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It's the end of the world as they know it: How growing numbers of American 'preppers' are getting ready for Armageddon (by stockpiling food and guns)

By Reuters Reporter
Last updated at 8:57 PM on 23rd January 2012Comments (137)

When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.

'In an instant, anything can happen,' she told Reuters.

'And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared.'

Ms Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as 'preppers.'


Ready for anything: Chuck Izzo, a "prepper" sits in his basement where he stores wood pellets to fuel his woodstove, an alternative heat source in his home

Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

They are following in the footsteps of hippies in the 1960s who set up communes to separate themselves from what they saw as a materialistic society, and the survivalists in the 1990s who were hoping to escape the dictates of what they perceived as an increasingly secular and oppressive government.

Preppers, though are, worried about no government.

Ms Tegeler, 57, has turned her home in rural Virginia into a 'survival center,' complete with a large generator, portable heaters, water tanks, and a two-year supply of freeze-dried food that her sister recently gave her as a birthday present.

She says that in case of emergency, she could survive indefinitely in her home. And she thinks that emergency could come soon.

'I think this economy is about to fall apart,' she said.


Stocking up: Dennis McClung, of Mesa, Arizona, filled his basement with food to ride out the end of civilization, which he believes is coming December 12

A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers' message when he tells listeners: 'It's never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it.'

'Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year,' said author James Wesley Rawles, whose Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.

A former Army intelligence officer, Mr Rawles has written fiction and non-fiction books on end-of-civilization topics, including 'How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It,' which is also known as the preppers' Bible.


Emerging market: Best Prices Storable Foods in Texas has seen a surge in customers looking to fill their pantries and basements with nonperishable foods to ride out any fall of civilization

'We could see a cascade of higher interest rates, margin calls, stock market collapses, bank runs, currency revaluations, mass street protests, and riots,' he told Reuters.

'The worst-case end result would be a Third World War, mass inflation, currency collapses, and long term power grid failures.'

HOW TO STOCK UP LIKE A PREPPER

You don't have to own a fallout shelter and believe society is on the brink of collapse to store some extra supplies in case of a natural disaster or other emergency. Here are a few suggestions from the federal government:

• Food - Three day supply of non-perishable food that requires no heat or refrigeration and little water to eat. Consider MREs (military rations), peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, canned ready-to-eat soup and energy bars. Be sure to include a can opener
• Water - One gallon per person in your household per day. Keep enough for at least three days.
• Light - Candles with matches and flashlights with fresh batteries
• Communication - Battery-operated on hand-crank radio with NOAA weather radio function
• Health - First aid kit as well as an prescription and over-the-counter medication you regularly use
• Sanitation - Spare toilet paper, paper towels and plastic garbage bags
• Documents - Be sure to keep important documents and family photos together in an easily-accessible place in case you need to leave home

A sense of 'suffering and being afraid' is usually at the root of this kind of thinking, according to Cathy Gutierrez, an expert on end-times beliefs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Such feelings are not unnatural in a time of economic recession and concerns about a growing national debt, she said.
'With our current dependence on things from the electric grid to the Internet, things that people have absolutely no control over, there is a feeling that a collapse scenario can easily emerge, with a belief that the end is coming, and it is all out of the individual's control,' she told Reuters.

She compared the major technological developments of the past decade to the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s and 1840s, which led to the growth of the Millerites, the 19th-Century equivalent of the preppers.

Followers of charismatic preacher Joseph Miller sold everything and gathered in 1844 for what they believed would be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Many of today's preppers receive inspiration from the Internet, devouring information posted on websites like that run by attorney Michael T. Snider, who writes The Economic Collapse blog out of his home in northern Idaho.

'Modern preppers are much different from the survivalists of the old days,' he said.

'You could be living next door to a prepper and never even know it. Many suburbanites are turning spare rooms into food pantries and are going for survival training on the weekends.'

Like other preppers, Mr Snider is worried about the end of a functioning US economy. He points out that tens of millions of Americans are on food stamps and that many U.S. children are living in poverty.

