The challenge of the Yukon. King, the swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest mounted police who preserved law and order in the Yukon during the gold rush of 98. That was the year that brought over 50,000 men swarming into the Klondike region and the greed for gold led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, the force preserved a splendid record in maintaining the right. The challenge of the North was answered and justice ruled triumphant. The jail in Machate City was a small building that had sturdily withstood the fury of Yukon's storms and the strength of desperate prisoners bent on shaking its dust from their feet. In the light of early morning, two men stood talking to the one inmate who nervously paced the floor. I think I like walking up and down this place. Waiting for you two? Oh, take it easy, Kong. Easy. I'm warning you.  It takes time to figure this out. I ain't got much time. Neither of you. Unless you get me out of here soon, you might just as well move in now. I'm not hanging alone. Get me? You won't hang? No. You're done right. I won't hang. I got enough on you to see you both swing and the Mountie knows at sea. All I gotta do is open my mouth. This can't spring you overnight. This place is tighter than a drum.  You got another week, ain't ya? Another week. Last Tuesday it was two weeks. Tomorrow it'll be six days. Then five, then four. And it's me that's getting closer to that noose, not you. How I get out of here is your worry. Listen, Kong, we ain't let you down yet. Just wait a little while. We'll get you out. Don't worry.  Remember what I said. You all true boys? Yeah, we just wanted to cheer Kong up a bit. I guess he needs to, and I'll tell the sergeant you two dropped in to see him. That's all right with us. Outdoors, the two men walked aimlessly through the straggly settlement of frame buildings. One thought was uppermost in both their minds. If he talks ace, we're as good as done for him. Yeah. That Mountie's been waiting to pin something on us for a long time now. We either gotta make sure Kong keeps quiet or get him out of there. How? I don't know.  I can sure use one. Hey, use your shorty. You two beat? Yeah. Boys sure look low enough. Of course, I can't say I feel much better myself if I was in your shoes. What do you mean? Well, it ain't none of my business, but everybody knows Kong ain't leaving this world unless you two go with him. Your business is filling the glasses. You better stick to it. Oh, he didn't mean nothing ace.  That's good. It'll be nothing. Yeah. Looks like it ain't no secret. Hell, that's one of the reasons we can't catch that Mountie off guard. He's the first guy I ever met.   You could assume buy off the Queen's crown. Trouble with these Mounties is you can't buy them or scare them. And he swore to get us. Well, if we don't get Kong out of that jail, he ain't going to have much trouble doing it either. You know, if he only had a weakness, he don't drink. He ain't got a family. What's a family got to do with it?  If he had a family, we could say, hey, you're right. What do you mean, right? I ain't said nothing yet. Sure you did. Don't you see? See what? You're going local ace. Oh, listen, he ain't got a family, right? I just said that. Yeah. But he's got that mud of his, ain't he? He thinks an awful lot of that dog. Oh, yeah. I see what you mean. And what's to stop us from doing? Oh, you're right. We'll have that Mountie eating out of our hands. Later that day, as Sergeant Preston was entering the jail... Sergeant Preston! Yes? You want to see me a minute? You want to see me about Kong? You know the answer. Well, as a matter of fact, that's what we did come to see about. I won't release him under any circumstances. I'm just sorry you boys aren't in there with him. Well, we warned you, Mountie. We ain't asking anymore. Next time we'll demand that you release him. I haven't time to listen to threats. You'll have time, all right. What do you mean by that? You'll either let Kong out or else. Later that night, with darkness to cover them, the two men walked quietly down the street. I tell you, I saw him at the jail not a half hour ago. All right, I just want to be sure. I'm sure. Don't worry about that. There's a light in the office. I see him. He ain't taking no chances. But this is one thing you ain't expecting. You have a blanket ready? Yeah. I'll walk in front of the mutt to get his attention. Can you drop the blanket over him before he can set up a haul? Yeah. Remember, a dog's money's smart. The sooner we get him out of here, the better it'll be for us. Here's his coming.  I'll do it just like I said. I'll take this end of the blanket. Got it. I'd sooner wrestle a grizzly in this mutt. He's got plenty of fight.  I left the sled back ascent. I'll try to follow us, Mountie. There's the sled. Come on. You won't get away with it.  