Retreat Security: The Urban Speedball For Preppers. JWR’s Comments: For anything other than very short term caching, it is crucial that water and ammunition be stored in separate waterproof containers. If stored together, all it would take is one leaking bottle (such as one ruptured by freezing or one with a pinhole from rough handling) to destroy the stored ammunition. One .30 Caliber ammo can with bandoleers of ammo paired with one “Tall .50” filled can with water containers would be about the right ratio, for defending against anything short of a human wave attack. They can be attached to each other with bungee cords to make carrying the pair with one hand more comfortable and less noisy. The ideal padding for inside the can stocked with water bottles would be earth tone socks, earth tone underwear, and/or an olive drab or brown hand towel. These items have multiple uses (hygiene, camouflage material, weapons cleaning, padding, water pre-filtration, et cetera.) OBTW, If you’d like to use 5 gallon plastic buckets as shown in the video, food grade kelly green buckets with matching lids are available from BayTec.com and other Internet vendors. These can be lightly bead-blasted or sanded with a palm sander to kill the gloss. Sanding will also make paint adhere better. Then apply just a couple of quick blasts of flat olive drab and flat brown spray paint in large splotches to create more of a natural color and to break up the outline, and you’ll be all set.
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My old friend S.C. sent this: More about Bluffdale and the compartmented codeword project Stellar Wind.
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Is Going Off the Grid Practical?
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New Jersey city of Camden to scrap police department amid budget woes.
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Some very inexpensive resources for homeschoolers: The Homeschool Curriculum Company