To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds ‘n Sods Column or in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!
Jim Reports:
I had a very busy week, traveling and packing Elk Creek Company pre-1899 antique gun orders, and adding guns to our online listings. There have been a lot more orders than usual, following the announcement of the May 20th effective date of the ATF’s new “Engaged in the Business” rule. That will effectively mean the end of firearms purchasing privacy in the United States, except for pre-1899 antique guns, 80% receiver builds, and a few antique replicas.
Early in the week, I traveled out of state to meet on-site with a consulting client at his retreat. That was fun and interesting. But it was also exhausting since it was an 8-hour drive, in both directions.
I re-attached a man door on our barn, that our senior bull had knocked down. A bull can be quite powerful and, well, “bull-headed.” I am amazed at how much damage a bull can do to ranch infrastructure when it simply wants to get somewhere, or even just out of boredom.
And on Thursday and Friday, I took a 10-hour round trip to a gun show. There, I found just a couple of antique guns for my inventory. They are selling more quickly than I can replace them!
Now, Lily’s part of the report…