This weeks preps check-in

[jimLE]

I got me a brick of 22 ammo today..$27 something with tax..and they have it,out on the shelves now.instead of behind the counter..i'll deffently be back when i have the money

 

[Arcticdude]

I got me a brick of 22 ammo today..$27 something with tax..and they have it,out on the shelves now.instead of behind the counter..i'll deffently be back when i have the money

Not a bad price, for now days. A couple weeks ago Gander Mountain had some on the shelves with a 2 brick limit. My wife and I both picked up 2 apiece. As I was placing it in my stock, I noticed a price tag on an old brick; $6.99.

 

[Michael HM Murdock]

I recently got a bunch of two ounce liquid nitrogen and hydrogen bottles. Also got a bunch of arrows. Had my rice harvest last week, about eighteen kilograms of rice. And the testing for my make shift thagomizer-inator laser is not going so well. I took a bunch of xenon and radon lights put them in a ten inch spot light with two sixteen inch old TV screens as a concentrator. It can set things on fire and blister steel but cannot cut it though it would do hell to human.

 

[Maverick]

Picked up a few of these Military water proof shell carriers that should make good cache canisters.

 

[Arcticdude]

Got an accepted offer on the house yesterday. This morning I went down and bought a 25' FB trailer, and tomorrow I'll start loading it. I hate moving, especially 2200 miles one way, but it will be our last move.

 

[Maverick]

Got an accepted offer on the house yesterday. This morning I went down and bought a 25' FB trailer, and tomorrow I'll start loading it. I hate moving, especially 2200 miles one way, but it will be our last move.

You coming back down to the lower 48?

 

[Arcticdude]

You coming back down to the lower 48?

Yep. To an undisclosed location out west. Actually, we'll be neighbors, kind of..

 

[jontte]

and I bought that little brick of .22....I could have spent a lot more time at that shop..so much to look....and touch....

 

[jimLE]

i love buying the 525 round bricks..so many places to hide them..and not enough time,in which to do so..

 

[Brent S]

I siphoned off the wines I've got fermenting right now. These are 3 Concorde, a white grape and one blackberry batch. I'm eagerly awaiting tasting the blackberry as it's the first time I've made it. I still have another batch of Concorde grapes frozen, and I just started picking the muscadines. The 5 jugs I have going now are 125 bottles when done, but I'll get close to two hundred more from the muscadines. The root cellar is perfect storage for it, not only do I have a lifetime supply, but plenty to share and barter with if the economy goes south.

 

[bigpaul]

going off to a car boot sale/fleamarket at 12noon, might find something useful, might not.

 

[bcvaldez9]

Most of my preppeing is acquiring skills. Right now o am mastering a good vinegar for trade and building a foundry.

 

[jontte]

Acquiring skills is more important than many think,combining them with stuff is the right mix

 

[bcvaldez9]

Acquiring skills is more important than many think,combining them with stuff is the right mix

that is the hard part is figuring out what is worth learning and combining and what is not. I have a bad habit of just learning and trying to sort it out in my head later.

 

[Arcticdude]

that is the hard part is figuring out what is worth learning and combining and what is not. I have a bad habit of just learning and trying to sort it out in my head later.

Any skill that you can learn that will put food in your belly and shelter over your head is number 1 & 2 most important, to me anyway. Learning to snare small game and fishing with minimal gear or with fish traps (that you make) would be great skills to learn.

 

[bcvaldez9]

Any skill that you can learn that will put food in your belly and shelter over your head is number 1 & 2 most important, to me anyway. Learning to snare small game and fishing with minimal gear or with fish traps (that you make) would be great skills to learn.

I would love to learn trapping and snaring but that is one of those skills you really need to be taught. I have been learning blacksmithing, gunsmithing stuff like that. But I am always willing to learn more.

 

[Joe SA]

Trial and error works as well, but takes a heck of a bit longer if you dont try you will never know. Tought myself to how to weld, not the best, but nothing a grinder cant fix.

 

[bcvaldez9]

Any skill that you can learn that will put food in your belly and shelter over your head is number 1 & 2 most important, to me anyway. Learning to snare small game and fishing with minimal gear or with fish traps (that you make) would be great skills to learn.

Trial and error works as well, but takes a heck of a bit longer if you dont try you will never know.

years longer it has taken me 6 months to learn how to catch a mouse 50% of the time. I live in the burbs. I am still working on moving out of my nightmare.

 

[Joe SA]

I tnink you found the right forum, poeple around here are very knowledgeable and willing to share their ideas, and very good ones at that.

 

[Arcticdude]

I would love to learn trapping and snaring but that is one of those skills you really need to be taught. I have been learning blacksmithing, gunsmithing stuff like that. But I am always willing to learn more.

I learned to trap when I was about 7 or 8 from an old man that trapped for the area ranches. I got a few small traps and started catching digger squirrels, then muskrats and moved up from there. Blacksmithing is a skill that I'd like to learn more about. Way back in my career I worked as a welder/fabricator, pipefitter and iron worker, so I learned a lot of the basics. Now I'd like to expand on that knowledge.