tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post811754345567580701..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: While I'm sitting here with chattering teeth waiting to have my furnace fixed . . .Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-11122792723202650352009-01-18T01:02:00.000-06:002009-01-18T01:02:00.000-06:00So, just how much gold and how many guns are you g...So, just how much gold and how many guns are you going to carry in your inflatable lifeboat?GunGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217451122521161867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-48365528590005385692009-01-16T21:35:00.000-06:002009-01-16T21:35:00.000-06:00Mike said "A new friend I met in Indiana, a fighti...Mike said "A new friend I met in Indiana, a fighting parson sort of fellow with a penchant for M14 pattern rifles, dubs such newbies "Mobile Replenishment Pods."<BR/><BR/>I sure hope your pal does not mean that such newbies are easy pickings for his own replenishment. If so, that's not a funny, or a responsible thing to say. <BR/><BR/>Nothing like survivalism snobbery and macho statements along the lines of "glad to know you are stocking up on food - now I know were to go, yuck yuck." <BR/><BR/>People who talk like that deserve to be treated like two legged feral dogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-67717123823851221502009-01-16T18:55:00.000-06:002009-01-16T18:55:00.000-06:00Yep, someone asked for my opinion once as to wheth...Yep, someone asked for my opinion once as to whether having gold or silver was better if the SHTF. I replied, "lead".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-29832600701788247772009-01-16T13:51:00.000-06:002009-01-16T13:51:00.000-06:00This is a very interesting topic.Re: Vanderboegh, ...This is a very interesting topic.<BR/>Re: Vanderboegh, being a "mobile replenishment Pod" is EXACTLY the VERY thing you want to avoid if you plan on seeing the next sunrise every day. Nothing slows down an irregular force more than a train-car full of supplies following you. It is better off if there is a "underground railroad" of sorts, very similar to the same one that African Americans used to gain their freedom long ago. Supply stations, in other words, along the route of operations.<BR/><BR/>Having no supply stations and relying on overwhelming manpower, once again, another fatal mistake that slowed down the Taiping Heavenly Army in their vain attempts to capture Beijing in 1853.<BR/>The Taiping sent out perhaps the largest expedition force in the 19th century, perhaps right after the size of Napoleon's Russian expedition. Their goal was to capture Beijing, the heart of Qing imperial power.<BR/><BR/>Led by two kings, the expeditionary force crushed through the countryside like an unstoppable earth-moving machine, yet all machines need FUEL, and that is where the monster Taiping jauggernaut broke down. Following the Taiping armies were even larger supply convoys, train after train of peasants pulling large oxen-driven wagons. These supply trains were irresistible targets for fast moving Mongol cavalry led by Lord Senggolinqin, The Qing Dynasty's most vaunted commander.<BR/><BR/>By the time the Taiping engine of conquest grinded it's way to Zhijiazhuang, 75 miles from Beijing, their supply lines had been fractured, torn apart by vicious cavalry attacks, blown to pieces and burned away by relentless artillery fire. During the following battle with 8 banner armies of the Qing Dynasty, the remnants of the Taiping expeditionary force fought well, but they ran out of ammunition quickly. Unable to retreat, surrounded by cavalry and artillery, unable to advance and inflict a desisive frontal attack, the Taipings were slaughtered, along with the two kings that commanded the force.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-24062765711353409792009-01-16T13:27:00.000-06:002009-01-16T13:27:00.000-06:00A new friend I met in Indiana, a fighting parson s...A new friend I met in Indiana, a fighting parson sort of fellow with a penchant for M14 pattern rifles, dubs such newbies "Mobile Replenishment Pods."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-58227176936511215032009-01-16T13:05:00.000-06:002009-01-16T13:05:00.000-06:00i don't see anything about cleaning those guns, or...i don't see anything about cleaning those guns, or reloading ammo.<BR/><BR/>i don't see anything about navigating those expensive vehicles.<BR/><BR/>i don't see anything about growing food.<BR/><BR/>i see guys with cool toys who are preparing for a cartoon version of the disaster they're worried about.<BR/><BR/>and, they're going to be sitting on a huge beacon which says "come rob and kill my entire family." oh, i mean, a huge pile of gold.<BR/><BR/>my mistake.jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02615104086703717817noreply@blogger.com