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

Trip to Seattle was uneventful Zero-wise although there were a few learning experiences. Small Motorola 2-way radios are ideal for those 2am highway rest-stop breaks….while one person stays in the locked vehicle keeping an eye open, the other person can then use the restrooms knowing that they’ll be alerted if someone else shows up….and forewarned is forearmed. Paranoid? I dont think so…highway rest stops are notorious for evil things happening.
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Mount St. Helen’s didnt explode while we were out there, so thats always kinda nice.
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So Im in the bunker last night putting away the parachute flares and its painfully obvious that my storage needs (and organizational needs) are simply not being met. What I need to do, and I know Im gonna hate this, is completely move everything out of the bunker and start over from scratch in terms of shelving and stacking…..Yeah, thats whats gonna have to be done. Its going to be a mondo pain in the ass but things need to be organized in such a manner that I can tell at a glance whats what and where it is.
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The Seattle trip puts me in mind to put together a box of ‘long road trip’ gear that can be added/removed from the vehicle depending on the nature of the lenght of the trip. That is to say, for a trip to Seattle you toss it in the back of the truck, strap it down and go….but for the next six months of around-town driving it can be removed and sit at the house until its needed for the next trip. (There is, of course, a certain amount of gear thats always present in the truck..first aid, sleeping bag, fireextinguisher, etc, etc.)
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Picked up five LEO-marked GLock 19 mags yesterday $20 ea. The 20 Ruger 10/22 mags and 10 Glock 17 mags should be here soon as well. What an impotent ten years that was, limited to ten-rounds because somehow cops needed 15-rounds but civillians only needed 10. This reminds me of The Great Primer Scare from many years ago…..a rumour was circulating that the .gov was leaning on the manufacturers to produce primers that would go inert after 6 months…this way people couldnt stockpile ammo. Never mind that its kind tough to make a primer that’ll expire in 6 months and not in 5 1/2 months. Anyway, for a few months you could not buy primers no matter where you went. People were stocking up and hoarding them so theyd be ahead of this new ‘expiring’ primer. Well, the rumour eventually fizzled and availability/pricing of primers went back to normal. But just to play it safe I still have about 15,000 primers sitting on my reloading bench as a ‘reserve’. I plan on doing the same thing with these newly-available magazines….no way Im getting caught flat-footed if those weasels in Washington try this sorta crap again.
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A source may have opend up for 26.5mm flares at a decent price. These are needed for my HK flare pistols. Must stay on top of this.
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Hunting season approaches!