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    Quote Originally Posted by thopkins22 View Post
    Rather than spend a bunch of money on booze, you could buy a still and research how to make spirits safely.
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    I remember when the Sacajawea coin was first introduced, there were several news stories / documentaries about the design of the coin, which included discussion of how they had to develop a special alloy that wouldn't tarnish while exhibiting a gold-like appearance. You can probably find something about it on YouTube.

    I agree about using ammo or other small, lower-price items for bartering. One Year After, the sequel to One Second After, talks about using .22 ammo to trade because of its value for hunting small game, which tends to repopulate faster than larger game like deer. I realize it's a fictional example, but it makes sense to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3ACR_Scout View Post
    I agree about using ammo or other small, lower-price items for bartering. One Year After, the sequel to One Second After, talks about using .22 ammo to trade because of its value for hunting small game, which tends to repopulate faster than larger game like deer. I realize it's a fictional example, but it makes sense to me.
    Just judging from the behavior of hoarders during another gun-buying panic you could definitely say that this is a smart strategy. How many runs on .257 Roberts can you name? Yet every venue imaginable sells out of .22 ammo as soon as there's another mass shooting.

    Can you even find .22 right now?

    I've got enough for a while, so I don't go looking for it very often, but is it still in short supply? If it is this should be thought of as "barter commodity #1".

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    Buying gold is poor as a prep, in my opinion. The key is to stock something you don't really need that people will want in trade. Booze is a decent one.

    The thing to trade over the longer term is skills. Being able to build, repair, produce, or heal will be a key to success once some semblance of economy gets going. Everybody runs out of "stuff" eventually, and somebody needs to know how to get/make more. That's basically what most of us are doing right now in the "civilized" world- trading our skills for the means to get what we need and want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3ACR_Scout View Post

    I agree about using ammo or other small, lower-price items for bartering. One Year After, the sequel to One Second After, talks about using .22 ammo to trade because of its value for hunting small game, which tends to repopulate faster than larger game like deer. I realize it's a fictional example, but it makes sense to me.
    Good books, also you post reminded me about another set of fiction from James rawles dealing with the economic collapse. And in his scenario magazines ended up being a high ticket item.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CRAMBONE View Post
    Foxfire books!
    Are they that good? I have been wanting to get the whole set but just can't make the jump.

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    I never got the idea of gold really. What is it about it that makes it so valuable? I don't even like gold jewelry. Honestly if shit tanks enough that the dollar isn't going to buy me anything, I don't think it's going to be gold either.

    If SHTF and I'm walking down the street and some dickhead asked me how many gold coins I wanted for my loaf of bread I'd probably just brake his legs and steal his wife.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bsoileau24 View Post
    Are they that good? I have been wanting to get the whole set but just can't make the jump.

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    My grandfather had quite a few that I inherited. They're in interesting combination of Appalachian lore, long forgotten mountaineer skills, history, and indeed things like running a still and canning deliciousness.

    I think the project is worth supporting based on nothing else than the fact that it's a pretty wonderful historical record of a people that for most of American history made a go of it on their own, of places that historically were so secluded one might live an entire lifetime and never visit a town thirty miles away. A place utterly disregarded by most Americans and the history there ignored.

    A place that's kept the lights on for the past 100 years, and indeed the home of the largest armed insurrections in American history.

    Buy the books. At least some of them. The lower numbers tend to have more instruction/how-to in them if that's what tickles your fancy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsoileau24 View Post
    Are they that good? I have been wanting to get the whole set but just can't make the jump.

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    I enjoy them. As said the lower numbered books have the better skill and how to knowledge. I got lucky and my parents bought me the set for my birthday 1 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsoileau24 View Post
    Are they that good? I have been wanting to get the whole set but just can't make the jump.

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    YES. Start by getting one or two. Check em out. LOTS of forgotten lore. Im HUGE on having non-electronic sources of info...BOOKS..for shtf.
    I am wanting to get some myself. And- if you ever stumble upon old issues of Fur, Fish & Game from the seventies, early eighties..they have a lot of good info in them too.
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