Re: .308 (way O.T.)


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Posted by David Sherman on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 23:36:34 :

In Reply to: .308 posted by Igor on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 17:05:39 :

The radio guy probably said buy gold (from him) too. Is November when the comet Kahoutek is coming? Or is it Hale-Bopp? Maybe it's in the prophecies of Nostradamus? Hey, I like to listen to Art Bell too, but all my life, the end of the world was right around the corner, but somehow it never quite arrived. No nuclear war, no environmental disaster, no deadly epidemic, no comet smashing into the earth, no ice age, no population explosion. Not even the second coming of Christ.

Still, large cans of ammo are always something that's fun to have, so why not stock up? I don't have anything that shoots .308, so if you get a bunch you don't need to worry about me raiding your survival bunker and stealing it. Wish I'd picked up a lot of the Talon .50 BMG last year when it was still available. I thought $1.50/round was kind of high, but now .30-06 is almost that much and the .50 is around $6!. The South African .308 disappeared thanks to the new government of that country which decided to destroy their large stockpiles of ammo rather than sell it and risk having people use it to do bad things like murder watermelons and milk jugs at 100 yards.

Seriously, I used to know old-timers who'd lived through a previous stock market collapse, back around 1929, and you what? Nobody stockpiled ammo to guard their underground bunker full of survival supplies. A lot of rich guys lost their money. A quarter of the regular working guys lost their jobs, and a lot of property did get foreclosed on or abandoned for taxes, but most everybody got by some way or another. Farmers got hurt the least, partly because they were fairly self-sufficient and partly because farms never shared in the prosperity of the '20s so depression was nothing new to them. City people helped each other with whatever needed doing, often in trade for room and/or board.

A lot of guys went gold-mining because with the dollar defined in terms of gold, as the price of everything dropped in terms of dollars, gold became more and more valuable in terms of what you could buy with it. One old friend of mine worked an old mine with his buddy all summer and cleaned up one ounce of gold for all their efforts. They got $20 for it, which paid their out-of-pocket expenses for the summer. He said they could have stood around in the city being unemployed and not worked so hard, but they'd rather spend the summer in the mountains. In the winter they trapped martens, which were worth something for fur, in the same mountains.

I'm all for being prepared for everything from floods to hard times, but if the stock market crashes, it'll mostly hurt the people who can afford it, and even if times get as hard as they did in the '30s, it's not going to cause "mass disorder". People run out of energy for rioting pretty quickly. The hard thing now is that during the 1930s, most Americans lived on farms, which were mostly self-sufficient. Now almost everyone is dependent on utility electricity, grocery store food, and has to pay high taxes or rent for a place to live. I think 25% unemployment now would hurt a lot more than it did back then. Nonetheless, people generally pull together when there's any kind of trouble, rather than getting in shootouts with each other.



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