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You might have started to notice a trend here, and that is that I’m now reduced to mining the comments section for article ideas. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of minions have invaluable contributions to make. No, I’m taking the asinine and using my response to them as an excuse for an article. Hey, don’t complain. If the Yuppie Scum Universe Of Never-Ending Wealth And Happiness actually comes to pass ( you know, the one where as long as you have a plastic rifle and twenty cases of protein fortified dog dung you will never be uncomfortable or long for Middle America ) and we never ever ever never run out of petroleum even as the global population doubles and we start growing crops on all our roofs I guess or maybe on ocean floating platforms that majestically waft above the layers of sunken oil and dead fish carcasses ( DEAD FISH
), well then there will be plenty of time for me to cover such important topics as “how to practice tactical suppressive fire without ever running out of ammo in a post-manufacturing Ice Age” ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
) or “how perpetual growth with a finite resource base is magically possible and anyone who says different is un-American and a traitor and must be renditioned to a small grass hut in tropical Mexico and have electrical wiring threaded into their reproductive organ and be tortured in between brownouts ).” *
“Whining about having to reload to save money on ammo? Sounds like you need to cut back on playing grab ass with every nearby farm animal so you got time for reloading in your busy schedule. JFC! Are you for real? It's nice to have a bunch of factory loaded ammo but I can't afford to stock a lifetime's worth so reloading makes a lot of sense. If you shoot a lot of 308s replace them via reloading. If your favorite 7.62x39 shootin pole dies, reload 30 cal ammo for that 308 or 3006 rusting in the rifle rack. All my centerfire rifles are 30 cal and use a couple of common powders and bullets for all of them.
Sweet baby jesus, I had you confused with a real prepper.”
Well, the challenge has been laid. As if we are but fifteen years old, we shall display our members in a contest to see whose is bigger. Not that size matters, in that context. Females could care less for the most part. But size does matter in prepping. I’m not a REAL prepper? Did he just go there? Listen, bitch boy. Do you live in a small town, rely primarily on a bicycle, have an underground lair? ( The Underground Lair
) Do you own four of the same kind of battle rifle ( The SAFN-49 Battle Rifle (A Shooter's and Collector's Guide)
)? Do both you and your spouse both have three years of storage food? Do you have hundreds of printed reference books? Do you have a second income from self-employment, precious metals and no debt? How many pieces of land do you own? *
I save almost no money by reloading. Or I should say, I will save almost no money by reloading as it isn’t something I do. No, I don’t filter my water yet, either. I drink city water I haul. Filtering is easy enough you don’t have to practice, and reloading with the Lee Loader ( Lee Loader for .30-06 Springfield
) is easy enough to do once I have to. I have the supplies, and the knowledge is simple enough. If you can follow directions on how to boil water for pasta you can follow the Lee Loader instructions. It is designed for morons, so I can somehow manage when the time comes. But I have practiced crunching numbers, and reloading the Enfield isn’t a money saver ( remember, the Enfield chews up brass ). The brass won’t last all that long. If I’m buying unprimed brass ( Unprimed Brass .30-06 Springfield
) for $35 per hundred it is a safe bet my case cost is going to be about a dime each. Yes, you might get more uses out of a case. If I reloaded I would know for sure. But since I do seem to be a bit busy most of the time, not molesting animals ( although some of those sheep look easy to catch ) but researching and writing this newsletter, I find I have to refrain from being the super survivalist and not go out and build adobe fortresses or butcher feral rabbits ( Fare Thee Well Feral Child
) or go traveling to meet the other members of the secret handshake survivalists club. I know you are disappointed that I don’t live off the land completely, pulling my own rotted teeth or laying ambushes to revenooers. Instead, I do what I can which is to stockpile the crap out of things and keep them simple enough to use with minimal training.*
So, the best I can guess after reading about others experiences is that I can realistically reload a case three times before I have to concern myself about needing to discard it. Throw in a dimes worth of powder and a nickel for a primer and there is the same price as a steel case commie round. Which is also a bit more reliable than my homemade efforts, and ready to go. Unable to stock up on commie rounds does mean I’ll have to go the reload route exclusively. Which I’m mostly stocked up for already ( I guess you forgot my primer collection I bragged on years ago ). I was unable to ADD to my self-defense means. I’m still adequately covered, thank you very much. Remember when you stumbled into a party late, already stoned on meth ( American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
), and you heard a conversation half way through and made a smart and witty comment that made everyone stare at you like you were a complete ass clown? Because you made the comment from incomplete information. Tell me my facts are wrong? Fine. Tell me I made the wrong conclusion? Fine. Not paying attention and jumping to conclusions and berating me despite the facts? Not so fine. Let’s assume I’m making the wrong choice for ammunition. Do you automatically assume all my other preps are inadequate? I’m already pretty sure my junk is bigger than your junk. END
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13 comments:
Jim,
This has come up before, but to reconfirm, is it ok if someone posts your articles elsewhere, giving due credit of course?
The Enfield chews up brass?? Now you tell us! Way to bitch-slap the critic anyways though.
BTW, about dead floating fish: there's a biblical prophecy that in the 'Last Days' that every living thing in the sea will die. If offshore oil rigs became a future war/terrorism target can anyone imagine 3 or 4 hundred sea floor oil plumes like the one in the Gulf. And all at the same time.
Send Jim some cash. Today.
I don't get how Lee-Enfields can destroy brass. ???
I have a comfortable stockpile of ammo, 60%+ of has been reloaded out of discarded brass from other shooters, including Berdan-primed cases. But all truth be said, I didn't cast bullets for it.
