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I think this is excellent advice! And a very good first start at a plan of action. I'm with Gregintenn as well. In a TEOWAWKI siuation, I think it would be extremely important to get a Government going as fast as possible. First start would be a local administration. Then go on from there.

Have you thought about a Hobo Fishing kit made out of sch 40 PVC pipe. A trip to the local Big Box Store for what you need. I bet you can make one with tackle for under $10. If you have to have a pole, nature supplies a variety of shapes and sizes. Here is a Youtube video of one being made. YouTube - pocket fishing kit pt1 Here's another is a fish being caught on a Hobo Fishing Kit, 9 1/2lb catfish.

Look at Ruger first. Best bang for the buck out there.

I've never found anything to buy in that department there. Pretty much sucked. I'm with Garufa! I'd love to see an Academy open up here!

Solid value. I'd love to see them make one with a 20" barrel and interchangeable chokes. I think it would be a hell of a bush gun! I think the shortest barrel they make like that is a 22".

I know that used to be the thing to do on the Colts, but no. I'd like to keep it original. I do have a Tyler T-Grip on mine.

I have an old Colt Agent. I think it's a 2nd Gen model. It has the lug barrel and was produced back in the 70's. Got some finish wear, but it's a great shooting little pistol! I love Colts!

When it comes to lock blades, I also like liner locks. That being said, I carry slip joints and fixed most of the time anymore. Just prefer them. As I get older, I'm finding more and more that I'm leaving the tacticool phase of life, preferring simpler things. Slip joints and fixed blades with carbon steel blades in knives are what I like.

This time next year, we'll be paying $5 a gallon.

Wow! That's incredibly stupid and waste of lives. Good for us though! Also what I meant was they don't really have the medical know how or technology to heal most of their wounded. They aren't tying up personnel, resources and money healing their men. Wound one of us and there are 15 people working on that person (which is good, don't get me wrong!). Wound one of them and it's basically three or four guys carrying that one off the battle field so he can probably die in a cave somewhere. They have unlimited resources when it comes to cannon fodder too. What do you think about going back to the old 55 gr round? If we don't really have to defeat body armor, why stick with the current round or at least change the load for Afghanistan? What about going with the 6.5 Grendel or the Remington 6.8 SPC, are they viable options? Basically you'd just have to change out the upper in the field, I would imagine and the follower in the magazine.

It all depends on the mission, but I would bet the average soldier is going to carry enough to last two or three days in the field at any given time out on patrol. Mostly because you never know. I was in a Combat Engineering Battalion and we hardly ever got that far away from a vehicle. But straight leg infantry typically don't have that luxury. They take what they can carry. I just read an older article about what the average weight was for troops rotating through JRTC over 13 tours and the weight averaged out to 91 lbs! That didn't include body armor. That's freakin' amazing! And somewhat worrying. Carrying those kinds of loads, when those guys hit their 40's, their going to broken down physically. This is one of the reasons I think the U.S. Military still uses the 5.56 round as it's main rifle round. Lot more fire power for the weight. Still pretty accurate. And a wounded man takes more resources up than a dead man does. At least that's the theory. As it turns out that's a pretty good theory for the enemy to go by fighting us. I'm not so sure that ir's a good theory for us to be going by though. I figure the Taliban doesn't worry to much about their wounded.

You can't patrol from a vehicle most of the time. You still have to get out and walk, run and crawl sometimes.

Then it sounds like we need to step back and go back to the slower twist and longer barrel as Suprafly said. Maybe even the old 55gr. round. Or change back to the 7.62. The only thing about going back to the 7.62 is the added weight. I have a friend of mine I work with that is a SGM and he has 3 tours in Iraq under his belt (Desert Storm and two more under Iraqi Freedom). He says the weight our troops carry compared to what we carried back in Desert Storm is almost twice as much. He says the Army is seeing alot more back and knee injuries and he believes it's due to the all the added weight of our equipment. I imagine that 210 rounds of 7.62 is 1.5x or more the weight of 210 rounds of 5.56. That's more weight for our guys to carry.

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie! But it's everywhere. Business ignores those surveys, just like the Government does. I get them all the time too. Filed one out two weeks ago and blasted the company I work for. But the Survey will show all employees are happy little lemmings.

As long as we continue to follow the Geneva Convention(and I don't see us ever not following it) we will never go to expanding bullets. There are other things that we do to offset that however. As Dolomite_Supafly was talking about, we make our bullets tumble upon impacting something. That's why when you get hit in the shoulder with a 5.56 it's liable to come out your ass. But it holds to the Geneva Convention, because it doesn't expand. That was what Supafly was talking about.

This is excellent advice!

For any real chance you need to be with a group.

Congrats on a fine revolver! Thanks for the range report. IMO, revolvers are the best choice for summer concealment.

Heck, I'd give you at least twice that! And I'd think that's was an insulting offer. I'd never go back there for anything, ever.

I had one. Pretty nice little revolver. I'd change the grips out on it though. I prefer .38spl over .380 as well.

I have had both. Now I only have one. Colt all the way! Best triggers I've ever pulled! Not knocking the Smith. They are great guns too, but I love Colts. Have two of them and I'd love more. The reason Colt is no longer around in the revolver market is they got greedy. Much like the way Smith is now. It got to the point where the Colt just cost too much. LE no longer could justify the extra cost and neither could the consumer. I think we are starting to see the same thing happening between Smith and Taurus.

Looks like an Arminius. They have made revolvers for years. My uncle has a 6" .22LR with target sites that's he's hunted rabbits with for years. Got it back in the 1970's. That's about all I know about them. $195 is pretty cheap price, though. If it's worth a damn, then it's an awesome deal.

Also don't forget to store salt, pepper and other spices.

I wish I could find a 20 or a 12 and also wish I had the money to afford one! I think it would be a good investment!

+1 to Halfpint for an outstanding post on #108!