21st century mosin 2

21^st CENTURY MOSIN 2

Remember, even the poorest person deserves to defend themselves.  All those monkey meat mouthers that banned Saturday Night Specials are directly responsible for killing off poor Black ghetto residents.  If the politicians playing Lucifer’s Proctologist hadn’t banned Chinese military arms from entering this country, I’m going to guess a SKS would be about $200 right now, with an AK half again as much.  Were they vile pieces of crap?  Of course they were.  That certainly is NOT the point.  The point is that they would have lasted long enough to get the job done.  They weren’t going to be used on a campaign.

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The Chinese SKS was crap.  Anyone buying one today, even if they are half the price of Eastern European ones, needs to seriously rethink what else he can get for the same money. A $289 AR-15 is also going to be a piece of crap.  Too many parts are proprietary rather than Mil-Spec, and you are looking at corners cut on every part.  The old $79 Mosin-Nagant was a piece of crap.  They had no gas bleed and they were only good in the Arctic because the bolt was just as “easy” to work there as in the tropics ( “easy” meaning “slow and difficult” ).

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But that is NOT the point.  A cheap Chinese SKS, a Mosin-Nagant and a sub-$300 AR are all Butter Knife Guns.  You just need to use them long enough to get a superior weapon from the enemy ( so named from the urban myth of the ghetto paramilitary forces being given sharpened butter knives to go kill a Honky-Mo-Fo for a real weapon ).  A zip-gun, a Saturday Night Special and a Butter Knife Gun are all worthless RELATIVELY speaking.  But they are a means to an end.

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That is why they must be made illegal.  Or, if that isn’t possible, so expensive a poor person cannot afford it.  Which is why you should be looking at buying your Generic Glock or any AR now.  They are both too cheap for comfort for our elite rulers.  Good gravy, a $200 9mm handgun?  Blood will flow on the streets!  The problem isn’t that an AR is semi-automatic, the problem is that it is too cheap.  Guns being legal aren’t going to do too many people any favors if they are so expensive that only a few can afford them. 

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So, if all you can afford is a hunk of crap AR, buy it anyway.  Then, don’t be a dumbass.  Don’t use it like it is a $1,000 version.  Don’t get too close and spray and pray.  Get the hell back three hundred yards, have a scope ( even if it is $20 https://amzn.to/2PiQ5mJ , just buy more than one as a back up ), and fire slowly.  Conserve ammo.  Don’t worry if it jams.  You aren’t so close as for that to be dangerous.  Adapt the tactics to your weapon, don’t buy the weapon that supports your idea of tactics.

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If you had a muzzleloader, the idea was to snipe at Indians from a hundred yards.  You tried to stay out of the thirty yard range of their bows, since they had rapid fire.  Get it?  A bolt action is fine.  Just stay out of situations that need semi-auto.  Or, if you might get in that situation against your plans, because of terrain, have a rapid fire pistol as back-up ( the weight savings of lack of extra rifle ammo and magazines allows the pistol, and you still come out weight savings positive ). 

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Be flexible with your tactics, rather than inflexible with your choice of weapon. You only have a one shot rimfire rifle ( click here ) that cost $120, and you add a $20 scope, you still have an ambush weapon.  The way I see it, most of the distain for cheap AR’s is in fact justified, BUT!  There will always be a bit of class warfare thrown in there.  The survivalist mindset for far too long has been “what is your life worth?”, which on the face is true but which hides a bit of Peacock Feathering. 

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In one way, the crappier your gun the safer you will be.  I’m not speaking of a craftsman with the best tool.  If you are practiced and talented, expensive tools pay. If you are a normal schlub with close to crap for fighting skills, expensive tools are not only a waste, they blind you to the fact that a tool is no better than its user.  The average shooter wastes a one inch MOA rifle through lack of skill.  Or a $1,000 AR-15.  AVERAGE, I reiterate.  The average talent with a crappy gun will NEVER mistake tool for talent.

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But the average shooter with too much gun will grant his inanimate object talisman powers.  He becomes complacent.  Well, obviously, the “too little’ers” have to be aware when their gun is crap, which the joke mentioned in yesterday’s post eludes to ( “they vowed worked as good as a quality build” ), so having a butter knife guns also requires self-awareness.  If I had a crappy little .25 caliber pot metal pistol, I would only use it within three feet and only expect one shot ( and I would prefer it to be to the back of the head ).

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Do I advise crappy guns?  No.  Sure, I own a Taurus, but I wouldn’t have bought something crappier.  I try for the “middlin” guns, the low end of acceptable quality, but not sub-quality.  The trick is to know the difference.  There are only a few truly awful AR’s.  Even just $50 can make a huge difference.  That one Sportsman’s was selling that had an UPPER of polymer?  WHAT?  Who would trust that?  I don’t want a poly lower, either, but if they are cheap enough they will do, barely.  With a middlin AR, the trick is just to operate with distance as your friend.  Same as with a bolt gun.

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Usually, those that ask, “what is your life worth”, are One Trick Ponies.  They think guns are Job One.  They focus far too much on weapons.  When you see Food Is First, you know how important it is to spend less on guns and more on food.  Because a crappy gun and lots of food gives you a better chance than a perfect gun and too little food.  That this is so obvious, and yet obviously ignored by most “survivalists”, is amazing to me.  It tells me they don’t REALLY believe in a collapse.

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They believe in fairy tales of glittery unicorns, used as pack mules to transport semi-auto weapons and lots of ammunition.  With an MRE thrown on top to reward yourself after the days multiple firefights.  Don’t mistreat unicorns like that!  Bad Minion!  I’d say, “no biscuit for you”, but that would imply you thought food was important.  And, no, I don’t mean to imply you shouldn’t strive for the best weapon.  I just want you to prioritize.  Better Than Nothing weapons, lots of food, more ammunition, a lot more food, THEN, then you can go crazy on expensive guns.

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note: KU books.  I didn't care for the style, but all subjects are broken down in short snippits.  Guerrilla war here .  An interesting take on non-Yuppie homesteading, family moves to the wilds of northern California in the sixties here .
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note: for what it is worth, after viewing a video.  Disposable battery cost effectiveness.  Yes, I know, only for non-critical, heavy short term use items.  Panasonic might only get one quarter the time in use compared to high end name brand, but is the second best run time per dollar.  Sunbeam is the best.  Both at the dollar store.  If memory serves it was 6cents an hour Sunbeam, 9cents Panasonic, and the premium brands started at about 18cents an hour cost.  So, Energizer for the FLIR scope and Sunbeam for the TV remote.
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note: I'm not trying to replace the Free Books with the KU Books. I haven't even decided if I'll keep KU at the end of the trial.  There just hasn't been all that many PA books offered for free lately.  Hang in there.
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