Thursday, May 30, 2019

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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note: I've corresponded with Doug Bell for many years.  He was involved in the Survivalist Magazine ( here .  He wasn't involved at the level he could stop it from going to crap ).  He is also quite knowledgeable.  He taught me a LOT.  He is trying to start up another survivalist magazine, which, with him at the helm I'm sure can be a really great one.  What he is requesting is any advice on the business end of things ( he isn't quite sure of the format.  Paper?  Paid site access? ), and he wouldn't be adverse to any potential investors.  If you can be of any help, shoot me an e-mail and I will forward it to him, then he can get back to you directly.  At the beginning of the mail, put "forward to Doug Bell". 
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note: I don't think I've ever seen this in my life.  Diesel CHEAPER than regular unleaded.  It could just be a fluck, business down as the town starts going into decline.  Some shopping centers are 40/50% unoccupied.   But the other two stations on my walking route were three and five cents over unleaded, compared to the one a nickel under, so who knows.
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32 comments:

  1. note: I don't think I've ever seen this in my life. Diesel CHEAPER than regular unleaded.

    HA HA!!! Guess that is what I get for being old. I can easily remember gas at 26 cents a gallon and diesel at 19 cents. They could hardly give it away - that was in the early 70's. Before oil embargoes. Even when gas hit a dollar the first time, diesel was still the cheap stuff nobody wanted unless you were a trucker.

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    1. When I was five or six years old, '70, '71, I fell off the monkey bars or something similar, at school, hitting my head. That was cool-I got to go home the rest of the day. Watched Mr. McGoo cartoons. That is what I remember from that era. No outside awareness going on at all. Come to think of it, I dove into a swimming pool a few years later and hit my head. I think I should have been wearing a padded helmet all the time back then. Now, the late '70's oil problems, those I remember well. Diesel was getting much more popular, the new thing was for stations to start carrying it, people converting because there were no lines for it the last two times. So, the takeaway is that NO, I suffered no brain damage and my era was always that of higher diesel prices.

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    2. Yeah, low 1980's had very reasonably priced diesel prices. My present boss (architect) had a project about 800 miles away that he was required to site visit once a month. He purchased a used diesel VW Rabbit which got about 50 - 55 mpg, easily twice what his pick-up was getting and saved a ton of money over time.

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    3. I thought it was a true crime they stopped making diesel Rabbits and the Geo's. Those two, with govt. help and tax write offs, would have done more than all the CAFE rules.

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  2. Lord Bison, Here's an idea to help fund this glorious blog. Just as "vanity press" will print a small run of self published books you can do the same with a "vanity mint". Contract to have a small silver coin bearing your profile (flowing mane of hair, naturally) minted. Then you resell at EXORBITANT markeup to the minionite brigade, battalion...squad.
    Then in 1000 years some humper can dig them up.
    As the article states, "Hoardes equal hordes"

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/search-lost-hammer-led-largest-cache-roman-treasure-ever-found-britain-180967263/

    Yeoman/warriors..old school. "The Other Greeks:The Family Farm & Agrarian Roots of Western Civ" by V.D Hanson, yes, the semifamous CalState Classics professor and TV gadfly

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520209354/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i5

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    1. I had a hard time plowing through other books of his. Not sure I want to gamble $20. But thanks for the mention. Love the coin idea :)

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  3. This escape pod from BO location is a good plan C Just in case idea, one that makes a lot of sense IF that 3rd location is far enough from others discovering it in your absence. A child's swing set, long outgrown, can become a metal tent frame ready for a cover to be thrown over it. Some hammocks can be easily stored in a bucket for TEMPERATE locations where sleeping in the open works - easy peasy. Cookware, purchased inexpensively from SA or Goodwill is easy, spare pots becoming especially valuable as making one from scratch in the wild is extremely difficult. A couple of wheelbarrow frames w/ flat free tire for hauling heavy stuff about would be nice to have too. Two individuals, grasping one handle makes the job much easier to accomplish and the single tire travels single track - game trails easy enough if the brush isn't dense.

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  4. From the "Doesn't Surprise Me" department:

    I just finished reading an article about whaling.
    A complicated study, I took about a half-hour to complete it.
    In all that time, the browser did not crash.

    Compare that to reading an article about firearms or goofball bumblebrats. Multiple crashes a minute.

    Give it a try:
    https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-crime-of-the-20th-century-russia-whaling-67774

    I think the information about destroying our ocean seems reasonably accurate. Substitute 'any bumblebrats' for 'soviet', and you might realize we are down-range, next in their line-of-fire.

    The surplus of inherited guilt is merely a bonus.

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    1. I thought we were blaming the Nips for over-whaling?

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    2. According to the linked story, the 'soviet central authorities in charge of fishing quotas' established the tonnage the fishing fleets were required to meet; some fleet captains exceeded the quota to receive a soviet homeland medal of honor or somesuch. With oakleaf cluster. And gold braid.

      Next season, those captains were arrested for failing to meet quotas. Apparently, they killed all the friendly whales in the early years.

      As a side note, the article says no Rusky eats whale meat. No Rusky uses whale oil. Some whale carcasses were pulverized for fertilizer, but other than that, the whales were wasted. Killed in Antarctica, hauled to the Ukraine, counted by the authorities, then dumped.

      Many of these whales were endangered, protected by international agreement. However, to meet quotas, soviet fleets killed every whale anyplace.

      I didn't have much use for bureaucrats prior to reading this article. After reading it, I have a hard time justifying their existence.

