$49.9 Million US Contract for .300 Winchester Magnum Ammo. That is a significant quantity, but not enough yet to indicate that the US Army will discard the M24 (chambered in .308 Winchester) as their primary sniper rifle.
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Playboy magazine jumps on the 2012 bandwagon. (Read only this re-posted online article and for the sake of your mortal soul don't read their disgusting, smutty magazine.) OBTW, mention of this article came to SurvivalBlog directly from Liz Sablich, a Junior Publicist with Playboy Enterprises. Do your parents know what you do for a living? These is honest work out there in more wholesome parts of the publishing industry, Liz.
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Reader Zac Z. was the first of several readers to mention that Northwest Territorial Mint (one of our advertisers) has introduced some very clever new “Divisible” Silver bars. "When you need to get out of Dodge quick -- easily portable 1-oz. silver bars from Northwest Territorial Mint will have you ready for any emergency! These one of a kind .999-fine silver bars are scored into four sections and have the potential to be split up, making them ideal currency in barter and trade situations." JWR's comment: Have chisel, will travel!
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Damon suggested this Wall Street Journal article: The Climate Change Climate Change; The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere
