I pride myself in being able to handle most situations with preparedness and training combined with a healthy dose of experience. I made it thru the first magazine ban with being ok on my rifle and the green machine sending me to the country right next to the country where my pistol is made so I came out ok on that because I always learned the language of my hosts as much as possible and soon developed relationships with locals. I learned from this experience and applied it to future preps.
Fast forward a bit where the antigunner crowd began to grow again and started cage rattling. I began to preach "having enough" and limiting calibers so you could do so without financially breaking yourself. By having enough my concept was to "have enough" to battle with. It might be a battle with a burglar 20 years after the ammo purchase, hunting until the day I go out or enough to fight them that would take whats mine after a SHTF situation or maybe a Red Dawn scenario where I'm fighting the next American invasion. I have done well in this as I have more ammo than I will probably be able to use before being killed in battle or die of other causes. I'm a realist in things and don't truly believe I'm a 9 lives ninja like many.
Now to today and the failure. I failed to maintain enough for long term goals with training myself and others around me, continued general practice as these skills are perishable and even smaller things over extended periods of time such as optics replacements and ensuring the weapon works properly after mechanical fixes or upgrades. These things will eat away at the stocks quickly.
It appears as of right now, though it could change quickly, that we will survive this round of political attacks and maybe, just maybe, things could get back to "normal" if the panic subsides.
I will not fail again and I will not ignore the other things that still need doing or purchasing while doing so.
Fast forward a bit where the antigunner crowd began to grow again and started cage rattling. I began to preach "having enough" and limiting calibers so you could do so without financially breaking yourself. By having enough my concept was to "have enough" to battle with. It might be a battle with a burglar 20 years after the ammo purchase, hunting until the day I go out or enough to fight them that would take whats mine after a SHTF situation or maybe a Red Dawn scenario where I'm fighting the next American invasion. I have done well in this as I have more ammo than I will probably be able to use before being killed in battle or die of other causes. I'm a realist in things and don't truly believe I'm a 9 lives ninja like many.
Now to today and the failure. I failed to maintain enough for long term goals with training myself and others around me, continued general practice as these skills are perishable and even smaller things over extended periods of time such as optics replacements and ensuring the weapon works properly after mechanical fixes or upgrades. These things will eat away at the stocks quickly.
It appears as of right now, though it could change quickly, that we will survive this round of political attacks and maybe, just maybe, things could get back to "normal" if the panic subsides.
I will not fail again and I will not ignore the other things that still need doing or purchasing while doing so.
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