Ok guys, everyone who asked me for pricing info…you need to get your list of what you want in to me TODAY so I can see if we have enough interest to make this happen. Send my your list and be sure the subject line is “Group buy” or else it’ll get caught in the spam filters.
Need to hear from you soonest so I can do the math and see if this is gonna happen.
zero@commanderzero dot com
The 25th of this month (Friday) will be the cutoff date for determining how we’re doing on the Mountain House group buy. If you want in, you need to send me the list of what you want by the 25th. Once everyone has that info in, I’ll add it up and if we hit the magic numer then the call will go out for payment. Payment is to be in the form of cashiers check or US postal money order. Why? Because if you send a personal check then we can’t do anything until it clears and thats usually a week or two. But…no one sends anything until we’ve determined that we have enough orders to meet the minimum.
Recap: I need your list of what you want by Friday. Whatever you want must be divisible by six. Six cans, twelve cans, eighteen cans, twentyfour cans…you get the idea. Four cans? No. Eleven cans? No. Divisible by six.
Every now and then you get that “How do I meet Like-Minded Individuals” question. My standard answer, which is quite true, is that it happens organically – you don’t search them out and find them, you just naturally come across them. Today’s encounter is a good example.
I was chatting up my mailman about guns and he says he has a .338 Lapua in a Savage.
“Nice. I’ve always wanted one of those”, I say. “Did you get it for hunting?”
Him: <pause> Uhm. Kinda.
Me: Ah, I get it. Say no more.
Him: Yeah, it’s to keep people away from my place.
Me: Hey, I hear ya. I’m on the same page.
(And then, with the ice broken, the flow begins…)
Him: My family has a place out in [town about 100 miles away]. I was in the military and I just don’t like the direction things are going. Have you seen this Supreme Court nominee? And there’s……
And just like that, there’s another survivalist in the mix. Thats the second letter carrier on my route who is Of Similar Mind. Go figure.
They’re going to come in on the Mountain House group buy.
Reminder: another week and a half until this MH group buy thing hit’s the finish line.
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Cheapest AR from a manufacturer whose name you’d actually recognize: CDNN has a S&W no-frills AR for $600. If you can live with an AR from someone you never may have heard of, you can find them as low as $500 for a complete gun. Novemeber 5th you won’t be able to find it at twice the price.
And before folks chime in with the “Yeah, but those are dealer prices”…so what? Most FFL’s charge around $20-30 to do a transfer, so have them order one up for you and youre still way ahead of the game.
If your tastes run to .308, get a PTR-91 for $850. Well made .308 battle rifle at a giveaway price.
Now is the time to buy if you plan on making some profit from the coming Dark Times.
The end of the month approacheth. If you want in on the MH group buy, let me know. If you already have the info, start making a list of what you want and get it to me at your convenience so I can figure if we have enough participants to make this happen.
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Hmm…with Sanders effectively out of the running, it looks like it’ll be Trump vs. Tramp or Cruz vs. Cooze. I’m confident that Trump won’t get the nomination, and that it’ll go to Cruz instead. (These aren’t necessarily endorsements….I’m just saying this is what I think will happen.) In a Cruz/Clinton race..well…get those magazines and AR lowers now. Like, today.
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CostCO had Scepter manufactured gas cans the other day. Sadly, these cans use the outrageous CARB-compliant nozzles so they are fairly useless. However, there are plenty of places to buy replacement nozzles that actually work. I don’t like plastic gas cans, but these are at least a little better, IMHO, than the old Blitz plastic cans. (The Blitz seemed a little thin in the plastic department.)
This is about ten bucks cheaper than what Amazon has them for, so…not a bad deal. Assuming youre okay with plastic gas cans. I prefer metal NATo/’Euro’ cans, but for feeding the lawnmower and snowblower these would be okay.
Just a reminder that the Mountain House Cans group buy is still in it’s formative stage. If you’re interested, details are here. If you’ve already gotten the info and you know what you want, you should send me a list so I can add it to the ones I already have and we can see if the threshold for minimum order ($3500~) has been met. If you don’t know whatyou want yet, thats fine too, but try to have a list ready by the end of the month…which is when this thing either launches or gets scrubbed.
Reminder about Mountain House group buy possibility.
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As you might expect, it wasnt a real M203 for federal reasons. But..since it shot shotgun shells, there may have been other issues since that barrel looks less than 18″.
Nonetheless…interesting article to read for those of us who have seen the movies mentioned.
While an M203 might be nice, I think I’d rather have a Milkor.
Well, first of all, let’s throw in a link to a proposed Mountain House group buy if I can get enough warm bodies on board.
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The folks at Jerking The Trigger have a link to a vendor selling a bulk package of AR lower parts kits…enough to build up 50 lowers.
That comes out to about $43.99/kit…which isnt bad since Stag, my go-to guys, sell them for $54 a set.
Still….$2200 is a lot of money to plop down at once. On the other hand, if you’re sitting on a stash of lowers, it might be just the opportunity to save some money in their assembly.
Well, first of all, let’s throw in a link to a proposed Mountain House group buy if I can get enough warm bodies on board.
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Now that that’s out of the way…
A few posts back I commented that CostCo had ‘ammo cans’ for sale…a .50 and a .30 for $19.99. I speculated that these were Made In China and therefore not worth my time. Some poeple took issue with that. So…back to CostCo today. Let’s just cut right through the foreplay and get to the money shot:
Now, to be absolutely fair, these appear to be a different brand of ammo cans than what was there a couple weeks ago:
However, I’m willing to bet that there are several companies buying these cans in bulk and rebranding them as their own. So, as far as I’m concerned….no, not the ‘real deal’.
Caveat emptor, kids.
Years ago I did a group buy (or maybe several of them) on Mountain House stuff. MH has a certain minimum order threshold that has to be met in order to get discounts on shipping and whatnot. In the years since I last ordered a pallet of goodies from them they have added quite a few new products. So….
If I can get enough people interested in going in on a big purchase of #10 cans (and perhaps pouches), then I’ll do another group buy. Its pretty simple…you’d email me a list of what you want, either PayPal or send a money order for the total, and when the truck gets here I break up the order and pack it up, calculate and pay shipping, and send it along. Everyone wins.
But…to do it requires several thousand bucks in orders. If anyone is interested, email me and I’ll send you back a price list and other info. At the moment, it looks like any order must be divisible by six cans per box, but you can mix/match for those six…or twelve, or eighteen, or whatever. Shipping will be by actual weight per box of six cans. When everyone has their wants listed, if it adds up to enough to get the shipping and discounts, then payment will be requested and the order placed. When it gets here, I’ll repackage it and forward it on. Same as last time.
Ideally, we’d be looking at placing the order at the end of the month and delivery is usually a couple weeks after.
email is zero@commanderzero.com . Subject line should be “Group Buy” or else it’s just going to get caught in my spam filters.
