What did you do today to prep?

Sgt Nambu · Feb 14, 2015

I just bought a Duracell 1,000L flashlight at the NE PDX Costco. $15.99 per. Uses four "C" battery's, which are included. Just like the smaller sizes that they've been selling for a while now. Aluminum, longer than the 500L models. You don't want to get kisser bashed by one!

SHPD_Retired · Feb 14, 2015

Bought 2 more gas cans so now my gas stash is complete. These should run my generator for quite awhile.

CoastRange57 · Feb 14, 2015

Finished pruning the fruit trees today. Major work on them this year. Tired to night, but a good tired.

Started the day out yesterday walking one of my lower fields after seeing 2 coyotes. There was a light fog on, some ducks on the water flushed by a red tail, sun kind of shining through the clouds, just me and my AR down there. Put me a couple of 5 gallon buckets down there to sit on, Great way to start the day, think I will do it again tomorrow.

CoastRange57 · Feb 16, 2015

Sunday was get the garden ready day. Changed my cropping method to mowed grass between the rows. Much easier to mush the mower down the row. Seeded the entire garden to grass and will spray out my planting rows. Put more stakes up for the raspberry's and black berries, and got the grapes up on wire. Sprayed out the squash and pumpkin plot, looks like I finally have the damn weeds under control. Set the trail cam to see what shows up.

Then I pulled a cold beer out and sat on my front porch on a 63 degree February day. Nice.

JackThompson · Feb 18, 2015

Picked up a 300 round battle pack of 5.56 M855 just in case the ATF's ban on M855 steel core ammo actually goes into effect.

Wish I could have picked up about 5,000 rounds, but oh well..

Ordered a paper log maker from Amazon:
http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005VSB3J8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(I use Smile.amazon.com so a portion of each purchase goes to support my favorite charity, The Wounded Warrior Project)

I'm shredding our recyclable paper now and will soon begin making fire logs (Similar to Preso logs) out of it.

forefathersrback · Feb 18, 2015

Yesterday I did a lot of raking and burning, to help with the fire danger that I'm sure will be high this coming fire season. In my 36 yrs living in Central Oregon I have never seen the ground so dry. Today I went out to check the trap line, nothing in them. However, I have gotten passible in targeting certain animals. Trapping is a very important skill to know, and share. I very much enjoy it. If food was in short supply, trapping is a viable option. So you can at least eat.

CoastRange57 · Feb 18, 2015

Seed potatoes, onion sets and lettuce starts today at BiMart. Weeded out the cold frame, found a couple of hold over spuds. Plan on planting all that tomorrow for some salad lettuce and early season potatoes. Probably burn the fruit tree pruning's and some other piles.

Sgt Nambu · Feb 18, 2015

forefathersrback said:
Yesterday I did a lot of raking and burning, to help with the fire danger that I'm sure will be high this coming fire season. In my 36 yrs living in Central Oregon I have never seen the ground so dry. Today I went out to check the trap line, nothing in them. However, I have gotten passible in targeting certain animals. Trapping is a very important skill to know, and share. I very much enjoy it. If food was in short supply, trapping is a viable option. So you can at least eat.

That raking is very prudent! It's dry here in the valley too. We are really going to catch it this summer!

mjbskwim · Feb 24, 2015

Half way thru installing a new lift pump in the dodge.Don't reckon I want that dying on me on top of some pass somewhere

jjackffrost · Feb 25, 2015

CoastRange57 said:
Seed potatoes, onion sets and lettuce starts today at BiMart. Weeded out the cold frame, found a couple of hold over spuds. Plan on planting all that tomorrow for some salad lettuce and early season potatoes. Probably burn the fruit tree pruning's and some other piles.

waiting till after the snow (hoping) this weekend to put in the root veggies and kale

CoastRange57 · Feb 26, 2015

Completely tired of the POS fabric holsters I have had. The one I had had the extra mag carry on the holster, my kid told me to drop the mag and try and do a hot reload, trying to pull the mag out of hte holster on the right side with my left hand did not work, had to transfer the gun to left , pull the mag...aarrrgghhh major tactical fail.

So I decided to drop the scratch on this, and I am completely happy with it, only had it on a couple of hours. pulled the pistol, ran a mag through it, dropped the mag and reloaded with my off hand the way it should be done, much better. Anything to shoot a few rounds. Got the pistol up higher, easier to conceal, holds in tighter to my body.

jjackffrost · Feb 26, 2015

That about said it all (they ran out after i got mine ) man I thought I was done with bulk ammo .
http://www.ammoman.com/223-556

Caveman Jim · Feb 26, 2015

Finally got off my duff and created the finished product of my home defense concealed pistol hide in plain sight.
I used the XDM holster that came with the kit, drilled 3 holes in it, screwed it to a piece of thin plywood & screwed it to the underside of the end table next to my lazy Jim chair.
A quick slide out of the chair reach, pull, aim & fire....
Slicker than owl sh*t on a rainy night.....

JackThompson · Feb 26, 2015

Got my order of 300 rounds of M855 in the mail, just for the heck of it. Didn't need it, but it looks like it might get scarce.

Making paper pulp from shredded mail (have about 100 lbs of it in a box)

Soaking it in a tub of water now, stirring every few days. After a week of soaking I'll press the water out of it and let it dry for a month or so. (In the summer Sun I hear it can be dried in 3-4 days)

It'll be like having presto logs after that.

CoastRange57 · Feb 28, 2015

We got 2 rows of 4 metal tee posts in the ground with 3 wires for our apple trellis set up. 2 more rows of wires to go up tomorrow, then start plant taping the trees to get more shaping going on. I can taste the apple cider right now.

GOG · Mar 5, 2015

I've been catching up on gun stuff. There's so much to do that the defense area got pretty neglected. I'm on a budget and it's taken time to get closer to where I want to be.

I recently filled two holes that seemed necessary. I picked up an M1916 Oviedo Spanish Mauser chambered in 7.62 Nato and a used 7.5" Super Blackhawk. The Mauser is a mixmaster, but, the chamber, barrel and muzzle are good. It cleaned up pretty well and I'll mount front and rear Mojo sights on it when they show up. I wanted a deer-getter/semi standoff rifle and this should work. We're in the woods, and there isn't a 100yd. shot here unless you go out to the road. Oh yeah and it was really cheap.

The SBH is excellent, but it was stored in a leather Slim Jim holster and the barrel is pretty badly pitted. I bought it to carry and shoot, so it fits the bill and it was also nicely priced due to cosmetics.

So I get to have two new guns that will be useful and feel at least superficially virtuous for furthering our survival.

SHPD_Retired · Mar 5, 2015

Just finished up reloading 1200 rounds of 45 ACP. Getting ready to start on some 223. The other day when I was at Bi-Mart they had a sale on individual packs of Mountain House food so picked up a few.

Ttuck · Mar 6, 2015

Decided to whip up a batch of hardtack before bed. Let harden for a few days then into an airtight container it goes. Nothing like some really cheap prep food that lasts for years.