What have you done in the past week to prep?

[R_Bert]

watched a training video (Batman)

[robin48]

I got two new stints from my cardiologist. Then I finally managed to re-do the loan on the retreat.

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I just had an ablation. This cardiac club sucks doesn't it?

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[Jamie Jackson]

Bought another gun.

I don’t have food stored up, extra water, or a generator. But I have plenty of guns and ammunition. I think I’ll be okay.

Probably...But what about us that have plenty of guns & ammo along with solid training in their use... food, water, generators, med gear, and families that depend on us?

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll all want to share our stuff...

Just ribbing ya bro'. Security is a definite necessity and a darned good start.

[Guest Baron]

I redid my basement

[Guest ochretoe]

Ordered another .22 and helped set up my daughters .22 for her. Also bought two kayaks in case I need to go into the swamp or make a river escape.

[Jamie Jackson]

Well Done Baron. Thanks for the vid.

I wholeheartedly agree that Patriot Nurse has some great vids as well. +1 on that.

I worked yesterday, but Monday I processed 2.5 gallons of finely chopped tomatoes for the freezer (and for canning later).

I PM'd my Sthil & McCullough chainsaws. I purchased my Sthil around 1984. It represents a genuine value for the money. I'm starting to believe that sucker just won't wear out.

I did some reloading this morning and planned a shooting day tomorrow with some friend. Perishable skills need to be maintained.

After this afternoon's appointments I hope to get in some more garden work...the tomatoes, red kidney beans, butternut squash, and okra are growing well...

There'll be plenty of canning in my future...Good Lord Willin'.

[Timestepper]

Had a wisdom tooth yanked out yesterday w/minimal anesthesia, so as to save funds for shtf as well as to bolster my already awesome pain threshold. (Ok, I'm lying - I paid an extra 25 bucks for the laughing gas and vegged on the couch today, knowing that tieing down a load of rebar and driving to the Coast tomorrow is really gonna' suck!) But at least that's one less tooth I have to worry about when the world ends and dentists, doctors and other city slickers become more or less extinct...

[DaveS]

I loaded 500 rounds of .45acp and tied a bunch of fish flies. That's about it!

Dave

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

Test fired the newly purchased semi auto 7.62 for the first time, never shot that large a caliber before, ran about 100 rounds thru it, bruised the heck out of my shoulder, gotta check on putting a recoil buffer on it. Shot the Winchester 120 pump, for the first time that I bought from Caster, sweet as can be, hit a small pistol target in nice group with slugs at 100 feet with no sight on front yet. (maybe that bruised my shoulder? lmao). Broke out the other pistols and shot some target as well. Cut and stacked firewood for new wood stove I am looking hard at now for bug in situation.

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[DaveTN]

Test fired the newly purchased semi auto 7.62 for the first time, never shot that large a caliber before, ran about 100 rounds thru it, bruised the heck out of my shoulder, gotta check on putting a recoil buffer on it. Shot the Winchester 120 pump, for the first time that I bought from Caster, sweet as can be,

You have a .308 Semi-auto that kicks more than a 12ga pump? What kind is it?

[Jamie Jackson]

You have a .308 Semi-auto that kicks more than a 12ga pump? What kind is it?

I was wondering the same. ??

Shep, let us know how your StoveTec works out. They are reportedly one of the best commercial rocket stoves.

I spent about 6 hours working in the garden yesterday. My butternut squash are about finished. I picked 30 of them and have them on racks in the basement pantry.

I prepped some beds for the next round of planting as well, then "flipped" the compost pile and watered it...we need a day of slow soaking rain.

I reloaded some 9mm for this weekends IDPA match at ORSA after my "chores" were done.

[jcoosi]

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Picked one of them up and added setures,Isralei bandages and extra surgical kit to it.

Purchased couple of fire starters.

Stocked up on some reloading stuff.

[Caster]

Test fired the newly purchased semi auto 7.62 for the first time, never shot that large a caliber before, ran about 100 rounds thru it, bruised the heck out of my shoulder, gotta check on putting a recoil buffer on it. Shot the Winchester 120 pump, for the first time that I bought from Caster, sweet as can be, hit a small pistol target in nice group with slugs at 100 feet with no sight on front yet. (maybe that bruised my shoulder? lmao). Broke out the other pistols and shot some target as well. Cut and stacked firewood for new wood stove I am looking hard at now for bug in situation.

THat's great. I really hate that I tore up my shoulder. That was one gun I kinda lament getting rid of.

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

You have a .308 Semi-auto that kicks more than a 12ga pump? What kind is it?

