BATTLE RIFLE BOOK 5
ONE IS NONE
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Whoever articulated the
saying “Two is one, one is none” for survivalism ( I don’t know if Rawles
popularized or originated the saying. I
know we’ve discussed it before, it just escapes me right now. Rawles used to be sometimes insufferable but
necessary. He was the source of much
good information. He was an example of
how to do the Yuppie Scum Survivalist lifestyle. Then, somewhere, he jumped the shark ) was a
bloody genius. Bumper sticker wisdom is
so good because it encapsulates life lessons in easy to understand and
memorized forms. Pithy is good. Like, “crap the bed”. “Don’t soil your own nest”. “Don’t crap where you eat”. We all know what they mean, and keeping them
in mind saves you lifetimes worth of grief.
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One rather underreported
aspect of choosing the best firearm for the apocalypse is One Is None. If you don’t want to lose your Survivalist
Union card, you’ve seen the Walter Mathou and Robin Williams movie on the
industry. During a firefight, of rather
Three Stooges levels of skill, Robin’s rather expensive Italian Assault Carbine
takes a bullet to the barrel and bends it.
He then proceeds to yell as his opponent about this financial
catastrophe. Most folks would probably
watch this scene and say something to the effect “damn, good thing he always
carried his handy dandy Colt 45 1911A1 as a back-up gun!”.
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My first, and last,
reaction ( I’ve seen the movie far more than is healthy ), is NOT to want to
carry another gun ( hello, anyone home?
Light infantry is irregular warfare is less chance of getting killed
). It is to fear that whatever rifle I
have will be damaged. If you own one
rifle, no matter how good, it is NONE rifle.
No matter what rifle I’ve ever owned, I own more than one of. It is a good thing I saw this movie prior to
beginning prepping. Way before I heard
the One Is None saying, by decades. The
movie really is genius. It pokes fun of
the prepping industry and the practices it teaches, without being belittling or
dismissive as is the normal wont.
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Simply, you cannot prep by
buying your snazzle dazzle combat rifle you‘ve saved up for forever. You must prep by buying multiple copies of an
affordable choice weapon. Back-ups to
your back-ups. If you don’t, you are
setting yourself up for failure. So One
Is None, coupled with the reality of most people having little budget for
survivalism means that you can’t pick one of The Best. You pick what is in your budget, for multiple
units. To do otherwise is retarded. Darwin Award levels of retarded. Don’t impress me with what kind of rifle you
own. Impress me with how many. Of the same kind. Duh.
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Want a super duper AR-15
so you can go all Robert Urich on everyone?
Fine. How much money do you
have? The better version might be $2k ( and
the AR has advantages in spare parts no other firearm does, and makes this a
bit less scary, but we cover that in its own section ), but if you can only
afford multiples of the $700 gun, that is what you need to focus on. I make no claims to their desirability (
again, in its own section ), but that is the reality sandwich you can afford (
another classic pithy wisdom “Life is a crap sandwich. The more bread you got the less feces you
have to eat” Said less politely, as with the other sayings, obviously. Spin it through Sailor Talk for true
translation ).
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You’ll hear folks make
comments to the effect that if you don’t abuse your firearm you don’t have to
worry about replacements. This folks
have never been parents. Kids are
accident magnets. They just happen. Or, how about if you’ve ever gotten
drunk? Same difference. In the field-even forgetting about
combat-after fatigue and exposure to the elements, mistakes are going to
happen. To expect otherwise is just
silly. Are we not survivalists? Do we not assume worst case scenarios?
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You can’t always have
three of everything, but you certainly can’t have just one. This is just common sense for an apocalypse
where there is no trade and no industry, no power and you are responsible for
your own defense. Hell, you are
responsible for that now and you just don’t realize it. Not just against criminals but also foreign
enemies ( no, not terrorists. Those are
a creation of nation states, supported by or created in a False Flag attack,
and hence just an irregular part of opposing state militaries. Do you honest Injun think out government will
protect you against nuclear attack after they screw with the wrong
country? Or from foreign invasion, even
though, really, who wants this craphole? ).
