Turnips top pick!!!
am 08.03.2006 21:37:51 von NewNameHereRGR Buy today before the earnings report.
Earnings scheduled for tomorrow. This is
one of the most obvious picks I've seen in
a long time. You'd be a fool to pass it up.
Found at:
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Bulk Ammunition Shortages in USA
Bulk ammunition and MRE shortages have apparently arrived in the USA.
We're advising you of this now, because we expect this will become
become a huge story in coming months - one that the future predicting
web bot project (www.halfpasthuman.com) has been alluding to for more
than a year in a software "entity" called "encounter with scarcity" due
to arrive in full force this summer.
Let me lay out the facts. I received the following email from a reader
yesterday that reads as follows:
"The 7.62x39 ammo is all but dried up according to my firearms dealer.
And: .223 ammo has gone up in price dramatically according to the
same dealer. He said that the ammo manufacturers are of course dedicated
to the military. It is available but he said some of what he normally
orders went up 14%. (more than his profit margin) He said that his
December and January was the best Dec and Jan he has ever had. And those
months are usually extremely slow!
He mentioned that prices on firearms have gone up allot after the
shot show was over, but it doesn't seem to be stopping people from
buying. He said, people are worried what is going to happen, here in
this country.
Just thought I'd pass it along for your information, in case you
need to pick up anything."
Because we have a fair bit of land out here in East Texas to defend
from, among other things, wild pigs, coyotes, skunks, panthers, and
such, we like to have a little ammo on hand. So I started checking
around for 7.62 X 39 rounds for the SKS.
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At Cabelas (www.cabelas.com) I found when I tried to order 7.62 X
39 154 grain soft points in the 500 round bulks pack (Item IG-215187)
they were on back order. So were the 1,000 round boxes. Also, the 7.62
X 39 hollow point rounds in quantity (500 and up) are back ordered.
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No problem, I thought - I'll just go to Cheaper Than Dirt
(www.cheaperthandirt.com) and buy some there. Anything in quantity (and
some special use) 7.62 has the "check status" warning - indicating back
ordered.
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At Sportsman's Guide (www.sportsmansguide.com) I was able to find
some sealed cans of 7.62 full metal jacket (FMJ), but when I tried to
add it to my shopping cart, look at the lead times:
Being curious as heck about this, I called tech support for one of these
stores and asked the obvious question: "What gives?" The answer was
surprising. "Well, the military has been buying up all kinds of ammo -
it's not just the 7.62 - it's other stuff too, like 9 millimeter pistol
ammo in quantities. We get a few boxes in now and then, so you might
want to call back every few days. But like I said, the military is
buying everything they can get."
So I brought this up to Panama Bates (our resident retired SF/Ranger
security chief). "Funny you would mention that...I haven't been able to
find MRE's either." Bates, a retired soldier, usually has a stash of
MRE's about (we have a few here and there, too).
I was surprised to hear about MRE's though, so I put in a quick call to
Scotty at out Emergency Essentials (www.beprepared.com, 1-800-999-1863)
to find out if MRE's had in fact "gone missing." Turns out Scotty was
out till this morning, but his staff advised me that yes, they are out
of MRE's - and they also were kind enough to advise me that the ones
that may still find on eBay could be old stock (be sure to get dates!).
On the other hand, Emergency Essentials operates their own freeze-dried
operation, so they have good supplies of those (plus things like the
50-pound super pails of wheat, long term stored yeast, etc. that we use
here). We'll try to let you know when Emergency Essentials gets MRE's
back in stock. Remember, we advised you to buy MRE's and storage foods
quite some time ago.
Now, here is what I've some to as a possible "bottom line."
1.
The military (and not just the US military, I was told) is indeed
buying up huge amounts of ammunition. Not the kind of thing I would
expect if the war in Iraq was going at all well. I read the ammo part of
the story as "more war - bigger war - to come."
2.
The food purchases are also worrisome because it indicates to me
that the current levels of military activity (or higher) are to be
continued for some time.
Again, the web bot project has been predicting an "encounter with
scarcity" this summer (along with two major international crisis to
come, war in September and so forth). The question the pragmatic
economist must ask today is whether this recently developed lack of
availability of quantity ammunition (and it's not just 7.62, as you'll
find if you do some serious research) and the lack of available current
run MRE's is the leading edge of scarcities of other commodities yet to
come.
Regrettably, given the track record of the future predictive software,
we expect this will turn out to be the case. We might be picking up the
odd extra roll of Charmin, bleach, and soap, too. While we're cognizant
that such a report may be a bit unsettling - and might be blamed later
for shortages we expect to see coming, the evidence is already on the
table (at least in ammo and MRE's) that scarcity may have started to
arrive.
We report this story as a duty. The Second Amendment to the
Constitution instructs us that: "A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to
keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Hope this helps! Comments?