Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns From: [h--u--e] at [NETSYS.COM] (Hudson Luce) Subject: Weapons Caching, Revised. Part 5/7 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 06:20:50 GMT IF YOU DECIDE TO BURY WEAPONS, HERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS YOU SHOULD BE DOING: 1. Take up Orienteering as a sport. This involves running a course cross- country, using a map and compass to find check-points. This is good for your heart, lungs, and endurance, and teaches you how to use a map and compass in a stressful situation. 2. Get an amateur radio license, if nothing else, the codeless Technician license. This gets you into Packet Radio, which gives you the capability to set up communications networks. Set up a phone tree, so that you can get in touch with friends quickly and easily. A knowledge of Morse Code might come in handy, as well as the capability to build your own gear from scratch. 3. Take first-aid courses, up to and including (if possible) Emergency Medical Tech courses. Know what to do if a companion on a hunting trip has a medical emergency and medical help is not readily available, or if he/she is accidentally wounded. Know what supplies to carry, and which to have readily available in case it is not easily possible to reach a hospital or emergency room. 4. Bury ammunition and food. You should have at least 1000 rounds of ammo per weapon. You should also bury, at a minimum, two weeks supply of food. The way to do this is to prepare another PVC tube as above, including retrieval rod. At the bottom end of the rod, secure your ammo, each 100 rounds in a heavy duty garbage bag (with 2 oz Anhydrous Silica Gel desiccant in a sock) tied shut and tied to the rod with a short piece of nylon cord. At the top end of the rod, do the same with MREs and MRE heaters. Place the heaters in a garbage bag with desiccant tied in a sock, and tie the bag shut. Attach to the rod with a short piece of nylon cord. Pierce a hole in the end of the outside wrapper of each MRE, being careful not to break the seal in the wrapper. Tie the MREs to the rod, using a short nylon cord threaded through the hole and tied. Each tube you bury should contain at most 1000 rounds of ammo, and 2 weeks of food. If you bury six weapons, you should bury six ammo/food cache tubes as well, remembering not to bury everything in the same place; BURY TUBES NO CLOSER THAN 10 YARDS TO EACH OTHER AND NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE! At least one of the food/ammo tubes should contain the following first- aid kit: 10 4"x7" Camouflaged Field Dressings (Compressed), 5 3"x6 yard Camouflaged Gauze Bandages (Compressed), 10 2"x2" Camouflaged Compress and Bandage (Compressed), 5 Petrolatum Impregnated Gauze Bandages, 1 FirstAid Kit (Eye Dressing), 1 10cc tube of sodium sulfacetamide eye ointment, 3 rolls adhesive tape, 5 rolls Transpore tape, 10 1/4cc ampules Ammonia Inhalant Solution, 1 100ml Povidone/Iodine, Solution (Betadine Antiseptic) in plastic bottle, 5 10ml tubes Povidone/Iodine/Petrolatum ointment, 100 1000mg tabletsAscorbic Acid, Buffered (Vitamin C), 1 tube of salt tablets (or small plastic bottle of iodized table salt), 10 1-quart packets of Gatorade or other glucose/electrolyte replacement, 1 60"x108" mylar Emergency Blanket, 20 Instant Heat packets, 18-hour duration, 10 Instant Cold packets, 1 72"x72" clear plastic sheet, 1 60" length 1/4" diameter Tygon tubing, 2 intubation/airway kits, 2 Tracheotomy kits, 1 Ambu-bag, 2 pair bandage scissors, 25 assorted safety pins, assorted splinting materials, 5 hemostats, 5 forceps (straight), 5 forceps (curved), 10 packs butterfly closures, 10 packs 3/0 silk sutures with needle, 10 packs 5/0 silk sutures with needle, 5 prep blades (razor blades), 5 dentist's probes/picks, 10 pair latex gloves, 3 Small, 3 Medium, and 4 Large. 100 tablets Tylenol(with and without Codeine), 1 survival medicine book (Mountaineering Medicine or the like, check your local outdoors supply shop), 3 snake bite kits, 50 ft. nylon cord (1/8" diameter). Use Ziploc plastic bags to store each component of the kit above, except for the metal instruments (forceps, hemostats, probes) which should be wrapped in cheesecloth, let sit overnight in dry oven at 250 degrees, and then placed in a ziploc bag. One instrument per piece of cheesecloth, one per bag. The medications (sodium sulfacetamide, Tylenol (with and without Codeine) should actually be carried into the field as fresh as possible, at the time you retrieve the caches. These medications should be part of your 72-hour kit (See part 5b, Recommended Reading.) Other Useful Items - In addition, at least one tube should have a water purifying kit, which includes a filtering device capable of filtering out Giardia and other microorganisms (such as Katadyn or Insta-Pur), 1 bottle Halazone tablets, 1 bottle Potassium Iodide tablets, and a water storage bag. Also present should be a pack of topographic maps of the immediate area, an orienteering compass with mirror and tritium sighting marks, a "survival knife", a magnesium firestarting block with flint rod, a Leatherman multipurpose tool (with pliers, knife blade, screwdrivers, file, and so on), a survival fishing kit (hooks, handline, sinkers, bobbers, etc.), and a roll of non-reflective black duct tape. It has been suggested to include a few gold or silver coins, and you might want to do so, for luck...The best currency, if it comes down to it, probably wonUt be gold or silver. ItUll be more like lead, copper, brass, and odd-shaped pieces of machined steel... things like that. ************************************************************* Recommended reading - 1. Emergency Preparedness Handbook for Missionaries, $7.95 2. A Year's Supply, $11.95 3. 72-Hour Family Emergency Preparedness Checklist, $8.95 Available from Barry Crockett, POB 1601, Orem, Utah, 84059 (add $1.50 each for shipping and handling, ask for bulk discount) 4. SAS Survival Handbook, J. Wiseman, Collins-Harvill, 1993. ISBN 0-00-217185-6, $20.00. Available from your local bookseller. 5. FM 21-76, Survival. Get the latest edition of this US Army Field Manual. Usually can be found at gun shows or Army Surplus shops. Also check into other Field Manuals, as they may contain items of interest (See Part 9) ************************************************************ Supply Sources for First Aid Kit, MREs, and so on: 1. Emergency Essentials, Inc., 165 S. Mountain Way Dr., Orem, Utah, 84058-5119. (800) 999-1863 2. Out N Back, POB 1279, Provo, Utah, 84603. (800) 533-7415. 3. Stat Medical Supply Co., 4555 South 300 West, Suite 500, Murray, Utah, 84107. (801) 261-4363. MREs and MRE heaters are sold at gun shows, as are many of the items listed above, often at a substantial discount. ________________________________________________________ (c) 1993 American Renaissance Productions. Permission is hereby given to reproduce this text at no charge, so long as this copyright notice is preserved, the text is reproduced without alteration, and so long as no money is charged for reproductions on paper, aside from a reasonable amount for materials. This permission is applicable to electronic and print media. Unless otherwise noted, commercial use of this information is not permitted by the copyright owner.