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Being responsible for your
own defense, yes, you must spend more than you would like. After all, a good portion of your pay goes to
taxes to pay for the Defenseless Department, money spent only to feather the
nests of industrialists or bankers. Not
for your protection ( the one aspect of true defense, a nuclear umbrella, has
been allowed to deteriorate shamefully ).
So, it is a double tax. You’ll
just need to be smart about how you spend what is left. And part of that is planning ahead for the
unexpected. Like, will parts be
available. Will ammo be available. Might this be the last gun I can buy due to
unemployment. And, obviously, what if my
rifle breaks and repair or replacement is impossible. One Is None insures against a lot of
variables.
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Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI hate the whole "budget" thing, when it comes to necessities, priorities. It's such a subjective subject and everybody has their own idea of what is important so it really has no bearing on anything. What YOU think is important may not be to me, and vice versa. But yeah, 1 is nun. May as well just carry a pocket knife and forget reality.
I have a few dozen guns but only multiples of 1. Remington 700. I have 4 but not identical, and I haven't shot them for a few years (though I should) since I got out of long range shooting. (the land we had been using for up to 3,000 ft shots was sold and no one has found new big ground to shoot on so we don't. available flat land over 1000 ft long is rare around these parts)
Since last weeks delivery of another 16" AR barrel I have enough parts to construct 3 more, cept for the lowers. I don't want to buy any more registered lowers so I've been watching for used ones but they are rarer than hens ballz.
I'm also sort of shopping for a Ruger 10/22, Ruger Mark .22 pistol, and a .357 revolver and maybe another Rem 870. Used, new, I don't care, as long as they are in decent shape.
What about drilling out your own 80% lower? I'm the worlds biggest clutz mechanically but I'd consider it myself. Really, that option gives the AR a huge boost in much needed desirability as far as choosing a combat gun.
DeleteBe gray man and plan road trip to a city gun show, buy from privateer. Have cash, wear big boy pants, scoop up some deals. Gonna have to get street smarts and snaggle up some gats. Don't act like guns are all religous artifacts in a cloistered priest's sex toy drawer. Gear up.
DeleteSex toy drawer. Ha! Good 'un.
DeleteLast year I went to a gun show and 2 minutes after entering, and paying the enter fee, a nitwit swung a gun past me. It'd been 10 years since I went to a show and apparently the entire world, including gun shows, has went completely retard, so I doubt I'll ever go again. I am a member of InGo a statewide gun club and they frequently have people selling parts but every time I see a decent lower it is gone in seconds.
DeleteBut yeah Jim, I'm gonna look into that 80% lower stuff. FWIW, Amer Digest had a link to this place today and I downloaded a couple hundred MB's of files for "printing" the parts. My son is a programmer and owns several CNC routers so maybe I can get some benefit out of him. http://www.codeisfreespeech.com/
Much better to have the computer print the lower. Drill pressing one sounds like a supreme PITA, and the pour lowers are far from cheap or assured. But I'd be making my own 80%'ers all day long before I'd buy a POS private sale gun ( not that we can any more-but there wasn't much available when we could anyway ).
DeleteLearn to use a drill press and get 80% aluminum lowers. Get the kind with the buffer tube hole threads already tapped. Plastic lowers will break. Usually just forward of the buffer tube. Alternatively just buy them whole from a FFL and don't be so paranoid that out of bazillions of guns they will want yours.
DeleteI've never been a huge worrier about gun confiscation. However, that said, sometimes you need to be more paranoid than logic dictates. Like owning junk land to have a legal squat. They may never find you hidden out in the bush. But why take the chance? Same with guns. They might never confiscate. But why take the chance? Doing the 80%'ers are relatively cheap.
DeleteIn almost all aspects ,I adhere to the one is none train of thought. Though not always in duplicate weapons, rather having multiple weapons of the same calber ammo.
ReplyDeleteTake the .22 lr, I've got revolvers, semi pistols and rifles which all use the same bullet. Makes it a great caliber to hoard.
Nothing wrong with having only one of something, so long as you've got other choices in reserve.
