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What's wrong with the real Kabar?

I think downsizing is a great idea! I love snubbies! Can't beat'em!

I love simple knives and I got a new simple knife in the mail today. This one is a bit different than the usual stuff that's seen here. I ordered a Svord Peasant off Ebay Friday Evening and got it in the mail today. The Svord Peasant is a friction folder. It's an old design (300 or 400 years old) that has been updated. The Blade is 3 1/4" 1095 steel and is razor sharp out of the package. Handles are black plastic. $15.95 shipped. BTW, if you like great blades, checkout Svord Carbon Steel Knives. The Hand Made Carbon Steel Knife B.W. Baker designs and makes some fantastic knives!

Good deal!

I figured I'd go today. Got a Over/under I'm looking to trade or sale. Probably be there around 11 or so too.

M38/44s are hard to come by anymore. Pretty much sold them all out, though I'm sure there will be another batch come through at some point.

While you all clearly don't suck on the Government teat, so to speak, a lot still do and they are addicted. At this point, I don't see that it will ever change either. As far as the Big Oil companies making a profit, that's what business is all about. If your not in it to make a profit, then why be in business in the first place. I can't fault them for that. I want to make a lot of money too. Even if we opened everyone backyard up for drilling, that would only last so long. The world population is growing at an astounding rate and China and India now have a large middle class that are beginning to buy cars. GM sold more cars in China, than they did in the US, last year. They need oil too, and they are buying it. Supply is not increasing, and never will, while demand is growing quickly. Oil prices will continue to raise in fits and spurts, regardless of what we do. Best to start really looking at alternatives to oil now. And start thinking about how we are going to change our ways. It's just not oil either folks. World wide food prices are going up quicker than oil. We don't buy bulk foods like a lot of countries do, so we don't notice it as much. And we have been one of the bread baskets for the world. Now we are raising corn, not for food, but for fuel. Ethanol in our gas comes from corn and that's what our corn is going for. In the next 50 years, water is going to be another thing we start running out of. Look what almost happened to Atlanta a couple of years ago. And what California and Arizona go through every year now. They have to ration water, because there isn't enough to go around there. Too many people are the problem. It's a problem that isn't going to go away either.

Another rifle you want to pick up is a Mauser 98 in 8mm. They are starting to climb in price. 8mm is still fairly cheap too. I'd go ahead and get a K98 and a Vz24. Schmitt Rubins are another rifle that the price are really starting to climb. Great rifle too from what I heard!

My name is kb4ns, and I'm a Mosiholic.

Just my 2 cents, but of those three, I'd go with the Kahr. It's light and all the bugs should be worked out by now. The Kimber's new and subject to having some kinks. The Ruger is the heavier of the three and probably would require holster carry, where as the the other two are small enough and light enough to stick in a pants pocket.

They are excellent rifles. $250 was a good price.

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.