Maybe not as much, but it seemed like it the next morning after shooting it. WASR AK 10/63.

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

THat's great. I really hate that I tore up my shoulder. That was one gun I kinda lament getting rid of.

It's a very nice weapon Caster, the wood really makes the looks of it come together. I just need to figure out a way to put a aim point on it.

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

http://tacmedbags.co...e&id=2&Itemid=7

Picked one of them up and added setures,Isralei bandages and extra surgical kit to it.

Purchased couple of fire starters.

Stocked up on some reloading stuff.

Holy Cow, that's looks like a very complete trauma package, how much did it set you back? Did not see a price at your link.

[Caster]

It's a very nice weapon Caster, the wood really makes the looks of it come together. I just need to figure out a way to put a aim point on it.

IT ain't hard to do. Here you go!

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[jcoosi]

Holy Cow, that's looks like a very complete trauma package, how much did it set you back? Did not see a price at your link.

It was 230.

[Jamie Jackson]

Nice kit Shep Stoner...and good additions as well.

I really like the IBD's. I've used them several times with good success. heck...I keep one in my right hip pocket.

[Motasyco]

I ordered and received 5000 rounds of 40 grain .22 LR. At $149.99, I couldn't pass it up. Shot about 800 rounds Saturday so I may have to order more soon. I figure small game would feed me well if the SHTF. I'll save the bigger, more expensive ammo for the zombies.

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

IT ain't hard to do. Here you go!

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Thanks!

[gunwhatgun]

I bought a food saver today.

[JAB]

I bought, prepared and canned five dozen ears of corn (canned as 'niblets' cut off the cob) a couple of weekends ago.

I had big plans of growing plenty of tomatoes for canning this year for use in soups/stews/sauces this winter. What I did this week is pretty much accept that the dry weather + the crappy soil where I now live has conspired to = a bunch of nearly dead tomato plants that aren't going to yield enough to keep me in sandwiches the rest of the summer much less canning fodder. I'll have to buy tomatoes to can, after all. I'll be doing raised beds with topsoil next year - and probably one or two this fall (plan to at least grow greens.) Oh, well, at least my ghost peppers, habaneros, Jamaican scotch bonnets and pequins are beginning to produce.

For those of you freezing/canning tomatoes, the last couple of years I have tried a different method for skinning the tomatoes that I prefer to boiling. I fire up the grill and put the tomatoes on there sitting on some of those disposable, metal grid grate covers. Let them go until you start to see blistering all over the skins, pull them off and put them in a large bowl to cool. Once cool, the skin will come off pretty easily. The tomatoes end up being pretty much like you dunked them in hot water and skinned them except they have a delicious char/smoky flavor - and that flavor very much survives the canning process. The juice that they shed while sitting in the bowl can be divided between the freezer bags/canning jars of tomatoes. Alternately, you could just strain that juice into a glass and drink it (also has that delicious, smoky/grill flavor.) I bet it would make one heck of a Bloody Mary.

Edited August 2, 2012 by JAB

[Jamie Jackson]

JAB;

I'm in your AO and appreciate what you're saying about the heat and drought. It's been a challenge for us as well.

Have you looked into something like Steve Solomon's COF? or his book Gardening When it Counts?

I'm not a Solomon groupie or anything, but his book and the use of COF (complete organic fertilizer) has yielded a dramatic improvement in our gardening the past few years. His book has helped me better understanding how I am actually "growing the soil" and thereby increasing the nutritional quality of our produce. As i mentioned, the quality and taste improvement is pretty dramatic.

We also compost all of our non-meat based kitchen wastes and add these to our raised beds.

I also grow legumes in all of our raised beds for the nitrogen fixation at least once during each growing season...seems to be working so far.

Thus far this week I added to and turned the compost piles. I picked and processed 2 more gallons of skinned and chopped tomatoes and froze them for a later canning day. I picked another dozen butternut squash and have them in the basement pantry curing. My asparagus beans are blooming and producing, so I'll be picking and prepping those later today.

We should be pickling some okra and green tomatoes later in the week. Maybe some of the asparagus beans as well.

JAB...I like your suggestion on grilling the tomatoes and plan to give it a try. Thanks!

Edited August 5, 2012 by prag

[Guest Shep Stoner308]

I'm not a Solomon groupie or anything, but his book and the use of COF (complete organic fertilizer) has yielded a dramatic improvement in our gardening the past few years.

+1 for use of acronym with explanation. Thank YOU ! Too often many post these things and assume that others already know what they are talking about.