'Most people have a gut feeling that something has gone terribly wrong, but that doesn't mean that they understand what is happening,' he said.

'A lot of Americans sense that a massive economic storm is coming and they want to be prepared for it.'

So, assuming there is no collapse of society -- which the preppers call 'uncivilization' -- what is the future of the preppers?

Ms Gutierrez said that unlike the Millerites -- or followers of radio preacher Harold Camping, who predicted the world would end last year -- preppers are not setting a date for the coming destruction. The Mayan Calendar predicts doom this December.

'The minute you set a date, you are courting disconfirmation,' she said.

Ms Tegeler, who recalls being hit by tornadoes and floods in her southwestern Virginia home, said that none of her 'survival center' products will go to waste.

'I think it's silly not to be prepared," she said.

'After all, anything can happen.'

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Preppers, though are, worried about no government.

Oh, no, I am worried about THE government, the corrupted one we have now. Should things begin to fall apart in the financial realm, and say we experience soaring food prices or broken distribution shipping lines, THE government is the one I am most concerned about, next to the masses of freaked out, government dependent sheeple. The panic on December 2012, I don't believe anything natural is necessarily going to occur, other than people who have been getting hyped up and will panic at any given moment. Those are my concerns, the reason when we moved where we are now, that I have begun to "put away" some stuff.

Better safe than sorry, and, planning for the worst, hoping for the best.

Natural Supplement Found To Improve Skin Health

January 26, 2012 by Sam Rolley

An antioxidant extract that is found in French maritime pine trees improves skin hydration and elasticity.

With age, many people experience a gradual breakdown of collagen and elastin, the two structural proteins that are vital to healthy-looking skin; but researchers say that with the help of a natural supplement, your skin can be rebuilt and made healthier no matter how old you are.

A study published in Skin Pharmacology and Physiology this month finds that Pycnogenol ®, an antioxidant extract that is found in French maritime pine trees, improved skin hydration and elasticity in women who participated in a clinical trial.

The study was conducted at the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Dusseldorf, Germany, and examined 20 healthy 55- to 68-year-old women. Participants were given 75 mg of Pycnogenol® every day for 12 weeks.

Skin hydration, skin elasticity and skin fatigue were examined at the beginning of the trial and after six and 12 weeks.

The study found that:

• Pycnogenol® enhanced skin elasticity by 25 percent, in addition to skin hydration by 8 percent, and was especially noticeable in women who had dry skin from the start, with an increase of 21 percent.
• Pycnogenol® decreased skin fatigue considerably.
• Pycnogenol® reduced skin wrinkles by 3 percent and increased skin smoothness by 6 percent.

Pycnogenol® is a natural plant extract originating from the bark of the maritime pine that grows along the coast of southwest France and is found to contain a unique combination of procyanidins, bioflavonoids and organic acids. The extract is available in more than 700 dietary supplements, multivitamins and health products worldwide.

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Water Treatments For Emergencies And Long-Term Survival

January 9, 2012 by Peggy Layton

Filter your drinking water and change the filters regularly.

In order to live, we must have clean, potable, bacteria-free drinking water. Most of us think that when we turn on the faucet, we are getting safe, pure drinking water. We aren’t.

Our water is subject to a variety of impurities. Some natural impurities are radon, fluoride, arsenic, Iron, lead, copper and other heavy metals. Other contaminants can be fertilizers, asbestos, cyanides, parasites, herbicides, pesticides and industrial chemicals that leach in into our water. And our public water systems add substances such as chlorine, carbon, limes, phosphates, acids, ash and aluminum sulfate to kill anaerobic bacteria, adjust the pH and reduce cloudiness.

Water from streams and other sources of “unprocessed” water can contain contaminants from sources such as sewer systems and animal urine.

Contaminated water can be hazardous to your health.

In larger cities water is processed to break down paper, heavy metals and other sediment into tiny particles. Processed water is far from pure. This is why it is so important to filter your drinking water with a reliable water filter.

