Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

I suppose you could chalk it up to food poisoning or some short-half-life bug, but me and the missus spen the last two days being a good bit under the weather. :::shrug::: It happens. Not much you can do except stay put, sleep as much as you can, don’t stray far from the bathroom, and CSI your dietary habits of the lsat 48 hours to try and narrow down culprits. In our case, we’re leaning towards a take-out pizza. Either way, I’m back to running on all eight cylinders and she’s getting pretty close.
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Ah, Mountain House….the Heckler and Koch of survival-food. (HK – Because you suck. And we hate you.) . They spent the better part of a year freezing out their small-time dealers and are now playing coy trying to bring them back into the fold. Now I get this little ditty in my email. Military packaging, you say? That’s something I hadn’t seen before. Lets do some math…Mountain House essentially diverts the majority of their output, for a year, somewhere else….and they spend millions of dollars to increase capacity….and now there are products with military packaging. But they’ve steadfastly maintained that there wasn’t anything like, oh, say, a huge .gov contract that was eating up most of their production and making them freeze out their dealers. Yeah. Whatever. I can understand choosing the bottomless pockets of a .gov contract over the uncertain orders from civilian dealers….and maybe the terms of their agreement even prohibited them from mentioning that they were doing it….but, good grief, it’s kinda obvious now, innit?
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The N3B military parka? Yeah, might have to get another couple of those. Walking the dog late at night in the blowing snow this thing is the shizznits. It’s heavy, but very nicely warm. Only drawback is that it looks dorky enough that convincing the missus that she should wear one might be a tough sell. Although the N3B is nice and toasty, I’m still holding out for the Filson coat that I want. Someday, man………
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Technically, all 10/22 are takedown if you have the right size allen wrench. However, I’m kinda liking this package. Since I have a stack of Rugers sitting aroundhere, I’ll wind up with the conversion kit and save myself a couple bucks. The Marlin Papoose is , youre correct, an excellent choice for a takedown .22……certainly better than most of the AR-7 knockoffs….but it introduces new logistical headaches. If I get the takedown kit and use it on one of my Rugers I dont need to stock yet another type of magazine, spare parts, etc…I just windup using my cache of Ruger mags and accessories.