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

Was reviwing my spreadsheet of things to buy (147+ different items, different quantities of each) and also reviewed my list of projects…things I want to get done. They include building a UPS for lighting the main room of the house, installing an isolated lighting system leading to the bunker, installing emergency lighting in the bunker, building new shelves in the basement, and a bunch of other things. Things that need to be done and that will, ideally, make my life a bit easier and more secure.
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Saw a Yugo SKS for sale yesterday. I’ve been meaning to get a few SKS to keep around and to store. Theyre cheap, better than a 10/22 for repelling boarders, and can always be traded off for something usefull. The Yugos have flip-up ‘night sights’, grenade launcher spigot with gas-tube cutoff and generally seem pretty decent. They are sooooooo not my first choice as a defensive longarm but theyre price and ubiquitous caliber make them an ideal ’stash’ rifle, truck gun or loaner. $150. What I’d like to get is a couple AK’s but I really just dont have the money right now. For an urban environ, I think the AK is far superior than the AR…the cartridge is better for short-range entanglements, the mags are robust, the guns are compact, etc.
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So the terrorists are possibly plotting another strike. *yawn* What else is new? I have to fly on 12/28 and 1/4 … hopefully those two days will be quiet. I’ll be visiting relatives in a major city so hopefully nothing will happen. The relative I’m visiting has only two guns in the house. A SIG .40 and a Browning A-5…but when the neighbors dont have any guns at all, thats quite an arsenal. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Speaking of, my surplus 400-meter spools of two-strand wire should arrive today. Just the thing for my field phones and my AN/PSR-1A seismic alarm set. Matter of fact, I should get on the phone and get a couple more spools…