Filter The Water
Filtered water can also be dangerous if the filters are not changed on a regular basis. Research has shown that bacteria can grow within the carbon filters themselves. Some solid substances can be removed, but no filter can prevent viruses, bacteria, pathogens, radioactive or chemical compounds and completely soluble pollutants from passing through. The Berkey Light™ Water Filter is probably the most complete system to eliminate most of these problems.

The Berkey Light™ Water Filter is a gravity feed unit that comes complete with two purification elements and a base. Black Berkey® Purification Elements are more powerful than any other gravity filter element currently available. Virtually no other filtration element can duplicate this performance.

The units cost about $229. If you would like to learn more about the Berkey Light™ Water Filter, go to www.peggylayton.com.

Boiling Water
This is the cheapest way to purify water. Filter or strain the water before boiling. To do so, place a dishtowel or cheesecloth over the pot and pour the water into the dishcloth. Discard the remnants left on the cloth and boil the water in the pot for at least five minutes. This will kill the bacteria and viruses and purify the water so it can be used for drinking or cooking.

Adding Chemicals To Water
Hydrogen peroxide, chlorine dioxide, bleach and other bacteria killers use oxygen as their agent to attack anaerobes and detoxify harmful ingredients; however, the prolonged use of any of these bacteria killers can be harmful. Follow directions closely to avoid negative side effects (all of these additives will have a chemical taste to them).

ION ‘Stabilized Oxygen’

About 10 years ago, I discovered ION stabilized oxygen while looking for a safe way to purify water without chemicals. ION has no negative side effects, is non-toxic, has an infinite shelf life and kills bacteria on contact. It can also be used for medicinal purposes. My husband and I took ION on a trip to Mexico and put eight drops in every glass of water and juice that we drank. Others in our group were very ill with dysentery, but we did not get sick.

Because it kills bacteria on contact, ION is also safe to use when coming down with the flu or a bacterial infection of any kind. ION is also good for safely treating internal and external pathogens.

Use ION to sterilize cuts, scratches and bruises; end tooth decay; stop pain and infection of wounds, insect bites, spider bites, bee stings; treat emphysema, fever blisters, herpes, cold sores and first and second degree burns; alleviate headaches, back pain, arthritis and joint aches. ION is great for plants, root cuttings, transplants, sterilizing cooking tools and surfaces, extending the life of milk and juices, and making yogurt.

I was skeptical at first about all these claims until I started using the product and saw firsthand what it did for my clients and me.

One client said her arthritis was gone after using ION for about two weeks. Another said she used ION to heal her wounded horse. A friend of mine used ION to treat a brown recluse spider bite. The bite healed after a few days of putting ION on it five times a day.

ION has been used for bladder infections, kidney infections, sore throats, strep and food poisoning. It detoxifies bee stings, mosquito bites, flu bugs and colds by taking 50 drops in a cup of water three times a day.

I always reach for the ION bottle at the onset of any flu or cold. I put 50 drops in a glass of water and drink it. I repeat this up to three times a day. I believe it knocks the cold right out and helps eliminate the symptoms, and I recover much faster. ION will not kill friendly flora or good bacteria; in fact it stimulates the growth and development of beneficial bacteria.

Taking ION every day will boost the immune system and help a person to stay well.

People use ION for all kinds of ailments. The reason it works so well is because oxygen must be present to kill harmful anaerobic bacteria and viruses.

The key ingredient in ION is oxygen. It oxygenates the blood as it moves throughout the body. It kills bacteria on the surface of the skin where infection might set in. This is one of the key factors in detoxifying the body and riding it of poisons and toxins.


Food Storage And Self-Sufficiency Products Available
If you are interested in any of the seven books I have written (such as Emergency Food Storage and Survival Handbook or Cookin’ with Home Storage), the American Harvest food dehydrator, water storage tanks, ION water treatment (which provides safe water for five years), dehydrated or freeze-dried food storage sealed in gallon-sized cans with a shelf life of 15 years, wheat grinders, Bio-Clean sewage treatment, 72-hour packs or emergency medical supplies, click here.

