Hmmm….a customer from my civillian life wishes to trade several cases of new manufactured MRE’s for bullets for his .44’s. Hmm.

Im somewhat spoiled…my long term food is Montain House freeze-drieds which are expensive but pretty tasty. On the other hand the MRE’s do fill a niche – food that requires no prep and is packaged for travel. That is to say, food that you can grab and take with you if you have to bugout in a hurry and cant boil water or make fires.

I’ve a few cases of them now but more is always better. Esp. since I can cache a few of these offsite somewhere.
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Someone asked if I was going to buy any new guns if the AWB expires. I said no, because the ban affected magazines more than guns and I already have all the hi-cap guns I wanted.

Ok, I was wrong.

I’ve been wanting a semi-auto pistol caliber carbine and was originally thinking of a Ruger 9mm carbine or an AutoOrd .45. ANd then I remembered this. You never know when 100-rounds of 9mm will come handy.
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As I metnioned, priority, though, is geting Glock, P35 and 10/22 mags.

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

Hmmm….a customer from my civillian life wishes to trade several cases of new manufactured MRE’s for bullets for his .44’s. Hmm.

Im somewhat spoiled…my long term food is Montain House freeze-drieds which are expensive but pretty tasty. On the other hand the MRE’s do fill a niche – food that requires no prep and is packaged for travel. That is to say, food that you can grab and take with you if you have to bugout in a hurry and cant boil water or make fires.

I’ve a few cases of them now but more is always better. Esp. since I can cache a few of these offsite somewhere.
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Someone asked if I was going to buy any new guns if the AWB expires. I said no, because the ban affected magazines more than guns and I already have all the hi-cap guns I wanted.

Ok, I was wrong.

I’ve been wanting a semi-auto pistol caliber carbine and was originally thinking of a Ruger 9mm carbine or an AutoOrd .45. ANd then I remembered this. You never know when 100-rounds of 9mm will come handy.
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As I metnioned, priority, though, is geting Glock, P35 and 10/22 mags.

Well, hell…$150 for an in-the-grease Yugo SKS with sling, oiler, stripper clip pouch, etc. How could I say no? Ideal truck gun.

Closest thing to a disposable battle rifle youre gonna find.

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

Well, hell…$150 for an in-the-grease Yugo SKS with sling, oiler, stripper clip pouch, etc. How could I say no? Ideal truck gun.

Closest thing to a disposable battle rifle youre gonna find.

So wheres my .45? Sitting in an oversized ammo can. Why? Well, glad you asked….

All the guns I own that are ‘dedicated’ TEOTWAWKI guns are packaged in air-tight, water-tight oversize ammo cans. In addition to the gun itself, the ammo can also contains literally every support item needed to go with the gun. What I mean is, if you had to leave your abode in a hurry and grabbed your .45 and a couple mags on the way out the door what would you do for cleaning gear? Holsters? Ammo? etc, etc…..

My .45 sits in a pistol rug(with dessicant) in a tall .50 can. Included in the can is :
.45 ACP ammo
Cleaning kit
Bore-Snake
Squib rod
Spare parts (triggers, assorted springs, extractors, firing pins, bushings, grip screws, etc, etc)
Mag pouches
Holster
Belt
Cleaning rag
Lubricant
Extra recoil springs
Exploded diagrams
Pistol lanyard
About 25 spare magazines
Dental picks & toothpicks
Screwdrivers
Brass hammer
Extra grips
And a few other things that escape me at the moment. Its a snug fit, but it all fits in the ammo can.

The nice thing is, I can grab that ammo can and have everything I need for that particular pistol. I’ve similar setups for my revolvers and my P35.

All of my AR support stuff fits in a 40mm can (except the rifle itself, of course).
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How does a person live in Florida and NOT be prepared for a hurricane? Especially when you just had one last month?
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One week until the Assault Weapons Ban expiration. Will it stay? Will it go?
Im going to be talking to one of the local gun store people tomorrow to talk about pre-ordering magazines and seeing if he’s been approached by any distributors yet. If the prices are right, I’ll take 20 Glock mags, 20 10/22 mags, another dozen P35 mags, another 30 AR mags and two dozen AK mags.

