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If you want to hoard some sort of metal as a hedge against the day of tshtf, what I recommend is lead, brass, and copper, and not gold...

The meaning of that might not have been obvious to readers who've never touched a firearm....

I meant lead, brass, and copper in the form of 22, 223, and/or 308 ammunition. All of that would be valuable and close enough to fungible to serve as money after any sort of a return to yesteryear conditions.