battle rifle book 4

BATTLE RIFLE BOOK 4

MILITARY V SURVIVALIST

Let me tell you a little story.  Once upon a time, the military got a huge amount of wood thinking about caseless ammunition.  Oy, the wonderfulness that was caseless.  So many problems we can solve!  Aaaannnddd…it’s gone.  Caseless was never feasible, even though God knows how much research money was stuffed down that rat hole.  We spend a trillion a year on the military and paying the central bank interest on the money we borrow for the military, and we get wasted efforts in all kinds of weapons that were complete hunks of crap.  At least caseless assault carbines were a relatively low amount compared to joint service arm aircraft or invisible boats.

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My point here is that you get to fight with what you have, not with what you want.  Seeking perfection, in a mate or in a weapon, is largely a waste of time.  You simply pick the attributes you desire and try to maximize them whilst also trying to minimize the drawbacks.  It is all about compromise.  Having said that, some things don’t get to be an option.  Like logistics.  You get to use the logistics you have, not those you want.  And guess what, Scooby?  You can want all day to wildly spray and pray, for whatever reason ( zombies!  Mobs! Attacking dog pack! ), but if the logistics of the apocalypse dictate you’ll rapidly run out of ammunition doing that, you need to change your tactics to what you get rather than what you want.

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Think about ancient dudes tracking down and killing a lion.  With spears.  I can hear the preppers now. “What is their life worth?  They should invent guns”, “They need rapid fire spears, like a crossbow with a magazine”, “a bow would be a much better weapon” and similar wishful thinking claptrap.  Okay, the dudes had spears.  What did they do?  They developed tactics to go along with their realistic weapons.

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Bringing an assault carbine, or for that matter a battle full thirty rifle without much ammunition, to an apocalypse is NOT optimal.  Like using a spear on a lion.  But that is what you have.  So change your tactics to reflect the fact that all the ammunition ever manufactured up until Day One of the apocalypse is all the ammo that will ever be manufactured ( no, Spanky, I don’t think the collapse will be a militia porn fight subsidized by the Chinese.  They will collapse as well.  And no, you cannot make your own smokeless powder or primers in quantity if at all ).  It would be as retarded as a PC minority CongressCritter trying to vote out reality.

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The military fights an Oil Age war.  That is essentially the war perfected by the Federalist during the War Of Northern Aggression, and blindly followed ever since ( at first powered by wood and coal and water ).  Tons of factories churn out tons of crap to equip tons of cannon fodder conscripts ( even if the kinder, gentler conscription is voluntary in the sense you create conditions of poverty and then offer exactly one military service remedy to flee that condition ) and through frontal assault waves you overpower the enemy with superior industrial output and population.  For simplicities sake, call it Second Generational Warfare.

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The personal firearms these troops use reflect that Industrial Oil Age perfectly.  They started out by using a horse killing round and rifle, added a bayonet to it and then fought a war against artillery with anti-cavalry weapons.  It was quickly realized that you need volume of fire, along with more distance than the end of a modern spear.  Submachineguns fit the bill nicely.  The thing was, that was the only option, because metal strength hadn’t caught up to larger powered cartridges.  So you had either a pistol round or an old one thousand yard anti-horse round.  The reason the BAR was 30-06 wasn’t because you needed that power in the trenches, it was because that was what you had on offer besides the too short of range Thompson or 12 gauge ( the BAR was a mobile Maxim ). 

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In the middle of a war or mobilization once the powers that be panicked and realized their loans were in danger of not being paid back if the borrower lost their war, you fight with what is available.  So in the next war, you STILL had troops using rifles designed to fight cavalry or full auto guns only capable of using pistol ammo ( or semi’s using anti-horse rounds that needed to be bulky and heavy to contain the power of detonation within primitive steel ).  Demonstrated by personal preference from the boots on the ground, the submachinegun won out.  It was a terrible weapon with many issues, but it was the less worst choice.

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Mass firepower won the fight.  Logistics capable of providing that mass firepower won the war.  Marksmanship didn’t matter in this kind of fight.  Walls of lead did.  The only advancement after this was that a more realistic round was developed.  You no longer needed to stop cavalry.  The full size round was obsolete from inception due to that one issue.  Range was not an obvious advantage because it was just mass volley fire and artillery was superior.  Squad automatic weapons retained that round, and to good effect, but only as used when artillery wasn’t ( obviously it is great for anti-personnel use, but you don’t necessarily need a full powered round for that.  Grenades can penetrate barriers better ).

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So, for 70 years, we have been fighting the same war.  Mass firepower backed by superior logistics based solely on oil.  And all the preppers want to fight that last war.  I can understand the glacier speed in the military adapting to changing circumstances.  They not only preach about fighting the last war, they defend their tactics to the last man.  I would wish upon a falling star that the individuals tasked with their own defense would be a little smarter and a bit more flexible than  that.  Logistically, you will have ZERO ability to fight the last war, the war of mass industrialization. 

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You don’t need rifles that will mow down horses and you don’t need carbines that will spew walls of lead.  You need a weapon that will kill your enemy, but while conserving ammunition.  Because I am a swell guy, I tried to help you all out by suggesting a bolt action will intrinsically save the ammunition for you.  I tried to explain how stress and chemicals your brain secretes will null almost anyone’s ability to practice fire discipline.  No one listened.  Fine, so you stuck with semi-auto’s.  You STILL need to change your tactics to conserve ammunition, and BEFORE you start running out.  It is easy peasy lemon squizey to figure out.  You cannot fight the last war.  And war is changing.  You get ahead of the curve or you  go off the cliff.

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Some folks can stockpile enough ammo that all the above doesn’t matter.  Very few.  If they also can’t buy the equivalent amount of food, they die anyway.  The rest of us of realistic budgetary means need to change tactics, and use the gun we have available regardless how well suited it is.  Tactics trump weapons.  Most prepper choose the weapon they want based on the tactics they want to employ.  Which are inevitable military tactics from the last war.  I advise taking the weapon you can and using it smarter.  Which means conserving a rapidly depleting resource ( ammunition ). 

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