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[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The die is cast.

I've spent every extra penny I have on prep stuff in the last month. It's not a question of "if" anymore.

Well I would be pretty well prepared, even if not by design, just by coincidence.

Alla has very little regard for financial institutions having seen them fail completely TWICE in her lifetime. (and she likes to add "DO NOT think it can't happen here!") She is fairly suspicious of anything she cannot put her hands on and hide under the bed. Not unlike a lot of FSU citizens.

[baron555 934]

Dry Fire Practice is a great way to get breathing down. But, then again, if I had a backyard range, I'd never dry fire!

Who said I was dry firing?

Actually I was shooting Aguila Super Colibris, no gunpowder just the primer....no louder than an air rifle or a BB gun.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Who said I was dry firing?

Actually I was shooting Aguila Super Colibris, no gunpowder just the primer....no louder than an air rifle or a BB gun.

I use CCI CB Longs in the basement. They are virtually noiseless, you can literally hear the firing pin "snap"

[LvivLovers 39]

You are beginning to scare me. With your knowledge of the financial business and your obvious determination to stock up on serious hardware.

Don't forget a RUB wife that is pushing me TO stock up. She can be very persuasive! Very!

[LvivLovers 39]

Here's an article you guys might get a kick out of...

Some Words Of Advice From Kyle Bass

Michael Lewis' latest compilation of Vanity Fair articles into book format, Boomerang, is the usual entertaining romp around those back and front waters of the world that are currently on the verge of bankruptcy: from Greece, to Ireland, to Germany and, of course, to California. The premise at its core is an interview that the former Salomon bond salesman had with investing wunderkind Kyle Bass several years back which inspired to him to ask what it is that the Texan saw three years ago that so few others, due to a permafrosty cognitive bias or what have you, could (i.e., that the world is bankrupt and getting much worse). Oh, did we say wunderkind? We meant billionaire. Because unlike that other "anti-Midas" who only piggybacked on the good ideas, while blowing up LPs when left to his own non-Goldman Sachs facilitated devices, Bass actually could always see the big picture for what it is. So courtesy of Lewis' latest book, here are three pieces of advice from Bass to people everywhere, which will surely bring the fanatically jealous anti-gold crew to accusations that Bass made his billions from buying and reselling tinfoil hats.

On gold:

A guy sitting in an office in Dallas, Texas, making sweeping claims about the future of countries he’d hardly set foot in: how on earth could he know how a bunch of people he’d never met might behave? As he laid out his ideas I had an experience I’ve often had, while listening to people who seem perfectly certain about uncertain events. One part of me was swept away by his argument and began to worry the world was about to collapse; the other part suspected he might be nuts. “That’s great,” I said, but I was already thinking about the flight I needed to catch. “But even if you’re right, what can any normal person do about it?”

He stared at me as if he’d just seen an interesting sight: the world’s stupidest man.

“What do you tell your mother when she asks you where to put her money?” I asked.

“Guns and gold,”

he said simply.

“Guns and gold,” I said. So he was nuts.

But not gold futures,” he said, paying no attention to my thoughts.

"

You need physical gold

.” He explained that when the next crisis struck, the gold futures market was likely to seize up, as there were more outstanding futures contracts than available gold. People who thought they owned gold would find they owned pieces of paper instead. He opened his desk drawer, hauled out a giant gold brick, and dropped it on the desk. “We’ve bought a lot of this stuff.” At this point, I was giggling nervously and glancing toward the door.

So many others were giggling along. They were giggling all the way as gold rose from $800 to $1900. Probably not giggling now...

On nickels:

He still owned stacks of gold and platinum bars that had roughly doubled in value, but he remained on the lookout for hard stores of wealth as a hedge against what he assumed was the coming debasement of fiat currency. Nickels, for instance.

“The value of the metal in a nickel is worth six point eight cents,” he said. “Did you know that?”

I didn’t.

“I just bought a million dollars’ worth of them,” he said, and then, perhaps sensing I couldn’t do the math: “twenty million nickels.”

“You bought twenty million nickels?”

“Uh-huh.”

“How do you buy twenty million nickels?”

“Actually, it’s very difficult,” he said, and then explained that he had to call his bank and talk them into ordering him twenty million nickels. The bank had finally done it, but the Federal Reserve had its own questions. “The Fed apparently called my guy at the bank,” he says. “They asked him, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ So he called me and asked, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ And I said, ‘I just like nickels.’”

He pulled out a photograph of his nickels and handed it to me. There they were, piled up on giant wooden pallets in a Brink’s vault in downtown Dallas.

“I’m telling you, in the next two years they’ll change the content of the nickel,” he said. “You really ought to call your bank and buy some now.”

And on how to prepare for what is coming and why it is coming:

We hopped into his Hummer, decorated with bumper stickers (God Bless Our Troops, Especially Our Snipers) and customized to maximize the amount of fun its owner could have in it: for instance, he could press a button and, James Bond–like, coat the road behind him in giant tacks. We roared out into the Texas hill country, where, with the fortune he’d made off the subprime crisis, Kyle Bass had purchased what amounted to a fort: a forty-thousand-square-foot ranch house on thousands of acres in the middle of nowhere, with its own water supply, and an arsenal of automatic weapons and sniper rifles and small explosives to equip a battalion. That night we tore around his property in the back of his U.S. Army jeep, firing the very latest-issue U.S. Army sniper rifles, equipped with infrared scopes, at the beavers that he felt were a menace to his waterways. “There are these explosives you can buy on the Internet,” he said, as we bounded over the yellow hills. “It’s a molecular reaction. FedEx will deliver hundreds of pounds of these things.” The few beavers that survived the initial night rifle assault would wake up to watch their dams being more or less vaporized.

