Speaking of ammo...I’ve always gone local but I’d sure appreciate any leads to favorite online resources.
Preppers’ PING!
Average American solider on patrol carries 240rds. I have a reserve (separate from range time ammo which runs any where from equal down to a 1/3 of that amount) of just over 8 times that is reserved strictly for my battle rifle during shtf.
IMHO anyone who engages in more than 8 fire fights and/or anyone who believes that they could come threw 8 fire fights unscathed during shtf is mental, doing something wrong or both.
I have two Liberty safes, one for ammo the other for guns.
Business idea;
Enclose some Charmin with every box of ammo. Like the MRE package.
There is no such animal as too much ammo. Or too much food.
Problem I have, in NYS I cannot buy online.
And so pack 'em up we did. I discovered Corn Pone - his nickname - had availed himself of the pallet-sized sales hereabouts and had an entire room full of ammo for the ages. We actually had to break pallets up so we could get them on his rented moving van. And that's when we discovered that ammunition is made of lead! Who knew?
He got busted at the state line for being grossly overweight. "But I saved lots of money on it," he sez to me over the phone. Good, I sez, I hope so, enough to cover the van and the fine anyway...
And paper towels. I buy each in 12 packs at the grocery store every other week. Paper will turn to gold when the SHTF.
I have various calibers of rifles and pistols and plenty of ammunition for each. You can never tell what the other person might need for barter. My preference however for trade would be the 12 gauge ammo #4 thru #7. I have plenty of it and the ability to make more. Plus unless the person with which you bartered is able to get real close, it probably won't be used against you.
I'd be cautious about bartering ammunition. There's the risk it might come back at you, pointy-end first.
I’ve been trying to sell a MAK-90 for over a month now. Throwing in 500+ rounds of ammo to sweeten the deal brings nothing but yawns. If people were as worried about SHTF as preppers claimed that gun would have flown out of here at twice the price. I think the Obama panic gun buying is mostly concealable handguns. It doesn’t appear that home defense makes much of a dent.
“I don’t need chaos lessons from some tweedy gem boy, and neither do you.” That quote from the story made me chuckle.
Schlichter references the Rodney King riots, as an example of societal breakdown. Katrina was another.
There was a pitched gun battle in my neighborhood, between neighbors and outsiders coming in to loot. I returned weeks later to find windows of my house damaged by stray bullets.
I had evacuated ahead of the storm; hurricanes give plenty of advance warning, and I’m not one to hang around and risk my life—from the storm or from ferals—to protect a teevee from looters. That’s what insurance is for. You’ve gotta decide when to shelter in place, and when to bug out.
Having said that, though, other weather events —like tornadoes and earthquakes—don’t give advance notice.
And the ferals WILL try to take advantage of any chaotic situation, especially in areas where people are not pro-gun. While you’re helping your neighbors dig out, the ferals are coming after your daughter.
There were numerous violent rapes throughout New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Having decided to disregard the evacuation order, they also failed to heed the warnings that there would be no police or medics to protect them or treat their injuries. Those women should have been armed and trained.
Anti-preppers are fools.
The wise person prepares for “whatever”—whether riots, grid down, economic collapse. weather, or personal catastrophe.
AMMO and TP?
I’m gettin molds for castin my own pellets [I’m only allowed to have air rifles, by being a disabled veteran] And I can salvage lead for them from just about everywhere.