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Police Trade-In Guns

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Gotta be careful with that hyphen , otherwise ‘police trade-in guns’ becomes something else completely. (Although sometimes that happens too.)

I’m always on the lookout for bargain priced 9mm Glocks. It used to be that every few years police departments would slough off their old pistols for new ones, and those older pistols would work their way onto the market. Ask any cop and he’ll tell you that they guns look pretty worn, what with all the holster wear and whatnot, but they get fired very little. They are, basically, the used car from that little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays.

Thing is, just about every police agency in the country migrated to the .40 S&W back in the day and have stayed there up until recently when the 9mm has been making a move back into the cop market. All this to say, while finding police trade-in 9mm Glocks is a bigfoot hunt these days, there is a metric buttload of surplus .40 Glocks out there at stupid prices.

If youre plans revolve around the .40, you can get all sortsa flavors of Glock for $250. Ditto for S&W M&P‘s. A friend of mine just scored a used .45 M&P, with night sights and spare  mags, for around $275 as police trade-in. The deals are out there.

But, as I said, my plans revolve around 9mm so Im kinda left out in the cold. But, if you’re a .40 guy this is going to be a golden era for you to get cheap big-name .40’s.

It reminds me of ‘back in the day’ when the big revolver-to-auto transitions were taking place and the market was awash in Smith Model 10’s and 15’s. I still have a couple of those sitting in the safe.

Anyway, I was trotting through the usual vendor websites and noticed that theres a plethora of .40’s on the market these days andthought Id point it out.
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In other news, a couple cases of AR mags shipped to me yesterday so it looks like we can go ahead and start getting people matched up for those AR mags. You know the drill.

AR mag deal?

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The Ak mags will be going out over the next couple days. Smart move all you foward-thinking folks that picked some up.

My vendor also has ASC brand AR mags at a similar price. These would be at the same price  as the AK deal – 10/$100 delivered. Magpuls wind up costing about the same, but while Magpul makes a fine product I prefer the aluminum mags for long term. You don’t have to agree, thats fine…we can still be friends.

Trouble is, I don’t know if there’s enough demand to make it worth dropshipping a couple cases of these things. I need people to commit to a total of 100 magazines (10 bundles of ten) to make it worthwhile. If you think thats the kind of deal you’d be seriously interested in (and when I say seriously, I mean that if it comes to pass you’ll actually come through and pony up the greenbacks) let me know in comments. If enough people commit I’ll go ahead and do it.

I’d like to have a yes/no on this project by the end of the week, so let me know.

ETA: Ok, I guess thats happening.

 

AK mag deal update

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I have a handful of people who have been invoiced for the AK mag deal but haven’t paid up yet. Guys, I know its the holidays but if those invoices stay open another day or two I’ll have to close them to make those magazines available for other people. If you told me you wanted mags and you received an invoice for them….well…ya gotta pony up or theyre gonna go to someone else.

Expecting to have them shipped out to you foresightful guys Wednesday.

Still want in? Room for a couple more bundles of mags if you wanna email me and get in on the action.

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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ETA:
One is none, baby!

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.