Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
This is really quite unacceptable. I've been neglecting my life as Commander Zero lately..in fact, I dont think ive been down in the bunker in a couple weeks. Complacency is the biggest enemy to the prepared (or, rather, to the trying-to-be-prepared). And, as Ive said before, its just too easy to get complacent…its 70 degrees outside, sunny, my belly is full, I've got my pistol on my hip, a few dollars in my pocket, etc, etc,….why worry?
And thats the attitude thats going to put me on line with the sheep when Something Bad happens.
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Picked up seeds yesterday so its time to start getting those bad boys growing. Im looking forward to this years growing season and its produce. Salads are great when you just go in your yard and start munching.
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I've been hearing good things about the surplus Mosin Nagant rifles lately. The ammo is incredibly cheap and the rifles, powerful rifles I might add, are less than $100 ea. Might not be bad to tuck a few away in a corner somewhere and forget about them. They tart up nicely and theyre ballistics are quite good (right around .308 or .30-40 Krag…easily superior to 7.62×39.)
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Still need to work on emergency lighting for my basement and bunker. I did pick up a few tritium marker lights…a very nifty little product. I mounted one over the doorway to the bunker so that even if theres no light I can tell where the entranceway is. What aI really want is a small string of LED lights run off of a battery that is constantly charged off a solar panel on the roof. As ive said before, my big concern is that the battery be a sealed type since I dont want an potentially dangerous gases vented into the basement where the battery would be. On the bright side, it doesnt take a heck of a lot of power to run a string of LED lights so the battery and its capacity doesnt have to be too big.
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Other projects for this year:
More canned goods
Alternate lighting (as discussed above)
More gold/silver
More guns-as-trade-stock
More ammo
Antanae for radio
More books…especially military TM/FM series
Exercise more
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One nagging thought Ive had, as of late…..I worry about someone calling the various gov't agencies and saying Im a cult leader with machine guns or some other nonsense. The goons kick in the door, torch the gun safe, grab all the books on my shelves (anti-government literature, Im sure theyll call it) and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. And I cant tell you how infuriating that would be for me. So…the solution? Easy…dont have all the eggs in one basket. Which I really, really need to work on.