King 40s captors valiantly, but the dog was at a disadvantage. For even after they reached a cave on a high ledge overlooking the trail, Pete kept the blanket over him. Why don't you take that blanket off him now? Listen, I ain't forgetting this mutt nip me once. I clean forgot that. Well, I ain't. Still got the marks of his teeth in my arm. Oh, sir, I'm keeping the blanket over him. I'll take it off in the morning. Before I see Preston, I'll tell Conn. You better. That's a yellow rattle. I think we still ain't done nothing towards getting him out. Well, I don't know. You probably heard Preston looking for the dog. Maybe he'll put two and two together. The only thing he can put together is his gun. I can't wait to see the expression on that Mountie's face. If Ace had seen the steely determination in Sergeant Preston's eyes as they stood talking to two friends in the Golden Goose Cafe, the outlaw's amusement would have cindered to ashes and the fear would have clutched his heart. Why, ain't the low down vomits anyone that has steal a dog? They think by holding King that I'll bargain with him for the release of Conn Mason. I guess they tried every other way to spring him. He ought to be right behind the bars with him. Yes, and they will be. Conn has already told what he knows. Oh, I see. But they don't know that. That's it exactly. Oh, every minute King's in their hands. Now, Sergeant, I reckon they ain't real men. But I don't think they'd do anything to the dog till they try to make a deal with you. Oh, you can't trust men like that. You can't blame them for not wanting to take any chances, Joe. I'm with you, Sergeant. If I can be of any help... That's what I hoped you'd say. You mean you're going after the environments now? Yes. And here's what I want you to do. It was dawn when Sergeant Preston and his two friends reached the trail far beneath the cave where King was an unhappy captive. Dark as it was, the determined mountain had tracked the kidnappers. His eyes brightened as he glimpsed the light of a campfire thrown out over the rocks high above him. Meanwhile, in the cave... Too bad we couldn't have let Conn know about this.  He'll be out, too. Preston thinks a lot of that, but... No more than the dog does of him. He hasn't made a sound lying in that blanket. It's to me like he's waiting for something. Listen... He's whining. Somebody's down the trail. Probably a couple of miners on the way to Machete. Well, I'm making sure. Ain't no miners on the trail at this hour. Hey! It's Preston. What? Don't grab that much. He's ripped that blanket open. You grab him. I'm getting my gun. He'll jump. Well, let him. He's a dead dog if he tries it. You hear that? He's going to do it. In blind obedience to his master's command, King leaped over the ledge. A dizzy, breathtaking drop. Hold that blanket tight, men. Here he comes. King, good fellow. Good fellow. That's it. I never see anything like it. That was a right-smile idea to get this blanket to catch him in. The way he come flying through space. Hey, Sergeant, where are you going? After those two. Come talk to the island of evidence to hang them. You can't climb up there. It's the only way up. Here. I'll cover him with my gun as well as I can. Here comes Preston. Get back, Mountie. That's coming up to you, Ace. That's what you think. I missed him. Here. Let me get him. Let them rocks protect him. Ace. Ace. Yes, put your head out once more, Mountie. Just once more. Ace, listen. I'm out of bullets. You stand over here. What'd you say? I tell you I ain't got any more bullets. Where are they? They're in a pack over there, and we ain't got time to get them. He's coming. Let me see how many I got. Wait a minute. How many? One. One more. He's almost up here. Let him have it, Ace. Go ahead. Here goes our last shot. Did you get him? I don't know. Listen. He's still coming. No, you're wrong. I'm here. All right. Your boys are under arrest. He ain't got nothing on us. No. Khan was afraid you decided to leave the Yukon. You mean he talked to you? Yes. It's going to be a triple hanging this time. I started marching down that path. I wouldn't try any tricks. Two men have guns waiting for you down on the trail. Mine's right in back of you. Yes, King. The case is closed. Upholding the motto of the Northwest Mounted Police, Sergeant Preston and the Great Dog King maintain the right and get their man. Don't miss their next thrilling adventure when they meet the challenge of the Yukon once again on Saturday at 6.30. Oh, King.  Challenge of the Yukon, the copyrighted feature of the Challenge of the Yukon Incorporated brought to you every Saturday at the same time originated in the transcription studios of WXYZ Detroit. The characters and events in tonight's drama were fictitious. Bob Hite speaking. This is the Michigan Radio Network.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Every now and again, you take the bait. Somebody hit you with a price for a firearm that is worth the bait.  