Will there be a gap between a jump in precious metal prices and total SHTF?

[bigpaul]

I'm not going for gold or silver, either as a financial use or barter post shtf, but I am slowly getting barter goods together. if and when total SHTF goes down I don't think gold or silver will be much in demand for a long,long time, people will need food predominately and if someone can produce an abundance of that, rather than subsistence farming, then they will be the one to reap the rewards.