Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

These little babies arrived today from a slightly curious FedEx guy. (That is to say , the FedEx guy himself wasn’t curious, but rather he was curious about the odd packages. Anyway…)

You may remember the Transporter Test Articles sonobuoy tubes from an earlier post. As you can see, they have arrived. Condition is ‘Used, Filthy’ but pretty is as pretty does. They are in good shape, structural integrity intact, and just need to be wiped (or hosed) down.

Possible uses? A bunch. The most obvious is to tuck a longarm, some ammo, and a few essentials in there and tuck it away some where. (A Mosin Nagant M44 and a pile of ammo would fit great in there.) Not sure my particular flavor of apocalypse will be that dramatic…and even if it were, I’d probably use one of my Pelican cases. These would make a good container for keeping emergency winter gear in the bed of the truck…fold up a blanket or two, roll ‘em up lengthwise, slide ‘em in there along with some gloves, hat, candles, matches, etc, etc. Really, the only limit here is imagination and physical dimensions.

I hope at least some of you managed to score a couple before CTD sold out. Stuff like this doesn’t usually hit just one vendor…check some of the other surplus guys and they might have some as well.

I’ll probably keep three of these and send the other two off to some LMI.