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Trade items
If you have 40K rounds of ammo you have "currency" in a cash less situation. Other scarce items will be at a premeum and should be considered for stockpiling.
While true I have always believed that if we ever got to that point then trading ammo might not be the best way to go. The persons club just became a rifle.
Now having some put away is a good thing but when it comes to the barter it would have to be within the group so to speak.
I see you running, tell me what your running from
Nobody's coming, what ya do that was so wrong.
I agree with Jerry.
Within your group in which you are all working together towards a common goal for the common good of the group.
If you were to use ammo to trade outside of your group, even if it's with a current allie of your group, you've just provided a potential (or eventual) enemy with the means of defeating you and taking everything you have.
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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Col. Jeff Cooper
I agree, giving ammunition to the wrong folks could be a fatal mistake.
In a real crisis, the barter item would have to have some immediate, useable value. Cans of food, can openers, soap, matches, fuel, toilet paper, basic medicines etc would be high on the list. Clothing and blankets might be tops, but my guess is that if it is serious enough to be bartering, there will be plenty of clothes and blankets laying around, previously owned by those who are now dead or missing.
What if the choice is between trading bullets or starving to death?
What if you are trading ammo you can no longer use (that gun broke) for a gun that you have plenty of ammo for?
In the very beginning of a fend for your self situation, I think that diapers might carry a pretty high value.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Powdered baby formula too. This could be priceless to the right people, and there will hopefully always be babies, no matter what happens.
What about really soft toilet paper?
I also agree that a person may only be able to carry so much ammo if they are on the move
I always figured vice items would become the defacto currency if things went to shit. Alcohol, tobacco, maybe even batteries and certain snack foods that can survive long term storage without refrigeration.
Ammo would definitely be a valuable item, but as people said before, I'd be wary of arming my competitors.
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