Greetings LevinFan:
IMHO, the most valuable SHTF metals are a well thought out balance between gold, silver, copper jacketed lead and blued gun steel.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares work fields for the swordkeepers. Gold stores wealth. Silver is the medium of gentlemen. Barter, medium of poor free men. Slaves work for script.
So, what will a one ounce gold coin bring? Perhaps twenty, one ounce silver coins or in unprocessed food terms, four heifers. And what might a one ounce silver coin purchase in food? One quartered fryer. Unprocessed, eight layer chicks or eight dozen eggs.
Cheers,
OLA
” Those who beat their swords into
plowshares work fields for the
swordkeepers.”
But those who beat their plows into swords are going to get put down quick. Remember who they are dealing with. The survivors are not going to be peasant minded wimps, or stupid.
They see a neighbor trying to be lord of the land, I make laws and get to tax you, they’ll kill him.
Wouldn’t you?
As for blued steel? Forget it. You aren’t hammering out a colt 45. Guns are precision machined. If those tools survive, so does the tools for making blued steel.