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REAL PRECIOUS METAL 2
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Keeping in mind all of yesterday’s caveats about extra investing money and priorities, we come back to a theoretical choice between two precious metals.  Silver is at a very low price, due to derivatives markets suppression, and both due to undersupply and hyperinflation ( that is how imperial fiat currency ends, yo ) it will only skyrocket in price from here ( granted, the timeline is unknown ).  Ammunition is at a very low price right now, basically due to a lack of competition for its ingredients from the Chinese as over production meets unemployment globally, and it can only go back up in price from company bankruptcies.  And, I should add, both are very susceptible to political dictates ending supply.

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So, with limited funds, what is the best pick?  They are equally a bargain and equally at their real end as far as affordable investments.  And they each have their down sides.  You can’t defend yourself with silver, and you can’t get emergency funds with ammunition ( when everyone around you has no disposable funds, ammunition is an illiquid asset.  With silver, there will always be a rich buyer somewhere ).  With ammunition, it only generates wealth through battle and theft.  With silver, it is wealth, forever, but only after the threat against you life has subsided.  And, both are equally valuable because at the end of the Oil/Industrial Age neither will ever be produced again.

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I’m not saying “buy both”.  If you were able to do that we wouldn’t be having this discussion.  Since both are invaluable, which do you choose on such limited funds?  Look at it this way.  Right now, the choice is rather obvious, based on utility.  If you bought $200 worth of silver, that is ten ounces, ten bullion coins ( I dislike junk silver.  I don’t believe most people recognize their value over bullion because of my ten years in retail I was able to buy silver from the cash register at face value-it only dried up after Y2K-showing few folks are aware of silver in old coins.  The experts, those assigning value to silver in trade, won’t care about the difference either.  If anything, they assign more value to bullion for its ease of trade.  It doesn’t have to be weighed and then its silver content calculated ).

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As dirt cheap as silver is ( some think it should be on parity with gold, given the state of its supply.  That goes a bit too far, but considering how low the gold price is in its suppressed price from the central bankers, even if silver was one tenth the price it isn’t inconceivable to believe $500 or even $1,000 silver might be possible today, prior to serious inflation ), it is still a bet on value.  Ammunition on the other hand, is a bet on your life if you don’t have it.  Granted, silver is essentially indestructible and ammunition is perishable eventually even if you don’t use it up, so this is in part a apples to oranges comparison.

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But for that mere ten ounces, you can buy at a minimum of one thousand rounds of ammunition and up to three thousand depending on your reloading skill.  If you’ll pardon the pun, that is a heck of a lot more bang for your buck than silver.  Especially considering that most minions probably are as stocked in ammo as they are in food ( ie, not enough ), three thousand rounds are the bomb-diggity.  Silver is easy enough to calculate.  It is about a buck over spot price for the dealer fee and about a buck to charge and ship it.  It went down recently, but even so about $20 an ounce delivered isn’t too far off.  What about the ammo calculation?

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A thousand rounds is steel cased carbine rounds.  I wouldn’t recommend it, as most folks seem to agree that it does corrode the barrel even if it shouldn’t and that it really kind of sucks in accuracy.  Not that I think it would matter unduly if you are in terrain that gives you a max of 100 yards shooting.  And we’ve talked about reloading.  You can do so with steel, as it is more pliable than brass due to its manufacturing method.  You just can’t reload for guns that need the case to expand to seal the chamber ( such as war surplus-modern guns are fine as they are engineered to closer specs ).  I’d also beware the extraction issue.  I refuse to use steel on my Enfield.  They are too rare now to take a chance ( and the spare parts-wow! The difference ten years makes ).  Again, modern guns are fine in that aspect.  So, steel is fine for some but not others.

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If you do reload, I can only recommend reloading carbine rounds, even for your old full thirty cal guns.  As per a Brownie Point Award Winning minions knowledge, you can use Red Dot shotgun powder in battle rifle cases, if the bullet is a pistol round.  Use 13g of powder and you’ll get over 500 rounds per pound of powder ( the article is at Cast Bullet Assoc Dot Org, titled ‘“The Load“ Is 13 Grains Of Red Dot‘ ).  As a bonus, shotgun powder is $20 a pound rather than $30 a pound rifle powder.  No, this isn’t ideal, but at its cheapest with you casting the bullets it is also as low as seven to nine cents each-assuming the case stays reusable given the lesser amount of abuse.  Even if you must buy the bullets you are looking at around 17cent a round. 

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Not a great savings over factory rounds, which is why they are such a siren song buy, but great for those of us used to buying 50-70 cent 30 cal battle rifle ammo.  It turns those battle rifles into carbines.  If you are going with “The Load”, experiment sooner rather than later.  I heard bad things about the 7.62x39 cast bullet mold, for instance.  Not enough grip and the bullets fly wild.  The 32 ACP mold seems to work better.  But you want to try it out yourself obviously ( the two bullets would be what I would use for my 303British ).  I’m not saying I’d prefer to reduce my rifle load, grant you.  I am saying that five  times the ammo for the same powder cost is worth the sacrifice in power and range.  Nothing is free, especially not lunch.  When you lose your Oil Age, sacrifices must be made.

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In the end, ammunition is a consumable and silver is a investment in wealth preservation.  But in uncertain times, that consumable is more valuable as it saves your life.  Thousands of rounds of ammo is more valuable than thousands of dollars worth of stored wealth, when the ass falls out of your civilization.  Essentially, you have to give up on the concept of wealth.  That is tough for most, given the last hundred years of extreme surplus we had the option of investing in the growth of wealth.  NOT a historical norm.  Continuing and Concluding tomorrow.

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