Caches - What would you pack now for later?

[fester_hicks]

Simple question:

What would you pack in a cache now, for later, when on the run from Zeds?

The rules for this scenerio are: the cache area is NO bigger than 10ft x 10ft. We will say, 6 ft high.

Where is it located? Is it hidden? Simple or elaborate?

Ready, Steady, GO!

[DarthJoe8]

How high? 10x10 is 100 square feet but we should also be dealing with hieght i think.:think: Like a box truck kinda cache?:) Thats a lot of stuff i could take.

[AN OLD SHOE]

yeah thats alot of room..almost too much room....:lol:


i guess i would put a dirt bike and spare gass in there...then again i wouldnt have much room for anything else haha

thats alot of room...my bug out bag only takes up 2 bags...and they dont even take up 3ft by 3ft......thats alotof room...i would just go crazy and take everything i own i guess haha

[fester_hicks]

See, what Im talking about is something you designed and buried before the world burned.

Back home in Ellsworth, Kansas, It would be nothing to bury an old railroad boxcar.

Thats what I envisioned, you had time, months, years, BEFORE the burning. This is a cache you could leave and come back to in a few years out on the road, etc.

I had always planned on leaving smaller caches in various places, around the country.

[AN OLD SHOE]

oh i understand!


ok welll i would have a months worth of canned food and water,medical supplies,clothes,keys to a motorcycle that i left in another cache not far from the 1st one...

alcohol and drugs....i can trade those for other supplies or buy my way into safe groups if needed...

[skullwarrior]

if i had a cashe itd have soda and food and some weaponry and a short wave radio to listen/call out to other people. and a dirt bike for a quick getaway.

[Barbara]

Cartons of cigarettes. :D

[fester_hicks]

Well, Im guessing i'd like to knock off a tobacco store somewhere and cache as much tobacco I could, esp. skoal for me! LOL


LOTS OF SKOAL!!!!

[DarthJoe8]

Cartons of cigarettes. :D


I quit smoking 3 yrs ago and if a zombie outbreak happened I know that cigs would be the first thing I'd look for.:lol::doh:

[fester_hicks]

i'd try to cache ammo and MRE's also....maps, etc... needed stuff.

[Lian]

Booze, probably.

Oh...idk essentials that I might run out of and need later. Water purification stuff. Guns. Some kind of emergency rations. Medical supplies....


Booze mostly.

[Victor Clark]

If I had a cache like that, I would probably stock it with things like food, water, weapons, guns & ammo, health items, maps, survival kits, a generator with gas, a handcrank TV and radio combo (they exist), a bed, a laptop with high speed internet, and a bicycle for escape (dosen't use gas, and is great for the theighs).

[Headless Lynx]

Mine is in the corner of my bedroom. i've got a 5 ft long sword for chopping off heads and a wooden rod with a trident on the end for pushing zeds back. I would have tins of food, a map, compass, flash light and a canteen for water. Full black skin tight clothing with balaclava and workboots. AND a camera with spare film

[Spuzmanx]

IF are when the outbreak does happen will you have longterm food and suppiles such as first aid?

[jim96sc2]

MREs, water purification, jugs to fill with liquids, and other food/water related stuff.

10,000 rnds of ammo minimum per caliber of weapon (figure a pistol and rifle caliber) along with weapon cleaning/maintenence/repair supplies.

Updated topographical and street maps, gps, etc.

Pick, warhammer, and katana.

Heavy duty travel bags.

First aid bag.

Seriously, 10x10 is the size of the average shed, I could pack a few years worth of stuff in that.

[jim96sc2]

Nevermind, I figure I'll just stash 20 AR-15's, 20 extra uppers, and 10,000,000 rnds of ammo.

[Slash Maraud]

For a full blown Zed event, everyone has to think long term. From what I've read, most of the posts in this thread relate to using your home or domicile to store supplies. Good idea to start with but eventually you're going to need to leave for whatever reason.

If you planned ahead and had a remote safe house to retreat to, then you should also have resupply points along the way. Forget using storage sheds of the 8X8 or 10X10 size. Look into the PODS system. Portable On Demand Storage now available through Home Depot. It looks like a small semi-trailer box without the wheels and can be delivered anywhere. It requires a monthly rental fee or you can purchase them. Another consideration is the actual 48'-53'- semi box delivered somewhere of your choosing for storage. Way more space for all kinds of goodies and you can actually bury them with proper backfill and support so that the interior temp stays cool enough for long term storage of perishable food. At 60degrees, MREs will last 84months in storage.

Getting back on topic, what to store now for later. If you have a primary weapon(s), then a secondary set with replacement/repair parts, if its a firearm, extra firing pins, barrel maybe consider exchanging the standard barrel for a heavy barrel, spare parts, grips, cleaning equipment including solvent tub, reloading equipment, extra magazines, powder, shells, and primers. I mention extra magazines because its doubtful that you'll be taking the time to police up your spent mags when fighting off Zed atacks.

