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Hmmm…lets see, whats been going on lately in Zeroland.

Went shooting the other day..I am still impressed with the AK. Simple construction (primitive, even, by some standards) but it chugs along like a champ. Picked up some extra mags at the gun show the other day so I figured Id better test ’em out and, of course, they worked flawlessly. Also shot the FAL…its a bit more sensitive about surplus mags but then again thats why I brought it – to test out mags I had picked up. That .308 smacks those steel plates with some serious authority.
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I need to update my five page spreadsheet of goodies to reflect recent purchases. Slowly but steadily Im making progress in acquiring all the things I want to make me feel secure and safe (and slightly superior).
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Still need to get a decent radio scanner. Something for keeping track of the local gendarmes as well as eavesdropping on my neighbors. I need to check the various spec sheets and then hit eBay. In addition to those frequencies I also need to get 133.5 mHz so I can pick up the signals from my seismic intrusion detectors. And itd be nice if the scanner was easily modifiable to pick up cel phones as well.
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For those of you slightly curious (or not) about what the Zero carries around day to day in his Bag O’ Tricks:
first aid kit – One I put together myself. Lotsa nice little nice-to-have items in it that you normally wouldnt find in a store bought kit.
LED flashlight – Nice Streamlight that does a good job
smaller LED flashlight – Small one-AA light for misc. tasks
Gerber Parabellum folder – Nice size folder for most tasks
Shrade small folder – Clips onto D-ring on shoulder strap so its the blade that gets used most often
Photon Microlight – Clips onto D-ring on shoulder strap…great for illuminating keyholes and such.
Ball of paracord – Million uses but also good for affixing extras to my pack
Assorted cable ties – Another multitasker. Also can be used to fasten gear to ALICE webbing
Spare Glock mags
Notepad and pens
Small sack containg scarf, gloves, hat and neck gaiter – (This is a seasonal thing.)
Bottle of water

All this is toted around in my Tactical Tailor bag.

This is mostly just stuff for minor emergencies and the like. But it goes with me most places..esp. when im out wandering around town or on my bike. If Im going out in the sticks or hunting/fishing I add a few more things like a bivvy sack, poncho, CamelBak, etc.
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Need to order up some more freeze-drieds this year. I want to get some FD meat to supplement things. Expensive, but I have no desire to be forced into a life of vegetarianism by some calamity.

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  2. Just got an order of FD in today. It was just 7 cans, and only one was meat. It’s expensive, but I try to buy a can or two of meat each time I order. I need to focus on buying more FD sausage or ham for a while, so I have something to go into all those hundreds of pounds of rice and beans I’ve got stashed!

  3. Where are you getting yours from? Ive found that ordering straight from Mountain House seems to be about as cheap as anywhere else although once in a blue moon Nitro-Pak has the stuff a few dollars cheaper….but MH pays the freight.

  5. You might have a hard time finding a scanner that is capable of picking up cellphones. I believe it was in ’94 when our friends in Washington decided that we needed to be protected from the evils of scanners and made it illegal to manufacture a scanner that was even capable of being modified to receive cellphones. My old PRO-43 and my PRO-2006 can both be modified, but supposedly it would be a federal offence were I to do so. Anything made since the law change is allegedly incapable of being modified to receive the cellular frequency spectrum, although I wonder about Nextel, up in the 800mhz range… they are always interfering with law enforcement freqs, hence they’re being forced out of that band by the FCC, according to what I hear in the scanner talkgroups. I can pick up 800mhz law enforcement traffic just fine; I’ve just never tried for Nextel…

  6. MSG gives me hideous migraines, and almost all of MH’s stuff has MSG in it. Lately, I’ve been ordering from Emergency Essentials (cans say Provident Pantry). I’ve ordered a few cans from Nitro-Pak, Alpine Aire, and Walton’s Foods (but the Walton Foods ones turned out to have MSG in them). I have a few cans from miscellaneous other vendors, but they’re mostly dehydrated foods, not FD.

  8. Errr… you weren’t asking me, where you? I don’t… you may have meant another post than the one you responded to…

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