Tag Archives: bargains

AK mags

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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

 

Seasons Meatings

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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.

 

 

Deal – Siege lantern $20 at Amazon

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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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Money v. Goods II

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I had mentioned that next paycheck I was going to work an item or two off my proposed Go Heavy list. As it turns out, I woke to a mailbox with a paystub from a former employer paying me for…I have no idea what. I’m guessing a payroll error somewhere got caught in an audit and this is what happens. Regardless, it means that I can go ahead and start my little experiment.

The format is actually pretty simple. Whatever I buy a huge quantity of will be marked with the date, place of purchase, and price. At the end of the year, there are two possible outcomes (well, really an infinite number of possible outcomes, but liet’s not split metaphysical hairs…) – either I am out of the item, in which case that means the amount purchased was, in fact, not a years supply (QED), or there is some product left which indicates that I overestimated. At the end of the year I’ll see if the prices have changed and figure what that change was, and I’ll have my percentage (+/-) of what purchasing en masse at the beginning of the year saved me.

Of course, this doesn’t have to take place at the beginning of the year, it can take place whenever you want as long as you faithfully track 12-months from the starting point.

My list of items to store has actually gotten fairly long. Food, housewares, etc. Since some of the items on my list are actually on sale now at Albertsons, I’ll probably start with those and work from there. Should be interesting.

Gobble gobble

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There is a LOT of turkey,  Butterballs marked down 50%, going into the freezer this week. I actually had to do some shuffling around to fit them all in there. Vacuum sealer is getting a workout. Yay turkey!

And thats just the first trip to the store…..

Friday of Color approaches

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The pre-Friday Of Color sales are starting to pop up. Most noteworthy thing I’ve seen so far has been Palmetto pushing Pmags for $8. That’s not bad price, but I think I can do better.

Really, the only things I’m going to be chasing this FOC is AR (and other) mags and AR lowers. Oh, sure, if I can find .223 delivered for a reasonable price I might kick that in the basket too.

Don’t be shy…email me or comment with the best deals you’ve found on preparedness goodies and gun stuff. No point in keeping it all to yourself.

Personal touches

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Text message:

Him: GLock 21 w/ 4 magazines
Me: Price?
Him: [price]
Me: I’ll take it
Me: Curse you

And that’s when I realized I got so caught up in New Gun Fever I failed to ask some basic questions.. like what Gen Glock? Factory mags? Box-n-docs? Condition?

Now, since I already said I’d take it, I couldn’t then start asking those questions and expecting him to be okay with me changing my price. So..I hoped for the best.

Didn’t do too bad.

First disappointment was that it was a Gen 2… no lightrail. But…hmm..someone put aftermarket fiber optic night sights on there (yes, self luminous). Ok, thats kinda nice. Take it apart and…hmm..a Nowlin replacement recoil assembly. And the magazines all have +2 extensions on them. Hmmm. So what we have here are the signs of someone who took good care of their guns. Let’s see how good…:::peel back the foam from the inside of the gun case::: sure enough, under the foam is the original factory recoil assembly, the receipts from Brownells, and some other useful info. Not too shabby.

I’m not a .45 guy. I have a very nice, very tweaked 1911 and have never felt the need for more than that. And these big frame Glocks never fit my hand. But…this is a nice gun. I’m tempted to keep it, especially since it’ll go nicely with the little G30 I still have sitting here.

But..I’ve no interest in retooling my logistics table. First nice Gen 3 17,17L,19, or 34 that someone wants to trade will wind up taking this thing home.

 

I should just buy controlling stock in Ruger and be done with it

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Yeah. Uhm….so that happened:I’ll be phasing out a couple of P95’s in favor of these p95DC’s. I’ve never really seen the need for a manual safety on a double-action auto. The pistols were a case of heading to Gunbroker and thinking “Ahhh….this low bid will never win. Someone will bid it up.” Idiot.

The Mini-14? Uhm…well…see, it’s like this…it was one of those deals that you would have had to have been an idiot to pass up. Seriously. It was a good deal. Note that the Mini has one of the extremely hard-to-find Eagle 35-round polymags. This was, IMHO, hands-down the best aftermarket mag for the Mini and as best I can tell they havent been made since the early 90’s. I have some of the AR versions, but the Mini versions are tough to find. People hold onto those things with both hands.

Today was a stainless kinda day.

The fella I got the Mini from brought that mag along to show me and let me hold onto for a few days so I could blog about it. It’s a little esoteric (well, a lot esoteric, actually) to write a post about a magazine that hasn’t been available for twenty years, but….

 

Craigslist shelving

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Looking through Craigslist for a particular item is like shopping for hookers… there’s a lot of scary, weird, scuzzy choices but once in a while you find Julia Roberts.

As I mentioned a ways back, CostCo has replaced the wire shelving I normally buy with, what is to me, an inferior replacement. Specifically, my main criticism is the lack of reinforcing rib running the along the center length of the shelf. The shelves I have can get loaded down with some heavy goods pretty quickly…I don’t want substandard shelving.

So, I trotted over to Craigslist and found someone selling four of the shelves (not a complete unit, just the shelves) for twenty bucks. And they had the reinforcing rib. And they were willing to deliver! (I had them drop it at a neighbors place a few doors down from me…y’know…PerSec). Score!

So for $20 I got enough shelves to allow me to use the S-hooks and a couple leftover uprights to add another column to my existing run of shelving. Go me!

Moral of the story: sometimes you can find exactly what you’re looking for on Craigslist.
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And, just for the sake of consistency, I shall continue to flog the 10/22 mag deal until someone cleans me out on these things.