level headed lever blather

LEVEL HEADED LEVER BLATHER


Today is the deceptively mildly labeled quantitative easing decision from our High Lords And Masters at the central bank ( Central Banking in Theory and Practice (Lionel Robbins Lectures) ). Hey, we all kid around, minions throwing around such phrases as High Lord Of The Perfect Hair or Bisonia Dictator For Life Dakin ( as always, I’m forever in the debt of he who coined the post-apocalyptic countries name so that I may forever more use it as my own ) or other such flattering names. But it is all in fun. There ain’t too much that’s fun about the criminally insane whores that sold the Republic down the river in 1913 and handed the reigns over to the Fed ( End The Fed ). I guess it was just so much friggin work to have to pick and choose who to allow to bribe you to get elected that there simply wasn’t any mental or physical energy left over to actually make any laws or other actual work, so why not just flush the whole system and allow the central bank to not only elect who they wished but also to decide how to run the country. Our “public servants” were then spared any thought other than where to put the summer cottage or which maid to diddle as their blue blood east coast wives busily compared which charity was worthy of their attention. I piss and moan about the syphilitic anal licking toady FDR ( New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America ) getting us into war and slaughtering hundreds of thousands to benefit the socialist welfare state, but that was just a side benefit. The primary reason anything politically directed happening for the last hundred years, from WWI to the Roaring Twenties to Prohibition to Vietnam or whatever, is that the central bank benefited. The central government borrows from the central bank, and the money source is the source of power. Large corporations, foreign born Presidents, those posing for portraits of power are just front men. They are not the man behind the curtain. The quantitative easing pony show is already a foregone conclusion. Whatever you hear is just the public airing of the decision. Enjoy the destruction of the economy to benefit the bankers ( don’t worry, real energy decline collapse will still follow ).

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A minion recently requested that I write an article on lever action rifles ( Winchester Lever Action Repeating Firearms : The Models of 1866, 1873 & 1876 (For Collectors Only) ). I know pretty close to zero about lever action firearms but that has never stopped me before on blathering about on any subject. We had been talking about pistol round adaptors in bolt actions, and then I wanted to publish the piece on bayonets ( The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers & Bayonets: An authoritative history and visual directory of sharp-edged weapons and blades from around ... photographs (Illustrated Encyclopedia of...) ) first. Because without knowing how I feel about bayonets it would be hard to understand why I don’t care for lever actions. I don’t think you can safely ignore the bayonet requirement if you are planning for a civilization collapse. A machete might seem better, but ask yourself how much weight you wish to carry. And what you are going to do with your rifle while you are using it. The bayoneted rifle replaces other tools. At little cost or weight, and that is why I think it is superior. In effect, you have a rifle, a sword, a knife and a club if you go with the bayonet. It minimizes what you must sacrifice to get more than one weapon. So, if you think having a bayonet is a super nifty idea, that leaves the lever action at a disadvantage.

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The main selling point of the lever action was that it used the same cases as your pistol. I don’t even know why was ever that big of a selling point. The pistol is just a back-up, combat wise. Wrangling cows might have made it a primary weapon but in any uncivilized society we might envision, the rifle is for combat. Rather than demoting your long range weapon to fit your pistol ammo, use a real rifle, or heck even carbine, and leave the pistol in its holster for emergencies. With its own ammo. Now, that said, there are reasons to under power your fire power. Obviously, you might live in a heavily wooded area and even an SKS ( AK/SKS Stripper Clips/20 Pack ) has far too much range ( we’ll leave aside its better knock down power ). Then a lever action is all the range you need. And since it’s fast loading you may feel it adequate for repulsing rabid dog attacks ( the role I assign the bayonet to compensate for the bolt actions short magazine and slower loading ). As importantly, you might appreciate the low powder requirements of a pistol round over that of a rifle. If you are using half the propellant then you have twice the ammunition ( assuming adequate primers of course ). Brass is far easier to procure now, and far easier to improvise in the resource scarce future. Straight wall cases are easily improvised compared to the necked rounds ( although you might have to load one at a time rather than in the mag with, say, paper cases ).

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However, going back to the bolt, if you use adaptors you could have a regular rifle and if needed a pistol round firing rifle when necessary. In that case, you are wasting money buying a lever action. Unless you are just now deciding to become armed, and then it is really a personal choice. I don’t think either weapon, lever or bolt, will be the targets for confiscation. Unless they decide to go after “sniper” rifles. Then the lever action would give you time to “sell” it and bury it. But confiscation is a pretty long shot. Whatever you decide, as in any weapon, you compromise. These are just the pros and cons.

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