For me, these cartridges (hunting rifle calibers) cost only half as much as the cheapest commercial ones.
Even if they did cost the same, the ability to spread the cost by accumulating the components as your budget allows would have made it a preferable solution anyway.
First primers, then powder, then bullets, from the least available in an economic crisis to the most available :
- Primers : practically, cannot be made in sufficient numbers. Sure, some people may show you "tricks" on how to use spent primers, but realistically it won't happen.
- Powder : black powder can be manufactured at home (at your own risk...) more easily than primers.
- Bullets : can be cast from lead.
Reloading brass is the one thing that really allowed me to purchase some other vitally important & expensive items (like the water filter, for instance).
Reloading is now a necessary set of skills and equipment to survive chaos... Really? What a bunch of B.S. If someone wants to play soldier and spend their free time playing with their ammo go ahead, but it can be a huge waste of time and resources. Too much machismo can also be a good formula for a short life.
Reloading equipment is nice to have, but not the sort of thing that makes or breaks your future. Understanding how to conserve ammo and still protect yourself, hunt when needed, etc, is a key survival skill. Actually being able to grow and harvest substantial amounts of food is a key skill. Re-loading is like having freeze-dried strawberries in your food storage: it's nice to have, but not critical for survival.
I would suggest just make the ammo you have on hand last by thinking with your brain instead of your balls and you will be just fine.
Your friends did not store food?
No problemo. You have food for two for one year. In round numbers
400 days x 3 meals x 2 = 2400 meals,
or 3 meals for 100 for 8 days.
You did not buy quiet subsonic 22 ammo that Uncle Vlad talked about until you were sick of hearing it?
No problemo. You won't need to hunt or fish or forage.
Only days after the EMP blitz and surgical nuclear strikes on the USA, President Obama, from his bombproof shelter in an undisclosed location, will issue an Executive Order restoring everything to normal.
Per your movie review. The French are very protective of their hunting weapons. Shotguns are common in the countryside. They are restrictive on magazine sizes and I don't think semi-auto is allowed.
Frankly, I think that if you will be engaged with fighting zombies, your life span will be reduced quick enough to where the person who killed you will take your preps.
Lets play a game of make believe. You and your zombie are duking it out, firing at each other (you mean they get to fire back - that SUX!). How many rounds would it take where a well aimed / richochet / lucky shot takes you out of the game? 50 rounds? 100 rounds? 300 rounds? If someone has shot at you and missed more than 300 times, you are extremely fortunate - I'm guessing in less than a 100 rounds, you will likely be worm food.
I'm not saying just to ignore the preps of buying a couple grand of ammunition (just in case), I'm just saying the law of averages will catch up to anyone quickly.
But thats just my opinion.
Well, aren't we touchy. It must be that time of the month...when you don't get enough sleep because you stayed up too late primping your illustrious locks because the water was too soft and caused you to have to rinse twice. He probably was a one hit wonder and I would not waste my time on such a fool. You do whine, but only about your darling ex-shedevil. The ammo ting wasn't whining. Idiocy is free. Stay strong.
A discussion on bullet casting from Plainsman's Cabin Discussion Forums
http://plainsmanscabin.yuku.com/reply/20980#reply-20980
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NOTA BENE Never put shiny wheel weights (that have zinc) in your pot.
Jacketed Performance with Cast Bullets
Second Edition by Veral Smith. page 42
quote To water drop harden, bullets are simply dropped from the mould into cool water. If a consistent mould temperature is not maintained throughout the casting session, hardness will vary in proportion to temperature fluctuations, and to obtain maximum hardness possible, the mould MUST BE HOT when bullets are dropped." end quote
page 52 quote
Wheel Weight Metal (WW):
regardless of price, this is the most versatile metal presently available to bullet casters, but its widespread availability and very low cost, in scrap form, make it an even more attractive alloy.
WW metal contains approx 0.5% tin, 2.5 - 3.5% antimony, a trace of arsenic and the remainder lead. (Disregarding insignificant traces of other metals.) The addition of 1 - 2% tin improves both casting and hardenability, but excellent results can be obtained with straight WW metal.
The hardness range of WW bullets varies according to
how they're made, as follows:
8 BHN: immediately after casting and air cooling, or after annealing.
12 BHN: air cooled after casting and aged two weeks or more.
13.5 - 14 BHN: made as above but with 2% tin added.
20-35 BHN: water drop hardened.
25-35 BHN: oven heat treated.
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Some of us that shoot the 30-06, and there are millions of us, hand load for it. The 30-06 case may be loaded many times. 170 grain bullets may be cast using, as Vlad said, wheel weights. The cost of the case and lead bullet is small.
Deer rifles in 30-06 are available, as are the fine '03, 03-A3 and M1 Garand.
Good shooting,
Mountain rifleman
Son of a Bitch,
I guess you told Him!
Now I guess he will go back down to mom's basement and have a little tantrum!
I bet this guy learned ninjitsu from books.
Your still the man,Jim!
the rat
Hello,
Anon-guy here (again)... uh, Nice hair.
For my B.P. Revolver, I use WW's as my bullet-of-choice ( affordable. Free for the picking up! )However, instead of using water to harden them, I use crisco ( Cheap Lard ) and if I have to, motor oil. I don't know the hardness's but they seem to store well. They seem to be harder than store-bought.
Thing is, caps. Hard2make yet important. Good on you...
Hope your "good wife" shoots! Yain't mentioned that, or have ya?
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