So that's my case today. I will explain more as we get through the video. But let me go ahead and show you what I got. It's made by Palmetto State Armory and this is the 5.7 Rock. When they came out with this, it surprised a lot of people. They weren't expecting it. But here it is. It's the 5.7 Rock that is an interesting 5.7 by 28 millimeter handgun. It's a full-size handgun. This one has the threaded barrel, and the barrel is fluted, which is very nice. You can buy the complete lower, the complete upper, put it together. You can buy it in a full package. You can buy it with or without the threaded barrel. They have different barrel coatings and all that. It's super flexible, what PSA did with this. And 23 round magazines, and it does come with two of them. But I picked this up used, and it's really not used. It's like brand new in Flat Dark Earth. Many different colors, many different options. The one thing that I wanted that I originally was going to back out of the deal was Optics Ready. Now, if you look at their site, everything that is available is Optics Ready. But initially, some of them weren't. And I think that's when this one was purchased. Or the previous owner purchased the upper and the lower separately, because the box that I showed you was actually a box from the dagger. It was not from this 5.7 rock. Anyhow, here we have a 5.2 inch threaded barrel that is fluted, nice look to it. All in Flat Dark Earth. It has the full size grip a bit wider. Check out the width of that magazine. All right, it's pretty wide for the longer 5.7 round. Decent grip texturing, little light grit sandpaper, a little bump right there, which I think is cool. Not a big deal, no finger grooves or anything like that. It does have the trigger there with a safety tab. All right, we'll see that. Now, I am measuring this at six pounds even with a reset that is pretty short. Check that out. It's got a three slot Picatinny rail, forward serrations and three dot night sights. Now, these are budget priced. When you look at how much PSA is asking for this and some of the others out there, you will see that this is very much a budget priced, full size, 5.7 by 28 millimeter handgun with 23 round magazines. You can pick this up for 400 bucks, a little bit less. And then some of the higher end models you're in the 500s, but for a 5.7, that's a pretty good deal. Let me show you how it disassembles. Interesting concept that showed clear a whole bunch of times. But you're gonna pull the trigger first, take them back a little bit, take these safety tabs or not say take down levers, correction there, take down levers and then just pull it off of the frame. And there's a look at the frame. Here we have a single captured recoil spring and the barrel in which the thread cap needs to be removed to take it out. But you get the idea and here is the slide. All right, and then to put it back on, just get it into place here. That's not into place. Let me do it the right way like that. So it's into place like that and just charge it and it is back to its firing position. But I'm super excited about it. And when we talk about 5.7, here we've got Fioki range dynamics, Fioki high performance 35 grain, 62 grain. So a big difference here. Here we have federal target loads. Here we have some self-defense loads by FN and here we have AAC. So I have five different types of ammo that I'm going to test the 5.7 Rock made by PSA. But it's a good looking handgun. Some people have said it fires great. Haven't done that yet. I've shot a lot of 5.7s in my life. I have not shot this gun yet. So I look forward to that. Should be very cool. I'm hoping it is. I've got five separate types to run through it. But here it is. I took the bait. No, you may be asking, well, what was the bait? What was the bait? The bait was this. This gentleman originally had this up for 240 bucks. I thought it was the optics ready model. And so I made contact. We talked about it. And then he said, you know, it's not the optics ready model. Cause I said, do you have all the plates? Cause I have some optics that I want to put on handguns. I've got more optics right now than I know what to do with, honestly. And it's a good position to be in. But I wanted the optics ready. He said, it's not optics ready, but I really want to make this sale. I already purchased something else. I need to recapture that money. How about, and he took 60 bucks off, which made it under $200. So I figured for that price, I can't get hurt. I took the bait. Pretty happy with the bait that I took with night sights and 23 round mags and a little bit of ammo. So I look forward to getting this to the range and running it through its paces and checking it out. I love the 5.7 because there's no recoil. It's super noisy, huge muzzle flash, but it's super fast and a ton of fun at the range. And I look forward to this 5.7 rock range time with it and having a great time. And taking you guys along for the ride. If you like videos like this, please subscribe. And sure, I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.