what did you do this week to prepare

Spent some time with my brother.

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Bought 2 Remingnton 700 BDL SS rifles in 30/06 caliber. Don't really need them but got them both in the original boxes for $500. Just couldn't pass them up! Can sell each gun for that:smartass:

New here but I went to an auction Saturday bought about 4 dozen canning jars for less then 15.00 (kerr , mason ect) bought some older bits braces ,every time I go to the store I buy 4 to 10 (depends on expenses ) canned goods , some 1 pound bags of different beans (cant find the weirder beans in bigger bags ) I then vacuum bag them at home with a oxygen obsorber .I also buy the .88 cent bag of instant potatos different flavors I put them unopened in a vacuum bag (water proof )I try to water proof all our food beans rice spices ect ... I bought a 454 casull it was cheap and will shoot a 45 L/Colt which I hand load for !

Bought another box of 30-06...someone once told me to buy a box of ammo everytime you go somewhere that sells them. Wish I had started doing that before ammo became harder to find up here in MD.

Picked up a 15 liter dry stuff bag, 50ft nylon chord, couple rooster tails, a pack of lead worm weight sinkers and some more waterproof matches.

Got 30 rounds of 3.5" 00 Buck Mag. First time I've seen it in stock in a long time.

I might be coming home later with a crossbow. My grandpa bought it +/- 5 years ago. He said I could shoot it a couple times and if I like it, its mine. I'm taking my archery hunting permit this spring. It will add 2 months to my deer hunting. Opening Sept 14 instead of Dec 2.

Edit: I'm now the proud owner of a Barnett Wildcat C5. I also got 12 bolts, 8 broadheads, a ton of field points, and other assorted stuff. I need to get a case, sling, and maybe a new scope for it. Looking at the new Nikon.

Over the last week, I have just been reading and researching on anything and everything preparedness.

Learned about oil lamps after picking up a couple at a garage sale. Gotta say it was well worth it.

I did some repacking of my "day" pack. Actually I completely moved stuff over to my old Alice pack. More room does NOT mean I need to pack more stuff (I REALLY need to keep telling myself that). As it sits now, by total pack weight increased by about 1 lb (about 15 lbs total), but it carries a bit better than my old day pack (camel Back HAWG) and stuff is distributed a bit better. I also have the space to add a down blanket and vest.
I will probably pare down and use the HAWG again during hunting season. But this works well for day hikes, and a quick overnight. Plus, I already had it in storage.

Canned 9 pounds of ends and pieces bacon. Put by 6 liters of water. Did a inventory of my reloading powders. put away some Pyrodex.
I am finally designing my game/camping cart/bicycle cart.

Pitched tarps for our family to sleep under in the back yard. Hubby wanted me to go over it with our oldest daughter. Not that I couldn't have gone over the basics but something told me hubby would have more valuable info to add so we could both learn more than what I had to offer. I made a good call. Re-enforced what I thought I knew, learned more, and had some duh moments too. My oldest started a campfire for us in our fire ring. It was her first time starting a fire all by herself. Very proud of her. Sitting here enjoying that fire while I type this. Our two girls will sleep under one tarp- an old army poncho while hubby and I sleep under our Enoch tarp. Awesome memories roasting marshmallows and hanging out as a family. The youngest did shadow dancing with her shadow hitting the fence in the backyard from the propane lantern.


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Just goes to show that preparedness can be fun and rewarding. The joy of watching your children learn, the childhood memories that it brings to the forefront and the peace of mind that it gives knowing that you will be OK. Well done.

Yes doing this practice survival and everyone having fun will give everyone something to draw on if you had to do it for real. Well done.

Good on ya! Being prepared. Creating good memories. All good stuff.

I'm new to this site and new to prepping. We bought a generac 5500 portable generator back in February. Our home is total electric so we needed this very badly. I raise a garden and can, freeze or dry what I raise. So I put up over 200 jars of canned items plus what I froze and dried. Today I made tinder packs from cotton balls coated in petroleum jelly, shoved into large straws and sealed. We've also been working on our bug out bags this week.

Just make certain you connect the genny to your home in the correct manner. If not, you can send voltage out on the power lines during an outage that can injure or kill linemen. You also need to determine what you can run on the genny. If you are all electric then your water heater, furnace, stove and dryer will not run on it. 5500 watts will run your lights, TV, Computer and fridge. If you have a heat pump or central air don't try to run that either. Compressors don't like square wave AC. You need to determine your load (watts) and that will determine what you can run.

this weekend i wnt over my NBC preps with ebola and who knows what else
put up for sale my m-17 nbc mask. i do have others so i,m good there.
not much else really.

Thanks, Rick, for the tips. We've acquired a kerosene heater for heat so the generator will just be used for the fridge/ freezerr, lights and portable infrared heater (if it gets too cold that the kerosene heaters aren't enough).

Rick, portable generators put out inconsistent sine waves. Not, square waves. Some inverters put out square wave.

But, with cheaper gas generators you usually get erratic haves because of the inconsistent running of the generators motor.

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Put together a stockpile of fifty gallons of gas, stacked a little of five chords of wood and purchased a used Ruger 10/22 for pest control.

I bought four new winter winter blankets, a kerosine lamp, 24 candles and a bottle of kerosine.