Misc Firearms Crew LXXV: It's Not the End of the World, But You Can See it From Here

[Farley1324]

What about water storage

I keep minimum 20 gallons in the house and use it before it expires. Have a water source close to the house and a couple of filters.

Ex...pires?

7 gallon Aquatainers, don't stack anything heavier than TP on them.

[fishnbrah]

what's your longest successful shot while hunting?

ive only killed 3 from a decent distance. 579, 550, 489. i havent missed yet but those arent very far

[OfficerJimLahey]

ive only killed 3 from a decent distance. 579, 550, 489. i havent missed yet but those arent very far

Sounds wild. Just completely different hunting than where I hunt at my parents' place in Michigan. With how wooded it is I've never taken a shot more than 50 yards.

[BOZZ]

I'd rather choke on a dick than eat MH. Too much ****ing sodium. Even their new reformulated low sodium **** is terrible.

[Farley1324]

I'd rather choke on a dick than eat MH. Too much ****ing sodium. Even their new reformulated low sodium **** is terrible.

What's the low sodium alternative?

[fishnbrah]

Sounds wild. Just completely different hunting than where I hunt at my parents' place in Michigan. With how wooded it is I've never taken a shot more than 50 yards.

we have some of that here, just depends on the terrain. but that would be bowhunting mainly. its gotten a little out of hand, all 3 of those deer i never would have been able to kill 10 years ago. i wish there was some way to ban the long range stuff honestly, now everyone can shoot 700+ its hard on the animals, especially elk. the trophy elk units are shot out now

[BOZZ]

What's the low sodium alternative?

Unfortunately everything I've seen designed to last that long has an ass load of sodium. I will just never eat MH again after living off that **** on a hunt for 12 days.

Heather's choice is what i personally keep in my packs. 1 year shelf life. Those packaroons are addictive though

[DualRectifier]

What's the low sodium alternative?

Dick, obviously

[Farley1324]

Unfortunately everything I've seen designed to last that long has an ass load of sodium. I will just never eat MH again after living off that **** on a hunt for 12 days.

Heather's choice is what i personally keep in my packs. 1 year shelf life. Those packaroons are addictive though

Yeah pretty much it all does. Even if you buy canned/packaged regular shelf stuff at the grocery store it's the same thing. Long shelf life and ready to eat or just add water...get ready for that sodium bloat.

I have a couple camping trips yet this summer, good excuse to try something with a shorter shelf life brb amazoning


...dark chocolate chili with bison, what the **** is going on

[Ikeman83]

Cool video of Jupiter I took with my phone through my ATX65. Doesn't do it justice. You can see the rings with your eye.

[rahfulz]

Happy belated Maynard

Back to work tomorrow

[RThoe]

When I spent 25 days on Logan it was MH for breakfast and dinner every single day (minus an MRE for the night before summit day since we couldn't boil water that high). I never experienced a bloat, but then again I also finished that climb 15 pounds lighter since we were never consuming enough calories. Not sure how you'd do if you sat on your fat ass the whole time eating them, but as Farley mentioned, it doesn't matter what you go with, you're going to have a sodium overload. That's not MH exclusive.




Idgaf about planning for some civil war bullchit that will never happen, but earthquakes are a major risk here and combined with the drought that we've been in since 800 B.C. it's something that is a legitimate concern in the event of a serious earthquake. I have a four gallon jug that I take when I lead Vet Ex trips for the guys to fill up before we head out that I've left filled which I suppose is sufficient for the pupper and me. I always have enough MH meals for climbing that I could get by on that.

[Farley1324]

When I spent 25 days on Logan it was MH for breakfast and dinner every single day (minus an MRE for the night before summit day since we couldn't boil water that high). I never experienced a bloat, but then again I also finished that climb 15 pounds lighter since we were never consuming enough calories. Not sure how you'd do if you sat on your fat ass the whole time eating them, but as Farley mentioned, it doesn't matter what you go with, you're going to have a sodium overload. That's not MH exclusive.




Idgaf about planning for some civil war bullchit that will never happen, but earthquakes are a major risk here and combined with the drought that we've been in since 800 B.C. it's something that is a legitimate concern in the event of a serious earthquake. I have a four gallon jug that I take when I lead Vet Ex trips for the guys to fill up before we head out that I've left filled which I suppose is sufficient for the pupper and me. I always have enough MH meals for climbing that I could get by on that.

4 gallons? You and dog?

That's like two to three days. I'm sure you know that. And I'm pretty sure this has come up several times before lol

[LinuxJon]

Well, Speer's customer service is top-notch.

Bought a box of 50 Gold Dots in 9mm. They would not feed through my gun that eats everything from WWB to HSTs like candy. Emailed Speer. They actually offered to have the box of ammo picked up so they could check it out, as well as to mail me a check for the full purchase price.

[Ikeman83]

Well, Speer's customer service is top-notch.

Bought a box of 50 Gold Dots in 9mm. They would not feed through my gun that eats everything from WWB to HSTs like candy. Emailed Speer. They actually offered to have the box of ammo picked up so they could check it out, as well as to mail me a check for the full purchase price.

Say goodbye to that, they're not going to pay for your background check going forward

[Hartski]

I always have 10-20 gallons of spring water on hand for brewing, but I've been planning on buying some of the 5 gallon jugs meant for water coolers to have sitting there. There's water sources everywhere, so having a high quality filter is a better choice than storing a ton of water in containers. I want one of the Alexapure Pro filter systems.

