One customer wanted to know if he could use 10mm in his 9mm gun as it was "only one bigger".
Admit it - you were tempted ... You didn't say "yes" - but you at least thought about it , right?
One customer wanted to know if he could use 10mm in his 9mm gun as it was "only one bigger".
My gf did right today. Last 3 loafs of bread on the shelf and o needed one for my mom and she needed one. She didn’t take 3. She said I left one for someone who actually needs it.
People are showing there unpreparedness everywhere.
I hope this blows over in a month but if it turns into a long winter, there are more important things to buy than another gun. (assuming you already have a couple)
...Meanwhile I watched a woman snatch a case of spaghetti from a worker and cases of canned goods off pallets. I then watched an 80yo man in his power chair circle the aisles at Walmart looking for food....
One cart at Walmart had about 10 jugs of Lysol wipes in it. Hell washing every day it would take me 3 months to get through all those wipes. My gf did right today. Last 3 loafs of bread on the shelf and o needed one for my mom and she needed one. She didn’t take 3. She said I left one for someone who actually needs it.
BigBL87: I prefer Golden Bullet or Automatch, but have plenty of Federal stored at home. Fed real is not so reliable in the new Ruger Mark IV or M&P....so...
An hour ago I almost entered my credit card number for three smallish bricks of Automatch...
..then I saw that “TN Sales Tax” had been added.
—No way!
I deleted the page. You guys can have all the .22 you want if you consider both Shipping And Sales Tax acceptable. If my local Academy raises prices much (nobody can forecast), I’ll simply wait as long as needed for the prices to return to normal.
Mmm. I'm not particularly concerned with meat. Whole woods filled with rabbit, squirrel, deer and various other beasties.
I've actually put thought to that. Why not *catch* rabbits ? Raise em for meat. Fur, etc. Make it sustainable. And have enough vegetables and such to avoid protein poisoning.So, I wanted to take a moment to reply to this, because I used to think the same way. It's certainly very romantic and manly and harkens back to Jeremiah Johnson etc., etc., etc. However, let us take an historical look at this idea for a moment using the pre-contact (before the arrival of Europeans) history of Native Alaskan groups as a case study.
At the time of arrival of the first Europeans in Alaska, ca 1750 AD, native peoples in Alaska were living an entirely subsistence lifestyle with hunting at the center of food production for most groups. Most groups lived in communities of 50-150 people. A community of 300 would have been a thriving metropolis. Groups lived hundreds of miles away from each other, but traveled in seasonal patterns to engage in trade. Now here is where I get to my point. These small bands of hunter gatherers each had a territory that, in many cases were similar in size to our smaller New England states, and yet, hunger and starvation were not uncommon.
Now think about your specific locale and the hunting regulations and game management strategies in your area. What would happen to game populations in your area if everyone (heck if only half of everyone) started hunting solely for food and solely out of desperation? (Because you know that no one is going to abide by hunting restrictions or respect private property in this scenario.)
I can tell you that, in my area, every moose within 100 miles of where I now sit would be dead within 1-2 weeks. The vast majority of those will be cows (females). If you're a hunter, I don't have to tell you what the result would be. For those who may not be hunters: it would result in a collapse of the herd, a massive population decline from which recovery would not be possible. At least not in our lifetimes and only with intensive management and government protection. We need only look to the buffalo of the Great Plains for a real life example.
So this notion that we're all going to hunt and live off the land, while rich with romanticism, is neither possible nor sustainable. I wish it were, but there are farrrrrrr to many people in the U.S. for this to be viable.
I apologize to the group for the lengthy post.
So, I wanted to take a moment to reply to this, because I used to think the same way. It's certainly very romantic and manly and harkens back to Jeremiah Johnson etc., etc., etc. However, let us take an historical look at this idea for a moment using the pre-contact (before the arrival of Europeans) history of Native Alaskan groups as a case study.
At the time of arrival of the first Europeans in Alaska, ca 1750 AD, native peoples in Alaska were living an entirely subsistence lifestyle with hunting at the center of food production for most groups. Most groups lived in communities of 50-150 people. A community of 300 would have been a thriving metropolis. Groups lived hundreds of miles away from each other, but traveled in seasonal patterns to engage in trade. Now here is where I get to my point. These small bands of hunter gatherers each had a territory that, in many cases were similar in size to our smaller New England states, and yet, hunger and starvation were not uncommon.
Now think about your specific locale and the hunting regulations and game management strategies in your area. What would happen to game populations in your area if everyone (heck if only half of everyone) started hunting solely for food and solely out of desperation? (Because you know that no one is going to abide by hunting restrictions or respect private property in this scenario.)
I can tell you that, in my area, every moose within 100 miles of where I now sit would be dead within 1-2 weeks. The vast majority of those will be cows (females). If you're a hunter, I don't have to tell you what the result would be. For those who may not be hunters: it would result in a collapse of the herd, a massive population decline from which recovery would not be possible. At least not in our lifetimes and only with intensive management and government protection. We need only look to the buffalo of the Great Plains for a real life example.
So this notion that we're all going to hunt and live off the land, while rich with romanticism, is neither possible nor sustainable. I wish it were, but there are farrrrrrr to many people in the U.S. for this to be viable.
I apologize to the group for the lengthy post.