the forever gun book 9

THE FOREVER GUN BOOK 9

32 ACP

It seems like you will be facing an uphill battle to spend anything less than a thousand bucks on a Forever Gun with its ammunition.  Even the flintlock rifle is going to cost about that much.  Same with a percussion ( with the kit for making your own caps from aluminum cans and one penny each chemical drops ) to simplify the ignition system and make it weatherproof is still about that much ( $700 for a rifle kit, $300 for the percussion cap kit and 20k’s worth of cap chemicals which should equal the “forever” aspect of a flintlock ).  If you already own a Lee-Enfield, a Mosin-Nagant, a 30/30 or a 308, you have the additional option of going with a 32 ACP round by purchasing chamber adaptors.  You still spend the same, but most of the cost is in ammunition.  For the same price, smokeless rather than black powder.  Much quicker to reload along with the other benefits of modern arms.  You will spend about double for the reloading machines ( you need the conventional loading die so must go with the next step up from the Lee Loader ), and the brass is 17 cents, but you are still looking at $1k for the machines and mold, and ten thousand reloads ( as well as several of the chamber adaptors ).

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I have no experience with adaptors.  At the time I became seriously interested in them, you couldn’t sell your first born for 32 ACP ammunition, any primers or powder ( which is a situation which can easily be repeated at any time-so never, ever, never procrastinate on prep items again.  Rice, eggs, antifreeze-anything can disappear from retail shelves instantly with our combination of JIT inventory, Malthusian reality and  centralized corporate controls.   All ammunition and components face political pressure, as well ).  But it is easy enough to buy a single adaptor and one box of ammunition and test out for yourself if the concept is valid.  $30-$45 is not an expensive experiment.  To get the 30/30 or 308 adaptor, you want to buy from the guy up in Alaska ( he used to sell a 7.62x39 in 303 adaptor but dropped that offering.  I imagine the commie steel ammo had too high of pressure and kept breaking the adaptor and he was losing money on it ), MCA Sports/Ace Bullet Company. 

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If you have the British or Russian bolt action, you can buy the adaptor through Sportsman’s Guide.  Those are $15 ( the Alaskan ones are $30 or so ).  Now, of course, not everyone has an extra grand lounging around waiting to be spent on more prepping gear.  Just as with the 9mm, you can buy lesser amounts at one time.  I don’t advise it, but nobody is going to accuse me of assuming my readers are filthy rich and can splurge of spending.  It may be a mistake to assume we have far more time than you need to prep before the end, but it is equally silly to assume it is all going to end tomorrow.  Don’t be a dumbass and sell your house, give up your job, max your credit cards and throw caution to the winds.  Just don’t listen to the experts blowing noxious gases out of their backside promising you we have twenty years before anything bad happens ( or, assuming this Depression will ever end ).  Try to set your expectations somewhere in the middle.  You’ll have tomorrow to prep, but also don’t assume you have next year to do the same.

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If you never get all ten thousand reloads, it isn’t like you are guaranteed to automatically die from lack of preps.  All the supplies in the world are useless to you if you don’t do your part in not acting stupid.  So, More only helps if you help yourself.  A basement full of food shouldn’t be located in a major metro area.  If you can’t afford ten thousand reloads, set your sights lower.  I would recommend you wait until you can buy however much at one time, of course.  Do to the length of the last shortage of reloading supplies, and due to the upcoming elections ( I normally don’t listen to Fear Porn artists insisting our guns are just about to be confiscated-folks like the NRA make a lot of money doing that.  Obammy didn’t mess with our guns [ even if his cronies at the state level did ] for eight years.  On the other hand, Clinton has a history of actual gun control.  I’m not panicking, but neither am I not going to assume bad things ), I think it is a bad idea to start a arsenal and then stop, waiting until a future time.  There might never be a future to complete it. 

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I’m also a proponent of buying tangibles rather than having too much cash in savings.  Cash loses value, supplies on hand do not.  But that doesn’t mean you panic and buy unwisely, just to get rid of the cash ( and don’t take this to mean you need zero savings.  I’m saying TOO MUCH is bad.  You still need some for unemployment and sales ).  Save for a short time, see what is happening, then invest.  If you bought $500 in guns and then only had a few hundred rounds of ammo, then there was no more at all, you wasted your money.  Ammo is far more important than guns.  You can always find more guns, but ammo is a fixed commodity used rapidly and not to be replaced ( in the near future ).  Panicking isn’t necessarily bad.  Things are guaranteed to get a lot worse a lot quicker than most want to admit.  But you need to panic rationally, not blindly.  The idiots with a quarter million dollar McMansion and SUV, one paycheck from bankruptcy, those are ones who will panic blindly.  You are supposed to be a little better than that.

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