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I want a few ounces of gold

Posted on 02/26/2022 8:32:53 AM PST by LouAvul

Not interested in an investment. It's purely for the sake of just having some gold.

Now is not the time to buy it, but, I've heard of people buying gold from dealers, and later discover it's not real.

I understand the difference between spot price and market price, but a couple of stores have been recommended.

Tulsa Gold and Silver. For example.

My question is, can such a place be trusted?


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To: LouAvul

I bought from these folks around 440.00.

It’s worked out but only when I sell it.

https://www.kitco.com/

I have never touched it.


101 posted on 02/26/2022 11:42:48 AM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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To: dartuser

Applying that logic, a 300lb wife is worth more than one that weighs in at 125.


102 posted on 02/26/2022 11:56:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: LouAvul

My brother has 2 mines in California. He is installing new recovery equipment now. Probably later this year you can buy from the mine. It will gold bars maybe one ouncers, direct from the refinery with stamped bar and chain of custody documentation from the refinery. I will ask him for a discount for Freepers.


103 posted on 02/26/2022 12:31:23 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: LouAvul

the only direction that gold can go is up.


104 posted on 02/26/2022 1:02:23 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: LouAvul

I want the contents of Fort Knox. Think big.


105 posted on 02/26/2022 1:14:39 PM PST by GingisK
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To: LouAvul

On ebay you can purchase a gold test kit for under $15.00


106 posted on 02/26/2022 1:23:48 PM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: beancounter13

“...Waht Did Patton say about Fortified Defenses?” [beancounter13, post 41]

Patton - on presumes you mean George Smith Patton Jr, USMA 1908 - was wrong.

And he didn’t say “fortified defenses;” George C Scott said “fixed defenses” in the 1970 film directed by Franklin J Schaffner & written by Francis Ford Coppola. Adapted from the book _Patton: Ordeal & Triumph_ by Ladislas Farago (Ivan Oblensky, 1963). Some doubt exists about the provenance of the quote anyway. Common occurrence.

Fortifications - armored/engineered fixed defenses - are no good in isolation but can be vital components in over all resistance to invasion. None are completely bulletproof but they can cause major delays to an advancing enemy.

They figured prominently in both World Wars. For starters, read Sir John Keegan’s one-volume history of World War One.


107 posted on 02/26/2022 2:30:18 PM PST by schurmann
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To: schurmann

Yes, well, I was referring to individual people stockpiling ammo for the theoretical collapse. Such an individual, even with a large family and a large stockpile, would eventually be overrun.

Guns, ammo, and cast iron are good to the extent they help acquire food for survival, but planning for major defense is not a good idea. A better idea is to acquire and use your enemy’s weapons: that way, you can always acquire more ammo by attacking the enemy.


108 posted on 02/26/2022 2:39:11 PM PST by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: schurmann

“Forts win wars!” - SpongeBob


109 posted on 02/26/2022 2:40:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: beancounter13

Stockpile grain (oats, corn wheat) legumes and freeze drief fruit and veggies. If yo have that all covered then go to ammo. If that’s covered go to coins. JMHO. That’s my approach. I have no shiny coins. I have jewelry that I can claim is excess. My approach is may not fit your views and that’s ok. A 18K 20 in necklace looks less prepared than a .1 oz gold coin. It’s all just a trade off. Good luck. We are not getting out of this world alive.

Having said that, I really wish I had a few monster boxes of silver dollars. But I don’t so it’s irrelevant.


110 posted on 02/26/2022 2:53:02 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative )
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To: dfwgator

” ‘Forts win wars!’ - SpongeBob” [dfwgator, post 109]

Witty one-liners are neither fact nor wisdom; they do not advance understanding & ability.

Research and reflection can do both. No guarantees in the real world.

People win wars. Instrumentalities (forts, ordnance, intel, communications, munitions, other logistics) can help. Nothing works in isolation; success is never a given.

If you’re feeling short on of useful adages, try out this one:

“Superior weapons favor victory.” - I.B. Holley Jr


111 posted on 02/26/2022 3:19:25 PM PST by schurmann
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To: beancounter13; SaxxonWoods; George from New England; aMorePerfectUnion; wgmalabama

“...There is always a bigger fish.

“Unless they have a metal detector, nobody will know how much gold I will be carrying. And I could easily carry $100k while still looking like a common, unwashed peasant.” [beancounter13, post 50]

Quoting Star Wars film dialog cannot necessarily be distilled into sensible advice.

Bartering of precious metals for food & goods depends completely on the pre-existence of a stable social order. We dare not assume that will prevail in potential conditions of instability & fragmentation.

An armed person can easily relieve someone who is unarmed of whatever they possess - $1.00 or $100,000.00, doesn’t matter.

An unarmed person attempting to disarm and rob an armed person faces a more difficult task.

Ammunition is indeed less portable than precious metals, but that only illustrates the truism that there are no perfect solutions, only compromises.

“Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.” [origin unknown]


112 posted on 02/26/2022 3:21:44 PM PST by schurmann
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To: Delta 21; carriage_hill; RoosterRedux; beef; Big Red Badger; Fightin Whitey

“...brass, copper and lead...” [Delta 21, post 13]

Wonderful image & message.

Bullet jackets aren’t plain copper. They are gilding metal, a 95-5 alloy of copper and zinc. In other words, a form of brass.

It took the US War Dept 30 years of experimenting to come up with a mix & attendant heat treatment to minimize jacket metal fouling. Before that, special lubricants were used by target shooters to avoid much metal fouling by cupronickel jackets (in use since smokeless small arms ammo was introduced, in 1892). Lube was impractical for field use in rifles, and in machine guns generally.

Some bullet makers use solid bronze. Don’t know the formulation.


113 posted on 02/26/2022 3:22:53 PM PST by schurmann
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To: RoosterRedux

lol ... definite post of the day !


114 posted on 02/26/2022 4:58:26 PM PST by dartuser
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To: beancounter13
But ammo has to be defended, and that price will be in blood.

You're being obtuse now, because you're on uncertain ground.

There is always a bigger fish.

But it won't be you, will it?

115 posted on 02/26/2022 4:59:16 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: schurmann

Let’s be clear: I am not advocating for disarmament. Far from it. In fact, self defense should be the first priority for everyone.

However, beyond what is needed to provide sustenance via hunting, and escape via a roadblock, I don’t see a need in building an armory. I will follow Sam Houston’s example before I follow that set by Will Travis.


116 posted on 02/26/2022 5:04:17 PM PST by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

But it won’t be you, will it?

******************************

I won’t be stealing from someone else, if that is what you mean….

What does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his own soul?


117 posted on 02/26/2022 5:09:30 PM PST by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: beancounter13
I won’t be stealing from someone else, if that is what you mean….

What I mean is that you will be the punk crying for his mama because the bigger better man will have knocked you down and stolen your golden quarter.

Dummy.

118 posted on 02/26/2022 9:11:07 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

Sorry. You missed the part about self defense. Besides no one will even know I have anything worth taking.

Meanwhile, I wish you lots of luck with your AR15 and 5M round of ammo that will be obliterated by a flying drone…..


119 posted on 02/26/2022 9:22:29 PM PST by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: gloryblaze

I have not sold back, but they publish their margins/pricing right on the site, both buying and selling. You are always going to be paying a percentage with anyone.


120 posted on 02/27/2022 11:21:49 AM PST by reintarnation
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