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      I can understand caching. Stuff is fun.
      Here in the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon, I'm doing a series of foraging workshops to reduce my need for stuff.

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    3. The workshop sounds like a great idea. However, don't you fear competition from all the Hippie Scum?

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  5. Caching is great, if the conditions allow. Here in the temperate rainforests the water table is just below the surface most of the spring and summer. Black bears are a constant fixture that rip through, dig or claw through anything resembling food. I can't even keep a compost pile without their destructive intrusion. And between stones and giant roots never mind snow and ice cover in winter (and now spring and fall) I would either lose anything I buried to water, bears, mice or ground animals, or couldnt dig through frozen, icy ground and I'd starve before I could dig it out. (Sometimes up to 4 feet of snow on ground OVER solidly frozen, say "ice dirt"). If anyone has ideas for solutions to these impediments to ground caching please tell me here!

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    1. Am I full of crap? Not sure, but would above ground mounds with rock covering work? Mylar seal food, inside bucket. Perhaps that avoids the smell for bears.

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  6. Things not mentioned enough: in your various buried caches, at your bug-out locations, you need to have the glue and parts to 're-seal' said cache in original manner, to dig up later.

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  7. In the last decade there was a preparedness site called "Savvysurvivor". It's no longer around but can be accessed on archive.org (I love that site!). One of the articles that I found helpful and is somewhat in line with today's topic was on the bucket cache - a five gallon bucket that is crammed with a few days' supplies and strategically buried/hidden in locations you expect to end up if you're forced out of your primary location. They were relatively inexpensive to make, enough so that the average prepper could make up several and place them throughout and area or along an extended bugout route. Here's the article link: https://web.archive.org/web/20040606131606/http://www.savvysurvivor.com/supplycache.htm

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    1. I do wonder about the longevity of that MRE in there.

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  8. What do you recommend we bury in our back yard? My back yard isn't large (Hey! It's not the size of the wand that matters. It's the skill of the Magician) but I'm not in Japan either.

    Suggestions for further afield are welcome as well. No firearm stuff because I don't want the Feds shooting my dog

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    1. The more you can bury, the better. The feds would shoot your dog for silver, especially as they go broke.

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  9. So, in getting ready for Monday's post I revisited my preps for Y2K (mentally). Wow. Just pathetic. Maybe 200 rounds of .223.

    I'm a lot better now, especially after having been a leader for that paramilitary organization mentioned in Red Dawn, you know, the one with the motto "be prepared." But I'm also a lot older. I'm thinking that there is a correlation - we're better prepared as we get older.

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    1. The closer to death we get, the better prepared we are to live. Yeah, we humans are some retarded contrarians. We were designed by committee and there is no owners manual.

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  10. re:
    longevity of storage food

    As an experiment, I sealed a chocolate bar == fair-trade organic, naturally == in doubled zipper-top bags, then sealed that inside a Mason jar.

    It lasted the better part of the morning.

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    1. If you had vacuum sealed, it would have lasted two days, because of the expense involved and you not wanting to waste.

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  11. Minions thoughts on 20 gauge?

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    1. 'Ol Remus says they are just as good as 12g, with today's ammo.

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    2. Getting hit with a 00 pellet from a 20ga hurts just as much as from a 12ga. To fire 20ga pain equivalent, you can get low recoil 12ga shells that have same velocity as shoulder hurting 3.5inch magnum 00, but have fewer pellets.
      Pdxr13

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    3. But harder to find the ammo.

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    4. Well, I've heard the argument about 303 British. With mail order, and reloading supplies ( anyone can afford a Lee ), not sure retail shortage is that big of a deal. No one complains about, say, solar panels being hard to get because it must be shipped to them. Sears used to be all about shipping crap to half the country tied to the railroads for resupply. Since Reagan legalized mail order ammo, has this been a valid argument?

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  12. While bugging out is not a great strategy from the city, I think that rural people should absolutely plan on it (Unless of course you are so remote that no one would ever find you, but few are). You (Jim) are a prime example of who I’m thinking about when I say this. Granted, Elko is remote, and far removed by several miles of highway, from the other large population centers. Still, being right off of highway 80 practically guarantees that you will encounter at least a few stragglers (And chances are, they won’t take too kindly to your non-hitlery loving, deplorable ass, not being keen on the idea of sharing with them :D ).


    “'Ol Remus says they are just as good as 12g, with today's ammo.”


    Don’t forget Jim, that in more recent years, the 12ga came offered in a 3.5” chamber/shells. Not saying that’s a reason that you should get one over a 20ga, since it would mostly be used for waterfowl hunting, but it does offer more versatility. I think that a 20ga would be just fine. The only reason that I might consider one over the other, would be the commonality of shells. Which is found in greater numbers? In the field, what are you the most likely to come across, empty 12ga or 20ga hulls? (reloading consideration) I don’t have the answer to that question, but hypothetically, if the 12ga were more common, I’d pick it over the 20ga. Just remember that single shot shotguns are lightweight, and really give you a jolt. My 12ga Stevens model 9478 will leave a bruise on your shoulder after firing a box of low base loads through it (Yes, it has a recoil pad installed). Just get an additional shoulder pad if necessary. Some shooting vests have additionally padding on the shoulder to help with this problem.

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    1. The probabilities suggest the likeliest outcome is fuel shortages rather than an overnight disaster. I think the interstate issue just might be overdone.

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    2. Probably, but I still wouldn’t bet my life on it.

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    3. I have, but I can see where others might not be so cavalier :)

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