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Don't know what that means, but I'm old school and would advise watching them in the order they came out. If you can find the original versions, especially the one that later became known as Episode IV, even better ...

I saw Star Wars on the first day it opened in a theater in Jackson, Tn. back in 1977. I was 16 at the time, and enjoyed a good science fiction movie (still do in fact). I never watched Seinfeld either, and don't really know what type of show Friends was/is, as I've barely even heard of it ...

Buy it cheap and stack it deep is really good advice. Of course, people with little foresight and a poor understanding of economics will call you a hoarder, but that's OK. While they're wailing and gnashing their teeth, you'll have ammo ...

And everybody should watch the Star Wars saga at some point in their lives

Here is the second version of the Death Star, as depicted in one of the Star Wars movies:

True, but this was before the advent of the smart phone and it's variants. The sorting out has occurred already, and phones are a mature market now, where 15 years ago it was "pioneer days". In the early days of the auto industry, there were literally 100's of companies making cars, by the end of WWII it was just a handful, shortly after winding up with 3 domestic companies (of any size worth mentioning). As markets mature, there's a natural tendency (or selection, if you will) for a few companies to come to dominate, once that occurs the economy of scale makes it extremely difficult to break the hold of the majors. Also, Apple was a major company years before they got into phones, and Nokia and Blackberry were among those selected against ...

Prvi, and the other variants of the same brand (PPU, etc.) makes a 150 gr soft point round. I imagine, like most other ammunition calibers, its probably out of stock just about everywhere. At one time, AIM Surplus had it regularly in stock, no idea now ... A quick search yields only this so far : https://www.outdoorlimited.com/rifle-ammo/7-62x54mm-rimmed-russian-ammo/graf-and-sons-hornady-7-62x54r-ammunition-h80497-150-grain-sst-ballistic-tip-20-rounds/

That ship sailed, long ago ...

The problem won't be finding it, it will be that they no longer have a web hosting service on which to house their content. Amazon Web Services provides a lot of the web servers that various internet sites use to host their content, including TGO as I remember ...

I think you have your metaphors mixed up. The Death Star was part of the Star Wars saga, your quote is from the Borg of Star Trek: The Next Generation ...

Au contraire ...

Looks like everybody is going through some withdrawal after the the ban on political discussions:

Correct, part of the intro scene. It is a great movie, albeit somewhat dated now. Being a product of the late '60's, the special effects are kind of hokey compared to today's, and the theme has been used many times over since the original. However, if you compare it to most Sci-Fi made before it, in its time it was as seminal a movie as Star Wars became a decade later. Shortly followed by "first off-label use of a tool"

Fair enough. My point was that "need" is a subjective term, and will be defined individually by people with many different rationales for their perceived "need". In addition, all of us often conflate a need with what might be better termed as a "want". One example, I collect old Russian rifles. I don't "need" any of them, but I do enjoy owning them. I also have quite a bit of ammo for them, even though many, probably most in fact, remain unfired by me. Again, I don't "need" any of this, just as I probably don't "need" many other things I possess now or have in the past. I suspect that this desire to have a lot of "stuff" is behind many of the ammo piles you reference, and that many of these same people, who some might condemn as ammo "hoarders" are cognizant of the fact that their stockpile doesn't represent a true "need", but rather satisfies some other purpose. I don't make any apologies for the "stuff" I have, and don't expect others to do so either. So long as I am not neglecting the true needs of myself or my family, the amount and type of things I own is my concern only. I also suspect that were we to visit your home, we would find the same true at your house, and rightfully so. I don't look at either mine, or your possessions as some sort of "zero-sum" system, where in order for me to satisfy my wants, or needs, i must jeopardize your ability to do so as well. We occasionally do have these temporary supply problems of ammo, guns or related items, they seem to crop up every 4 or 5 years on average. But, as you referenced earlier, these shortages are primarily due to the nature of ammo manufacturing and related political issues, not because you or I "bought more than we needed" and somehow caused the shortage. In terms of the current availability issues of ammo, "this too shall pass", as it has many times before. In the meanwhile, those of us who have more than we "need", due to advance preparation and the ability to do so, don't have to worry about whether ammo is readily available or affordable, as our "hoard" is well stocked.

So how much ammo does one, in fact, need?

Keep an eye on your local Pawn and Gun stores, they seem to get these in occasionally. If you're willing to deal online, the trader section of Gunboards.com is probably the best source outside of Gunbroker, as that site is the definitive collector's Mosin Nagant site on the web ...

That will do it, in terms of causing the types of problems reported ...

During WWI, the Austrians converted a number of captured Mosn Nagants to 8x57mm Mauser, as well as the 8x50mm Austrian cartridge. In Europe, it was fairly common to convert them over to 6.5mm or 9.3mm chamberings, to match bullets that were available there. I do agree that the barrel setback looks like the typical 30-06 conversion, many of the features look a lot like some of the Bannerman conversion as well. Bannerman bought a lot of them as surplus after WWI, once the US government began surplusing out the many hundreds of thousand of these rifles purchased from Remington and New England Westinghouse during the war. The Czarist government had contracted with these 2 companies to produce approximately 3.3 million Mosin Nagants for the Russian infantry after their heavy losses during the early part of the war. Many of these were awaiting shipment in early 1917 when the Tsar was overthrown and the Kerensky government essentially voided the contract by refusing payment. With these companies facing bankruptcy, the US government stepped in with a "bailout", buying all of the extra and even ordering several thousand more, which were then used by reserve, National Guard and cadet academies before being phased out in the '20's. They were also available to the public, at a cost of about $3.50 per rifle, and many were subsequently converted over after stocks of 7.62x54r cartridges ran out in the US. Some of these were well-done, others not so much ...

It's Alex Jones. Why are you surprised ...

And you're just going to leave us hanging like that? What did you get, and where are the pics ...

As for the rebar posts: drive them into the ground with a hammer. Posts are still there, no longer dangerous to clumsy kids ...

The advanced search feature on Gunbroker allows you to restrict a search to specific states. Also, check around at your local Pawn and Gun stores, many of these occasionally have Mosins on the racks. Armslist is another convenient search engine that allows searches by areas. These rifles come up often for sale around the country, you shouldn't have any problem finding an example relatively near you, albeit as mentioned earlier in this thread, prices are fairly high now, as with most things gun-related. Royal Tiger Imports shows 3 ex-dragoons in stock at $449 as of today.

"We have been able to accomplish this by teaming with many companies around the United States and parts of Canada buying most of their stock as soon as it hits the shelf." Interesting business model, professional scalping. Website went live Dec. 5, no address, phone number nobody answers, and payment sent via unconventional means. English is not their first language either. Maybe I can use my Nigerian treasury money to stock up on supplies once it arrives ...