Food Storage Meals in Mylar Pouches
These products are meals ready to cook, just-add-water type of food. The food can be stored long-term. These foods are quick fix meals. Everything is in the pouch. You just add water, cook for 20 minutes and it is done. The food comes in Mylar® pouches and has four servings per pouch. They are sealed with oxygen absorbers in the pouch, which makes this a long-term food product that will last on the shelf for 15 years. To get three sample meals, sealed in Mylar® pouches, that serve 12 people, click here www.peggylayton.mygofoods.com. You pay only the shipping cost of $9.95.

–Peggy Layton

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Seeing The Light When The Grid Goes Down

January 12, 2012 by Bob Livingston

Soda-bottle lights are cheap, healthy and energy-efficient.

Filipinos have found a new (and practically free) way to use an old source of light, and it’s something you can put into your survival playbook to provide light to a shelter if the electrical grid ever goes down. You can also use the method to provide light to an outbuilding that doesn’t have an electrical connection.

All it takes is a clear, one-liter soda bottle, some water, chlorine and little simple engineering. Fill the bottle with a mixture of water and chlorine, cut a hole in the roof and secure the bottle and you have 55 watts of free and simple solar lighting.

Watch the video to see how it’s done.

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You Should Consider Owning A Silencer (Suppressor)

January 16, 2012 by David Morris


Most firearms enthusiasts would agree that suppressed firearms are some of the most fun and most desirable firearms toys you can play with.

In addition to the cool factor that comes with seeing James Bond, Jason Bourne, special operations units and other action heroes use them throughout the years, they have a tremendous amount of practical value for firearms enthusiasts in general and preparedness-minded people in particular.

Just to dispel any preconceived ideas that you might have, the vast majority of the benefits of suppressed weapons can be enjoyed without having to endure a “Mad Max” scenario.

Before we get into the benefits of suppressed weapons, let me give you some quick background.

(For additional easy-to-digest information, I encourage you to go through the short course that Advanced Armament offers at www.aaccanu.com (AAC Can University). It takes five to 10 minutes to complete. When you finish, they send you a diploma granting you a “Bachelor of Silence” degree.

To begin with, a “silencer” doesn’t silence a weapon, it only suppresses the sound level of the firearm, which is why there has been a shift from calling them “silencers” to calling them “suppressors.” When a firearm discharges, particularly a semi-automatic firearm, there are several sources of noise:

• The bolt/slide assembly going backwards, the spent round being extracted, and the next round being loaded.
• The muzzle blast.
• Bullets traveling faster than roughly 1,150 feet per second that break the sound barrier and cause a sonic boom.
• The sound of the mechanical percussion that ignites the round.
• The sound of the round hitting a target.

For the most part, suppressors suppress the sound of muzzle blasts and don’t affect the other four factors, but simply suppressing the muzzle blast can often mean the difference between needing to wear hearing protection to shoot and not needing to wear hearing protection.

Suppressors use the same noise suppression concept as automobile mufflers. In fact, they were developed at the same time and the words “silencer” and “muffler” are used interchangeably with both technologies in many parts of the world. Both allow the expansion of gases inside of a container rather than in the open air.

And just like there are several non-tactical benefits to using an automobile muffler, there are several non-tactical benefits to using a suppressor in addition to the tactical ones.

To begin with, it’s just polite. In England, New Zealand and several other “civilized” countries around the world that allow firearms of one type or another, people use silencers so that they can talk while shooting, hear after shooting, shoot while their friends and family sit and chat nearby, shoot near their pets without damaging their hearing, shoot without bothering the neighbors, and shoot at night without waking the neighbors and/or causing unnecessary calls to law enforcement.

With the benefit that suppressors have when shooting around animals, it would be ironic, but understandable if People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals became a big proponent of the loosening of laws and expanded use of suppressors.

Expanding on that list, there are an increasing number of “suppressor only” firearms competitions where the non-competitors of all ages can comfortably have normal conversations without hearing protection just a few yards behind the line.

