A couple ridiculous sales on Amazon today…Pelican cases at really good prices including shipping, if you have Prime. These are the ‘trunk’-type cases. I use them for storing my winter survival vehicle gear, but they are also perfect for off-site storage at your resupply or secondary locations. The 1650 is the one I use. Since I’m stuffing it with a sleep system and a ton of other gear, I usually don’t get the foam insert, which brings the price down.
link – Sales of Guns and Ammo. What Could Ever Go Wrong?
I swear, last one……..
And speaking of gun purchases that may come back to bite you in the buttocks, Claire has a post about something I was reading a few days ago. The article is behind a NYT paywall, but quick fingers with a ctrl+c managed to get me a copy of the article to paste into Word so I could read it. Here’s another outfits take on it.
The gist of the article is that mass shooters, according to the idiot writing the article, woldn’t be able to amass their ‘vast arsenals’ without the use of consumer credit. Therefore, banks should notify ‘the authorities’ when transactions show them buying ‘suspicious’ amounts of guns, ammo, etc.
Never mind that any person with two brain cells to rub together would figure out the easiest way to avoid that would be to buy ‘normal’ stuff on credit, resell it for cash, and then purchase with cash.
But, most importantly, who wants a bank reporting on your purchases to .gov? Cash, baby….thats why theyre trying to push you away from it. Cash makes no enemies. buy your guns without paperwork, for cash, and avoid the whole nonsense.
AK mags
You guys remember this from six months ago? Well, a similar deal has arrived.
Last time was the Tapco Intrafuse 20-rd AK mags, 10/$100 inc. shipping.
Same deal, same price, but this time they are 30-rd mags in FDE/Desert/Beige/Coyote or whatever they call that sandy color these days.
So: Ten 30-rd mags for $100, delivered. Or, put another way, 50% more capacity for 0% more in price.
Ten of ’em fit in a Medium Flat Rate box, to all 50 states..including the usually-expensive-to-ship-to Hawaii and Alaska. Email me for an invoice you can pay online and start socking ’em away.
zero@commanderzero.com
The Closing Of The Year
I don’t do Christmas, but I know many of you do. And there’s nothing that says you have to be a Christmas person to enjoy Christmas music. So..one of my faves.
That Placido guy is pretty good…he should go pro.
For those about to Glock……..
Having hit the Magic Number on Ruger P95DC pistols, I have now rung the bell on Glock 9mm’s.
$300, plus shipping, off GunBroker. Excellent condition. Came with one stupid 10-rd mag but I have a couple hundred Glock mags so thats not a big deal.
Still gotta pad out the AR, 870, and 10/22 collection though. Halfway there on those.
Seasons Meatings
Minding my own business, wandering through the meat department…….
Well…let’s see…thats $3.33/# at 50% off. So it’s really $1.67/#. But…27% fat means, in theory, you lose 27% of that in cooking… so you’re really paying $2.28/# for the actual meat you pull out of the oven. But, for beef, $2.28 is still a good deal. In reality, this is getting mixed with a bunch of 93/7 that was similarly marked down, resulting in an 85/15 blend which is what we normally use for burgers and the like. So…meatloaf. (and , yes, I know in practicality you don’t lose the whole % of fat when you cook it. I just like the numbers game.)
When it comes to animal protein, it turns out that chicken is usually the least expensive. Pork is next least. Beef is the most expensive unless you somehow have a hankering for lamb. As a result, I tend to not eat much beef except for cheeseburgers. However, I do love me some meatloaf and if I can get the meat on sale….meatloaf.
Normally I would say that this is all going in the freezer but I’ve decided to take advantage of the sub-freezing temps outside to move all the frozen food outside in milk rates and defrost my freezer (and organize it). So, thats definitely an agenda thing today.
I didn’t go hungry in 2018 and I’m going to try and keep that streak going in 2019. Sales like this let me do that.
