the forever gun book 6

THE FOREVER GUN BOOK 6

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RELOADS V RIMFIRE

Do you recall many times when the military reloads its ammunition?  Me either.  Yet, they use center fire primers.  Not rimfire.  Which are not as reliable.  It is pretty sweet that the military puts so much care and effort into given its troops great ammunition, then gives them a crappy gun to go with it ( I grant you that the original Colt M-16’s were built with abysmal quality control and all of them had severe rusting issues.  You could excuse them for lack of a better break in period.  I’ll grant you that the military keeps making the rifle worse by continually messing with powder types and barrel twists.  That is the Army doing its best to screw up a wet dream.  And I grant you that my issue weapon was an A1 model and so might be excused for jamming constantly.  I’m still not going to willingly bet my life on such a plastic turd ).  But in this case, we could actually learn something from the military ( I usually try to do the exact opposite as it improves my chances of survival ).  Center fire primers are simply better. 

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The problem with the rimfire, from a logistics point of view, was that they were TOO cheap.  From that basis alone every swinging cheese dingus wanna-be “survival expert” heartily recommended them.  You’ve all read the drivel.  You simply MUST have the following “budget” arsenal: semi carbine, semi battle rifle, semi pistols, bolt action sniper, shotgun and rimfire semi and pistol.  Sure, I’ll get right on that.  $3500 total for the cheapest of each type.  Not included are clips or ammunition.  I’d hate to think what they consider an expensive version.  Long ago I fixed my ammunition calibers at a total of three.  Battle bolt, revolver and rimfire.  If I didn’t have rimfire the third would be a pistol round that could fire from a insert in the battle rifle ( more of that to come ).  You know my feelings on semi’s.  But here is my point.  All those “experts” looked on the rimfire as nothing more than larger volumes of fire to be used by petite females and children.  To arm them, sure.  The most vulnerable need protection more than anyone.  But they are/were imprisoned in the semi paradigm.  They either believe all civilization collapses last approximately 365 days, and NO longer, or they think the supply of tree stump remover for alternate reloading supplies is both immense and infinite.  They never thought to conserve rimfire ammunition.

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In and of itself, the rimfire ( and, I suppose I should have reiterated this much sooner, rimfire is both an ignition system AND, as I use it, assumed to be the 22 Long Rifle only ) is really nothing more than a shooting gallery of old re-creation for entertainment purposes only.  It might be lethal but it was never more than a step up from a pellet gun towards the eventual Big Boy guns.  It was mistaken for a survival gun ONLY because the ammunition was so God Awful inexpensive that its only use was to bring forth an alternate source of lead filling the air.  It was a shotgun without the recoil.  Without it being so cheap it should NEVER had made the list of survival guns.  As a forever gun, yes of course.  As a tool to survive the die-off, however, it is nearly worthless.  Now that it is no longer affordable enough to piss away each weekend by the boxful, all of the other factors that make it an inferior round should be taken into consideration. 

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Not only is it’s ignition system less reliable, it can’t really be reloaded ( okay, it CAN be reloaded.  Technically.  You can fudge the process to some degree.  I would hesitate to bet my life on it, unless it is the only alternative with your budget ).  It’s stopping power is crap.  It’s wounding and killing potential is wonderful, given time.  If you plan on ambushing someone, the round is actually great.  Easily suppressed, you can Ninja their ass and escape easy detection.  Then you wait a few days or weeks for them to die of infection and internal injuries.  If you are out in the open, I would be a little less enthused over the caliber.

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Again, it sure beats arrows or muskets.  However, if you are able to afford options, I would suggest to you that almost any center fire pistol round is in itself superior to the rimfire.  Superior reloading ( with more reliable components ).  Superior stopping power ( we are speaking of relatives here.  Nothing stops like a close shotgun slug or a far away thirty caliber battle rifle bullet.  We are not comparing a pistol round to those, only to a rimfire ).  And, sadly, superior finances.  Yes, Virginia, more than likely it will be cheaper to reload a superior pistol round than to buy a factory loaded rimfire.  Sadly, because the era of rimfire is long gone and not coming back.  Ten cents a round for a rimfire, on sale ONLY, verses eight or nine cents every day low prices for reloads ( granted, I don’t factor in lead costs.  Lead is the ONLY reloading item that is low tech.  You can save and salvage and reuse lead all day long with a $40 tool and a fire.  Getting your lead included in the price of rimfire is less of a big deal than you imagine ).

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IF you already own a rimfire firearm, AND you already own a lot of ammo, AND you are too poor to pay attention, a rimfire Forever Gun is just fine and dandy.  If you have yet to own a Forever Gun, and can afford it, I would suggest you strongly consider a pistol center fire round instead of the rimfire.  It is simply a better choice all around.  The rimfire no longer holds the title of Frugal king.  Get updated on your survival/prep advice.

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