Ever used a pickaxe, I have. Again, nobody said it was easy.

Troy

Chacheing is one of those ideas created by somebody with his Rambo headband tied to tight. I am amazed at firearm and knife forums where legal restrictions are agonized over in between 30 minute downloads of personal collections shown off like some bowling trophy. If you have the prescience to stockpile have the equal prescience to follow survival guru Elmer Fudd's sage advise- " Be wery wery quiet." You could also use ' the lizard's gambit ' in surrendering a few bottles of tap filled water juggs and a can of SPAMM if people suspect you have anything. Look bereft while they take it.

When our army reached Bagdad they found millions of dollars hidden in doghouses. Guess someone thought of this already

"When our army reached Bagdad they found millions of dollars hidden in doghouses. Guess someone thought of this already."

Those weren't dog houses, those were people houses... they just looked like doghouses <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

But if anyone needs dog poop for camo, just PM me! You pay the postage!

Sue

Yup, kinda reminds me of the freaky neighbors in the movie "The Burbs". Holes being dug in the back yard at midnight, in the middle of a rainstorm. Big dogs in the basement.

Parts of this post are hilarious. ROFL! At least, if you can keep your sense of humor, if all else fails, you can die laughing.

Being the leaner that I am , I now acknowledge the existence of two schools of survivals, the Rambos, and the ... squirrels , maybe. I am a mole or something like that, and so I do think that caching is an area that is worth "digging through". <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

OK. ETS is a "civilized survival " school. Why dont we think of "civilized forms" of caches ?? Lets say I leave a BOB in my dad's house, another in my sister's house, a third one in my locker in the local club ...etc. If a disaster happens while you are in the clusb, you are not limited to your few-ounces of PSK, you have a few-pounds of a BOB. Its a cache , but not buried under a bush, rather locked in a locker. Anyone seeing you leaving with it would instantly think it is your normal bag with nothing but a towel, deodorant, and comb.

Any thoughts ???

Everyone utlimately settles on their own kit and strategies. We discuss sleeping bags, forgetting that at twilight only one person can crawl into the things. If you wake up warm fine, if not then I was right. My being 'right' won't effect the rotation of the earth. If you want to squirrel stuff away and call it a cache, disbursal of resources or an eccentric hobby thats fine. If we ever have some global catastrophe I figure most ETS members will eventually gather in some unmarked Hole in the Wall. We can trade notes and share mutual failures and the one shared success: We had the prescience to prepare and muddled through somehow.

That sound like a more realistic sort of "cache" than under three feet of soil and six feet of snow and ice.

sue

That is a cache of a different colour, and not really what I think most of us think of as caching. It is more of a distributed, prepositioning of items at likely locations for you when you need to bug out, and/or places to bug out to. A lot of us have stashes like that at work and the like.