Bragging Friend talks too much

[GearheadExplorer85]

I'm pretty closed off about this hobby. Only my parents and my closest friend of 20 years knows I'm into shooting.

Recently, there was one lady that I met at a local Meetup group and hung out with a few times. She is a nice enough lady, but she said a lot of things to me that raised a lot of red flags.
- During one conversation, she talked about wanting to learn how to shoot because she wanted to go to Ukraine and Central African Republic
- Claimed that her deceased boyfriend years ago was in the special forces and that his father was Delta Force
- Talked about all the places around the world she's been and famous people she has hung out with

Of course, she never said any of this stuff during meetups with other people around. It was only when it was me and her having a 1-on-1 conversation. I have no way to verify that any of her stories are true, but I don't feel I need to. My intuition was telling me she is straight up lying or embellishing a lot of these stories to make herself sound more interesting than she really is. So despite her supposed interest in shooting, she failed my sniff test and I chose to keep my lips zipped. My thinking is that if she is willing to lie to me like this after only a few meetings, she would probably be willing to spread lies to others about me too.

I'll still talk to her during group outings, but I'm definitely keeping her at arm's length.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

What's he got for food storage? You can't eat brass and lead.

But you can trade it for food.....or use it to "persuade" people to give you their food.

 

[buck460XVR]

Based on the OP’s story, I agree with most of the board that the friend is just sharing with other friends. Maybe the OP wasn’t the friend to share with? I don’t know.

^^^ Yep.

While I don't particularly savor being around braggarts, it's hard to be on any public forum without being exposed to them. Take this forum for instance and the ongoing "have you bought anything gun related lately?" thread. How about whenever folks start a thread about how much ammo or reloading supplies they have. Always a few that not only have to brag, but have to condescend folks that don't have as much.

What bothers me more than the friend that likes to brag about himself, is the friend who feels the need to tell the world about what I have done or have.

 

[Jim Watson]

But you can trade it for food.....or use it to "persuade" people to give you their food.

Right. I figure the "survivalists" plan to get by in a post apocalyptic world by brigandage on the "preppers".

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Right. I figure the "survivalists" plan to get by in a post apocalyptic world by brigandage on the "preppers".

I prefer to think of it as a fuedal arrangement. Lets face it, everyone always pays tribute to someone else in every society, one way or another.

 

[drobs]

But you can trade it for food.....or use it to "persuade" people to give you their food.

That's how you die early on. This is the USA everyone has guns.

 

[PWC]

Buy Gold & Silver! they about to drop a new currency that’s about to make the Dollar and Euro look like toilet paper

Tell me, how do you intend to use the gold or silver bullion worth $1k or coins worth $3-5 hundred dollars apiece to buy some cans of soup and bread?

That will be true inflation. In Thialand in the 60s, your wealth was carried in gold chains like heavy necklaces. Customer clipped off links and seller weighed them up to sale price.

Do you propose to shave bullion, or clip coins?

 

[Mark_Mark]

Tell me, how do you intend to use the gold or silver bullion worth $1k or coins worth $3-5 hundred dollars apiece to buy some cans of soup and bread?

That will be true inflation. In Thialand in the 60s, your wealth was carried in gold chains like heavy necklaces. Customer clipped off links and seller weighed them up to sale price.

Do you propose to shave bullion, or clip coins?

they sell 1 gram gold pieces in sheets. 20 gram coins, ….. lots of gold & silver products for the common person. Deviation is the real key here!

 

[hk940]

It’s probably gained more value than the dollar has over the past 20 years…

Aggree with that. During the scamdemic I sold 240 rounds of 30-06 AP for$450.00+ shipping and 250 .38 wad cutters (factory) for $250.00+ shipping

 

[hk940]

they sell 1 gram gold pieces in sheets. 20 gram coins, ….. lots of gold & silver products for the common person. Deviation is the real key here!

The problem is when word gets around that you have gold, guns/ammo you become a target.

 

[Mark_Mark]

The problem is when word gets around that you have gold, guns/ammo you become a target.

or become the War Lord!

 

[hk940]

That's Lord of war! There are enough guns in the world to arm every 12th person. my job is to arm the other 11!

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

That's Lord of war! There are enough guns in the world to arm every 12th person. my job is to arm the other 11!

One of the best movies ever made.
Love the scene where the AK shakes and flexes when fired FA in slow-motion.

 

[JTHunter]

Tell me, how do you intend to use the gold or silver bullion worth $1k or coins worth $3-5 hundred dollars apiece to buy some cans of soup and bread?

That will be true inflation. In Thialand in the 60s, your wealth was carried in gold chains like heavy necklaces. Customer clipped off links and seller weighed them up to sale price.

Do you propose to shave bullion, or clip coins?

In addition to what Mark_Mark said about gram weight pieces, you can also buy copper bullion in various sizes for low denominations, silver ingots/bullion in 1 troy oz., 10 oz., and even 100 oz. "bricks". In addition to silver and gold, you can buy (if you can find it) platinum and palladium at prices less than gold.
I just checked

https://www.monex.com/liveprices/

and these are the spot prices.
Silver - $23.13
Platinum - $935.00
Palladium - $1,275.00
Gold - $1,927.00
If you don't want to buy copper bullion, you can try using clean (bare) electrical wire(solid is better) or copper water pipes.

