What did you do today to prep?

[erudne]

Market research:
which would rather buy at a gun show, Mt. House freeze dried food or MRE's?

 

[The Heretic]

I have enough on my plate right now.

This is not so much a hobby as it is something I just wanted to be legal with.

I am not going to be DX'ing or anything like that.

I will just be carrying an HT around in my GHB and around the property for emergencies. I won't even be turning it on most of the time.

I probably will go so far as to get a mobile rig for my trucks, and a base rig, but these will be for emergency comms, not for hobby use.

It wouldn't take me long to pickup the general if I decided to. I just have a lot of stuff going on with getting my property in shape and with my job.

I have my GROL (with RADAR endorsement) - but it has been 30 years and I barely remembered Ohms law.

 

[The Heretic]

Market research:
which would rather buy at a gun show, Mt. House freeze dried food or MRE's?

MH FD food.

I have no MREs.

FD food lasts a LOT longer and will not go bad sitting in the trunk of a car.

 

[Riot]

Market research:
which would rather buy at a gun show, Mt. House freeze dried food or MRE's?

Neither...if it's at a gun show then chances are it's overpriced.

Buy it online.

 

[The Heretic]

Occasionally Costco has assortment packages on sale (usually a box of ten or more), where each meal is less than $5 each, sometimes closer to $4 each. If you look around at the prices of the individual meals, that is a fairly good price. They often have the packages, but they aren't always on sale.

Sometimes Amazon has them too, but every time I have seen mention of it the deal expired before I can order them.

Safe Castle has some decent sales too - and if you go for their membership ($) you get an extra discount - but that only makes sense if you are going to buy enough to pay for the membership (I did - I bought a bunch of cases of MH FD cans).

Per calorie, the cases of cans are less, but the initial cost is higher.

I have both - individual meal packs and cans. Some of the meal packs go in vehicles and GHBs, others are stored at home.

 

[pnwSooner]

MH...due to weight but I too wait for bimart sales when they're 5 ea. I didnt get the costco version because i dont like some of the ones included in the bucket. That being said i have 2 cases of mres and each of my kids bags have both an mre and MH meal. Mre's are heavy but dont require filtered water and have other stuff like the cardboard an tp to help start a fire.

 

[SHPD_Retired]

7500 watt generator and some gas cans.

 

[erudne]

Went to Bi-Mart Sunday they were selling UMC 200 count mega packs of 223 for $79.95 which is the same price as it was 3 years ago, so I bought one.
Bought some canned goods to put into the rotation cycle.
The ice melted off so I replaced a burnt-out area light.
Installed a Voodoo Tactical cheek rest ( the one without those silly pouches)

on a Houge stocked Rem. so that my eye would line-up with the scope. The rest has an upper pad that Velcro's over the lower section but I do not need it as it is too thick. The lower pad is perfect and solves a problem I've had with this stock, if it holds up I may get another for my friend's M-1A, which has a 50mm scope on a high mount.

At $18.00 it's a cheap solution

 

[erudne]

Thanks for the replies vis a vis the MREs.
If I was to pursue this venture it would be rather limited as I only attend the Carson GS which is a bi-monthly affair w/22 tables. If I sold the MREs I would only want to make enough to pay my costs plus $6 a case so that I could restock for the next show; still that equates to a minimum cost of $7 Plus dollars a meal.
To drive the price lower I would have to buy pallet loads of product

 

[YoungBlood]

Fixed chainsaw and went back to work trimming brush to try and get our place more attractive to a buyer so we can move out of this people infested neighborhood.

 

[olddanshooter]

Bought and installed LED BR-30 lights for the kitchen to replace the CFL "dimable" bulbs I have. The CFLs seem to burn out after 2-3 years of kitchen use, which I think is pretty shabby performance. LEDs advertise 25000 hours life so let's see. $6.50 each at Costco so not bad, and nice low wattage requirement which is generator-friendly.

I'm very impressed by these bulbs! They dim all the way like incandescent bulbs. The dimable CFL bulbs only dim a little and the ballast chatters so much I just turn the dimmer back up. These LED's are silent to my old ears, and are instantly full bright.

 

[erudne]

bucked and moved 2 PU loads of wet wood off the property, moved firewood onto deck. The back roads were still frozen but they may be mud tommorow

 

[erudne]

Took me half a day to get two saws running, 2 hours to buck-up some more wet wood, 1.5 hours to move it into the PU and now it's too late in the day to dump it. I feel like I have been packing boulders all day, my arms are like wet noodles. I shoveled some horse poop to round out the day

 

[mjbskwim]

I started making something like this from a wool blanket
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[erudne]

After many curse words I finally got saw #3 running, the BIG saw and promptly filled the PU with wet wood, my out-put should now double!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I started making something like this from a wool blanket
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That's cool, show it off when its finished!

 

[Angie]

So excited, my man bought me an AR for Christmas!!!
Cerokoted some kind of tan color. Love it. Now to get ammo . . . Working on getting some more of my preps out of the storage unit and over to the house today, while hubby continues to work on putting the bathrooms back together.

Heard something on the radio yesterday about the government saying that a solar storm could wipe out electrical grid from Mississippi River east and the PNW. That made his ears perk up, and he started talking about getting a solar charger for large batteries and what we need to have on hand for our 73' 4x4 Chevy truck (points, condenser, etc), which led to discussion of a hand pump for the well. Sometimes, he kind of makes fun of me, sometimes he is 100% on board. I'll take what I can get.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Congratulations, Angie! That's never happening with my spouse! LOL!!!

 

[erudne]

Another 2 loads of wood cut and cleared, the big saw makes the work sooo much easier, I even got a start on load #3 but stopped due to my back

 

[mjbskwim]

Another 2 loads of wood cut and cleared, the big saw makes the work sooo much easier, I even got a start on load #3 but stopped due to my back

My back hurts just from reading your posts