SHTF Barter items?

[Celt]

Making homemade bread is something im gearing up to do. Im already stocking supplies in mylar bags with O2 absorbers, etc... just gotta practice actually making it.

[24Pink14Stink]

Cool! I did a bunch of mylar last winter. Probably hold off on doing more until we move out of city. More than we can carry now for sure.

[Lord Timelord]

OPSEC Stuff (tradable with allys only):

- Alcohol
- Tabacco
- Firearms
- Explosives

- Body Armor
- Night Vision (Monocular, Binoculars, and Scopes)
- Thermal Imaging (FLIR - Forward Looking Infrared)
- High End Comms Equipment (Long Range, Digital Mode Capable, for emails, files, pictures, other intelligence to pass along to allys).
- Life Saving Drugs like Antibiotics, Insulin, Etc.
- Skills (High End), Ex-Military/LEO/Merc, Civilian Sheep Dog

Normal Stuff (with reputable contacts only):

- Foot-ware (boots, sneakers, knee-high rubber boots, fishing waders).
- Clothing (all of your 'old' clothing can be good barter items for people that can fit into your now too-small clothing).
- Hygiene Products (TP, Toothpaste, Shaving Cream, Razor Blades, Etc.
- Comfort Food (Beef Jerky, Canned Snacks, Freeze Dried Snacks). The Ability to Bake Desserts would have the ability to turn frowns upside down!
- Tools, Parts, Etc.
- Skills (can lend a hand helping someone fix an object or person with your skills. Examples are Mechanic, Electrician, EMT/Nurse/Doctor, Pharmacist.
- Services: Relaying Communications, Charging Electronic Devices and Batteries, Repairing Broken Equipment, Etc.

[24Pink14Stink]

Nice List LT!

[Celt]

Btw, I stopped discarding old shoes and clothes. Now, anything that is no wearable gets trashed, and too much stuff will get donated.... but, older shoes and decent clothes are stored for shtf. As LT mentioned, this would be useful for trading.

[Meketrefe]

I will trade anything I dont need and will never need or something rhat can be of use to me but I have too much or I can easily adquire or fabricate. And I can make a lot of things. Also trade skills and labor.
How many have a nice bicycle with a nice carry saddle and attachments? Bikes that can take 350lbs wo budging. I will trade a couple I have extra.

[24Pink14Stink]

I will trade anything I dont need and will never need or something rhat can be of use to me but I have too much or I can easily adquire or fabricate. And I can make a lot of things. Also trade skills and labor.
How many have a nice bicycle with a nice carry saddle and attachments? Bikes that can take 350lbs wo budging. I will trade a couple I have extra.

So you would trade your stash of 300bk?

[Cory]

http://www.silverdoctors.com/one-yea...pse-in-bosnia/

SHTF in Bosnia and this guy lived through it for a year. He tells about how he made it through, and the bater economey that sprang up. Alot of this thread seems to be in the right direction, but I would avoid saving your precious metals for SHTF. Economic problems it makes sense for, but withour rule of law and riots? Doesn't seem to be of as much value.

I don't store up anything specific to barter with. I have a decent amount of experience and arms, hopefully i'll go mobile before things explode. If I can't I'll do my best to remove myself from the SHTF scenerio as best as possible. The more distance between my loved ones, me, and centers of population the better. If I absolutely can't get away, I'm at least going to be remote. Pick up a copy of SMCT (Skill level 1) and the Ranger handbook. The two books provide enough information to keep you alive, perhaps in the most primitive fashion... but living is living.

[Meketrefe]

So you would trade your stash of 300bk?

I reload my 300 whisper for some subsonic fun so I had a 300 bk stash of supersonic I would try to barter it all for high power rifle rounds like service rounds.
I think the whisper / blackout would be one of the rifles to shoot with home made black powder and cast bullets in the deepest schit htf.

[Schmendrick]

Garden tools and seeds.

[24Pink14Stink]

I reload my 300 whisper for some subsonic fun so I had a 300 bk stash of supersonic I would try to barter it all for high power rifle rounds like service rounds.
I think the whisper / blackout would be one of the rifles to shoot with home made black powder and cast bullets in the deepest schit htf.

I was kidding, just love your 300 blackout, car dealer, useless caliber thing.

[Meketrefe]

Actually it would not hurt to have a nice pistol round or whisper or whatever that can take home made black powder and a cast bullet.
I mean as a last possible resource. Here the shotgun is the most versatile of all but a smaller popular caliber for cast or even a 410 will
be a great asset. I would not trade any of those last resource options.
357 even 9mm can be a great black powder last resource to shoot revolver or a lever or a bolt or even single shot.

[24Pink14Stink]

Actually it would not hurt to have a nice pistol round or whisper or whatever that can take home made black powder and a cast bullet.
I mean as a last possible resource. Here the shotgun is the most versatile of all but a smaller popular caliber for cast or even a 410 will
be a great asset. I would not trade any of those last resource options.
357 even 9mm can be a great black powder last resource to shoot revolver or a lever or a bolt or even single shot.

Do you think something like a circuit judge would work in that type of situation?

[Meketrefe]

Do you think something like a circuit judge would work in that type of situation?

Yes it work just fine. 45colt the caliber that won the west. But for a long gun I would look into a lever that can shoot both. Ideally with polygonal rifling. For a revolver pistol the judge or even a peacemaker lol would do the trick.

[24Pink14Stink]

Yes it work just fine. 45colt the caliber that won the west. But for a long gun I would look into a lever that can shoot both. Ideally with polygonal rifling. For a revolver pistol the judge or even a peacemaker lol would do the trick.

Never thought about shooting .410 out of a lever gun before.