Not asking who has back up caches, but do you think this is a good idea? I think so and not just because of this video. Could be any number of situations that depending where your preps are stored you could lose all or some of them.
It's not who thinks its a good idea ,,,, it's , who doesn't think its a good idea . I like his straight forward bluntness.
Methinks it's never a good idea to have only one of anything, possibly excepting POOSSLQs. The saying we generally start with is "two is one, one is none." N.B. Squirrels don't hide all their nuts in the same place. How they remember where they hid dinner is past my guessing.
Sure do, since cacheing is insurance against more than just a TSHTF moment. Cacheing your most important firearms and ammunition is the best insurance against domestic RO’s, theft, unlawful seizures from TPTB, and so forth. Those weapons must be off the books, no paper trail ties them to you. This is were private sales and the 80% ghost guns come into being the best candidates for cacheing.
Love my 80%'ers..... Two discrete sets of weapons, assorted flavors is ideal. At home = all the shot-to-s*** ones on the books, as well as one functional long gun and pistol. Else = 80%'ers, private sale, inherited stuff that no one knows about. It's going to happen, we just don't know how soon. Boy scouts motto always in play thank you.
I can speak from experience here, having more then one of any thing is essential. Back in my rowdy days carrying a rifle, if I hadn't split up my pack and cashed it, i would not have been able to stay out where I was for as long as I was able to! We had a habbit of bringing way more then needed, amd this was a good lesson fot why!
Side note re the caching locations: consider access, and potential future changes to the environment. Does that cow pasture corner fence post you chose now have a very irritable stud bull living on it? Did the property owner, (if not you), decide to split it up and make a subdivision? It's spring flood and your stash of goodies is now under 15 feet of fast moving, very dirty water? I have a number of "from work" get-home routes I planted some useful stuff on. These are the sort of paths one can hoof discretely assuming motor transport is out of the picture for whatever reason. I had one stash located along a stream in a power line right of way out in the boonies. Some damn beavers decided to take up residence somewhat downstream. So much for that ammo, h2o, and MREs..... Always try to cache your backup crap in places where you can get eyeballs on the site occasionally, preferably from a moving car.
I keep thinking that if I have to do a cache' it needs to be under ground like a root cellar ,but not under the house , more like an over sized green house . A significant cistern below the root cellar and an aquaponic green house above that . I anticipate that rain water will need to be significantly filtered to remove contaminants especially if the catastrophic event is something like a volcanic event ,not to mention continued radiation from Fukushima, ( the pacific is still being contaminated ) Still working on that problem. If the sun cools off the only thing growing will need artificial light and then under ground will be the only safe place to do that.
Does having a well rounded set of reserves at each of your grown children's homes count? I figure its there for me if I need it. If something happens to me it is there if they need it. All these "caches" are miles from each other and 15-200 miles from me in a rough line.
An acquaintance at work said he would never be a prepper with a cashe' because he watched/helped his grandfather break into one as a kid. a locked steel door in the middle of the desert. People are unscrupulous, and will if given enough opportunity to break into any thing you've made, and steal and destroy what has been set aside for an emergency, during a time they are not in distress , JUST BECAUSE IT IS THERE and you are not there to stop them. As times get worse the desperation becomes worse. Plant what you will like a fruit tree, it may pay off and it may not .ALL of life is a gamble , like the stock market don't cry if you loose that is part of the gamble. If you can't afford to loose don't gamble
Yup,Yup,Yup, Never ever put all those eggs in one basket. There's always a skunk who is greedy that will break in and eat his fill until he almost explodes leaving you diddly squat.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, the first people we will ever have to fight will be the local police, not the military. Just watch "Live PD". If during my very brief stint as a LEO, had we treated people like they do now we would have been fired AND brought up on civil charges. And yet now they are brazen enough to televise it.