the houses have oil and, And there's a lot of houses that are being converted from oil to natural gas. Actually, there's that great news story. It's like a couple of months ago where they converted a house in Medford to natural gas, but they didn't cap the filler. They didn't pull out or cap the filler neck to the oil tank when they pulled the tank out.
And a truck driver read the order wrong and pumped.
Oh, yes.
I want to say 200. 5,500 gallons of, of fuel oil frigging basement into, into their, into their finished basement. And that's, that is not only is, you know, is, is that basement in just, I mean, a total, a total loss, but also a loss and the ground under the house is going to need to be worried about because, because foundations aren't watertight.
Yeah. The house is a complete loss. I remember reading about that. Yeah. Um, we, I use a, I use a supplier that I've used a bunch, but, um, I cannot even count on two hands and two feet. How many posts I've seen on like the, there's a WhatsApp water roll page or WhatsApp, whatever page community page on Facebook of people not getting their deliveries. They were expected and running out of oil.
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Chapter 5: How does the new Ruger .22 LR compare to previous models?
Yeah. But it's just taxed differently.
Yeah, and there's just enough difference that some furnaces might burn it a little bit dirty.
Yeah. No, I mean, I always try, every time I see ours hit either half a tank or a little bit under, I'll call and order 100 gallons and just have them bring it. It's like... I got a 275-gallon tank. The actual capacity is probably 250 because they want to leave some airspace in the top. Yeah.
But I always try to keep up on it because if I order from the place I order from, it's several ways away from us, but they only deliver to Waterville on Thursdays. So if I were to call tomorrow, I would probably have a guaranteed delivery on Thursday. But it's like three... Last time I ordered, it was $3.39 a gallon. So hopefully with capturing that guy, maybe it'll go down.
Yeah. I will note, too, that the fuel oil furnaces used to be a fair bit more common around here.
Yeah, no, I got forced hot air, and I like it. I mean, it makes it a little bit dry, but I don't have that clank. My dad has the baseboard, and oh, don't I hate that. You go in there, the pipes heat up, and you hear snap, snap, snap.
If you insulate the pipes, it won't do that.
No, it's not my house. My dad's house. Um, and you ordered holsters. I see.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and, uh, had a bit of a scare with the herd bull a couple of weeks ago and pistol was, uh, back in my car, a couple hundred feet away. And so it's like, okay, I need to get, uh, something that I can actually carry properly because so it's a,
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Chapter 6: What unique calibers do the hosts want to see more of?
Oh, no, no, that's just fun.
Oh, okay.
That's a 20-round 12-gauge drum mag. That's a range toy.
I would also say, Xander, for just your... Given the fact that you're dealing with, like, you know... You were talking about a deer that had suffered an auto strike and aggressive bulls and things like that. And you've got a bullpup shotgun that doesn't weigh a whole lot. I would think just having a sling on that and just having it handy would be probably a better choice.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe I should also get a case for that that clips into my car's trunk. Or a side scabbard for your overalls. There you go.
I mean, honestly speaking, just set up a sling so you could sling it across your back like an engineer car bean. And I think you might be surprised at how well that works out. Yeah.
And yeah, Xander, I think he has a bullpup shotgun, very similar to mine. It cost me 500 bucks oddball. Yeah, I'm horrible at that.
My nephew's got the same one. That's a frigging nice shotgun.
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Chapter 7: What are the anticipated trends for SHOT Show 2026?
I really like it.
Um, and yeah, it's, it's a lot of fun and, and yeah, uh, it's, it's, uh, set up more for the sling than I, I, I don't, it would be difficult to find a scabbard that, that it would actually be tough with the pistol grip and all that.
That's better. That's more better. That's better for like the, uh, uh, the Caltech. Um, Oh, what's it called? The, the five, five, six bullpup.
Oh, the RFB.
Yeah, the RFB Survival that has the more Monte Carlo-type stock on it.
Usually for the guns that Oddball buys, I'm surprised he only costs you $500. It probably would be like $100.
Some of the guns Oddball buys, it could have cost him 50 cents.
Right. Now, what Xander really needs is a shockwave.
Yes, actually, Xander, they're awesome.
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Chapter 8: What closing thoughts do the hosts share about the episode?
Oh, yes. This this works quite nicely. So, Mr. Otbaugh, what'd you do this week, sir? Well, two things. One, I was seriously worrying over this. one of our cats who, uh, at, at the beginning of this week, I was really worried that, uh, he, he wasn't going to make it through the week. Um, uh, he's gone blind and, and had stopped eating and had gotten down to like six pounds.
Um, but, uh, after the third trip to the vet with him, um, uh, got him on a battery of, uh, antibiotics and steroids. And, uh, he's still blind. That's something that it's going to be true for the rest of his life, but he is, uh, actually moving around the house a good bit and, um, eating food and actually saw him climb the cat tree the other day. Um, or yesterday.
So, um, now we just need to get some meat back on his bones, which takes time. Hopefully whatever was going on is, uh, is being dealt with, has been dealt with. So that's good.
Um, those, those vet trips are always, uh, enjoyable. Uh, sometimes. We have our dog, Wesley. He walks... I'm not a dog person. My wife is. He walks with one paw up and he just holds it up and limps around. But when he goes out back and runs, he's normal. I spent $600 on an x-ray and an examination by the vet. The vet looked, they took him in, they sedated him, did the x-ray.
She's like, there is nothing wrong with his paw. She goes, we can send him to a neurologist. I said, no, if there's nothing wrong with his paw, then he's just going to deal with it because he stands on it when everything is fine. So I'm like, yeah, no, we're not.
He might be. He might have learned that he gets a little bit of extra attention.
That's what I told the vet originally. I said, this is psychological.
I said, no. And the other thing going on is this past week we got the last month's electric bill, and it was like twice what we expected.
What?
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