Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis: Now's a good time to pull an inventory of your gear, ammo, logistics.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Praxis: Now's a good time to pull an inventory of your gear, ammo, logistics.

While you're waiting around to see when the civil war is going to start, now isn't a bad time to pull an inventory of your gear, ammo, and logistics. Tote up what you have, evaluate what you need and get it while the getting's good.

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Anonymous said...: .223 stripper clips, spoons and bandoliers are getting more expensive.; September 22, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Any particular reason this is suggested now?; September 22, 2012 at 8:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Impressive pic of an inpressive stash.

Now is indeed the time to do a self-audit. A formal audit every few months is a good idea.

I did one last month, and CRAP!

Now I have to spend more money.

AP; September 22, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Anonymous said...: http://newriversalvagecompany.com/; September 23, 2012 at 2:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Find secure off site cache spot's .; September 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM
Anonymous said...: I rarely offer advice, but this is a topic near and dear to me lately.

Things to do while waiting for the ________ without spending any new money:

Consolidate calibers, sell what you don't or won't shoot. Decide that you are a shooter and not a collector. 7.62x25 has more than doubled in price in two years and now costs more than 9mm. A spam can of the stuff is worth more than a CZ-52! Sell both.

Sell extra pistols, buy rifles.

Sell "high" priced ammo and replace with cheaper components (even if you don't reload yet) - you'll get 50%+ more ammo for your money and pay for reloading equipment (I just did it with berdan-primed NATO surplus 308). 308 can be reloaded for ~25c and 223 for ~15 using components that you can order right now.

Sell 7.62x39 stockpiles at 20+ cents/round and buy 5.45x39 at 13 cents/round (Sportsman's guide). Get a rifle later or never. 5.45 is the cheapest centerfire rifle ammo in the world but it will not stay that way forever.

Buy spare AR bolts and parts kits from PSA when they go on sale every few weeks.

Buy cheap $12 MOLLE vests on ebay, and set them up with similarly cheap pouches as needed. Do this for each rifle.; September 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Anonymous said...: jealous..
hey Im reloading as fast as i can; September 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Anonymous said...: Anon....

"308 can be reloaded for ~25c "

WHERE are you getting components THAT inexpensively?; September 23, 2012 at 10:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Be careful what you sell. You might just need it in an emergency and besides barter is always possible down the road.

Tactically, logistically, operationally, what makes a rifle more valuable than a pistol? Especially a suppressed one, considering the potential environment?

The best answer is not to restrict your options, period.; September 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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