Four days on the his-prices-are-insane 10/22 mag sale. Four days. After that the page gets taken down. Stocking stuffers, investment, grandkids, secret squirrel cache, whatever….. there’s always a reason to sock a dozen or so mags away. Get some.
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Anything of note going on these days? Doesn’t seem like it. Summer is usually the time to test some gear and take advantage of the usual summer slump in metals prices. Other than that, not much going on.
I’m pretty busy these days with ‘normal’ stuff, but there’s always that little voice in the back of the head that says “Hey…stay frosty, man. Today could be The Day.” It’s really easy to get lax when there’s electricity, hot water, and a fridge full of food at hand. All of that can change like that (:::snaps fingers:::) But, still, it’s hard to stay focused sometimes.
I’ve been cleaning up the ‘extra’ guns and getting them ready for the Deep Sleep. Basically it’s a very detailed cleaning, a generous amount of lubrication, and seal it up in a Pelican case with some dessicant. Handguns are easier…clean and oil, and then stuff them in a nice new ammo can with some ammo, a holster, and some other odds and ends. A package like that can get tucked behind some drywall and be perfectly serviceable in fifty or a hundred years.
Happens from time to time, y’know. I remember reading about a guy in Illinois that found a fully functional Tommy gun and mags, with the receipt from the hardware store, hidden in the wall of his house. And, of course, in Europe you never know what you’ll find when you pull up a floor or tear up a roof on an old house.
Here in Montana, you sometimes find guns where you least expect them…. someone loss a rifle in the woods, old cabins have a hidden cubby with a rifle in it, that sort of thing. I’ve never found an old gun that way but I know people who have. (I suppose the Watergun might count.)
Guns are a tremendously durable good….as the saying goes, their only natural enemies are rust and politicians. Same goes for magazines, too.
Working, by super successfully but trying, on fitness and thinning down a bit.
Been organizing gear into cohesive systems.
Gotten a couple good deals recently that are primed for the deep sleep.
Waiting for a couple short term stock bets to pay out then I’ll take some mad money off the table and turn it into gold.
Other than that the usual saving and Ira stuff. When kiddo time ends I’ll get back to IDPA, 3 gun and extra work to make cash.
Forget gold,stack silver and wait for the price differential to revert and trade at a profit 3:1?
I was working in Whitefish a while back when a contractor that s remodeling the bathroom came out with a very old highly figured double barrel he found behind the wall. When he showed it to the lady she flipped out. She wanted it out of the house and destroyed immediately. Apparently even though it had been in her house for years now that it was in the light it was dangerous. Bumped into the contractor later he said he totally destroyed it t the range. Worked fine still.
I’ve vacuum-sealed a few with the Foodsaver. Cleaned, steel parts well coated with an oil film, wood stock (if any) removed and vac-bagged separately, dessicant pouch inside the magwell (if there’s a magwell). Turns out removing the pistol grip, optics and (for some) the adjustable stock butt juuuust allows fitting into an 11″ wide bag. Handguns and magazines, though, are easy. Hobby Lobby (and others, I suspect), sells silica dessicant material in 5 lb bags (it’ll need oven drying before use), a little work with muslin on the Singer makes “breathable” pouches in whatever size you want.
Foodsaver bag material isn’t “burial/cache” sturdy, but as far as protection from humidity, etc., in the safe it seems to work. Might also work OK in PVC caches, I dunno.
If you have not got a vacuum-sealer some people use a water bath to push the air out, but you risk putting water into the bag. Use ‘play-sand’ not water as it’s dry. You can use any sand but ‘play-sand’ will be clean, fine and not have anything sharp in it.
Commander:
One of the central pivots of life is “Murphy’s Law”.
You KNOW that “The Day” will not come until you are
A. In hospital.
B. A thousand miles from home on holiday.
C. Working at Ground Zero (no pun intended!)
D. The day AFTER a fire has ruined a large part of your reserves.
There are times I think the Lord has a sense of humour!
“ …in Europe you never know what you’ll find when you pull up a floor or tear up a roof on an old house.”
A few years ago we were visiting a good friend in Germany. His place was in a tiny town an hour outside Berlin. In conversation, he told us that a week before our arrival he had been cleaning out the attic. He grabbed a box that was under a big water cistern and looked inside. Sure enough, he found a dozen old Soviet hand grenades.
Educate me please; if you oil a pistol, then put it in an ammo can with ammo, holster & such, how do you keep the oil from deadening the primers in the ammunition?