“It doesn’t exactly sound like a fair fight,” I said.

“Beavers are rodents,” he said.

Whatever else he was doing, he was clearly having fun. He’d spent two and a half years watching the global financial system, and the people who ran it, confirm his dark view of them. It didn’t get him down. It thrilled him to have gotten his mind around seemingly incomprehensible events. “

I’m not someone who is hell-bent on being negative his whole life,” he said. “I think this is something we need to go through. It’s atonement. It’s atonement for the sins of the past.

”

The take home: Atonement is coming, bitchez. Beavers beware.

For those who want much more, here is a one hour interview in which Todd Groome and Toni Moss spoke with Kyle at AmeriCatalyst 2010 in Austin in September, asking him about his thoughts on prospects for housing market recovery, current policy issues and national debt implications, global debt imbalances and his perspectives on the influence of policy on the timing, sequence and magnitude of potential sovereign defaults and debt restructurings. Fascinating stuff.

Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, of Hayman Capital, who timed the subprime mortgage crash right (via credit default swaps) and banked coin, was featured in Michael Lewis's new book "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World"

, and it appears Bass is bullish on gold and guns and has a fort ready for battle. Ultimate risk management. "

Kyle Bass had purchased what amounted to a fort: a forty-thousand-square-foot ranch house on thousands of acres in the middle of nowhere, with its own water supply, and an arsenal of automatic weapons and sniper rifles and small explosives to equip a battalion" (h/t ZH).

What about a

high voltage fence

?

A couple more articles about Kyle:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044363/Kyle-Bass-Meet-Texan-investor-millions-credit-crunch.html

http://historysquared.com/2011/10/04/hayman-capitals-kyle-bass-says-buy-guns-and-gold/

Now THAT's a dangerous guy!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Don't forget a RUB wife that is pushing me TO stock up. She can be very persuasive! Very!

Alla does not give a lot of thought to that. As long as she has shells for her gun whenever she needs them, she is fine, and I have been teaching her about what to buy so she can buy her own if necessary. I have plenty of .22 ammo but I need to stock up on her favorite "Wolf Match Target" though for now I think she will be using the Federal Lighting. she figured out the match ammo costs $79 for 500 and Federal Lightining is $29 per 500

She is eternally the frugral Ukrainian.

I am TRYING to get her to increase the number of firearms she uses but so far she is just focused on her rifle. That is in character for her. She will practice, study, practice some more, practice more until she is convinced she can do no better, and it better be damn good! THEN she may go on to something else.

She was not too interested in shooting in the basement but I have now convinced her it is not about a challenge, it is not about difficulty, it is about practicing shooting positions, rifle handling, trigger control, sight alignment, etc. It is about being comfortable and confident. The CB ammo is just to make the exercise "realistic". We use a duct taped stack of newspapers for a bullet trap and small 10 meter air rifle targets

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

That Dragon's Breath looks way too fun! I bet it's kind of hard to remember to stop, drop, and roll after getting hit with something like that.

Finally ordered a Colt LE6920 and a Colt LE6940...still have to wait for them to get transferred to my local FFL dealer...it's driving me crazy! Any recommendations on a good place to buy bulk 5.56 NATO ammo? I'm curious how they ship ammo...with it being so heavy seems like that will add a lot to the cost.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/245683-firearms-advice-from-the-resident-experts/page__st__280__p__3882926#entry3882926

Edited November 16, 2011 by charles!

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

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[LvivLovers 39]

http://www.visajourn...26#entry3882926

Nice! How you like yours? I'm actually wanting to get an EOTech also...big surprise, eh?

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Nice! How you like yours? I'm actually wanting to get an EOTech also...big surprise, eh?

i got it sighted in about a month ago finally. it shoots pretty good. took me a while (30 min) to do the boresighting (visual only) but hit paper on first shot.

[slim 1,525]

Since we're posting links and stuff now... here's a really interesting one written by a dude that survived the fall of the Soviet Union and then applied his observations to America. I can't remember if I read this here in the RUB forum or got it off one of my survival/prep boards. Anyway, here it is - Comparative Analysis

On mounting optics - A mechanical zero and good mount will get you pretty close on most models. Boresighting is good too, but requires a boresight or some time to look, crank, look, crank, adjust, look. Just a pita and you're still not all the way there.

We teach at Appleseeds a method we call IMC for "inches, minutes, clicks" where we actually take folks through the simple math necessary to make sight corrections. The easiest way to make sure you get your POA/POI lined up is shoot a sighter group, measure it in inches, convert that to minutes of angle, and then apply the necessary clicks of adjustment to your sights.

Believe it or not, I can take just about any rifle with any kind of sights and zero that sucker in about two minutes. I can also do it with very little ammo. If any of you would like to learn that very valuable skill, sign up for an Appleseed event.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

reason i took so long on the boresighting - i'm superstitious about first round needing to hit paper.

[slim 1,525]

reason i took so long on the boresighting - i'm superstitious about first round needing to hit paper.

The biggest problem most people make when they're sighting in is they sight in at 100 yards or more. You should sight in at no more than 25m and then set your sights for the distance you want after you've confirmed your zero.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

The biggest problem most people make when they're sighting in is they sight in at 100 yards or more. You should sight in at no more than 25m and then set your sights for the distance you want after you've confirmed your zero.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

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The US house of Representative today passed a bill to require states to honor ohter states concealed carry licenses. At one time that bill included a clause to recognize the drivers licens of states with "constitutional carry" such as Vermont, as a concealed license. It now goes to the Senate and then Obama?

Unless attached to something Obama really wants, I do not see him signing it. For some reason it would not apply to Illinois and Washington DC, perhaps because those jurisdictions have NO concealed carry of any type.