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Post by pathwinder14 on Dec 28, 2012 13:44:00 GMT -7
Money, Guns, Food...what about traps?  |
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Post by ogbrandon on Dec 31, 2012 20:25:13 GMT -7
If you currently have no firearms, cwi555's advice makes great sense to me. I picked up a Maverick 88 from Walmart for about $180 (made by Mossberg and shares some accessories). Walmart's ammo counter was all but cleaned out, but they did still have a decent selection of 12ga shells.
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Post by Cwi555 on Dec 31, 2012 21:38:21 GMT -7
Even if the gun control business fizzles out, shotguns have yet to be jacked up in price for the most part, so you end up with something that will service without being jacked up on the price. It's a win win situation in my eyes.
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Post by woodyz on Jan 1, 2013 0:53:35 GMT -7
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jan 1, 2013 2:59:36 GMT -7
How accurate are the sleeves or inserts? Do they fit tight in the barrel or wobble around? The top link guy has 18'' 45/70's, those would be fun in a double barrel. Have me a redneck elephant gun.  |
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Post by woodyz on Jan 1, 2013 12:34:05 GMT -7
How accurate are the sleeves or inserts? Do they fit tight in the barrel or wobble around? The top link guy has 18'' 45/70's, those would be fun in a double barrel. Have me a redneck elephant gun. Even the shorties are more accurate then a short pistol would be because you are still aiming down the 20" of shotgun barrel. The longer ones are rifled and very accurate. 18" would be like a rifle. They fit snug but the extractor pulls it out ok. I like them. I think they offer me a wider range of weapon choices and a wider range of calibers if I am bartering/scavageing for shells. Worth the small cost, a lot less than buying another weapon. And I still have the shotgun. |
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Post by missj on Jan 2, 2013 20:30:12 GMT -7
I totally agree on the food, food, food point.
now...if you're scrambling to buy some protection.... I think it would be wise to buy shotgun shells.
Around here, practically every other home has a shotgun but I'd estimate your average shotgun owner only has about 15-50 shells on hand.
I envision a not-too-distant future where there are 3 or 4 shotguns per every 1 shotgun shell....
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Post by WILL on Jan 2, 2013 20:35:32 GMT -7
Let me ask this, I have 5 gallon buckets of dried food stored. Mostly beans, rice and flour. What other dried foods do you guys store in mylar/buckets? I'm looking to diversify, but I don't want to get too expensive. Please keep with dried food items I can get in bulk for no more than $25 a bucket.
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Post by missj on Jan 2, 2013 20:40:55 GMT -7
dried corn (might be more than $25 per bucket, but packs a LOT of calories)
rolled oats (super cheap per bucket)
sugar
salt
wheat berries
pasta (macaroni packs in well)
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Post by USCGME2 on Jan 2, 2013 21:34:52 GMT -7
Miss J, What are wheat berries?
I know you are a veggie eater, what other non meat foods would you store that are cheap and tasty?
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Post by Cwi555 on Jan 2, 2013 21:42:05 GMT -7
Let me ask this, I have 5 gallon buckets of dried food stored. Mostly beans, rice and flour. What other dried foods do you guys store in mylar/buckets? I'm looking to diversify, but I don't want to get too expensive. Please keep with dried food items I can get in bulk for no more than $25 a bucket. I would advise getting away from the flour. Once the germ is ground up, it will go rancid from internal chemical reactions within a few years. Red winter wheat, white wheat, etc will store decades on end if packed right. It would suck to open up the flour only to find it inedible. I believe only salt, pasta, and maybe sugar will fit the 25 dollar budget with the prices where they are now. You could have gotten for around that before this last summer, but with the massive crop failures of last year, prices have doubled and tripled in many cases. Whole oats (rolled, cut, etc oats suffer the same fate as flour), Spelt - (wheat alternative) Rye - bread and whiskey Hard wheat's (bread products) Soft wheat (pastry products) Durum wheat ( Pasta's) Yellow dent corn (Corn meal/corn mash) |
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Post by cowgirlup on Jan 3, 2013 7:48:09 GMT -7
Let me ask this, I have 5 gallon buckets of dried food stored. Mostly beans, rice and flour. What other dried foods do you guys store in mylar/buckets? I'm looking to diversify, but I don't want to get too expensive. Please keep with dried food items I can get in bulk for no more than $25 a bucket. Do you have an assortment of beans? I have split peas, lentils, black beans, chick peas, kidney beans pinto beans.....Just about any kind of bean there is. They all have a little different taste and use. I also have different kinds of rice, barley, Goya dried hominy ( which is just dried cracked corn) steel cut oats, quinoa and an assortment of pasta. Not sure how the cost would break out for a 5 gallon bucket since I buy them and repack them into 3-5lb mylar bags. FYI I went to Walmart last night on the way home and the grocery store shelves were as bare as I have ever seen them. Kind of unnerving. I realize we are coming off the holidays and maybe everyone made a run to the store yesterday but it was really strange. |
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Post by woodscustom on Jan 3, 2013 9:10:07 GMT -7
Earlier in the summer, I urged everyone to buy now, and stack deep. I knew something like this was coming, just like many others knew.
$500 name brand AR-15s were out there but now run $1500+.
$.20 M855 was to be bought by the truck loads, now it goes for $1.00 a pop. More if it's in strippers in bandoleers in sealed cans.
It's all gone. The panic buyers that I warned about has cleaned it up. Now is NOT THE TIME to buy anything firearm related unless you just happen across a deal.
If you don't have it by now, concentrate on other items like bulk water storage, Food, tools, Lumber, and everything else that panic buyers are not grabbing.
WC
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Post by hunter63 on Jan 3, 2013 16:10:18 GMT -7
Earlier in the summer, I urged everyone to buy now, and stack deep. I knew something like this was coming, just like many others knew. $500 name brand AR-15s were out there but now run $1500+. $.20 M855 was to be bought by the truck loads, now it goes for $1.00 a pop. More if it's in strippers in bandoleers in sealed cans. It's all gone. The panic buyers that I warned about has cleaned it up. Now is NOT THE TIME to buy anything firearm related unless you just happen across a deal. If you don't have it by now, concentrate on other items like bulk water storage, Food, tools, Lumber, and everything else that panic buyers are not grabbing. WC Good advice and I agree...... These seem to be the days that everyone was warning about.......Glad I listened early on...... |
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Post by woodyz on Jan 3, 2013 16:36:34 GMT -7
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