So what did you put away this week?

The other Water Storage thread reminded me that I wanted to get some WaterBricks. In the above post -- @HK_User -- were you implying that the lid was good or bad? From the picture I cannot tell -- but you seemed to be positive about the WaterBrick.

Comments on those? I could definitely store some of these in my garage and various places.

 

These have a special use for us and I do not recommend them for Garage Storage.
The lids are fine for home use and the spigot lids aid in dispensing water and using it wisely.

What I do suggest for garage/rough use storage is something in the way of a heavy duty 10 liter plastic container that is DOT approved, stack-able and BPA free.

One source is a 10L / 2.64 G HDPE Jerrican (Blue) 3H1-10L-BB Plastic Jerricans and Jugs by ASC, Inc.


No answer back yet if they are BPA free but NTL they are sturdy and are useful and small enough to move and stack. The 2 inch opening means they will be hard to clean which is not the case with the Brick or a 20 liter Scepter Gerry Can.

More to storing water than just the container, shipping cost is often the killer in a purchase.

 

Not sure if I will store in the garage or somewhere else, but the garage is a possibility. Thanks for listing those Jerrycans as the price is pretty good. If they get back to you on the "BPA free" let us know.
Thanks

 

Wow!! All these supplies y'all are putting away are amazing!! I need to step up the non food stocks! Lol
Well I got 150 small jars of preserves canned, some for Christmas to give out and some for my storage room. Canned 20lbs of bacon found a really easy method of wrapping it in butchers paper halfway and rolling it up. Worked great!! Also did a lot of dehydrating of fruits, herbs and spices! Winter gets me in the canning mood! Lol.
Would love to hear good prepping foods y'all are doing?!?!

 

250 rounds 9MM, 100 rounds .40, 100 rounds 7.62x39 spur of the moment all on sale.

 

Being a little on the frugal side, I put away yet another of the Harbor Freight 9 LED FREE Flashlights. Buy anything in the store and get one. They at times have a free one that has a magnet and clips on the refrig and gives enough light to get by in the kitchen. Check them out and if they work well, never got a bad one yet, and take the batteries out of them and use them in something else. Store them without the batteries in them, but with good long storage life batteries. My OPSEC is not real good and at the last major ice storm power failure, my grandson, who is in the volunteer fire department wiped me out. They did house checks for fire safety and ended up passing out my flashlights to those that needed them. Without rechargeable batteries and with normal use they lasted until the power came back. Proved three things, they store well and work, they would be an excellent barter item, and I have to improve my OPSEC

 

You can store them with the batteries inside/ reversed and they will not turn on or waste juice, but the best way I know to store dry Batteries long term, is freeze them. They will not discharge or work until they warm back up.

 

Used to happen a lot more in the old days and I still have had problems with the China batteries leaking and ruining things. The electrolite reacts with the copper in the contacts and corrodes it beyond repair. Change my batteries in my VOM every year as I "lost" a good one a few years back. Habit now is to store batterys out of the units and rotate them as I use them. Also keeps you from ending up with some new batteries and some 5 years old in things. Like to keep 2 years of non rechargeable and 5 years, hopefully, of rechargeable batterys on hand.

 

1000 small pistol primers, 1000 shotgun primers, 1000 shotgun wads, 500 shotgun hulls, one pound of Tightgroup. Next up will be more powder, shot, slugs, lead ingots and some shot & slug molds.

 

Have the Lee shotgun reloader and it works great, but it has a learning curve. My first batch of shells had the centers of the crimp pop up after a couple of weeks. An oldtimer told me that my powder, wad and shot total length were longer than they should be and were forcing up the crimp. Shot ok, but tended to leak pellets. Easy fix now, but might cause problems without good feedback. Elmers are even more important in reloading than in ham radio.

 

I used hot candle wax, Just say'n

 

An unnumbered amount of 85gr OTM BT 5.56 (Barnes Precision) I really like this ammo, heavy for the size, flat shooting.
GB

 

My daddy taught me to load shot shells decades ago...and rule one was to stick to proven, published recipes. My learning curve as I get back into it today is understanding all that has changed with the hulls (old AA good, new AA not so much, so I am using Rem STS) and all these new third-party wads. I've learned that when it comes to replacement wads for the Winchester WAAs, Downrange works better than Claybusters. When loading 00 buck with the Claybusters replacement for WAA12F114 I had the same problems you mentioned...as well as some nasty fouling in the barrel. Downrange replacements for the WAA12F114 with the same hull, powder, primer and shot fixed both problems.

Back to the subject of the thread, I found a little shotgun wholesale/retail joint that I didn't know existed about 10 miles away and stopped in to check it out yesterday...he not only had some copper-plated #6, but also had some #00 buck and some HS-6. SCORE! (my only other area sources for powder have been gun shows and Fin, Feather, Fur...neither of which had HS-6)

 

Sounds like me, I think that every small gun shop and gun repair shop in 40 miles knows my name and I try not to bother them. My favorite 1 man shop had a 1870's rolling block in beautiful condition last week and I told him to call me when it was sold as it was too painful to look at it and not buy it and I really didn't need it.

 

Gasoline was down to $1.71 when I was out getting some groceries Sunday, so I filled all the tanks of my gas-powered stuff from my gas containers then refilled all the containers.

 

We are still at $1.99 and 2.09 you live in an area with better prices than I do!

 

Here near my work, which is 20 minutes from home, it's $1.95. If I go 5 minutes towards home there is a place that has it for $1.65...then another 5 minutes it's $1.89. It's like a crap shoot around here.

 

Pretty big week...
A good friend gave me a Kenwood TH78A HT radio that is in basically new condition. Now I gotta prioritize taking my HAM test in a couple of weeks - sux to just be able to look at it. The easiest locations for testing in my area test the first weekend of every month, and I've had work conflicts the last two, so it's time to finish this so I can move on to the practical/operational aspects of HAM communications.

Made the leap to the AR10 platform. The rifle I wanted wasn't available locally, so mine is somewhere between the seller and my local FFL. I'll do a write up after I run some ammo through it - there has been more going on in the AR10 world in the last year that ever before. I also found a great deal on 308 caliber MK319 MOD 0 SOST 130 grain bullets at a little over 20 cents. Next will be working up a load for these @ about 3,000 FPS to duplicate the factory load which is designed for controllable recoil in SBR rifles used by special forces with maximum effectiveness to around 300 yards, making for a very nice CQB AR10 load.

Done moving money, so very soon back to church mouse poor mode. Nearly complete with this aspect of preparedness.

 

You don't have to just look at it. You can get the radio and your antenna system set up and listen to your heart's desire...you just can't transmit.