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

So wheres my .45? Sitting in an oversized ammo can. Why? Well, glad you asked….

All the guns I own that are ‘dedicated’ TEOTWAWKI guns are packaged in air-tight, water-tight oversize ammo cans. In addition to the gun itself, the ammo can also contains literally every support item needed to go with the gun. What I mean is, if you had to leave your abode in a hurry and grabbed your .45 and a couple mags on the way out the door what would you do for cleaning gear? Holsters? Ammo? etc, etc…..

My .45 sits in a pistol rug(with dessicant) in a tall .50 can. Included in the can is :
.45 ACP ammo
Cleaning kit
Bore-Snake
Squib rod
Spare parts (triggers, assorted springs, extractors, firing pins, bushings, grip screws, etc, etc)
Mag pouches
Holster
Belt
Cleaning rag
Lubricant
Extra recoil springs
Exploded diagrams
Pistol lanyard
About 25 spare magazines
Dental picks & toothpicks
Screwdrivers
Brass hammer
Extra grips
And a few other things that escape me at the moment. Its a snug fit, but it all fits in the ammo can.

The nice thing is, I can grab that ammo can and have everything I need for that particular pistol. I’ve similar setups for my revolvers and my P35.

All of my AR support stuff fits in a 40mm can (except the rifle itself, of course).
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How does a person live in Florida and NOT be prepared for a hurricane? Especially when you just had one last month?
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One week until the Assault Weapons Ban expiration. Will it stay? Will it go?
Im going to be talking to one of the local gun store people tomorrow to talk about pre-ordering magazines and seeing if he’s been approached by any distributors yet. If the prices are right, I’ll take 20 Glock mags, 20 10/22 mags, another dozen P35 mags, another 30 AR mags and two dozen AK mags.

Well, the decommisioned Radio Relay Facility that you see a couple posts back turned out to be a bust. It was located exactly 15 miles down a two-lane county road. This road ran the length of a valley that had maybe less than a dozen houses in it. The nearest house would have been over a mile away. Once you drove the fifteen miles you then opened a locked gate and had a 1.1 mile drive (and 500 foot climb) to the top of a hill/mountain where the station was waiting. The station building sits on an islnad of 1.77 acres. On three sides its bordered by National Forest land on the other side by a ranchers land. The 1.1 mile road has an easement, so basically, someone elses land is your buffer zone. And, of course, The Tower…..mmmmm….recon-a-rific!

So far so good, right?

The building itself is 8″ thick concrete walls covered with 4″ of foam insulation. The windows all had steel shutters over them. The inside of the building had 14′ ceilings and approximately 1600′ square feet. Really, it would have been *perfect* except for one huge, niggling detail – no water. The place was designed as, essentially, an unmanned remote-control facility. Hence, no water. You could, I suppose, try to drill a well but you’d have to go 500′ just to get to the level of the road you came in on. Now, yes, you could put in a cistern but they were talking about a 1500 gallon number and that aint nearly enough water for someone who doesnt want to have to leave the safety, security, and phenominal sniper vantage point that is this place. So why not put in two 1500 gallon cisterns? Youre missing the point, man…..at some point you have to a) find a vehicle to haul water (at 8# per gallon), b) find a container to haul water in, c) find a source of water thats clean and cheap, and d) do this every two or four weeks.

What was taken away from this experience? A newfound respect and appeal for concrete construction. This place was , essentially, a concrete shoebox but some paint and a couple skylights would make it really quite nice. The thermal mass would have made heating/cooling a breeze.

So, this wasnt the new Rancho Ballistica. (Although I already had a snazzy name picked out for it – ‘The Box’)

Hmm..you know, having a tall, flat, oil-rig type platform in the backyard would make an absolutely bitchin’ place for a wind-turbine generator…..

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

Hmm..you know, having a tall, flat, oil-rig type platform in the backyard would make an absolutely bitchin’ place for a wind-turbine generator…..

Holy crap, I think I found my new home.

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