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Well then, it looks like all of you are doing everything within your means and abilities to prepare with things. Invest just as much energy in preparing your minds and hearts for hard times. A well fed soul is just as much or more important that a well fed stomach. Whatever fulfills your need, music, reading, painting, God, nature, good wine. Just take care of yourself so you can take care of others too and be therefore self-dependent. I wish you strength, live free. GP
Good point. I invested in good books, games and a flute. Nothing electronic, of course!


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My first couple seasons while learning to garden were terrible

Excellent point. Post SHTF, you may get only one and only one season to not produce enough food to survive a harsh winter. As with all things for survival, your hard core, last ditch survival foods, clothing, tools and materials, should only then be used when there is no longer an alternative. Eat what you find, fish, catch or hunt. The good stuff in the freezer, smoked food, canned food or freeze-dried is you last hope stuff. Go barefoot to save shoes and socks for winter, use a sling-shot to save ammo, fish and trap to save energy, even go naked at times to make clothes last longer. Use willow leaves against your headaches and save your aspirin. Use solar charging to save your flashlight batteries and only work during the day for the same reason. Clean, dry and oil tools and knives to make them last longer. Waterproof you clothes and shoes with animal fat to save your stockpiles of waterproofing and camoflage your body smell against being scented by animals. Think gray man in nature. GP
 
nothing much done this week,let's just say,it's been easier workweeks than the last,but I signed up for two voluntary courses for my reserve unit, those are all about mortars, mortar team leader and more so..and ordered some more Israeli bandages from Israeli firstaid
 
Cleaned up and organized a lot today. I made loads of storage in the new bedroom so am going to put a lot of the prepping supplies in there. To make even more room I went through all my clothes and got a pile to give to goodwill, mostly because I’ve gained too much weight! It feels good to go through and thin out some of the stuff you don’t use.
 
What sort of grouping do you get at 25 yards Bill?
8 to 10 mm for ten round groups using 22 pellets weighing 15.89 grain seated, about 15mm when stood up shooting free hand, with the inevitable flier, INDOORS. OUTSIDE If there is a decent breeze I'll be honest its more like 25 mm freehand. I can do better if I use 21 grain pellets but its hard worki with 21 grains in sub 12 ft pound guns. I am no sniper but I'm good enough to fill the cooking pot or to deal with 2 legged vermin. :)
 
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Bill and Dr.Henley: have you heard about "dieseling" your pellet guns? The high compression in diesel motors provide the combustion without a sparkplug. The high compression in your pump-up pellet rifle can do the same. Put a tiny amount of VASELINE on the back of your pellet as it is seated in the barrel. When the high pressure air behind the pellet reaches a high enough temperature, the vaseline is supposed to vaporise and actually burn. The produced gasses will give more pressure and accelerate the pellet to higher FPS. Videos:
Just beware the dangers of overdoing it...
 
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The parts for build a solar system have started showing up. Received 6 100 watt solar panels and two 100ah batteries. Expect the MPPT charge controller and 3000w inverter on Friday. Also have a number of cables and connectors. I plan to do the total install myself so I expect this to be a real learning experience. Sill need a number of pieces including fuses and breakers. I will run wiring to several new outlets through out the house where I will connect the fridge and other items just to test out the system. I plan on setting this us so I can easily expand the system in the future, if it works like I expect.

The goal is NOT energy independence or to reduce the electric bill (but I hope will happen). It is to have a readily available backup power system. In the case of power failure, I will just plug in the necessary devices in the SOLAR outlets and those devices will be "up and running". Will not run the whole house and no 220v capability (at least in the initial setup) but something to make life easier in the short term.

Goal #2, take advantage of the tax credits. I had a number of trees removed on the south side of the house. So this will allow me to include those expenses as part of installing the system. Those trees had to go to allow the panels to work properly so why not take advantage of the tax credit.
 
Yeah, I’m debating wether or not to purchase some panels and batteries before the end of year for the tax credit too. I guess I better hurry up and decide. It’s 30% right now, but I’m not sure what it drops to Jan 1st.
 
Just looked up the solar tax credit. You get a 30% credit through 2019, then it drops to 26% in 2020 and goes down to 22% in 2021. So, it is only 4% if I don’t jump on it before the end of the year. With all the research I’ve done so far the lithium batteries are the best way to go on solar. The initial sticker shock is tough, but for prolonged use and ease of maintenance it’s the best thing going, not to mention it is the lightest option by far.
 

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