Water is nice to store but you need to check it every 3-6 months based on where its stored and how, there are 55gallon barrels or one company makes the water bag that be stored under a bed. Also never store water in close proximity to gas, paints, solvents or chemicals and make sure your water storage containers are for potable water. Water purification equipment like a Berkefield system plus a back up like the MSR purification system. Replacement clothing as odds are real high that what you have on at the time of a Zed event will get heavily soiled, torn and severely abused. Sleeping bags, shelter half or poncho, medical supplies, first aid handbook and also a copy of 'When then is no Doctor', a couple pairs of replacement boots.

Food would be long term freeze-dried or MRE style, at least a years worth, that comes up to about 1000lbs total and can be purchased in those increments. Long life batteries or Code Red batteries which have an indefinite shelf life. Code Red batteries require you to twist the top to mix the chemicals so the batteries aren't 'live' until then and come in the standard sizes of AA, D and C. Coast Guard approved retort water, thats water thats in Capri Sun like packages and has a shelf life of 5+ years.

A few thousand rounds of ammo for my primary weapon and back up plus reloading dies for those calibers. Maybe toss in a shotgun for close assault plus the required reloading equipment.

All this can fit into a storage unit, a utility storage shed or a POD unit. Just make sure whatever canned food you store you rotate every 3-6 months and discard any swollen, dented or rusty cans.

[Devilspaintbrush]

For a full blown Zed event, everyone has to think long term. From what I've read, most of the posts in this thread relate to using your home or domicile to store supplies. Good idea to start with but eventually you're going to need to leave for whatever reason.

If you planned ahead and had a remote safe house to retreat to, then you should also have resupply points along the way. Forget using storage sheds of the 8X8 or 10X10 size. Look into the PODS system. Portable On Demand Storage now available through Home Depot. It looks like a small semi-trailer box without the wheels and can be delivered anywhere. It requires a monthly rental fee or you can purchase them. Another consideration is the actual 48'-53'- semi box delivered somewhere of your choosing for storage. Way more space for all kinds of goodies and you can actually bury them with proper backfill and support so that the interior temp stays cool enough for long term storage of perishable food. At 60degrees, MREs will last 84months in storage.

Getting back on topic, what to store now for later. If you have a primary weapon(s), then a secondary set with replacement/repair parts, if its a firearm, extra firing pins, barrel maybe consider exchanging the standard barrel for a heavy barrel, spare parts, grips, cleaning equipment including solvent tub, reloading equipment, extra magazines, powder, shells, and primers. I mention extra magazines because its doubtful that you'll be taking the time to police up your spent mags when fighting off Zed atacks.

Water is nice to store but you need to check it every 3-6 months based on where its stored and how, there are 55gallon barrels or one company makes the water bag that be stored under a bed. Also never store water in close proximity to gas, paints, solvents or chemicals and make sure your water storage containers are for potable water. Water purification equipment like a Berkefield system plus a back up like the MSR purification system. Replacement clothing as odds are real high that what you have on at the time of a Zed event will get heavily soiled, torn and severely abused. Sleeping bags, shelter half or poncho, medical supplies, first aid handbook and also a copy of 'When then is no Doctor', a couple pairs of replacement boots.

Food would be long term freeze-dried or MRE style, at least a years worth, that comes up to about 1000lbs total and can be purchased in those increments. Long life batteries or Code Red batteries which have an indefinite shelf life. Code Red batteries require you to twist the top to mix the chemicals so the batteries aren't 'live' until then and come in the standard sizes of AA, D and C. Coast Guard approved retort water, thats water thats in Capri Sun like packages and has a shelf life of 5+ years.

A few thousand rounds of ammo for my primary weapon and back up plus reloading dies for those calibers. Maybe toss in a shotgun for close assault plus the required reloading equipment.

All this can fit into a storage unit, a utility storage shed or a POD unit. Just make sure whatever canned food you store you rotate every 3-6 months and discard any swollen, dented or rusty cans.

cannot argue with this post

I would add a couple things of course

first aid supplies/vitamins


Beekeeping stuff (queens and hives) would also be something I would go after for long term food and its medicinal properties

seeds for a large garden (okra, squash, tomatoes and potatoes)

large plastic barrels for rainwater and water purification

gallons of 2% tincture of Iodine for first aid and water purification

[Evil Pug]

90% ammo.
10% first-aid supplies.

[Cortexx]

if i had a cashe itd have soda and food and some weaponry and a short wave radio to listen/call out to other people. and a dirt bike for a quick getaway.

Dirt bike may not be a good idea I would go for an ATV you can handle that better then a dirt bike and most are 4x4

[Jimmy]

My Quad, Guns, Ammo, Fiji Bottled water, BeefJerky, and that's about it.

Everything else I needed I could easily find around the city.

