Article on ammo for barter
 

I just saw these links on Survivalblog:

http://www.youroptimal.com/blog/2009...ammo-vs-money/

http://www.youroptimal.com/blog/2010...-barter-items/

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Extremely good read, thanks

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Now that I look at these links, it looks like these articles are the first two in a series.

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In SHTF i would NEVER barter ammo or weapons to strangers. this is akin to giving N Korea military aid. ammo is like food once used, its gone. plus once you swap a weapon or ammo to someone they KNOW you have more and may be back with freinds to get them. I would however swap with members of my group or like minded neighbors to help them out.

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Yep, no ammo out the door except the closest of family and friends...way to many variables for that traded 22lr round to come back and bite you in the ass.
Good luck

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most of you consider not giving away ammo in barter transactions but would you accept it in a post shtf world?

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The Survivalblog articles were very interesting. I agree. Good reads.

There are more than 76 reasons to carry a gun, in my opinion, but he's go the most ot them.

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I would hate to barter ammo but I can see situations in which I would do so. If you badly needed a dentist or antibiotics most would trade ammo. If you have a wife or daughter you will, sooner or later, need antibiotics or some kind.
Never say never.

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Not selling on principle is one thing, but if I have several thousand rounds, I can probably afford to trade a box of 50 rounds for something else. It's all a matter of whether I need X amount of something else more than I need that extra 50 rounds. And if I can't protect what I have with several thousand rounds of ammo minus 50 rounds, I have no business having a firearm.

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I don't place much stock in the "survivalist bartering ammo" line.

There's two problems with it-
1) the ammo's condition isn't really knowable without firing it, and
2) the ammo is not nearly as compact a way to store wealth as precious metals, which is the entire point of using money instead of bartering in the first place.

A lot of people on gun boards don't seem to get point #2 at all.
As long as a product is made in one location and transported to another for use, the people making and transporting it are going to want a form of easily-portable wealth. Gold wins that contest by a long shot. You can carry $20,000 of gold in your pocket pretty easily, but try carrying the same amount of ammo around for a day.

The standard response seems to be "well when Katrina hit New Orleans, gold wouldn't have been good for anything!" but that's selective ignorance. A gun wouldn't have been good for much either--it was a boat that everybody wanted, and nobody who had one would have traded it for ammo, either. The post-event disaster of Katrina didn't last long enough for any kind of trade to emerge; the people were all hauled out elsewhere within three or four days. It's not really evidence of the usefulness of anything regarding barter.



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You're comparing apples and oranges. Nobody measures how much ammo they have by its market value. But if I can't defend myself with the six magazines I currently have for my 9mm, then I'm screwed.

If looters face the business end of a weapon, they tend to loot a lot less. And if cops can't help protect your stuff...