the forever gun book 2

THE FOREVER GUN BOOK 2

PEAK STUFF

As I said, the Forever Gun concept pretty much died with the rise in the cost of copper ( hence brass ).  The 1990’s and the early ‘00’s had a few unique characteristics.  First, the Soviet Union coughed up a bloody lung and died, and the western elites were able, for a time ( I have nothing but respect for Putin-a patriot helps their country rather than rapes it and he did more to save his country than any of our post-Jackson politicians ever did for ours ), to squeeze cheap oil from the country at our usual Captive Colony Near Free Prices.  Second, after discarding the bankrupt corpses of companies that physically re-wired our country for high speed Internet, “online” became a viable business industry.   Third, lowering interest rates worked because of the aforementioned affordable petroleum.  Looking back at the trail of bodies Clinton left, it might be hard to believe, but prior to 9/11 were the last of the good times economically.

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Then came Peak Oil right on schedule.  The concept has been, to a certain understandable degree, overplayed by its proponents ( including myself-I both sped up our demise and overplayed alternate energy.  Not by an embarrassing degree but I also can‘t claim clairvoyance.  My book on Peak Oil is available for free at Lulu.com under the title “Chicken Little Magazine“ ).  Things certainly didn’t go to hell as quick as possible.  We were given a short reprieve and I certainly hope you used it wisely.  Too much was made for the case of quick collapse and not enough attention was paid to EROI-energy return on energy invested.  That certainly would have been more helpful in timing the collapse better ( short take-net energy has fallen so far you should expect dire problems in single years rather than decades ).  And one aspect I don’t think I ever ran across was the forecasting of metal extraction ( not to say it wasn’t out there, even if I did read most popular market books on the subject ). 

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Unnoticed by most was the point where ores became much more diffuse and harder to extract.  A large nugget of ore on or near the surface pure enough to be smelted by low energy fuel is one thing, needing a huge amount of machinery and finance to dig hundreds of feet down and run tons of rock through extraction methods to gain a very small amount of ore dust or pebbles is quite another.  During the ‘90’s we didn’t worry about the lowering quantity and quality because we had dirt cheap oil.  Which both made high tech extraction economically feasible as well as shipping ore across the globe from all other sources previously unexploited.  But when oil peaked for conventional petroleum, several problems cropped up.  The bankers who need increased growth every year ( and growth only comes from surplus energy ) instead saw too much of a decrease, or at least too much of a decrease in the increase of energy supplies every year.  And when we switched over to lower net energy sources ( tar sands, which are little more than a way to turn natural gas into a conventional liquid fuel, and deep water wells and etc. ) we saw the same volume of fuel increase in price as the BTU’s became far more costly to extract.

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There were other knock on effects, but essentially what happened was economic growth crashed and never recovered, and everything cost more in lockstep with energy prices.  Copper prices shot up and hardly ever went back down.  Diffuse ore deposits were more expensive to extract, if they were even worth the effort.  Metal, even iron and steel, went from being too cheap to care if they were thrown away, to becoming very dear and more expensive.  Not to mention transporting them and smelting them imposed more of a cost.  Rimfire went from a frugal shooting past time to an unaffordable wasteful luxury.  You can’t reload rimfire, yo!  For the longest time you couldn’t find the stuff, and when you did you got “lucky” and paid fifteen to twenty cents a round.  It was almost cheaper to get an AK and plink with Russian steel rounds. 

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Rimfire rounds are back in stock but a dime each is a sale if you can find it.  A Rimfire Forever Gun went from $300 to $1300.  Who can afford that?  You can buy a LOT of survival supplies for that, and that includes a firearm that is vastly superior ( although, granted, with less ammo ).  If you are going to pay the money, you want to be able to get a lot more gun for the same price, which is what we cover here.  There are a lot of choices and basically for one to two grand you get a pistol, carbine or rifle and ten thousand rounds.  That number is important.  It is, remember, a Forever Gun.  You can’t just spray and pray and expect your ammunition to last, nor can you buy five hundred rounds of ammunition and expect it to last decades.  Granted, this does NOT speak for your tactics, strategy or luck helping you survive combat.  This is for logistics purposes only.  It assumes you stockpile with paranoia in mind.

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Again, and I repeat, this is a treatise on an OPTIONAL strategy.  I don’t claim this is viable financially for everyone.  I am just saying that if you can afford a bit extra, I’m going to point out how to minimize that extra cost.  Po’ Boy Redneck Survivalists are going to have to be content with their single rifle of war surplus variety, a few hundred rounds of factory ammo and a few reloading components, and hope for the best.  Which should be a priority before you even think of this project.  Once you do embrace it, you need to think about juggling maximum round count, maximum wounding potential, maximum tactical advantage, longest life and most affordable.

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