MagnumDweeb
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Well I'm probably one of the few people making any money in this stock market, granted I'm in law school so my time to day trade is quite ample, I'm also a manic obsessive anal-rentitive researcher and at time just plain lucky. I pulled out of the market completely before the last jobs report as I normally do. I'm a part and parcel stock player as I call it, "Burn and Turn" some call it. So I had an incredible play with Wachovia, getting in the morning just after it got rescued by Citibank, saw money watch or some other progam that was on and took some loose capital I'd been drooling over (needed an investment fix bad since I hadn't bought any real amounts of stock in over a month about) and got in at 1.47 with a little over 2000 shares and Monday morning sold a 1000 of them just over 6.00.
So now I've been thinking about the economy and I'm a big Glenn Beck fan for about a year now, hey he had the Ted Nugent on, and was thinking over something he and his investment authority pundits were talking about. Such as the only things that might be worth any value(money is worhtless so it'll turn into a barter system) are cigarrettes, booze, and gold. Of course as I was watching this I exclaimed out of reflex "and bullets".
And that got me to thinking. I'm up substantially for the year. I haven't done any excessive spending, all my credit cards are paid off and I have money in the bank to make sure they are paid off for the next ten months (yeah I'm a saving money excessive obsessive), my truck just got an oil change and serpentie belt change and overall checkup telling me it should last another couple of years if I keep taking good care of it. My scholarship got upped, I'm way under budget on rent, food, health insurance, and such. Etc. etc. etc. I'll be fixing up the boathouse for my landlord some more which will buy me a couple of months rent free.
So maybe it wouldn't be the most out of the world thing to take a flat thousand dollars I've been sitting on for over a couple of months that I've been pondering what to do with. I've saved a lot of money driving less, deal shopping for food, and cutting my budgets straight across the board by 20%. So I figure after talking to my grandfather who survived the depression about bullets, beans, and booze (his dad was a bootlegger and rum runner), him talking about how he remembered bullets getting real expensive so as to make it hard for those who hunted to survive (for those whom hunting provided about seventy percent of the food on the table be it deer, coon, and what have you). And when they weren't expensive they were sometimes hard to find, he recounted a story about how him and his brothers and his dad went three counties over (mind you this is Florida during the 20s-30s when many of the roads were dirt trail and poorly paved) to get a few boxes of 30/30 and birdshot and that was all the store shop had, they were out of .45(I didn't think to ask him if he meant LC or APC) and .22.
So I figure stock up now. Excluding reloading, I know I know, but the assumption is that all supplies will be sparse six months from now, what would you buy and how could you buy ammo wise with a thousand dollars.
All i've got rifle wise is a Yugo 8mm and an SKS, both in great shape, both are good to great shooters out to 300 yards in rested prone position. I've got two shotguns, both are 20" barrels and meant for HD than hunting but could probably double well enough for bird hunting with birdshot as well as small game such as coon and possum.
Then of course there are the two .44magnums, 4" and 7.5". The rest I'll leave be left out.
So I'm thinking I've got a little over 13 hundred rounds for the 8mm, some corrosive some not, the SKS I only have a few hundred rounds left from when I last bulk bought.
The shotguns are depressingly low on ammo. The .44 Magnums I only have a couple hundred rounds for since I last bulk bought.
So here goes the shopping list as I ponder it now:
7.62x39--- 2,000 rounds, good round that can double for hunting and HD, also a common enough of a round here in the U.S. that it has potential barter potential.
.44 Magnum--- five hundred rounds, can be used on small to medium game like deer if needed, out of the 7.5" at least.
12 gauge--- hundred rounds of buckshot, good for HD and hunting small to medium game, fifty rounds of birdshot just because when there is nothing else to eat a pigeon can be awfully tasty with the right herbs and spices, in theory.
8mm Mauser--- I'm probably budgeted out. 8mm isn't all too common anymore so I usually pick up a ton when I can find it and hey it's the 8mm 'Magnum' so it can be an effective man stopper and dear dropper if needed. It'd be a round of purely last resort as I figure it. Whatever I have left would be used to purchase 8mm Mauser.
