third the price is nice

THIRD THE PRICE IS NICE


Baby Jesus on a pogo stick! What a friggin Monday this is turning out to be. Yesterday was a mixed blessing, with wife #4, again!, deciding to leave to go live with her daughter. Good in a way because ever since she came back seven months ago she has been more of a handful than normally ( and not a good handful ). Very high maintenance. Although I’m sorry to see the relationship end it is trading one slightly less stressful problem for the other. If I can convince the Little Brain not to do anything too stupid this should work out as a plus. However, this was also bad in a way since this time she took the cats with her. I’m used to the last five years of the pitter patter of His Lordship moving around at night, nuzzling under the covers, etc. I did not sleep too well last night. So this morning despite a pot plus of coffee I’m totally brain dead. But wait! That’s not all- if you order within the next five minutes we’ll throw in a very rude e-mail from wife #2. I don’t know when she started monitoring my blog. Perhaps one of the kids dropped a dime on me to save themselves from her wraith. But she was gloating over last weeks article, claiming I wasn’t going to see a fifty percent drop in child support since the state will readjust the support on one child upwards. Perhaps. I need to contact them and get an official word. I mean, more than likely I get screwed. This is the state of Florida which has dry humped me more than a few times. What’s a few more? It does point out how little she needs the financial help for anything other than to punish me. If she needed it she would be worried about a drop instead of cackling gleefully. But I really am too tired to care past the elevated blood pressure she caused me hours ago. Same old.

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Please forgive me if today’s article is revoltingly uninspiring. I am going on auto pilot here. Yet I know that as good as I am even when I’m bad, you have come to expect perfection. So my apologies. This will give you the excuse you needed to hate me and say hurtful things and cause me to curl up in a fetal position and whimper. I hope you’re happy. As I said in a previous article, it is far better to have a slightly dangerous item in your survival preps than no item at all. Far better a sickly, cancerous, bloated bird in hand than two healthy ones in the bush. Money being saved for perfection equals zero when the balloon goes up. Less than perfection when that happens turns it to gold. I even admitted that it was far better to have the Russian bolt gun and its ammo than the far superior Lee-Enfield which cost twice as much. Do you know how hard it was to write that? Comparing the Mosin-Nagant to the Lee-Enfield is like comparing an eunuch to John Holmes ( did I remember that right? The porn star unnaturally endowed-easy, ladies!-that died of AIDS awhile back ). The one glaring fault of the Czar’s gun which I cannot forgive is the lack of a bleed valve to protect the shooter from a ruptured case. But it had to be said. If you are insanely dirt poor, so broke you can’t pay attention, making eighty grand a year between two incomes but unable to keep up with your spouses insane consumer lifestyle, then you have no choice but to make the Russian gun your main battle rifle. Not because it costs half the amount of a Brit or Kraut rifle as I originally spouted off, but because it will only cost a third! Third the price is really friggin nice.

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I might have been off slightly, but I couldn’t find a cheaper ammo price than The Sportsmen’s Guide. I looked on the Internet for a few minutes and couldn’t find a better buy. Of course, the power went off in half the town and even though it came back on in time for lunch our broadband connection is still down. But I think after checking Alamo Ammo and Cheaper Than Dirt, it is safe to call Sportsmen’s the winner. You might have to buy 440 rounds of 7.62x54 to get the twenty cents a round price, but consider that this is only slightly more expensive than a hundred rounds of 303B. No, it isn’t a perfect comparison since the Brit is reloadable and the Russian is not. But I can’t imagine you can reload cheaper than twenty cents a round ( forgive me if I’m off here but I seem to recall powder being almost twenty cents a round for reloading-please correct me if needed ). But seeing as how it would be suicide to have too much less than 500 rounds of ammo for the end of the world, this is a good place to start comparing as a bare minimum. Reloads would be the next step up the prepping ladder. For now, what’s the minimum. 400rounds should do nicely.

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I couldn’t find case 303, so you are stuck with the low being 75 cents a round, in boxes of twenty. The rifles themselves are $90 for the Russian, $150 for the British. The ammo is $80 and $300. $170 versus $450 total. Almost one third for the cheaper. At a thousand rounds, it is $290 versus $900- less than a third the price. If you can’t afford a $200 arsenal, well, you frankly deserve to end up in the stew pot.

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