{"id":9242,"date":"2026-04-10T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:24:11","slug":"loading-loading-loading-keep-that-ammo-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/loading-loading-loading-keep-that-ammo-flowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Loading Loading Loading, Keep that Ammo Flowing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Nope&#8230; I&#8217;m still alive.<br>My hands have just been beat on just a <em>wee bit.<\/em><br>I bought a BIG pile of M193 5.56mm.  Then I got a bunch of M27 links&#8230;  The past few days have been me, manually loading and building 200 round belts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408210744-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It&#8217;s been relaxing TBH<br>No news<br>No bullshit&#8230;<br>I just pull up Netflix, throw on a couple of old James Bond flicks, and spend the night building a 1-5 Tracer (M856, which is running low&#8230; I need to source more) Mixed Belt with the M193 Ball.  The markers are to re-do the color coding as a lot of the original green\/orange is worn off from banging around loose in an ammo can&#8230;<br><br>I&#8217;ve done 4 belts now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408204452-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260409214716-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So between burning out my hands with the arthritis and loading 800+\/- rounds into 200 round belts of hatred, I really couldn&#8217;t get into the typing thing that much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I got one (so far) 200 round soft drum for it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG20260408221339-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I got one 100 round &#8216;nutsack&#8217; floating around in my gear <em>-somewhere-<\/em> but I haven&#8217;t had much luck finding it <em>so far<\/em>.  These things happen when your house resembles a Army Surplus Store amiright?<br><br>Tonight tho, I&#8217;m pretty much done, and have recovered.  Between a fuckton of Voltaren and arthritis Tylenol, I&#8217;m surviving.<br><br>This lack of painkillers is beginning to seriously cramp my style however.  EVERYTHING hurts.  Meh.  I&#8217;ll live, but I&#8217;ll be bitching about it.<br><br>As far as the Middle East?<br>No longer care.<br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EVERYTHING is Fake as Fuck and Ghey.<\/span><\/strong> <br>I no longer have the &#8216;bandwidth&#8217; to care about it.  Yeah, I&#8217;m watching it, but purely as a disinterested JAFO.  Just Another Fucking Observer.  Commentators, we got <strong>plenty<\/strong> of in the Blog-O-Sphere.<br><br>I&#8217;m watching to see just how fucked we might be.<br><br>Hence my focus on BLOAT (Buy Lots Of Ammo Today) and stocking a deeper larder.  Things like watching the Zon for canned foods on sale.  I got a case of one pound canned hams for $5 a can.  With an expiration date of August 2030.<br><br>12 pounds of ham for $70 for the deep storage?<br>Not bad right?<br>So yeah.  Part of it is that I <strong>know<\/strong> waaay deep down that the DotGov is covering up what have to be MASSIVE casualties.  The BDA (Battle Damage Assessments) of some of the places in Kuwait I <strong>know<\/strong> personally&#8230; as in I used to work in those buildings&#8230; Arifjan, Buehring, Shuaiba&#8230;  all of it blown to fuck all&#8230; and yet not ONE casualty\/fatality outside of the first five that they put out there&#8230;<br><br>It&#8217;s the reaction to those first five dead that caused this&#8230; the hiding of the rest of the dead and wounded like the Krainians.  The &#8220;Krainian Klownshow Kasualty Kount&#8221; is in full effect.  Lie, lie, lie some more, and have a non-extraditable country to run to when the truth comes out.  Those 5 poor bastards who got hit?  Instead of &#8220;Rallying the Country Around Old Glory&#8221; the reaction was <strong>why the fuck did they die and what for?  <\/strong>That and a <strong>concentrated<\/strong> &#8220;Fuck Israel&#8221; attitude. <br><br>Which is oh so prevalent on Twitter, Reddit and Facebook even.<br>EVERYONE now hates the Israelis.<br>And they keep trying to make it that &#8220;You&#8217;re an antisemite!!!&#8221; which no, that&#8217;s not it&#8230; I&#8217;m NOT an anti-semite.  <br><br><strong>I&#8217;m anti-<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Israeli<\/strong><\/span>.  <br><br>Most people don&#8217;t have a problem with Jews <strong>in general<\/strong>.  <em><strong>It&#8217;s the people actively murdering women and children, raping men women and children and having the audacity to laugh and brag about it.<\/strong><\/em> I.E. the fucking <strong>Israelis<\/strong>.<br><br>I&#8217;d personally say I HOPE Iran has a nuke and fucking uses it on Tel Aviv.  If they won&#8217;t go in the oven, well then&#8230; bring the oven to them&#8230; Nasty fucking Ziococks.<br><br>So that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m at tonight.<br>Hope everyone is well!<br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"995\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFcnlh9WAAAyZif-995x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFcnlh9WAAAyZif-995x1024.jpeg 995w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFcnlh9WAAAyZif-291x300.jpeg 291w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFcnlh9WAAAyZif-768x791.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HFcnlh9WAAAyZif.jpeg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Nope&#8230; I&#8217;m still alive.My hands have just been beat on just a wee bit.I bought a BIG pile of M193 5.56mm. Then I got a bunch of M27 links&#8230; The past few days have been me, manually loading and building 200 round belts. It&#8217;s been relaxing TBHNo newsNo bullshit&#8230;I just pull up Netflix, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/loading-loading-loading-keep-that-ammo-flowing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loading Loading Loading, Keep that Ammo Flowing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}