forever gun book 3

THE FOREVER GUN BOOK 3

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note: if you have KU, check out "Locker Nine" by Franklin Horton.  It has its problems, but a notch above regular apocalypse porn.  Far, far, better is "Long Haul Home Collection" by Dana Fraser, but beware an ending that suddenly inexplicably veers off into soft porn.
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ONE GUN ARSENAL

Before we go further into an additional arsenal which is borderline unnecessary, or at least extravagant for the outrageously poor, I’d like to cover extending the Arsenal Of One you already have to come close to the Forever Arsenal.  Some survivalists take great pride in their pallets or at least multiple ammo cans worth of ammunition.  Most likely these fools are Yuppie Scum Survivalists who think semi-auto’s are the only things saving them after the collapse.  As proof they will point to the Garand winning WWII for America.  A bit of hyperbole of course, as petroleum and factories beyond bombing range won that conflict for us, and somehow we forget the Soviets won the conflict with the crappy bolt action Mosin-Nagant’s, but they desperately need to believe they are indestructible with their talisman disguised as a plastic poodle shooter disguised as a real battle rifle.  The point is, they will be so busy spraying lead anytime some fool yells for cover or they hear a noise or someone somewhere in the immediate vicinity measured in map grid lengths opens fire on someone, their once quite impressive stockpile of ammunition will be depleted very, very quickly.

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I’m sorry to urinate on your leg, but semi’s are an Oil Age weapon fed by unlimited energy and we are entering into a POST Oil Age with zero energy available to you and There…Will…Be…NO…Ammo.  Ever.  Again.  Perhaps, against all odds, there might arise a cottage industry able to harness an extra amount of nitrates ( if THAT even happens ) and manage to not blow themselves up and somehow manufacture a small amount of smokeless powder again.  If so, it will never be enough to continue semi-automatic fire.  Both because there will not be enough, and because it will be such poor quality you daren’t use it in a repeater anyway.  For the collapse of civilization, semi automatic weapons are flipping retarded.  Everyone thinks they can impose fire discipline on themselves once they enter combat but it simply doesn’t work that way.  Unless you are trained, which is expensive in itself, you will be unable to counter panic and stress.  It is brain chemistry, not willpower.  Just as a teenage boy cannot think past a near constant erection, an inexperienced shooter in combat will be unable to manage his natural responses. 

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If you are in the majority, you must tamper your natural reactions with the proper tool.  In this case, a bolt action rifle.  And if you have such a rifle, by trying to stockpile the same amount of ammunition as the Yuppie Scum Semi Survivalist, you begin to approach a Forever Gun level of preparedness.  Of course, rifle ammunition and pistol ammo are completely different animals.  I doubt you could afford ten thousand rounds worth of reloading supplies.  Even assuming ten rounds use per case, using the Lee Loader so as to only neck size ( hence prolonging the case life ), you are still talking a lot of money.  A thousand cases, forty-fifty pounds of powder and ten thousand primers ( I’ll even assume a cheap lead source for pouring your own ) are, respectively, $500, $1,000 and $300.  You probably already own a nice amount of ammo, plus you might not believe you will ever come close to needing ten thousand rounds ( I have the factory rounds and reloading components totaling five thousand rounds for my battle rifle, but then, I also have the rimfire to back that up-and, granted, I’m probably far more paranoid than you ).  Obviously, you can only do as finances permit.  Here, my point is merely that for an estimated additional $500-$800 most folks already owning a rifle can come close to getting enough ammo to come close to a Forever Gun.

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The Forever Gun Arsenal is a mere concept, not a single one size fits all tool.  Almost like the scout rifle concept from Cooper.  I’m merely covering all aspects.  You don’t absolutely need a full size rifle round, either.  If you already own a 223, obviously the reloading expenses are far less.  I hope that you are using a suitable gun for your terrain, and that if you do happen to own an AR it has a heavy and long barrel and you will only be using it as a mid range sniper rifle, and if so for very little additional money you can seriously increase your round stockpile and come close to the Forever Gun.  I don’t necessarily advocate this route, of course.  Regardless of your style of rifle.  It is merely an option that might work better for you depending on your circumstances.  The whole concept must be frugal and by necessity that more often than not means a low power round such as rimfire or pistol ammo.  Just because of the cost factor.  Remember, this is FRUGAL survivalism.  NOT expensive Best Of Everything survivalism.  When you are unable to throw money at a problem, you end up making compromises.

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I’ve had readers suggest a hundred thousand rounds of ammunition.  Of course, taking in the correct context this isn’t insane.  We were talking of stockpiling for a lifetime ( literally ) supply of everything.  And taking decades to do it.  If you are disciplined and dedicated, even on very low wages this is more than feasible.  But I’m convinced that we have mere years rather than decades, and hence the IDEAL becomes far less feasible.  Ten thousand rounds, even in reloads, of best firearm ammunition, is most likely far from realistic.  Because not only are we fighting time to escape the ravages of civilization collapsing, we must also at the same time prepare to survive the collapse of our central bank controlled economy.  You don’t have enough time or money to do things the ideal way.  More often than not, you’ll need to accept Better Than Nothing.  While a 9mm round pretty much blows monkey balls, it will kick ass compared to NO modern firearm using smokeless powder.  While wheat kernels don’t compare well to freeze dried meals, the price is 1 to 20.  It is the choice between eating one great meal every three weeks or a mediocre meal every day.  Better Than Nothing is a vastly underrated concept for prepping.  Including everyone’s pet project, firearms.

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