As for the food storage, I mainly rely on my home canned produce from the garden, and deer meat we get from hunting. All the Long term food storage is meant for variety, or to get us through a bad winter or rough summer where the garden doesn't produce well.

[PapaBurgandy]

Morning, MFC.

[benz5521]

I buy the Scepter military water cans. Not cheap but badass.

http://lexingtoncontainercompanysonl...ary-water-can/

I rinse them out with bleach water, then rinse them out again, and fill with spring or purified water. That way it’s sterile and I don’t have to worry about filtering if I need it. Water lasts forever if stored properly.

[Hola Bola]

Honk.

[Farley1324]

I buy the Scepter military water cans. Not cheap but badass.

http://lexingtoncontainercompanysonl...ary-water-can/

A little over a decade ago I got a half dozen of their gas cans, and one water can. The water can has ridden around in my car full time ever since.

I sold all the gas cans a couple years ago before moving. They leaked fumes you could smell while shut and leaked liquid gasoline when tipped over. Possibly replacing the gaskets would have fixed that, but they also, their entire life, leaked/dripped some fuel when dumping them into the car for rotation. This was using the Scepter brand hose attachment. They also, through temperature changes, because EXTREMELY difficult to take the cap off (gas) after sitting for awhile. They make a plastic 'wrench' you can buy to help open but it was like $60 lolwut.

I'm still happy with the water can though. I tipped it over recently to test and it still doens't leak. It's been probably from -10* through 130* in the car.

[Farley1324]

Honk.

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You have MFC #27

You could have had lower but, well, you weren't around for forever so here ya go 27 was lowest open lol

It starts out as thread starts chronologically and longest/oldest actives who were still around


#1 uracowman
#2 Blumpkin
#3 Farley1324
#4 relentless
#5 cox
#6 ABSPR
#7 jason_bh
#8 YGST
#9 Ikeman
#10 PapaBurgandy 9
#11 moe
#12 dual
#13 4ea
#14 rahfulz
#15 taf
#16 JMath
#17 Hartski
#18 kcadrenalin
#19 SpeedCheeser
#20 adarus
#21 weightsb4dates
#22 NuggzTheNinja
#23 Sp3cialK
#24 .:Chris:.
#25 Raxys
#26 spirit750
#27 hola

#30 rtm0004
#31 ctprelude
#32 omnip0tent
#33 fmylife4real

[Raxys]

Honk.

new phone who dis?

[SpeedCheeser]

My ear is so clogged right now. I can’t hear anything out of my right ear. I dipped some qtips in hydrogen peroxide and got a big chunk of wax out. Super satisfying but still clogged. So I soaked my ear in peroxide for a few minutes and still no luck. It sure what to do but it’s extremely annoying.

Maybe practice better hygiene?

i feel like my homie was full of it but he comes from a mom with a good cook and he says the biscuits and gravy and the blue berry cobbler are the best hes had lol. ive never tried one.


a cheap easy meal when i pack in for a night is one of them packets of pasta with sauce that you just boil in water, they cost $1 and then add some canned tuna or canned chicken to it.

I don't remember who had it or where we were, probably semi camping somewhere, but someone had one of the biscuits and gravy meals and seemed to really enjoy it. I figured he was probably just trying to convince himself so he could power through it, but maybe there's some truth to that.

one of the reasons I've been buying the smaller boneless pork butts lately. cuts down the time a fair amount and if I need to smoke a lot I just do a few at the same time.

Makes sense. I don't know that I've seen them de-boned. But I'd put my bone in your butt.

do you live in the San Antonio area?

No, I'm Houston area.

[benz5521]

A little over a decade ago I got a half dozen of their gas cans, and one water can. The water can has ridden around in my car full time ever since.

I sold all the gas cans a couple years ago before moving. They leaked fumes you could smell while shut and leaked liquid gasoline when tipped over. Possibly replacing the gaskets would have fixed that, but they also, their entire life, leaked/dripped some fuel when dumping them into the car for rotation. This was using the Scepter brand hose attachment. They also, through temperature changes, because EXTREMELY difficult to take the cap off (gas) after sitting for awhile. They make a plastic 'wrench' you can buy to help open but it was like $60 lolwut.

I'm still happy with the water can though. I tipped it over recently to test and it still doens't leak. It's been probably from -10* through 130* in the car.

I have the wrench. I don’t think it was 60 bucks though. I have a mix of 20L and 10L cans. Actually I have a few empty 10Ls I got like 2 months ago I still haven’t cleaned and filled.

[SpeedCheeser]

I have the wrench. I don’t think it was 60 bucks though. I have a mix of 20L and 10L cans. Actually I have a few empty 10Ls I got like 2 months ago I still haven’t cleaned and filled.

The wrench for the water cans, which I'm sure is the same for the gas cans, is almost $30. For a plastic chitty wrench. lol

[Farley1324]

I don't remember who had it or where we were, probably semi camping somewhere, but someone had one of the biscuits and gravy meals and seemed to really enjoy it. I figured he was probably just trying to convince himself so he could power through it, but maybe there's some truth to that.

It's legitimately good.

See Amazon reviews for example
https://smile.amazon.com/Mountain-Ho...s%2C134&sr=8-1


906 reviews and 4.6 stars. They ain't lyin'

[taf1968]

Honk.

Did you get losted like the paperwork from Dual's buyer?

[28maynard]

Morning, MFC.

Hello. Today is your birthday, IIRC

[Farley1324]

Hello. Today is your birthday, IIRC

[SpeedCheeser]

Ok, but how long does a can of Mountain House stuff last once you've opened it, like if you're only preparing a portion of it?