 

[JTHunter]

That's Lord of war! There are enough guns in the world to arm every 12th person. my job is to arm the other 11!

Several years ago, there was a poll/survey that showed the average American owned 8 firearms.
If that is correct, then all I could think of is that there is some poor soul out there with none.

 

[Poper]

20 1 pounders? Psssh. He has a lot of catching up to do if he wants to hang with the big boys

I'll say!
Heck, last I looked I had 6 8lb. jugs and 30 or so 1 pound bottles. And I haven't bought much of anything since before the latest panic.
(I really need to do an inventory so as to limit my variety a bit.)

 

[epags]

Does he have a Glock,Ruger or AR sticker on the back of his pick up? Or even better a "This house is protected by Smith and Wesson" sign on his house.Sounds like this would be his typical MO.

LOL. I USED to have a "I support 'the local' Sheriff sticker on my car. Had to report of jury duty selection and afterwards found my car keyed on both sides. Don't advertise anything......there is always someone who is against it.

 

[Old Dog]

LOL. I USED to have a "I support 'the local' Sheriff sticker on my car. Had to report of jury duty selection and afterwards found my car keyed on both sides. Don't advertise anything......there is always someone who is against it.

Yeah, our old office was in the same building as the county courthouse -- there was one parking lot you just didn't want to park in... (revolving door of felons and their families going in and out, looking to lash out anyway they could).

Back on topic, it's probably prudent to let family members know to be discreet about who they share information with. At a daughter's wedding, a couple of folks, upon meeting the wife and I, told us, "When the (pick one) tsunami/earthquake/EMP event/zombie outbreak starts, we're coming over to your place, we hear you have lots of guns and ammo." Daughter and son-in-law were strongly warned.

The problem is when word gets around that you have gold, guns/ammo you become a target.

Not just the gold/guns/ammo -- we don't talk about our food, water or toilet paper stockpiles, either, and the generator can't be seen unless someone braves the dogs and manages to get over the fence in the back yard...

 

[The Night Rider]

they sell 1 gram gold pieces in sheets. 20 gram coins, ….. lots of gold & silver products for the common person. Deviation is the real key here!

What are you going to do when they introduce this new currency (which will probably be electronic) and the very first thing they do is Outlaw all gold transactions?

I've got news for you bro, paper currency is already worthless. The only value it has is what we as a society agree that it has. You do know that the only difference between the $1 bill and $100 bill is printing on it right?

 

[The Night Rider]

This discussion is on its way out.

So let me say this before it gets closed, once you let information out it's out there and you have no control over it.

There's an old story I used to hear in church about one person who slandered another.

When the one went to apologize and ask forgiveness from the other the offended party handed him a feather pillow and told him to take it downtown and rip open the casing and let the feathers go.

The slander did that and went back to the offended party and told him so and the offended party told him to go back downtown and pick up every single one of those feathers.

If you exchange slandering somebody for telling somebody your business the stories are the same. Once you let those feathers lose there's no getting them back.

If you don't live under my roof you don't need to know what goes on under my roof

 

[tarosean]

Money comes and goes. Ammo is forever if stored properly

Or a fire.. nothing is forever.

 

[tdbmd]

We all know or have a friend that likes to be the center of attention. I have a high school friend like this.
Me and a few others were at his house having a grill out over the weekend. He started talking about how much ammo and reloading supplies he had and wanted to know what we all had.
I'm one of these types my wife don't even know that info. But he began to brag about all his stuff, and of course he had to show us.
He said he's ready for the apocalypse. Go to his man cave, he busts out about 60k of assorted ammo.
I counted about 8k 9mm, 20k 22lr, about 4k of 12ga and was able to see 10k of 223, the rest was buried in other ammo cans.
He had about 10k in primers and looked to be 20 1lb cans of assorted powder. I'll say I was impressed. I for one think that's quite the stash. But to show that off is a huge Red Flag in my book.Whats funny is a friend asked too see in his safes. He said that was private

One of the hoarders driving up ammo prices, I would think

 

[welldoya]

I’ve noticed on the few firearm forums and FB pages that I’m on that the shooting sports has more than its share of braggarts.
A guy will post a picture of his gun and instead of just commenting “nice”, people will posts pictures of the 3 guns they own that are similar.
I don’t get it, these are people that you don’t know and will never meet. Not that bragging to people that you know is any better.

 

[The Night Rider]

A guy will post a picture of his gun and instead of just commenting “nice”, people will posts pictures of the 3 guns they own that are similar.
I don’t get it, these are people that you don’t know and will never meet. Not that bragging to people that you know is any better.

People want to belong. When you post a picture of your tricked out gun they post a similar picture to show that they're like you, they're one of the cool kids.

 

[lightman]

Tell me, how do you intend to use the gold or silver bullion worth $1k or coins worth $3-5 hundred dollars apiece to buy some cans of soup and bread?

That will be true inflation. In Thialand in the 60s, your wealth was carried in gold chains like heavy necklaces. Customer clipped off links and seller weighed them up to sale price.

Do you propose to shave bullion, or clip coins?

Good Point!

Having read accounts from people who have actually survived these situations it seems that precious metals and jewelry are pretty far down the list of valuables. Food, water, ammo, fire starting stuff, medical supplies, alcohol will be more in demand.