Yes, fair point.
DeleteHaving multiple firearms of the same type is frowned upon in Dingoland. One guy I know was asked to justify why he had so many .303's Luckily for him he said "Mark 1, mark 2, mark 3" then moved onto manufacturers. Err OK said weapons licencing.
ReplyDeleteMultiple firearms of the same calibre are also frowned upon. Fortunately we're talking many guns not two or three.
Right, you just need two or three. No need to go all Gun Fag and exceed the number of windows in your house.
DeleteWhoa there Bison! Three guns per window is the standard operating procedure here in 'Merica. If them Minions would put down the marijuana bong, stop diddling with pornography, refrain from gluttonous ingestion of food by-products, they can stock up for an armory like rack of AR-15s. Why reload? Grab a spare gun, it is depicted just as such in the movies.
DeleteFood like corn shapes don't go with weed like chocolate, but your mileage may vary. I haven't gotten stoned since I started breeding. Even though it is legal again, meh.
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@ Anon 4:22 "rack of AR-15s"
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Yes Jim. Minions are advised to stay with the duplicate examples of said armaments. It is better for memory retention of the manual of arms and related accessories. Don't get all queer about latest offering from big gun company. They will be recalled anyway. Stay with mainline military armaments seen carried by multiple national ballers. If Minions are dedicated and worthy of inclusion, they will get r done, and have racks of rifles with related load out kit staged and ready to go. Either have skin in the game or just stay on the porch and stay off the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteEvery porch comes standard with keyboard. Guttenberg is rolling in his grave.
DeleteI suppose you really can’t go wrong with either the .22LR or the 12ga, so having multiples of each, or steel pipe of the proper diameter to produce them isn’t such a bad idea. These two are probably the most common chambering out there, and even if you go into a small town store with very limited ammo options, they will at least have these two rounds. I’ve also come across many more .22 and 12ga hulls in the field, then any other caliber, but be sure that the plastic still has its pliability prior to attempting a reload. Not really big on the idea of the reloading kit for the .22LR, but some states (such as the leftwing shithole that I reside in) have placed restrictions on buying ammo. In this latter scenario, the .22 reloading kit might not be such a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteThe .22 is not an ideal defense round by any means, but neither was the old .41 rimfire used in the old timey derringers, and carried by the gamblers, ladies, and others of the day, that wanted a low key EDC option. Perhaps you weren’t as worried about being killed outright, but it didn’t matter, because it was often a death sentence by sepsis, just the same as it will be post apocalypse.
If you need a battle rifle round, then I’d say that the .223 is the most practical caliber due to mass availability.
The AR is standard and as common as 12g, 22 or back when the 30/30, near enough. Of course, look what used to be standard for the Italians :)
DeleteFinnish, not Italian. Valmet M76F. :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Survivors
Damn, I could have sworn he said Italian as he was talking to his girlfriend about his new passion. Well, it has been 15 years since I've seen it. I just ordered a used DVD-you are forcing me to re-watch :) Not because I want to prove you wrong, but because now it will bug me until I find out one way or another.
DeleteIf a minion is working on the "one gun" plan due to poverty or lack of other capacity (storage, etc.), he can get a pretty good "repair kit" going for the likely-to-break (lose) or wear-out items. First of all, get a set of basic tools to do an "armorer" disassembly for deep cleaning and repair. Get exploded diagram showing how things go together, so you don't mis-re-assemble while tired. The US Army manuals are really good for this because they are aimed at teaching the least-adept of their acceptable recruits (which is you when tired-hungry-stressed). The Army compatibility, accessories, and training manuals make models like M-9 (Beretta 92xx) and M16 (AR-15) more useful than they seem on initial use. Things that break are moving things like trigger groups, bolt- parts, handles, magazines, releases, gas tube, stock (epoxy?), and their associated springs/screws/pins. Imagine dropping small parts in a crushed gravel driveway and trying to find them in the dark with a headlamp (while needing to pee and having hostiles nearby). This is why we use a pan and a scarf over the work area, and have spares of tiny and springy things.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't afford gun #2, at least get some packs of spare parts for The Gun. You may luck-out and find a broken gun that can be fixed by your parts (whooo-hoo, second gun!), or be able to fix your not-very-broken gun.
