Greetings and Salutations!
Well, the diet is going well. The stomach is most definitely shrinking and tonights grub was two tuna sammiches on Publix Mountain Bread. Pretty simple and filling… 2x sammies and the bread calorie wise is about 320, while the tuna was a total of 220 calories plus or minus. Each sammich gets a full can of the tuna, and each can gets about two tablespoons of olive-oil based mayo…call it 650+/- for both sammiches.
And for all of y’all who tell me to stop making lists and counting calories? Believe you me I will but I’m retraining both my belly AND my brain to adjust and track, and eventually reform into habits that I can stay on. Today was a skip day on the gym, as well as the walk. I need a wee bit of a break. A cool thing I found out last night was that I have some Muscle Milk powder that’s still good, and it seems that some of those chocolate drinks that come in the MREs these days?
Seems some of them ARE essentially Muscle Milk/Protien drinks. And man, I got a PILE of them laying around as I usually don’t drink them. All the ‘extras’ that I can’t or won’t usually use from an MRE gets thrown in a big ole box, and then when the box is full (like last night) I sort everything out, let Sapper take his pick of what he wants, then I’ll sort MY picks and shitcan the rest… crap like the “Italian” breadsticks or the wheat bread ‘loaf’…. Gah… shit like that makes me wonder if the Natick guys are actually Mad Scientists…
I got a deal the other day that I was pleased with as well. one of the other gun shops around here has a counter area for used/unwanted gear… mags, scopes and occasionally ammunition. I just happened in when some guy was placing some boxes in from his Granddad’s estate, and maaaaaaaaaaan… MY lucky day! 2 new boxes of Magtech .44 Magnum… NOT reloads. New… just a little wear on the outer box… 50 rounds each of 240gn JSP! Even better? $25 a box!!!
That was almosts a BOGO so naturally I grabbed ’em up.
Considering the .44 is a single action six shooting wheel gun, and it feeds one at a time reeeeeally slowly I figure 100 rounds ought to last me quite a spell.
I think I told y’all about it?
Can’t remember
Anyway… I do love talking about my weapons so…
MY Christmas gift to myself as outside of Sapper and MomUnit, no one got me jack… not that it matters, but Palmetto State had a clearance sale, and that Sezzle payment program??? Oh man it’s just made to get a guy like me in trouble. They had a Pietta Prospector 7.5″ 44 Rem Mag for $399.99!!! I’ve seen those go for as much as $1200 on some big box gun stores…
So what the Hell right?

I’ve always wanted a six-shooter.
And since Florida has gone to full on open carry, well… if’n you’re going to open carry, do it with STYLE.
I ordered a gunbelt on Etsy custom fit to my big self. It’s got a US Cav style open top holster, and the belt itself is 2 1/2in thick, with 12 ammunition loops for .44, and 6 loops for .45-70 as I figure why not?
Sometimes you just have to go “full retard”
In the Zombiepocalypse, what I lack in rate-of-fire, I MORE than make up for with absolute ball crushing/skull vaporizing FPS on both weapons.
The workmanship on the weapon itself is magnificent.
Wonderful finish, crisp trigger, accurate… ZERO complaints from me. Well… maybe ONE… that angle on the grip lays some hate on your wrist when firing it….44 Rem Mag is a mule of a round.
We’ll see…
I mean I could sell it used right now and make a profit either way right? AND speaking of making a profit, TfAt must be jumping for joy as silver hit a new high on the Comex at $90.02 spot. That’s great, HOWEVER
Comex is bullshit as I’ve been watching, learning and observing. Shanghai and Kuwait are selling at spot a little more like $100 to $115… never mind the numismatic valuations of particular coins… as you can see here:

I capped that at 15:14… Silver was, per COMEX, sitting at $88.03 spot:

The problem?
Look at the ask for ONE AMerican Eagle One oz Silver Dollar
$101.02
That’s the best price.. as in how much you pay in bulk per coin, when in reality, if you ONLY want one coin? ONE COIN is going to run you $108.67:

That means that the premium on ONE COIN is about (at that moment) was $20.64 per coin.
THAT tells me that COMEX is bullshit.
COMEX has been fuckign around forever and a day, and I think they (and we as collateral damage) are going to find out good and hard.
Asian Guy does a pretty good vid here:
The TL;DW is simply this.
If you have physical, hold onto it.
COMEX is doing some OPEN and BLATANT Market Manipulation via Margin Call rules changes, to the point that now? It’s painfully obvious that the dollar is about to take a GIANT shit, and we’re headed into a recession IF we’re lucky. Gold is over $4500 and climbing. ALL the red flags are there.
Add on that the US Mint put out a Official Letter:

It was posted on Twitter, and then I confirmed it through various open sources. The mint is, as stated suspending sales of silver products. This’s because the pricing on the website(s) are so out of line, so quickly, that they can’t fill the order without losing cash. In fact back two weeks ago? When it ‘slumped’ below $77 for spot?
I ordered 3 Silver “tarnished/circulated” Eagles for $77 a throw. With shipping, it was about $240. Provided they fill the order, and don’t fuck me over, I’ve already made (per COMEX) over $20 per coin, and I haven’t even gotten them yet…
Which is the problem.
Gretchen’s Dad some long time back asked me about those Gold and Silver ETFs that’ve advertised to foolish Boomers…. the “You send us the money, we’ll store the gold, and all you need to do is IF and WHEN you want the physical delivery, just call us!” pyramid scheme. Once I explained it to him, he understood, and didn’t buy in on it…
If it ain’t in your hand, then it ain’t yours.
Possession is 9/10ths and all that.
HOPEFULLY they ship when they said they will, which is January 19th, but at the rate it’s been climbing? I’m not so sure… this much volitility and soooo many cases of Hebraic Scumfuckery and Douchebaggery, I will say I’ll just be glad to get the $$$ back IF they decide to fuck me.
‘Cos then I’ll just turn around and re-invest the cash in a few Silver Mining Stonks I’ve been playing around with. Nothing too big… I opened a brokerage account, deposited $150 and well… I’m just a wee bit ahead, which for a complete moron and n00b like me, I’ll take the “W”
There’s also some shares I got into for a drone-related company that’s supposed to get a contract award for ALL the DotMil services in March I think? Because of the yo-yoing of the Fed, what HAD been a nice lil climber back at the start when I first started watching some particular stonks, but hey, I’m good with it…
There’s only one Stonk I wanted to get and that was another drone company. When my funds were finally available, I still couldn’t buy in, but I’ve watched it go from $258 a share to sitting right now at almost $340. Like a 98% increase in two weeks…
Dammit.
I’m still watching and waiting to see what’s coming next…
Either way, Silver Mines are going to be a long investment (however long the market lasts that is…) and ANYTHING Drone Related for Defense Utilization is ANOTHER area to closely monitor.
So that’s what I got for tonight.
Hope y’alls night is quiet and pleasant like mine!
More Later
Big Country
















