[martenbroadcloak]

If I understand what you mean, I'd probably pack reference materials for how to repair and jury-rig things like generators and such, guns if I could (semi-auto handgun) but I'm in Australia and we're unfortunately strict with who gets them, some high-strength rockclimbing rope, a strong but lightweight backpack, military rations, swedish firesteel for making fire (surprisingly cheap), a good knife (preferably a gravity blade), some good hiking clothes and boots and a bloody volleyball named wilson

[DemonChild]

Hola peoples. I'm alread living in the middle of nowhere so, yeah. I'm pretty sure that my property is large enought to locate several caches of that size around the place. I've also got an idea to fence the entire place off. 8' high, reinforced concrete with electrified razorwire round the top. But that's a bit off topic, so here's a list of stuff I'd put in there:
Tons of ammo, a few assault rifles (even though I don't like using them, I'm not stupid), explosive devices, MRE's, canned stuff, tons of ramen, knives, swords, gas, a generator, medical supplies, vodka is a must in a situation like that, seeds for edible plantlife like someone else said, a radio, TV, DVD player, and since I'd probably have more than one...building supplies. :D Hey, you gotta do something, and I'm good at building things...sooo. I've also got a small lake...or a really big pond, not sure what it is. But I know there's fish in it. I'd include fishing equipment. I'd also probably dig a moat around the fence...and put piranha in it.

[garthaman]

Lets start off on what it would be. I would have to pick this old house up on a hill overlooking the highway that comes into the city. Considering there wouldn't be any traffic, the viewpoint would allow me to see far enough out to see any approaching zeds, military, or looters.

The shack is a little bigger than 10X10, but i'll just use 1 corner for my cache, and the rest i'll consider working/resting area.

For my cache, I would include:

Wood and Steel panneling for repairs and reinforcment
Basic Toolbox (2x by 1/2x)
enough canned food for 5 months
a camp stove, and 4 propane tanks
a shotgun
5 boxes of shotgun shells
a hunting knife
a high-powered rifle
2 boxes of rifle ammo
50gal drum of water
basic survival kit/health kit

I also have all these things, just not ready to go

I can trust that the shack is safe because I put locks on it, and it has no windows. I can also trust that it won't be demolished because it is in the historic zone (where you can't add onto, remove from, or demolish anything)

tell me if you think that i'm prepared enough

[Umbrela]

Wait a minute, if we bury these storage compartments, hpw are we supposed to dig them up by ourselves.

[DemonChild]

I guess with a trap door to get into them with a rope ladder or something.

[Umbrela]

I guess with a trap door to get into them with a rope ladder or something.That would work, so long as you hide it well, but place it in an area you recognize.

[DemonChild]

Since I'd probably forget, I'd most likely hide it in plain site.

[Umbrela]

But if you hide it in plain site, I could all but promise you it would have been plundered by the time you get there. If you're really unlucky, it could actually have a zed or two trapped in it.

[JakAttak]

stainless steel lock box in my attic loaded with m.r.e's and aid kit. ammo and guns are already in my house so I don't have to worry about that

[DemonChild]

good point, not going to hide it in plain site... Probably just going to put it somewhere on muh property like I said before.

[JakAttak]

don't want it somewhere you forget it has to be in arms reach maybe hidden in plain sight

[seeker28]

The explosives someone mentioned are a great idea. Also, along that line, extra MRE heaters can be used as explosives.

I would want water purification stuff, as water is very heavy and hard to store. I would want bicycles. Also tools and manuals on how to repair everything.

[JakAttak]

explosives are okay but you shouldn't use them directly against Z's

[Slayer]

Ammuntion
Weapons
Food
Water
Gasoline

More or less basic thing's you would need to survive in a zombie situation. Other things you might need is spare parts for guns, cleaning supplies for them. And also some basic things to keep your vehicle in running order, spare tires, oil, transmission fluid, tools, etc.

[john154]

Shovels, Axes, machetes, Rope & pully
Bushell of sandbags & guntape
preserved food/MRE/IMP ect
50 ish liters of water
small generator
empty jerry cans/narrow and wide sugical tubing
fuel stabilizer
500 rnd 9mm, 200 rnd buckshot, 2000 rnd 7.62x39, 2000 rnd 7.62x51/.308
pair of SKS, cheap shotgun & m14
alcohol/marajuana/tobacco/toilet paper
trauma kit.
a few 100L backpacks
flashlights & a few large lamps with batteries & extension cords
books & magazines
Blankets/extra clothes/wet naps/ hand sanitizer:)

[JakAttak]

basically anything that will quickly become a necessary commodity after Z day hits.

[martenbroadcloak]

Dehydrated rations
Guns and ammo (not the magazine, handguns especially)
Water purifiers
Comprehensive first aid kit
Guns and ammo (the magazine)
40 channel radio
Lots of spray paint
shitloads of duct tape, because everything can be fixed with duct tape

Depending on how much cash I would have to spend I'd also include an SUV, customized to have a second engine and cow catcher, to give more power faster so I don't need to worry about getting caught in the middle of a zed crowd because I was slowed down too much