I like the Ruger Mk3 pistol, with an aftermarket takedown kit. It is a little heavy, with the bull barrel. Ruger SR-22 is a great little toy pistol, that I have not yet figured how to disable the magazine disconnect on. Both are accurate-light-handy, with expensive 10-round-only magazines.
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I think the AR does get a leg up here as the parts are dirt cheap, as is a complete kit minus a lower receiver. One of the few guns now this is possible with. But although easy to fix and cheap, it is also easy to break so I wouldn't be comfortable without at least one gun and two complete parts kits ( with two minor kits with most wearable items ). When I started buying Enfields it was cheaper buying another gun instead of spare parts. The good old days.
DeleteGood thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThough I'll stick with my Marlin 336 in 30.30.
Can get them cheap, even older makes. Picked up a like new 1971 gold trigger w/ scope for $400 Shipped.
Can find them every where in Michigan along with the ammo.
Believe me, I don't actually LIKE the fact that the AR is the de facto replacement carbine. If you can make anything else work for you, I think you are better off.
DeleteI’ve had pretty good luck with guns, as far as not breaking any parts. I think that the only gun that I had a part break on was my 1978 Stevens 12ga single shot. The hammer appears to have been cast, and the spur snapped off one day. But I had shot the hell out of it up until that point. Now by the time that 1978 had rolled around, you were starting to see shoddy workmanship on guns. My Stevens shotgun also had a plastic trigger guard and a barrel release. But to be fair, it was high impact plastic, and to this day it’s still intact.
ReplyDeleteI suppose that my advice would be to stay with something simple if at all possible. Something like a single shot will have less moving parts. A revolver such as the Ruger single action, uses coil springs, as opposed to the flat springs that the old Colts, and many others use (which break a lot). Never had a problem with a Ruger single action.
Butt simple is good for everything, not just guns. But you can get TOO simple. A single shot is way less accurate than a bolt ( unless you spend big bucks ), and a single speed cruiser hauls far more gear than a unicycle.
Delete“A single shot is way less accurate than a bolt”
DeleteI’m not sure if I’m following you Jim? My very first .22 was a single shot bolt action. The only other single shot .22’s that I’m aware of would be either a rolling block, or maybe a break action. In the latter case, with the break action, I could see that as being the case. But the rolling block would probably be just as accurate as a bolt action.
I see that I was too caliber specific in my last comment, so allow me to clarify a little. The only single shots in any caliber that I’m aware of are bolt actions, falling/rolling blocks, and the break action. In the case of the break action, I can see it being less accurate than the others. But if you’re talking about ranges of a few hundred yards or less, I doubt that you would notice much of a difference in accuracy.
DeleteYeah, that was my bad. Should have been "break open". And yes, it would depend on range.
DeleteFor dollar-cheapness while valuing your time at nothing, a .22lr "ghost gun" pistol with a button-rifled barrel and thread-on action (one-shot with very-slow reloading) could be useful in a food-gathering or "Liberator" situation. It might be reasonably accurate as well as not very loud if rifled to optimize a heavy (60+ grain) .22 bullet loaded maximum. The action has no reciprocation and so would be a click. Pull-ring for a second strike on the primer? Second shot would be a second pistol (which is unlikely). The action might be inspired by a gopher trap. If folks are reduced to this, it's probably a generation past digging up the rifles.
DeleteSounds like a nice rainy day project.
DeleteSavage "Rascal" single-shot bolt-.22lr Youth carbine is $149 retail in Portland Bi-Mart. You can spend more on a mag-fed .22 with a more convenient scope-mount system and precision stick, but I betcha it's way heavier. The limitations of the cartridge make me want to stick to adjustable peep sight for cheapness and durability. You aren't going to be shooting at 200M+, more likely 10-80M where you just need one good eye.
ReplyDeleteDo any come with peeps? Seems most are conventional crap sites.
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