Experiment in storing junk silver

Then, I believe the correct nomenclature is M1-A1.

No M14's were ever made available for pubic ownership.

That said. They are all over the place anyway.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

the M1-A is the standard semi auto available, the the M1-A1 is a better match barrel. The M14 is selectable to auto or i believe a burst mode. not available to the public.

 

There are those that own M14s that are full auto. They are smart and don't talk about it. There are those that can get or make the parts. I never had the need for one. It would be tough to explain if you ever had to use it.

 

Ah! That's right. The A-1 IS the match barrel.

What a sweet rifle.

I think the M14 is the finest battle automatic rifle made. It didn't have burst, as far as I have ever seen....

 

Wouldn't do them much good, would it: I just dug them up. When I started the experiment it was with the full knowledge that even if they got tarnished they were still junk. So I decided to keep them buried for ten years then dig them up and see the results. I just swapped them for a form of silver which is more easily stackable.

 

from wiki "
M14E2/M14A1[edit]
Selective fire version of the standard M14 used as a squad automatic weapon. Successor to the full-automatic M14 with a bipod and the never issued M15. The developmental model was known as the M14E2. As a conceptional weapon developed by the Infantry School, it was known as the M14 (USAIB) (United States Army Infantry Board). It was issued in 1963 and redesignated as M14A1 in 1966.

It had a full pistol-gripped in-line stock to control recoil, a plastic upper forend to save weight, a muzzle compensator, the BAR sling, an M2 bipod, and a folding metal vertical foregrip mounted under the forend of the stock. Although an improvement over the M14 when in full-auto, it was still difficult to control, overheated rapidly, and the 20-round magazine limited its ability to deliver suppressive fire."

 

And where did you bury the new stuff?

 

No need to: the experiment is complete.

 

Next you'll need to find a place to hide them that will be impenetrable to alien coin detecting radar.

 

Sure. (wink, wink)

 

most people here wouldn't survive too long after the pharmacies shut down

 

Stocks are being developed to make these legal for full auto use, now have ones
for The AR-15, AK-47, DAE WOO MAX etc reall cool if you can afford the ammo

 

By societal testing and norms, easily established in top 10% intelligence individuals, and as you've dictated a "prepper loon" who, with a smile, respects others judgements/opinions.

I've for more than a half-century, initially being raised as a vagrant in numerous urban "ghettos", observed the faults in established "systems", and skirted same, to become relatively established without, while utilizing "society" for legal establishment.

I've done all that you seemingly abhor, and much more, living in a ~400,000 sg. ft. rural 1st growth fenced forest, atop a cliff overlooking a white-water river. I've indigenous perennial fruit, Maple trees and a deepest river location for food, an aquifer/cistern beneath my home and a deep well for water, continuous sheading woods for heat, wind from the cliff and an open Southerly exposure for electrical energy.

I collected Silver coins since before the precious metal was removed, sealed in $10-$50 lot plastic envelopes, housed in "ammunition cans", stored at a relatively constant temperature/humidity. (your referenced "poster" hasn't stored long enough to realize long-term effects). I have bottled distilled water, dehydrated food, military rations, Maple syrup, Honey, ~30 cord sheltered wood, a constant temperature secure under-ground bunker, filtered ventilation system, adequate munitions, etc..

I appreciate your deferent/different attitude, and was subject to same (as other designs before acquiring patents, awards, etc.) when starting my "home" project. As time/efforts advanced, others realized my possible sanity when government facilities were replaced with virtually inaccessible structures/entrances. Police, government employees "resided" in same, only responding at their will. All financial assets were/are mandated to be "stored" under the control of others, subject to their varying "rules". I've been interrogated on multiple occasions by bank employees and others for "structuring" activities, not leaving/using all assets in accordance with government and institutional dictates. Gates, fences, Community policing became necessitated when it was generally dictated that response wouldn't be necessitated by property loss. I've been interrogated multiple

My observations may not be realistic, but after 6 burglaries, death threats, the adjacent/contiguous property being occupied by unknown vagrants after the Federal IRS confiscated same, placing the occupants in prison, not allowing local impotent police force access, I suspect there may be a future societal attitude change, which I believe is being evidenced in other countries.

JMHO

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/world/asia/cyberattacks-online-security-.html?_r=0

 

I too was raised in a very poor gritty city with a homicide RATE (per 1000) as high as any urban hellhole you can name. Horrible drug crime activity. I now live in a secluded area among the Amish that is "natural activity secluded", meaning it's not on the way to anywhere most people don't have a better route to. Anyone going by me is a local or is lost. I'm the last guy on the post office's route. That said, I'm NOT out here because I even WANT TO survive a major apocalypse, because I DON'T WANT TO. I will be taking out people who want to mess with me, if such a thing happens, just for the sheer defiance value as a final entertainment.

I am 1000% invested in this modern society we have, I like it just the way it is. There's somewhere for nearly everyone, and I have no desire to live in some 1870's cowboy fantasy of the stupid preppers.

They should just go watch Hopalong Cassidy or Lone Ranger reruns and get it out of their systems.

 

From CT Rules:
2 – Personal attacks are not permitted. All Coin Talk members, young, old and in between, will treat all other members with respect and be civil at all times. You are expected to act as responsible individuals, there will be no name calling or flame wars.

 

1000%? Come on Mr. Bellman, you should know that it's mathematically impossible to go over 110%.

 

My reference is to ALL preppers, who are by definition stupid, due to the reasoning of what our moderator has posted. The ones who are members here are less so, a little.

 

On the gun issue, are all M14's full auto? If not, what feature makes them illegal?

 

Yet somehow, yesterday while I was away from tech, I received my 3,000th CT "like". How has this happened?