Ronald_55

Does a cigarette lighter next to the wife's hairspray in the bathroom count?

I had a revolver I bought used that was old enough to have the transferable lifetime warranty. It had issues and they replaced it. Covid caused the replacement t to take 7 months, but not really their fault. So. beater gun turned into. NIB one. But YMMV and if that is sentimental that might not work for you.

Do you have a addiction to Chicken Minis? Have you done shameful things just to get a chicken sandwich? Here is your chance to get your fix cheaper and with no dignity loss. I have a $20 Chick-fil-A gift card for sale. For only $15 you can get it mailed right to you. Or if you are into that new fangled online ordering, I can just give you the number. It will save you the wait in line. If you are in the Tricities, I might take a trade so you don't have to explain the disappearance of cash. I just can't help you explain the Polynesian Sauce on your shirt. Trade options. Ammo - .38 SPL, .357 Mag, .45ACP, .308, 30-30, or maybe even some decent 9mm. Magazines - Ruger P85 or P89, Star Firestar, decent quality 1911 full size, or M&P 9mm or .45. OEM preferred, Promag not. AR mags I am probably good on. Other trades considered since I know you have pawned a bunch already under the control of the cow influencers. Cash or most Fee free electronic payments taken

I expect it is growing pains of a totally new platform set up for them with the swappable magwells.

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Blowing that right got you free long distance. They are a collector's items for some groups.

I enjoyed the sequels. They stretched a few things a bit thin but were pleasant reading. I rarely read books like that for SHTF tips though, just pleasure. It is a nice area. We spent time there for a lot of years but not so much in the last few.

Welcome. I am too far away to help on the Gun Club, but TripleGGG seems to have that on a good start.

I have and the 2 follow ups. Funny story, I read it the first time on vacation sitting on a porch with a view of Black Mountain. I drove through Old Fort and past the Montreat College sign on the way in. I had no idea they were included when I started.

@JW3Percent Don't believe most of what you read on the internet from either side.... Conspiracy ideas abound and can drive you crazy. The internet has only made it worse than it was before. My worry is what is happening that that all these hijinks are meant to keep us focused off of. Best you can do is be as prepared as possible for whatever scenarios you deem likely. I personally think a wide range EMP would be the worst. No way for a person to prevent it and then there are 330 million hungry people fighting for whatever scraps are on the shelves locally. How likely is it that the EMP strike is not noticed and prevented I do not know. Plus it would have to take out most of North America or we would just send aid from the areas not affected. Would be an issue but not long term. Bombings and insurgent activity might affect big cities, but no one is bombing or deploying forces to Crossville or such. Maybe Oak Ridge or Nuclear Fuels in Erwin as a stretch. They are heavily guarded so much less likely to cause huge issues. DC, New York,Chicago, etc would be possibilities due to population density and lower percentage of armed citizens.

I have a Rossi lever in .357 and .44. Been good guns for me.

I hate to say it, but if you are referring to the nation as "our people", you have already lost. People rising to the occasion in times of need makes good news stories. Those acts are a drop in the bucket of the self serving if not all out depraved things that will happen if it all spins out. Generally all the news outlets are really only there to push what sells papers, creates clicks, and makes money. So fear mongering is a big part if it too. Very few in the nation will ever really know the exact truth about anything. We just get given the narrative that X group wants us to know. So while it great to be on alert, resist the urge to jump in a bunker and lock the door just because the news person says the sky is falling. Best to tighten that circle down to trusted family and friends to have a hope of survival. It would be great if we could all be part of a large group that planned to come together when crisis strikes, but few of us have that luxury to trust so many. Best we might work out is M.A.G.s (mutual assistance groups) that we hope hold together. In the end though it is like I was taught growing up, you take care of family (blood or otherwise) and that might be the best you can do. So I would start with that. The methheads in the house a mile away will be more to worry about than a huge group of anti-US insurgents that for some reason decide to descend on TN. The Soviets were the boogie man for forever and that turned into nothing for 99% of US citizens. I never see a Red Dawn scenario happening. The manpower, equipment, and supply chain needed for it would be staggering. For comparison, the largest force Genghis Khan ever assembled was less than 240,000 men. Ten times that might start to invade and control the US as a whole. That is if none of the 330 million citizens fought back. If COVID in 2020 taught us nothing else, it showed the frailty of our supply chains. I think disruption of those is a far more like threat. And it could bring the country to its knees just as hard.

So you are the one making ammo scarce in election years.

If storing in mylar you still need O2 absorbers and many people use Nitrogen gas to force the O2 and moisture too. You still need to store them in metal cans or buckets. I think on sale things like #10 cans from Mountain House are a decent deal because they are already sealed in (mostly) rodent proof cans. But things like you listed are hard to pay for like that unless you just need the shelf life. Rice, dried beans, powdered milk, corn meal, yeast, and powdered eggs are a few more items to look at storing.

Lets just say I have been preparing for trouble long enough that it has become tiring. The current snowstorm all the way up to full SHTF can be cause for worry. I suggest to anyone that you set down and write out a plan. It helps to organize. Go over what you use and need. Look at storage space you have and whether you need to bug in or out. No good to have a thousand cans of soup if you have to bug out. Or to have a case of sardines if no one eats them. Also, if you buy $1000 in comms but have no one to communicate with aside from random strangers. There are lots of good resources out there. It can be kind of a rabbit hole. A shameless self plug though is a site I set up years ago. I have not posted to the blog in a while, but it explains my 'leveled' approach to preparing. I really need to post some new stuff when I get time but the basic ideas never change. http://leveledsurvival.com/ I set this up to help people new to the idea of preparing start out without feeling like they are drowning. Starting by trying to buy it all can overcome most finances and personal energy. Plus a generator and 500 gallons if fuel is no help if you have 5 cans of corn in the cabinet. Planning lets you add things in the most sensible (for you) order and not all at once. So you can shop for deals too. It also lets you see shortcomings. Like if you live in an apartment, you are going to have different limits than someone in a house in the country. In my case one huge limiting factor is the lack of buy-in from the wife. She does the grocery shopping and refuses to 'stock up' on much. She told me I was being a hoarder when I tried to buy a second 30 something roll pack of TP. So I have to hidey hole some stuff away from prying eyes and pesky mice that seem to get into the unfinished part of the house every couple years.

Very interesting stock there beside them. GLWS

Wife told our youngest that she missed him. He replied "Cause I'm not there to shovel snow?" Yep that is what she meant. lol

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I-26 from Johnson City to Kingsport has been shut down for a while today.

Last I looked we might have 3. Probably gonna fire up the gas logs in the basement when we hit single digits. Turn it up past a couple clicks and you'll start to sweat. Helps keep the heat pump from running all the time and helps warm up the pipes since there is only one output down there. Only good thing previous owner did.

Snowing here again in the Tricities. It melted a bit mid day, so the ice is gonna be great. Plus it will have fresh snow on top.

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Then 45380 is probably just an assembly number. Especially if it is from the crane.

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