quartermaster jim 2

QUARTERMASTER JIM 2

I hope that yesterday you took to heart the governments focus on logistics at the expense of your tactical considerations. So far, you've gotten “lucky” insofar as sometimes the two divergent concerns can coincide. The British upgrading the Lee-Enfield had nothing to do with the troops welfare. They just happened to get a better gun because the new one was faster and cheaper to manufacture, AND being twice as accurate was to the benefit of scarce ammunition supply. The troops in WWII didn't get the tactically improved M1 Carbine for any other reason than it was cheaper to produce and quick, so the military's valuable big weapons could be more effectively protected.

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Troops today “benefit” from the M-16 ( M4, whatever-all same, same, Number Ten Joe ) because the government needs troops to haul larger amounts of ammunition to replace the helicopter resupply they used to employ. The military doesn't care if semi-auto/automatic is better or not, they just cannot change until forced to ( just as they wouldn't change from slow loading single shot marksmen rifles when it benefited their logistics ). You do NOT have that luxury of time, because your troop loses due to equipment issues means YOU die.

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Whenever I discuss bolt actions compared to semi-auto, I always hear the same argument. I'll need semi-auto. I don't disagree with that. It is true. On a tactical level, firepower can save your life. It CAN. It probably won't as 99% of you have never seen combat and you will have no discipline on that trigger. It isn't your fault. Brain chemicals can only be overcome with experience. NOT willpower or any firm convictions to the contrary.

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Now, I could say that for most of you, in a firefight the odds are that more likely than not you just jerk the trigger in a panic and semi-auto helps you naught. But I also understand you feel you'll be in control and I cannot change your mind. You actually think each bullet will hit the enemy rather than trees or rocks. Okay, whatever, dude. Just pretend I don't care and wasn't trying to help. Instead, let's just play with math. How long is your ammunition going to last, dumping mags thirty rounds at a time? Today, ammunition is cheaper than it has been for a very long time, but a mag STILL costs $10 to load.

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How many times can you even afford to do that ( quantity over quality in ammunition is another article. That mag is full of Middlin ammo )? There are a LOT of other prepping supplies to procure. Can you afford the amount of ammunition you'll need on semi-ammo? SOME of you can, and good on you. Most of you cannot. This is NOT a question of need or want. It is a question of ability. Do you have the ability to deep stack the ammunition a semi-auto requires? No problem, you say, I don't need that much. I'll be cool as a cucumber under fire, and just avoid people.

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Wow! Delusional, much? In 1980 we only had 225 million population( I just picked this date as most of us were young adults and fully aware of our surroundings, plus the first wave of OtherColor replacement reproductions had yet to leave school ). Taking into account illegals, we now have a minimum of fifty percent more. That's why every place sucks anymore, even podunk villages. Too many people, everywhere. They are maggots on meat, locusts in the fields. Every single swinging jackass of that excess population WILL be gunning for you.

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The first wave of criminals will deplete your ammunition stockpiles ( despite Virginia, I think the biggest target of Team Blue will be ammunition. Expect many plant closures-”liability concerns”, copper shortages, taxes-and inflated prices and NO MORE AMMO supply ), then the Bugaloo, then warlords fighting for dominance after an ineffectual government retreat, THEN the die off. You have ammo for all that, AND for military actions post-apocalypse? You might say, no biggie, I'll die soon enough. To which I repeat, prepping isn't TO survive, it is in case you happen to survive despite overwhelming odds.

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Survival isn't a stockpiling challenge. It is a cultural challenge. Yes, I know this is about logistics over tactics. What I mean by this, logistics aside for a second, is that you need stuff. You cannot do without tools. What you need, besides JUST stuff, is a completely new attitude. A new cultural paradigm. No more tolerance for bullspit. No more pining for luxuries such as excess income, excess living arrangements, luxury transportation. No more living in a pre-death empire. Semi-auto guns are at heart a talisman of the Old Order, the dead culture of consumption.

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An unwillingness to make ANY sacrifice, be it to adapt a new set of tactics or live in less than perfect shelter or ever bicycle anywhere ( Spud gets a lifetime pass on that, sorry dudes. You get hit by a car and we'll talk ), to do without debt, to acknowledge fracking won't save the day. All these are desperate attempts to cling to a life that is no longer an option. An economy no longer functioning. You are no longer Roman imperial subjects, rather, post-Rome collapse serfs. And you refuse to understand that.

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Did you see the Afghans suffer at the hands of the Soviets, armed with Enfield's rather than AK's? Of course not. They used the tactics that the weapons demanded. They didn't insist on a weapon they could not feed with unrealistic tactics. That is all I'm stipulating with bolt actions over semi's. Your ability to resupply NOW, is not the same as the end of supply later. Things have been changing your whole life, towards the worse. They are getting worse-er, faster. By the time you need ammunition, you probably won't be able to get any more.

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Because I look at events as going Full Apocalyptic, I don't view conflict as tactically driven, but from a viewpoint of logistics. I know I have to choose the danger of being under gunned now, so as to always have enough firepower later, and long after that. I know the argument against that. You have to live now, or extra ammo won't matter later. But, again, those pesky brain chemicals that are biologically impossible to will away. Just as a female cannot “identify” as male, 'cause the bitch is a ho, not a bro, so neither can you pretend adrenaline doesn't matter. In a panic, semi-auto because spray and pray, the extra ammunition now being wasted to no purpose unless your enemy is old and noise will cause a heart attack.

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I keep trying to convince you of the above argument because I myself am convinced the math works with my conservation of ammunition rather than any liberal application. When I am evaluating my weaknesses, I don't look at slow loading weapons as a hindrance but rather a help. I'm actually nervous at this moment ( as I write-surely rectified by the time you read ), as I have yet to convert my last AR to a bolt action. I finally did it right and am waiting for a retaining pin replacement through the mail before I flip over the gas tube.

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The others were the old pin with LockTite added. A terrible Bubba Engineering decision. I'm worried if I have to use the rifle now, before conversion, I waste God awful amounts of ammunition and handicap my stockpiled ammo. Semi-auto scares me for that very reason. My viewpoint, cemented solid after years of research and argument, causes anxiety. If YOUR viewpoint is the polar opposite, I cannot change your mind. Such is life. We argue, seemingly for sport and amusement, to no logical end. You can only change a mind open to change. This is not a critical judgment but simple biological fact. If my arguments fall on deaf ears, at least do yourself a favor and change your mind about how much ammo is enough. Whatever your number is, it is probably too low.

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note: fire sale on rimfire.  I don't know if it is still available as I posted this last night.  Palmetto State, $150, 4.4k rounds, free shipping, and NOT Remington!  HERE 
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note: I sent the above notice to my newsletter subscribers last night and got back a reply on a sale from Cheaper Than Dirt.  I know you don't like the company.  I certainly don't.  But $90 for 5k rounds.  Of course, then you must pay shipping, and they are never shy about screwing you on that.  Still, it might be worth checking out, HERE  ( oh, and note, they say it might not work well in semi-auto, plus it has a "bulk fee" added to it )
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