what you brought to the party 3

WHAT YOU BROUGHT TO THE PARTY 3

( post 2 today )

Sweet Jesus up to his knees in this crap tsunami ( per Aesop, the S-6 Chart. S1 crap show-the S stands for something else than “crap”-S2 crap circus, S3 crap Mardi Gra, where we are with Beer Bug, S4 crap riot, S5 crap tsunami, the 10 plagues of Egypt, and S6, crap apocalypse, Noah's Flood ), every two days whatever I just wrote is already obsolete. What can you even buy right now? This morning as I write this ( no, I STILL want to post a week in advance. What if I am down for days sick?-but, want in one hand ) yesterday's “rumor” of ammo shortages is confirmed by a visit to the SG Ammo web site.

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No Wolf or Tula ( hmm, look at that! Once again, a guardian angel always lighting a fire under my ass as I bulk bought last Fall ). The 223 isn't too bad yet, you can still buy 38 or 40 cent rounds ( again, by the time you read this, everything will have changed ), but good luck finding that price for 9mm. Yes, correct, 9mm is now in such short supply it is selling more than carbine ammo. Yeah, what about a “pistol” barreled AR upper? LOL. Okay, this is how crazy it is. All the 303 British steel cased is sold out! AFTER the war, guns started being made with better tolerances and steel case was okay.

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Guns before that needed the case to swell and seal the chamber ( which is why you get a slight gas escape in a Mosin-Nagant using steel case ammo ). I would NEVER use steel case in my precious Lee-Enfield, THE last best battle rifle. No, semi's are not in my mind as good of a design, as they all followed the Nazi manufacturing methods, sheet metal and plastic. You want a REAL rifle to survive the apocalypse, hard wood and steel are needed. And those horse cavalry calibers, because they are far more suitable for homemade reloads using not quite factory standard components.

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This is a trend I've noticed these last couple of weeks. The cheapest products all went first, and they are what is being fought after. I personally think that Costco is a huge rip off, even without factoring in the membership fees. I noticed, before Wal-Mart stopped being the Low Price Leader after 2009 or so, that Wally generic small packs were cheaper per unit than Costco huge packs. I never returned. But the perception is that they are cheap, at least to the Yuppie Scum who don't go to Wally.

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So they got hammered first. Then Wal-Mart ran out of toilet paper ( prior to the food runs ). Next, Family Dollar was out of their very cheap TP ( superior to Wally in price and quantity ), but had all other kinds of TP, the brand names. Only the cheapest disposable batteries were bought out. Returning to an old theme here, people simply don't have much cash on hand. And a LOT of people use credit cards to pay daily bills like utilities. So, with half of the population unable to come up with $400 for an emergency, and the other half with maxed out credit cards, only the cheapest products were targeted.

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What else could people do, with the resources they had? This gave us a small amount of time to go buy the more expensive items at the crappy stores almost everyone but Seniors avoid ( looking at you, Albertson's ). I imagine those are stripped bare about by now also. I guess it is a very good thing indeed a lot of us were a lot worse off financially than Make 'Murica Great Again Trump was willing to admit ( sorry, but if your greatest claim to fame is Better Than Hilary, the bar has lowered so far being President doesn't mean much anymore ), or the supplies would have disappeared weeks earlier.

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So, baring a miracle, and I simply don't see that happening but I pray I'm wrong-for all the good a prayer does from an agnostic-the retail stores are pretty close to no longer being an option. I really did NOT see Wal-Mart being completely wiped out of dry foods ( the video's I see also saw refrigerated meat gone, but on my last visit there I didn't look to see ). I thought the China Mart section would be emptying and the food section, minus a few items as normal from unexpected outages, would stay full. I really dropped the ball on that one. Which just goes to show you that no plan survives first contact with the enemy.

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I was saying, gee, wonder if Wally can stay open just selling food. Now? Now I'm wondering if Wally stays opens weeks from now, let alone months. You might think, they have volume on their side and secure the food before anyone else, or even contracts. But I see the issue now as being huge empty stores with too many people working there, and the end of the volume shopping that made that possible. Before, okay, perhaps they survive as a grocery store. Now? How? If your food is wiped out the minute the semi pulls away, customers mobbing the stocking cart before the cases are even open, what sales sustain the store the rest of the time?

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Now, granted, I'm linear thinking here. Something could happen, like the federal government freezes mortgage payments and compensates owners ( hello, even more hyperinflation than the repo market bail out is going to bring ). But at the current series of events, customers with paychecks and nothing to buy, I can't see the limited and probably rationed per store restocking having a chance of keeping up with demand. If everyone had lost their job FIRST, it might have been a different story. 

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