the forever gun book 7

THE FOREVER GUN BOOK 7

SALVAGE OPTION

The next chapter will cover the costs of 9mm reloads but here I’d like to take a short detour and cover another possibility.  It isn’t as secure as a large part will be scavenging/salvage ( always a risky business as you won’t be repeating some dubious plot line from a cheesy ‘80’s survivalist pulp series and be hopping and skipping down the road and lo and behold there, as if by magic, is an un-looted semi trailer truck full of guns and ammo.  Rather, you’ll most likely be killing your enemies for their ammunition and hence be in a lot more danger ), but if you are leery about relying on cheese dingus rounds of very anemic strength this might be just the ticket for you.  I’m not sure what you’d call this arsenal choice, and believe me that is strange as I simply adore my wit and rarely hesitate to invent more of my own labels.  Perhaps “spoils arsenal”.  You basically just arm yourselves with guns using a caliber in common with your projected enemy.  The trick is, rather than copying his expensive firearms you are just getting a cheap bolt action that fires his round. 

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Have you priced AK-47’s lately?  No longer very affordable.  It is my contention that in a very short period of time Californians bought up all the parts kits so they could have Tupperware style parties where flat pieces of sheet metal were hammered into receivers.  This was a legal way to own a real gun in that state, without paperwork ( just beware that no matter how good that sounds, anything you buy through the mail is recorded by the Feds-so a 1890’s surplus gun, a 80% receiver, a black powder revolver, a modern case insert for same, a flare gun or anything else you buy to “leave no paper trail” isn’t as stealthy as you believe it to be.  The only way is to live in a state that allows paper-less private sales, and for your sake I hope that gun was never owned by someone on a watch list.  If you ever need to use it… ).  As a result, no more parts kits were sold affordably.  Tried finding an SKS?  They have held their value.  In the 1990’s you could buy two Enfield’s for one SKS.  About the same today and that is three times the price.  Thanks Klinton Kunt.

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You can, barely, buy an AR-15 for $500.  I wouldn’t trust them-there were reports of range injuries when substandard parts exploded.  I think I’d be comfortable with a $700 as bare bones and I’d prefer to spend $900 for a long heavy barrel to get a mid range sniper rifle ( the only way an AR is worth half a crap ).  That is not too much more than an AK goes for.  So there are your two firearms your enemy will possess.  FedGov jack booted thugs, and 90% of survivalists ( and, yes, Virginia, other survivalists are your enemy.  The morons bought thirty five different semi-automatic firearms, cases of ammo, and only six months of storage food.  Silly, I know, since you could have bought a $10 bag of flour and doubled the months supply of freeze dried foods, but few put Food First ) have the M-16/AR-15.  There are millions of those plastic poodle shooters out there, and about one months supply of ammunition as the standard, actually, only, tactic with them is to spray and pray.

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You’d think that there wouldn’t be a whole lot of chance of salvaging ammo if all the practitioners plan on ejecting their entire supply of ammunition in one orgasmic display of righteously fearsome sound, but since you have a bolt gun ( or, for that matter, a break-open single shot ) you won’t need that much.  As far as a commie carbine round, the 7.62x39 ( while the Soviets went to a higher velocity round in ‘74, all their satellite countries were still churning out the original long after that.  The ’47 remains the most popular and widely available ), far less survivalists seem to have them, and the odds of the Chinese attacking seems remote.  Every year that passes, the cost of invasion increases as our natural resources are used up further.  Nonetheless, the AK is in a solid second place and having a bolt rifle for that round seems to make sense as the supply should be relatively plentiful ( don’t discount the probability of the Chinese NOT attacking, but supplying partisan groups.  In this case, the rounds supply will exceed the .223 after a short time ).

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A third possibility is 308.  Personally I’ve always felt that the round was given too much fuss by survival writers.  I prefer any thirty caliber to carbine rounds, but I think far too many survivalists get visibly sexually aroused by the touch of AR plastic.  They won’t admit the thing is a turd compared to an HK or FN-FAL or other real gun.  So while the #1 recommendation of the writers, I’m dubious too many are out there.  But, assuming you want one and believe it worthwhile, you could in theory buy all three, the 223, the 7.62x39 and the 308 in bolt guns for barely more than the price of a single AR.  Then you can salvage different rounds from the battlefield.  This is no where near as good as having 10k rounds of 9mm, but it will keep you going far longer than a semi arsenal, plus when you hit someone with it they will react in a more satisfying way.  And, as a bonus, in the meantime you have the option of still buying half price ammo.

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Steel cases for ammunition are not the best deal.  Reloading is better.  Sometimes.  If ammo components are scarce and prices high, steel cased compares favorably.  That is if you can even buy the reload supplies.  For a time, NOBODY had powder or primers.  Expect that to be repeated ( as soon as November 8^th, I might imagine ).  The great thing about a bolt rather than an AR, when it comes to ammunition, is that more often than not the semi hates steel cases.  The bolt does not.  And you will likely run into steel case 223.  To me, with the last eight years of rolling retail shortages, it never makes sense to assume an item won’t disappear from shelves.  Steel cases just give you another option.  Sportsman’s Guide loves to have free shipping sales and you can buy steel cases as cheap there as anywhere else, usually.  Plus they treat their customers correctly.

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The Spoils Arsenal gives you options.  That of course is higher quality rather than better quantity, but if it works for you it might be a solid option.

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