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Go deep

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One is none, forty thousand is one.

It occurs to me that one of the better reasons for having a ‘group’, rather than being solo, is to have some folks to help you carry the damn ammo up and down the stairs. Whew.

This will be Deep Sleep ammo. For target and plinking I’ll use whatever is available at WalMart or wherever, but this stuff goes right in there with the Mountain House stuff. The only time I expect to see it again is during some enormous crisis or when I transport it to the Beta Site. And, for the record, each 40mm ammo can holds 8,250 rounds…or 165 boxes of 50. And they’re heavy….right at the limit of man-portability.

Suppressor stuff

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Two people I know have decided to go ahead and get suppressors for their guns. The local gun shop was running a deal – buy a 9mm suppressor get a .22 suppressor free. (Still had to pay the tax, though.)

So one buddy of mine decided to get a Savage Mk II FV-SR like I have. I like the gun very much but the stock is utterly useless. Soooooo…a quick trip to Boyd’s for their ‘Tacticool’ (now renamed as ‘Pro Varmint’) laminated stock in forest camo. Hopefully it’ll be here next week and I can slip the gun into it and have some fun. Still on the fence about optics. I’m embarrassed to type ‘.22 tactical scope’ into Google, but……. I am thinking that this little number from Redfield might be the ticket. Given that the ammunition for the suppressed rifle is going to be plodding along at subsonic velocities, I would think anything past 100 yards is wishful thinking and rainbow trajectories….so I really don’t need much in the way of a scope. I do like the mil reticle though. Price seems right and Amazon has them for about $140.

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Might get a new stock for this one as well…….

.22 ammo is still hit-n-miss but at some point Im going to have to pick up a few cases of Remington Subsonic or, to go really all in, some Eley Subsonic or some Lapua.

And, speaking of suppressors, I need to park myself in front of the loading bench this evening and load up some subsonic 9mm. You know, waaaaay back in the day when cops were transitioning from revolver to auto there was this idea that heavy 9mm (147~gr.) would be the perfect 9mm ammo because it would be similar to the weight of the standard .38 Spl. bullet. As it turned out, really heavy 9mm loads like that don’t perform as well as the light stuff BUT they are just the ticket for suppressors since its usually a subsonic load. So…thats what I need to go load up.