So how about you, I know some would want to feed their 45s first and .22s because .22LR can have a wide and flexible range of uses be it in handgun or rifle, heck Audie Murphy kept his family fed in Turkey as a kid at 12 years old with a SA .22LR revolver. I've already got a 'K' pluls of .22lr for my little 6.5" Heritage revolver.
So now I've been thinking about the economy and I'm a big Glenn Beck fan for about a year now, hey he had the Ted Nugent on, and was thinking over something he and his investment authority pundits were talking about. Such as the only things that might be worth any value(money is worhtless so it'll turn into a barter system) are cigarrettes, booze, and gold. Of course as I was watching this I exclaimed out of reflex "and bullets".
And that got me to thinking. I'm up substantially for the year. I haven't done any excessive spending, all my credit cards are paid off and I have money in the bank to make sure they are paid off for the next ten months (yeah I'm a saving money excessive obsessive), my truck just got an oil change and serpentie belt change and overall checkup telling me it should last another couple of years if I keep taking good care of it. My scholarship got upped, I'm way under budget on rent, food, health insurance, and such. Etc. etc. etc. I'll be fixing up the boathouse for my landlord some more which will buy me a couple of months rent free.
So maybe it wouldn't be the most out of the world thing to take a flat thousand dollars I've been sitting on for over a couple of months that I've been pondering what to do with. I've saved a lot of money driving less, deal shopping for food, and cutting my budgets straight across the board by 20%. So I figure after talking to my grandfather who survived the depression about bullets, beans, and booze (his dad was a bootlegger and rum runner), him talking about how he remembered bullets getting real expensive so as to make it hard for those who hunted to survive (for those whom hunting provided about seventy percent of the food on the table be it deer, coon, and what have you). And when they weren't expensive they were sometimes hard to find, he recounted a story about how him and his brothers and his dad went three counties over (mind you this is Florida during the 20s-30s when many of the roads were dirt trail and poorly paved) to get a few boxes of 30/30 and birdshot and that was all the store shop had, they were out of .45(I didn't think to ask him if he meant LC or APC) and .22.
So I figure stock up now. Excluding reloading, I know I know, but the assumption is that all supplies will be sparse six months from now, what would you buy and how could you buy ammo wise with a thousand dollars.
All i've got rifle wise is a Yugo 8mm and an SKS, both in great shape, both are good to great shooters out to 300 yards in rested prone position. I've got two shotguns, both are 20" barrels and meant for HD than hunting but could probably double well enough for bird hunting with birdshot as well as small game such as coon and possum.
Then of course there are the two .44magnums, 4" and 7.5". The rest I'll leave be left out.
So I'm thinking I've got a little over 13 hundred rounds for the 8mm, some corrosive some not, the SKS I only have a few hundred rounds left from when I last bulk bought.
The shotguns are depressingly low on ammo. The .44 Magnums I only have a couple hundred rounds for since I last bulk bought.
So here goes the shopping list as I ponder it now:
7.62x39--- 2,000 rounds, good round that can double for hunting and HD, also a common enough of a round here in the U.S. that it has potential barter potential.
.44 Magnum--- five hundred rounds, can be used on small to medium game like deer if needed, out of the 7.5" at least.
12 gauge--- hundred rounds of buckshot, good for HD and hunting small to medium game, fifty rounds of birdshot just because when there is nothing else to eat a pigeon can be awfully tasty with the right herbs and spices, in theory.
8mm Mauser--- I'm probably budgeted out. 8mm isn't all too common anymore so I usually pick up a ton when I can find it and hey it's the 8mm 'Magnum' so it can be an effective man stopper and dear dropper if needed. It'd be a round of purely last resort as I figure it. Whatever I have left would be used to purchase 8mm Mauser.
So how about you, I know some would want to feed their 45s first and .22s because .22LR can have a wide and flexible range of uses be it in handgun or rifle, heck Audie Murphy kept his family fed in Turkey as a kid at 12 years old with a SA .22LR revolver. I've already got a 'K' pluls of .22lr for my little 6.5" Heritage revolver.
