Trade items

[AP-4Guy]

I agree, giving ammunition to the wrong folks could be a fatal mistake.

In a real crisis, the barter item would have to have some immediate, useable value. Cans of food, can openers, soap, matches, fuel, toilet paper, basic medicines etc would be high on the list. Clothing and blankets might be tops, but my guess is that if it is serious enough to be bartering, there will be plenty of clothes and blankets laying around, previously owned by those who are now dead or missing.

[Irving]

What if the choice is between trading bullets or starving to death?

What if you are trading ammo you can no longer use (that gun broke) for a gun that you have plenty of ammo for?

In the very beginning of a fend for your self situation, I think that diapers might carry a pretty high value.

[AP-4Guy]

Powdered baby formula too. This could be priceless to the right people, and there will hopefully always be babies, no matter what happens.

[KevDen2005]

What about really soft toilet paper?

[KevDen2005]

I also agree that a person may only be able to carry so much ammo if they are on the move

[mutt]

I always figured vice items would become the defacto currency if things went to shit. Alcohol, tobacco, maybe even batteries and certain snack foods that can survive long term storage without refrigeration.

Ammo would definitely be a valuable item, but as people said before, I'd be wary of arming my competitors.

[cbs]

I love this stuff, I used to go out on survival hikes with my father for one to two weeks at a time in the Colorado mountains. I would hope that in a crisis that the people would not forget that we are Americans. This thread sounds like it's us against them. If a man and his family needed 5to10 rounds of ammo I would make a trade if I could. Survival at it's core can be very harsh but let's not forget we are still "One Nation Under God". If the big crisis does happen the core of who we are as Americans should change.

[TFOGGER]

...certain snack foods that can survive long term storage without refrigeration.

I could SO be the Twinkie King!