Many low-light training courses have had to be canceled in recent years because of neighbors complaining about the noise when they’re trying to relax for the evening or sleep. Suppressors are an obvious solution to this issue.

Also, nighttime is the best time to shoot one of America’s most costly animals: wild hogs. I said “shoot” instead of “hunt” because hogs are estimated to cause $200 to $800 in damage apiece per year and sows can deliver as many as 10 babies per year. As a result, hog control becomes a mix between hunting and eradication. What this means is that in addition to bothering the neighbors less when hunting with a suppressed weapon, it also can allow the shooter the opportunity to take more hogs per engagement. This is because the shooter will be able to see better and get back on target quicker and because the decrease in noise might allow for multiple shots before the herd scatters. Whether you can hunt hogs with a silencer depends on where you are. Eighteen States allow either varmint eradication and/or hunting with a silencer. In some States, you can use silencers, night vision and/or thermal vision. In Texas, you can even shoot hogs while hanging out of a helicopter.

Great Learning Tool
When you consider the fact that suppressors decrease sound levels, improve accuracy, reduce felt recoil and reduce muzzle flip, it quickly becomes evident that they are almost the perfect tool to use when introducing a new shooter to the sport — particularly young shooters and females who may be apprehensive of firearms in the first place.

They will be able to hear your range commands easier since they don’t have to wear ear protection. They won’t feel like they’re being yelled at since you will be able to use your normal voice. They won’t be as afraid of the blast and recoil as they might be. And the reduction of muzzle flip leads to a significant reduction in anticipatory flinch. (This is when you “push” the barrel down in anticipation of the round going off to try to counteract recoil. It is one of the most, if not the most common problem that shooters of all skill levels have.)

In a non-tactical survival situation, hunting with a suppressor also has the benefit of considerably shortening the radius within which other people could direction find you based on the report of your shot.

Tactical Considerations
Even though tactical benefits won’t be nearly as useful to most people, there are some notable ones that I want to share with you.

• If you’re on a tactical team where everyone is using suppressed weapons, it will be very easy to differentiate friend from foe.
• If you’re not an audio blocker (some people’s ears mysteriously compensate for explosions and firearms noises in high stress situations — a phenomenon covered in David Grossman’s book On Combat), your hearing will probably be shot pretty quickly after you fire your first shot and you won’t be able to communicate as effectively with your team. If you and your teammates use suppressors, then at least your weapons won’t blow your hearing, even though your opponents’ weapons may.
• With most normal powder loads, suppressors contain most of the muzzle flash and allow shooters to maintain their night vision longer than with unsuppressed weapons.
• Suppressors can significantly increase muzzle velocity and terminal ballistics of a short barreled rifle.
• Suppressed light and noise and the alteration of the frequency of the muzzle blast make direction finding much more difficult than with non-suppressed weapons.
• Some SWAT teams keep suppressed .22s on hand for shooting out lights during high risk raids. Since everything that goes up must come down and since they are responsible for every round that leaves their weapons, this is not incredibly common.

Who Can Own A Silencer?

If you’re a legal U.S. resident aged 21 or older, a non-felon, and live in Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia or Wyoming, you can own a silencer. You just have to buy it from a firearms dealer who has a Class III license and pay a $200 tax for each suppressor. Right now, the wait is about six months for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to approve your application.

If you don’t live in one of these States, you can still buy sub-caliber inserts. See the editor’s note.

As a note, firearms dealers are required to have a Class III license to sell silencers. Silencers are technically called “Title II” items. Another way of saying it is that a dealer has to have a Class III license to sell Title II items. More on Title II items in a few paragraphs.

In other countries where suppressors are legal, they are generally less expensive and easier to obtain.

Unfortunately, in addition to making it unnecessarily cumbersome for law abiding citizens to legally obtain a silencer, it’s also very easy to mess up once you own one.