And, finally, a few people kicked in a few bucks with the donation button and wished me a happy holiday. I appreciate it, and I thank you very much. Every little bit goes towards keeping the lights on here at the blog, as well as sometimes allowing me the purchase for a piece of gear to beat the crap out of. Im sure someone is going to chime in and say “…and Rugers”. Nope. I actually keep a pretty tight rein on blog income/expenses versus my own expenses. Any money that comes in goes to hosting, domain registration, backup software, that sort of thing. On the extremely rare occasions that donations actually exceed those needs, I usually mark it for things that I can review and bring the results to you guys.
A quiet day at the range
Cold out there today, but any day at the range is usually a fun one.
Siege arrival and end of the year
The bundle o’ Siege’s I ordered up from that megasuperawesome sale a few days ago showed up today. One or two will got out this weekend as holiday gifts. The rest…well….Zero needs lighting.
This recent purchase of a fairly substantial quantity of D-batt using devices means that I need to head up to CostCo this weekend and pick up more batteries. I picked some up last weekend and I was rather shocked at what D-batts cost these days. To be fair, I hadn’t bought any in a while but they still seemed egregiously expensive.
And, as 2018 limps to a finish, my goal is for 2019 to not be an expensive year. This year was a tad heavy on gun purchases. How heavy? Uhmmm….six carbines, seven Ruger 9mm pistols (I clearly lost track of how many on that one), four 12 ga shotguns, a couple Glocks, and one or two pocket guns.
But…also managed to sock away a chunk of Mountain House freeze drieds, put back almost 50k rounds of .22, and actually managed to put a bit of money in the bank.
At the moment, my preparedness goals for 2019 are extremely unsexy: pay off house, get money in the bank, try not to buy All The Guns.
You’d think that wouldn’t be that hard, but you’d be wrong……..
The longing for a .338
Well, I hope you guys took advantage of that $20 deal onthe Siege’s yesterday. Some of you must have because according to the Amazon affiliate logs, 96 of them were sold off that link I posted. And even though I had bought three last week, who could resist at $20? So I ordered another three for myself. I’ll hand out one or two as holiday gifts.
For those of you who didn’t manage to read that post in time and get under the midnight deadline they had…well…perhaps next year?
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In other news, my gun buying habit, which is starting to get a tad outta control, needs to be reined in because Ruger has finally come out with their precision rifle in .338 Lapua. I got to handle one the other day and it is…big. It’s about 15# of rifle, which is really, really challenging the idea of man-portability. It’s not easy to imagine this gun as something you’d sling over your shoulder while carrying a backpack. It’s a heavy rifle. Of course, if you wanna dish it out you gotta be able to take it. The tradeoff against the 33% lighter .308 is, of course, bullet weight and a very pronounced increase in range (and operating costs).
Anyway, I’ve been wanting a .338 Lapua for a while and I was pretty much settled in on getting the Savage but I’d like to read the reviews on the Ruger offering.
How expensive? Well, its going to be about $1500 for the base gun, figure another grand (at least) for the scope. Support gear will be another $500 or so. It adds up in a hurry.
I suspect this is one of those things I’ll daydream over for a year or two until some circumstance occurs that affords me the opportunity to get one of these things. But, in the meantime, I can start collecting the less expensive parts of the package, like dies, brass, etc. As I said, the two biggest hits will be the gun and the glass.
You know, if Ruger would come out with a pump or auto shotgun you could have a survivlist’s armory filled with nothing but Ruger products…AR, 1911, .357 DA revolver, .22 rifle, etc, etc.
Deal – Siege lantern $20 at Amazon
If you’ve got Amazon Prime, theyve got the Siege lanterns for twenty bucks, inc. shipping. Maximum quantity of three. Excellent deal and an awesome price that lets you get folks a cool holiday gift. Deal ends at midnight. Link doesnt say $19.99, but when you click it and get to Amazon its priced at $19.99. Go!
Thanks to the person who told me about this deal in comments.
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One is none, baby!
