lazy bug out cache

LAZY BUG OUT CACHE

We just talked about the simplicity of prepping if you went with a mobile cache system.  Not that this is anyone’s favorite method of prepping.  I’m sure many of you were in the military and can vividly remember spending weeks in the field.  Unless you were a squid or wingnut, and the only problem you had is putting up with officers even more retarded than the ground pounding ones ( as if that should even be possible ). Camping that long is no fun.  The food is crap, you can’t bath and you are living in your clothes. 

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So, most of us choose to live in a set location, a homestead.  This is great, comfort and luxury wise.  Tactically, it blows rabid monkey testicles.  The Indians would have kicked our asses, if we didn’t have a unlimited resupply of immigrants over in Europe and mechanized farming to feed all of them.  They were mobile ( at least the plains Indians, but those are the ones we all think about anyway. The east coast Indians knew their vulnerabilities, which is why almost all of them sided with the French in the mid 1700’s ) and we were defending fixed positions.

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Yes, mobility has its vulnerabilities just as fixed defensive does.  But big picture, you are usually worse off waiting for the enemy to attack you.  Which is why you patrol, but that has its own set of problems.  And granted, mobiles can be vulnerable at its water source.  But while food must stay in place in a field, sometimes you have more than one site for water.  All things being equal, staying in one place sucks.  I understand you can’t ruck around with a FLIR scope and your arsenal of twenty-three semi-autos, so you must stay put.

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It is normal to equate fields of food to security.  It has been a long ass time since hunting and gathering was feasible for the majority of people.  I constantly harp on how UN-secure farming is, but I’m not saying you shouldn’t farm.  I’m really just trying to counter the prevailing widespread notion that planting is the hard part and all else falls into place.  Actually, growing food is the easy part, and securing that food is the main problem.  After all, the plants do most of the work.  People just need to NOT screw up the plants job.

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One of the unfortunate side effects of our recent infatuation with Libertarianism ( thanks bunches, Rand! I’m kidding.  We love ya, dude ) is that we too easily dismiss government as simple thugs and bandits.  Which they are, even if we miss the fact that we are also enjoying the surplus that allows them to be so predatory.  But the problem with those Libertardians is that, despite quoting Heinlein all the time, they actually DO think there is a free lunch.  They think security is more a matter of philosophy than just simple violence.  You want food?  You need to kill people.

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It is as simple as that.  I hate to be too judgmental against all these sky-screamers who operate life on their feelings, because most of us were young and stupid once also.  But for you to get something, someone else must lose something.  Sorry, in an overpopulated world with decreasing resources, it MUST be a zero sum game.  You want land to grow food, somebody is going to get hurt.  Either someone who already had the land or somebody who wants yours.  That is what we pay government for, to be the Hard Man we don’t want to be, to kill those people.

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( Yes, I’ve heard all the arguments.  I used to be a Libertarian, remember?  I’ll always be an anarchist philosophically, but realistically the only system that works in an agricultural society is a Strong Man paradigm.  To be more equalitarian,  you must be in a tribe where there are only two occupations-breeder or fighter.  Simply logic-only fighters bring enough value to the group to get a vote ).   Wrap your head around this.  You are either a serf, and support a protector, or you must kill to farm.  Someone always wants what you have.

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So, as you gaze wistfully at a map, plotting where to live to grow food, factor in not how much you want that land, but how much other people want that land.  If you are on land that will feed an army, and is easy for an army to take, you will become a serf.  Or a corpse.  If an army cannot feed itself off the land getting to your farm, and absent most population, you should be fine.  You’ll probably only have to contend with raiders rather than armies.  You’ll need to have a BOL.

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A bug out location is as old as agriculture.  Horsemen approach and it is a great idea to get the hell out of the fields and into the hills.  Once there, this not being Hawaii, you probably needed shelter.  As well as hidden food storage on a day-to-day basis, leaving a token amount for the invaders.  This is the alternative to remaining constantly mobile with caches.  Having both a fixed location AND a bug out location, but also, most of your supplies in a third spot.  Close enough to home to use/supply but not easily stolen.

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This is NOT what most of us do.  We put all our supplies in our home or home retreat.  Most of us plan on bugging in.  Despite having historically cheap rodent and bug proof caching materials, we keep our supplies at home and use them as a security blanket.  And most of us have no place to go as a back-up location ( a bug out bag is worthless without caches ).  But having caches is not only a perfect frugal way of prepping ( if you don’t have a retreat ), it is the perfect tactical response to enemies coveting your supplies.

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Not too long ago, we talked of stacking silver, as seen on the videos from “Truth Never Told”.  He said, just think like a pirate.  That’s it.  That is the distilled wisdom for keeping your wealth transfer vehicle safe.  NOT stashed in your home where you feel safer because it is accessible.  No, it is buried.  The back yard is fine for present day thieves ( if your middlin to large dog is able to guard it ), but does nothing to protect against today’s government or tomorrows raiders.  Sorry, but tales of “buried under a new subdivision” is no excuse to ignore this advice.

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Firstly, suburban sprawl is largely dead as a paradigm.  We cannot maintain what we have, although that didn’t stop us before, except now, secondly, how hard is it to find a spot that WON’T be paved over?  And third, how hard is it to dig more than one hole?  Decentralize, dammit!  Two thousand years later, WITH power equipment, we are still digging up Roman era caches of precious metals.  They didn’t just bury the things when the barbarians were at the gates, but also to keep thieves away normally.  It can’t be THAT hard.

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Continued tomorrow.

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