Technically, if you buy a silencer in your name, you are the only person who can use it or have access to or control of it without committing a felony. That means that if you own a safe and keep your suppressors in your safe, nobody — including your spouse — can have the combination.

If you’re at the range, you can’t legally let anyone else fire your suppressed weapon or handle your suppressor.

This can be interpreted to apply to both civilians and law enforcement and is an especially big tripping point for law enforcement who personally own short barreled rifles or suppressors and who think that the law doesn’t apply to them and their families.

Fortunately, there’s a solution: the National Firearms Act Gun Trust. A properly done NFA Gun Trust will allow you to bypass some of the more onerous aspects of the process to buying and using a suppressor. If you’re going to have any suppressors or other NFA Title II items (fully automatic weapons, short barreled rifles, suppressors, destructive devices, etc.), you really want to have a properly done NFA Gun Trust.

I said “properly done” twice because there are several attorneys and gun stores who are giving or selling people defective NFA Gun Trusts. In some cases, it has meant that when people who had several Title II items in a defective trust went to buy another Title II item, it lead to the ATF confiscating all of their Title II items.

I don’t agree with the need for an NFA Gun Trust. I would like to see the items simply covered under the 2nd Amendment, the tax stamp requirement abolished and for the need for the trust eliminated. Unfortunately, that’s not reality, and reality has convinced me of the need to do everything according to the laws on the books and have an NFA Gun Trust to protect myself, my family and our firearms.

What I did was go to the granddaddy of NFA Gun Trusts, David Goldman. Title II owners across the country owe Goldman a huge debt of gratitude for deciding to focus on NFA Gun Trusts and figure out all of the tweaks and changes that needed to be made to make the process of buying, storing, using and transferring Title II items as legal and painless as possible for law-abiding people who just want to stay out of trouble.

Goldman has done thousands of these trusts. If you want one, contact his office at www.guntrustlawyer.com and provide your information. (His site is a treasure chest of good solid information on Title II weapons.) His office will do the majority of the trust and then forward it to an attorney in your State who will do the final customizations to make the trust legal in your State. When I went through the process, it was painless and informative. I strongly encourage you to contact him if you have any interest in getting Title II items. He offered to discount his fees for my readers; so if you want to save some money, tell him I referred you.

Goldman includes a guide with his trusts that explains how to buy items, how to set up banking correctly so you don’t make the trust defective, how to fill out the forms correctly and what you must include and shouldn’t include with your application. I can tell you from personal experience that this is incredibly valuable, as is the ability to call the office (sometimes multiple times) while you’re in the process of buying your Title II items to make sure you’re doing everything correctly. The guide also includes instructions how to legally buy private party, travel with Title II items, move from State to State and more.

Also, if you currently have a NFA Gun Trust, you may want to have Goldman review it to make sure that it’s not a defective trust that could expose you to considerable unnecessary liability.

As a note, we all know how much the Administration of President Barack Obama wants to limit the rights of gun owners. It’s a fair guess that the sale of Title II items would be an easy early target. That’s why I buy suppressors whenever I can. They’re kind of pricy, so it’s not something I get every week or even every month, but it’s something that I’m making progress on.

Do you have any experience with suppressors? Do you intend to buy any in the future? If you had a choice, would you rather have a fully automatic weapon, a suppressed weapon or a short barreled rifle? Share your thoughts by commenting below.

–David Morris

Editor’s note: Sportsman’s Guide has some very neat tools that will let you shoot .32 ACP ammo through bolt action .308s (and a few other .30 caliber rifles).

They are called “sub caliber sleeves” or “rifle chamber inserts.” I have a handful of these little treasures, and they have a few important uses for preppers.

To begin with, when you shoot a .32 ACP through a .308 barrel, the report is much quieter than with a .308. It’s almost like using a silencer. Next, if you’re training someone to shoot a high powered rifle, it’s less expensive to shoot .32 ACP than .308, and there’s almost no recoil. Lastly, if you shoot small game with a .32 ACP, there will be a lot less meat destroyed than if you make the same shot with a .308.

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